davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Dermott news., 1918-08-15

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bordeaux re-
turned home Tuesday night from a
months trip to Colorado Springs.
Fruit Jars Mason, Economy, Self
Sealing and Jelly Glasses.
Orr Hardware Co.
Miss Georgia Richardson Of Hamburg
is spending the week here, the guest
of her cousin, Miss Maud Kennedy
We have in stock both buggies and
buggy harness.
Belser. Dishongh & Co.
c. F. Dowden and family returned
Monday night from Martinsville Ind. j.
where they spent couple of weeks.
Just received shipment of rugs
and art squares. both large and small.
Belser Dishongh & Co.
On Tuesday evening, August 7th, the
stork visited the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Boyet and left an eight pound
boy.
Do you know Sanol Chill Tonic knocks 3
the Chills and all Malaria Fevers Get
80 cent Trial Bottle at Bordeaux Drug
Store.
Mrs. E. Streepey of Little Rock came
in yesterday to spend couple of weeks
here with Mrs. Aline Robertson at the
b. Ford home.
Bert S. Nixon was business visitor
to Memphis the first of the week. His
wife and baby accompanied him as far
IA Little Rock
Mrs. c. HeImstetter and little daugh-
ter Mary left last Thursday for Port
land. Ind. to spend several weeks Wis.,
iting relatives there.
Mrs. K. w. Marks and childred are
expected home today from Eureka
Springs. where they have been spend
ing the past six weeks.
If You have Chills or Malaria get a
80 cent bottle of Sanol Chill Tonic; moth
ing better for chills and malaria. Get
it at Bordeaux Drug Store.
Larkin Smith left last Monday for
San Antonio, Texas. where he will
spend three weeks in training for over
seas service with the Y. NJ. c. A.
Cant hooks. log chains. horse shoes,
wagon rims. hay wire and pitch forks.
with the prices right.
Belser. Dishongh 4 Co.
Mrs. j. f. Leeper is an authorized
subscription agent for the Dermot'
News. Subscriptions left with her
will be promptly entered and credited.
Remember the men in our Army
and Navy do not expect luxuries.
Should we at home expect them? Buy
necessities and war savings stamps.
Something doing all the time at oul
MAJESTIC RANGE DEMONSTRA
TION this week at our store. Better
not miss il. Orr Hardware Co.
Mrs. c. d. Ashabramer and little sor
{. D. Jr., left Sunday afternoon fol
their home in Jonesboro, after week +.
visit here at the home OF Fred Johnson.
c. NJ. Measel returned today to his
military duties at Camp Nichols, neai
New Orleans, after a tive-day furlougt
with friends here and relatives at vii
mar.
Do not buy an oil stove before see
/ ing our karo Gas stove which burn:
400 gallons of air to one gallon of oil
We have people in Dermott using this
stove and they state that it saves then
75% oil No gasoline used. absolutely
safe. Belser, Dishongh x Co.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
General Trade Conditions.

Dun's says: What has been in many
respects the most eventful year of eco
nomic history neared it's closing with
the announcement of governmental
control of the country's transportation
systems, causing striking recovery
in prices of securities, but with recog-
milton that not all of the readjust-
ments arising from war conditions
have yet been witnessed. With the
business outlook still obscured and
likely to remain uncertain, there is no
abatement of the disposition to oper-
ate ahead with caution, and the GUS
tomary policy of deferring important
engagements until the year-end now
appears in many quarters.
But what has stood out prominently
through recent months of unprece-
denied changes has been the absence
OF conspicuous loss of confidence and
of any general movement toward can
collation. of existing contracts. The
fact is that, while some unsettlement
has necessarily been experienced in
trade and industry and though there
has been not a little hesitation in most
directions, faith in the future has not
appreciably diminished, and not only
have nancy new concerns started, but
the years insolvency returns make
the best numerical exhibit since 1911
Weekly bank clearings, $4,403, 22O, 1888
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
LUMBER AND WOODWORKING.

