The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-04-20
IN THE GEM STATE

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society has been effected at Ameri-
can Falls.
Roy Sumter killed a mad coyote
near his home at Midvale one day
last week.
Jerome has organized ball club
and viii become a member OF the
Southern Idaho league.
The total number of votes cast for
two councilmen at the recent cleo
ton at Boise was 1852.
Operations have been started on |
three new business blocks, besides
several dwellings at Rupert.
The fashion show under the aus
pices of the Pocatello Commercial |
club was an unqualified success.
Recruiting for the federal service |
both army and navy has been brisk |
az Pocatello for the last few days.
Elmore county voted to issue $780,
900 bonds for highways at an cleo
ton held last week. The vote was
241 in favor and 80 against
The farm markets bureau is going
T
ost alfalfa through winter killing and
aid them in getting clean seed, it is
announced.
| Boise is experiencing its first gen.
/ line tong war, the trouble between
/ he Celestials being purely local and
/ lot connected with any tong troubles
n coast cities.
The Jerome branch of the Lincoln
county farm bureau is now organized
md the board of county commission
rs has acqqiesced in the employment
If a county agent
The state board of agriculture viii
Iave $4,000, and possibly $4,000,
AVAILABLE for premiums at the state
air to be held in Boise in the au-
tumn If plans materialize.
Western consumers week, being
generally observed in Idaho the week
Of April IA to q, originated among
the women of Idaho and it has been
taken up by scores or states since
that time.
A considerable acreage of alfalfa
IN southwestern Idaho has been win
ter killed as a result of the cold
weather in January, according to re-
ports reaching the state farm mar
kets bureau.
Four Pocatello girls last week APP
pied for service in the navy and were
accepted as yeomen. They will take
; the place of men in clerical positions.
Three of the girls were from the
Idaho Technical institute.
; The federal government will have
$S5, 600 available for use on the Vel
lowstone Park highway, the Sawtooth
Park highway and the building of q
road over Galena summit in Blaine
county at an early date, it is an
nounced.
The First ward l.. d. S. church al
Blackfoot voted to erect a $4,000
I building for church and amusement
! purposes as soon as plans can BIZ
, drawn and contract let. 1t will bt
/. located Just across the street from
= the present church.
Excellent progress is reported from
:. Caldwell in the campaign being wageC
: by College of Idaho supporters, whC
y seek to raise 100000 endowment fot
the institution in Idaho that tota
of half a million may become avail
. able from eastern sources.
: Mrs. Clarence Pierson of the Farg,
|, section was killed in a runaway &C
/ cident, caused by string of pacl
> mules, which frightened the team
9 Mrs. Pierson was driving. The vic
, TINS neck was broken and a leg wa
II fractured in the fall sustained.
Filled with true spirit of patriotism
70 and believing that farmers shoul,
e not charge exorbitant prices durin
y war times, Thomas Smith and Be-
n Roberts of Sharon. are reported a
ID having been selling hay for hal
price. SMITH is selling for S12 a to-
I. and Roberts, offered $50, sold his 70
SIS.
! For the purpose of interesting tn
v Indians on the Fort Hall reservatio
'e in getting busy in the: production c
y potatoes, beans, cereals and othe
u, toodstuffs, a conference was held o
~ the reservation last week between F
III W. Dietz, superintendent of irrigation
III and H. H. Mailer, superintendent {
Sc the reservation.
> Hog raising chicken culture. squa
Ie growing and the breeding OF Belgia
a. aares on back lots in Boise and othe
towns of the state is to be urge
along with gardening by II. W. Hocl
'e baum, director of county agents wor'
"a ing under the supervision of tn
St state agricultural extension depar
II ment.
oV President Miles F. Reed of h
- Idaho Tech. at Pocateno, has r
turned from Spokane, where he wg
c elected vice president of the Mort
10 vest Teachers association. befol
re which body he appeared. Presidel
IN Reed states that the northwest q
MP sege president have pledged the su
~ port Of all the coneges to the COVER