Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-04-17
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Inc OdnupOlnt nlliltid was oioSiSH
to and deported for Boise Monday.
The first drill of the recently organ
lied Lapwai home guards was held
Saturday and was largely attended.
Three hundred men turned out April
IA for the first regular drill of the
Kellogg squad to prepare for war.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Shoun bought
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Newhart 80
acres of grain land for $4,000, five
miles north of Vollmer.
The Occur d'AIene district contrib
uted another recruit to the navy when
John McGovern, son of P. F. Nc
Govern of Wallace was accepted.
An order that all poolhalls in unin-
corporated towns or villages in Nez
Perez county shall be closed at p.
m. has been issued by the county COM
missioner.
The total snowfall in Wallace for No
vember, December, January, February
and March, was 1904 inches, or IA feet
inches, as compared with l41.7 inches,
or / feet 10 inches, during the same
period for 1856.
Patriotic fervor of 16 students at Ma
lad has resulted in the disruption of
the high school. The 10 young men,
comprising the entire male section of
the school, presented themselves at the
army recruiting station with the inten-
ton of enlisting. Fourteen were ac-
copied
Adrian Nelson, for II years clerk
of the district court at Moscow I'M
der Judge Steele, has been appointed
probate judge by the county commits
sioners. He succeeds Will F. Morga-
reidge, who, after serving as probate
judge for 10 years, has been appoint
ed postmaster.
A large attendance was at the meet
ing at Lewiston Saturday as requested
by Governor Alexander to consider
the matter of the production and con-
servation of food supplies. The meet
ing was representative, having in atten-
dance those from every section of the
country, among whom were a number
OF women. Several resolutions were
passed and work planned.
The Idaho council of defense has
been created at the request of New
ton d. Baker, secretary of war, by
Governor Alexander, who appointed
as its members: Harry l.. Day, Wal
lace; A. w. Laird, PotIatch; E. l.. AL
lord, Lewiston; E. l.. Parker, Cotton
wood; j. F. Ailshie, Occur d'Alene:
Morris Sommers, Weiser; R. M. Da-
wilson, Boise; A. S. Stevenson, Po-
catello; Nathan Kicks, Rexburg; F.
K. Gooding, Gooding; Ed C. Rich.
Montpelier. The northern members
of the council are asked by the gov
ernor to meet at Lewiston, April 81.
and those residing in southern Idaho
at Pocatello on the saem date.
The state land board has directed At
torney General T. A. Walters to bring
suit against Ned Jenness, former regis
ter of the land department, to recover
under his $4,000 bond as register sums
OF money the state may lose as the re-
suit of $4,000 loan made to one w.
A. Rankin, an Ada county farmer. The
loan was authorized by the state land
board in 1913. There was to be taken
York Canal company, which it is al
among the security stock in the New
legged the former register failed to Sc
cure by mortgage. Rankin is said to
have put the stock up as collateral to
secure loan of $1,000 from a bank
and the bank is now seeking to recover
the stock in payment for the loan.
State Commercial News.
c. Jorgensen has purchased the
general store of Carl jacobson at La
clede.
H. l.. Graves has purchased the fur
niture business of d. j. Rowlands at
Standpoint
William Seyforth has purchased the
valley Mercantile Co. general store at
Post Falls from John Young.
Ramsey Pierce, proprietor of the
Normal Hill grocery at Lewiston. and !
Miss Ruth Bangs of Grangeville were
married this week at Lewiston.
John Harp has purchased the in.
terest OF Joe Cunningham in the Re-
haDle Meat Co. at Harrison, and the
new firm will be Wilson & Harp.