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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11

RANCH FOR SALE BY OWNER
24O acres less RR right-of-way; 200
acres bench land. 40 acres bottom
land; miles south of Porthill Idaho. !;
z acres cleared and under plow: good
5-room log house, bunk house, small
barn; good fence around clearing. 400
thousand feet of saw timber, $500 RR
ties, lots of cordwood. RR and spur
on property; good location; county
road through place. Fine soil; will
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11
january ElectrIeaI Storm.

New York, Jan. 6-New York, which
has been swapping temperatures this
winter with New Orleans, had jan
nary electrical storm yesterday by way
of novelty. The first thunderclap ex-
cited many Brooklynites, and police
quarters were flooded with reports Of
an explosion somewhere"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11

grow all kinds of garden truck, corn,
tomatoes, watermellons. etc. Excel
lent fruit land. Price per acre $3.50.
If taken at once will give immediate
possession. Call and look this over
or write. Mark F. Kelley, Porthill,
Idaho. jan4tf
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11
Get a Gardenl

Instances of extreme old age are
more common among those who exer-
else themselves with gardening than
any other employment.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

counties have decided to establish a
pool for their 1921 clip, in order to
obtain better price than now offer
er. Last years pool still In storage,
amounts to 100000 pounds. Some
growers favored holding this another
year rather than sell on the present
market
A train of 81 carloads of American
Red Cross supplies valued at $780,
900 has arrived at Budapest from Paris
for distribution among hospitals and
destitute children.
4 Il
"Devl Anse" Hatfield, noted leader
in the Hatfield-McCoy feud of 80 years
ago, is dead. Word of his death in
the Hatfield home at Island Greek
Logan county, w. Va, has reached
Huntington. Pneumonia caused death
William Moore, the first negro ever
to be seated in the Missouri legisla-
ture, has taken office with other mem
bers of the house Moore was elected
from district in the fashionable west
end" of st. Louis.
The Ford Motor company's assem-
bling plant at San Francisco will open
this week on half-time schedule after
having been closed since the last week
in December. The plant will complete
$50 cars day three days a week, the
announcement said.
Amelia Arnsud, who travelled across
the Atlantic from France in 20 days,
slowed away in a steamer locker three
feet square, to Join her fiance at Nor
folk, Va, must go home. Louis Pom
ticello, whom she came to wed, was
held for the grand jury by United
States commissioner. after he had adj
mitted aiding her illegal entry into the
country.
Miss Jeanette Rankin of Missoula,
the only x-congresswoman in the Unit
ed States, stated in an interview in
Omaha that she would enter the race
again in the near future for the ma
tional house OF representatives. She
said that she would have been re-elect-
ed but for the fact that the state was
redistricted.
Tradition will give way to progress
next March 4, when Warren G.. Hard
ing, as the new president of the United
States heads the inaugural parade up
Pennsylvania avenue. Announcement
has been made that Senator Harding
has decided to use an automobile for
his ride from the capitol to the White
house instead of carriage. the type of
conveyance used by every president
with the exception of Andrew Jackson,
since the Inauguration Of Thomas JEFF
ferson. President Jackson rode horse
back.
The Bolsheviki in the Crimea have
shot 1900 persons, according to latest
reports from Russia, says a dispatch
from Berlin received in London.
4 4
Reductions in the force of the North
ern Pacific railway at Missoula, Hell
ent and Wallace, Idaho. have been or
dered from the st. Paul office of the
company. The order affects mechan,
les, trainmen and office clerks.
q Z
BY direction of President Wilson
Major General Enoch Crowder has
sailed for Havana. General Crowdei
sailed on the e. s. S. Minnesota. Sec.
rotary Tumulty said his mission twas
to confer with President Menocal re
garding conditions in Cuba"
q 4
Peter Cunningham informed the
sheriff's office at Miles City that rob
berg entered his home and forced his
wife to sign check, and after tying
Der to a table, stole about S84 in cash
Her children returning from schoo
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11

Tends to Better Citizenship.
Every man is a better citizen when
he becomes home ruler.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11

