Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-12-03
IDAHO STATE NE VS.


and pat in operation.
$4,000 water works system Is
being completed at Bull, covering
practically the entire town
The first annual meeting OF the
Idaho state grange will be held at
Parma, January 10, 20. 81, 1909.
Downey will soon have fine sys-
tenn of waterworks, the supply being
piped from springs in the mountains.
The Independence party polled
about 30 votes in the state at the re-
cent election. of which 106 were cast
in Cassia county
Large orchards are being planted In
the vicinity of Filler. some of as high
as 40 and 80 acres. the majority rang
ing from five to ten.
Four churches are now under
course of construction at Bull, they
being the Baptist Presbyterian, Meth
odist, and Congregational.
A cooperative creamery was built
near Montpelier this summer and is
doing a fourishing business, drawing
trade for radius of forty miles
Free mail delivery for Caldwell is
now assured and all that remains to
be done to secure this convenience is
| for the citizens to number their
houses.
In but four counties of the state did
the Prohibition vote exceed 200. at the
late election, as follows Ada, 255;
Canyon, 1923; Latah, 1874, and Nez
Perez, 1856.
The leading mercantile firm Of
Standpoint is having a building erected
which will cost $4,000, the most mod
ern as well as the most costly bust
ness building in the town.
drawbar dropping from freight
car of train caused a wreck at Par
ma, eight cars leaving the track. No
one was injured and the damage to
the track was soon repaired.
The Nampa Chamber of Commerce
has arranged to give series of enter
tainments the coming winter, the pur.
pose being to raise money to get out
OF debt and to help advertise Nampa.
The plumbers of Twin Falls have
formed local organization for their
mutual benefit and for the purpose OF
improving the grade of work by max
ing it conform to the high association
standard.
A very successful convention OF the
school superintendent or the state
was held at Lewiston last week The
superintendent were royalty enter
tanned by the people of Lewiston dur
ing the convention.
Warehouse men estimate that 80
per cent of the grain has been deliy.
cred and that the receipts will aggre-
gate 100000 sacks. or a tribe more
than was delivered in 1907, says q
dispatch from Kendrick.
Two prisoners confined in the
Washington county jail made good
saving the lock off the rear door OF
the jail while the jailer was enjoying
his Thanksgiving dinner.
e. d. Dewey is said to have dis
posed OF all his holdings at Nampa,
consisting of the Idaho Northern rail
way, Boise, Nampa & Owyhee rail.
road and the Dewey hotel. to Spokane
capitalists, for $2,500,000.
There are several candidates In the
field for speaker of the house Of rep
resentatives at the next session OF
the state legislature, c. A. Parsons.
from Idaho county, being the latest
10 announce his candidacy.
1t is announced that Spokane cap
ital is behind a project to establish a
paper mill in Couer d'Alene the com
ing year that will employ from 400 to
500 men and add about i,26e people TO
the population OF that city.
A car of Canyon county grains and
grasses was shipped recently to Oma,
ha to be placed on exhibition at the
, National Corn Exposition. The car
consisted of wheat, oats, rye and bar.
ley, while clover, timothy and alfalfa
were the variety OF grasses included.
Daniel Gardener, millionaire and
one of the owners Of the Hercules
mine at Burke, announces be has pur
chased and win operate under mod
, ern methods mines In the vicinity OF
Barcelona, SPAIN from which it is be
lieved the Romans derived their lead
: supplies.
The first farming in Arbon valley
was begun about seven years ago
There has never been crop failure
and this year $4,000 bushels of wheat
: was raised. The average yield was "a
bushels of wheat, and about so of oats
The settlement embraces about SO
families.
1t is stated the Northern Pacific has
corps of surveyors in the field be
tween Grangeville and Weiser and will
begin work on an extension south
! from Grangeville in the spring, to con
meet with the Pacific & Idaho North.
ern, that runs seventy-six miles north
from Weiser