Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-11-09
TO ADVERTISE
NORTH IDAHO
PUBLICITY TO BE PREPARED BY
NORTH IDAHO CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE.
INVITE LUMBER DEALERS HERE
Plan Memorial TO Heroes of Late
World War.

The publicity committee of the
North Idaho Chamber of Commerce
will go the annual meeting of the
chamber TO be held at Lewiston next
month with publicity plan for North
Idaho which includes tn e printing
and circulation of a 40-page illustrated
booklet on the scenery, climate, crops,
etc, of the district. f. 0. Hagie, man
aging secretary of the Standpoint
Chamber of Commerce. has been as
signed the task of preparing the copy
| for Bonner and Boundary counties for
| the prospective booklet. A letter from
Mr.. Hagie was read at the Monday
evening meeting of the Kootenai VAL
| ley Commercial Club asking that the
local organization prepare the copy
for Boundary county and ha the
copy be ready by the end of Novem-
ber The matter was turned over to
the advertising committee.
The idea is for the booklet to be
distinctly for the North Idaho cham
ber, carrying its inscription, officers
and possibly officers of the local
| chambers. or the 40 pages. 20 will be
given to pictures and 20 to reading
matter. The introduction will cover
about two pages, leaving Is pages for
the various counties. The booklets
Will have no advertising matter what
ever, and only such matters as will
appeal to immigration and industry.
Another communication read at the
Monday evening meeting was from
the Great Northern Railway company
informing their local agent that the
Ohio Retail Lumber Dealers are con
/ templating trip To the Pacific Coast
in February to inspect the lumber in
dustry An effort will be made to
have the visitors routed through Bon
ners Ferry, with a stop-over here to
inspect the sawmill of the Bonners
Ferry Lumber company.
An interesting feature of the meet
ing was talk by A. b. Ashby. who
recently returned from a trip to Eu-
rope. Mr. Ashby left Bonners Ferry
on June If for New York, where he
took passage on the Mauretania for
England. He said the trip across the
Atlantic took five and one-half days.
He visited relatives in England, and
enjoyed about 1000 miles of motoring
over the British Isle At Gloucester.
Scotland, he attended the Three-Choir
Festival in which 500 voices were
heard. The festival was held in the
Gloucester cathedral and one Of the
musical features was the appearance
of the London Symphony Orchestra Of
81 pieces This festival, said Mr.. Ash
by, is an event of great importance in
Scotland.
Mr. Ashbys description of the bat
tlefields of France, which he visited.
was very interesting There is evi-
dence on every hand" he said. "of
the devastation caused by the war.
Reconstruction and restoration is GO
ing on. but will be very slow, as the
poisonous gasses used in the war have
killed off the vegetation and in some
places ruined the soil for crop-grow-
ing. There are hundreds of miles in
France without living tree, as
result of the gas"
MIR. Ashby said that the city of
Rheims was being restored, but very
slowly. He said that about 10000
of the city's original 10000 inhabi-
tants had returned and were engaged
IN reconstruction work
While IN England Mr.. Ashby visited
the hamlet where the ancestors of
George Washington had lived. He
gave some interesting history in his
talk in connection with the Washing
ton family and showed pictures of the
Washington coat-of-arms and pointed
out its resemblance to our national
flag, for which it no doubt was the
Inspiration
While in Europe, and especially in
England" said Mr. Ashbv, Il was par
tieularly impressed with the monu-
ments which have been erected every
where in memory of the soldier dead.
Every village and hamlet has some
reminder of the heroes of the late
war" He suggested that a monument
or tablet be placed in Bonners Ferry
in memory of Americas war heroes,
and his suggestion met with instant
favor among the club members. A
committee composed of ID. NJ. Palmer,
o. r. Stookey and H. l. Monks was APP
pointed to work out some plan for
| fittingly commemOrating our war
| heroes.