The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-07-28
In THE GEM STATE

ues AT hlsh TIDE IN Nampa,
The wool clip in the Blackfoot sec
ton is heavier than in former years.
Lewiston now has two supervised
Fairgrounds and two public swim.
ming ponds.
Work OF throwing up and prepar,
Ing the grade on the county road be-
tween Nost and Onwiler stations has
been completed.
The Idaho regiment was the only
national guard organization that went
into Nogales ready to the ultimate
detail, it is reported.
Willard Phippen, farmer living
one and one-half miles from Carey
was struck by lightning and killed
while at work in field.
The city health department makes
public the statement that there has
never been but the one case of infant
paralysis in Boise this year.
John Fitzgerald. an employee in the |
Pocatello street department suffered |
disiOcated shoulder and several |
bruises as The result OF being struck |
/ by an automobile
! The outlook for the starting of com
! struction work this summer on the
/ new Catholic hospital which Is plan.
| ued to be erected AZ Pocatello now
seems most favorable.
The increase in the number Of
cattle and sheep in southern Idaho
has been marked by the purchase OF
Il better grade OF sheep and cattle
than in former years.
During an electrical storm, Mrs.
William Cunningham, living few
miles from Jerome was killed by
bolt of lightning She was in an out,
building which was struck.
After nearly a week OF intense SUI.
fering, Miss Beulah McMaster died at
tae Twin Falls hospital as the result
OF burns received at her home as the
result of a gasoline explosion.
Beets and wheat in the vicinity Of
Blackfoot are in better condition
than for several years and the farm,
ers look forward to having bumper
crops of both commodities in the fall.
Lightning has caused three fires in
the Boise forest recently, according
to the local forest office. but the vege
: tation Is still so green that the fires
: did no harm beyond burning few
. trees.
; Teachers taking the state examina
tion are to be questioned as 10 theil
knowledge OF Idaho history, according
to an announcement made Saturday
by Edward o. Sisson. commissions
of education.
> On Good Roads day sixtythre,
: miles OF road Jrk was completed b.
volunteer workers in Lemhi county a
:, the low cost to the county of S6O.sE
- Meals were provided by the women Q
the different communities.
-. The Pocatello General hospital is /
:, have new improvements costing al
=. proximately $500. The preseu
-, building is to be remodeled and an az
=; dtion built which viii give the ho
ia pi,al almost twice the capacity OF th
present institution,
of BY way OF extending Idaho hospIta
ns ity to large circle OF friends, Mr., an
.,v Mrs. Leo Marsters entertained abol
or $50 people at dinner at their ranc
~. home four miles north OF Merida
ha The feast was served on table nea
lis ly 100 feet long, built on the lawn.
Five members OF the family OF ia
lit. ferson McCorkle at Meridian we
Ike seriously affected with ptomaine pt
80, soning Sunday evening Of last wee
~. Careful investigation has failed
pts disclose the source from which q
lgs lives OF the family were endangere
er, Petitions are being circulated
ING Camas prairie for signers opposed
county division. II is claimed that
ord the present county OF Blaine Is c
OF into three counties, the era eXpen
Dor OF additional county buildings and
ity, fcers will increase the burden OF u
Inc payers.
~ The Lemhi Historical society
ore making plans to commemorate the 1
''es niversary OF the date Of the last can
lrE place selected in Lemhi county
IAN the Lewis and Clark expedition. 7
,oh date was August 80 1905. and
are place Was close TO the present site
mas the town OF Salmon.
arc Never before have the boys a
"" girls of Canyon county ha- aung
IL before them anywhere near
amount 4 prizes which are &c
given at the fan airs this year
- the best club work done by hem
= la announced that the cub w
= prizes will total 81 900.
, ~, Mrs willard NcAaster aDu y
- Pulah McNaHter were seriously On
-s-, Cd az the result Of 8 gaao ne "E
80 s.nn In the cellar OF the HENm
,a,- bone at Kimberly 4 tarecY ar
riot child had got hold Of some gaao
-l.. and poured il on lhr cs.l#r steps
a. TIE amount of the increase i0
TO- property va.uatou OF Idaho rnu
dur for the year 1915 over tHg year d
md. according 90 tae report OF ihr Sc
and -o~. IS {9grTa5".
con Burglars aaa took she prarau'
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