Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-11-26
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings In This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

Miss Marguerite Collins. who for
four years has been a teacher in the
Wardner schools. left Nov. %
for service overseas.
The Lewiston city health board de-
cided to keep schools, theaters and
places of amusement closed all this
week on account of the influenza cpl
demic
Flu conditions at the University of
Idaho are satisfactory. There have
been on new cases in many days. The
few girls who had influenza are re-
covering.
jeremiah M. Savage, pioneer placer
miner of the Murray and Delta section
of the Occur d'Alenes, died recently
following an attack of Bright's dis
ease and pneumonia.
Madge Alana Best, age 6; daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Best, Satur-
day succumbed to burns received while
playing around a bonfire started by
children at Occur dAlene.
The schools of Moscow did not open
Monday. The school board, after con-
sultation with health officers, regarded
it dangerous to open school with so
many cases of influenza in town.
Secretary o. p. Henderson, an
nounced Sunday that the Northwest
Live Stock association had been ad-
mitted to membership in the Amer
lean Association of Fairs and Exhi-
billions.
1--WE have had large crops of splen-
did potatoes in Bonner county this
year, but our hay crop, usually abund-
ant, has not been up to the average,
says Harry S. Fry, rancher of Sand
point.
Northern Latah county is expecting
business activity as a result of the
ending of the war. The lifting of the
embargo against shipping western
lumber is expected TO revive the lum
Der industry.
l.. w. Robinson, well-known flour
mill man of the Inland Empire. died al
Lewiston Friday from heart trouble
About two. years ago Mr.. Robinson
moved his large milling plant from
Nez Perez to Lewiston.
Otto Land, who was active in mining
circles in Wallace about 10 years agC
and who has been in mining work il
Mexico for some years, has been ;
| captive of a band of Mexicans and wa
badly treated, says report from AGA
poneta, Mexico.
At a recent meeting of the director
of the Northwest Live Stock assocfa
ton, it was decided to erect a perma
nent, commodious live stock judgini
pavilion costing $4,000 and four ao
ditional cattle barns at cost of $4,000
construction work to begin at once.
Ella Whalen, age 10, daughter c
James Whalen, a farmer living abou
three miles from Juliaetta on the Iii
tie Potlatch river, was fatally injure
recently while playing near a cliff b
a small stone, evidently dislodged b
cattlt grazing above, which fell an
struck her in the temple.
Arrangements have been made wit
the directors of the Northwest Liv
Stock association by the Northwes
Shorthorn Breeders association I
? hold a sale at Lewiston at the liv
stock grounds December IS. TIL
Northwest Hereford Breeders associ
ton will also hold a sale December
S Charles F. Leland, one of Lewiston
!, early pioneers and prominent citizen
t died recently of paralysis. He Wa
1 born in Portland November 5, 1856
His father, Alonzo Leland, came wit
a his family to Lewiston during the go
> excitement in 1862 and opened a la
e office and soon after established IL
e Lewiston Teller, which he edited u
), til 1891, when it was sold.