Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-05-01
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

afternoon for general cleanup day.
AS the result of nervous break
down, Miss Alma Freng is critically
i'll at Lewiston.
Moscow's postmaster, Frank Corn
well, died Sunday after an attack of
Bright's disease.
The big new Peoples theater, cost
ing $4,000, was opened at Potlatch on
Monday night The building is 80 by
10S feet, and will seat $50 persons.
Grangeville high school boys have
put in practice an effective plan to
combat the high cost of living by wear
ing overalls. Stiff collars have been
tabooed also, and the students wear
soft shirts with the overalls.
The lower line of the Camas Prairie
railway between Lewiston and Riparia
was opened to traffic April 2S and the
traffic on the high line, Lewiston to
Grangeville, was maintained by max
ing transfers at the washout near
Jacques spur.
j. Everett West, son of j. b. West,
former register of the United States
land office at Lewiston, has been ad-
vised of his acceptance as an officer
of the reserve corps and instructed to
be in readiness to proceed to the train
ing camp at the Preside, Cal.
In the presence of a wildly cheer
inc - EonO No ,ooN1o frOp,
Spokane, Harrison, st. Maries, St.
Joe, Wallace, Wardner, Kellogg, Occur
d'Alene and other north Idaho points,
the new Red Collar passenger boat,
Miss Spokane" was formally christ
ened at Occur d'Alene Sunday.
w. e. Chapman of Charleston, who
farms extensively near Riparia on the
lower river, sold to J. d. Roberts, dis
trict agent for NJ H. Houser, 26,500
bushels of wheat for $2.51 a bushel
Saturday OF this grain 1880 bushels
stored in Vollmer are of the 1915 crop,
while 10000 bushels stored at the Can
yon warehouse on the lower river are
of the 1916 crop. The wheat is mar
quis, club, fortyfold and red hybrid.
Mr.. Chapman still has between 5000
and 10000 bushels.
Aaron F. Parker of Grangeville,
state land appraiser for north Idaho,
announces sales of state lands in
north Idaho on dates as follows:
Kootenai county, at Occur d'Alene,
Saturday, June 16.
Benewah county, at st. Maries,
Monday, June IS.
Bonner county, at Standpoint, on
Wednesday, June 20
Latah county, at Moscow, Friday,
June %.
Idaho county, at, Grangeville, Mon
day, June %.
Clearwater county, at Orofino, on
Thursday, June %.
The sales to be made at this Sc
ries approximate 5000 acres OF valua-
tons running from $40 to $25 per
acre.
Appointments by Governor.
Governor Alexander has named Isaac
F. Smith, an attorney of Weiser, as the
additional judge of the Seventh judicial
district. Judge Smith is a republican
and has accepted the appointment
The governor has named ]. B. Lip
pincott of Idaho City on the state board
of education to succeed Robert M Ter
rell of Pocatello, who in turn was ap-
pointed by the governor as the new
judge for the Fifth judicial district
Mr | 10 0f tI,1
democrats of the southern part of the
state. This position is considered i'm
portant, as the board has the manage
ment of the several educational, penal
and charitable institutions in its hands
Secretary Hanson has been selected
to relieve the state officials. He will
maintain his headquarters in the gov.
ernor's office.
w. r. Haiti will be named as state
insurance commissioner He is an in
surance man of Rupert, and a demo
crat in politics. This position was va
Gated some time ago by George F
Steele of Occur d'Alene.
No action has as yet been taken by
the governor in the appointment of a
pubic utility commissioner.
School Children Help on Farms.
Twenty-Five thousand school chill
dren, able to do their bit toward in
tensified crop production, will be mo
bilized in the schools of the state i'm
mediately and during next fall. Wher
called upon by those in need of assist
ance, the students will be excused from
school and credited with school work
as long as they are needed on the farm
They are to be known under the gen
eral classification of school volun
teers" in connection with the Idaho
Increased Production Service" organ
ization.
Governor Alexander. DR.. Sisson. com
missioner of education; Miss Ethel N
! Redfield, state superintendent of pub
lie instruction; o. d. Center, head Of