Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-05-31
IN THE GEM STATE

a. d legal holiday.
The Mackay dam IS 10 be rebuilt
The Utah Construction company has
the contract for the work.
Only twenty-four men are needed in
the guard 10 bring il W 10 the required
strength. or 100 men TO company.
Construction Of silos in country sur
rounding Meridian promises 10 assume
unprecedented proportions this year.
All towns are being urged TO put In
a sufficient supply Of coal in June, July
and August 10 carry them through IN
Ill spring.
The state horticultural inspector es-
Inmates that 1000 cars Of prunes and
300 cars Of apples Will be produced
this season
Snake river is higher than usual al
this season Of the year. but the high
water usually does not come until the
middle of June.
When the circus came 10 Salmon last
week the Red Cross auxiliary equipped
Il lunch counter. from the sales Of
which they realized SOS.
The largest class in the history or
the PocatellO high school. numbering
thirty-three students. will be graduated
Oh Friday evening, June l.
With the opening in Pocatello of an
enlistment station for the navy hospi-
tai corps, all branches of the recruiting
service are now represented there.
Menan is TO have a beet sugar fac
tory. according 10 an announcement
by T. K. Cutler. vice president an
general manager OF the Utab-ldaho
Sugar company.
II d class Of 20 or more desire 10
learn telegraphy, TO respond TO the
call sent out by the government Tor
1000 more telegraph operators, a class
Will be started in Boise.
Two residents OF Oakland. Cal, were
the first men 10 make out their regis
tratiOn blanks in PocatellO. according
10 the provisions of the selective draft
order recently passed by congress.
Plans have been completed TO OBJ
serve Decoration Day at Idaho Falls,
as a general recruiting day for the
seven counties which make up the dis
,rict. with Idaho Falls as the center.
Guy Crockett, aged p. was shot in
the leg by Night Waterman Koford al
Pocatello. Koford claims he attempt
ed to arrest Crockett, who ran. and
that he fired simply TO scare Crockett.
The body of Glenn Hoffman, the
young lad who was drowned in the
Snake river below jerome. May 8, IN
der circumstances which suggested foul
play, was discovered floating IN the
river abou two miles west of Hager-
man.
The graduation exercises of the
Idaho Technical institute will be held
on Thursday evening. May 81, and the
Rev. John HallOwell Dickinson has
been chosen by the students to deliver
the commencement address on that &C.
casion.
At large and representative meet
ing Of the members of the POcatello
Commercial club committee was APP
pointed again 10 take up with Senator
Borah and Brady the possibility Of es-
tablishing an army training camp in
POcatellO.
High water in Sand creek and VIII
low creek has done large amount of
damage around idaho Falls and the
creeks are still rising. 1t is estimated
that 1000 acres q land in wheat Is
Under water. Several potato cellars
have been flooded and caved in.
a number of the Sisters of Mercy
who came to Pocatello from the Judge
Mercy hospital in Salt Lake City and
who have been working in TINS CITY
pending the completion of the new
$4,000 Catholic hospital, which is now
! under way, have been called 10 Nampa
to take charge of the general hospital
r which will be taken over by them OF
June l.
] Il. VI. Holt, who was recently named
= by Governor Alexander to serve as
f assistant secretary of the Idaho wal
I council, has issued statement EN-
5 phasizing the necessity of guarding
: against overbuying Of staple roodstufr'
, and against production or roo Inucl
perishable food products to the exclu
sion of articles which can be ex
ported.
+ The state board of examiners ha,
I laid down a hard and fast rule regard
: ing the making of expenditures from
! the revolving funds of the several state
J. institutions as authorized by the las
! legislature. This rule is TO the effec
hat money from the funds can only b,
used for the payment of incidental ex
j penses which require cash, such al
D freight, postage stamps. express, etc.
Practically every legitimate financia
: demand of the farmers of Bannocl
county has been met by local banks
and as Il result there will be an in
creased acreage of both grain and po
tatOes.
Ranchers and gardeners locate,
along the Portneuf river in the vicinit,
Of Pocatello are suffering considerable
loss as a result of the river overflow
ing its banks and washing away tn
seed recently planted.
The expense for running the city O
IS Idaho Falls for the year is placed a
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