The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-12-12

DO youT NuTlSLIIIdo SHOppluS carry.
N. b. Long & Son started toTput
up ice Tuesday. This is much earlier
than usual for the ice harvest but
as it was eleven inches thick the
first of the week, it was believed to
be the proper time to start filling
the ice house. s--ntf3&s.1z, ,sru -
=. Monday night the thermometer
registered 10 below zero in Kend-
rick. At Park it was % below and
at Moscow 16 below. This is one
of the coolest nights in this section
for number of years. The deep
snow formed protective covering
for the water mains or there would
have been serious damage to the
water system. .s~.
The residents of the Boulder
Creek section circulated "a petition
last week which was presented to
the commissioners of Highway Dis
tict No. 4, asking that work on. the
new Helmer-Parl1 highway be dis
continued. The petitioners state
that the new road will increase the
distance to trading points. = They
are satisfied with the old road and
say it answers their needs. sThe
new road, upon which actual con-
struction work has started, is said
to be surveyed on grade not ex-
ceeding 2 percent. Construction
work.is. being donesnear Helmer.
Assertion of the water ordinance
was changed last week so that the
minimum water rent will be raised
from 81 to $3.50, the raise to take
effect the first of the month. This
action by the board was taken to
create sinking fund to pay for the
system. The new rate will increase
the total sum derived from water
reEt approximately $500 year.
Harvey Roberts, Sidney Dicks
and Oscar Torgeson went to the
timber last week on deer hunt.
Ray Hook went to Spokane Friday
on business, returning the first of
the week.
A large crowd attended the lyceum
entertainment last Saturday night.
1.-The Old Fashioned GIRLS" gave a
varied program during the even
ing, which, though not equal to the
first two numbers. seemed to give
general satisfaction.
They now have regular egg hatch
cry plants. With such plant in
Kendrick, for instance, farmers or
town people bring their eggs to
plant and call some three weeks
later for chickens. Or the plant
buys fertile eggs from careful
chicken raisers, paying slight
bonus, matches the eggs and sells
the young chicks. .
Hunter Carroll of Spokane spent
the week end in Kendrlck with Mr..
and Mrs.IC. S. Carroll.
An editor in Missouri refused to
publish the death notice of one of
the home town merchants because
he refused to carry AN advertise
ment in the paper. He gave the
following reason for the omission:
People who don't advertise in the
home paper never were alive and
their passing away has no news
value"
The morning train going to Spok-
ane and the night train to Lewiston
were taken off the line the first of
the week. There are but two pas
senger trains day going through
Kendrick. The afternoon train to
Spokane goes through at one o'clock
and the afternoon train to Lewiston
is due at 1886. The train service
was reduced to save coal. There
were 80 N. P. passenger trains cut
off out of Spokane.
Fred Flor ance returned last week
from a hunting trip in the Three
Bear country. He stayed with
Frank Never and they hunted to-
gether. Frank shot a fine buck put
Fred had no such luck. VIM. Meyer
is staying on his homestead in the
Three Bear Country this winter,
His son, Frank, is doing some trap
ping there and will probably spend
the greater part of the winter with
his father.
The Potlatch Electric Company
has moved into winter quarters