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IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER, CITY OF GRANGEVILLE
$1.50 THE YEAR
VOL 35, NO. 45
ORANGEVILLE, IDAHO, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1920
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-• Fight for Republican
Senatorial Nomination at
Is Forecast
Hie -
Ü Convention
Eaglcson May Entci xiacG
Against Kiger and Davis
for Governorship Honors
absorbing
Politics is becoming the
ic of conversation in many parts of
judging from reports received
state capital, headquarters
Idaho office-seekers ami political
opic.
ilaho,
the
from
or
the po
is the rumor
The latest development in
in Boise
■itical situation
■that John W. Eaglson, present state
is expected to shortly an
for governor,
ireasurer,
loimee his candidacy
the Republican state
Eaglcson and Sen
nom
luhjecl
^^Jmiting convention.
■ptur Borah were the only Republican
state office who in
were indorsed by
0
candidates for
the 1918 campaign
Hie Non-partisan league.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Possibility of Mr. Eaglesou 's candi
lacy, in view of this indorsement, is
being discussed by every political
ssiper in Boise,.as well as in other
(arts of the state.
What
apport will he
What
he stand for?
have ?
his rise in politics or his political
These are questions on every
■tongue, and questions which
I longue attempts to answer.
I [ Those who claim to be in a position
|o know assert that the new candidate
,vill attack the Dnxi.s form of govern
They say lie will champion
I Investment reforms; will urge
Iption development; will plead for sol
reief, and will attack political
orruption.
In attacking tha Davis or "cabinet "
divide
will
Will
Bail i le !
every
•*!
■■
lient.
reclam
■i: ï
H'im n"inii the treasurer will
Ere with M. A. Kiger, speaker of the
H rouse, who also is a candidate.
Assuming that both men have a COn
V tiJcialile' following on tills issue, their
H Hi\ ision may help to renominate Oov
irnor Davis.
I Mr. Eaglcson is conceded to have
limerai advantages over Mr. Kiger on
I lb e cabinet issue; first, because if he
I attacks its expensiveness, his position
las state treasurer, where the financial
I record must pass through his hands,
I prill bear weight with the public.
I iccond advantage is said to be bis past
pxpcrience in statewide campaigns.
A
LONG RECORD A HANDICAP
H Du the contrary, the public is in
■ Mined to consider Mr. Eaglcson 's long
| fecord in state and county offices as
the ground
Distinctly unfavorable, on
Huit it place 8 upon him the stigma of
Profes
i professional office holder,
tonal office holders, they' say, are
aiming to be more and more disliked
>y the voter.
The new candidate is said to favor
■ lu 'Min.-lit reforms because invest
I^Jriii: is his particular hobby and be
H pause much of the work of the state
■ plMitinciit of public invest incuts was
^^■'iicc handled in his office.
His reclamation stand will call for
11 io Inst use of Idaho's water re
Bourres In serve the biggest acreage
number of people
one for
probably
c left out of the platform of no can
lidate.
■ ■
Ipnd the largest
I p Ids position is a most popular
I Idaho politicians, and will ]
II It is also very popular for cadidates
l[" pledge themselves to the soldier's
I Interests—preference rights, bonuses,
'tins, etc., being considered as plat
planks. Mr Eaglcson, it is said,
pill |nit a soldier plank in his platform.
■ ssi,, says that the question of Mr.
riaglcson 's
I'riddein.
league
support presents a real
In 1918, with a Non-partisan
indorsement, he was elected
plate treasurer by a vote comparable
I" that of Governor Davis. Part of
(Ids strength may have been given by
tl"' league. Much of it undoubtedly
from faithful Republicans who
Fated straight tickets. The question
I l'"t forward in the lobbies and on the
I pi roct corners is: What pArt of the
I hole was due to an Eaglcson faction
I F' r Eaglcson personality t
•aine
AFRAID OF N-P LEAGUE
B that the
^■[1'"""" "ill answer the other question
the treasurer is about
political harikari, ns many
liicil partisans are confident he is. His
P' 1 '^ indorsement by the Non-partisan
r' ! T'ie is said to have .alienated hun
j r, ''ls of former friends. The same
Indorsement
to this
answer
to
preventing many
l r01 ' s of voters who atrree with the
r : ""oilnte on every jilank of his al
[''ged platform from climbing into bis
'andwagon. for some of these groups
patriotic pledges which they be -1
h-ed would not brook flirting with
(le Non-partisan organization. ■
is
2230 Deer and
135 Elk Killed
in Idaho, 1919
Idaho hunters', in 1919, killed 2230
deer, 135 elk and seventy-seven mount
ain sheep, according to a report made
to Governor Davis by Robert O. Jones,
state commissioner of law enforce
ment.
