The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-12-08
In THE GEM STATE


Lewiston last week.
At least 2,5eO turkeys were furnished
Thanksgiving diners by the growers
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 a 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, 1t is estimated. will have
population of 1851 on New Years
day Its count, according to the 1910
census. was 325.594.
Every man in Pocatello who had
no invitation to 80 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 OF 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
bers, 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.
II 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.
X. N Bell, state mine inspector,
has Just been advised of the death of
cousin, George Brambley, who xas
serving as a non-commissioned officer
with the English army in France.
Plans for providing 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, locaI
people contributed $l55 for a fund
which was wired to the boys as .
Thanksgiving remembrance.
Plans have been completed for the
sixth annual boys conference of the
Y. NJ. G. A., which Is to be held In
Pocatello from December Is to II
Delegates are expected from mani
sections of Idaho and Utah.
Secretary A. Wells of the AntI-sa
loon League OF Idaho. has been max
Ing a short stay in Pocatsllo 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 bes
known and most popular of the youna
men employed by the Oregon short
Line, died at Pocatello at the emer
gency hospital He was taken vic
lently i'll while at work In the shops
Despite the fact that a chilly wint
was blowing several hundred people
gathered at the Methodist church cor
ner Sunday. November 26, to witness,
the ceremony attending the laying o.
the cornerstone Of the new Methods
church at Twin Falls.
John Shaffer, living near Star. ba,
carried away the prize offered by tn,
Sweet-Teller Hardware company o.
Boise for the best yield OF oats re
ported from the Boise valley. On ter
acres Of land Mr.. Shaffer the past sea
son grew $50 bushels, or 66 bushel.
per acre.
Eighteen herds were included on III,
list OF those in the Boise Valley Gov
Testing association which averaged
40 pounds or more OF butterfat pei
animal during the seventh month o.
the associations existence. The mum
Der OF cows on test during the pas
month was 437.
Regret is quite generally expressed
over the fact that the propose
to bond Owyhee county for the pur
pose Of providing funds with which L
erect four bridges over the Snak,
river failed TO carry at the genera
election. The proposal was defeate,
| by less than so votes.
Albert Pletz OF Aberdeen has asket
the public utilities commission 4
take action in forcing the Utah-IdahC
Sugar company to strengthen thei
beet dumps on the Wood river branci
OF the oregon Short Line. and so al
range them that teams cannot fai
while wagons are being unloaded.
Idaho citizens always win have Il
purchase their coal from neighborinI
states in the intermountain region, ac
cording to the state mine inspector
and the thought sometimes expressed
since the recent coal shortage began