w. ]. Ramey, for 81 years lumber
dealer at Nez Perez, Idaho, has sold
his yard and all of his timber holdings
to the Craig Mountain Lumber Co. of
Winchester. A. A. Hunter, manager
for the Madison Lumber Co., will take
charge of the yard for the new com
pany.
]. w. burst has purchased the in
terest of Carl Challinor in the Deer
Park Sash and Door Co. at Deer Park,
Wash, and is now the sole owner.
Mr.. burst is an expert wood worker
and pattern maker and makes a spe-
cialty of sash, doors, furniture and
patented articles of all kinds.
The Standardization Lumber Co.
of Dayton, Wash, has sold its bust.
ness to the Standard Lumber Co., and
turned the plant over the first of Jan
uary. This deal concludes transfers
in the lumber yards of Dayton com
menced several months ago when the
City Lumber and Coal yards were sold
to e. G. Van Patten, that deal being
followed by the purchase of the ]. d
Bower and the w. L. Rodrick yards by
the Potlatch Lumber Co.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
GUATEMALA CITY
COMPLETE WRECK
Earthquake Shocks of Thursday and
Friday Bring Disaster-3oo
More Killed.

Washington.-Guat City has
been completely destroyed by earth
quake shocks Thursday and Friday,
January and 4, which followed
those late in December. Messages
received by the state department
Saturday said the loss of life Janu-
airy is estimated to be greater
tina nthat resulting fran the earlier
shocks.
The dispatch from the Central
American Telegraph company said:
"Our manager at San Jose, Qua
temala, telegraphs the following;
What was left 70 Guatemala City
is now wiped out. Shocks at 1926
p. m, fourth, finished everything
Steam is coming up in the streets
Cathedral fallen. Las Vacas bridge
to Barrios now down. Slides on rail
road between San Jose and city. Nc
lines or trains reported. Further
300 killed."
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
GRAIN AND MILLING NOTES.

D. M. Shields elevator at Rexburg,
Idaho, burned to the ground recently.
The elevator was full Of wheat and
the total loss is $4,000. Origin un-
known.
The Montana Flour Mills Co. is pre-
pairing plans for the enlargement of
the Harlowtown, Mont, plant. The
daily capacity will be increased from
600 barrels to 1900 barrels.
In anticipation of a large crop of
peas being contracted for in the vi
cinity of Livingston, Mont, next sea-
son, the Alfred j. Brown Seed Co. Of
Grand Rapids, Mich, is making ar
rangements to build large warehouse
there.
The Sperry Flour Co., through its
manager, John d. Armstrong an
nounces the erection at Tacoma of a
reinforced concrete elevator to cost
$4,000, with a capacity of 100000
bushels Work on construction will
start this month.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
HOLD SERGEANT RITTER
AT CAMP LEWIS, TACOMA
Disappearance of Military Paper
Brings Non-com Into Custody
May Be Shot.

Camp Lewis, Tacoma.-Held as a
cog in the German espionage system,
Thomas Helmuth Ritter, who until
November IL, the date of his arrest
was regimental sergeant major in the
charge of the distribution of mail
and papers in the division adjustant's
office. Camp Lewis, awaits the mes
sage from Washington, d. c., that
will tell his fate.
Death before a firing squad as an
enemy spy, Imprisonment or intern
ment for the period of the war at
least as an alien enemy are posi-
bilities, following conviction in such
cases.
Grave military escrets have been
betrayed, precious military papers are
missing, disaster has threatened a
military project, 1t is declared by
military authorities, as a result of
Ritter's activities.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEMI-
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FORQUlCKREADING
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to all the People.

New plants for war material pro-
duction will be located entirely IN
the middle west under the policy OF
the war department.
The German crown prince, in a
New Years order to his army,
nraises its valuor in the battles OF
the year just closed.
In the three and one-half years
Canada has been in the war her cas-
ualties total 10000, although her
population is only 100000
Only the poor and men and women
doing the hardest kind of manual la
Dor may have more than seven
ounces of war bread a day in France
from now on.
In December, % Norwegian ships
with total gross tonnage of 32,755,
were lost in consequence of war
measures. Seventy-five lives were
lost
Twenty-Five persons, among them
four from Antwerp, eight from
Client and a Dutch skipper were
executed by the Germans at Client re-
Gently for alleged espionage.
General Pershing Saturday report
ed the deaths in France of Sergeant
Charles A. Fraley, pneumonia, Lin
coin, Neb,, and Private Otto Rudolph
Edmonds, meningitis, Oldham, S. ID.
1t was announced Monday tina
362,941 insurance policies, aggregat
ing $3,105, 776,500 and averaging So,
557 policy, had been taken out b,
American soldiers and sailors unde
the war insurance act.
Automobile bandits raided thu
Phoenix Building & Loan society OF
fices in Chicago Saturday and es
capped with approximately $1,000 afte
locking an aged cashier, the only oC
cupant of the offices, in a vault.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08

