Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-06-26
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Upon the invitation of the Spokane
Polo club, the Boise Polo club will
begin its season in that city, taking
part in a meet there about the middle
of June.
Good Roads Day" was not observed
in Ada county. The county commits
sioners say that every week day Is
supposed to be Good Roads Day" Ia
Ada county
The Ada county commissioners
passed resolution providing for the
purchase of the tair grounds of the
Intermountain Fair association, ltd,
at the price of $4,000.
Announcement has just been made
by the Citizens National bank of its
second annual corn contest, open to
men and boys living within a radius
Of seven miles of Nampa.
About fifty pupils of the Nampa
schools are at present excluded from
their studies, awaiting results of the
streptococcus tests being made in the
state psychological laboratory.
Application has been made to the
Teasury department for authority to
ganize new national bank at
o,se with capital of 100000. 1t
viii be known as the Overland Ma,
ional.
Plans are being made for a flower
aow to be held at Salmon late in the
ammer, The city authorities are
apporting every movement for the
Improvement and identifying of the
Wn.
The 6-year-old son of Mrs. p G,
gtrcl was drown 4 in the Portneu
81 near PocateilU. The body Was
y recovered unit the next morn ne
seems the boy was fishing and fell
to the river.
The Pocatello chapter of the State
ming association, which elected 6f
S last week has an active mem
hin Of more than loo men, VIZ
Interested in the development OF
e mines in that vicinity.
Louis Fig, an Idaho Falls druggist,
found guilty of violating the local
on law by a jury in the district
art Thursday, and the maximum
4tence of $500 fine and six month
he county jail was imposed
9incidently with the movemen
he sheep fiocks across the ranges
the mountains, come reports of the
ing of dead coyotes in all sections
southern Idaho. 1t Is popularity
posed that they died of rabies.
ieorge Edgington, Progressive can
date for mayor of Idaho Falls, who
is claimed was elected by nine
es at the last city election will
We to institute contest proceedings
q order to secure his certificate of
2ction.
The stockholders OF the Canyon
0unty Fair association have voted to
hange the name of the local organiza-
ION to the Idaho State Fair associa-
on and enlarge the territory from
#hich exhibits will be received, to in
slude the entire state.
The 2-year-old grandson OF ]. H.
Giffin, farmer living north Of Ameri
can Falls, died from convulsions In
duced by eating a piece OF orange. A
postmortem examination disclosed a
piece of orange the size Of pea
lodged in the baby's windpipe.
A man identified as j. e. Damon
was found dead in bed at a rooming
house in Idaho Falls with several
empty bottles labeled Jamaica ginger
and bay rum in the bed with him. The
coroner decided that death was caused
rom an overdose of the ginger
The presentation of the sacred can
alta, David, the Shepherd Boy" by
he choir of the Methodist church was
he most successful affair of its kind
ever given in Pocatello. The Auditor.
um theater was packed with nearly
900 persons and many were turned
away for lack of standing room.
On June 16, rural free delivery
cute No will be established at
Boise, twenty-six miles long, to serve
so families daily. This carrier will
'eceive $1,100 Oxford will have its
irst route on that date, thirty-one
niles long to serve 10 families three
lines a week, the carriers salary to
,e 5000.
Twin Falls is planning to celebrate
N July this year in manner far
all previous observances
I that day in this part of the state.
'esides a big automobile parade,
here will be a grand display of fire.
forks both by day and by night, thou
ands of free ice cream cones for the
hildren and an athletic program.
According to Rev. B. w. Rice, chief
romoter of the enterprise, magnif-
ent hospital OF statewide scope will
g founded in Caldwell before many