Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-12-10
IDAHO STATE WIS

recently been organized anu - sun
ing in membership each week.
With three revival meetings In
progress in Nampa, the moral well
fare of the town is being well cared
for.
The Building committee of the Bapt-
ist church of Emmett have let the
contract for the foundation of their
new church.
The first religious services ever
held in Kuna were held last week,
Rev Barnes, the M. e. district super
intendent being in charge.
The people Of Glenns Ferry are
hoping that the next legislature will
make an appropriation for the bridg-
ing of the Snake river at that point
The business section of Cour d'Alene
is to be improved by modern three
story brick block to cost $4,000, which
will be built on the old Franklin hotel
site.
1t is freely predicted by residents
of that town that within the next
| twelve months the number OF bust
ness buildings in Twin Falls will be
| doubled
The work of rebuilding the town of
| Cottonwood is being rapidly carried
forward. Contracts have been let for
Two concrete buildings which will be
used as hotels.
In the district court at Boise Judge
Wood sentenced James Stewart and
Frank Lee, the former for three and
the latter for four years, at hard la
Dor, for burglary.
M. Carr of Meridian, who recently
had one Of his hands blown off by
the bursting of a gun. Is on the road
to recovery 1t was reported at first
that he had been fatally injured.
The state veterinarian has found
upon investigation, that the horses at
Rigby and Idaho Falls reported to be
suffering from CHAMBERS were not af-
flicted with that disease at all.
The farmers of Sites have become
enthused over the good roads move
ment and are doing everything in
their power to encourage the inn
provement of the public highways.
One of the hunters in the Boise
national forest brought to Boise re-
Gently seventy-three coyotes hides
and two wildcat hides which he had
taken from animals killed in the vicin-
ity of Mayfield.
At meeting at Caldwell of the
, directors of the Canyon county fair
association, it was decided to double
the amount to be paid in premiums
next year This year over $4,000 was
paid in premiums.
The Farmers Educational and Co
operative union of Nez Perez expects
to do some work this winter before
the state legislature, when the farm
3 ers of that section will demand re
forms in the grain laws.
1t is announced that the Oregon
Short Line intends TO fit up two car:
which will travel from point to poin
in Utah and Idaho, those in charge o
; the cars to hold meetings and make
5 displays of agricultural products sup
5 piled by the two states.
!, That the people of Lewiston believ'
: IN paving was demonstrated recent,
, when they voted $4,000 bonds whicl
$ will be used to pay for paving stree
; intersections Lewiston will lay som
10000 square feet of pavement at
cost exceeding s150,000.
! According to a report of the stat
superintendent of public instruction
|. there are 1,127 school houses in tn
!. state, with 2,052 teachers, who ar
! paid 1896, 1886 to teach 69,769 pupils
In 1906 there were 1893 school
. houses and 62,726 pupils.
9 Real estate dealers of Soldier r
o port the past year the most success
tcfA Of
r country, over four times as man
II transfers having been made as In an
r such length of time in the past, pro
. ing the successor dry farming in Thu
section.
The biennial report of the state lar
board shows wonderful growth
u business of this state department
i For the years 1907 and 1908, not i
> GLIDING December. the total receip
IL amounted to S2,402.472, as against
lie total of s1,2S0,334 for the two yea
K preceding.
O. Seed collectors of the Boise n
9 tional forest have collected 1,6
I'd rounds of yellow pine seed and 2
lie pounds of red fir seed In the vicini
r. of Idaho City. The seeds will
" shipped to Missoula, Denver al
I'd Portland to be used in reforestil
government lands.
Word has been received in Boi
from Constructing Engineer Held
wv of the Boise.Payette irrigation pr
a ect that water would be turned frc
IN the Boise river into the Big Deer Fl
t>t reservoir December 10. A grand pl
~ lie demonstration celebrating t
Is event is being planned.
as A meeting of the Idaho Sta
re- Sportsmen's association has be