The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1904-12-31
around the State


Wallace IL enjoying sleigh riding this
week-the first Of the season.
Robbers secured $50 in cash by blow
ing open the safe in the store Of the
Northern Mercantile Co., at Standpoint
last Saturday.
P. +. Cassidy, a prominent fruit
grower, residing near Weiser, raised
about 100 pounds Of almonds this sea-
son. They were gathered from % trees.
The treasury departments report to.
congress contains favorable recon-
mendation on Senator Dubois bill of
$4,000 each for public buildings at
Lewiston and PocatelIo.
A brick building 30x6O feet is being
erected b, several of the enterprising
business men OF Idaho Falls to be used
exclusively ior the postofiice.
An ice plant and cold storage room
will be erected at Lewiston. The ice
making plant will have capacity OF u
tons day and Is to be ready for busi-
ness by the first Of next April.
George Duval, a Canyon county. ranch
man, cleared 81 900 this year from 40
acres of potatoeS. He al-o cleaned up
$3.50 from two acres of onions. Mr..
Duyal paid $1,000 for the ranch a year
ago.
Ben. F. Mcconnell, son Of ex-Goverfior
Mcconnell, has been appointed superin-
tendent OF the Priest River forest re-
serves, succeeding Robert ;. Bragaw,
who has been elected state auditor.
The state pardon board has pardoned
c. II. Parrish and J j. Mcbride, and
reduced the sentence Of a. j. Cross from
4 life to 80 years. He has now served H.
years Mcbride was serving 3 life
sentence for rape, and was sent to
prison in 1896 from Owyhee county.
A trio Of Buff Wyandottes that were
prize winners at the St. Louis fair, were
purchased by J. B. GraybilI, Nampa
chicken fancier. He paid $40 for them.
Nicholas Humphrey, who sudd snly
and mysteriously disappeared from his
home in Moscow last October, as COM
pIetely as if the earth had swallowed
him, is believed to be dead and buried
at Halsey, Ore.
In Idaho s9.2 per cent of the school
population is enrolled in the public
schools, which is the highest per cent OF
attendance Of any state in the union.
Idaho Falls has followed Montpelier
in passing an ordinance abolishing all
signs that project across the sidewalks.
/ An ordinance is under consideration by
that progressive town which provides
for the construction Of cement sidewalks
on all the principal business streets.
J. NJ. Larsen, principal of the public
schools at Clifton, Oneida county, was
; arrested last week on the charge of hav-
ing improper relations with 16year-
: old girl. When arrested, he admitted
his guilt. He vas bound over to the
district court, but before being taken to
Jail at Malad he skipped out. He leaves
5 wife and two children.
Prof. II. T. French, in charge of the
agricultural department and experiment
tai station at the state university, an
Z nounces that he will hold farmers in
stitute in Moscow some time in January
> the exact date not having been fixed.
A splendid illustration of Idaho'i
growth and the superior educational adj
vantages possessed in the state is found
in the biennial report of Miss May L
Scott, state superintendent of public in
struction. Idaho's educational exhibit
at the worlds fair, hurriedly prepared
as it was, demonstrated that the Gen
state was far advanced in this particu
lar. Without the expenditure Of a sin
gle dollar and under conditions that t.
say the least was disheartening, tn
Idaho schools took seven medals at tn
;. st. Louis worlds fair.
70 The report comes from Warren tina
i seam of ore has been encountered i
10 the Thunder Mountain Gold Reef Min
$ ing company's property which run
,e 81 900 to the ton.