The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-05-24
NORTHWEST NOTES

tails $4,000.
Nevada has been called on to fur
lnish five men for the steyedore regl-
thehts overseas service. quarterlnns-
ters department Of the army.
". W. Hardin, a representative of
the Child Conservation League of
America, is in Butte for the purpose
Of organizing "a branch OF this league
there.
Billy get the shovel Mary. get the
rake. Wen make Butte beautiful for
beauty's sake" This and similar leg
ends appears in every street car In
Butte.
Miss Alice Mckay Of Glasgow, Mont.
won the state interschoinstic debate
championship from Representatives of
seven other high schools. selected In
district elimination contests last win
ter.
Hhe city council AT Lewiston. Mont.
has offered reward OF $500 for the
arrest and conviction of the persons
who were responsible for the destruc-
ton OF the high school building by
fire last week.
Matt Johnson of Bonner, Mont. was
sentenced 10 serve from two and one
half TO five years i'm the state peniten-
tiary for seditious utterances concern
ing the Liberty loan. johnson had
pleaded guilty TO the charge.
The department of Investigators of
the federal forest service will continue
the war against white pine blister rust
with great spring drive, to extend
over the states Of Montana. Idaho,
Wyoming, South Dakota and eastern
Washington.
AS the result of eating Wild parsnips,
Erico Dormi Is dead at Florinston.
Nevada. He and little nephew, while
out for walk. found what they took
TO be a parsnip growing by the road.
and each ate portion of the root.
The boy recovered
For the first time known in Butte
a seyen-hour workday has became an
issue between employers and employees,
the Butte Plasterers' union having de-
manded n reduction of the eight-hour
day TO seven, In addition TO demands
Of 81 per day increase in wages.
Chiropractors of Montana win at
tempt TO initiate law this fall amend
ing the present law requiring them
to be licensed by the state board of
osteopathy examiners before they can
practice. OsteopathS of the state are
preparing To oppose the Initiative law.
Twenty-six years ago Abraham J.
BercOwitz and Lucy Laura Emmett
were married in San Francisco. Last
week they were married again in Reno.
The reason for this apparently strange
proceeding is that In the San Fran
cisco fire of 1906 the records of the
Bercowitz marriage were obliterated
by the flames.
The sheriff, coroner and county At
torney came in from the Roy sountry
in Montana last week and announced
that the body found ON Bear creek,
supposed to have been that of the late
ex-Sheriff J. II. Afflerbach of York,
Neb., who disappeared In April, 1915,
while taking n prisoner back to York,
was not that of Afflerbach.
War training classes for radio OPP
orators have been established AT the
high schools of Elko. Reno. Sparks and
Goldfield by the state department Of
vocational education AT the request Of
the federal government. New classes
will soon be established ut Whine
mucca. Tonopah. Las Vegas aud Ely
under the local draft boards.
Serbians OF Butte repudiated !. w.
w. doctrines and pledged their fealty
TO the United States and the allied
nations at mass meeting last week.
Amid a tumult of enthusiasm, thirty
one men of Slayonic blood enlisted
under the flag OF Serbia and 400 Of
their comrades unanimously agreed TO
support the armies of democracy with
labor and money.
The report of the farm survey for
Sweet Grass county. Montana, just
committed. shows 1854 farms reported
need OF additional labor Tor the en-
tire year; 100 farms reported need Of
additional labor for the entire sum.
mer: $40 farms reported need Of labor
for shorter period. Approximately 90
DO acres Of wheat is planted or will
be- planted this season.
Many mining men Of the northwest,
and especially In Nevada. viii regret
10 learn ~ the recent death 81 Dave
Patterson at Mount Vernon, Wash.
Although only about ~ years AZ age.
Patterson mined in Alaska; Wallace.
Idaho. the Occur d'Alene=, Goldfield
Ia the boom days aud I'm National,
" here he was one of the first leu>"r>
haffee. RaWhide and Rochester. New.
In cooperation with the state school
authorities and the Red Cross, Sps-