Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-08-02
IN THE GEM STATE
A new bank has been opened a
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Sules clLIenS nave raised FUNDS Tor
Il bridge across the Clearwater.
The Mountain States Telephone com
pany will spend $4,000 on the Mont
pelier-COkeyille line.
Ears Of sweet corn eight inches long
have been found in Collister garden.
The stalks are II feet high
Official notification Of the fact that
there will be no drafting in Canyon
county on the first call was received
last week.
Lee Johnson, a 15-ycarold girl. was
drowned in IA canal near her home at
Menan while in swimming with par
ty of friends.
Carl Ernest, one Of the penitentiary
TRUSTEES who escaped from the Mosely
farm Sunday night, was captured Mon
day afternoon.
Elmer Blank, charged with the
grand larceny Of Il horse, was given
a preliminary hearing at Welser and
bound over for trial.
More than 100 bakers still are
needed for service in the regular army.
Men accepted receive S3S a month and
have the rank of sergeant. Here's
chance of Idahoans.
Hog cholera has been almost wiped
out in Idaho, according to a report
filed with the livestock sanitary board
10y DR.. w. a. Sullivan of the federal
bureau Of animal industry.
a number of the men drafted APP
peared at the capitol for examina-
ton last week, but they were told 10
return home and wait until notified
through the mails before returning.
The postoffice ht Twin Falls will
move into new quarters on the corner
of Second avenue and Second street,
west, on November l. These quarters
have been leased from the date
named.
, DR.. Enoch a. Bryan. state commits
sioner Of education, thinks great eff
forts should be put forth by the
people Of the state this fall to keep the
attendance of the state university up
to normal.
The mine owners of the Occur
d'Alene district are reported to have
5 held secret meeting at Wallace
and to have agreed to petition Cover
e nor Alexander to ask for federal
troops for the Occur d'Alenes.
: Otto Lofgren. mason employed in
l. the construction of the new wing for
S the federal building at Boise, suffered
$ Il broken leg and several painful
= bruises when a scaffold upon which
+ he was standing gave way under q
n heavy load of brick and stone.
h Teton county is going to have &c
= import a physician TO examine its mer
y who have been drafted for the army
d There are two doctors living n
r briggs. the county seat, hut both are
: Under 81 years of age. That make.
4 them ineligible to serve on the exemp
d ton board.
The Idaho women's committee
n Council of National Defense, has de
y cided to send out the food pledg,
s cards for distribution ut once and asl
II each state organization for small
@ contribution to cover the running OK
n oenses, postage and stationery, of III,
organization.
The truckmen AT the Oregon Shor
Line freight depot at Boise. who re
Gently struck for an increase of pa.
d from s. a day to $50, struck agaii
Monday for an increase 10 s.. The
n were led to believe. at the tine of th
v other strike, that they ought to hav
le asked for 81.
l. There is balance of SGS1.222.i3 f.
IS the state treasury to the credit of III
Is public schools. educational. penal an
charitable institutions and the publ
~ building fund that is available fo
II farm loans, according TO repor
it filed by the state treasurer wit
T. Governor Alexander.
$ Five arrests were made ut Glenn
-t Ferry by officers seeking to break II
50 n gang which has been systematicall
he stealing valuable goods from freigh
:. cars i'm this territory. All of the me
nj taken were Oregon Short Line en-
IL ploycs. the group including switchmei
$ a brakeman and a telegraph operator
Fred Soda. young Cnldwc
mechanician. was drowned while swim
ming in the Boise river. He was wit
company of other batherS and n
IN tempted to swim across the river. hr
apparently was "A poor swimmer. II
IS. went down in the middle of the Streai
ii as result of cramp or of stranglin.
Is When n small ditch leading into hi
W garden failed to send along sati
'e factory flow. j. NJ. Greenfield
Caldwell, began an investigation. II
ri found the impeachment in the ditch I
Is be a sack containing 2f bottles {
~ whisky. The booze had evident
Is been cached there by some bootlcgse
III Frank l.. Moore, prosecuting alto
IL ney for Utah county. took the fir
definite step last week 10 test n
g. Idaho criminal syndicalism law. ais
Is the point whether active membership
e. the l. W. w. institutes criminal syndi
Is aliSm. when he filed - criminal con
'e plnint against ten of the men ROW
prison in Moscow.
Lieutenant Oscar Yates of the mi