Field Marshal Won Hindenburg and
General Won Ludendorff, first quar-
termaster general.
A belated dispatch from Berlin
gives as the reason for the refusal of
the Germans to consider Stockholm
as a place where peace night be
advantageously discussed the fear
that British, French and American
diplomats in the Swedish capital
would by intrigue render all endeav-
ors futile.
Dispatches from Berlin indicate
that, although the reichstag parties
in the main are supporting the gov
eminent, considerable political unrest
is prevalent and that strong efforts
are being made to hold the socialists
in line. The socialist organ in Der.
lin characterized the situation as ex
traordinarily serious.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
INDUSTRY AND IMPROVEMENT.

Each of four bonding propositions
voted on by patrons of Yakima school
district carried by wide margins, but
the vote was very light The county
treasurer will be directed to advertise
for bonds in the sum of $37 1900 for
building two schoolhouses and four
portable buildings, the latter to be
used in connection with the high
school.
Expenditures totaling $1,250,O00 have
been made by the S., p & S. railway
and affiliated lines, including the Spo-
kane & Inland Empire railroad, during
the year 1917 in improvements to
tracks and for equipment, according
to statement by L. c. Gilman, presi-
dent of the road. Work completed in
cludes trestle filling, track and bridge
renewals and new work, the lining of
tunnels, extension of shop facilities
and the installation of an automatic
block signal system at every tunnel be-
tween Portland and Spokane.
Spokane's newest industry, the Yard
ley cannery of the Puyallup and Sum
ner Fruit Growers association, in its
first yearsof operation produced an
output valued at $4,000, according to
the statement of S. B. Coon, resident
manager. The cannery paid the grow
ers $4,000 for their raw fruit and
vegetables and its payroll was $25,000
The seasons tonnage was as follows:
Apples. $4,000 pounds; tomatoes
100000 pounds; beans, 10000 pounds;
sour cherries, 10000 pounds; Royal
Ann cherries, $4,000 pounds; dewber-
ries, 203 pounds; gooseberries, 25,S51
pounds; prunes, 10000 pounds; plums
1900 pounds; pears, $4,000 pounds;
spinach, $4,000 pounds.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Robert j. Manthy has sold 100
acres south of Nez Perez, to Chas.
Hutchins for $4,000.
On account of a slide near Ahsak-
ka on the Clearwater branch of the
Northern Pacific, traffic was held UP
Saturday.
According to the recorder, 125 mar
riage licenses were issued in Bonner
divorces granted.
Standpoint BARRIERS have raised the
price of a hair cut and shave to 60
cents, and will also close an hour
earlier than in the past.
The long bridge leading from Sand
point across the lake south is to be
replanked at a cost of $1,000. The
bridge Is two miles in length.
John A. Humbird, former assistant
manager of the Humbird Lumber
company, is with C company, 1O2nd
machine gun battalion in France.
The committee engaged in enroll
ing members for the militia company
which Standpoint hopes to have in the
new Idaho national guard had secured
126 names Sunday.
Milwaukee traffic was tied up for
eight hours Saturday due to the en-
CINE of a passenger train running
into slide just west of st. Joe, and
i'm min hA t..oo oh NJ
jured.
The Occur d'Alene district was
still isolated Sunday from the out
side world so far as railroad con.
nection is concerned, with the excep-
ton of the Missoula branch of the
Northern Pacific.
The Potlatch river, during the re
cent rains, reached the highest mark
since the big flood in 1898. The
rains were warm, and cattle are feed
ing on grass. The hillsides are GOV
cred with buttercups and dandelions
and the weather is like spring.
The farmers tri-county union, com
prising the counties of Nez Perez
Lewis and Clearwater, held thei
annual meeting at Nez Perez OF
January 8 and g. State President FL
more was present. The Farmers
Mutual Insurance company also hel,
its annual meeting at the same time
Lightning creek, where il flows in
to Pend Oreille lake. is swollen to
height of five feet greater than eve
before known, and threatens the vi
lage of Clarks Fork At a poin
near the county bridge the creek ha
shifted its course 30 feet to the cas-
toward the village, and the lay O
the land is such that it is feared |
VIII break away from its old cours
entirely and cut a channel throug
the village and into the Clarks For
river. Already the water system O
the village has been cut off and tn
flood waters are flowing through tn
mains. Many ranches in the Clark
Fork valley are inundated.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
NOTED PERSONS DIE

