The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1917-06-29

About twenty couples we're pres
ent at the party dance give in
honor of Donald McCrea at the
Temple Friday night. A delightful
evening was spent by the young
folks.
Burt Walker and Art Hartinger
returned from Spokane Monday in
an automobile, making the trip in
four hours and eighteen minutes.
The county commissioners Of
both Latah and Nez Perez counties
met as a board Of equalization last
Monday. They will be in session
for several weeks.
Fred S. Beckwith was a business
visitor in Kendrick Tuesday.
Miss Anna Long went to Garfield
Tuesday to spend a week with rela-
tives.
George Barnum has put in some
hard work getting the road to At
water Lake in good condition for
automobile travel. He made a
number Of wide places for cars to
turn out and has placed signs along
the road where it is advisable to
sound the horn. He purchased the
old street lamps from the village
council last week and will use them
to light up the grounds the night
of the Fourth Of July celebra alton.
He has also laid in a supply of
lunch goods for picnic parties and
campers. As the celebration at the
lake is the only one ADVERTISED in
this locality there will no dot bt be
a big crowd there July 4.
Gladys, Eva and Earl Duthie of
Troy, Anna Compton, vocal teacher
of Columbia College and her friend
Miss Scea, both of Milton, Oregon,
spent Sunday at the N. B. Long
home.
The wind storm last Saturday
evening did considerable damage in
and around Kendrick. The tele-
phone system probably suffered
most and the Schuyler Brothers
spent two days mending the line
where the wires were broken. The
show tent that was put up in the
afternoon for the evening perfor-
nance of the minstrel show was
blown down and badly torn. Sew
eral trees in the park were broken
and entirely ruined. The air was
filled with dust which was finally
settled by a hard rain.
Mrs. M. A. Deabold re turned
home from Lewiston Monday.
Miss Nettie Mae Jacobus came
home from Bonncrs Ferry Saturday
where she has been visiting the
past few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Winters of
Detroit, Michigan arrived Saturday
to visit their daughter, Mrs. Robert
Brown.
Miss Elsie Thomas spent the first
Of the week in Lewiston with
friends.
Will Mielke and Iron Chamber
lain will wrestle tonight at Leland
to decide the championship of this
part of the country. This will be
the third match between these two
mat artists. Chamberlain won the
first one and Mielke the second.
They are very evenly matched ID. AL
though Mielke is heavier and strong
err, Chamberlain has a greater
knowledge of the game, having had
more experience on the mat, Much
interest is being shown in the COM
ing match.
Mrs. John Humphrey and daugh-
ter returned to Oakesdale Monday.
They were accompanied by Mrs.
Humphreys sister, Agnes Grice.
Mrs. j. B. Helpman, who has
been visiting at Northport, WASH,
returned Friday night.
Burt Walker and Art Hartinger
had some trouble convincing gov
eminent authorities in Spokane that
they had registered. They had for
gotten to take their registration
cards along and so were unable to
produce them when the officers
asked for them. They were in Spo-
kane the first of the week.
Enoch Harrison of Leland received
delivery on a five passenger Mitchell
Six through the local agent of the
Potlatch Mercantile Company, F. L.
Stapleton. Mr.. Stapleton received
a carload of Mitchells Wednesday.
The car contained four automobiles.