The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-04-21
In THE GEM STATE

a cheese factory for Middleton.
City officials are taking up with the
reclamation heads the proposal to
widen and straighten Indian creek
through Nampa
Fire which is supposed TO have orig
mated from an explosion of hot-blast
stove damaged a residence at Idaho
Falls to the extent of 5000.
The total of assessable property in
Canyon county this year is 1887
546.7S, decrease of $2,3S5, O14.41 from
the previous years total
Muriel Dodge, 15-year-old schoolgirl,
won the first prize in the bread bak-
ing contest offered by the Civic club
during Home Products week at Poca-
tello
The cornerstone of the new Metho-
dist church at American Falls has
been laid. The church will have a
seating capacity OF six hundred and
will cost $4,000
The volume of business, through the
Nampa telephone exchange has so
greatly increased that it has become
necessary to add another regular oper-
ator to the force
Fifty-nine cars of cattle were fed
in Pocatello on April II. They were
| consigned from points in Montana to
Burnley. Frank Burke, a former resi-
dent of Pocatello, bought the cattle.
Through conference of what
amounts to an arbitration board, an
attempt will be made to solve the
problem of administering school af-
fairs more economically in Meridian
The poles and wires for the installa-
ton of the electric system have been
received at Albion. The poles are be-
| ing distributed over the town and will
be placed in position as soon as pos
sible.
The late Senator Weldon Brinton
Hepburn has been honored by having
a mountain named for him, the sec
ond highest mountain in Idaho, to be
henceforth designated on all maps as
Mount Hepburn.
The students of the Idaho Techni-
cal Institute are in favor of compul-
sorry military training, according to a
vote taken few days ago. Over 85
per cent of the entire student body
favored some form of military train.
ing.
1t is announced that the statewide
campaign against rabies, in so far as
the state board of health Is concerned
will be confined to the prevention OF
the disease among humans and treat
ment of persons bitten by rabid ami
mails
The National Surety company
surety on the bonds of o. V. Allen and
Fred Coleman, defaulting treasurer
and deputy, respectively, of Idaho, has
made a proposal to the state deposit
tory board to settle all claims against
it for $4,000.
With a pageant in which loo
school children will participate anC
with fitting exercises in charge of Pc
cahontas chapter, D. A. R., beauti
full marble seat serving as a marker
of the Oregon Trail is to be dedicated
at Caldwell on April %.
The Pocatello city council has giver
the mayor authority to lease a large
tract on the banks of the Portneu
river for a city ark. The women o
the civic club will spend $4,000 il
identifying the grounds. The leas'
is for ten years at 1000 a year.
Interest in the establishment of
flour mill at Eagle is being aroused
| 90 g., he,
could realize better returns from thei
grain crops if they could patronize
local mill and several of the leading
ranchers are helping agitate the mat
ter.
The six-year-Old daughter of Mr.. AM
Mrs. r. H. Gross, who live about four
teen miles from Weiser, was burne,
to death last week. Mr.. Gross ha
been burning sagebrush near the HON
and the little one in some way haI
pened to get too close to the fire an
her clothes caught fire.
Services were held in the Methods
church at Idaho Falls last Sunday TO
the last time The building will b
demolished and a new $4,000 churc
will take its place. The contract ha
been let and it will be one OF tn
handsomest structures in the city.
will have a seating capacity Of 100
An unidentified Indian was foun
dead beside the Short Line tracks a
Pocatello. 1t is believed by officer
that the Indian may have been drum
and tried to go to Fort Hall b
freight. Both legs and one arm wer
cut off.
The Pocatello Social club has file
articles of Incorporation with the cit
clerk. The articles set forth that tn
objects of the club are to promote th
social, moral and intellectual deye,o1
ment Of the Greek and Italian citizen
of the city.
George Ness. 81 years Old, emplo,
de by the Electric Investment con
pany as lineuIam. was killed a; Bots
by contact with a high tension eIe
trio wire.
: Glenn o. Street of Pocatello ma