Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-10-09
IDAHO STATE NEWS

costs by Judge Walters for bootleg
cling at Twin Falls last week.
Mrs. Charles Hervey. resident OF
Apple valley community. south OF
Parma, ended her life by taking car
bolic acid Friday afternoon.
To handle the twenty-six acre crop
of onions grown ON his farm near
Oakley this season, George A. Day,
OF that city, had mechanical topper
built by local machine shop last
week.
That the cattle raisers of the state
are striving to bring the standard Of
their herds to a high plane is evil
denced by the large number of thovA
oughbred bulls purchased of local cat
tie dealers this year.
Lightning struck garage near the
LaVine Mercantile store at Eden,
Saturday, burning the building and
destroying two automobiles, a Hudson
GAO owned by E. S. Johnson, and a
Studebaker %.
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.
IL ID IuG uIbL tll10 q WOhdn mas
been called in Pocatello.
The Portland Oregonian announces
that Runo @. Ayne, formerly probR-
ton officer of Ada county, has been
selected superintendent of the Boys
& Girls Aid society, to succeed the
late William T. Gardner
Mrs. @. 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 so
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.
sociation 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 Blachoot, occupied by Roy
Hughes, jeweler, and candy kitchen,
was burned Saturday night The es-
ttmated 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 e. Ele-
vator association has been incorpor.
ated to erect and operate -four mills
throughout the state of Idaho. The
! authorized capital stock is placed at
100000. The charter of the COM
! pany was fled with the secretary of
! state on September Is and the first
J meeting of the directors was held on
} September 81.
r. e. Varley, ranchman and former
member of the Pocatello fire depart.
! ment, went to local hotel in Pocatel-
10 Thursday and entering his wite's
: room shot her twice through the
. breast and then blew out his own
brains. She lived an hour and half.
Before she died she asserted her hus-
band had shot her because she had
refused to live with him again.
! Work is being pushed on the new
light plant building site at Malad, the
ground being now ready for the build
/ ings and they will be erected within
> short time.
A new potato disease, said to be
0 caused by red bug, is reported from
: the Kimberly and Murtaugh tracts. in
k the Twin Falls section, according to
j. the Kimberly Call
q Drnfaosow LTAva1~, Tt,,&Jar ~. :.
b Boise public schools, has been elected
! by the Meridian board of directors to
the sqperintendency of the agriculture
e al wb'k in the local rural high school
5 at Meridian.
Agriculturist Heber Austin, of the
: Idaho Falls plant of the UtahIdaho
:, Sugar company, states that it is the
: intention to begin the operation
of the big plant at Lincoln If tht
: present favorable weather continues
and beet digging can be kept up.
J. Leading seed houses of the country
a are looking to the Twin Falls tract
n as the best source for clean seed sup
It ply. Newly developed sections of the
e country are generally accepted as tht
5. best for select seed. yet seed hoases
lie formers of the dangers of low grade
N seed production, due to the presence
% here of foul growths.
it The suggestion that some space II
h the Idaho building at the Panama-Pa
id cifc exposition be devoted to an en-
Sc hibit of the civic improvement worl
r. that has been accomplished by tn,
towns and cities of the state, made t.
Or Major Fred R. Reed, commissions
I'd for the state at the fair, by Mrs. H. N
ID Schilling. chairman of the civic de
n partment Of the State Federation o
ne Women's clubs, is one especiall
Id pleasing.
nv The standard apple box bill whic'
81 has been actively supported by Rex
~ resentative Addison T. Smith of IdAh
is still on the house calendar, ] II
~ consideration under the unaniulyu
" consent rule having been refuseQ p
!. = objection OF Congressman Dillun l