Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-05-15
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Work of erecting the Short Line
bridge over the Boise river south OF
Meridian has begun in earnest.
Perry A. Trowbridge, age 20 years,
understood to have lived somewhere
In Pennsylvania, was drowned at the
Natatorium at Boise.
C. D. Thomas, prominent business
man of Twin Falls, suffered COM
pound fracture of the right forearm
while cranking an automobile.
The formal opening of the Inter-
mountain railway took place on Satur-
day, May 8, when an excursion train
was run from Boise to Big Bend and
return.
Rural free delivery route No. / will
be established at Tharp, June 16. The
route, twenty-six miles long, will serve
1902 families tri-weekly The carriers
salary will be $612.
That the Idaho Montana state high
way route, connecting Salt Lake City
and Butte, is to pass through Salmon
has been definitely decided by the
state highway commission.
Something more than nine thousand
pounds of milk was delivered to the
Eagle cheese factory the first two days
of it's operation as branch OF the
Boise Cooperative Creamery COM
pany.
B. F. Coleman, real estate man OF
Salt Lake City, climbed out on the
railing of the railroad viaduct at Poca-
tello, and deliberately jumped off to
the railroad tracks below, being fatally
injured
Mrs. ]. V. Osborne of Burley was
taken to Twin Falls to serve a four
months term in the county jail for
bootlegging, Minidoka county having
no place for the keeping of a woman
prisoner.
State bonds to the value Of 1885,.
500, ON which the state is now paying
per cent interest, will be called in
by the state treasurer July l. Nine
issues will be wiped out of existence
by this payment.
Copies of the Thirteenth session
laws, bound in pigskin, were distrib'
uted last week by the secretary OF
states office to state and county Of
ficials. Members of the legislature are
also entitled to have them.
The Elmore Development league
postal affairs co1~Aittee has about
completed its efforts in behalf OF a
rural route between Mountain Home
and Smith Prairie. Petitions all along
the proposed route have been unani'
mously signed.
Port Hill was practically destroyed
by fire last week. The cause is un-
known. 1t destroyed Lingerell &
Kelly's general store, two vacant
buildings, the English hotel and an
other smaller hotel. The loss will to-
tai about $4,000.
Six or more persons were recently
taken i'll simultaneously In Standpoint,
after having partaken of a quantity of
buttermilk purchased Of a rancher
Two of the victims, Mrs. e. D. Ray
mond and child, were exceedingly sick
for several hours.
More than 1,400 school children took
part in the open-air May festival in the
city park at Twin Falls on May 8. The
exercises consisted of folk dances,
drills, choruses and three May-pole
dances, and were witnessed by an i'm
crowd of people.
Mrs. Leona Boylan of HALEY swal-
lowed needle ten years ago. Last
week as she was being made ready for
an appendicitis operation, a sharp-eyed
surgeon, with the aid Of his trained
hands, discovered the needle sticking
from the skin on her right side
Professor Mac Hoke of the agricul.
Lural department of the Twin Falls
high school, has been appointed by the
department of agriculture of the state
to promote the work of the
boys and girls agricultural clubs dur
ng the summer in Twin Falls, Cassia
md Minidoka counties
Maurice Barns, aged 16, residing
hear Hansen, suffered a compound
fracture of both bones of his left |
eg just below the knee, from the kick
If horse. He was in a field at the
ime of the accident Unhitching his
cam he managed to mount the other
,orse and ride to the house.