Discussing the
work of the state
game department, the report says in
part:
"During the big game season, Game
Warden Otto M. Jones, instructed all
assistant chiefs and local deputies to
keep careful check
killed and taken out of their districts.
The reasons for so doing were 1° pre
vent as far as possible violations of
the game laws; that is the killing
of more than the limit for one person
of large game. It was also desired
to have a record of approximately the
amount of game killed during the
hunting or open season. Various re
ports now on file with the bureau as
received from game wardens and also
the forestry service, which cooperated
with this department in every respect,
indicate that during the year 1919,
there were 2230 deer killed in Idaho,
135 elk and seventy-seven gouts.
Those figures of course, are not abso
lutely authentic."
on all big
game
DAVIS URGES HIGHER
PAY FOR TEACHERS
GOVERNOR SAYS EDUCATIONAL
SYSTEM OF STATE IS
SUFFERING
Taking up the cudgels for the school
teachers of Idaho, Governor Davis has
set forth their eases in the following
statement:
"A most unfortunate condition ex
ists ndt only in Idaho schools but all
over the United States. The alarming
feature is that one of the most im
portant branches of our national ac
tivity, education, is losing its teachers
rapidly because of the inadequacy of
remuneration for their efforts.
"Everyone knows that a person
holding a position becomes more pro
ficient as the
his
length of term of
service extends, but so
been the call to teachers
has
from other
strong
unattractive because
seourees and so
of the high cost of living and small
salaries has the teaching profession
in the grade schools become, that out
of 530 positions in southern Idaho, 391
teachers were new to their schools
It is a situation that every
and woman of Idaho
last year,
thinking man
must do their best to meet.
SHORTAGE OF 100 TEACHERS
<A survey and summary of the ex
recently been made,
actual shortage of ap
act situation lias
There is
proximately 100 teachers at this time.
Four hundred fifty teachers began
their work on permits last fall a.nd
examinations were taken 172
Are we getting the quality of
and women Into the profession
What must we do
a n
when
failed.
men
that we should?
to attract the higher class?
proficient people
encouraged to con
now
' Are the
being
We are faciug a great short
of teachers, retardation of pro
may feel sure that few
teachers
teaching
t iline ?
age
gross, and we
applications for places as
arc to result from the fact that the
problem has not been properly solved.
that two fundamentals
We must
or
It seems to
stand out in the solution,
give better living conditions and bet
better living con
who
me
Bi
ter salaries.
ditions it is suggested by those
.fully surveyed the subject
have can .
that the erection of teachers' cottages
better boarding
and the provision for
places might meet the issue.
MUST MEET SALARY QUESTION
"While the salarx" question will have
' with- the complete
public that
to bo bodily met,
of the
other workers,
like any
teachers are
and they must have
to meet their necessary
sufficient income
and fair ex
penses.
"Unless we attrect people who can
pass examinations and give high class
service into ,the profession in Idaho
it means that the quality of our
schools and the quality of the future
of our growing boys and
Idaho people
interested
citizenshij
girls will be reduced,
have nlwav been intensely
in education. No state m the I »ion
furnishes better buildings and equip
ment and the public .schools have re
ceived the loyal support of the i>opu
Intiou, but buildings and equipment
and the desire to help the part of
the people will not educate the chib
dren unless the people themself
meet the two problems which I h,.\e
"""Twould urge the boards of educa
go into their local problems
and judgment and
they find them in
tion to
with great
care
put up the facts as ,-oters in
the most frank ''perienco has
the April elec 'om- • . ^ ^ .ooplo
been, that the . through
when they kno« ^^brings sölu
frank discnssi , ■
tion« that are jun^ and right
quêtions before i
IDAHO COUNTY'S
SCHOOL KIDDIES
Frieda White of Grangeville
Wins First Prize in Part 2;
Cottonwood Boy Is Second
Arthur Bacon, Woodland, Is
Champion of Older Children
Howard McPherson Next
Idaho county spelling contest was
held in the courthouse in Grangeville,
Saturday aÏ ter ji oon.
Fifteen children from as many dis
tricts entered part 1 of the contest
which was open to third, fourth and
liftli grades. IFifteen children entered
part 2, open to the sixth, seventh and
eighth grades. Prizes were awarded
as follows:
Part 1, first prize. $5 W. S. slam]
Frieda White, Grangeville.
Second prize, $3 thrift stamps—-Ray
Reed, Cottonwood.
