The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-01-25
IN TIE GEM STATE

Idaho farmers, 800 or 400 strong,
will gather in Boise February z. 8 and
9, when the State Federation Of Agn-
culture convenes.
Boise was yeritabIe convention
city last week, nine different conven-
lions being held in the capitol city
during the week
The fourth annual convention OF
the Idaho Mining association was held
in Boise Tuesday and Wednesday,
January is and H.
IN order to meet the needs OF the
| employees Of the Boise-Payet-e Lum-
Der company, 100 new houses are to
be constructed at Emmett at once.
I William A. Holzheimer,a a former
resident Of PocatelIo, Idaho, has been
appointed assistant district United
States attorney assigned to Ketchikan,
Alaska
F. Y. Martin, who is well known
in Boise, is named as general district
manager of the Earl Fruit company
of the northwest, a new corporation
with s25O,OOO capital
1t is claimed for the office Of clerk
auditorrecorder Of Canyon county
that it collected during 1916 a larger
/ percentage of fees above expenses OF
the office than any other in the state
NJ o. Wood, a pioneer Of the Bull
country, has a copy of the New York
| Herald published the day after the
I death of President Lincoln, which he
will give to the Idaho Historical so
-ciety
Spirited bidding marked the sale
of the 100000 Washington county
highway bonds last week. -Ilgnteen
bids were received and IA representa-
tives of bond purchasing houses were
present.
/ Stockgrowers from all over this
section were in Boise on Wednesday
! of last week for the annual meeting
/ of the Idaho Cattle & Horse Growers
/ association, some 800 delegates being
/ present.
/ During the week beginning March
/ II, whirIwind campaign Of six days
/ length viii be conducted in Caldwell
| and community in furtheTance Of the
/ half million dollar endowment cam
paign of the College Of Idaho.
A Washington dispatch says Sen
ator James H. Grady of Idaho viii be-
/ come chairman of the senate com
mXtee on military affairs two years
/ hence, if the Republicans gain control
! Of the senate at the election of 1913
Police court in Bull was a ousy
I place last week when inc Bull men
were arrested and arraigned before
the court on charges of gambling The
first trial resulted in an acquittal and
! the second brought hung jury. 9th
er trials are pending.
Percy Weaver, a Boise boy, was on
the cruiser Milwaukee, which was
wrecked, all on board being saved. He
re-enlisted in the navy last Novem-
/ Der and has been on the Milwaukee
since last summer in the capacity Of
master plumber and filter.
It is the concensus of opinion that
| the Harvest festival at Nampa has
come to stay, and there is every rea-
| son to believe that Nampa citizens IA
vor redoubled efforts to make the
1917 display and fair the finest and
most comprehensive ever staged in
! the city
Idaho Falls was without light or
water Monday night Of last week. Al
the streets and homes were in dark
ness. An ice jam in the river above
the municipal plant shut off water
supply and power. Hotels and all
public places were lighted with
/ candles.
Through the courtesy of the agr-
cultural extension department of the
University OF Idaho, the women of
Boise are to have the privilege Of
hearing a lecture, illustrated by ster-
eopticCn slides, upon the subject Of
Planning Meals, by Miss Caroline
Hunt Of Washington, D. C.
DesiTabiIity Of a workingmen's com
pensation law in which the risks are
insured with authorized and accepted
insurance companies rather than
through a state monopoly, ~as the
keynote OF the discussions held Eur
ing the annual meeting of the Insur-
December was the third successive
month with temperature below nor
NAL, only more so, for twice only
since statewide records have been
kept has the mean temperature for
the month been lower, according to
the summary by the meteoroIOgist
Of the Idaho section of the weather
bureau at Boise
The Second Idaho regiment, in de-
mobilization camp at Boise, is in
mourn 'ng over the death of Captain
R. L. Shaw of company l of Payette
from diabetes of long standing, and
Private Ted" Sullivan of company a,
Standpoint. a former Portland boy. vino
died from pneumonia contracted after
having measles.
Work is progressing in a very sal
!sfactOry manner on the new telephone
line from PocatellO TO connect with
the Arbon country. Through the as
sistance of the Commercial c,u3, the
proposed Inc was financed without de-
lay, the poles are now nearly all in
stalled and it is IN Iught that by spT ug
the service viii be established.
4 new method of transporting boot
leg liquor was uncovered at Mccain
mon, when the ice box of a Tefrigera-
tor car bound for PocatelIo was exam
med by the authorities and found 20