Washington. Jan. 5.-Neither Peter
J. MscSwiney of New York. brother
Of the late lord mayor of Cork, nor
Daniel O'Oallaghan, the present lord
mayor Of Cork, who arrived at New
port News last night from an Irish
port as stowaways, have been request
ed to appear before the commission
from the Committee of 100, investi-
eating the Irish question, DIR. Frederic
O. Howe, chairman Of the committee,
said last night.
Cork was in flames when we left
there" AacSwiney said.
women and children were being
shot aud robbed along with men. The
British are trying to make the world
believe the Protestants aud Catholics
of Ireland are responsible for the
trouble. There is not a word of truth
in it. In nearly the whole of Ireland
the people live together tremendously,
and there would be no trouble were it
not for the British"
Terence MacSwiney, the late lord
mayor of Cork, did not sleep in his bed
sor nearly six years up TO the time Of
his death, according to his brother, who
said, ''the present lord mayor has been
In the same fix for months My broth
81 was not safe and Mr.. O'Callaghan
liz not safe"
O'Callaghan was present when Mac
Swiney described his experience and
did not deny the latter's statement that
he had come to this country to testify
before the Committee of 100.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11

Amelia Arnsud, who travelled across
slowed away in a steamer locker three
feet square. to Join her fiance at Nor
folk, Va, must go home. Louis Pom
ticello, whom she came to wed, was
held for the grand jury by United
States commissioner, after he had adj
mitted aiding her illegal entry into the
country.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11
LORD MAYOR CORK
ARRIVES IN u. s.
GAME AS SToWAWAY AND WAS
ACCOMPANIED ON TRIP BY
M'SWINEYS BROTHER
PLACED IN JAIL BY OFFICIALS
Two Men Say They Were Summoned
to Testify Before Committee of
1oo.-conditions in ireland Are
lndescribabIe, Say Refugees

Newport News Va, Jan. 5.-Peter J.
MacSwiney of New York, brother Of
the late Lord Mayor MacSwiney of
Cork, and Daniel O'Callaghan, present
lcrd mayor of Cork, arrived in this
port last night as stowaways on the
American steamer Westcannon from
Cork.
Immediately upon arrival of the
Westcannon, immigration authorities
discovered the two men on board, and
disregarding claims of their identity,
had them placed in Jail pending in
vestigation. MacSwiney carried a pass
port, vised by an American consul, and
could have made the trip openly, but
chose rather to stow away with Lord
Mayor O'Callaghan.
Upon showing his passport Mac
Swiney was released, and the lord
mayor was freed as soon as authori-
ties arrived. The lord mayor took up
his residence for the time at q hotel
refusing to discuss any details of his
visit
According to MacSwiney, however,
O'Callaghan is In this country at the
Invitation of the Committee Of 100 at
Washington investigating the Irish sit
ustion. O'Callaghan is under guard
furnished by immigration officials.
''The British would not allow the
lord mayor to visit America, and he
slowed away on the steamer" Mac
Swiney stated. 81 could have come
back as a passenger, but preferred to
make the trip with him, as now pre-
fer to remain at his side while he is
being detained.
II don't wish to be considered dis
courteous to the press" the lord mayor
said when seen in Jail. ''but prefer to
say nothing until have had my status
defined by the proper authorities"
OCallaghan, as deputy lord mayor
Of Cork, performed the duties of Lord
Mayor MacSwiney while the latter was
in prison in London Shortly after
HacSwiney succumbed to his hunger
strike late In October. O'Callaghan
was elected lord mayor to succeed him.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11

Peter Cunningham informed the
sheriff's office at Miles City that rob
bers entered his home and forced his
wife to sign check, and after tying
Der to table, stole about s84 in cash.
Her children returning from school
found her stfil bound.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11

The Ford Motor company's assem-
bling plant at San Francisco will open
this week on half-time schedule after
having been closed since the last week
in December. The plant will complete
$50 cars day three days a week, the
announcement said
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11

William Moore, the first negro ever
to be seated in the Missouri legisla-
ture, has taken office with other mem
bers of the house. Moore was elected
from district in the fashionable west
end" of st. Louis.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11

Miss Jeanette Rankin of Missoula,
the only ex-congresswoman in the Unit
ed States, stated in an interview in
Omaha that she would enter the race
again in the near future for the ma
tional house OF representatives She
said that she would have been re-elect-
ed but for the fact that the state was
redistricted.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-11

Devil Anse" Hatfield, noted leader
in the Hatfield-McCoy feud of 30 years
ago, is dead. Word of his death in
the Hatfield home at Island Greek
Logan county, w. Va, has reached
Huntington. Pneumonia caused death
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Hanford McNidcr, Legion
Head, Often Decorated
Wounded at St. Mihicl, He Won
Honors From Several Gov.
ernnlenfs for Hernisn,

