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Bonners Ferry Herald BONNERS FERRY, IDAHO, DECEMBER 24. 1918 TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR NUMBER 25 NO TRUTH IN RECENT RUMOR GOSSIP HAD IT HARRY V/ORUBEC EXECUTED AS A SPY AT CAMP LEWIS IS NATURALIZED CITIZEN NOW Was Disappointed Because He Could Not Go To France Mathiesen re Yesterday Otto F. ceived a letter from Harry NVorobec, 2nd Company, 1st Dev. Bn., Camp Lew is, Wash., which will be of interest to Worobec's many friends here inasmuch a rumor went the rounds some lime to the effect that Worobec hart W orobec as ago been executed as a spy. the first of the Bonners was among Ferry boys to go to Camp Lewis anil before he was drafted he had worked here and at Eastport for several years for Mrs. R. E. Kuehn, as a cook, one seems to know how the rumor got started and none who knew Worobec gave It any credence as all his ac quaintances seem to think that he is loyal and true-blue American as could be found anywhere, is his letter in part: "Well, Otto, will try to write you a few lines to let you know that 1 am still alive and getting along fine, hope you are getting along fine. "I am still in Camp Lewis, you thought I was in France by this time with the rest of our boys but I am not, much to my disappointment. I didn't get to go because I was not a citizen at the time, want to go and my company command er tried his best to have me go but there was nothing doing, did hate to see the boys of my com pany go without me and 1 will admit that I was crying like a baby when I had to tell them goodbye because ev ery man in that company was more than a brother to me. ferred to 1st Co., I66th Depot Brigade, just before they left and Gee! if you ever saw a lonesome boy, it was me at that time, the last one that came to me to say "Goodbye" liut his eyes were filled with tears so we could hardly say a word to one another, he is getting along? anything from him? right. he first landed in France. No as Following 1 I guess 1 certainly did I certainly I was trans Arthur Zimmerman was ) I wonder how Did yon hear hope hê is all I had a letter from him when I was cooking in the 4th Co, 166 De pot Brigade for two months and then I got transferred to 2nd Co and have been here ever since. I was natural ized the 9th of September so now I am a real American. But even if I am a real American I cannot go across because it is too late, the war is over. I am only sorry that I was in the army for 15 months and didn't even have the chance to see the Germans but anyway I think that I did my little share right here where I am. had to cook for 500 men so you can imagine just how much grub it takes to feed a bunch like that and besides we were very short of cooks and it was a hard job to get one that was any good but now It is getting to be We have only 240 men left I while to Portland with my mess ser géant. Portland certainly is a nice place and there are lots of nice peo pie there. I haven't been in Breme-r ton for five months so last Fridays I thought 1 had better go over and see the Murphey folks and I had a nice visit ami was sorry that I couhl^t stay there longer." a snap. in this company and they won't be here long—will be mustered out in a day or so. to be mustered out. We cooks will be the last I think we will be out in a month or so. I used to take a visit once in a _ „ , , . Attorney E. M. Flood was advised yesterday that the register and re ceiver of the U. S. Land Office at Coeur d Alene. had rendered a deci sion favorable to the defendant in the land contest case of the U. S. Govern ment against John Ross, of Addje which was heard before U. S. Commis sioner C. W. King on May 16. Attor .A" the hearing. The government wit-, 'I*™. ut sided upon or cultivated his home stead according to the homestead law requirements. The Ross homestead contains 120 acres of rich land. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Klnnear and Emera Klnnear left yesterday for Los Angeles, CaU- where they will spend the remainder of the winter. Mr. Kinnear has leased his highly im proved 40 acre ranch on the north bench for five years to J. Frank Cuddy who takes immediate possession. Mr Kinnear recently bought residence lots in Park addition and it may be that when he returns here In the spring he will-build another home. The basket ball teams of the local high school started regular practices last evening at the school gymnssium under the direction of Coach Jack McNamara. The boys have two games scheduled, one with Sandpoint and one with Newport, Wash., which will be played as soon aa Coach McNamara is satisfied with the amount of training done. Several of last year's team will try for places again this year on John Ross Wins Contest Case I kin nears (io To California Prepare for Basket Rail Season the first team and there is also con siderable freshman and sophomore classes. likely material from the HUNGER DRAWS THE MAP j Famine Conditions' (&&& Food Shortage approching! Famine Point Serious Food Shortage Sufficient Prcs-enl Food Suppler But Future Serious* recer/irvA _ican. aid. r.v * rr-Mj Peoples already E ' * * * 'd Amen .A -NK ' * NT. V S3 Û! a si S3 j \ |] Unclassified « r. VtiWF/. ■1 DECEMBER, 1. 