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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
H. Wilken Jr. Honored

Last Sunday evening the Herman
Wilken home was the scene of a
jolly social event. when large
crowd of young folks gathered to
surprise Herman C.. Wilken, Jr.
The evening passed very pleasantly
and games furnished amusement
until a late hour. At midnight a
delightful lunch was served.
The party was given by Mr.. Will
Hen's friends to celebrate his re-
turn from overseas, where he spent
81 months with the American army.
He received his discharge from the
service at Paris, May II and after
that date was with the American
Relief Administration at Vienna,
Austria, until his return home.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
Troubles of a County Agent

A county agent in one of the
Eastern States believes in diversi-
fled activities. He reports as fol-
lows for one months work: Burnt
up 80 gallons of gasoline, quarts
of oil, had 9 punctures and one
blowout. Trailer broke away and
upset load; pig fell out of the car
and was caught with difficulty,
afterwards jumped from sty and
was run over by an auto. Buried
three pigs with all the profits and
lost $28 besides. Tore best trousers
getting over pasture feLce; broke
watch crystal loading corn planter;
but outside of few MINOR troubles
had very satisfactory months
work"
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
Hiram Alber Sold Farm

Hiram AIber sold his farm on
Bear ridge the first of the week to
Emil Russell of Southwick. The
farm is one of 100 acres of fine land,
all under cultivation and is located
comparatively close to town. The
place is we'll improved. Mr.. AL
ber will give possession of the place
October l. He has made no definite
plans but does not expect to farm
much in the future but will pro-
badly get small acreage either in
the Potlatch community or Clark
ston.
The above deal was made by G. F.
Walker, Hendricks live-wire real
estate dealer.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
Surprised Herman Koepp

Last Sunady afternoon a large
number of the neighbors and friends
OF Herman Koepp gathered at his
home and enjoyed genuine old
fashioned surprise party. The
women folks at the Keopp home
were the only ones who had been
informed that the occasion was to
take place. They kept the secret
and made all arrangements for the
entertainment for the guests with
out aroulsng any suspicious in Mr..
koepp's mind as to what was going
to happen.
About twenty automobile loads of
friends and neighbors were present
and succeeded admirably in COM
pletely surprising Mr.. Koepp,
whose birthday was to be honored
by one of the most enjoyable parties
held on Potaltch ridge. The dinner
served by the ladies was one long to
be remembered. Mr.. Atchlson,
from Kendrick, said he never saw
such dinner and others who were
so fortunate as to be present, speak
in glowing terms of the heaps of
good things that were devoured by
the happy crowd.
After dinner the time was spent
very pleasantly in social manner.
The men put in a greater part Of
their time talking roads and some
valuable and interesting ideas were
brought up. AS Mr.. Koepp is one
of the road commissioners :of the
Potaltch Highway district, good
roads is subject in which he is
vitally interested.
Nearly 100 guests enjoyed the
hospitality of the Koepp home dur
ing the day.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
School Notes

Hugh Parks and Adair Pember.
ton enrolled in Senior high school
Monday.
The manual training class start
ed work on the Basket Ball hall
this week preparing it for the hard
battles to be Fought there this
winter.
The Biology class has started the
years work by catching all the in
sects they can get. They are pre-
serving them IN alcohol for future
use in their laboratory.
Oscar Raby, Marie Kleth and Zola
Nealy enrolled in the Junior high
school Monday.
Mrs. King has very generously
supplied phonograph for the use
of the school this year. 1t will
prove very useful for march ac-
compartments, musical games and
lessons IN ear training.
In the high school curriculum
courses in English literature, econ
omics and sociology, and physics
alternate with American literature,
American history and chemistry re-
spectively. The classes in physics
biology and home economics are
so large as to require division into
two sections each.
The ten members Of the English
II class will edit the school notes
during the year.
Margaret Mcdowell, Jack Aiken
Eloise Kelley, Axel Swanson, Mel.
vim Murphy and Hester Knepper
returned to school the first of the
week.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
New Methodist Preacher

