Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-02-05
IDAHO STATE NEWS

| That 1915 was a banner year for the
Bull country Is shown by the increase
n freight shipments from Bull sta
ion during 1915.
Members of the Pocatello fire de
| )artment will at once file suit for the
collection OF wages due. The suit will
De in the nature Of friendly action.
Within the last ten days something
over 10000 bushels of wheat have
1een loaded at Montpelier for ship
nent to various parts of the country
Vance Knapp, arrested at Tillamook
! Ore, recently as suspicious charac
Ter, was taken in charge by the sheriff
charged with having slain Oscar Oh
son at st. Maries, Ida, last November
The total proceeds of the Idaho
Boys and Girls clubs last year
amounted to $49,33O. That amount
represents the value OF the products
,aised by the club members of the
state.
At luncheon of the Pocatello Com
mercial club, 100 business men dis
,ussed the project presented by the
Ford Motor Car company for installa-
ion OF a subsidiary assembling plant
in Pocatello.
The city council has practically
agreed to pass an ordinance allowing
movies" to remain open in Pocatello
IN Sunday. This action was taken in
response to petition signed by 2,176
citizens of the city.
Attracted by the splendid opportuni-
lies offered the Idaho agriculturist,
many German farmers are coming
here from Nebraska, and in recent
arrival at Vuhl there were eleven car
loads OF immigrant goods.
During the year 1915 the Buhl
cheese factory turned out 24S,O0O
pounds of cheese, the total business
Of the factory for the year in dollars
and cents being $63,240, Of which
there was paid to the farmers for but
.erfat $2S,52O.
DIR. G. II. Cooper of McCammon Is
charged with malpractice in a suit
fled by Harriette l.. Curtis, through
her guardian, A. NJ. Curtis The COM
plant alleges that the defendant was
negligent in the handling of an OBJ
stetrical case.
The city council has pledged itself
to appropriate one-half of the $4,000
necessary to build the additions to the
Pocatello general hospital This will
mean the doubling Of the capacity OF
the present structure and is a much
needed improvement.
The public utilities commission has
granted the application of Alexander
Murray that he be recognized as the
successor to James A. Murray, who
has held and operated the franchise
under which the Pocatello Water COM
pany has been doing business.
County commissioners and the city
council are planning to double the
size OF the county and city hospital at
Pocatello at a cost of 100000 Pa
tents have to go on waiting list for
and are crowded.
The hospital is self-supporting.
w. r. Blalock, who resigned as
a year ago and was made
ire chief at Pocatello. was removed
Dy Mayor Williams after an executive
session of the council, and A. B. Can
ield of Ogden was named as his sue
lessor to take effect Immediately
Frank Miles, manager of the Montpel-
er Milling company, stated the other
lay that wheat shipments in the past
hree months, counting the recent
shipments, have made total of So
700 bushels. At the present time the
rome consumption reaches 100000
bushels.
Holding a large umbrella that OBJ
their view of the tracks,
Nary and Genevieve Garvin, two
chool girls in an open buggy were
un down by passenger train and in
ured, one fatally, at crossing nine
niles cas- of Nampa. Mary was prob
bly, fatally injured.
In line with the general activity
mong Idaho farmers to secure the
est that the university has to offer
through its agricultural extension ser
ice, farmers of the Bull country plan
0 hold during the week of February
the largest farmers institute yet
eld In that section.
Settlers on the Big Lost river and
IS tributaries who have acquired
'ater rights subsequent to those of
he Big Lost river project met at
Iackay on January % and organized |
be Big Lost River Water Users as
ociation, for the stated purpose of
their rights in the event
hat the project is revived by the
tab Construction company.
The HALEY public schools were
losed January "a by order of the
ounty board of health, owing to the
lct that there are two cases of scar
It fever in town, and they will remain
losed until further orders from the
oard.
The little daughter of ]. e. Ed