Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-11-02
IDAHO STA tie NEWS

Secohu ldherty loan at mtdmSht Satuf-
day was $4,000, exceeding its quota
by $4,000.
While operating his bean separator
at Fruitland OrviIle Lark In some man
ner got his right hand caught, lacerat-
ing the hand badly.
Boise chapter, American Red Cross,
and its auxiliaries. viii make 500
Christmas kits for the soldier boys In
this country and abroad.
Enrolment Of 90 per cent Of the
people of Idaho In the food conserya-
ton campaign is expected by II. II.
Alexander, state campaign manager.
The peach harvest in the council
neighborhood has been completed, with
good results. At the Mesa Orchard
company's plant about 100 persons
were employed.
Fruit shippers who object to being
compelled to put false floors and sid
ings into box cars IL they use them
for shipping purposes, say the extra
cost will be 500 dr. $125 per car.
Clifford Pinchot, chairman OF the
livestock committee of the national
food administration, win deliver ON adj
dress at the northwestern livestock
show at Lewiston. November to 10.
A carload of onions. the first of this
years crop from Eagle, was sold last
week for $9O3.52, or at the rate Of
$I.75 per hundredweight for the 81
$50 pounds comprising the shipment
Refrigerator cars loaned the Pacific
Fruit Express company by the Union
Refrigerator & Transit company for
service on the Union Pacific system
will be rushed to idaho for use in the
fruit movement.
ID company of the 10th artillery,
formerly G company of the Second
Idaho, was given the first position In
a recent parade of the forces at Char
lotte, N. g., IN review before high
military officials.
G. w. Young, living one mile south
of Fruitland, harvested 81 tons of to-
matoes and delivered them to the can
merry, from one acre Of ground. AT the
time of frost there were still several
tons on the ground.
Henry Baldwin was shot and killed
by Edward Hitler, his partner on their
ranch south of Priest River. Hitler
later gave himself up and was taken
to Jail. The men are declared to have
| quarreled over business affairs.
Mrs. Luther Holmes of Roswell has
been receiving treatment for blood
poison in a finger, which was caused
by a wound received while dressing n
chicken. 1t is feared that amputatiOn
of the finger may be necessary.
In addition to the 1896 persons who
signed food pledge cards in the first
days drive on the food conservation
campaign, In Boise alone, there We're
outside Of Boise, 1885 names re-
ported by - counties out of the fl in
Idaho.
notable feature of the Liberty
loan campaign in the st. Anthony sec
ton was the response of the farmers,
who were canvassed thoroughly and
subscribed almost TO a man. Two hun
bred thousand dollars Of the total was
| in amounts OF 9ouU or less.
The rangers of the Idaho forest will
spend part OF the winter blasting out
portions of the road on the south fork
of the Payette. The forest service al
ready has appropriated $1,000 for the
work, and will appropriate $4,000 more
before the season is over.
Action to fix the price of coal in
idaho and to obtain an order giving
priority of use df cars for coal over
every other commodity not perishable
or of extreme public necessity was
taken by the state fuel advisory com
mittee In its session in Boise.
The butchers and groeers of Boise
have agreed to close butcher shops and
grocery stores MI 6:15 sharp on all
days of the week except Saturday,
when the closing hour will be o'clock.
This schedule of closing win be In eff
feet from November ! to april /.
A week OF registration Of Idaho
women for war service has been pro-
claimed by Governor Alexander, who
set the days from November 10 to "a
for this purpose In accordance with
the plans of the national committee Of
me Council for National Defense.
Nine hundred and thIrty-two Cnld-
well school children were examined by
Miss NJ. Ida Geowey, newly appointed
school and city nurse, during her first
month In Office. There Is not q single
case of defective mentality, heart dis
ease or lung trouble listed In her re
port.
Henry Heckus. living two and one
half miles south of FruitIand, has
harvested large crop Of tomatoes
from d two-acre patch. He hauled to
the cannery % tons Of tomatoes. for
which he received $50 a ton, and
when the frost came. which stopped
the harvesting, he had remaining al
least 16 tons.
As a sequel I'd the fatal shooting Of
Walter Freeman In Caldwell about a