The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-03-24
JAiI0 STATE NEW,

4O0ROSNo ~
eese factory at Star are exceedingly
right.
Housewives may expect new pota'
ses from the King Hill project by
oout the last week in May it is an
ounced.
Auto owners in Bannock county
tho have failed to pay their auto II
snse will be brought UP with a short
urn if they do not pungle up at once.
The Republican state committee met
Boise and decided to hold the coil
ention to select delegates to the Chi
ago convention at Twin Falls. April
20.
The Pocatello labor unions will send
fifteen delegates to the convention to
be held at Boise March 20. There will
be at least zoo delegates at this con-
vention.
After having been held in abeyanct
for three or four months, decision has
been made by the Chamber of Con
merce to hold the annual harvest fes'
tival in Nampa as usual this fall.
Should President Wilson issue the
call, 1000 trained men and fifty OF
fcers in Idaho, fully equipped, would
spring to arms to carry the flag into
Mexico, the governor has announced.
Bull business men and citizens shut
up shop on March 20 and built roads,
every available man in town lending
aid In some way. The streets and
roads within the town site were
graded.
Five of the small independent rail
roads of Idaho have Joined in the cam
paign Of the Western Association OF
Short Line railroads to pace the con-
troll of railway ma pay rates with the
interstate commerce commission.
The finding of the body of an in
FAINT, which, according to reports now
coming to light, was buried February
IA, in a vacant lot in Fairview, has
caused the sheriff's Office and the
police authorities to suspect foul play
After a brief presentation of evil
dence on the part of the state Ernest
B. HardenbuIg, charged with the MUIR
der of Sam Richardson on the even
Ing of March 1, was bound over for
trial in the district court at Caldwell.
The United Cattle & Horsegrowers'
association held a preliminary
meeting at Pocatello on March 10 for
the purpose of making final arrange
ments for the associations big con.
vention to be held in Pocatello later
in the year.
The past week Pocatello observed
Dress up, clean up, paint up week"
The Commercial club, the Civic club
and practically all the business men
co-operated to make this one of the
most successful events of the kind
ever undertaken.
The G. Al R. encampment will be
held in Pocatello June 10, IA and 10.
There will also be a meeting OF the
of the G. A. R. and the Relief
1t is estimated that at least
$50 veterans will be in attendance
all parts of the state.
AS representative of a large whole
sale seed house handling peas ana
beans, with LIE Roy, N. Y, as theI
office, Wilfred Olsen was in Cad
well last week for the purpose of inte-
asting ranchers in the feasibility OF
producing seed beans and peas.
The postofice at Pocatello was
moved into the new federal building
On Saturday night mail beng serves
On Sunday morning from the new 10
The new building is a hand
structure and finely finished
nearly 100000, outside the
The sheriff has seized a box OF
glass" at the Pocateflo freight depot,
consigned to a local company, and
from the same company
Ogden. Examination shows it con-
aimed eight cases of whisky. The
glass is at the courthouse awaiting a
claimant.
Th~ good roads convention called
~ the P~ocatello Commercial club, to
meet at Pocatello March "a, is e.
,ected to bring a delegation OF 5OG
rood roads enthusiasts. The object oil
he meeting is to arouse interest IN
completion of the Salt Lake-Yel
owstone highway.
The first six weeks In the second
emester of the Pocatello city schools
hows the enrolment materially in
reased, the boys numbering 1,001 and
he girls 1,006. The boys have main
aimed a considerably better attend
nee, and there was but one case of
orporal punishment.
An investigation of the books OF
county was ordered last
yeek following a preliminary report
0 the county commissioners that
hortages have been found in the
ooks OF James w. Smith who was
.unty assessor and ex-offcio tax col
,ctor from January, 1909, to January,
oil.
The officers of the public library at
Ialad presented to the city council a
etition for assistance in sustaining a
brarian for the library. The petition
sked that the city pay the salary OF !,
le librarian In order that the fund.-
lie library has might be used to pur-
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