The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-05-24
IN THE GEM STATE

Charles Bartlett Of Pocatello. was
arrested last week on a charge of sell
ing whisky to Indians.
The Gooding highway district is
graveling the state highway between !
Gooding and Shoshone.
A new theatre has been opened at
Nampa which the townspeople claim is
second to none in the state.
Boise seed merchants are generally |
out of seed potatoes, kaffir, beans, field
peas. cane and millet seed it was an
nOunced last week
In the annual report of the Carnegie
library at Boise, submitted by the Ii
brarian, a net gain in circulation Of
1766 is shown over the previous year.
Before the elapse of a great many
days the humble tuber will be sprout-
ing in abundance from nearly every
nook of the College of Idaho campus
at Caldwell.
The rounding out of 80 years of
welded life was celebrated last week
by the Reverend and Mrs. II. b. Pow
ers and relatives who gathered at their
home at Meridian.
The Idaho Technical Institute is
not to have the new gymnasium build
ing. for which an appropriation was
made by the last legislature, until
some indefinite time in the future.
A large delegation of Pocatello Elks
are planning to attend the convention
of the b. Z. .. e. to be held in Salt
Lake City on June 4, 3 and 6, and
special trains will be run from various
points in Idaho and Wyoming.
RECRUITING officers are optimistic
that Idaho will have enlisted her full
quota by June 1. The POcatello sta
ton has already furnished its share
and more but the captain is anxious
that it keep up its good record.
The rules of the state land board
were so amended last week as to per-
, nit non-residents of the state to lease
state school lands that have been cut
. up into lots about the lakes where
summer resorts have been established.
The Greek Patriotic society, recently
organized at Pocatello, now numbers
more than 300 members. While the
p society will be of a semi-military char
acter, it's main object will he the in.
culcatiOn of American ideals of citizen.
ship.
l.. l.. Young, well known stOckmar
= and seed grower of the Nampa sec
S ton. last week received the five medals
S and accompanying diplomas awarded
; i'm last fall at the Panama-Paciti'
D International exposition at San Fran
: cisco.
Complete returns from the Red Gross
membership day campaign, which wa
held Mt PocatellO, May u, show re
D suits greater even than the $1,000 whicl
the local officers of the society hat
hoped for, the total amount collecte
being $1161.21.
# Robert Smith, 81 years of age, die
a at a Salt Lake hospital from the eff
fects of injuries suffered when hors
l. fell on him at nixon, several day
2. ago. A widow and two children sur
r vive him. The body was sent to Pc
/ catello, for burial.
- Wednesday of last week the Portneu
T. river overlooked its banks to such a
st extent that number of families resic
ing on the flats at the south end o
POcctello were compelled to abando
n theiI homes. In several cases tn
water reached the second story viii
u dows.
t Confidence that development of 80
600 acres of Black Canyon lands ma
soon be realized is felt at Caldwell a
B a result of the recent visit of a.
Davis, director and chief engineer {
8 the reclamation commission, an
Judge VIII X. King, counsel for til
comrsission.
Euoch Albert Bryan, retired pres
dent of Washington State colleg
PullIaan, Wash, is IdahO's new con
missioner of education to succeed d
q. o. Sisson, resigned. The state boar
of education offered the commissions
ship 70 DR.. Bryan and his acceptan'
was received last week.
Edward Brandhl, whose parents liz
In Idaho Falls, played the part Of
hero at Pittsburg when he saved Il
life cf a 5-yeat-old girl who had fall'
into the manhole of a sevenfoot sew
& and was being swept into the Oh
i liver.
3 Professor Carl G. AIaesser of Il
4 Pocatello high school has been a
Z nointed superintendent of schools f
4 Beaver county, Utah. Mr.. Maeser h
e been an instructor in mathematics al
e science at POcatello for the past ty
n years.
e Plans for the grain warehouse whi'
IS farmers of the state have proposed
g erect comparatively took shape at
B meeting of the district Farmers Uni'
Is organization last week. Much of t
y stock necessary has already been su
8 scribed.
The sixth annual convention of t
Idaho State Sunday School associ
ton was held last week at Parma.
Among the laws which went in