Rev. M. l.. Anderson, who for the
past year has been doing evangelis-
tic work in the Columbia River
Basin, has been called to the kend-
rick Methodist church by the
Methodist Conference. He expects
to be here the last Sunday of this
month and will hold service in the
new church.
Rev. Anderson has been preach
ing for years and comes we'll recon.
mended. He has a wife and five
children. Two of the older boys
will probably attend Washington
State College this year and the other
three will go to school here.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
Croker Buys Sawmill

Fred Crocker last week purchased
the harrington sawmil near Cres-
cent. The deal was made through
the Troy Lumber Company. The
consideration is understood to have
been S2,500. Mr.. Crocker has had
considerable experience IN handling
timber and will no doubt make a
success of the new venture. There
is considerable valuable yellow
pine timber In the vicinity of the
mill which is ready for market as
the land upon which it stands is
some of the best agricultural land
on the ridge after it has been put
under cultivation.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
Hammond-Cox

Miss Lottie Hammond of Julia
eta and Mr.. Jesse Cox of Potlatch
ridge, were: e:married in Moscow last
Saturday afternoon at o'coIck by
Rev. H. o. Perry. The bride is a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney
Hammond of Juliaetta and the
groom's parents are Mr.. and Mrs
VIM. Cox, who live on the lower
end of Potlatch ridge. The couple
will make their home on the farm
in the Fairview neighborhood.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
Weare-Kerr

Miss Olive M. Weare, one of the
local high school teachers, was mar
rled last Sunady to Mr.. John Kerr
of Gresham, Oregon. Their mar
riage was complete surprise to
everyone here. The ceremony was
performed by Probate Judge
Woeflln, at Lewiston. Mr.. Kerr
returned home the first OF the week
and Mrs. Kerr resumed her school
work here.
Mrs. Kerr is graduate of Whit
man College. She has had two
years successful experience teach
ing in Nebraska. Her home is at
Portland, Oregon.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
Chas. Watson Will Retire

Charles Watson of Potlatch ridge
is advertising his farm equipment
to be sold at public auction the
23rd of this month. Mr.. Watson
says he has made enough money to
supply all of his needs for the rest
of his life and he and his wife are
now going to retire. He doesn't t
believe in boarding his money for
some one to quarrel over after he
dies. He and Mrs. Watson will
leave for California some time next
month and expect to spend must of
the winter travelling. They then
plan to locate IN southern Oregon.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
Prices Lower Then

E. H. Dammarell in going thru
some of his papers at the store
found some quotations made by
Fred S. Beckwith on local products
in March 1907. The prices are SO
much lower than those of to-day
that we quote a few as follows:
Italian dried prYnes in 100 pound
bags, &c pound; small white beans,
$2.40 per hundred: Lady Washing
ton beans, $500 per hundred; Min
ers Red beans. $3.4O per hundred.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
Gregory's Reach Newberg

E. H. Dammarell received let
ter from Rev. j. c., Gregory, writ
ten at Newberg, Oregon. They ar
rived at their destination Septem-
ber II. The only trouble on the
trip happened 18 miles east of Pros
ser when connecting rod burned
out. This delayed them one day.
Mr.. Gregory says that he never saw
Newberg more lively and con-
ditions any better than they are
now.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
What the u. S. Has

The United States has Z per cent
of the worlds area and 6 per cent
of its population, rs per cent of the
corn, &C per cent of the cotton, 66
per cent of the oil, so per cent of
the copper. 40 per cent of coal, 40
per cent of the railways, 35 per cent
of the banking power, 80 per cent
of the manufactures, and 80 per
cent of the wealth.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
Over The County

