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Bonners Ferry Herald
THIRTY-SECOND TEAS, NUMBER 25
BONNERS FERRY, IDAHO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 15*22
OFFICIAL PAPER OF BOUNDARY COUNTY
DELEGATES
MAKE REPORT
COMMERCIAL CLUB LEARNS OE
ACTIONS TAKEN AT LEWISTON
MEETING OF BOOSTERS.
DISCUSS WISCONSIN UND UW
Will Buy Wax Hero .Memorial far
New City Hall.
The launching of an extensive pub
licity campaign to bring settlers to
North Idaho was the main feature ot
the convention of the North Idaho
Chamber of Commerce held at Lewis
ton December 11 and 12. according to
the delegates from the Kootenai Val
ley Commercial club who attended.
The delegates w'ere M. P. De Wolf,
W. C. Reid and R. E. Alexander.
"We had a fine meeting," reported
Mr. De Wolf at the Monday meeting
of the local club. "We were enter
tained at two banquets, shown through
the buildings and grounds of the Lew
iston Normal school and the Childrens
Home. Among the speakers at the!
convention was a professor of for
estry who, among other things, told
ns how to pile the brush in our for
ests. Personally, I did not agree with
the speaker, as my experigpce has
been that piling and burniflg of brush
in forests kills too much seed and is
detrimental to reforestation,
were several good speakers on the
program and we had a very nice time."
Mr. Reid reported that the train
■ bearing a large number of the dele
gates into Lewiston was late and the
opening session of the
which was to have been on Monday
afternoon, Dec. 11, was postponed un
til Monday evening, when all dele
gates were present.
"A very encouraging program was
mapped out for the year's work," said
Mr. Reid.
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convention.
"The ten northern coun
ties of the state are united on a pub
licity campaign, which is being put
over principally by the Northern Pa
cific, the Great Northern and the Mil
waukee railroads. These roads have
secured pictures and descriptive mat
ter from each of the ten counties and
arranged a 4U-page pamphlet for dis
tribution through the east to attract
settlers to North Idaho,
have offered to furnish any quantity
of these phamphlets to the counties
interested, in addition to the thou
sands which will
through the immigration departments
of the railroads. I think every one
of the ten North Idaho counties are
taking from one to two thousand of
these phamphlets."
After hearing the reports of the i
delegates the club voted to take
1.000 of the publicity pamphlets, at
the railroads' offer of $79. which is
said to be the actual cost It 'is ex
pected that the pamphlets will be
ready for distribution some tiriie in I
February.
Mr. Alexander also spoke of the j
publicity campaign in his report.
"Each of the ten northern counties," i
said Mr. Alexander, "has been allotted
tour pages in the pamphlet, two pages
to be devoted to descriptive matter
concerning the resources, climatic j
conditions and industries contained
within the county and the other two
liages for illustrations."
Mr. Alexander was one of a com
mittee appointed at the Lewiston con
vention to investigate the Wisconsin
iand mortgage loan law and to re
port at the next meeting of the cham
ber. This law has been in force in
Wisconsin for a number of years and
it is claimed has been the means of
clearing several thousand acres of
logged-over land.
"From my investigations so far,"
said Mr. Alexander, "the law permits
15 or more or more freeholders to
organize into a land mortgage
ciation. with a capital stock of not
less than $20.000. They can then
chase land, subject to the approval
of the state's department of agricul
ture and the state hanking commis- !
sion. and offer the land at whatever
terms they wish to prospective set
tlers. I understand the law has been
very successful in Wisconsin,
seems fo have been taken to select
qualified farmers for settlers,
will thoroughly investigate the
ure and if all is true that is claimed
for it, the North Idaho Chamber of
Commerce will probably seek to have
a similar law enacted in Idaho. That
is at present the object of our in
vestigations."
A communication was read regard
ing a fruit evaporator in this section.
A man operating an evaporator at
Zenia. Ill., is desirous of moving his
plant to Idaho and has written for
information regarding local prospects
in that line,
structed to send the required infor
mation.