Part 2, First prize, $5 W. S. stamp—
Arthur Bacon, Woodland.
Second prize, $3 in thrift stamps—
Children from out of town, were en
tertained in the homes of Grangeville
pupils. Saturday evening the child
ren enjoyed the picture play at the
Lyric.
The audience for the contest filled
the court room and join with the spel
lers in expressing appreciation of the
entertainment offered by Miss Edmund
son who read,
Goose," and- by the Girl's Glee club,
which sang two selections.
"The One
Begged
WHEAT GROWERS TO
MEET IN ORANGEVILLE
Wheat growers of Camas Prairie are
invited to attend a meeting in
Odd Fellows' hall in Orangeville Sal
at 1 o 'clock in the
Wheat Growers'
he
unlay afternoon
interest of the Idale
somewhat after the plan of the citrus
growers in California.
George W. Stephens, of Grangeville
who is interested in the association,
attended an enthuiastic meeting of
wheat growers in Lewiston, a few days
association.
Pooling of wheat, in order to pre
vent speculation and stabilize the mar
ket. is said to be the object of the
organization, which is being formed
Idaho, Washington and Oregon,
11 1
ago.
Grangeville,
wheat growers,
the as
At a recent meeting in
fourteen
pledged their crop to
pool for a period of six
Among those reported to have
are Senator N. B. Petti bone
attended by
eight
social ion 's
years,
pledged
and Sol ('Irak.
It is the plan of the association not
begin operations
actual pooling of
to the amount of
1918 wheat crop in
signed up.
with respect to
wheat until grain
25 percent of the
the northwest is
to
MISS HELEN GREEN
WEDS IN MICHIGAN
Helen Green, daughter of Dr.
Miss Hi
and Mrs. G. A. Green, of Grangeville,
married on March Iti, in Almont,
Miss Green in
was
Mich., to J. R. Farley,
with her
mother, has been
company
in Michigan since June of last year.
Mr. Farley's family has long been
to the bride's grandfather, E.
ii ii
S. Hancock, of this city, who formerly
resided in Michigan.
Miss Green was
born and roared in
Grangeville, was graduated from
Lewiston high school and from the
state normal sch
Farley is a graduate of Michigan State
college at Lansing. He
n large dairy farm near De
troit, where the couple will reside.
Hr. Green, in a letter telling of the
his daughter, also re
the
Mr.
I at Lewiston.
Agricultural
owns
of
marriage
ceivod word that Mrs. Green, who some
time sinceUnderwent a serious surgi
cal operation, will be unable to return
home until summer, at the earliest.
The daughter planned to be married in
Grangeville, but owing to the fact
that Mrs. Green has been unable to
return home, plans for the marriage
were changed. Mrs. Green will remain
with her daughter and husband.
EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS
BROUGHT TO CLOSE
B
ARE
which were
the
Evangelistic meetings.
two weeks
church under direction
churches of
in
for
held
Christin n
Protestant
the
of
brought to a
The meetings
Grangeville,
c h isc Sunday
were pronounced by those in charge as
having been successful.
were
night.
Boosts Candidacy of
General Wood; Local
Sentiment Favorable
Boosting Gen. Leonard Wood for the
Republican nomination for president
of the railed States, G. H. Martin, an
attorney, of Saudpoint, was in Orange
ville Wednesday, sounding out the lo
cal situation. Mr. Martin,desires that
Idaho county delegates to the Repub
lican convention at Oocur d'Alene, in
April, be instructed to favor pledging
Idaho delegat.s to the Republican Nat
ional convention to \otc for General
Wood.
COUNTY OFFICES ARE
REMOVED TO NEW
COURT BUILDING!
Officials of Idaho county arc begin
ing to remove their offices from the
old courthouse to the former school
building, purchased by the county
for a courthouse, and recently remodel
ed. Probate Judge Campbell and As
sessor Hazelbaker on last Saturday re
moved their offices to the new location
and other officials are
soon follow. The
was built by the
in 1902 and leased
at $1 a year
vert to the city,
position of the building lias been ta
ken.
expected to
Id courthouse, which
city of Grangeville
to the county
will, when vacated, re
No action on dis
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
CECIL RHODES JOHNSON
for Cecil Rhodes
16-vcai old son of Mr. and
of the Green
|Pnneral services
Johnson,
Mrs. James Johnson,
were held Sunday from
Winona.
creek section,
Mount Zion church, at
N. Knox, minister, of
ficiifted. Burial, in
in the adjoining chureh
W.
Grangeville of
charge of A. J.
Maugg, was
yard.