JulldeCCa RECORD. SOunCy OOmm1S-
sloner Columbus Clark last week
sold his ranch of 3l5 acres, IL miles
northwest of Moscow to Mr.. Eberly
of Nezperce, the consideration be-
ing $31, 500. MIR. Clark bought the
place few years ago for less than
half what he has now sold it for.
He also sold the past week fine
team of Percheron horses to the Pot
latch Company for $500, and Lloyd
Eckman sold two teams to the same
company, receiving $500 for one
and $40O for the other.
Deary Press: Kendrick and vlcin-
ity have started movement to or
game highway district, which
proposes to include within it's boun-
daries those portions of Texas, Big
the Little Bear and American Rid
ges not already included IN high
way districts, and which are tribut-
ary to Kendrick. The people with
in the proposed boundaries should
get solidly behind the movement
and put it over, and as soon as they
are organized should proceed to
raise money by bonding to the limit
allowed by law, which is ten per
cent of the districts assessed val
uation. The district as proposed
would be one of the wealthlest in
the county. Needless to say it is
the only way the people of the dis
trlcts mentioned can ever hope to
get good roads, and especially is it
the only solution of the question
of grades leading into Kendrick,
which is the marketing point and
distributing center for the district.
Troy News: H! L. Ingle and his
wife of Big Bear ridge stopped in
Troy the first of the week while on
their way to Moscow where they
had some business to attend to. In
speaking of the forest fire which
wiped out the Harsh logging camp
last Thursday and destroyed so
much property for Jas. Nelson, Mr..
Ingle said the fire travelled two
miles in 20 minutes, and as he had
been unable to find seven Of his
horses, he is of the opinion that
they were burned to death in his
pasture which was in the path of
the fire. The horses are valued at
no less than $1,000. Fortunately his
best team was at home and he saved
them. Several of his cows which
were pasturing in the timber where
the fire struck, had their hoofs so
badly burned that he will have to
kill them. In width it spread to
one mile, and straw stacks mile
away were burned by falling Gin
ders.
Genesee News: In close compe-
tition in the Hereford cattle class
at the Interstate fair at Spokane
last week Platt Bros. of Genesee
won fourteen awards taking two
firsts, four seconds, seven thirds and
one fourth. This is splendid
record as Platt Bros. had only II
entries and were in competition
with much larger entries. A. B.
Cook Of Townsend, Mont, the only
one to surpass them in awards. has
had his cattle in the show ring since
last April. Another fact that
should be especially mentioned is
that Cooks grand champion bull,
Fairfax 18th, junior. was sired by
platt Bros. herd bull, Western Fair
fay
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-09-19
Fig Highway District Levies

The Deary highway district has
fixed 2a mills as the levy for roads
and'24 mills as the levy for interest.
This is the special tax levy fixed
by the highway commissioners.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-23
ROCK ISLAND MAN
TO MANAGE SALES
OF CADILLAC CAR

The Cadillac Sales company
made its debut to the automobile
pubic today in handsomely ap-
pointed show and saIesrooms es-
tablished in the Roddewig building
at 400 Harrison street, Davenport
There they have fun line OF Cad
lilac cars, as well as complete
line of Cadillac parts and an up
to-date service station.
The new company VIII speci3Iize
in this service only and will oper-
ate for the benefit Of Cadillac own
ers. Because of limited floor
space, the company will featuI 9
various models from week to week.
it can obtain any model
within very short notice Next
week couEe5 and sedans will be
shown
LisLtsnant K. G. ZolIer, formerly
of Rock Island, who returned re-
Gently from France. VIII be man
ager of the new company and K '.
BertholI of Aurora H., formerly a
member Of an army aero squadron
at St. Paul, Mimi, Will be TIE
sales manager.
The repair department viii be in
charge Of Fred and Charles Adam
son. Davenport men, who are ex-
pert Cadillac mechanics and are
well known to many owners Of
Cadillacs in the tTi-cities and Vi
cinity
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-23
SHERIFF HALTS
>I.W.W. MEETING
Convention at Sioux City Broken
Up When Officers Close Hall
to Avert blob Action.