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The secretary' was in
The club by motion authorized the
expenditure of $120 for a bronze
morial to Boundary county's heroes
to be placed in the new city hall. The
memorial will be in the form of
tablet, bearing the names of the ten
men from this county who gave their
lives in the World War. The dimen
sions of the tablet will be 14x24 inches.
A motion that the usual charge of
50 cents for the Monday dinners be
increasedj.to 75c and one-third of this
be turned into the swimmin« pool
fund was (J^fe;*fced. The opinion
seemed to prevail tb*t this method of
raising money for the fund would hit
the same people over and over again
and might have a tendency to curtail
attendance at the club meetings.
The matter of a deficiency in the
funds of the two-county council of
the Boy Scouts owing to non-payment
of monev subscribed last
brought before the meeting,
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whatever our personal animosities may he, what
ever the strife between nations — merely neigh
borhood quarrels greatly magnified — there is this sub
lime occasion devoted to peace and good will. Its spirit
the lamp which lights to higher life; its influence largely
supports civilization and prevents a lapse into barbarity.
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races, the most advanced being those of Christendom.
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all their debts. It is a national pay-up day, and in spirit
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celebration, during which the people go about express
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not only typifies peace and good will, but carries the
essence of unselfishness and pure love, the most
mon expression being the bestowal of gifts. When the
Christmas influence gains to the point that its spirit
shall permeate the affairs of every day in the year, the
millennium will have arrived.
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many forces operating upon the character of humanity.
We see the good and had, the sincere and insincere,
the selfish and unselfish. We believe the leaven of
good is more active than that of the opposed forces. If
wc have been able to assist the right, much has been
due to your co-operation and we earnestly solicit
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Ihere seems to be an impression.
some quarters," said President
King, of the Commercial club, "that
this organization was responsible for
nnancing the Boy Scouts' organiza
non. Our club did take an active part
organizing the Boy Scouts. But
the financing of the movement was
clone by another organization."
Dr. Cornwall, scout executive
of the Boundary-Donner council, was
present and said ho was outlining a
series of lectures to be given the
boys by local business, professional
and tradesmen.
"We have a number of boys now "
said Dr. Cornwall, "who have passed
their first class Scout tests and are
eligible for merit badges. These
badges are awarded for a certain de
gree of progress in some art. vocation
or line of research The lectures 1
am planning will 'give the bovg a
chance to learn something on the va
nous subjects treated and put them
in line for merit badges."
Dr. Cornwall passed out cards to
the club members asking them to
designate the subjects on which they
would lecture. The response was
gratifying to Dr. Cornwall and he
plans to announce his schedule of lec
tures in a short time.
The feature of the party was a prêt
tily decorated Christmas tree on which
were hung presents from the hostesses
to their guests. Each guest also
brought a present to be hung on the
tree and to be given some member of
evening was spent nlaring.
ganies and at the midnight hour a.
dainty lunch was served bv Hu hos■
lessens.
in charge of collecting the subscrip -1
tion money was not a commercial club
committee and no formal action
taken.
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( hrMnias Tarty Monday Evening.
The members of the Hikers' club
were guests of Miss Agnes Ckrleton
and Miss Dollie Bruce at the home of
Miss Bruce Monday evening, at a
Christmas j^rty s»d •eeii^gw on° of
tb* enjoyable social event* a*
the history' of the club.
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SCHOOL CHILDREN WIN CANDY
: I CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE
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Boundary county's quota for
sale of Christmas seals is $400. The |
sale ot seals comes to an end Christ- i
mas day and Mrs. H. J. McCoy, who is |
in charge of the city sales, states that
f ,h e believes the quota will be reached
Thus far over $225 worth of seals!
have been sold in Bonners Ferry. The
reports from the rural districts will I
not bo received until after Christmas. I
The children of the Bonners Ferry 1
schools and the students of the high i
school did good work in the seal sell- !
in K campaign the nasi week. The
high school students 'sold »39.80 worth
of seals; the southside grade pupils
sold $59.62 worth and the pupils of
the northside grade school sold seals
to the value of $16 30
In the contest among the grade pu
pUs of Independent School District
No. 4 to see which room could sell
|tbe most (Christmas seals Miss No
l an T s rr> ?m turned in $12.73 and Miss
McLaughlin s room turned in $12.56.
