The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-22
NORTHWEST NOTES

- NaAS N-V VI oo
The price of pound loaves of bread
was raised at Helena last week from
10 cents TO two loaves for quarter.
Bakers say the raise was necessary
because of a 70-cent jump per barrel
In fiour.
Many instances have come to the
notice of the patriotic ladies who are
conducting the thrift stamp drive in
Butte wherein the German citizens
have shown their loyalty to the
United States.
request that all citizens of Wash
lngton who have on hand an excessive
supply of wheat flour return to the
dealers from whom they obtained II or
otherwise put on the market all of it
except II 30 days supply has been is
sued
After five years of court procedure
the Great Northern will have to pay
the sum of $4,000 10 Mrs. John +.
Hall, widow of John f. Hall, who was
killed while his train was backing
down from Kila to ,Kalispell, Mont, in
1912.
Butte residents having firearms in
their possession reported to the sheriff
to register their weapons in such large
numbers that last week four deputy
sheriffs were assigned to the work of
helping fill out the blanks and filing
them.
Between 5000 and 1000 Nevada
farms will be surveyed with respect to
acreage and production of important
crops, number and kind of livestock
and farm labor conditions duting
March. The survey is ordered by the
government.
Fred VOgel, a teamster, was arrested
at Lewiston, Mont, on charge of hav-
ing made dlsloyal and seditious re-
marks concerning the United States.
The man is German born and was adj
mitted to citizenship more than thirty
years ago.
The Touring mill of the BoZeman
Milling company at Bozeman, Mont,
has been authorized to operate for an
indefinite period in making war flour,
but 80 per cent of the flour is to be
purchased by the government for ship
ment to the allies.
The recent ruling of the national
food administration prohibiting for
limited time all traffic in slaughtered
hens or pullets does not apply to brOil-
ers weighing two pounds or less each
according to an Interpretation Of the
order made public by the food admin
istrator of Nevada.
Under Il new law Montana is regis
tering deadly weapons, and J. Scott
Harrison of the government survey last
week took to the sheriff at Helena the
sword carried by MajOr-General Will
lam Henry Harrison of Indiana, after
wards president of the United States,
in the war of 1912.
respondent over the rupture of rela-
tons with her fiance in Lewiston,
Idaho, and viewing the future as a
gloomy prospect, Mabel Harris, ~
years old, daughter of Mrs. Mary Har-
rls of Hamilton, deliberately shot her
even chances for recovery.
Montana's cOngresswoman, Miss
Jeanette Rankin, is supporting the
Madden bill, as is shown by her re-
cent speech before the house. This
measure provides for an increase In
the pay of postal employees, which is
considered by every one in the serv-
ice as an absolute necessity.
What is believed to be the first let
ter from Montanan on the Tuscania
when that ill-starred transport was
sunk off the coast of north Ireland and
more than 200 Americans were made
victims of a German submarine, has
been received at Billings from Captain
Paul Mccormick, Billings boy.
At the regular meeting. of the Bill
ings, Mont, Rotary club last week,
preliminary steps were taken looking
to the coordination of all organiza-
tons which are in anywise connected
with the furtheTing OF war measures,
which it is expected will eventually in
clude the adoption of the so-called
Kenosha plan for raising and distribut-
ing funds.
LUCENT Dent, ranch hande EN-
ployed near Dillon, Mont, has set an
example OF thrift which is seldom
equaled by wage Garner. Appearing
at bank, he stated that he would like
to purchase few thrift stamps. When
asked how many he would like TO buy
he surprised the cashier by replying
that he would like about thousand
dollars worth.
To test the claims of northwest |
milling interests that airpIane con
structiOn can be rushed by having all |
blaming mill work done on airplane 1