Hanford MacNider, the newly elected
National Commander of the American
Legion, was born October 2, 1889, at
Mason City, Iowa. He was graduated
from the Milton Academy, at Milton,
Mass, in June, 1907, and from Har-
ward in 1911.
During the Mexican border service
he was first lieutenant with the I'd
Iowa Infantry. At the outbreak of the
World War he enlisted in the Officers
Training School at Fort Smelling, and
was commissioned second lieutenant
on August Is, 1917.
He went to France as an officer of
the 9th United States Infantry. He
was promoted through successive ranks
and completed his service as a lieu
tenant colonel. He took part in the
actions on the Aisne, Marne, st. Mihiel
and Meuse-Argonne. For time he
was in command Of his regiment.
During the action at st. Mihiel he
was wounded. He wears the Distin-
guished Service Cross and one cluster
Chevalier de Legion d'Honneur, Croix
oe Guerre, five citations, three palms,
one gold and one silver star, the four
ragere .and the Italian War Gross. In
General Orders Of the A. E. F. he was
CITED three times.
In civilian life he has taken an active
interest IN all Legion affairs and served
as department commander in his own
state.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
New York County
Legion Committee
Elects Officers
Subj Organization to Raise
Funds for Benefit of Sick
and Wounded Veterans
Soon to Complete Plans

AT the last meeting of the New York
County Committee of the American Lc-
gion these officers were elected:
Thomas j. Brady, chairman; Harold
Downey, vice chairman; Harold A.
Content, second vice chairman; Miss
Anna 3. Duncan, secretary; George
Cohen, treasurer; Lucian S. Breckin
ridge, Lester M. Brown, Henry w. Bux-
ton, Colonel Frank e. Evans, Wade II
Hayes, Peter j. Masterson and Irwin
Ira Rackof, members of the executive
committee
Lucian S. Breckinridge, chairman of
the SICK and wounded committee, read
the financial report Of that BODY The
report was approved by those present.
mr.. Breckenridge reported that the
sub-comm'ttee to raise funds for the
benefit of the sick and wounded vet
Grams was progressing rapidlv With tbo
details and that final arrangements
would be announced in the near future.
several new members of the COM
mlttee were elected. These included
Harold M. Schwab, Manhattan Naval
Post; Mrs. Julia Wheelock, Barbara
Frietchie Post; Harold Prendereast
Naval Auxiliary Reserve Post; Harry
Mela, Tiger Post; John Fitch, Licking
ton tor Post; R: r. Gerstner, Caduceus
Post, and John O'Rourke, John Man
ming Battle Post.
resolutions making permanent
welfare committee OF the New York
County American Legion were passed.
me resolution was introduced by Leo
bernstein, OF the Tank Corps Post. 1t
was provided that the chairman of this
committee be an officer of the county
committee and that he be chosen at
the annual election.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Commander Emery
Urges Legion to
Assist Red Cross
Work of the Relief Society
in Behalf of War V Veterans
Is Praised i'm Resolution
Pledging Roll Call Aid