The contest was so close that Mrs.
McCoy decided that a box of candy
should be given each room. j
Tn <he contest among the grade
(pupils of Independent School District j
(No. 14 the nupils of Miss Gesellchen i
iand Mrs. Tritt were so nearly tied
that it was decider) to give the box of 1
candy to both rooms. The candv used j
for the prizes was donated bv the
merchants of Bonners Ferry, who j
states Mrs. McCoy, have been mos* I
generous in helping the saie of Christ- !
The s«J<i of seals af the local post
°^ f 'ce has not been as great as was i
* n tictr>atod. Those in charge of the !,
sa ^ e seals are hoping that the ;,
,, ' 3xt f p w dnvs will see more generous
(having in order that the full quota for i
county may he sold.
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WILLIAM J. KELLY PASSES AAYAY
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Under Auspices of I. 0. 0, F.
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", er A > ® rry LuD iber Co., died Friday
, h ' S home on tae N° rth side, of can
ter
Th 5 funeral, services were held on
X ue , sdt ff morning at 10 o clock at the
-«etbodisl church and were conducted
" nder ** «usp.ces of the local Odd
f elk)WS lod P' of whteh the deceased
was a ™ ember - the following lodge
men act,n e aR pallbearers: Herbert
? rl , fio I n V W ' C ' ^ ut i? r ' ? eo ' C ' Wade '
£ xel J<d î" BOn ^ R ***bug. and Jos.
New K T h ? 0? nera i, w a s
^d & was followed' by the reldSTf
th fu neral serv1ce of the I O O F
? aneral S€r ^ ,ce th « 0 F -
. A lar 5 e «umber of friends of the
deceased attended the funeral a n d
man > r \ ,ora > designs and cut flowers
Pf ere Placed on the coffin to express
* he esteem in which the deceased was j
^Id Interment was had in the Para
dise Valley cemetery.
Felly was born in Still- j
water, Minn., on April 2. 1874. He
came Bonners Ferry in 1912 and
entered the employ of the Bonners
Perr y Lumber Co., serving as team-1
ster - cam P clerk, camp foreman and |
thep as logging sjiperiiUendent. He j
married* on April 2, 1919 to 'Miss
^^sy Collins, daughter of Mr. and]
!, rs * , ^°"' ns an d t0 this union |
;, vo f 'hiblren were born. Edith, aged i
two y ears - and Richard, aged 11 1
«'•cpH's. Besides his family he is
survived by a sister. Mrs. Patrick
Murphy, of Stillwater, Minn., and two
broth crs: John Kelly, of Portland, j
0r R - ' vho was here to attend the fu
« era h and Frank Kelly, of Medicine j
Hat. Canada
The deceased suffered for nearly
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JOINT INSTALLATION IS HELD
MAsons and Order «V Eastern Star
Install New Officers,
Members of Moyea Chapter No. 31,
Order of the Eastern Star, and Bon
ners Ferry Lodge No. 43, A, F„ & A.
M., held a joint installation of officers
last evening at the Odd Fellows hall.
After the installation ceremonies
freshments were served by the
bers of the Eastern Star.
Mrs. B. Wooledge was installing of
ficer for the Eastern Star and the
following newly elected officers as
sumed their duties for the coming
year:
Worthy Matron
Worthy Patron— J, F. T. Stamm,
Associate Matron
ders.
Secretary Mrs. C. D. Simonds.
Treasurer—Mrs. E. L. Little.
Conductress—Mrs, Inez Cave,
Associate Conductress Mrs. J. F
T. Stamm.
Chaplain .Mrs. Lillian Cave.
Marshal Miss Pearl Wardwell.
Organist Mrs. 1-aurel Hanson.
Ada—Mrs. Ella Mae Stewart.
Ruth—Mrs. J. Bert Cowen,
Esther—Mrs R. H. McCoy,
Martha—Mrs. Caroline W. Flood.
Electa—Mrs. W. E. Drake.
Warder— Mrs. Ruby Drake.
Sentinel—Roy Voshmik.
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Mrs. May Hawks.
