Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-11-30

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county, is being rapidly pushed
Ten carloads of apples have been
shipped from Caldwell by one firm,
bringing the shippers an average of
50 per box.
The new Carnegie library at Nam
pa is nearly finished and arrange
ments for it's dedication will be made
in the near future.
Mrs. Humphrey, living near Cald-
well, has sold from a one-acre patch
of strawberries this season $3.50
worth of berries.
The banks of Weiser have organ
lied clearing house and have
| adopted a plan similar to the plan
adopted by the banks of Boise.
Soldier is steadily growing and
land seekers are arriving daily that
they may secure land in that beauti-
full and productive valley.
Last Monday was the regular pay
| day at the Nampa sugar factory,
when about 100000 was paid out
to farmers and employees.
A fire, supposed TO have been
caused by spontaneous combustion,
destroyed the large barn of George
| T. Ellis, on the Hill road, near
Eagle.
The Twin Falls lands show a
wonderful degree of cultivation over
last fall and on the tract in a num-
Der of sections there was oats still
uncut on the first day of November
Fire which broke out at an early
hour in the morning in the building
occupied by the. News at Caldwell
caused damage to the amount of
$4,000 to the building and plant.
The three-year-old son of Sam
Storer, living near Nampa, got hold
of bottle of carbolic acid and drank
some of the contents. Prompt medi-
cal attendance saved the little one
The number of turkeys raised in
Canyon county this year and for sale
for the. Thanksgiving market as
computed by buyer who contem-
plates shipping from Caldwell this
fall is 5000.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles A.
Varnum, retired, has been ordered
to report to Governor Gooding at
Boise, at the latters request, for
four years service with the National
Guard of Idaho.
Artesian water has been struck In
a we'll being bored at Caldwell. The
water rises seven feet above the sur
face and with a 2 u inch pipe will
furnish eighty gallons of water per
minute.
A Baptist church has been organ
lied at Ustick, place on the Boise
Valley Electric railway, about seven
miles west of Boise, with a large
membership Ustick is new town
and is growing rapidly.
| The Webster Woodmansee COM
pany is building a telephone line to
| its town, situated aboue seven miles
couthoact IF Povburo The oop,
pany owns about 5000 acres, a large
part of which is under cultivation
and has spent $4,000 in building a
canal and reservoir
The Touring mill at Nampa Is
completed with the exception of the
installation of the machinery, and
that will be done in a few days 1t
is expected that the mill will be in
| operation by the middle of Deem
| Der.
| On November the entire corps of
public school teachers of Emmett
visited Boise on an inspection trip
| They visited all the public schools
and were also shown through the
various buildings by Bosses city
superintendent.
Freight receipts of the Oregon
Short Line show that the tobacco
users in Boise and proximity con-
sumo on an average of one ton daily,
while for the smokers in addition to
this, between 500 and 900 pounds
of cigars arrive each day.
A party of government engineers
has arrived at Nampa and will go to
work at once in surveying the lat
erals from the Deer Flat reservoir in
order to arrive at an estimate as to