Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-12-04
IDAHO STATE NE WIS


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 210 votes in the state at the re-
cent election, of which LOG were cast
in Cassia county.
Large orchards are being planted in
the vicinity of Filler, some of as high
as 40 and so 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 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, 236.
The leading poaroapt;Ia 6,yo of
Standpoint is having building erected
which will cost $4,000, the most mod
ern as well as the most costly bust
ness building in the town.
A drawbar dropping from a freight
car of train caused 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 a 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 a 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 OF 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 90
per cent of the grain has been deliN
cred and that the receipts will aggre
gate 100000 sacks, or a trtne more
than was delivered in 1907, says d
dispatch from Kendrick.
Two prisoners confined in the
Washington county Jail made good
their escape on Thanksgiving day, by
saving the lock of 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,
IRON Idaho county, being the latest
20 announce his candidacy
It 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 1000 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 he has pur
chased and will 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 a crop failure,
and this year $4,000 bushels of wheat
was raised. The average yield was %
| bushels of wheat, and about so of oats.
The settlement embraces about SO
families.
It is stated the Northern Pacific has
corps of surveyors in the field be
tween Grangeyille 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 seyenty-six miles north
from Weiser.
A contract has been signed with
the Standpoint Light Power com.
pany for supplying the town of Ponde-
ray with electric lights for city and
| domestic use and water for the same