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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-26
Two effective methods

Two effective methods
 Two effective methods have been found. Many careful tests have proved them. They have been combined in dentifrice called Pepsodent.
 Millions of people who have tried it now employ it daily. Leading dentists everywhere advise its use. In almost every circle, glistening teeth show its visible results.
 Every home is welcome to ten-day test. Make it and watch the effects.
 Other desired results
 Pepsodent brings other effects which authorities desire.
 It multiplies the salivary flow. That is Natures great tooth-protecting agent. It multiplies the starch digestant in the saliva. That is Natures agent for digesting starch deposits which may otherwise form acids.
 It multiplies the alkalinity of the sa liva. That is Natures factor for 1eu- tralizing acids which cause tooth decay.
 These results come from every ap- plication. They last for some time. And they give Nature much-needed aid in combating the possible effect of modern starchy diet on teeth.
 Tooth pastes based on soap and chalk have the opposite effect Modern au-
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thorities oppose them. So Pepsodent omits these ingredients.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
Town Board Meets

The town council met in regular
session Tuesday night and figured out
the estimate of expenses for the run
ming of the business of the city for
the coming year The appropriation
for 1920 was $3.50 and the amount
expended was sS,992.33. The estimate
for 1921 has been figured at $S,900.00,
according to the official estimate pub
lished In another column of this paper.
1t is figured that this amount will be
raised by an is mill levy on city
property, the same as was levied last
year.
The matter OF commencing work on
the construction of cement sidewalks
on Main street was discussed and It
was decided that work should be
started as soon as City Engineer Cave
is able to locate the proper kind of
gravel and get estimates OF the costs
of good gravel. A number of prop
erty owners are anxious to construct
cement sidewalks before winter sets In.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
SHIP IDAH0-CONTNENTAL ORE
First Trip of the Season Made Sunday
With Caterpillar Tractor.

The first shipments of ore for this
season from the Idaho-Continenta
Mining Co., property at klockmann,
were made last week, two carloads
being shipped over the Great Northern
Railway to the smelter. 1t is expected
that regular shipments will be made
from now on until the winter SHOWS
tie up road traffic.
The ore will be hauled from the
mine this season with a large tractor
which, it is believed, will be able to
handle 40 tons at a trip by using
several trailers. The first trip with
the tractor was made Sunday and 27
tons of ore was brought to the tram
across the Kootenai river. It is be-
lieved that the use of a caterpillar
tractor, hauling several trailers
equipped with caterpillar traction,
will prove to be more economical than
the system which has been used in the
past of hauling ore in auto trucks
The road crew has been at work the
past two weeks getting the road be-
tween the mine at Klockmann and
Porthill in shape for ore hauling
But little ore is being mined now
at the property and the crew is being
used entirely in development work,
under the direction of Supt Lancaster,
driving a new tunnel on a level with
the main mine buildings.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
FIRST STATE BANK ROBBED
TODAY BY TWO HOLD-UPS
AT Point of Guns, Compel Assistant Cashier Hanson
to Open Safe and Deliver Several Thousand Dol
lars in Currency. Two Bank Employees Locked
in Safety Deposit Vault and Telephone for Help.

The First State Bank of Bonners
Ferry was robbed during the noon
hour today by two men who took all
the currency in the safe and then
locked Assistant Cashier Hansen and
Mrs. Mae Stewart, bookkeeper, in the
safety deposit vault, and made their
getaway without being noticed.
The robbery took place at 1890
o'clock. Two men wearing overalls,
entered the bank, one taking a position
at the cashiers window and the other
going through the banks private Of
flee to the bookkeeper's desk, where
he encountered Assistant Cashier
Hansen. Mr.. Hansen had been stand
ing at the bookkeeper's desk, reading
a paper and did not see the fellow who
had walked behind the office railing.
He saw the other man at the cashiers
window and had started to wait on
him when the other fellow called to
him to put up his hands and open the
safe. The man at the cashiers win
dow did not see Mrs. Stewart at first
and when he noticed her she was or
dered back of the railing and into the
safe also. You get back there, too,
and be quick about it, he said to Mrs.
Stewart, when he saw her sitting at
the desk of Cashier Cowen
How far back must | go?" asked
Mrs. Stewart.
Get into the vault there with the
other fellow" was the reply
The robbers had everything their
own way. There was no interruption
OF any kind. The one fellow, of
medium height and smooth shaven
stood in front at the first cashiers
window. The other burglar, who was
tall and rather slim, went into the
vault with Hanson and Miss Stewart
revolver in his hand, to superintend
the opening of the safe where the
banks currency is kept. When the
safe was open he put the packages
of currency in under the bib of his
overalls. One package was broken
and scattered over the floor of the
vault. He saw the bills were of $40
denomination and then began picking
them up, remarking that they were
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
MRS. BLASHFIELD PASSES AWAY
Funeral Services Held Yesterday
Morning at Catholic Church.

