Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-09-28
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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PocatellO opened for the small
semester Monday, September "a
An ordinance permitting the moving
picture houses of Pocatello to remain
open on Sundays passed lis first read
ing by unanimous vote.
Governor Alexander. at the meeting
Of the board of examiners last week.
put the ban on having state printing
done at non-union shops.
The probate judges of Idaho will
meet on October 11-12 at the industrial
training schools at st. Anthony for q
general get-together meeting.
A Boise contractor has been award
ed the contract at So, 800 to complete
the main building of the Idaho state
sanitarium for the feeble-minded at
Nampa.
Thieves entered the postoffice at
Middleton and carried away about $50
worth of stamps. A small amount of
money left in the cash drawer was
overlooked.
Application bis been made for a
charter for second bank at Filler. The
Filler State bank will be nationalized
shortly and the new bank will run as
state concern.
Oliver Rubin, veteran contractor of
Boise, was riding a bicycle when he
was struck by an automobile, being
SO seriously injured that it Is feared
he will NIT recover.
A movement has been started in the
schools of southern Idaho for the pur-
pose of urging high school pupils to
volunteer their services In caring for
prune and peach crops.
Most or the prunes at Meridian are
to be sold on commission, but a few
cash purchases are said to have been
made. Prices around $3S and $40 are
reported la these instances.
II. A. Bowers, who ran his car into
logs across the road near nixon,
swore out a complaint against Jack
Hofhine, Gene Barnated and Bill Hall,
charging them with obstructing u pub
lie road.
approximately 22,OOO acres Of land
will be opened to homestead entry Oc-
tober 10. 1917, at the Blackfoot land
office. The lands are located west OF
the American Falls and Peoples canal,
between Blackfoot and Aberdeen.
Dick POgue, young farmer near st.
Anthony, 20 years old, was killed by
"a Short Line freight engine on the
belt line. The young man attempted
TO drive a motorcycle across the track
In front Of an approaching train.
1t has been found that hundreds of
men registered under the draft law
have failed to report to the county ex-
emption boards for examination. In
Bannock county alone there are 200
who failed to put in an appearance.
Rev. w. +. Mccormick has rendered
his resignation as pastor of the Chris
tian church at Nampa. Mr.. Mccormick
Is devoting attention to his farm south
of the city. and declares he cannot de
vote the necessary time to pastoral
duties.
Leo Paranto an Italian employed OF
the railroad shops at Pocatello, found
that the shell of u boiler was good
protection from gunfire when his
countryman, Tony Pizzi, bombarded
him with a revolver. One of the
shots passed through Paranto's cloth
Ing.
James F. Callahan, pioneer and mil.
lionaire mine owner of Wallace, has
filed second amended complaint In
his divorce action, in his attempt to
dissolve the marital bond between him
self and Helen Elizabeth Callahan
whom he married at Los Angeles IL
March, 1916.
A drug store at Blackfoot was rob
bed one night last week. Two men
were arrested, and when searched Al
the city Jail yielded up a considerable
supply of opiates. They gave tins
names of Charles II. Davenport and
Mike Penfold and stand charged witt
first-degree burglary.
Walter G. Wagner, an electrical en-
gineer with the bureau Of standards al
Washington, has taken up with the
public utilities commission of thii
state the question OF adopting the ma
tional electric safety code. This code
has been adopted by the public utilize.
commissions of seventeen states.
Percy A. Calking, manager of tbs
Northwestern Auto Supply company o
Pocatello: Thomas II. INLAND, assls
tant manager Of the same company
and Elmer v. Smith, electrical engineer
of Salt Lake and Pocatello In charg,
of a $4,000 contract for them, have
eniicted in the engineers corps OF tn,
army.
The POcatellO lodge Of Elks has in
dorsed the plan advanced by the ma
tional food conservation board provid
ing that at one meal each day ther'
shall be no wheat food, at another IA
meat, that butter shall not be used fol
cooking, when substitutes can be OBJ
tanned, and that at three meals eaci
week at least one dish prepared from
food left from previous meals shall b,