Mrs. Bess Saun
The following new officers of the
I Masonic lodge were installed. O. C.
j Wilson acting as installing officer:
j Worshipful Master—J. F T. Stamm
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Boundary county citizens are «11 1
schooif churchl' comnmnity "a y nd Se I
celebrations of Christmas this year. '
I" .he rural districts the pupils' and I
■teachers of nearly all the schools have
' been preparing for some time to give
! appropriate Christmas programs on I
Friday. In some communities there
i will be large Christmas trees, pretti-1'
ly decorated and loaded with pres
ents tor the children and it has even
, been arranged for Santa Claus to at- 1
tend a few of the celebrations. |
! The students of the Bonners K< rry i
j high school will give a Christmas I
(play at the school auditorium Fridav I
I Senior Warden—J. Bert Cowen.
I Junior Warden— O. F. Howe,
j Secretary—J. R. Meeker
I* TreaFBYdr F. A. Sftluhls.
Senior Deacon J. Harley Cave.
Junior Deacon—K Northug.
Senior Steward— R. M. Bowell.
Junior Steward—Geo. McQlocklin.
Chaplain—J. W. Northrop.
Marshal- O. C. Wilson.
Tyler- -E. L. Little.
CHRISTMAS
FESTIVITIES
i afternoon. This entertainment is bo
j ing directed by Miss Wilhelm.. This
afternoon a Christmas program is be-1
I ing rendered in the high school audi- !
Itorium by the grade school pupils ;
I of Miss Ward well's room and Mias I
Hawkins' room.
| At the Northside school, Indepen
Ident School District No. 14, the c*h i I -11
: dren of the primary grades will en- !
I joy Christmas treats Friday morning
and presents will be distributed. At
lone o'clock tomorrow afternoon ilie°^
| pupils of all the grades will JMn in !
giving a Christmas program which I
.will consist of songs, readings, drills
and Christmas plavs. The patrons of |
the school are invited to attend this
! entertainment.
• Many of the teachers of the public
schools of Bonners Ferry plan to
• leave Friday evening for their homes
, to sound the Christmas holidays. The 1
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Kra ms and the general public is in-I
. vited to come and hear the children
in their songB and readings. The
of the Methodist church Sun
! day school will give their program on
Sunday evening: the Union church
| Sunday school entertainment will be
given Sunday evening, and the Luth
< ran church Christmas program will
v >e given the evening of Christmas
i day -
The merchants of Bonners Ferry re
| port that the holiday business so far
has been most satisfactory and far
(above their expectations, considering
the cold weather of the past week.
All expect that the host days will
he tomorrow and Saturday and in
many of the stores extra clerks have
been employed to help wait on the
last-minute Christmas shoppers. The
stores will all remain open in the
evcnin S s <ha remainder of this week,
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Postoffice is Busy Place.
Postmaster Viley and his assistants
are working early and late to take
care of the Christmas mail. Their
wor h; has been greatly handicanned
by the irregularity of mail train
,- ce owing to the recent snow storms
j n a n par t s 0 f the country the trains
have all been running far behind
" h edu, e . Monda^of this week the
!ocal postoffice handled more Christ
mas nla ii, states Mr. Viley than was
ever handled before in one'dav in the
history of the town
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two years from cancer, but kept at
his work until last September when
b»s -submitted to an operation.
He was a veteran of the Spanish
American war and served in the U. S.
army for 11 months.
Kelly was one of the most popular
men engaged in logging work in this
district. He was true to his friends
.and always ready to help those in
need; he was kind and generous to a (
fault. His fellow workmen and all I
who knew him Join in mourning his
death and In extending their deepest 1
sympathies to his family and relatives. (
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REVENUE NOW
FIVE MILLIONS
FORESTRY DEPARTMENT REPORT
SHOWS SOURCES OF INCOME
FOR THE PAST YEAR.
TO IMPROVE FORESTRY RANGES
N eed
ncreased Area for Grazing of
Stock in West.
Revenue amounting to $6.068,527.43
" as Paid into the United States treas
ury from the national forests, says the
forest service, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, in its annual re
port, made public Tuesday. Receipts
for the last quarter were far in ex
cess of those for any preceding quar
ter in the administration of the
lional forests except one in 1920.
