The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-06-21

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aole citizens, II the federal govern.
nlent and the state council of defense
act on suggestions which will be
mace oy Harvey Alfred, director of
The state farm markets bureau.
That Idaho can turn out dairy
products of a sufficiently high quality
To warrant shipment to eastern
markets was demonstrated last week
when a carload of Payette butter,
made by a Payette creamery and
shipped to the New York market,
arrived in excellent condition and
brought p cents more per pound, f..
.. b. Payette, than the Seattle quota
tion
Because OF the shortage of qualified
station men and the need of using
men now available at other points
more necessary, and because of a
falling off Of receipts To point
insufficient to maintain station
the public utilities commission has
issued an order permitting the
Northern Pacific to close its depot at
Larsen, three miles east of Mullan,
on the Missoula-W Wallace branch.
Miss Iva Holt 10 charge of canning
clubs, and Miss Isabel Stephens 10
charge of gam S, plays and physical
culture work, under the extenton
department Of the University Of
Idaho, are touring northern Idaho
arranging for school garden club
festivals 10 each county 10 july. Ten
thousand boys and girls have been
enrolled in the northern counties In
club work in garden, canning, pig,
rabbit and other club activities.
Hundreds of acres of sugar beets in
the Blackfoot and Shelley section
southeastern Idaho, have been plowed
up and the ground planted to potatoes.
Killing frostS and UNUSUAL drOuths
are the cause of the farmers abandon
ing the beet crops. Harvey Alfred of
the state farm markets bureau said
in an interview upon his trip to the
eastern part of the state Winds
played havoc with the crops by dry.
ing out the ground.
The provost marshal general has
notified the adjutant general that the
rule prohibiting the enlistment of
boys of the June 5, last, draft regis
tration class has been amended so
that the young men may now enlist
in the navy or the marine corps upon
{. % lining certiflcation from their
local boards that their order numbers
have not been reached, and that they
are not now within the current draft
quotas.
Clarence Van Dcusen, state auditor,
1led an action against John w.
Eagleson, state treasurer, in district
court at Boise to compel him to
transfer $4,000 or more from the
University of Idaho interest fund to
the University of Idaho maintenance
fund. The action is 10 the form of a
petition for writ of mandate. This
is understood to be but another step
in the ong.drawn.out struggle or
Van Deusen and other state officials
over the handling of special funds of
the University of Idaho.
For several hours Saturday after9
noon the mem bers of.a state price IN
terpreting board Just appointed, met
with Food Administrator r +. Blck.
nell in an effort to agree upon fair
basis on which the prices OF .substi-
tutes and other commodities should
be regulated through. price interpre-
ta,ions. Failure of the board 40
agree upon a plan resulted 10 an adsz
iournment until Monday, June "a,
and In the interim the members VIII
make independent investigations and
gather additional data CONCERNING