Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-09-25
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

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the purchase of 100000 rebuilding and,
equipment bonds of the University OF
\ Idaho.
| The little son of e. G. Aruncost OF
Cambridge had the misfortune of
| sticking needle in his eye. which
will entirely destroy the sight.
| Preliminary arrangements are be-
ing made at Standpoint for free mail
delivery, which it is expected will be
established by the first of the year.
| The farmers of the Nezperce prai.
rie will this fall market hundreds OF
head of cattle and thousands of hogs,
fattened in the stubble fields sur
rounding Nezperce.
| Samuel D. Gilman, who served az
juror in the Haywood trial, died al
star on September IA, after brief i'll
ness. Mr.. Gilman was an old soldier
and pioneer of Boise valley.
new town has sprung up about
half way between American Falls and
Rockland, known as Bachelorsville.
a. he proven success of dry farming
has resulted in the establishment of
| the village.
1t is the hope of the engineering de-
partment of the Northern Pacific TO
have the new prairie road to Grange
vile completed and ready to turn over
to the operating department by No
vember !.
More than. dozen farmers have
threshed wheat on the Twin Falls
tract already this season which
averaged above so bushels to the acre.
Many yields of from So to so bushels
are reported.
The fourteenth annual session OF
| the general association of the Congre-
| gational churches and ministers of
idaho will be held in the First Congre-
gational church at Ontario, Ore, on
October z, 1908.
Water will be delivered on abou;
$4,000 acres of the Idaho Irrigation
company lands, 10000 acres of the
| Alberta segregation and 10000 acres
east of Gooding, in the spring of 1909,
according to the company's engineers.
Grangeville is planning on big
celebration to be pulled off about the
! time the railroad is completed to that
! point, which will be about the first of
! next month, and will ask all the sur
rounding towns to assist in this great
event.
Another big land drawing has been
announced by the state land board to
take place at Glenns Ferry October
II, when $4,000 acres of land under
the King Hill irrigation project will
be thrown open to entry under the
Carey act.
The Northern Pacific is doing its
utmost to supply the demand for grain
cars in the Moscow country, but when
a little way station like Joel demands
40 grain cars at once it can be realized
how inadequate the best railroad SER
vice is at this season.
The bodies of two men burned to
death in the fire which destroyed the
Franklin block at Occur d'Alene were
found in the ruins the following morn
ing One was Jacob Skogland, whose
home is in Ely, Mimi, and other of
Cox Lanton of Spokane
Lewiston wholesale merchants and
other business men of the northern
city are arranging for automobile ex-
cursions to the towns of the Camas
and Nez Perez prairies and interven-
ing towns to get acquainted with
those WHO deal with them.
The usual building activity that
Lewiston has each year following the
warm weather is beginning to show
signs of it's presence and the prospects
at this time indicate that a number
of re7idence and business blocks will
be built this fall and winter.
The w. c. T. U. of Idaho is planning
to take an active part in the political
campaign in this state this fall. The
members of that organization are out
for statewide prohibition. Some of the
best speakers for that cause are to be
heard in Idaho during the campaign.
The receipts of the state land office
for the year ending January 1 will ex-
coed S1,250000, which is far in excess
of the amount received last year. This
is considered a splendid showing in
view of the nancial stringency through
which the country has been passing.
]. Hiatt ON State Line, says the
Freewater Times, has a fruit record
that will be hard to beat, three GRAY
enstein apple trees from which he
picked this season and sold 78 boxes,
at an average of 40 cents clear of the
box, the family using in addition
about % boxes.
Hi Henry, the well known veteran
minstrel man, who has mining inter-
ests at Pearl and Horseshoe Bend,
making his home at the latter place,
was stricken last week with apoplexy
and little hope is entertained for his
recovery. His age will initiate
against his recovery.
With the opening of the duck season
In Idaho on the 18th one fatality was
reported, the 13-year-old son of Frank
Jones being shot and killed in the
vicinity of Parma The bow was out