1918 J lv RUS S/A m i * c :> ' * mm > 1 5? [POLAND Germany . UKRAINE ; jggg I , : jSSN'y o 1 S FRANCE -o. Y . ' SfA > lack w NS 3 v: * > TURKS yy Æm. Ü At £ Û / e C yy <r X r •Mr / « C. A food map of Europe today shows not a single country In which the fu ture does not hold threat of serious difficulties and only a small part which is not rapidly approaching the famine ■point. With the exception of the Ukraine only those countries which have maintained marine commerce have sufficient food supplies to meet actual needs until next harvest, and even In the Ukraine, with stores accu mulated on the farms, there is famine in the large centers of population. Belgium and northern France, as well ns Serbia, appear on the hunger map distinct from the rest of Europe because they stand in a different rela tion from the other nations to the peo ple of the United States. America has for four years maintained the small war rations of Belgium and northern France and is already making special efforts to care for their Increased after-the-war needs, which, with those of Serbia, must be included In this plan, are urgent in the extreme and must have immediate relief. The gratitude of the Belgian nation for the help America lias extended to her during (lie war constitutes the strongest appeal for us to continue our work there. The moment the German armies withdrew from her soil and she was established once more in lier »wo seat of government the little nation's first thought was to express her grati tude to the Commission fur Relief in Belgium for preserving the lives of millions of her citizens. Germany, on the otiier hand, need not figure In sucli a „map for Ameri cans because there Is no present indi cation that we shall be called on at all to take thought for the food needs of Germany. Germany probably can care for her own food problem if she is given access to shipping and Is enabled to distribute food to the cities with dense populations, which are the trou ble centers. England, France, the Netherlands and Portugal, all of which have beep maintained from American supplies, have sufficient food to meet immediate needs, but their future presents seri ous difficulties. The same is true of Spain and the northern neutral coun tries—Norway, Sweden and Denmark —whose ports have been open and who have been able to draw to some degree upon foreign supplies. Most of Russia Is already In the throes of famine, and 40,000,000 people there are beyond the possibility of help. Before another spring thou sands of them Inevitably must die. This applies ns well to Poland and practically throughout the Baltic re glons, with coudltious most serious in Finland. nlM j Bohemia, Serbia, Roumnnla Montenegro have already reached the famine point and are suffering a heavy toll of death. The Armenian popula tion Is fulling each week as hunger takes its toll, and In Greece, Albania and Roumania so serious are the food shortages that famine Is near. Al though starvation Is not yet imminent, Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Tur key are In the throes of serious strln gencles. In order to fulfill America's pledge In world relief we will have to export every ton of food which can be han dled through our ports. This means at the very least n minimum of 20,000,000 tons compared with 0,000.000 tons pre war exports and 11,820,000 Ions ex ported Inst year, when we were bound by the ties of war to the European allies. If we fall to lighten the black spots on the hunger map or If we allow any portions to become darker the very peace for which we fought and hied will be threatened. Revolt and anarchy Inevltably follow famine. Should this happen we will see in other parts of Europe n repetition of the Russian de bade and our fight for world peace will have been In vain. » At the meeting of the town council on Tuesday night a petition was pre sented to the* board, signed by a ma jority of the resident property owners of the business portion of town, asking that steps be taken towards the paving f Main street and intersecting streets Accordingly a committee was ap pointed by Chairman Henry to draft resolutions and ordinances providing for the paving of Main street and the following described parts of the in tersecting streets: Kootenai street f rom the west line of the court house property to the east side of the Riv erside drive: Bonner, from the west jj ne Q f pirst street to the alley east of Main street; Railroad avenue from the Fitzpatrick barn to its intersection with Kootenai street at the Medbury corner The resolutions and ordinances to V e drafted wil1 Provide for the form 5ng of an improvement district, the kind of pavin g and how the work will be paW for . The paving of Main ,street will necessitate the laying of concrete sidewalks in the place of the few wooden sections. _ The town board will meet again on Saturday night. December 28th for the P ur p ose of hearing the report of the ^nsfra*^" 1 ^inst WeWroiWed Bn-movcments S 1 th P P ^ improvements._ , Imrch Sales Successful mtr< n ?