The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1918-09-13
GLEANINGS

WEEK lOOhlHS lOI a 1dl III WIN q
view of buying if he could obtain a
suitable place. He looked over
parts of California and Oregon, in
tending to locate on piece of land.
He found nothing, however, as good
as the Potlatch. His family is now
living at Charleston.
The A. C. White family received
word that William C. McEachern,
who is in the army in France, had
one leg shot off and it is believed
that it will be necessary to ampu-
tate the other. Mr.. McEachern, his
mother and Mrs. Katherine Hunter,
a former resident of Kendrick, were
here last fall visiting friends, short
ly before Mr.. McEachren left for
Camp Lewis.
Walter McCrea Jr. left Wednesday
for Washington, D. c. where he will
enter the Army and Navy training
school to take preparatory course.
According to the estimates ga
thered by the extension department
of the University of Idaho, Bannock
county saved 1929. 315.0O worth of
grain by a systematic campaign
against the ground Squirrel. The
farmers worked in cooperation with
the extension department and the
county commissioners and the re-
suits were very favorable. The
same work but not on such large
scale, was carried on in 81 count
les in the state under the direction
of the.county agents.
Grand Master Coffin of Boise visit
ed with number of the prominent
Masons in Kendrick last Saturday.
He stopped here on his way to
Grand Lodge which met at Moscow
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
of this week. An informal meeting
was held at the Fraternal Temple
Saturday evening at which time the
Grand Master gave very interest
ing talk.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Hull enter
tanned few friends at dinner Sat-
urday night in honor of Grand
Master Coffin of the Masonic fra
ternity of Idaho. The gusets were:
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Oldfeld, DR..
and Mrs. G. w. H. Smith, Mrs. Har-
riet Golden Grand Master Coffin.
Manila Hanson, 10 Guy and Mar
garet Terry left the first of the
week for Harvard where they will
teach the Harvard school, which
opened Monday.
Ed Long ought to be restrained.
Every day he is seen with his truck
piled high with household goods,
moving them out of town. For
tunately the N. P. is running op-
position to him and is moving other
household goods and the families
belonging to them. into Kendrick.
In spite of the fact that a number
of families left. Kendrick houses
are all rented and more are needed.
E. P. Atchison was in Montana
the first of the week looking after
business interests.
Fifteen or twenty high school
boys from Moscow came to Kendrick
the first of the week to assist in the
prune picking. The boys were sent
here by the Latah Council of De-
tense.
There has ben a good deal of spec
ulation for some time past as to the
whereabouts of John Heiber, who
owns the Kendrick Hotel building.
He is now in Spokane and has taken
over active charge of his business
interests.
The end of this week will see "a
greater part of the beans cut and
ready to thresh. Bean threshing
season started in some localities
the first of this week and at this
time the threshing season is in full
swing. Ten days more of good
weather will bring forth prosper
Gus times for the Potlatch.
The grain threshing season in this
locality is practically over. 1t was
short job to thresh this year as the
grain was so light. Very little
difficulty was experienced in secur-
ing help to get the grain crop
harvested.
Captain ]. E. Hoyt is now located
at Fort Riley, Kansas where he is
taking the military training and
will later be transferred to another
camp for the army medical training
DR.. Hoyt was chosen as company
commander of 80 commissioned
officers of whom DIR Lyle of Peck is
one. His wife and little daughter
are with him part of the time. He
states that the crops in that part of
the country are very poor and that
the weather has been very bad for
several weeks and now it rams al.
most every day.
Henry Meyer. who is on a sub.
marine chaser somewhere on the
Atlantic, wrote to his father from
Halifax short time ago. A pre-