The boy was
1903, at Red Rock,
in Idaho county
life. About a year ago
scarlet fever, and
j with hope that the
! his health, the family
■ for gome mont hs, but
■ f() f„j| j n health, and
j clim i>e<l.
Besides his father and mother, five
brothers, Edgar 1.., Raymond D., Or
vil J., Lester L., Irwin J., and one
sister, Rena Levena, aged 2 years,
vive him.
born on April
and had resided
practically all bis
he contracted
later influenza,
boy would regain
took him away
he continued
finally suc
II,
sur
DAY ISSUES OFFICIAL
CONVENTION CALLS
chairman of the
central committee,
Jerome J. Day,
Democratic state
has issued official .calls for two Demo
Ono will be
cratic state conventions,
held at Lewiston on June 15 for the
electing eight delegates
ï the Democratic Nation
Franciseo, on
of
purpose
from Idaho
al convention at Han
June 28.
The (fther convention will be held at
Idaho Falls on August 24, to nominate
candidates for congressional and state
office for the general election in Nov
ember.
Idaho county is entitled to nine dol
Lev/iston convention,
at the Idaho (Falls convention,
will have three repre
egates to the
while
Idaho county
scut all vos.
WOODCRAFT NEIGHBORS
WILL HAVE NEW HOME
Local members of the Neighbors of
Woodcraft are m,uch interested in an
nouncement from Riverside Cal.,
Pacific division of tin- order has
purchased property in Riverside which
will be maintained for children and
aged members of the order,
property consists of a 22-room house,
a 6-room bungalow, forty-five acres of
land and stock and machinery. Pur
chase price
sion of the lodge comprises nine west
states, including Idaho, and child
ren and aged persons who are receiv
ing benefits of the organization will
shortly be sent to the home at River
side.
that
the
['
The
f'acific divi
was $50,000.
era
« PHnnT * nV c
HIGH SCHOOL BO^ S
WIN FROM TOWN TEAM
Boys' basketball team of the Grange
ville high school won a game from
the town team in the high school
gymnasium, Monday night. Score was
33 to 19. It is probable that no more
basketball games will be played here
this season.
"1 fouid sentiment in Orangeville
favorable to General Wood," declared
Mr. M. rtiji, ''.'8 it is all over the state
of Idaho."
Mr. Martin said he was opposed to
the Republicans of Idaho sending an
nninstructed delegation to the Repub
lican National convention, to vote as
Senator Borah might
don't want Borah to be able to swing
the Idaho vote to Hiram Johnson,"
concluded Mr. Martin.
"We
lirect.
State Commander Addresses
Grangeville Commercial
Club Members
"Our earnest Americanism of the
future is coming through tlie American
legion." This was the statement made
before the Grangeville Commercial club
Wednesday noon by E. C. Boom of
Moscow, state commander of the
American legion in Idaho. Mr. Boom
also is federal prohibition director for
Idaho.
Mr. Boom, who has the distinction
of being the first legion commander
for the state of Idaho, was a buck pri
vate in flic army. He lost a log while
in the service.
98 POSTS IN IDAHO
The commander told the club that
to date ninety-eight posts of the le
gion have been organized in
and the record for the state, eompar
ed with the population, is high.
Mr. Boom urged the importance of
Grangeville post sending a delegate to
the state . convention of the legion at
Twin Falls, April 0, 7 and 8, and sug
gested to the club that means be de
vised to meet the expenses incurred
by sending a delegate.
'"North Idaho should be adequately
represened at this couventio ," said
Mr. Boom. "Each post in the north
ern part of the state should make
a special effort to send a delegate."
LEGION AT CENTRALIA
Idah
Mr. Boom told the club, in illustra
tion of the steadying force the Ameri
can legion has proven to be in the
country, of the way the legion hand
led affairs at Centralia, Wn., lust No
vember following the murder of four
legion men by I. W. W. during the
Armistice day parade. Surrounding
the jail in which the murderers were
confined, the legion men prevented the
mob from lynching the slayers of their
Conducting an investiga
families of
who afterward
were living
comrades.
lion, the legion found
two of the slayers,
wore convicted of murder,
amid poverty and squalor. Immediate
ly the legion began caring for these
families, and to this day is support
ing the families of men who were
convicted of murder of flie former
soldiers.
G. H. Martin, an attorney, of Sand
point, also addressed the club.
Martin remarked on benefits of
niciual improvements in Saudpoint, and
declared Grangeville people would
make no mistake by carrying out the
contemplated paving program here.