Pasadena, Cal-Melville e. Stone,
Jr., son of the general manager of
the Associated Press.
Detroit Mich.-The Right Rev.
John S. Foley, Catholic bishop of
Detroit for many years, died here
January s. He was "a years old.
New York.-Thousands of persons
attended the funeral here Monday Of
DR.. Paul Kaplan. widely known for
his activity in the movement which
resulted in the overthrow of EN-
peror Nicholas in Russia. He was
secretary in America of the Russian
socialist revoltuionists and one of the
principal organizers of the Friends
of Russian Freedom.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08

Corps of Army Nurses.
According to estimates based on an
army of 100000 men, 1880 nurses
will be needed. The present strength
of the army nurse corps of the med
zeal department is about $500. TO
increase this number by nearly 1,0OO
ner cent In a year is the task faced
by the corps.
Call for Brickiayers.
The first requisition under the new
selective service regulations Is FOR
bricklayers. In sending the call, the
provost marshal general asked for
1000 men to fill an urgent need OF
the armies in France. Only white
men are wanted. They report to
the aviation section, signal corps,
Kelly field, San Antonio, Texas.
Articles Used Emergency Rations
The equipment of no soldier is
complete without emergency food ra-
tions. United States troops are sup
piled with three different parched
maize-meal packets and three choc-
olates The former is revival OF
the maize-meal of the American In
dams, on which they could exist for
days while hunting or on the war
path.
The "chain-shot" ration furnished
Belgian, French and Teutonic soldiers
is winter food of compressed meat
There are more than a dozen va
rieties of compressed teas used by
the Russian commissary. Compressed
rice and macaroni is supplied ORR
entail forces. Oat-bread in sausage
form is used by some of the North
British troops.
A curious ration is the compressed
fig coffee of the Central Powers
which may either be utilized for fooc
as it is or converted into a coffee
for drinking. Smoke-dried pears are
used in the same armies. The Swiss
soldier receives an emergency ration
of white chocolate. made entirely o
cocoa-butter and sugar.
An Italian army chocolate is il
sausage-length form, while their plum
duff goes into a beef membrane
Federal Loans to Farmers.
Up to December 1, $29,S24,6 ha,
been paid out to farmers on pc
cent longtime loans, according to
report covering the operations o
the IL federal land banks. The tC
tai of loans approved, including thos
closed and those awaiting verifica
ton of title and other formalities, i
sos, 136,529. The interest rate i
515 per cent.
Entertainment for Soldiers.
Reports coming from southern
camps show the vaudeville shows
running in tents, are crowding seal
ing capacities. With the 16 govern
ment theaters at the cantonment
completed, the commission on trair
ing camp activities will soon star
several high grade theatrical con
panies on the rounds of the camp!
Each company will be out about l
weeks.
Local committees in cities an
towns throughout the country wi
put on sale "smilage" books tn
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
Weekly War News Digest
STORIES OF ACTIVITIES AND CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT
UNITED STATES AND ON THE BATTLE FRONTS,
FROM WASHINGTON D c.

week of January % containing ccu-
pons good for admission to the en-
tertainments in camps and conton-
ments. The books are made in two
sizes, to sell at 81 and So.
Materials Used in Equipment.
Raw materials of many kinds are
needed for the equipment of United
States troops. Jute, silk, fur, and
linen, all find their way into the
uniform Of an infantryman, in addi-
ton to the wool and cotton which
are used in greater quantities. Horse
hide and leather, wood, iron, steel.
bronze, brass, dine, copper, tin, and
lead are used in various articles.
Registered Men May Enlist.
While men registered under the Sc
lective-service law are not being ac-
cepted at recruiting office for enlist
ment in the aviation section of the
signal corps, they may be indicted
voluntarily into service by their To-
cal boards if they are physically fit,
sufficiently skilled, and not required
to fill the current draft quota They
will be sent to Camp Kelley, Texas,
for distribution into trades, training,
and formation into squadrons, with
ranks and salaries running from $50
a month as private to $81 a month
as master signal electrician, food
and quarters being provided by the
government.
Construction of AirpIanes.
| In the construction of one airplane
of the more simple type 244 feet OF
spruce, SO feet of pine, 81 feet OF
ash, and " feet of hickory are used
The list of material, exclusive of the
engine, also includes 1862 feet oil
wire, 1893 forgings, 921 steel stamp
ings, 81 square feet of veneer, IL gal
Ions of varnish, SO gallons of dope,
20l square yards of linen, "a fee
of rubber, and So pounds of alumni
mum. Over 1000 nails are used, 1877
screws and 276 turnbuckles.
NOTES.
Christmas gifts for the expedition
airy forces aggregated $50 tons.
Christmas mail this year was 81
per cent heavier than ever before.
The department of agriculture il
urging poultry raising to increase tn,
food supply
, Vigorous campaigns are on in sew
eral states to increase the use O
wood for fuel in place of coal.
An embargo has been place on tn
expectation of butter, except to ma
lions associated with the Unite,
States in war.
The military service flag of tn
. lighthouse service, department O
commerce, contains 1906 stars, on
for each officer and employee of tn
lighthouse service now serving in tn
military forces of the United States
All wooden Christmas boxes TO
soldiers of the expeditionary force
received too late for shipment wi
be returned to the senders if retur
l postage is mailed to the superintenC
ent, Railway Mail Service. Ne,
, York, N. Y.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
Fewer Passenger Trains.

