White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-06-27
Idaho News

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BOISE, Idaho.-An elaborate solid
mahogany case for holding Idaho's
flag trophies Of the World War has
been constructed, and was recently
set into place in the office of Governor
feet high by feet wide, and mas a
G. G.. Moore. The cabinet is about IL
plate glass front. 1t stands on mai
BILE base There are five flags to place
in the cabinet.
IDAHO FALLS-A cold wave swept
Eastern Idaho recently, the mercury
standing but one degree above freez-
ing. Very slight snowfall alternated
with periods Of sunshine, but biting
wind swept from the northeast.
LEWISTON-Ch Cherries are now be-
ing harvested and shipped. The total
number of cherry shipments for the
season will amount to about Is car
loads, only 20 to 25 per cent of the
amount shipped in 1923.
| LEWISTON-The American Legion
entertained hundreds of World War
veterans of the Inland Empire when
they visited Lewiston recently. Com
mander Quinn spoke at the Fifth
Street Park.
ST. MARIES-The Rev. Mr.. and
Mrs. P. G. Thatcher, returned foreign
missionaries, have arrived here to
live. The Rev. Mr.. Thatcher was as
signed as pastor of the Church of the
Nazarenes at the annual conference
at Dayton, Washington, recently,
when the Rev. V. w. Anglin an
,, nouneed that he wished to withdraw
from the ST. Maries church
SILVER CITY-Snow piled up here
recently reached depth of six inches
, in the city and a foot in outlying
hills This section has been suffering
from the drouth, and the hills were
getting brown, but the snow is ex-
pected to put things in better condi-
ton.
9 MOSCOW.-A d. Fisher has filed
g suit in probate court to collect $465
and costs from John Shadduck of near
Princeton, alleging that property OF
that value was destroyed in brush
D fire, started and left unprotected by
Shadduck last fall. The complaint is
5 unique, in that it alleges Fisher lef,
q an automobile near Princeton for {
a short while and that during the time
? that he was gone Shadduck started {
J. brush fire on adjacent ground which
t spread to the ground upon which
0 Fisher had left his car The car Il
valued at $3.50 and the personal eli
8 fects at SIS.
BOISE-The drenching rain which
: fell for nearly two days and nights
i while 33 lads were camping at Sher
9 mans ranch, in charge of the Y. M
Q. A., was regarded by the boys as ,
u great lark Business men had take1
them in automobiles to the camp
Il which proved equal to the drenchinI
9 rain
>. MOSCoW.-Approximately so boy
:, and girls and their leaders from Soutl
:. Idaho are expected on the Universit
>. campus to attend the Boys and Girls
. Club short course. More than 30
boys and girls and leaders are ez
pected from the whole state.
GRANGEVILLE.-Fr Barney,
;. mining engineer Of Butte, Montana
. has bonded 30 quartz and place
- claims in the old mining camp O
a Florence, 80 miles south Of here, TO-
Seattle syndicate contemplating de
: velopment work on large scale. MI
Barney has been investigating posi-
bilities Of the camp for more than
year, and expresses the opinion tina
vastly more mineral wealth remains
to be discovered than was taken OH
during the placer era, the camp beinl
credited with a gold production o
$50, 10000 81
BOISE.-This years drouth has 1t
advantages, in the opinion Of R. e
Shepherd of Jerome, president of tn,
Western Reclamation Association
who is here. The north side of Twil
Falls tract has been afflicted with al
falfa weevil, and he thinks that tn,
dry weather will finally bring tn,
pest under control $50 far, tn
drouth is the worst since 1885," SAT-
Mr. Shepherd. "In 1919 the precip
tation on the Snake watershed wa
the same as 1t has been so far thi
year, but the runoff now is practically
nothing, while our last water In 1911
was July IL. 1t appears, however, tina
we shall have one good cutting of hay
probably better than In 1919"
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