Past National Commander John G.
Emery, of the. American Legion. has
issued an appeal to all posts of the
Legion calling on them to support the
American Red Cross in it's roll call for
1922 now in progress in this city.
State Commander William +. Deegan
has written the Red Cross noting the
work done for the disabled veterans
The National convention in Kansas
City passed resolution calling on
Legionnaires in all parts Of the
country to aid in this roll call.
Past National Commander Emery in
discussing Red Cross activities said
"Since the armistice the Red Cross
has provided very necessary service
for veterans of the conflict, particu-
iarly the disabled, assisting these men
to obtain the rights and benefits pro
vided by the government. The
continuance of effective Red Cross
service to veterans, which now in
wolves an annual expense several mill
mons IN excess of receipts from the
last roll call, depends to no small
extent upon public support of the
society expressed in membership"
A similar appeal was sent to veterans
IN New York State by State Comman-
der William F. Deegan, of the Ameri-
can Legion, who says in a letter to the
New York County Chapter, made
public yesterday:
During the past year the Red Cross
has conducted great work for the dis
abfed ex-service man, and it is my
strong hope that your organization will
be placed in financial position to con-
tinuc this noble work. / note with
especial qualification that your ma
ticnal budget for 1921-1922 increases
the expenditure for disabled ex-service
men and women as follows: Expendi-
lures, fiscal year 1920-1921, $780,
So, 1858, 9,256.35."
In the past year the New York
County chapter has aided 10000 vet
ersns and their families.
At its recent national convention in
Kansas City the American Legion
adopted the following resolution urg-
ing all members of the Legion to HELM
in making the 1922 Red Gross roll cali.
which extends to Thanksgiving Day. q
success:
Whereas, the American Red Cross
rendered valiant and unfailing service
to the service men of American during
the war; and
Whereas, the American Red Cross
is now cooperating to the fullest ex-
tent with the American Legion in it's
efforts to obtain immediate and ade-
quate relief for disabled service men;
and
Whereas, the American Red Cross
is now appealing to the American pub
nc for support necessary to carry out
its splendid work; therefore be it
Resolved, that the American Legion
in convention assembled, endorse that
the roll call of the American Red Cross
and call upon the service men Of
America to lend their influence and
best efforts to the roll call in recogni-
tion of service that has ben and is
still being rendered"
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13

Commander Stacom has announced
that the meeting is one of the most
important called during the year.
AT the Columbia University Club, N
West Forty-third Street, the annual
meeting and banquet of the 1st Re-
serve Squadron Post, 743. will take
place on the night of November u.
The post is commanded by DR.. Z,
Garnsey Brownell and is composed
solely of aviators. who saw service
In Europe during the war. Among the
members are some of the best known
aces, including Eddie Rickenbacker,
Douglas Campbell, Philip Roosevsf
and A P. Looming. The headquarters
Of the post arc at 1872 East Sixtieth
Street.
In the Congregational Church at III
East 143d Street David w Gentle
POST will hold its regular meeting nexs
Tuesday evening. The women's auxili..
ary attached to the post will meet 9
the same time.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13

Learned Post, of Detroit Both men
and women have entered the contest.
only Legionnaires arc eligible. Prizes
valued at more than $1,000 will be Of
fered.
Joseph Semtich, World War VET
eran, who lost leg in the Argonne.
walked seven miles at the head Of
Shelbina (Mo.) Post of the American
Legion in the Legion parade at Kansas
CITY. Semtich gets around with the
aid of crutch.
Members Of the American Legion
who served with the United States
forces in France will be called upon to
give facts relating to Senator Watson's
charge that American soldiers were
shot and hanged in France without the
tormality OF court martial Secre-
tary OF War Weeks, in request to
Commander Hanford MacNider for the
Legion's cooperation, said the War De-
partment desired to prove or definitely
refute the Georgia Senator's allegation.
Lemuel Bolles, national adjutant of
the Legion, said he was sure the ma
t1onal commander would cooperate
There is one officer to every seven
men in the United States Army, ac-
cording to information received by the
American Legion. 1t was explained by
the War Department that the high pro
portion of officers was due to the pres
ent army policy of maintaining an
army capable of quick expansion in
time of war. The army to-day num-
bers $4,000, of which number $4,000
are officers.
The first official act of Hanford Mac
Nider, newly elected national com
,mander of the American Legion, was
his attendance at the Armistice Dav
ceremonies at Arlington as representa-
tive OF the majoriy Of ex-service men
in the United States. He will remain at
Washington during the disarmament
conference. MacNider's election has
been approved by Legionnaires every
where. "He is exactly the type Of mar,
ne want to lead u.s." seems to be the
unanimous comment. The impressive
things about the new commander are
that he went into the army buck pri~
vate and came out lieutenant colonel.
with eleven citations and nine decora-
tions; that at the age of thirty-two he
is head Of a large banking business in
Iowa and that he is q Harvard man
without the Harvard accent" He has
been hailed everywhere % "real
soldier"
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
State Post Activities

