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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
1
The Normel Quarterly becomes Normal Review with a magazine style, featuring educational articles. It will be issued throughout the school year and is the only coast college paper printed in its own office, signaling a fresh era for student journalism.
Last Sunday the Woodmen of the World unveiled a monument in memory of Wu. Jameison in Vineland Cemetery. More than 500 Woodmen attended from several camps in the region, with the Asotin camp supplying a brass band for the event.
The Last Legislature provided for a great educational factor, urging every town in Nez Perce County to acquaint itself with the law and secure a library for its inhabitants.
The free library law passed last legislature creates a three member state library commission plus ex officio members to oversee traveling libraries. It allocates six thousand dollars for books and expenses with annual grants of three thousand dollars, enabling each school district to own a library through circulating book cases sent to towns for four months. Community groups of six or more organize, appoint a librarian, and apply to host a library station in Boise for the traveling library program.
A speaker advocates expanding county libraries, arguing they outshine other counties in potential benefits. Free libraries cost little yet provide occupation for idle hours, improve winter evenings on farms, spread intelligence, and raise community morals. Now is the time.
Peter M. Davis becomes head of Idaho Democrats after K I Perky resigns as district judge. Davis, from Nez Force county, is expected to retain post, with a state arbitration board led by KE H Dewey of Nampa and Claude Duval to handle employer employee disputes, arbitration, and reports to the governor. Soby of Genesee dies at 65. funeral at Smith & Co. parlors with services by Rev Westhem. Sprague of Genesee to leave lumber yard, plans coast trip to Oregon and Wien before choosing a new location.
A terse dispatch reports Hazen Pingree has died in London causing shock among politicians and peers. The note mentions unrest among non union men from British Columbia amid gambling activities surging across locales.
London reports ex Governor Hazen S Pingree of Michigan died at 11 35 pm with his son present. Separate dispatches note Attorney General James Donovan in Helena closing gambling dens as Montana loosens closures. Treasury agents patrol Puget Sound to curb non union labor during strikes. A new political third party surfaces with Bryan denying ties. A new money order system is introduced with cross border use and a graduated income tax proposed. Rain fell last evening.
Grand lodge session ends in Pocatello with officers elected for next convention in Grangeville. Names include L A Weat supreme representative from Pocatello J S Vincent Kendrick grand chancellor C C Hedum Silver City grand vice chancellor A T Shane Idsho Falls grand prelate W L Vial Weiser grand master at arms James H Harte Coeur d Alene grand of records and seal C Smeath Montpelier grand Bs Arant this city grand outer W H Requa Grangeville grand tribune. Also notes a misc unrelated homily about bashful men and mother and child wellbeing.
The text asserts currency must be full legal tender issued by the general government in sufficient volume for business, offered in proportion to population, and states the election of United States senators by popular vote.
E L Parker named to fill vacancy on the board of commissioners after Perry Miller's resignation. Parker has run a Nezperce business for years and is expected to bring sound business judgment to the office. Idaho will graduate 200 eighth graders this year, says State Superintendent Miss French. A new high school course will be distributed in September, linking graded schools to the university curriculum.
Porter, also managing a large fruit farm, has assumed control of the N. P. express office at Porter station. His work founded the office, which will aid local fruit growers by saving hours of travel to Lewiston and enabling fresher fruit to reach market with proper packing of every pound.
Governor Hunt granted a respite until July 3 allowing the pardon board to act. Davis is the 1896 Cassia county case of John C. Wilson’s murder, with prior habeas corpus and appeals reaching the U.S. Supreme Court. Taxpayers have spent about $75,000 on the efforts.
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