Sioux City, Iowa. April %
Fearing threatened mob violence
that might result. Sheriff W. H.
Jones, marching at the head of a
column Of more than $50 deputy
sherins. raided, the I. W. w. head
quarters at Fourth and Jennings
streets last night, closed the hall
and padlocked the door.
The l. W W. agreed to call off
the national convention Of the ag-.
ricultural section of the Industrial
Workers of the World, which had
been-@h session since Monday and
to abandon the hall for a period
OF one week.
Deputy United States Marshal
Milton Perry Smith and federal
agents seized the records and
books CT the convention and con-
dScated a quantity of literature"
which they found in the nall.
The l. W. ". were advised to
leave town.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-23

out the stumps and clear off the
| brush; in the swamp land projects
helping to build drainage bitches.
| After this work has been done will
come the erection of houses and
barns, the construction offoads, the
laying out of town sites, and build
| ing of cooperative creameries, can
neries, warehouses, etc~ the final
clearing, leveling, plOMing and
planting of the farm surrounding
these municipal centers, with each
farmstead furnished Nth the nee
essary farm implements and stock,
and a portion of the land actually
in crop.
This is the work which you will
be asked to perform at good wages
for Uncle Sam, and now comes the
best part of the plan. When the
work is finished each one of you
will be given the right to pick out
one of these farm homes which you
have helped to build. Not as a gift,
of course, for you wouldn't want
that, but l think you will agree
that the terms of payment are easy.
Under the plans OF the interior ue-
partment you would be given from
30 to 40 years in which to pay tor
the land; and for farm improve
ments, such as house. barns, etc.
and five years in which to pay for
farm implements, stock, and other
necessary equipment.
The plan gives every man who
has any desire to own a home of
his own the opportunity to work ror
a few years at good wages and at
the end pick out a farm home in a
settled community with all the ad-
vantages of good roads, nearby mar
kets, and near neighbors, without
any of the harGships of pioneer
life. But the farms are only for men
who will work for them and work
on them. They are not for slackers.
For the man who doesn't Know
much about farming, the interior
plans to have expert
farm advisers on each project VINO
will give their time and experience
free in showing him how to make a
success.
"You understand that no prom !
ises are made now. 1t IS hoped that
the plan will come through con-
gress soon. The government now !
wants to know how the men like it,
whether they want such work and
want to be farmers later"
All Che News All the Time
The Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-23
EMPLOYMENT OFFICER
OUTLINES PLANS FOR HELPING
MEM RELEASED FROM SERVICES

! = Joseph E. Pendergast, travelling
| employment agent for Rock Island
arsenal, is giving a series of ad-
! dresses before the units in the tri-
/ cities of the Veterans OF the War for
Democracy, in which he Outlines the
plans of the government for helping
discharged soldiers, sailors and ma
rines.
| In his address, Mr.. Prendergast
says:
| Il have been asked to tell you in
few words of the plan of the in
i terror department TO provide work
and homes for our returned fight
| ing men on reclaimed land in the
United States
Throughout this country, lying
in practically every state OF the
union, are large areas of at present
unused AMI unproductive land.
These areas include dry lands which
require water to make them produc-
tive; cut-oveE timber lands, from
! which stumps and brush must be
removed; and swamp lands, winch
must be drained. A great deal OF
this land, when supplied with water,
or cleared of stumps and brush. or
drained, and when leveled and put
under cultivation, can be made as
productive as any agricultural land
in the country. But it will require
the labor of a large number of men
to make this possible.
ITO bring some of this land un-
der cultivation, the secretary OF the
= cir n
propriate $100,000,0G0 which, if
granted, will enable the interior de-
partment to make a beginning on
the construction of a reclamation
project in practically every state.
And here is where you men are
given an opportunity to take part
in this great work, after your Clsy
charge from the service.
las soon as this money is made
available. there will be need of
thousands of men to hep in the
construction of these projects. The
positions will range from those
requiring the highest degree of
technical skill to electricians, en-
gineers, surveyors, soil experts,
clerks. accountants. bookkeepers,
timekeepers, tractor
and automobile drivers, transfers,
blac,Ismiths, carpenters plumbers,
cooks, laborers, and, in fact, almost
every position you can think of
Large construction camps will
he built. where you will live with
all home conveniences, aad where
you will receive good living wages.
'As l said, these projects will be
scattered all over the United States
so that it will frequently be pos
sible for man living, say. in Vir-
ginia. to get work on a Virginia
project. and often he will find that
the work Is near his old home. The
man from the north of west should
also be able to find work on a pro-
ject in his own state
THE work to be done has for its
object the building of community
settlements. each one of which will
contain not less than leo families.
You will be asked to help build
,hese community settlements, which
n the war west would mean first
helping to build the dams for the
forage of water and the canals and
litches to bring this water to the
and; in the cut-over regions of the
lOrth and south, helping to blow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-23
SHiDaeh.

