Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-10-02
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Moscow is to have a harvest fest
ival October 10 for the especial bene-
fit of the boys and girls clubs of
Latah county.
]. C. Safely and wife have reached
Grangeville from Moline, Ill. Mr..
Safely has aquired the Idaho County
Free Press, published at Grangeville,
and will assume charge at once.
A. N. Roberts, prominent farmer of
American ridge, near Troy, Idaho, re-
ports that the Latah county crop is
safe from frost, most of it in sack or
stack. 1t will run from 300 to 600
pounds to the acre, and 1917 cents a
pound is offered for the beans.
Coffin e. Hepton recently sold five
carloads of Spring lambs at $40 a
head for the Seattle markets. Four
cars of choice wethers, purchased at
Grangeville at 81 a head, were
routed out with the Coffin e. Hepton
shipment. Thirty-three carloads went
out today from Clearwater points and
nine from Prairie points, making 81
cars in the two days. which will re-
turn approximately $4,000 to the
sellers.
Miss Jessie NJ Hoover, head of the
department of home economics, Uni
versity of Idaho, has been appointed
by Herbert c. Moore, food admin
strator, director of home economics
for Idaho, the appointment being an
nounced through r. f. Bicknell of
Boise, federal food administrator for
Idaho. Miss Hoover will still retain
her position at the university and
will be given enough assistance to en-
able her to get around over the state
and look after food conservation.
An important part of the work will
be to get in personal touch with the
women county agents and have all
work together to a definite end. Pre-
sident e. II. Lindley of the university
is cooperating in the plans.
Reclamation Project.
Over 200 residents of Boomers Ferry
and the Kootenai valley in Idaho at
tended the international drainage
meeting held at Creston, b. c., Satur-
day. In the morning the guests were
taken over the reclamation project ad-
jacent to Creston, which was partially
completed some years ago.
In the afternoon a meeting was
held in the town hall of Creston, at
which A. M. Oliver. finister of agri-
culture of British Columbia, and A.
f. Parker, representing the state
land board of Idaho, were the prin-
cipal speakers.
Mr.. Oliver, who went Thoroughly
into the eight plans for the reclama-
ton of the valley prepared by the
United States engineers. stated that
as yet none of the plans can be re-
garded at promising complete recla-
nation. He said that the British Co
lumbia parliament is willin gto spend
as much as $75 an acre on a drainage
plan which is certain of success, but
he intimated that no definite action
along this line will be taken until
the Canadian and United States en-
gineers can work out a definite so
luton of the problems.
Mr.. Parker said that Idaho is will
ing to cooperate in any measure look
ing to the reclamation of the state
lands in the Kotenai valley. f. w
Graham, immigration agent for the
Great Northern railway, which has
a right af way in the flood district
offered on behalf of the railroad com
f..II,
Frank O'Brien and William Nevins
alleged hobbers, sawed their way
from the county Jail at Billings Satur-
day night. The former was captured
Sunday at Miles City and the latter
in Billings.