Mrs. Anna Blashfield, the owner of
large ranch at Porthill, and who
has large property interests in Havre,
Mont, died at the International hotel
Tuesday morning after long illness
resulting from chronic Bright's dis
ease.
The funeral services were conducted
here yesterday morning by Rev. FIR
Kelly at ST. AIMS Catholic church at
IL Is O'Clock. The body was shipped
last night TO Havre, Mont, where in
terment win take place tomorrow.
Mrs Blashfield is survived by her
only son, Max Paul Jordan, of Havre.
who with his family was here to at
tend his mother in her last illness
and to take charge of the funeral and
burial arrangements Mr. Jordan is
conductor of the Montana division
of the Great Northern Railway Co.
The deceased was born in Berlin
Germany, on April TO- 1851. She
came to the United States in the
year 1884, locating in Wisconsin where
she was married in 1885 to Paul Jor-
dan who died about year and half
later. Mrs. Jordan then moved to
Kansas and made her home with her
uncle. She also resided for time
in Wyoming and soon after her mar
riage to Mr.. Blashfield at Fort Benton
Montana, went to Havre to make her
home.
She visited this district about two
and half years ago and liked the
country so we'll that she purchased
the Neumayer ranch in the Porthill
district making her home on the
ranch until her poor health made il
advisable for her to move to Bonners
Ferry
The deceased was a charming
woman. well educated, and capable
business executive. She made many
friends in Porthill and Bonners Ferry
districts who mourn her death and ex
tend their deepest sympathies to the
bereaved relatives.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
Cut Down the Weeds

AS result of request of the Koo-
tenai Valley Commercial Club, the
town council instructed Marshall Wor-
ley Tuesday night to see to it that
the weeds In the streets and on the
vacant lots of the city are cut down
at once. Men will be engaged to do
this work and the expense will be
charged to abutting property or to
the property on which the weeds are
cut.
The members of the Civic League
will cooperate in the effort to rid the
town of weeds and a committee of the
organization will visit all parts of
town in an effort to have the town
cleaned thoroughly of all weeds and
rubbish too.
Visitors who come to Bonners Ferry
are remarking about the negligence
of Bonners Ferryites in allowing weeds
to mature and scatter fresh seeds and
it is certainly time to take action.
On Main street vacant lots and in the
residence district and on the streets
in many places. weeds are growing
six feet high A little work now will
prevent seeds from scattering and i'm
prove the looks of the town. If you
have weeds growing rank on your
vacant lots or in the street next to
your property, get busy and cut them
down today. Don't let any more visit
ors in our city comment upon an evil
dent lack of enterprise.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
CANADIAN NEWSPAPERS FAVOR
KOOTENAI VALLEY DRAINAGE PLAN