Nearly four and a half million of
these receipts are derived from the
use of timber and forage, the remain
der for the use of land including wat
er power sites.
Income producing business on the
national forests showed remarkable
stability, the report continues, in view
of Hie depressed or uncertain conc!:
lions in the timber and live stock in
du si ries of the west, which afford the
principal markets for national forest
products. The abnormally Jow output
of western? -sawmills which caused
decrease in receipts from timber sales
for the preceding year continued until
the last quarter of the fiscal year 1922,
hut for that quarter they exceeded
$620,000 and for the entire year they
totaled $1,780,347.24 and were almost
identical with those of 1921.
Approximately 22 per cent of the
cattle and 63 per cent of the sheep
in the 11 western states are grazed
upon national forest ranges during
part or all of the year.
The grazing business of the forests
consequently reflects closely the con
ditions in the live stock industry of
the west, which has been passing
ÄUssio°ns 'of ZVZ™ ^ '
Twen ty-flve per cent of all national
ar f, Kl y e V° cou , n, ! as
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Nearly two million cattle and seven
million sheep, the statement continues,
f? Um , J! olage during 19-1 on the na
1 . 0 "® 1 ! ,restR *« addlt ' on ° ^venty
f iph t thousand horses twenty-four
hundred RW1 ' U! ''»'l forty-four thou
8and Koats L" nU - ov f r thirty-seven
thousand grazing permits were issued
du £l nB y ® ar -
^ be demand f°r national forest
range now Evilly equals and in many
places overtaxes the capacity of the
forests. To provide for increased de
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mand ' "«prove and protect existing
ran £ es , a «d secure utilization of new
areas ' a IarKe amount of improvement
work must be undertaken by the gov
.eminent. It is estimated that $3,500,
be necessary fully to improve
n o forest ranges.
Projects have already been surveyed
«« which construction can he begun
.immediately, involving an expenditure
over $170.000. These projects con
sist of boundary fences to prevent
trespass, division and drift fences to
contro1 more adequately the distribu
tion and movement of stock, water dc
vdomnent, and poisonous plant erad
jic.ation. Such improvement as these
are essential to the most effective
ran ^e management, and to providing
f° r stable occupancy.
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Ufi-sey has scheduled the very best
«ho"'« obtainable tor the holiday
season and his efforts to give Bonners
Ferry the same high class shows that
are drawing crowds in Spokane and
coast cities should be appreciated. The
fact that the Amazon is showing every
week some of the latest and best pic
tures is often commented on by vis
Hors and commercial travelers who
say that it is seldom they have the
opportunity to see all the good shows
m a town of the 8,ze 01 Bonners
The auto licenses of 1922 are no
good after December 31 and car own
ers are subject to arrest and a stiff
fine if they operate their cars after
December 31 unless the machine is
properly licensed,
states that the department ot law
enforcement does not propose to grant
any extension of time other than al
lowed by law for the purchase of
auto licenses. In other years it has
not been necessary to purchase auto
licenses before March 1
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( Local Theatre Has Exceptional Line
of Shows for Next Ten Days.
Under the management of W. L_
Casey the Amazon theatre has for
many months been offering many
special attractions to movie fans, but
for the holiday season Mr. Casey has
outdone all previous efforts to bring
to his patrons the best shows of the
film world.
A glance at the advertisement of
the Amazon theatre on the last page
of the Herald will convince any per
son who has the least knowledge ot
"who's who" in filmdom that Manager
Ferry.
The holiday program of the Ama
zon includes Tom Mix in "Just Tony,"
Richard Barthelmess in the Gold
Medal photoplay, "Tol'able David,"
Thomas Meighan in "Our Leading
Citizen," William S. Hart in "The
White Oak," Wallace Reid in "The
World's Champion," and Janies Kirk
wood in "The Man From Home."
Soon Time to Pay Auto License.
County Assessor W. C. Reid states
that he has just received from the
department of law enforcement of the
state of Idaho the auto license appli
cations for 1923.
Assessor Reid