Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-08-26
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings In This State
Given in Brief Items for
. Busy Readers.
All range for kooskia Fair.

Arrange for kcoskla Fair.
KOOSKlA.-The annual kooskia
fair and harvest festival will be held
%. % and "a
Women Organize Club.
GRANGENlLLE- Women here re
Gently organized community club
with an initial membership OF 26
Purchase Fire Truck.
ST MARIES.-St Maries has pur.
chased new speed wagon for use as
a fire truck. \ special body is being
built.
install Lighting System.
COW.-Moscow's new street
lights are being rapidly installed and
many of the lights near the center
of the city are being put in place.
VIM. Butler Suicides.
LEWISTON William M. Butler,
age 80, said to have formerly owned
a hotel at Calgary, Alberta, commit
ted suicide recently by jumping from
"a bridge into the Clearwater river
ST. Joe School Finished.
ST. JOE.-The members OF the
school board entertained the commun-
ity recently at the formal opening in
the new school auditorium. The build
ing is modern in every detail 1t is
plann ed to make it center for all
community gatherings.
Former Idaho Man Honored.
WASHINGTON. Arthur &. Shoup
of Ketchikan, Alaska. who has been
appointed United States attorney in
the first district of Alaska by Presi-
dent Harding, is a son of James M.
Shoup, formerly of Idaho, and nep-
hew OF the late Senator Shoup.
Trout Fry for Idaho County.
GiANGEVTLLE.-A final shipment
for this season of 40 cans of trout fry
from Standpoint has been received of
which 81 cans will be planted in the
South Fork of the Clearwater river
and the remainder in Grave creek and
Rocky canyon.
Moscow Was Host.
MOSCOW-The. Moscow Chamber
of Commerce arranged for rally and
highway booster meeting to be held
here Wednesday, August "a, when il
entertained the Lewiston and Genesee
bodies. The Lewiston Chamber OF
Commerce had band and quartet
along.
Discover Ore Containing Tin.
GRANGEVILLE.-Dan Durham and
| Ben Tracy, of Kooskia, claim discovery
and show samples of lassitrate ore
said to carry 80 per cent values Ii
tin. They found the ore in the Sci
way national forest, north OF Kooskia
A prospector named English discover
ed last year large body of graphite
in The same neighborhood.
Find Coal Mine in Idaho.
GflANGEVILLE.-A local company
prospecting for coal in the foothills
three miles south of this town, has
found a blanket Ignite vein, to II
feet wide, which blow pipes and othel
tests demonstrate burns freely.
chunk weighing nearly $50 pounds ha,
been placed on exhibition as the frs
output from the vein.
Will Make Saddle Trip.
kOOSkIA.-Preside Donnelly o
the Northern Pacific railway and Mrs
4 oil O.
and left at once for Lowell, as tn
first stop in their vacation and pleas
ure trip. At Lowell they will obtail
saddle horses and, accompanied b.
Tude Stonebreaker and John Phillip
of Lewiston, as packer and guide, re
in the Bitter Root mountains by wa
of the Lolo trail.
Idaho Tax Levy.
| Following the policy estat
lished two years ago. the state boar
OF equalization again reduced the ia
levy for state purposes at it's recen
meeting. fixing il at 5,57 mills a
against $50 for 1919 and $50 TO
1920. This levy will raise approx
nlately $2,777.0 900 t omeet state e,
penses. The levy is the lowest tn
|, state has enjoyed for some years
| approximately $4,500.O00 more tina
the equalized valuation of 1920, al
rroximately $500, 100000, was the il
crease authorized by the board TIL
Increase over the reported valuatio
Of the state was estimated at $4,000
000 Increases in the valuation mad
by the board were made in agricu
tural and irrigated lands and bushes
lots. business blocks, residences an
city or county improvements.