Washington.-To free Locomotives
and crews for the more important
freight transportation, 20 per cent
of the through passenger trains on
eastern railroads we're discontinued
by approval of Director McAdoo. The
running schedule of others will be
reduced to lower speed to facilitate
the movefent of freight trains.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
RUSS|AN-GERMAN
COMPACT NOW OFF
DEMAND THAT CONFERENCE BE
HELD IN STOCKHOLM WOR-
RYING REIcHSTAG.
ALLIES DIPL OMATS INFLUENCE
Endangering of Negotiations Falls on
Spirit of Germany Like Black
Cloud, Says vorwaerss-Much
Unrest in Berlin.

The peace negotiations between the
central powers and the bolshevik gov
eminent in Russia have been ITEM
porarily suspended" by the Germans.
From the meager advices received
it appears the rock upon which a
continuation of the pour parlers split
was the demand of the Russians that
the conference be resumed at Stock
holm, instead of at Brest-Litovsk.
Trotzky and Germans Clash.
Dissatisfied with the proposals for
peace made by the Teutonic allies be-
fore the recess of the Brest-Litovsk
conference, Leon Trotzky, the bolshe-
vik foreign minister, had been insist
ent on the deliberations being held on
neutral soil instead of at the German
eastern headquarters. The Germans,
however, had been equally as firm
in their determination not to treat
with the Russians at any other place
than Brest-Litovsk.
German advices Saturday were to
the effect that the bolshevik dele.
gates, on finding that the representa-
tives of the Teutonic allies were at
Brest-Litovsk awaiting them, had
started for this town, but nothing has
come through to show that these had
any foundation in fact.
Army Leaders Aid Decision.
The decision of the Germans to dis
continue the sittings was arrived at
during a crown council held In Der.
| lin Saturday, which was attended by
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-08
MINING NOTES

An expenditure of $4,000 to $4,000
in the further development and equip
ment of its property is proposed by the
Polaris Mining and Development Co.,
onerating in the silver belt four miles
east of kellogg, Idaho. The advance
of a tunnel to open the ore bodies at
an additional depth OF $40 feet and
the installation of mill are included
in the plans of the board.
The CRANKY Consolidated Mining.
Smelling and Power Co. produced 49,
100000 pounds of copper during 1917,
according to a Boston estimate. This
is compared with 44,700,000 pounds in
1915, or a difference Of 100000 pounds
in favor of 1916. A Boston estimate,
made a month ago, indicated that the
difference would be only 100000
pounds. The fiscal year period ends on
June 30.
Rumors that the Federal Mining and
Smelling Co. and the Northport Smelt-
ing and Refining Co. and other Day
interests are to join issues have been
current. but whether the combination
is corporate or merely an arrangement
for mutual convenience in handling
ores does not appear. Some of the
rumors have been confirmed and others
have been denied, but not enough oil
them have been confirmed to make the
report of a merger convincing. II
was reported that the Northport
Smelling and Refining Co. would IN
crease its capitalization to S3,000,O0(
from 100000 and that the Carnegie
Refining Co., Day asset in Pennsyl
vania, would undergo an increase o.
capitalization at the same ratio. Th'
increase of capitalization by the North
port company has been confirmed b,
an official.
New York Metal Market.
Metal exchange quotes lead easier
spot, $6.37@6.62. Spelter quiet; spot
| o