American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-03-19
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The first county convention of the
Farmers Society of Equity to be held
in Canyon county will be held in
Nampa, March %.
The body of John Griffths, who was
killed by a passenger train near In
kom a few days ago, was sent TO
Brigham City for burial.
Citizens of Gilmore. Ada and Can
yon county are to meet in Boise to
decide on the route through those
counties of the Idaho-Pacihc state
highway.
OF the seventy-two Greeks who left
Boise at the beginning Of the Balkan
war, none nave yet returned to the
home of their adoption, and six lost
their lives during the war.
The prizes won on corn by Ada
county growers at the International
corn exhibit at Dallas, Texas, recent
ly, has given renewed enthusiasm to
ranchers in that vicinity to grow
corn.
Mystery surrounds the tragic death
of William c. Bauer of Butte, Mont,
who was found dead by a sheep herd
err two and t-hree-quarters miles south
west of Minidoka in a lonely sage
brush waste.
The newly organized Civic Improve
ment club at Haley, which has on its
membership roll about fifty energetic
women, will take up the work of, i'm
proving and beautifying the city GEN.
stery for their first activity.
Residents of the Gentle valley Sec
ton of Bannock county will apply to
the board of county commissioners
for the establishment of the rural
high school system in that locality.
In all probability it will be granted.
Home Industry week is to be OBJ
4 served by the clubwomem all over the
state April 10 to 10. Women will ask
I specially for home products, first from
her home county, second her home
0 state and then in the northwest states.
d Kootenai county, one of the largest
counties in northern Idaho, voted
dry" by 405 majority, according to
y unofficial returns. Twenty-four sa-
d looms, six wholesale liquor houses and
one brewery must close within ninety
days.
IL Work upon the building of the up
per Snake river valley belt line
:, through Fremont and Madison coun
y ties, idaho, will be begun as soon as
the SHOWS melt and the seventy-four
. miles OF trackage will be completed
= IN the fall.
w Mayor Theodore Turner and fhe
n city council have petitioned the secre
tary of the interior OF The uh7sNt
states for the grant of part Of sths
IS forest reserve lying on the beicn
Just west Of the city, fei a city parl
ry for Pocatello.
an E. P. Taylor, field horticulturalis
to of the University of Idaho, has il
sued a circular to the fruit grower
! ! of the state advising them to clea
their orchards of the varieties Z
lat fruit trees which he calls ''drone
and bOarders."
IT. A large colony of Finlanders, con
I'VE prising about thirty families from tn
lot Black Hills country of South Dakota
,as have arrived at their new homes nea
't Springfield, where they have purchai
ed a large tract of land under the AL
80 srdeen-Springield ditch.
ev. The production of clover seed ha
developed INTO an industry of consi'
cradle Importance to the farmer
around Meridian during the past tw
seasons, and it is predicted that tn
rou years acreage of clover will be full
ne. twice as large as last season.
ere An attempt was made at Pocatel
ere TO burn the residence of Allen TraI
so last week, but the fire departmel
ach easily put out the fire. Fire had bee
set in four parts Of the house al
ved there is no question that the fire wi
of incendiary origin. There is
clew to the arsonists.
all William Pendry of Montpelier h
invented a machine which he thin
'e will solve the problem of a priva
water system for farmers and citize
of small towns where they have
water systems. The machine is We
simple, a high pressure can be
tanned and it can be run at a We
low cost.
= Professor J.. Wyley Sessions of
. c~atello, who is deputy seed inspect
- of the state. has received ord'
from Governor Haines that potato
from California must be destroyed
deported at the expense Of the c
lred signee on account of the infestat
iuch Of the California product with the
furious tuber moth.
~ The state board Of pardons by un
imous action denied the application
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