The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-07
In THE GEM STATE

Of Gooding and vicinity.
The Blackfoot high school football
squad is the champion team of the
scholastic class in Idaho.
Agitation of the need for commo-
dious addition to the Caldwell high
school building has been started.
Two carloads of turkeys and chick
ems were shipped from Emmett last
week, being destined for San Fran
cisco.
Idaho, it is estimated, will have a
population of 436,881 on New Years
day. Its count, according to the 1910
census, was 1854
Every man in PocatelIo who had
no invitation to go elsewhere was in
Vited by the Salvation Army to par
take of its big Thanksgiving dinner.
Warden Shook has been given au-
thority to sell off a bunch of hogs
now ready for market from the prison
farm in the Gem irrigation district.
Boise high school pupils have elect
ed student council of twelve mem
oers, two from each class and four
from the school at large. The election
was by Australian ballot.
The recent two-day Sunday school
convention held in Caldwell was at
tended by 100 delegates and was pro-
nounced the most successful conven-
ton ever held in the county.
It is reported on good authority
that government officials have recent
ly been continuing their investigations
Of the plan of establishing an i'm
mense paper mill at Idaho Falls.
R. N. Bell, state mine inspector,
has Just been advised of the death of
cousin, George Brambley, who was
serving as a non-commissioned officer
with the English army in France.
Plans for providing a hot lunch
daily to the rural pupils attending
the Gooding schools have been work.
ed out in the domestic science de-
partment, and 200 children are being
served.
One of the best clover seed crops
on the Minidoka project this season
was grown by George Bray on the farm
owned by S. D. Parke of the Burley
Bulletin. The seed from twenty-five
acres brought $4,000.
As a token Of remembrance to the
Twin Falls boys with the Second
Idaho regiment on the border, local
people contributed $155 for fund
which was wired to the boys as a
Thanksgiving remembrance.
Plans have been completed for the
sixth annual boys conference of the
Y. NJ. c. A, which is to be held in
PocatellO from December Is to II.
Delegates are expected from many
sections of Idaho and Utah.
Secretary A. Wells of the Anti-Sa.
loon League of Idaho, has been max
ing short stay in PocatelIo, arrang- !
ing for big meeting to be held there
on Tuesday, December u, in the in |
terest of national prohibition.
Walter Pierce, one of the best |
known and most popular of the young
men employed by the Oregon Short
Line, died at Pocatello at the emer-
gency hospital. He was taken vio-
Iently i'll while at work in the shops.
Despite the fact that a chilly wind
was blowing several hundred people
gathered at the Methodist church cor
ner Sunday, November rs, to witness
the ceremony attending the laying Of
the cornerstone of the new Methodist
church at Twin Falls.
John Shaffer, living near Star. has
carried away the prize offered by the
Sweet-Teller Hardware company OF
Boise for the best yield of oats re-
ported from the Boise valley. On ten
acres of land Mr.. Shaffer the past sea-
son grew $50 bushels, or Sc bushels
per acre.
Eighteen herds were included on the
ist Of those in the Boise Valley Cow
Testing association which averaged
10 pounds OF more of butterfat per '
.nimal during the seventh month of :
he associations existence. The num-
,er Of cows on test during the past =
month was 437.
Regret is quite generally expressed
,ver the fact that the proposal
0 bond Owyhee county for the pur- Z
use VI pAO'I uLL5 LuLuS VIII WHICH "
rect four bridges over the Snake T
liver failed to carry at the general o
lection. The proposal was defeated [
y less than so votes. S
Albert PIetz of Aberdeen has asked "
he public utilities commission to D
axe action in forcing the Utah-Idaho
ugar company to strengthen their
eet dumps on the Wood river branch -,
f the Oregon Short Line, and so ar :.
ange them that teams cannot fall -
lille wagons are being unloaded. =,
Idaho citizens always will have to X
urchase their coal from neighboring
.ates in the intermountain region, &C
0rding to the state mine inspector,
nd the thought sometimes expressed tn
nee the recent coal shortage began, OF
lat the people of this state should HI
eyelop Idaho mines, can not be real sh
ed OF coal there is little, he says. al
H. E. Morris, travelling salesman, Is
ears Of age, arrested at Salt Lake on
lspicion of being implicated in steal W,
g two wallets from two men from wi
race, was released from custody DC
hen the visitors from the Gem state ex
cleared their belief that Morris was tiy
nOcent of connection with the theft ru
At the quarterly conference of Po-
tello stake Of the L. D. S. church,
IA ar pDr9tDIIN Saturday and Sun