The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-01-25

Missoula
The state land board will buy with
school funds $l00, 900 worth Of state
highway bonds, unless some bonding
wishes 10 pay above par for
the paper. The board instructed M.
G. Stott, state land commissioners, 10
make IA deposit with the state treas
urer for-:he purpose Of covering a bid
that it will make on the bonds. The
bonds are now being offered for sale
by the treasurer. The land board
will bid A. per cent for them.
A telegram from the food admins :
tration at Washington to the Office Of
the state food administration says
that in the first week Of the retailers
pledge campaign ATS Idaho retailers
pledged themselves to give the public
the benefit of fair and moderate
prices. Customers are advised by the
administration to look for the pledge
cards in the grocery stores.
For the sake of "the woman behind
the man behind the guns, or, the
second lire of defenSe," is the slogan
of the women who started out this
week to raise Idaho's $4,000 quota
Of the 81, 900, 900 which 1t has been
estimated will be needed to carry on
effectively the safeguarding of the
girls of the cOuntry-thOse in
government service and those who
come in contact with the army posts
and contonments.
One. hundred and seventy cars
under shipment to coast points with
consignments Of goods TOR Russia are
blOckading the n. p. yards at
Standpoint. Three tracks are filled
with the freight cars which are
evidently being held in transit await
ing more stable conditions 10 Russia.
Seventy five of the cars contain
cotton and there are several carloads
Of barbed wire. 1t is evident that
the cars will be kept in the yards
some time as watchmen have been
employed to protect them.
Many men of military age whC
were married since May Is, when The
war was declared, are being placed il
| deferred classes by some county
exemption boards, and by the distric
exemption board for southern Idaho
| The district board ruled that eact
appeal filed by newlywedS would b'
settled solely upon its own merits
meaning that, in cases where it wa
satisfied men did not marry to escap
the draft. appeals would be allowed
In making its ruling the distric
board reversed the Ada count
exemption board, and sustained
rulings made by the Boise city board
Fred L. Lilly was elected mayor o
the city of Caldwell at the election 0
April "a, 1917, instead of Edward II
Plowhead, the state supreme cour
holds in an opinion hled Jan.
sustaining the Judgment Of tn
seventh judicial district court, wher
an action had been brought by Lilly
friends contesting the election &
Plowhead as announced by the boar
Of canvassers. Plowhead appeale
from the judgment of the distriC
court. Pending the outcome Of TIL
contest, Plowhead has acted as mayo
of Caldwell.
With the mines of the Occur d
Alenes operating shorthanded, til
government calling for the assistanC
of every able. coded citizen With
its boundaries, and every Industry
the country seeking labor, Shoshor
county officials have issued a
ultimatum that all idlers and loafe
within the county will have to srt
employment or suffer the consequence
I of prosecution under the vagraut
statutes, which provide that ma
found continually lOafinp has M