*!ii«s »tiocessiui The annual bazaar and supper of the Union church Ladles' Aid society, held Thursday at the I. O. O. F. hall, t was one of the most successful.ever had and the cash receipts were $210 A delicious supper was served dur ing the evening. Saturday afternoon the members of the Ladles' Aid society of the Metho dlst church held a sale at the conimer cial club rooms and sold $75 dollars worth of plain and fancy sewing. The St. Mary's Guild had a cooked food and fancy work sale at Richard son & Monks' store on Wednesday af ternoon and realized $55.00. the Altar PREPARE FOR NEW PAVING I Tuesday afternoon the members of society 'of the UiPhoIic church held a sale of plain and fancy sewing at Brown's Department store •'which netted more than $120.00 Owing to the fact that the influenza epidemic put all school work weeks behind, the usual Christmas programs in the various grade rooms have been dispensed with although in many of the grades a short and sim-] pie program is being rendered this af ternoon. There will be but one day's vacation and school will be resumed 1 Thursday. There is also to be one i day's vacation on New Year's day. At the Northside school there will be vacations on Christmas and on New Years. On account of the lack of time in which to prepare Christ mas entertainments there will be no public programs. This afternoon the pupils of Miss Winship's room will enjoy a taffy pull; Miss Sizer's pupils are having a "spread" and in Miss Dryden's room the pupils are having a Christmas tree and short program, -* Christmas at the Schools Athenians Must Give Banquet -The sa i e Q f ,h e season tickets for the Bonners Ferry lyceum course, the firBt m ,mber of which was given at the K. P. hall last Friday night, was made , as in previous vekrs. through the efforts of the students of the two j,enuw societies\if the Bonners Ferrv high school The sale of tickets Was conducted in contest form, the losing side agree ing to give a banquet in ho nor of the winners. Full reports have not vet been made but it is C er tain that t he members of the Olympian society are the winners. Tbe i yce um course tickets did not 8e V, thiS >ear aS J« 1 as last an<1 lhere will be a large deficit if there is not an extra large attendance of the next two numbers. A special effort to se „ tlckets will be made before the next number and it is possible that a special ticket will be sold for the two remaining entertainments. On the Way lo the Rhine According to a dispatch in the daily papers of Friday the 146th Field Artil lery is now on its way to the Rhine. The men in this division expected to be home by Christmas but being sent Into the enemy territory is a mark of honor that almost reconciles them to the delayed return. This regiment made a great reputation for itself in the battle of- Chateau* Thierry, when it rushed to the front to use the giant French guns with which they had been practicing for months. Sever al Bonners Ferry boys are in fcis reg iment. including Howard Kent and Stanley Jarvis. I fy JL I I ü | I I I P |\ |\ I many|^*** * HinTTPO r , f\¥T , /\n WUI I Lx LIII |IA|#,udice ff I\1 1 Lji3 luUl I V/l\ _ The editor of the Herald Is in re ceipt 0 f a letter from Capt. O. W. „ Division Intelligence ^° et T y ' . . Wash in wtileFi ' c 00 ' a j"P * ' hjs wil J * le states mat . armv f-mt 11 1 "*"® 8 ® ,. nmp here about the JV, 1 ,, f , lt ifh hj " . of mis mom . . _ rr, ® ncl8 ana lo< ? K niter i op y ' est *V He writes m par . Jr past t"'o w-eeks I have ee * on special duty-with the Di s ' telligence school. 3 his is g > ' teres ting work and the depar me called, the eyes of the army . 11 ^e comes the duty of this section to ex plore the front a " d the enem >'> spy on JÎJ* e 'tornWo ÎÎ1 1 transmit in logical o™ to 1«. h ,m i ÎI a l e the r "'o ve8 a nd beat them at this 8ection we , are gi J en t !?. e , pic J k „ ^e Dlvsionand we have 3o0 of the, ^ e8t f obtalna, " e . " V 'W™! Æ Norto 'l ^ as 8 | ® 1 ®° ted as one and ha ^ThWfficcrs win continue the work aftpr the!> ™ hi - been sent hack to f b( dr reauTar outfits from which they are callfd as needld. so I will proba b u he husv for a while longer 1 "as fortunate in getting the highest mark of anv officer in the school and bave been reoonlmeded as a 1)ivisional , te)li , offlcer whlch is a staff po8 i t ion " 1 _ • .. ... . . , . 