North and South Idaho State Highway planned rapid build
The Wallace Press Times reports Idaho will spend 340000 from a bond issue to construct a North and South Idaho State Highway. The project, aimed at uniting the state and improving transport, will fix rugged sections from New Meadows to Grangeville and connect to Boise.
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North
Idaho
Wallace Press-Times
Boise
State Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Council of Defense
New Meadows
Little Salmon
Grangeville
Camas Prairie
Pollock
White Bird
North Idaho
War Chest Organized In Cottonwood Community
An enthusiastic meeting at Odd Fellows hall elected W B Hussman as chairman and W W Flint as secretary to organize a local War Chest. Five executives were chosen: W W Flint, W B Hussman, J W Baker, John Hoene, and Fred Simon to draft the constitution and by laws. Ten adjoining districts plan branches with one executive member each. Local Red Cross solicits donations of five dollars each.
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Odd Fellows Hall
W. B. Hussman
W. W. Flint
J. W. Baker
John Hoene
Fred Simon
Cottonwood War Chest
Cottonwood Chest
August Draft Leaves Monday From Grangeville Idaho
The article lists Idaho County men ordered to Grangeville for examination and to depart Monday for Camp Fremont California. It notes 1918 registrants called, three failed to meet physicals, and predicts class 1 depletion with class 2 calls possible in October or November. A reception and ball are planned in Grangeville to honor the mobilizing troops with a depot sendoff.
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Idaho County
Grangeville
Camp Fremt
Cal
Emmett Lee Mulhall
Ernest Cris Nissen
Clinton Reeves
William James Jewett
Clifford Paul Powell
Josh H. Alkire
Parke Forrest Butler
Floyd Clinton Barnette
John Edward Thomas
Enoch Oatman
William Kellum
R Roy Simler
Niles Solberg
James Lott Adcock
Myron Erba Campbell
Bernard Henry Gehring
Glenn R Snyder
James Stanley
Charles Edward Simler
Melvin E Sewell
Grover Sharp
Alvin Henry Bensching
Joseph Schallberger
Fred Marion Poe
John Hamill
Avery A. Gentry
Henry Kauffman
Joseph Loren Tribe
Orval Booth Trueblood
Marvin John Smith
Thomas Large
Edward Funke
Charles F Anderson
Joe Weholt
Fred E Morris
John Otto Duus
Grover B Pollan
Marshall Engle
Benjamin S. Taylor
John Lloyd Turner
Earnest
D Lemons
David Bruneau
Sivert Juvet
Randolp Randall
Ben Koelker
George C Dobbins
Aaron R Calvin
William Hassler
Leslie S Huffman
Edgar G Pickler
Frank H Gentry
Henry H Hattrup
Albert J Hughes
Edward R Allen
William Bies
William E Zumwalt
Henry Dempewolf
John Deputat
Beecher Sims
William Allison
Carroll D Ward
Zeb James Hallett
Harry Patterson
Joe L Roberts
Albert H Herbeth
Edward H Clarke
Otto John Olson
Harry Wayne Bryant
George Washington Hackett
R. Casper Manwaring
Dreamland Hall
Hall's Grove
Nonpartisan meeting at Orpheum draws local farmers
Last night a meeting at the Orpheum united several farmers with nonpartisan speakers. Mel Pierce sustains a painful hand from blood poisoning while sewing grain sacks. Concrete work advances on a new city well near the Catholic church for the upcoming electric motor arrival. J L Chapman of Waha shipped a Hereford steer weighing 1700 pounds to Spokane for 13 1 2 cents a pound totaling 229 50. Mrs Joe South and her little son visit river friends for a few days. Joe jokes about failed flapjack moulding and boiling water mishaps.
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Orpheum
Mel Pierce
New City
Catholic Church
J.L. Chapman
Waha
Spokane
Joe South
Little Son
Joe
John Meyer and Family Visit Lewiston
John Meyer reports Cottonwood crops will yield 25 to 30 bushels per acre this fall and 20 to 26 for spring, with overall Cottonwood region production near normal despite heat and drought. Hog production will be well below normal due to wheat conservation and high barley prices. Meyer heads to Portland for mill and elevator business, visiting local residents before continuing.
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John Meyer
Lewiston
Tribune
Meyer
Portland
John Hoene
Portland Surgical Hospital
Body of drowned girl found near Lancaster home
The body of Ella Lancaster, drowned in Salmon River fourteen miles west of here, was found Saturday morning five miles below the drowning site. Searchers and relatives attended the burial at the local cemetery after funeral services led by Rev. Wm. Gornall. The report notes heavy rain and a threshing season price of 18 cents a bushel for northern Idaho.
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Ella Lancaster
Salmon River
Here
Lancaster
Bert Teift
Pres Mitchell
Roy Unzicker
Dan Hill
Tony Nau
A. Maugg
Wm. Gornall
E. A. Lancaster
Eva
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Mike Zedzierski
Geo. Peler
Bart Simon
J. McMahon
Roy Hatke
Catherine McMahon
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Leslie
Huffman Ranch
Fremont
James Peyer
Ferdinand
Helen Rehder
Fred Lange
Prineville
Ore
Cottonwood Mercantile
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Carl
Vancouver
State of Idaho Department of of Banking
G. R. Hitt
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Boise, Idaho
M. M. Belknap
Cottonwood State Bank