The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-10-11
IDAHO STATE NEWS ITEMS
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The county food administrators re :
duced the maximum price Of IT,
ounce loaf Of bread In the state to 8
cents wholesale and 10 cents retail,
unwrapped, aud recommended 40
increase of So per ton to farmers for
sugar beets, making price Of $12
per ton, at their meeting held in the
federal courtroom at Boise Saturday.
The state food administrators ex-
PLANES that the present high price Of
butter is due to the scarcity Of feed
for cows, thus compelling many dairy.
men to sell their cattle for beef. The
administrators had, therefore. per-
mitted raise in the price of butter
fat to encourage the dalrymen to
retain their cows.
Two hundred men qualified for
general military service are to be
indicted over the state to report
October Is at the University of Idaho
to begin instruction in auto mechan-
les, general mechanics and radio, the
adjutant generals office announced
Thursday. At the end of the courses
they will be assigned to various places
of the service in accordance with the
needs of the army.
Thousands of tons of south Idaho
hay may be cut off from a ready
market ia the northern part of the
state, and in eastern Washington and
western Montana II Oregon quaran :
tine officials succeed In preventing
the shipments from passing through
Oregon on it's way north, as they have
announced they intend to do by
establishing quarantine on the
grounds that at least two south Idaho
counties are weevil infected.
Horace Mann, Nonpartisan organ
lzer for Gooding county, who con-
fessed to making seditious statements
and distributing Boshevik literature,
was brought before u. S Commission
er Disney at Shoshone Mann waived
preliminary examination and was
bound over under $1,000 bonds fol
trial IN the United States district
MI I, l. .
TO trial 10 the Boise district, and his
case will be called for trial at the
Pocatello term this month.
John Thomas, mayor of G0odnQ
aud well known south Idaho banking
man, was unanimously elected Friday
afternoon by the Republican state
central committee as state chairman,
succeeding S. d. Taylor, who resigned
Thomas was drafted for the place, il
was announced, and it is not known
whether he will accept or not, al.
though all elemepts of the party are
RibB hih W AO oOs AuOIueI iii
portant action taken by the commit.
tee was unanimous selection of r. O.
Jones for secretary of state to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation OIL
w. w. Won Canon.
School bonds totallng more thar
$25, 900 which have become past due
are held by the state land board
Efforts are being made to collect
them at once. Miss Ethel e. Red
field, state superintendent of public
instruction, was authorized Friday BY
the land hoard to make report or
the causes Of delay 10 payment of the
Following issues: Ada county, district
20, $1,000; Blaine county, district Is
$2500; Bingham county, district "a
$4,000; Fremont county, district 81
1915, aud district Al, $4,000; Oneid;
county, district 43. $1,000, and dis
trct Is, $500; Kootenai county
district Is, $4,000; Latah. district 81
$4,000; Lewis, independent No. ]
$4,000: Nee Perce, district SS, $500
Bingham, district 80, $500.