keveille Post, 127, will hold its an
nual election of officers next Tuesday
night at III Clermont Avenue, Brook
iyn. The entire membership of 400 is
expected to be present. An interesting
program has been arranged. Refresh
ments will be served
Inc bl-monthly meeting Of the John
M. Hennessey PosE 606, will be held
tomorrow night at Eagles Hall, in the
metropolis Theater Building, 142d
Street and Third Avenue. At the meet
ing plans for dance to be held within
the next few weeks will be discussed.
A women's auxiliary will be organ
lied at the next meeting Of Mount
Vernon Post, 3, to be held on the
evening of November II. The mem
bers Of the post have been requested
to bring their mothers, sisters and
wives to this meeting, so that plans
may be formulated for the work of the
auxiliary. The auxiliary will be of
great help to the post in that it will
assist in arranging an elaborate social
calendar for the winter season. Fifteen
women already have promised to ioin.
and it is expected that this number will
be doubled before the meeting is ad
journed.
Officers will be elected at the next
meeting Of Arthur Veins Post. to
be held at the Get-Together Club. 42o3
Ihird Avenue, tomorrow evening.
Members of the executive COMMITTEES
also Will be chosen at this meeting.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Children of War
Heroes to Unveil
Monument Here
American Legion Posts and
Other Organizations Will
Take Part in Ceremonies
in Brooklyn November 20

United States Senator William NJ.
Calder and Mayor Hylan have accepted
invitations to speak at the unvciling
of a memorial monument erected at
Heiser Square, Knickerbocker Avenue
and Bleecker Street, on November 20.
The monument is the result of the ac-
tivities of the Bushwick- -Ridgewood
Memorial Committee, under whose di-
rection subscriptions were raised to
commemorate the men of that section
of Brooklyn who made the supreme
sacrifice.
Two children, relatives of men who
died in service, will unveil the monu-
ment. Mayor Hylan will accept it in
behalf of the city of New York. Munich
pal Court Justice Harrison F. Glore, a
member of the committee, will be the
chairman. Miss Evelyn Rowe, soprano,
VIII sing the national anthem, "Ave
Marie" and other selections during the
rendition of the program.
Fraternal, civic and veteran asso-
Citations, including several posts of the
American Legion, have been invited to
take part in the ceremonies. The
Arion Singing Society, led by Gustave
l.. Graef, will sing the national anthem
and other selections. Special provision
will be made for the gold star mothers
OF the district. At the opening cere-
monies one cf them will place a floral
wreath at the base of the monument.
The program follows: Assembly call,
Colonel William A. Dowkins; introduc-
tory address, DR.. Curtis Claasen; pro
cesslonal, Gold Star mothers escorted
by delegations from various veterans
organizations; singing of '"The Star
Spangled Banner" by Miss Rowe and
the assemblage; invocation by the Rev.
Avenue M. E. Church; address Of pre-
sentation by Miss Rowe; unveiline by
two children, with a short address by
Justice Glore; selections by the Arion
Singing Society; address of acceptance
by Mayor Hylan; address by the Rev.
5ohn c. York, rector of St. Bridgid's
roman Catholic Church; address by
Rabbi Alexander Lyons; address by
United States Senator William M. Cal
der. The services will be brought to
close by a bugler sounding taps.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Military Engineers Form
Post; Hear johnson
Organization Would Keep Up
Friendly Relations of World
War kerOfess;nnaI Mon

Major Douglas w. johnson addressed
the first meeting of New York Post.
Society of American Military Enei,
neers, held in the Engineering socie-
ties Building, 90 West Thirty-ninth
Street. He spoke on the strategy and
tactics of the World War in their rela-
tion to geographical and geological
features Of the theater of operations.
slides.
The post was established to maintain
contact between professional civilian
engineers and military men which was
formed duringsthe war. Major General
Langfitt, U. S. A., retired, is the presi-
dent OF the post, and it is his intention
to call several meetings of the organi-
zation to permit wider discussion of
engineering tactics of value both to
the civilian and the military men. The
membership has extended an invita-
ton to all men interested in the main
tenance OF state of industrial and
engineering preparedness for the coun-
try to attend the meetings and become
members of the post.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Reception to Foch at Hippodrome
arranged by the Legion for Nou. 20

Marshal Ferdinand Foh will be the only reception
by the American Legion the night at the Hippo
orome IN addition to the Marshal the General John
Pershng National Commander of the American
Legion and Ogden Mills Music furnished by the Peonle
Liberty Chorus voices symphony ohestra
and the band of the Regiment
Elaborate preparations make notable affair Of
tne Marshas this country
from all the present to take part in the
POSTS desiring tickets for the reception may get them without cost
from e chann OF their committees expense of the
meelne Will be betrayed by the receipts boxes which
Is oeng directed by Gmpe of 1O Forty-second Street