Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
IDAHO STATE NEWS


bright.
Housewives may expect new pota.
toes from the King HIN project by
about the last week In May 1t is an.
nOunced
Auto owners In hammock county
who have failed to pay their auto Ii.
cense will be brought up with short
turn II they do not pungle up at once.
The Republican state committee met
At Boise and decided to hold the con
yention to select delegates to the Chi
cago convention at Twin Falls. April
20.
The Pocatello labor unions will send
fifteen delegates to the convention 20
be held at Boise March 20. There viii
be at least 200 delegates at this con
vention.
After having been held In allegiance
for three or four months, decision has
been made by the Chamber OF Com,
merce to hold the annual harvest fes
tiyal In Nampa as usual this fall.
Should President Wilson issue the
call, 1000 trained men and fisty of.
ficers In Idaho. fully equipped, would
Mexico, the governor has announced
Bull business men and citizens shut
up shop on March 30 and built roads
every available man In town lending
aid in some way. The streets anl
roads within the town site wer,
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 place the con.
troll of railway mail pay rates with the
interstate commerce commission.
The finding OF the body OF an in
FAINT. which, according to reports nov
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. Hardenburg, charged with the muir.
der of Sam Richardson on the even.
ing of March /, was bound over for
trial in the district court at Caldwell
The United Cattle & Horsegrowers
association held preliminary
meeting at Pocatello ON March Is 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, A r. encampment will be
held in Pocatello June 10, IA and Is.
There will also be a meeting OF the
Ladies of the g. A. II. and the Relief
corps. II is estimated that at least
$50 veterans will be in attendance
from all parts Of the state.
AS representative OF a large whole
sale seed house handling peas and
beans, with lie Roy, N. ". as theiI
main office. Wilfred Olsen was In Cald.
well last week for the purpose of inter
esting ranchers in the feasibility of
producing seed beans and peas.
The postoffice at Pocatello waa
moved into the new federal building
ON Sunday morning from the new 10
cation. The new building Il a hand
some structure and finely finished
costing nearly 100000, outside the
ground.
The sheriff has seized a box Of
glass" at the PooateMo freight depot.
consigned to a local company, and
shipped from the same company
In Ogden. Examination shows IL con
tanned eight cases Of whisky. The
glass Is at the courthouse awaiting a
claimant.
The good roads convention called
by the Pocatello Commercial club, TO
meet at Pocatello March "a. il ex-
pected to bring a delegation of 300
| good roads enthusiasts. The object of
the meeting Is 10 arouse interest in
the completion of the Salt Lake-Yel-
/ lowstone highway.
| The first six weeks In the second
| semester of the Pocatello city schools
shows the enrolment materially in
creased. the boys numbering f,00i and
the girls 1.006. The boys have main
tanned a considerably better attend.
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corporal punishment.
An investigation Of the books OF
Kootenai county was ordered last
week following a preliminary report
to the county commissioners that
shortages have been found In the
books OF James W. Smith who was
| county assessor and ex.officio tax col.
lector from January. 1909. to January.
1911.
The officers of the public library al
Malad presented TO the city council a
petition for assistance In sustaining q
librarian for the library. The petition
asked that the city pay the salary Of
the librarian in order that the funds
the library has might be used to pur-
chase new books. The city acquies-
| ced In the request.
The state supreme court has suS
tanned the contention of Bannock coun-
ty in its claim 70 a strip OF territory
| eighty rods wide and extending from
Power county TO the Bear Lake dis
I trict This controversy started year,