The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-01-28
IDAHO STATE NEWS

DuliuS inc past year OIOfCI DiOtu
ers have shipped 125 cars of hog;
from Fruitland.
The Mutual Dairy Ranch company
filed articles of incorporation at Pc
catello, the capital stock being $25, 900
William Wallace, one of the ifteer
Americans killed recently by Mexican
bandits in Chihuahua, leaves a mother
and sister in Lemhi county.
DR.. W. S. Decker of Twin Falls has
been appointed a member of the state
board of veterinary examiners, to sue
coed DR.. John Akin, Nez Perez.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed a
one-story frame structure at Pocatello.
The loss is estimated at $1,000 and
is said to be covered by $1,000 insur-
ance.
The Meadows Valley bank has pur-
chased the business and good will of
the Meadows State bank and the in
stitutions were consolidated on Janu-
airy 20.
Deputy Auditor George has com
piled an abstract of the personal
property assessment roll of Blaine
county, showing a total of $1,205, 592,
with exemptions of $49,428.
The State Grange was in session at
Wendell last week under the direction
of State Master H. Farland of Pay
cite, with delegates present from lear
ly all counties of the state.
The city council of Montpelier has
decided to call a bond election for the
purpose of erecting a city hall. The
hall in contemplation will cost $4,000
and bonds will be asked for that
amount.
The citizens of Idaho Falls will vote
on a proposition to bond the district
for a new high school. The city is
growing so rapidly that the present
school facilities are being taxed to
the limit.
Blaine county has received from the
state school superintendent $2,3S5.95
as it's apportionment from the school
land sale for the first half of the year
1916 among thirty-seven counties Of
the state.
John Burns, an Indian, was sen
fenced to sixteen days in the Poca-
tello jail for purloining a knife, fork
and spoon from the counter OF a Chi
nese restaurant in which he had eat
en- a meal.
A preliminary statement of the gen
eral results of the census of manu-
features for the state of Idaho during
1914, issued by the United States de-
partment of commerce, shows a ma
terial increase since 1909.
The Idaho Seed Growers associa-
ton has elected J. Wyle Sessions of
Pocatello, president of the association
for the coming year; A. J. Snyder of
Springfield, vice president, and o. d.
Center of Boise, secretary.
The Farmers Society of Equity will
in Pocatello, February 10. II and
II. Representatives from about TWEEN
.y-ive cities and towns in the state
will be present and much important
business will be transacted.
The public library at Pocatello is
,eing equipped with a complete indi-
'ect lighting system The ~alcoves, in
which most of the reference works
re shelved, are beng fitted so that re-
iearch work will be facilitated.
Wesley Roberts, a carpenter who
as been in Boise for the past few
was arrested by the federal
immigration officers last week, and is
ED for investigation into his right to
e in this country. He is a Canadian.
j.. w. Evans, King Hill, wants $50
amages from the oregon Short Line
for alleged delay in the trans
ortation Of a shipment of apples
rom Richfeld to HALEY, due, it is
to the negligence of an agent.
Two hundred and three representa-
ract, from as far north as Jerome and
S far east as Burley, attended the
nnual Potato Breakfast Of the /
win Falls Commercial club on Janu- t
ry %. {
Elation prevails in the Caldwell
sction over the high price now being t
sceived for alfalfa hay. A big Port t
md firm has a representative there l
no is said to be buying all the hay
e can get at S11 a ton f. o. D. Cald- b
ell. a
The value of products of manufac- :.
,ries in Idaho in 1914 was S2S, 454, 900, :
Id $22, 400, 900 in 1909, the increase I
$6,054, 900, or 81 per cent. The :
per establishment in 1914 was a
,proximately SAL, 1000, and $4,000 in
'Os. :
One woman was chosen by the Ada n
,ard of county commissioners to W
rye as a juror during the year in the Ii
strict court. She is Mrs. Gertrude h,
of Mora precinct. The re- te
of the list is made up of 1868 al
en-, chosen from every precinct in in
e county.
The farmers of the Upper Snake U
yer valley are shipping one of the IL
-gest wheat crops in the history of "
q district. The region about Idaho q
lis, st. Anthony, Rexburg and other sc
ints on the Yellowstone branch is @
deluged with grain and 200 pl
no