plies of grain, potatoes, ensilage and
other crops have been grown on the
more elevated lands, while the rest of
the bottom lands, after the high water
produce hay. A considerable area is
given over to grazing and several
thousand head of cattle and horses
find pasture in the late summer and
fall. Practically the whole of the area
is ready for the plow and if protected
from floods would be especially suit
able for agriculture, owing to the
favorable climatic conditions. exceed
ing fertility of the soil, and contiguity
of markets.
Natural Dams.
The reclamation of the flats is said
to be a most interesting engineering
problem The rising of the waters in
kootenai Lake causes the flooding of
the flats, and as the lake drains some
10000 square miles of country, vast
amount of water is stored at times in
this natural reservoir. This high
water stage is caused by the small
ness of the outlet. The outlet is an
arm of the lake itself for some 20
miles when a series of rapids COM
mences west of Nelson Natural dams
are chiefly responsible for the backing
up of the water.
Engineering plans show that com
plete reclamation requires the carry
| ing away of all waters as soon as they
have found their way into the lake.
The surface of the lake must be kept
at such a level as to allow of natural
drainage from all or nearly all the
low lying lands without interfering
with the low water stage of the lake.
I The Kootenai Lake and it's outlet are
4 to be considered in the nature of a
reservoir with an outlet emptying over
natural dam into a lower basin,
from, which the water is carried away
by natural channel. This natural
dam at Grammar creek or First Rapids,
consists of boulders massed across the
river forming a crest over which the
flood waters flow with three narrow
channels at low water.
The dam prevents the lowering of
the surface of the lake further than
the level of it's crest, and is therefore
to be considered the principal factor
in the way of complete reclamation.
Range of Lakes.
Some further Instructions are also
to be found along the West Arm.
mere 10 libie uiilSIcuCe DtlWttu tue
elevation of the lake surface and the
West Arm surface at Nelson at low
water, but as soon as the water rises
the arm takes the character of range
of lakes, one lower than the other
connected by narrow channels. This
condition is brought about by CON
itractions of the Arm causing obstruc-
tions. The removal of these obstruc-
tions would materially assist the pro
ject.
The lowering of the low water stage
of the lake is said not to be desirabl.
so that the removal of the natural dan
would necessitate the construction Of ;
: controlling dam with movable gate
: through which the flood waters nigh
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
FOUR YEAR OLD
LOST IN WOODS

The four year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. B. Ellis, residents Of the
Katka district, caused. his parents sew
eral hours of deepest anxiety when he
disappeared from home Sunday after
noon and was not found until Monday
morning. His parents and large
company of neighbors and townspeo-
pie searched the woods and surround
ing country Sunday evening and all
night and finally found the little chap
at a point about three miles from his
home.
The Ellis family went huckleberry-
ing Sunday afternoon and Mr.. Ellis
had promised a ifickle to the one of
his two boys who picked the most
berries. 1t seemed that the older boy
was getting the best of the berry PICK
ing contest so the little fellow be-
came discouraged and announced he
was going to return home. On his
was home he took the wrong road and
became lost. When the Ellis family
returned home they Immediately
started a search for the little fellow
and then called in neighbors to help
them and finally word was sent to the
sheriff's office for assistance.
When found the little boy was badly
scared and told his mother that he
had been looking for her all night
and had been calling for her. He still
had his huckleberry pail but had eaten
most of the berries he had picked.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
MitMer BUYS Property

A deal was closed recently whereby
S. c. Witwer purchased the McNear
six acre tract on the Northside. The
consideration was not made public.
Mr.. Witwer will take possession the
first of the month, moving from the
Black place on the Northside which he
has had leased and which was recent
ly bought by r. r. Richardson.
The McNear property consists OF six
acres in garden and orchard, an eight
room house and out buildings Mr..
Witwer plans a number of improve
ments which will be made this fall
and next spring and he contemplates
wsing the property to carry on chick
en- raising business. He will stock
his pens with thoroughbred Anconas.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
Rich MOlYbdenum Ore

VIM. H. Rideout returned to his
home at Porthill Sunday after having
spent several weeks working on his
mining claims on the headwaters of
Smith Creek. The mining property is
owned jointly by Mr.. Rideout and Mrs.
Hinton.
Mr. Rideout brought home with him
some fine samples of molybdenum ore,
the best specimens that have yet been
uncovered in the mine. Samples of
this ore are displayed at the Herald
office.
Mr.. Rideout states that the molyb-
denum ore is increasing in richness
as work on the tunnel progresses. He
has entire confidence that this prop
erty will turn out to be one OF the big
producers of this county and this con-
fidence is shared by those who have
visited the property.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
County Commissioners To Meet

