The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-09-21
In THE GEM STATE,

An lnSTSdSc VI approximately III
per cent over the 1916 levy win be
made in the 1917 school levy for ADD
county.
Orchardists of the Apple valley dis
trict have formed an Incorporated
company to handle their interests, the
papers being filed at Caldweli last
week.
Something like ten reputable wit
nesses were to be found in Nampa one
day last week who claimed to have
seen Il lighted aeroplane pass over the
section the evening previous.
The Southern Idaho fair, which will
be held at Filler, September 1921, will
bave fifteen departments, and will
take in everything from swine to speed
cars and lOop-the-lOop ifs ers.
Or. f. f. Laubaugh, former state
bacteriologst, has left Boise for Fort
Benjamin Harrison, Ind, where he
will enter the medical service of the
regular army with the rank of lieu
tenant.
State Mine Inspector r. N. Bell has
Just returned from an extended trip
in the Mackay region. He reports
that section to be enjoying the most
prosperous period of mining activity
in its history.
The first session of the state SUI
preme court to be held in PocatellO,
which convened August q, was con
cluded September 13. During the
! term of two weeks u total OF thirty
! four cases was heard.
That fall seeding may need to be
curtailed and pastures may suffer
from lack of irrigation water on the
Boise project was brought out at the
i September meeting at Caldwell of the
water users directors.
The state highway commission has
decided to proceed with the work Of
constructing what is known as the
north and south state highway, for
which large appropriation was made
by the last state legislature.
When the 5-year-old son Of John De
Graw of Payson fell into a web, the
father attempted to slide down rope,
the rope broke, and both came near
drowning Neighbors rushed to their
assistance, and both were rescued.
The Boise Y. NJ. c. A, through its
advisory and employment department
is helping to solve the problem of help
for the employer and work for the
worker, having secured positions for
thirty-two men and boys in August.
State Auditor Van Deusen expects
| Trt,b nPpppO Wash
ington and possibly other northwest
ern states this month for the purpose
of learning what kind of bookkeeping
systems they use in their land depart
meuts.
Owing to the lateness OF all tho
southern Idaho crops the growers ARD
in hopes the frosts will keep off until
about September %. Light FROST
have been experienced in the hills but
as vet nothing in this vicinity has bee1
injured.
The highest price ever paid Il
America for an imported ram was paid
, by ]. A. Detwiler of Twin Falls mt M
Salt Lake ram sale, when he bought 4
Hampshire ram from the Walnut Hill
farm, Kentucky, spring importation
{ for $1,000.
Six tons of coal cost a resident
2 the Nampa vicinity nearly 500. In
, cost figure is not due to any advand
I made by the Nampa dealers. The lot
price resulted from an alleged attem
10 gather free fuel from cars OF q
Ogden Short Line.
e That a valise fun of l. w. W. "iitf
e allure" may prove as disastrous Il hV
e den to bear as one filled with bonn
o is shown in sedition case AT IN
f Falls, for William II. Mitchell =
; todtun of the grip, is under arrest
h charge of criminal syndicalism.
: las entered n plea of not guilty.
The Boise chapter of the NauoW
L Red Cross will join with the hursN
association of the city in cqutppih{
+ coom where all classes in Red g
nursing. etc, can be held. Every
r yenience will be Installed SO that
: nils may Ice given minute and vain
= raining under authorized inStrHe.F
For many years since the count
was settled the overflow OF VI
creek and Sand creek, Il few
east of Idaho Fails, during the
!, water in the spring has caused
~ age to the farmers of That ser.t""
= from $4,000 to- 100000 annually. \
, "a drainage district is to remedy
. evil.
p, Recent developments in the M
VI Hotter &. sharp, confessed DEF
who pleaded guilty before IT
Judge Dietrich ut Boise TO the rh
e. Of misapprupriatiug funds ct
Commercial National bank OF 81
y, tuuuy, also connect him with the
= / appropriation of $l1,T44 from the
y, ! Anthony school fund, of which he
, treasurer for the past five years
Twin Fails county'S share Of
predatory animal tax, SI,a59.43, as
led last week ny the state aud'1
. office i th,, Sssppul highest H. l