White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-09-19
Idaho News

LEWISTON. - Paul Davis, state
commander Of the American Legion /.
was in the city recently on his way
home from Boise, from visit to Mos.
COW, in the interest of the Idaho War
Memorial Building to be erected at
| the University.
BONNERS FERRY-County School
Superintendent G. w. Tautfest an
nounces that it has been decided to
hold school at logging camp No. Z,
district No. II. A camp building has
been equipped for schoolhouse and
teacher will be employed at once
There are 16 pupils enrolled.
WALLOWA. = Reports received
from the Wallowa country state that
the Schumacher grade out of the
Grand Ronde Canyon has been made
nearly impossible by the recent cloud
burst, and until the road is repaired a
large amount of the business of that
country is going to Elgin instead of
Lewiston and Asotin.
PAYETTE. = Resolutions urging
veto the bill granting wage increases
: postal employees, which was brought
up at the last session, were passed at
the annual convention of Idaho mem
bers of the National Federation Of
Postoffice Clerks here recently. Frank
S. Zimmerman of Payette was elected
president.
BOISE.-Three are dead and two
alleged to be responsible are held in
the county Jail at Nampa on charges
of manslaughter as the result of an
automobile accident hear Nampa re-
Gently. The dead, who died in Nam
pa hospital, are: Mrs. Wiley Payne,
ga, Parma, Idaho; Mrs. Edward
Stepmer, 81, Parma, Idaho; Edward
De Masters, 46, Emmett, Idaho. Carl
Moultrie and Roy Tolliver of Nampa
are the men held in Jail. They cut
in ahead of the automobile driven by
Stemper and stopped. The cars
crashed and the Stemper car turned
over.
| COEUR Observation-Disclosures La
vim recently filed suit in district court
against the Panhandle Lumber Com
pany at Spirit Lake for $3.50 and
costs. She alleges that during 1920,
1921, 1922, 1923 and 1924 the COM
pany caused water to overflow on her
land, making it uninhabitable, so that
it might float logs to it's mill.
ELK RIVER.-The funeral of Emil
Anderson, killed by a premature ex-
plosion of dynamite while working on
the highway east of town, was held
recently. The I. o. o. F. had charge
of the services.
BONNERS FERRY. Threshing
machines are busy in drainage dis
trict No. 1, and crops are turning out
better than estimated. Wyman Hoag-
land reports a yield of 46 bushels Of
wheat an acre and Henry Macdonald
reports oats running more than 80
bushels an acre. Peterson Brothers,
who are working large area, report
40 bushels of wheat and about 100
bushels of oats an acre. They threshed
2,10O bushels on 20 acres of 60-acre
field.
| BONNERS FERRY.-White deer,
buck and doe, have been seen near
here recently, according to reports
from several sources. George La
Fontain, rancher, said the doe was
entirely white while the buck has
two brown spots, each about six inch
es in diameter, on his back.
BURLEY.-William c. Harroun, So,
Cassia County sheep and cattle man,
died at Portland hospital recently
of hardening of the arteries, accord
ing to a telegram received here. He
had been i'll for several months. He
was the son of ]. e. Harroun, former
Idaho superintendent of public in
struction. He was born in Aledo, ILL.,,
and moved with his parents to Cassia
County in 1880. He moved to Delco
about IL years ago and had made that
place his home since. He went to
Portland several months ago for medi
cal treatment. When the body ar
}, rived in Burley the funeral services
|, were held at the South Episcopal
Church. He leaves besides his wife,
one son and two daughters, Jay H.
Harroun, Delco; Mrs. Curtis Warren,
Burley; Mrs Mabel Rosenauer, Long
Beach, CAL; and one sister, Mrs. Jes-
sic Hewes, Portland. Burial was in
the Pleasant View Cemetery.