Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-10-05
idaho STATE NEWS


be shipped from the Minidoka tract
alone.
Bank deposits of Caldwell banks
nave reached s2,5oO,0O0. the largest on
record.
The Kooskia Milling and Power COM
pany has completed large dam across
South Fork.
idaho's food conservation campaign,
to begin October n, will be managed
by 4. X. Alexander Of Boise.
u is estimated that there are 5000
acres Of apples in the Twin Falls dis
trict In addition to 1900 acres of al
falfa.
The Church Of God adherents ex-
Dect to have work started soon on
the new building at Middleton, planned
by them.
Eighteen thousand portions, 1t was
estimated, We're served at the great
Commercial club barbecue at the
state fair last week.
An amendment to the Smith Hughes
bill, giving Idaho $4,000 for vocation
al training in its schools, has been in
troduced in congress.
Record breaking crowds attended
the state fair at Boise and the visitors
We're liberal In their praise of the ex-
hibits and the entertainment features.
Payette county won first prize in
the agricultural exhibit at the state
fair, Ada being second, Twin Falls
third, Gooding fourth and Canyon
fifth.
a term of 10 days In Jail, fine of
$500 and payment Of about $50 costs
embraced the sentence pronounced
upon Caldwell resident for selling
liquor.
Including exhibits from schools in
every section of the state the display
by the boys and girls clubs at the
state fair at Boise attracted a great
deal of attention.
A light automobile was more or less
wrecked and big power line pole
broken off, when the machine jumped
from the state highway west of Merid-
ian and crashed into the pole.
In the opinion Of Idahos war sec
rotary, the i. w. w. situation in the
north is under control and, unless con-
ditions unexpectedly change, there will
be but little further trouble from that
source.
Caldwell Commercial club committee
engaged in soliciting a $4,000 fund
with which to carry forward the big
general publicity acmpaign at home
and abroad, reports its task as two
thirds completed.
An appeal is being made to Ida
h0nas to use one-third less sugar than
they have been using. Otherwise, If
this country refuses to part with its
stocks the French people win be en-
tirely without sugar, a real food neces-
sity, for two months.
John Rudd, interstate secretary for
Idaho and Washington of the boys
work of the Y. M. g. A., arrived in
pocatello last week to assist in the
work which the association is carrying
on in connection with the war. Secre-
tary Rudd will cooperate with the
local war committee.
DR.. I'll. P. Ustick pioneer in Boise
valley in Industrial development, died
at the Ginnabar mine, near Yellow
Pine, on Fern creek, from heart dis
ease, on September "a. He had prac
ticed medicine at Boise for over TWEEN
ty years, giving up his active medical
work about four years ago.
Joseph Hanson, state secretary of
war, has been recalled from northern
Idaho by Governor Alexander, In ord
er that he may take immediate charge
of the coal situation. He will prob
ably go direct to Salt Lake, where he
will supervise the shipment of coal in
to Idaho from the Utah mines.
Cassia county is the first to claim
state aid for the Improvement of
highway, having recently passed
100000 bond issue by vote of five
to one for the sanding and grayeling
of so miles within the Burley highway
district. The state will add $50, 1888 to
the amount raised by the district
Cattle between the ages Of two and
eighteen months are to be vaceinated
in Idaho for blackleg. That Is the
order of the state sanitary live stock
board. 1t is a war order promulgated
with n view to conserving the veal.
The Yaccinating will be done under
the direction of the state veterinary.
The rapfdity with which land has
been changing hands In the Middleton
section has caused a marked upward
trend in prices. One instance is re-
ported in which the owner has over
night jumped the price he asks from
500 to $50 an acre. Many. other own
ers have stiffened up on their selling
prices.
The club women of Idaho are adyo-
eating knitting not only by all the
high school pupils, the inmates Of the
deaf, dumb and blind
school, insane asylums, and industrial
school, but they suggest that there is