1 g The following members of the local Fanner's Union have been elected del egates to attend the bl-county con vention which will be held at Sand point on December, 28th : H. L. Shlve ly. W. F. Dunning. Mrs. John Hamren and Miss Patti Carratt. O. H. Camp bell will be the delegate from the local union to attend the state convention at Spokane, the date of which was post poned on account of the influenza epf demie, ■ I The following officers of the Farmer's Cnion No. 53. expect to at tend the convention at Sandpoint; J. H. Cave, vice president. Mrs, A. E. Aldridge, chaplain, Wm, Leslie, con ductor and H. B. Carratt, legislative hoard. Might Red Cross Dance Friday In Honor of Returned Soldiers and Sailors of This Comity The members of the Bonners Ferry auxiliary of the Red Cqoss will give a dance at the K. P. hall Friday night in honor of the soldier and sailor boys who have been mustered out of ser vice or are here visiting for the holi days. and a dandy good time is assured to all who attend. There will be no charge of admis sion to the boys in uniform. Everyone is cordially invited to at tend the dance and help show a good time to the returned soldiers and sailors. Good music has been secured WON'T BE HOME CMTIEL SPRING [ g Stanley Jarvis Writes That He Heading for German Soli The many friends of Stanley J. Jarvis, wagoner, Battery C, 146th Field Artillery, France, will be pleased to read the following letter from him which was written to his mother on October 20: "My Dearest Mother: Just a few lines to let you know that I am O. K. and feeling fine. have been taken back of the lines and are getting re-equipped. and cleaned Getting new cars and everything fixed up in general, leave for the Rhine, that is the Ger We up. We expect to , , , , , , hut the dope is. about three months, I suppose that we will be there until everything is settled and in case the Germans do start any trouble, we will he there to stop it. worry for they are as glad It is all Now, listen, Mother, we have a long trip ahead of us—about thirty days— and if you don't hear from me for quite a while, don't worry for you know we can't write when we are on the road. man border, and of course, we don't know how long we will stay there, You don't need to over as we are. 1 will write you as soon as we arrive, hut you keep on writing and then I will have lots of mail when I get there. I don't think that we will be home before spring but we will he thankful that the wai ls over and that we don't have to fight all winter. lot of new. warm clothes so don't worry. Mother, we will make it all right." \ We have been issued a received a letter from John W. Eagle son. state treasurer and re-elected to EAGLESON IS APPRECIATIVE j The editor of the Herald recently that office by a large majority, in which he asks that all the voters who gave him their support in the last election, he advised of his apprécia t jon 0 f their vote. While Mr. Kagle son's letter is a personal one many parts of it are most interesting to all 'and will go to show the sterling char 'acter of the man in whom the people [have many times expressed their .trust and faith: "During this campaign I did not so licit the support of any one. either by letter or in person, feeling that inas much as 1 had served the people for Ifour years, they knew my record and what I could do, and being a candidate for a tbird terln antl knowing the prej some people have against an officer holding office longer than two [terms, 1 felt somewhat backward about advancing my candidacy and de cided to stand squarely on my record and put it up to the people themselves and ' nee(iless to 8a y. the result of the e ' ection * 8 most gratifying to me. "To have been elected by the largest ma j° rit y ever given any state official 8,nce 8ta tehood. Is something one has reason to be proud of and I am exceed ingly grateful to my friends for what. they did for me for the vote shows ! that there must have been many in a Il parts of the state who took a per sona i interest in my candidacy, wish it were possible'to write to all my friends and thank them for their hea rty support, which is greatly ap prec j ate( j However. I shall endeavor tQ sho w them by mv actions that l do vah,e the confidence they have placed ln me and wm endeavor to conduct the affairs of this office In guc . h & manner that j trust that th will have no reason to feel that their ^confidence has been misplaced „ Aa know in the past the state treasurer's office has been a political football and was run for the benefit of Politics and personal gain. It has been earnest endeavor to take the offlce out of P° mics and * ive the P eo ' ple a B ° od ' clean busines * «"minhdra tion ' for tbis is a buslne8s office in ^ ery sells<i and nat a P 011 «"« « are . looking; a f tel «bout $12,000, «00.00 In security and cash and. any office that properly cares for that amount of money and securities has • plenty to do. | "If I can get the proper legislation through in January. I can increase the earnings of this office from $30,000.00 to $50.000.00 per year which is more than enough to take care of the ex pense of the office. For the last few years this offlce has been more than