Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-11-19
in THE GEM STATE

The city council of Twin Falls has
ordered $4,000 fire engine.
Good progress in the construction OF
the Pacific & Idaho Northern railroad
is reported.
Fire originating from overheated
stove destroyed the Star livery barn
at Caldwell, but all of the horses were
saved.
The second poultry show to be held
under the direction of the Idaho State
Poultry association will take place In
Boise on December 26 to 81.
John w. Baker, a colored minister
Of Boise, has been fined $40 for chas
Using a boy, this assault being the
outcome of a Halloween prank.
The Lewiston State Normal school
IL fast becoming recognized as an in
stitution of first rank among the nor
NAL schools of the United States.
Idaho potatoes are being imported
into the most productive belts of Col,
orado, and are there being sold as
Colorado spuds. according to Boise
business men.
Owing to shortage Of cars the
Sprague Sanitary Preserving company
had the plant closed for a short time,
but Is in operation again, and there
Ia still long run on apples.
The Charleston broom factory is in
operation and expects to make a
steady run during the winter months
The daily capacity of the factory is
from 80 to so dozen brooms.
All lines of business in Boise are
feeling the effects of the car shortage
prevalent in the west, merchants stat
ing that shipments which should have
arrived six weeks ago have not reached
the capitai.
About 10000 acres of ground in and
around Emmett Is a regular mush-
room field. Practically the entire
tract of uncultivated land has an
abundant crop of these delcacies at
the present time.
The educational train which is ex-
pected to leave Salt Lake on December
5, under the charge of F. d. Farrell
of Boise and L. A. Merrill. state agron-
omist of Utah, will be known as the
"Burley Special"
Mrs. Marie Mitchell, wife of M. W.
Mitchell, an old-time resident of Wei.
ser, died November 7. Mrs. Mitchell
was rs years old and the cause of her
death was a complication of ailments
incident to old age.
The cattle shippers of idaho are suf.
fering a heavy loss on account of the
car shortage. and the supply of stock
cars seems to be particularly light and
the shippers are compelled to wait
from 10 to 20 days for cars.
On the James ranch near Caldwell
there has been raised this year some
of the largest potatoes on record
Three of the giant tubers, when laid
end to end on table. measured a
length of more than 80 inches.
Some action will probably be taken
by the city council of Boise toward
regulating the size of the hat pins
worn by Boise women. The matter of
the offending hat pins has been under
consideration for several weeks.
"Wets" and "drys" are agog, says
the Boise Statesman. over recent de-
velopments in legal proceedings in-
volving the vital question Of whether
the Idaho local option law applies
to cities of this state existing under
and by virtue of special characters.
The Pacific Land & Water company
has filed on the head waters of the
Raft river, which will be used by that
concern to reclaim $4,000 acres of
southern Idaho land capable of inten-
sive cultivation and great crops under
irrigation, according to recent advices
from Salt Lake.
James King of Blaine county, who
has just been elected for the third
time county commissioner, underwent
an operation in a Salt Lake hospital
a few days. ago, his left eye being
taken out in order to preserve the
sight of the right eye. Mr.. King is on
the road to recovery.
The Twin Falls lodge of the Knights
of Pythias are making efforts to estab-
lish district lodge with the towns of
Gooding, Shoshone. HALEY and Ru-
pert
Sarah Gillespie, aged II. who has
disappeared from Boise, is believed
to have disguised herself as boy
and eloped to California with an adj
mirer,
Captain Edwin G. Davis, t. S. A,
retired, has been detailed by the war
department as military instructor OF
the Idaho National Guard. He has
been directed to report to the govern
or of Idaho at Boise for duty.
On the experiment station, says the
Richfeld Recorder. potatoes yielded
like 175 bushels per acre.
This was on new ground-indeed,
there was scarcely any old ground on
this tract, to give a chance for an old
ground record.
Gust Gunnerson, prosperous farm
err, living at New Sweden, just west of
Idaho Falls, complained of not feeling
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