The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-03-24
In THE GEM STATE

by April Is.
Vacant houses are scarce in HALEY.
There is quite a demand for houses
of six or more rooms, but there are
none TO be had.
Canyon county's commissioners are
pointing with pride to the fact that
all outstanding warrants have been
called for payment
Bull is to have another cheese fac
tory. and it win be in operation just
as fast as the plans OF organization
and financing can be completed.
Black canyon settlers OF the vicin-
ity OF Notus are actively at work in
support of proposals for extending the
government project on the north side.
The date for the big automobile
show al Twin Falls has been changed
to April 3-S. This is two weeks later
than the date previously announced,
There was an attendance of 1879
members and delegates at the annual
convention of knights of Pythias OF
the Fifth district of this state held in
Nampa last week
County and city officers are work
ing to discover the identity of an In
FAINT found buried in a crude box in
shallow grave in a vacant lot in
Fairview, Small boys discovered the
box.
John ID. F1enner, former minister,
journalist and lecturer. died at Boise,
March IA, at the age of 65. lie left
the ministry twenty-seven years ago
to become editor of the Boise States.
man.
Following the opening of the Vel
lowstone branch, the Oregon Short
Line will maintain a station at Trude
Siding, in the Island Park country
and place an operator and agent in
charge during the summer months.
Tennis is rapidly coming into its
own as a sport in the various towns
and cities of Idaho, as shown by the
organization now going on of the
Southern Idaho Tennis association as
a part of the National Lawn Tennis
association
A summary of the things accom-
plished by the Nampa club women
and those who co-operated with them
in the observance of Better Babies"
week shows fruitful results. The to-.
tai attendance at the three days ses
sions ran above 500.
At the special city election held at
Montpelier for the pNrpose Of deter
mining whether or not the property
.
cost OF S25, 900 an overwhelming ma
iority of those voting decided in ia
Eor of the proposed bond issue.
Hardly more than thirty-six hours
after he rode away on a stolen steed
from the ranch of William Stewart
Charles West was apprehended 10
miles distant in Oregon and returned
to face the charge of horse stealing.
While speeding along on roller
skates, Martha Smith, of Nampa. fell
and broke both bones in her left fore.
arm One of the bones was broken
so clearly that it was necessary to
wire the ends together in order to
make certain that they will knit again.
A safe in the office of the Bower
man Lumber company at Pocatello
was dynamited one night last week.
Money and checks to the value OF
about fifty dollars were taken, also
valuable papers. A charge of nitro
glycerine was used to open the safe.
Better Babies" week in Idaho de-
yeloped the fact that Idaho has an
exceedingly low death rate, Boise, the
capital, the lowest in the United
States, the percentage being 81 for
age death rate for the United States
is about IA per cent.
The Pocatello Commercial club has
taken up the question of asking the
hearty cooperation OF every business
interest in the city with a view to
raising a great fund to defray the ex-
penses incident to the entertainment
of the many big conventions that are
10 meet in Pocatello the coming year.
The good roads convention called
by the Pocatello Commercial club, &c
meet at Pocaiello March "a, is ex
pected to bring a delegation OF SOC
| good roads enthusiasts The object of
the meeting is to arouse interest in
the completion of the Salt Lake Vel
lowstone highway.
The first six weeks in the second
| semester Of the PocateIlo city schools
| shows the enrolment materially in
| creased. the boys numbering .00I ano
| the girls 1.0C6. The boys have main
| tanned a considerably better attend
ance, and there was but one case OF
/ corporal punishment.
An investigation OF the books OF
4 Kootenai county wPs ordered last
week following a preliminary report
I to the county commissioners that
1 shortages have been found In the
books OF James ~ Smith who was
/ county assessor and ex-oiicio tax col
! lector from January 1903. TO January
1911
Should President Wilson issue the
call 1000 trained men and haty of
faers in Idaho fully euwlnppd would