self supporting and while, of course the work Is increasing very fast, the past two years have increased more than one-third, the expense of the of flee naturally must Increase. But if we can Increase the earnings sufficient « I ly to more than take care of the added expense. I am sure the people of the state will be satisfied, "I want you to express to the people of Boundary county my appreciation of the dandy compliment paid me in the recent election." MANY JOINED RED CROSS SECRETARY REPORTED 531 MEM BERSHIPS RECEIVED CP TO LAST MORT NEW PLANS LAST MINUTE Many County Districts Have Not Made Reports Up until last night 531 memberships had been secured in the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call drive In this county, according to the records of the secretary of the drive. Miss Goldie Cave. ceived yet from any of the country districts and It is expected that when these reports are made they will swell the total number of member No reports have been re ships to close to the 1,000 mark. When the drive was first announced Chairman Kent and the Red Cross workers made arrangements for a house to house campaign for member ships. A day or so before the drive opened word was received here that there was to be no solicitation and that the memberships should be vol However it soon became ap parent in the large cities that the (lrfve would be a tlinure if all sollclt . untary. ing was dispensed with and organiza tions were hastily effected, county most of the memberships were secured at booths at the postotflee and in the stores, house campaign as at first planned, been carried out there is little doubt hut that 1,500 memberships would have been secured, literature for the drive too, in this county and the committee had to get along as best it could. The drive for Red Cross member ships will continue for a time yet and memberships can he secured of Chair man Kent, Secretary Miss Cave or at the postotflee of Postmaster Vlley or Miss Dunn, cepted any time of the year but all memberships taken from now on will expire next December. I The members of the Christmas Roll Call drive committee expect that a number of memberships will he re ceived from the employes of the Spok ane International and Great Northern railways. solicited for memberships. In this Had the house to There was a dearth of Memberships are ac The employes are being Grip Contained 18 Phils Whiskey Sheriff Dunning has possession of a grip containing 18 bottles of whiskey which was handed off of Great North era passenger train No. 43 Sunday evening by one of the porters, porter gave the grip to Henry Driscoll, proprietor of the Commercial hotel, telling Mr. Driscoll to reserve a room f° r the owner who would be in on the next train, Driscoll a card calling for the reser vation of a room and signed by "L. E. C.' Driscoll put the grip in his cart ant l brought it up town. Before he kad taken the grip into the hotel and ba<1 hat * a chance to assign the room as requested Sheriff Dunning asked to examine the contents and found the 18 The The porter haded Mr. Pints of whiskey. Someone tipped oft l * le owner of the grip and he has not appeared at the Commercial to claim bis roonl or the f?rlp. ago from his old county, North Dakota, where he had spent a couple of months harvesting the crops on his 480 acre ranch from which he cleared nearly $4,000. sold his ranch before he left and ceived $25,000 for it. located on the former Aldrich place on the Northside. Sells Kaiicli for #25,000.00 C. A. Walters returned a few weeks home in Walsh He re Mr. Wallers is - The following clipping was sent the Herald this week bv Mrs. A. Foss, of Bend. Greg., and was taken from the Morning Oregonian. Mrs. Foss writes as follows: "I wish you would put many boys from Idaho were in that 91st Division. They were surrounded for three days and had to fight their way out. There is where my boy. Corporal Edwin A. Foss, was killed, but not °* ly him but 40 ! ><ircent was killed at that time. 1 wonder what could be done to get satisfaction of a nian that ha8 done % thing ,ike that. ASKING WHY FOLTZ REDUCED this Item in your paper because so Brigadier-General Fredericks. Foltz, Q f the 91st Division, was not reduced in ranks because of negligence, nor has he been convicted of having been a spy , according to a statement made by General March, Chief of Staff at Washington. D. C. The word was sent to Tacoma friends of Col Goltz, who had made Inquiry why he had been reduced from Brigadier-General {o Colonel. Because of his German sounding name and distinctly Teutonic appearance, he was the object of some suspicion. When the casualties from the 91st Division began to come in it was charged that General Foltz Tacoma. Wash.. Dec. 11, (Special)— had lead his command into a trap Even some army men gave some cred ence to the rumor. Col. Foltz was graduated from West Point more than 30 years ago and when a ieutenant was stationed at Walla tv4lla, Wash.