The annual meeting of the Idaho
County Commissioners Association IS
to be held in Standpoint on the 22, 70
and "a of September, according TO
Chairman Welch. of the Boundary
county board of commissioners, who is
in charge of arrangements for the
state meeting.
This is the first year that the state
convention of the Idaho county COM
nissioners has ever been brought 10
a northern county and Standpoint was
named as the 1921 meeting place last
year largely through the efforts OF +.
G. Chambers and Mr.. Welch.
A good program is being arranged
for the three days meeting and the
entertainment of the visitors is to be
looked after by Bonner and Boundary
counties. 1t. is hoped that arrange
ments can be made to bring all the
visiting commissioners to Bonners
Ferry for one day of their stay In the
north part of the state.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
Andrew Kramer Breaks Arm

Andrew NJ Kramer, who is in
charge of the tram of the Idaho Con-
tinental Mining Company across the
Kootenai river at Porthill, had the
misfortune to break the bones of his
right arm last Friday. The accident
happened when he was putting belt
compound on the tram pulley and his
glove got caught between the belt and
the pulley. He suffered severe bruises
about his chest and the upper part of
his arm. A few years ago a man was
caught in the same manner and had
both legs and an arm broken before
the machinery could be stopped.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
LE0NIA BRIDGE
CONTRACT LET

County Commissioners j. A. Welch
and VIM. e. Rath, of Boundary county,
County Commissioner Crosse, of Lin
coin county, Mont, and James Stone
chest, of Leonia, left Tuesday after
noon for Missoula Mont, to be pres
ent at the opening of the bids for the
construction of the steel bridge across
the Kootenai river at Leonia. The bids
were to be opened yesterday after
noon.
In a telegram sent to the Herald last
evening, County Commissioner ]. A.
Welch announced that the contract
for the construction of the Leonia
steel bridge had been let to the Illi-
nois Steel and Bridge Co., of st. Paul,
the contract price being 53,455.O0.
Work on the bridge is to be started
in the near future as the contract
must be completed before high water
time next spring.
The bid OF the Illinois Steel and
Bridge Co is lower by some $4,000
than the estimated cost prepared by
government engineers. A total of $67,-
has been appropriated by the forestry
department the states of Idaho and
Montana and the counties of Bound
airy and Lincoln for the construction
of the Leonia bridge Inasmuch as
the bridge proper will be constructed
for less money than was expected il
may be possible that the extra money
will be used in putting in better ap-
proaches or il may be returned tc
the state and county funds proper.
tionately
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
Standpoint To Play Here Sunday

Manager Reid, of the Bonners Ferry
Baseball Club, has arranged for a
game on Sunday, July 81, with the
Standpoint team. The local nine won
from Standpoint on July 4th but lost
two games before that Standpoint is
coming here Sunday determined to win
and the home players are expecting
a good crowd of fans out to help them
repeat the July 4th performance.
The game with Priest River sched-
u1ed for last Sunday was called of
on account of many Priest River play
ers having been called out to fight
forest fires.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28

worth a lot of money" He refused
to take any of the gold or silver money
in the safe and none of the money
in the bank office was molested.
AS soon as the currency was secured
the burglar walked out of the vor;t
and slammed the door shut, locking
Hansen and Mrs. Stewart in. The
two heard the burglars go out the front
door of the bank and then Immediately
telephoned for help. using the phone
in the vault County Auditor Brody
was called to open the vault and in
the meantime Hansen advised Sheriff
Fisher of the robbery.
Neither of the robbers seemed to be
the least excited and went about their
business like old hands. No one no
ticed them entering or leaving the
bank Mrs. Stewart and Mr.. Hansen
We're able to give good descriptions of
the pair 1t is believed that the rob
bers either had a car waiting near by
or that they rode out of town on G..
n. passenger train No. "A which left
the station just about the time they
had finished their hold-up.
The robbery of today is the first
time in the history of Bonners Ferry
that a bank has been help-up. The
robbers selected the best time of the
day for the work as there were few
people on the streets at the time.
Cashier j. Bert Cowen, who went
to Spokane Tuesday, on business
trip, and f. w. Anderson. president
of the bank, who lives in Spokane,
were notified of the robbery within a
half hour after it took place. The
bank is fully protected from loss by
the burglary insurance it carries. At
the time of going to press it was esti-
mated that the robbers secured some
$4,000 in currency.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
DROWNED in
SMALL POOL
LITTLE SON OF Mr. AND MRS.
JOHN LEIBRECHT DROWNED
AT CAMP 81
FUNERAL is HELD THIS MORNING
Child Found Seen After Fatal Acct
dent Happened.

