Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-06-15
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Charles Ridpath of Eastport, Idaho.
died at Ritzville, Washington, recent
ly.
The Rebekahs' annual district con-
vention was held at Potlatch, about
100 delegates being present.
Lewiston relatives were advised
recently of the death at Butter. Cali
| fornia, of d. W. caves, age 80, for
many years a resident of Lewiston.
Idaho completed it's regular army
recruiting Saturday, making the sew
enth state to have supplied its alot-
ted number of war volunteers.
1t has practically been decided to
postpone the Idaho Pharmaceutical
association convention and outing,
originally scheduled for June 1920, a
month, until the middle of July. The
meeting will be held at Guyer Hot
Springs, Ketchum, as planned.
| A strike of telephone operators
and other employees of the Interstate
Utilities company, which operates the
telephone system of north Idaho, &C.
CURED Saturday evening, and every
exchange in the panhandle was dead.
They want higher wages.
Private Joe Thompson, aged %, of
Boise, member Of company H of the
Idaho national guard, was fatally in
jured Saturday by being struck by a
Northern Pacific train at the Clarks
Fork bridge, Is miles east of Sand
point, and died few hours later.
Returns from the % precincts in
Shoshone county show war regis
tration of 3O14, approximately 1000
more than the estimated number.
Among those registered 1414 asked
exemption. There are 10 alien enc
mics and 532 other aliens enrolled.
Andrew Anderson and Miss Faith
Barton, University of Idaho students,
are at hospital in Moscow, injured
as the result of collision between an
auto and the O.-W. R. & N. gas cal
called the Bug" last Saturday. Mr.
Anderson died Sunday without hav
ing regained consciousness.
The death of John NJ Haines, for
mer governor of this state, removes
D from Idaho politics an interesting
character. He was one of the mos
: silent organizers in the state and wa:
averse to public speaking. Prior tt
his entrance into the gubernatoria
race he was active in Boise politics
having served as mayor of the cit!
:, for one term.
t Shoshone county and the Coeu
t d'Alene mining district have been Call
Y ed upon to furnish $4,000 of the $780,
g 900 apportioned this state in the ma
g tional special Red Cross fund to b.
raised in America amounting to 500
l. 100000 The work in Shoshone coun
J, ty has been assigned to an executiv
t committee composed of Harry Day
Il DR.. Chas. R. Mowery, Stanley A. Eas
g ton, James F. Mccarthy, Frederic
; Burbidge and James F. Callahan. I
& P. Morrow has been assigned the pt
sition of campaign manager.
In a Commercial Way.
l.. Mckee & Dory, grocers at Nampa
;. have dissolved.
J. Mcintosh of Gooding has opene
l. the Mcintosh drug store at Twi
s Falls.
D. The Vickers-Sims Hardware Co
l. dealers in implements and hardwar
% at Meridian, are building a garag
N 4Ox12O feet at a cost Of $4,000.
g. Fred Davis, of E. M. Davis & Son!
e clothing and gents furnishings at s.
p Maries, returned last week from Oh
cago, where he was married to Mis-
i; Pauline Hill of that city.
e Burglars operating at Grangevill
g last week entered the stores of tn
r Callan meat market, Edgington poo
q. hall and the Miller Implement G.,
= Cash and merchandise to the valu
!. :, of about $50 was taken from the thre
a. places.