Sp mach thrives under rather cool
climatic conditions, and may De
grown as a falI-planted winter crop
throughout the south. In the middle
section of the country it is neces-
sary to mulch the spinach plants
with straw or leaves to protect them
from the cold In the northern
states spinach may be planted just
as early as the ground can be work-
ed and the crop gathered before the
heat of SUNNI er comes on.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
PROFIT SHARING IN ITALY

What must be rated as a very sig
nifcant novelty in economic legisla-
tion has just been enacted in Italy.
A law has been passed and is now in
force in that country which recognizes
the right of the state and-at some
later date-the right of the laborers
to a share in the net profits of all
economic enterprises. According to
cable this new law says, one-third of
the profits of every firm must be in
vested in government papers. The
remainder may, in part or it's entirety
be used for the creation of partner
ship fund in favor of the employees.
All terms and conditions relating to
the creation of such partnership fund
or a proft-sharing fund must be ap-
proved by the government. That por-
tion of net profit which is set aside
for proft-sharing fund is subject to
the income tax.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Increase Not Enough

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Commercial
Telegraphers' union No. 80 has pro-
tested against the recent wage in
crease order of Postmaster General
Burleson, who is charged with accept
ing a scale favored by the Western
Union company's "union." The tele-
graphers say they were promised
equity when the government took
over the lines, and they now ask for
an eight-hour day, reinstatement of
victimized members throughout the
country and rate of wages that will
permit of American standards.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
JUSTICE IS IGNORED
MINOR ISSUES BEFOG DEMANDS
FOR JUSTICE
West Virginia Legislators Devote
Time to UnimpOrtant Issues
and Ignore Welfare of
TOiling Masses

Charleston, w. Va.-The West Vir-
ginia Federationist jeers the orator
ical efforts of state legislators who
thunder on minor matters while they
ignore vital problems that affect the
workers lives.
In a biting editorial which shows
how social unrest is developed, Editor
Snyder says:
at is edifying indeed to hear the
sonorous voices of the aforesaid leg
islators loudly defending the rights
of their constituents in the advocacy
of the sheep-killing dog laws, indie
pendent school districts, municipal
charter bills and salary increases of
the neither judges of the primal courts,
and the long, loud oratorical efforts
of the spell-binding class prating
about the rights of the taxpayers and
the masses of the people.
"It's inspiring to listen to the great
TRADES against the red faggers and
the bolshevist menace to our great
democratic institutions of profit
mongers and patrioteers. Yes, it
makes your blood. curdle to listen to
the dire destruction that will follow
in the wake of the agitators who are
asking this great and august body
of patriots to grant the coal diggers
of the state the legal right to force
the gigantic overload of industry to
weigh the product of their labor upon
scales that deal out equal and exact
weights to all. Yea verify it is a
travesty upon justice that the lowly
coal miner should seek that he be
paid in full measure for the product
of his toll.
eyes, he should be rebuked. Allow
him not this rightful tithe; outlaw
him and his kind, give him not the
right of free speech and free assem-
blage; ban his symbolic emblem of
human right and freedom; divorce
him as a stranger in a strange land
from the Jeffersonian constitution;
make him wanderer upon the face
of the earth, the victim of every gun
man that may desire to prod him in
the belly for his audacity of remain
ing on earth.
"And, aye, even more, turn the ma
chine guns upon his family in tented
colonies, like unto the feudal times of
Paint Greek and Cabin Creek in the
years not so far agone."