The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-02-01
In THE GEM STATE

regarded as serious.
After an interval of two months the
Caldwell Horse & Mule company is tc
resume its auctions with big sale an
bounced for February and Z.
Slightly more than 1000 acres Of
state land situated in Canyon county
will be sold at public auction on Feb
ruary 10. Much of this land has been
appraised at $40 an acre.
DR.. E. T. Biwer, Boise physician
was named secretary of the state
board of health when that body con
Vened last week to organize and
name a successor to DR.. Ralph Falk
resigned.
The annual meeting at Emmett OF
the Payette National Forest Cattle &
Horse Growers association was at
tended by about rs cattle men and
horse growers who use the Payette
national forest.
The recent blocking of travel across
the Snake river because of the float.
ing ice which prevents operation of
the ferries have aroused strong SEN
timent at Caldwell in favor of con.
struction of bridges.
Idaho women are evincing special
interest in the work of Umatilla' S
new woman mayor, Mrs. Laura ].
Starcher. Mrs. Starcher is an Idaho
woman, who has lived at Boise, Nam.
pa, Caldwell and Parma.
Mrs NJ. l. Ross and Miss Christina
Hansen of PocatelIo, who attended
the convention of the Idaho State
Federation of Labor in Boise recent.
ly, were the first women ever to at
tend such a meeting in Idaho.
In response to the call of the gov.
ernor for meeting of the county as.
SCISSORS of the state, for the purpose Of
securing a more uniform system OF
assessment, 90 assessors, representing
all but eight counties, met at Boise
last week
The streets are being torn up all
over Pocatello in order to reach the
frozen mains and thaw them out.
Straw fires had to be built first to
thaw out the ground around the pipes
before the men could make any pro-
gress with the digging.
Nampa is believed to be the first IN
that part of the state to put distribu.
ton of coal into the hands of the mu-
nicipal authorities. The car of fuel
which has been made to do great serv.
ice in relieving coalless families was
one belonging to the Oregon Short
Line.
A saving of 100000 in interest on
the 100000 road bond issue asked
for by the state highway department
can be effected if the legislature will
enact a measure permitting the state
banks of Idaho to invest per cent
of reserve funds in this paper, says
the state treasurer.
E. A. Shaw, aged 26, has been ar
rested at Salt Lake, charged with
sending explosives through the mails.
The offense is alleged to have taken
place last September when Shaw
drove a stage between Challis and
Clayton, he being charged with send
ing cartridges through the mails.
Owing to defective plumbing,
steam from a frozen water pipe
wrecked the kitchen range in the
Davis home at Collister. Mrs. Davis
and her daughter Marjorie were hit
by hot metal, food and steam. Mrs.
Davis received a painful flesh wound.
Miss Marjorie was burned about the
face and eyes.
At Boise last week, Howard V.
Plat, vice-president and general man
ager of the Oregon Short Line, in
speaking about the coal shortage,
made the important announcement
that arrangements had been perfect
ed at a cost of better than 100000
whereby the Oregon Short Line
would by next fall have a direct route
to Utah coal fields.
Preliminary organization of the
Idaho Irrigation congress planned
under sponsorship of the engineering
societies of the state was set afoot
at Boise last week by the commit
tee of engineers appointed to this
task.
Miss Amy Augur, member Of the
Star high school faculty last year,
received special recognition recently
at Boston university for thesis pre-
scented, the theme of which was the
Boise valley, its history and scenic
beauty.
Thomas F. Wren, who owns wheat
ranch near Fem, last week, sold So
900 bushels of wheat for $4,000. He
received an average price of $i.55 a
busheI. Four grain companies partici-
pated in the transaction.
Receipts at the United States land
office at Boise since January 2, in
fees and commissions, chiefly from
applicants for entry under the GAO
acre homestead law, amounted on
January 10 to $27140.71.
Early payment of water taxes this
year is indicative of extremely pros
porous conditions prevailing among
farmers of the Meridian section.
George Mantis was sentenced in
the district court at Pocatello to serve |
from eight to twenty years in the
state penitentiary, after being found |
guilty by jury of the charge of in
iucing a woman to live with him for
IMMORAL purposes.
Nearly forty members of the Bust
less Women's association attended |
he weekly luncheon last week in the
parish hall at Twin Falls. Miss 2.
Fay Fowler of Boise was the guest OF |