The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1907-10-12
Around the State

AhSie arS aoo s+uuenss eAFSllep III
Boise high school.
Middleton ia aoaa TO enjoy the COM
iorts Of electric lights.
Tha grsnd lodge OF the J. Q. 0. F. will
meet IN Caldwell OCT. u. Is. lG and II
Frank Parsons. jockey for ]. Lowe,
of AEedowa, killed. himself at the Cald-
well fair grounds BY shooting
Oyer 30, ,oO0 pounds Of mining ma
chinery is heIng hauled from Mountain
Home to Atlanta, a distance of eighty
mile,
Engineers age surveying branches for
the electric line which it Is proposed to
build south from Twin Falls to the Sail
mon project,
For the nine months ending SSfs. 30
the state received si3. .440.2lin interest
on the public funds. which are deposited
IN Y diilereht tanAs.
De Lamar is duipg well. Two new
stores have opened up this summer and
ali seem doing well. The attendapce at
school has increased 40 per cent,
There is talk awopg members OF the
Boise Commercial club aud the busi-
ness men generally. Of appealing to the
president to help relieve the coal sit
uatipn in Boise.
The location fol the state fish hatchery
has been designated as Hay Spur, in
Blaine county, some fish viii he prop
agatcd this fall. among which viii be
some eastern trout,
Martin Sullivan. Twin Falls farmer,
will harvest about $4,000 pounds Of Glow
er seed from go acres, lie has cantract-
ed the seed al II oents. making the land
bring him sll0 an acre.
Eight hundred aud forty-seyen tons
|of heets were crushed for sugar making
purposes at the Nampa factory ans day
recently, This is an inc ease Of l1l ton
over the work Of any previous uay.
While Fremont county doesn'r max
much pretensc at being a fruit scotiol
yet one man near Poplar has sold l,oee
bushels OF apples and harvested seye !
tons of plumhs from a u acre orcnara
Arthur nourse, 22 years old, was isss
ally injured while at work on the Nes
odd Fellows building IN Boise. he p
heaying rock at height Of Is feet, wnsl
he fell, the rock following and crach.
him.
At Mountain Home last Friday SOL
1920 acres of state land were SOLD. Two
choice pieces brought $50 an acre anu
the ha ance sold for $40 and $3.50 an
ficre. The total amount OF the sale was
close to 9O-oOo.
| The axpense Of electric lighting the
streets OF Caldwell for fair week Will be
borne by the fair association. the Odsi
Fellows and the city. The lights viii
remain up until after the grand loigs
of the Odd Fellows meeting.
| W. ]. Reimers, OF Payette, was arrest
led Tuesday and taken to Caldwell to
answer to the charge of selling scabby
Eappes. lie was fined s25 and costs.
Not long since man at Moscow was ar
rested and fined for selling wormy APP
pies.
A number of retired German rnereh-
ants Of Dubuque, Ia, after securing
claims on the North Side Twin Ealls
tract went to Boise and purchased 40
lots in the Cruzen addition at A-priee of
81 $50 and took options On as many
more.
At meeting Of the state land board
the first OF the week November l4th,
which had been decided on as the date
of the Idaho Irrigation eompany's cp-
ening at Gooding, the BIZ Wood river
segregation Of Il, 900 acres, was definite.
ly fixed.
The Marysville Canal company has
made application to the board 10 turn
over their canal to the settlers. This
project irrigates about $4,000 acres in
Fremont county, OF which $500 acres are
taken under the Carey act. The matter
was taken under adyisemeni Dy the
board.
The famous Marsh K Ireton ranch on
he p.lyelle river, ior some lime owned
and operated by DR.. Platt, formerly OF
New York. has just hcen sold at auction
for $4,000 to Edward Herring
OF Caldwell. The sale did not
the stodk on the rsnch. The
sists OF 666 acres.
The San Francisco Idaho
railroad company vas grane1WJr Write if Tor r.
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