Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-01-19
MEMORIAL TO.
WORLD WAR.
.DEADP[ANNED
.Gommittee Discusses Idea
with County Commissioners
and Members of the Legion
Native Material May Be Uti-
lized in Structure in Hon
or of Idaho County Heroes


Action by the last state Legislature
in respect to soldiers and sailors
men orials in each county in Idaho
opens the way to erection of a suitable
memorial in Idaho county, according
70 John j. Pulse, of this city, chair
man of the county memorial rommittee
| Mr.. Pulse on Tuesday announced that
| nlaus are under way whereby memo
rial NAV be erected in Idaho county
| which, it is expected, will meet the
| anproval of the public both as to de-
s;gn and method of financing the work
Under the new law, the memorials
erected in each county are not re-
ouired to be of uniform design, as
under conditions which formerly OBJ
tanned.
Under the law passed at the 1913
session of the Legislature the govern
or was to appoint three persons who
were to decide upon and adopt uni
form memorial to be erected in each
county of the state, under certain con-
ditions. An appropriation of $4,000
was made and each county was to re-
ceive $1,000 from the state when sim
liar amount had been raised by the
county.
MEMBERS OF COMMISSION
House bill No. Ill, 1921 session does
away with the commission created
two years previously and instead
makes the local commanders of the
American legion and the heads of
other local established and recognized
bodies of world war veterans, and the
board of county commissioners i'll
each county the memorial commission.
The new law vests in this commission
the power to determine the style,
character and design of the memorial
to be erected in each county, and eli
inmates the requirement that the
memorials must be uniform in all
counties.
The new law did not repeal the $780,
600 appropriation and, regarding the
money, an opinion by the attorney
general reads as follows:
"The law makes the state money
available whenever there shall have
been certified to the state auditor by
the county commissioners that the
county commissioners have appropriat-
ed at least $1,000 and that a suitable
site had been provided. 1t further
gives all counties four years to avail
themselves of the funds provided, be-
ing the $4,000 previously appropriat-
ed, or the unexpended balance there
Of"
On the question as to whether Or not
the state can hold the sculptors to
their contract for furnishing this
memorial only to Idaho, the attorney
general writes: cit is my opinion
that when the commission is abolished
that the counties are allowed to re-
determine the matter and the contract
IS broken, so that they may use the
design for any other state or in any
other manner they desire"
DESIGNS ARE INSPECTED
At a joint meeting of the execu
i've board of the Idaho County Memo
rial comittee, the county commission
ers and American legion, last Thurs
were present Edward Vincent,
George d. Smith, Dale Clark, Frank
McGrane, w. w. Brown, John Eimers,
Neill.
Plans and specifications from various
designers were inspected and report
made by the president, John J. Pulse,
OF all the data On hand, so that the
new board of the legion could formu-
'ate plans for the early construction
" the memorial, in cooperation with
me county commissioners.
IL was decided that with what mon
~ Is ON hand and with the county and
stare appropriations, to erect an inn
perlshable memorial to those who SER
seu and suffered in the war and have
=, public and permanent reminder of
'neir heroism and devotion to duty.
idaho county was hard hit by the
va. m@' having lost Thirty men, more
man any other county in the state,
nnu nearly 500 men were enlisted FOR
WI the great number of tentative
oss,ens submitted that would come
WITHIN the. means of the county to
instruct. one, picture of which
20 presented, appealed to those pre-
sr,t' and which has been most favor
soly endorsed by the public, is de-
Ign or temple consisting of eight
ionic columns supporting an architrave
.o"e: 4-faeed clock, with chimes. Tn
sne frieze of the achitrave there is
On inscription in raised letters. In
sue this temple is a granite block,
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