Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-10-10
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Mrs. Charles Hervey, a resident
i, Apple valley community, south
Parma ended her life by taking ca
bolic acid Friday afternoon.
To handle the twenty-six acre Gro
of onions grown on his farm nea
. Oakley this season, George A. Da!
of that city, had a mechanical toppe
built by a local machine shop las
week.
That the cattle raisers of the stat
are striving to bring the standard o
: their herds to high plane Is evi
denced by the large number of thor
oughbred bulls purchased of local cat
tie dealers this year.
Lightning struck garage near the
LaVine Mercantile store at Eden
Saturday, burning the building anC
destroying two automobiles, a Hudson
$40 owned by e. S. Johnson, and q
Studebaker rs.
A woman jury will be chosen in the
justice court to decide a quarrel that
resulted in street fight between Mrs.
Clara Johnson and Mrs. Nellie Bean.
1t is the first time woman jury has
| been called in POcatello.
The Portland Oregonian announces
that Runo c. Arne, formerly proba,
ton officer of Ada county, has been
selected superintendent of the Boys
& Girls Aid society, to succeed the
late William T. Gardner.
Mrs. G. l.. Redhead a pioneer resi-.
dent of the Twin Falls country near
Hansen, died last week in Portland,
Oregon, where three weeks before
she had been received at a hospital
for treatment for heart disease, from
which death resulted. She was 80
years of age,
One of the very busy places In
Twin Falls at the present time is the
warehouse Of the Twin Falls County
Fruit Growers association. The as.
ISOLATION has more than forty people
engaged in sorting and packing apples.
The fruit Is being packed and loaded
under contract by the North Pacific
Fruit Distributors.-Twin Falls Times.
A frame building on the main street
OF Blackfoot, occupied by Roy
Hughes, jeweler, and candy kitchen,
was burned Saturday night. The es-
timated loss on the stock of the two
places of business amounted to about
$4,000, partially covered with insur.
ance. Mr.. Hughes was the heaviest
loser on his stock as only that part
OF his stock placed In his safe escaped
the loss.
With general offices to be located
in Boise, the Peoples Milling & Ele
vator association has been incorpor,
ated to erect and operate -four mills
throughout the state of Idaho. The
capital stock is placed at
100000. The charter of the com
pany was filed with the secretary OF
state on September Is and the first
meeting of the directors was held on
September 81.
K. b. Marley, ranchman and former
OF the Pocatello fire depart.
nent, went to a local hotel In Pocatel
o Thursday and entering his wite's
Dom shot her twice through the
'reast and then blew out his own
rains. She lived an hour and a half.
Before she died she asserted her hus-
and had shot her because she had
efused to live with him again.
Work is being pushed on the new
light plant building site at Malad, the
round being now ready for the build
ngs and they will be erected within
short time,
A new potato disease, said to be
ausee by a red bug, is reported from
ne Kimberly and Murtaugh tracts In ,
ne Twin Falls section, according to ,
he Kimberly Call. ,
Professor Homer Cutler, late Of the
oise public schools, has been elecred y
y the Meridian board of directors to
ne sqperintendency Of the agricultur.
w1,k in the local rural high school ;
Meridian. :
Agriculturist Heber Austin, of the t
iaho Falls plant of the UtahIdaho v
ugar company, states that it is the +
ltention to begin the operation
the big plant at Lincoln If the q
resent favorable weather continues =
Id beet digging can be kept up. +,
Leading seed houses of the country p
o looking to the Twin Falls tract 4
the best source for clean seed sup q
y. Newly developed sections of the
untry are generally accepted as the >,
st for select seed, yet seed houses ;,
Q already warning southern Idaho ;,
rmers Of the dangers of low grade +
ed production, due to the presence :,
re of foul growths. "
The suggestion that some space in =,
g Idaho building at the Panama-Pa- =,
lie exposition be devoted to an ex,
bit of the civic improvement work
at has been accomplished by the :,
wns and cities Of the state, made to =,
a1or Fred R. Reed, commissioner =,
the state at the fair, by Mrs. H. M. =,
killing, chairman of the civic de. -
rtment of the State Federation OF W
clubs, is one especially =,