Taken from the Sept. 17, 1915 Burley Bulletin:
Burley Schools show increase 1000 Children enroll during 1st week; 27 teachers employed, Approximately 1,000 pupils enrolled in Burley public schools this week.
Of this number, 150 are in the high school division and the remainder are in the grades.
Twenty-seven teachers are employed at the present time. Superintendent Rae states that they are
an excellent body of instructors.
Eleven school wagons are in operation and are delivering over 300 country children. At the opening of the school year, there were 750 students. The next few weeks will see a big increase in the enrollment and may make necessary the employment of additional teachers.
All of the two completed floors of the new building are already occupied, and all except the basement rooms of the brick building.
The reception for the new public school teachers has been postponed from Sept. 17, to Oct. 1. It
will be held in the auditorium of the new high school building if it is ready, and if not, in the National
Hotel Ballroom.
From the Sept. 17, 1915 Burley Bulletin:
Prohibition law constitutional
Idaho Supreme Court confirms all provisions of state’s most stringent liquor law
Idaho’s local option law, said to be one of the most stringent in the United States, operative now
in prohibition counties and which will apply to this state as a whole on and after Jan. 1, 1916, is
constitutional in every form.
This is the sweeping ruling of the Supreme Court of this state.
It is held to be not in contravention of Sec. 1 to the 14th Amendment of the federal constitution; its
title is not defective, each and every part of it comes within the subject of general legislation, it does not
prohibit surgeons, physicians, dentists, or hospitals from using pure alcohol for medicinal purposes as
contended, and prohibition districts do not now have to vote on its adoption, says the court.
The decision is on the application of Edward Crane, of Latah County, to secure a writ of habeas
corpus for his release from jail there on the charge of having liquor in his possession, which the law
prohibits.
The writ is quashed and Crane is remanded to the custody of the sheriff. He failed to give bail after his arrest and was turned over to that official. It was afterwards that he filed the petition for a writ of
habeas corpus. An appeal was taken to make a test case on the constitutionality of the law.