Harry Ward Leibrecht, the two and
a half year old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Leibrecht, was drowned yester-
day morning in small pool of water
near Camp No. 21, of the Bonners
Ferry Lumber Company.
The funeral was held this morning
Rev. e. r. Henderson conducting the
services at the Stookey Undertaking
parlors.
The drowning occurred between IL
and 1880 o'clock yesterday morning
Mr.. Leibrecht, who is driving a cater
pillar tractor at Camp 2l, had just
driven by the camp and Mrs. Le1brecht
had brought her young son into the
house from the roadside where ne
had been playing. After short time
she missed him again. 1t was soon
after that his body was found laying
face downward in the pool OF water
The pool of water is muddy ana
s+apuant and had been caused Wneh
water was turned into the SIDE Oh the
road during the time crew was
fighting forest fires. 1t was only l"o
feet deep in the middle ana ABOUT d
foot deep at the place where the ltehe
tot was found. The parents OIL lne
child believe that he had thrown some
thing in the pool and had waded IN
To get it and in doing so mad shppeu
or his feet had become stuck in the
muddy CLAW and he had lost his bal
ance.
Soon after the finding OF the pouy
Coroner Saunders was notified ana IN
dertaker Stookey was called 10 tahe
charge of the body.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leibrecht have hVea
at Camp No. 81 since last November
They have another child, five months
old baby girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leibrecht are well
known in this district and in tnen
sad bereavement they have the sincere
sympathy of many scores of friends.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28

SauduldH newspapers nave De6n CIV
ing great deal of publicity of late
to the Kootenai Valley drainage pro-
ject and in every instance the plan to
reclaim the overflowed lands of the
valley has brought forth favorable
comments The Herald is in receipt
of a copy of the Vancouver, B. c.,
Daily Province, of July s, which prints
the following article relative to the
Kootenai Valley and the plans for
drainage:
The visit to Victoria on Wednesday
of Governor Davis of Idaho is looked
upon in governmental circles here as
full of promise for the Kootenai rec
lamation project. Reclamation is a
big theme with the people of Creston.
Here are found some 10000 acres of
rich agricultural land, subject to over
flow by the Kootenai river.
The lands form typical flood plain.
the banks of the river being from 10 to
15 feet higher than the adjacent lands.
The international boundary line
crosses the valley at Porthill Idaho,
and there are $4,000 acres of similar
lands in that state.
All this bottom land is practically
free from timber except for the mar
row strip of woodland fringing the
river banks, and forms a large, con-
tinuous area of rich, alluvial land ly-
4 ing in the heart of a mountainous re-
gion containing numerous towns and
mining and lumber camps, which con-
stantly demand large supplies of ag-
ricultural products.
Land Not Sour.
! The reclamation of the Kootenai
flats has been considered necessary
governmental undertaking for some
time, and the location of the new sol
der settlement in the valley, together
with the general development around
Creston, is again bringing the project
into the limelight.
The soil appears to be pretty gener-
ally a sandy loan, quite uniform in
texture. The lower lands that are
wet throughout the year contain con-
siderably more humus than do the
higher knolls and riverbanks. Low
lying soils are usually acid in charac-
ter, but the soil OF the Kootenai val
ley is peculiar in that it is distinctly
alkaline, and contains a large amount
of lime and magnesia in carbonate
form. Such land can not become sour,
but at the same time 1t is free from
alkali to any injurious extent Soil
analysis shows the land rich in pro-
ductive qualities.
Produces Hay.
At present the Kootenai flats are
producing large quantities of wild hay,
Last year 1000 tons were cut, while II
is expected that this year the crop
will reach $500 tons. Some 200 ap-
plications were received for permits
to cut hay AS there is very little hay
produced in the district, the settlers
have come to rely largely upon the
flats for their supply.
In seasons when the rise OF water
has not been great, considerable sup