Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-11-13
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

piped from springs in the mountains
Victor A. Wiley has been appoint
ed regular and Charles F. Raymond
substitute. rural carrier Of route No. ]
at Twin Falls.
! Paul GLADSTONE, representatives. elect
from Bonner county at the election
gust held. Is a candidate for speaker
st the next house Of representa-
tives.
The first baby born in Jerome, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Cavanask, was pre-
sented with $500 by the citizens, and
q town lot was also donated to the
little settler.
In the arrest Of John Major, a cor
ored man, at Gooding, the Boise po-
lice believe they have the right start
on clearing up the mystery OF the rob
bling of the Irma grocery.
Two men from Wardner have at
tempted trip to New Orleans by
travelling down the Yellowstone, Mis-.
souri, and Mississippi rivers in a
small boat called the Idaho.
The Citizens State bank has taken
the place OF the Traders state bank.
Sandpoint's first financial institution,
and the capital stock has been in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000.
The ninth annual convention OF the
Ada county Sunday school assocsa-
ton convened in Boise on Tuesday. a
large number OF delegates being in
attendance from surrounding towns.
The Graves interests OF Spo,
kane, it is said, have secured right Of
way for an extension of the electric
railroad to Squaw bay, on Lake Pend
d'oreille, and will begin construction
soon.
The new elevator being built at
Filler is almost completed. The ele-
sator will have capacity of 10000
bushels and has few competitors as
far as capacity is concerned on the
tract.
Everyone at Sunnyside is busy
since the resumption of work on the
Sunnyside ditch and all teams possible
to secure are being placed at work on
the enterprise which is being pushed
to completion.
With personal liberty" as their
watchword. the saloon forces won
signal victory In the prohibition cleo
ton at Lewiston, the "drys" going
down to defeat by majority of 521
votes out of 1893 cast.
December l, 1907, the town of Je-
rome was born. Today it has pop
ulation of 500 people. and four miles
OF water mains are being laid to fur
nish pure, splendid water pumped
from a well $50 feet deep.
The grade for the Miner & North.
side railroad is finished from Cooling
to jerome. The contractors are now
laying the rails from Gooding and by
December Is the iron horse will pull
train of cars into Jerome.
"A petition is being circulated
among the citizens OF Emmett to
change 1t from village to city OF
the second class, to take effect at the
next election on April /. For nearly
two years this question has been agi-
tated
Bear River county is fast growing
into a dairy country of no mean
proportions. OF late years the ranch
ers have been improving their breeds
till now can be found on most every
place from one or two to large herds
Of fine dairy cows.
In agricultural products Idaho
stands first of all the northwest
states, according to a report Of A. F.
Hit, special field agent for Idaho.
Oregon and Washington in the bureau
OF statistics for the United States de
partment Of agriculture.
The most important piece of news
from Gooding for many a day is the |
fact that track laying has begun ON
the electric fine to Miner. Material |
for seven miles of track are now on |
hand and is rapidly being put into
the form of a railroad
F. J. Manelley. for years chief clerk |
Of the United Stat@s land office at /
Boise, having been in the land oGice
service for twenty-one years, has re
signed to take up the business of
fruit raising, having purchased fruit /
farm at New Plymouth
The Moscow term of the court con.
Venes November 16. The civil ealen-
der viii be much lighter than usual,
while there win be the usual number
1f criminal cases, principally for the
Illegal sale of liquor on the Occur
1Alene Indian reservation.
Building has started in earnest in
he new town of Kootenai, says the
Standpoint News. Within few months
Standpoint viii, If the present construc-
ion rush continues, and there is
every indication that 1t will. have a
Furnishing town as neighbor.
John Kinnison, residing four miles
rom Bancroft, raised over 5000
bushels of wheat, rye and barley this
'ear. for which he received from SIS to
2 cents per bushel The only ex-
,ense Mr.. Kinnison was to outside of
lis own labor was the threshing bill
Arrangements are being perfected
or the organization of declamatory
eague Of the high schools Of Wallace,