Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-04-09
Weekly War News Digest.
STORIES OF ACTIVITIES AND CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT
THE UNITED ON BATTLE FRONTS,
FROM WASHINGTON, c.

Their notice. Women as well as men
are eligible.
Two classes of examinations are
announced. A grammar school edu-
cation or its equivalent is required
of applicants for either class, with
the further stipulation that those who
wish to take the bookkeeper-type-
writer examination must have had at
least six months experience in book
keeping, and those who would under
take the clerk-bookkeer examination,
one years experience in clerical work,
six months of which must have been
in bookkeeping. The vacancies to be
filled from the register obtained
from these examinations are in the
departmental service at Washington
and offer entrance salaries of $1,000
year.
These examinations are open not
only to all citizens of the United
States but also to subjects of allied
nations who are otherwise qualified
for the positions offered
MUTE
Our 14-inch guns weigh nearly 90
tons and are over SIS feet long. cost.
ing s11S,O0O.
The Norwegian government has ap-
propriated $1,000, 900 to assist inten,
sive agricultural development. OF
this amount, s4,500,000 is to maintain
low maximum prices for cattle feed
and fertilizer.
New Japanese concerns numbering
over 100 are reported as having en-
tered business at Shanghai during
1917. The Japanese population is
rapidly increasing, now being about
$4,000
A standard system of inspection by
which federal food administrators
may keep a check on commercial ba
kers is being worked out by the de
partment OF agriculture and the food
administration.
uring the first year of war tn,
army paid s60,000,000 for horse
drawn vehicles and harness; more
than $50,000,000 for horses, mule,
and harness. Expenditures for tn,
fiscal year ending June 80, 1919, TO
fuel and forage are estimated at NOR,
than $500 100000
To February 20, the director gen
eral of military railways had place,
orders for railway supplies valued a
$4,000, 600 and with an aggregat
= weight of $4,000 long tons; the ger
eral engineer depot, to February ]
? issued $500 orders for material va
ued at $2O2, 100000
, A national school poster compel
i. ton has been put under way by tn
! national war savings committe,
J. Prizes of war savings stamps are {
be awarded for the best posters dea
: ing with war savings stamps and ce
o tificates, designed by pupils of pull
, lie schools and art schools The COZ
test will close May Is
Congress has authorized $2.O34 90
o of which sum s1,135, 00O, 900 has bee
"PPA OPi iobCdg III Tie OHlltu state
shipping board and emergency flee
y corporation; on March /, $353.247
955.37 of this sum had been expen,
! ed. The Emergency Fleet Corpor
,. ton had requisitioned March l, AZ
= steel vessels and contracted for n
c steel vessels, making a total of ia
o steel ships, of an aggregate dea
h weight tonnage of S,164, sos tons;
o had let contracts for 400 woode
vessels, aggregating approximate
1,715,O00 lightweight tons; it ha
repaired and put in operation 1880
d lightweight tonnage seized from &c
< many and Austria. On March IL
s building program of the EmergenC
e Fleet Corporation was being carrie
r on in Isl plants.