Mr.
mu
SCHOOL TRUSTEES OF
PRAIRIE MEET HERE
Trustees of schools on Camas Prairie
call of Miss Margaret
last Friday, on
Sweet, county superintendent of pub
lic instruction. Matters pertaining to
the public schools were discussed.
In the morning, H. C. Mattliiesen, of
Cottonwood,
while the
the trustees,
which
addressed
afternoon session,
adjourned to the public
was addressed by S.
school
was
v.
building,
(Fullaway, supervisor of the Nezperce
National forest, and others.
A permanent organization was form
) ed, with H. C. Mattliiesen, president,
and H, O. Sasse, of Ferdinand, secre
Committees on various
tary-treasurer.
matters were appointed from among
the school trustees of the prairie coun
Another meeting will be
held
try.
in Grangeville in June.
MISS OMA EDWARDS
AND C. AUSTIN WED
of Clearwater
Miss Oma Edwards
and Carl Austin of Rtites were married
Saturday by Probate Judge Wilbur
L. Campbell in his office in the
courthouse. The newly-married couple
will reside on a ranch near Grange
ville.
EXPENDED THIS
MOUNTAIN HOAD
New Grade to Be Construct
ed for Distance of One and
Half Miles into Adams Camp
Real Motor Highway Planned
by Government; Assistance
from County to Be Sought
Dive thousand dollars is to be ex
pended by (ho U. 8. forest service dur
ing the coming summer on improve
ment of the old road from Grangeville
to Adams Camp. The distance is ap
proximately twenty-eight miles of which
twenty-one miles is in the national for
est. The forest service, however, will
not confine its improvement to that
porion of the road which lies within
the forest, but will expend money
on the entire stretch.
WANT COUNTY TO HELP
Aid of Idaho county, in cooperation
with the forest service, is to be sought
for this road, it is announced.
The road to Adams Camp is one of
the oldest roads in Idaho and
was built many years ago for trans
portation of suppliés into the mining
camps of Florence and Warren. For
a number of years traffic over the road
lias been light, and the road is in
poor state of repair.
Last summer motor trucks of the
forest service passed over the road
to a point about a mile from Adams
Camp, while sheepmen, in some in
stances, were able to drive cars all the
way to Adams.
EMPLOY DAY LABOR
Improvement of the road will be
made by day labor, under supervision
of the forest service. It is announced
will be let, work
that no contracts
will be done on such sections of the
road as are in greater need of im
provement, and the job will be push
ed un bi I funds are exhausted Just
how much work can be done depends
entirely upon costs, and the amount
of money made available by Idaho
county to aid in the improvement.
A new grade will be constructed for
a distance of a mile and a half into
Adams, to take the place of the pre
sent grade, which is difficult to travel.
At other points, the road
shortened, sharp turns will be elimi
nated, and steep places in the road
will be remedied wherever possible.
If weather permits, work will start
on June 15.
will he
WILLIAM PARISOT IS
VIGTIM OF PNEUMONIA
William Parisot, age 55 years, old
mining man of Idaho county,
week at
five miles south of
ti mo
died on Wednesday of last
the Bullion mine,
Florence. Death was due to pneumo
nia, from which Mr. Parisot had suffer
ed for several weeks.
Foskett, of Whitebird, who was sum
moned to attend him, arrived only
two hours before Mr. Parisot died.
Realizing he could not long survive,
Mr. Parisot, a week before he died,
closed his business .affairs and gave
directions for his burial. His body
was buried Friday near the government
monument, at Florence.
Mr. Parisot was well known in Ida
ho county, especially among the mining
He owned a large interest in
Bullion mine, which he was de
Dr. W. A.
men.
the
veloping just prior to his fatal ill
ness. He is survived, by a son, Ray
Parisot.
Mr. Parisot was a printer and at
one time was employed in Grangeville.
IMMIGRATION MAN TO
VISIT IDAHO COUNTY
O. H. Barber, state commissioner of
immigration, labor and statistics, plans
to visit Idaho county in April, whyi
he hopes to make a ' tour of the en
tire county, except, perhaps, of the
mountain country. He will gather data
and material he
will be used in an effort to
from the east
While
conditions here,
on
procures
stimulate emigration
ern states to
in Idaho county, Mr. Barber will be
the guest of the Orangeville Commer
cial club.
central Idaho.
NAIL RESIGNS AS
WHITEBIRD CASHIER
cashier
O. C. Nail, for the last year
of the Salmon River State bank, at
Whitebird, has resigned, his resigna
tion to take effect immediately a suc
cessor is appointed. Mr. Nail with
his faniilv will remove to Cottonwood,
where he will engage in the automobile
business.