Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-04-27
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The citizens Of Kellogg have de-
cided to pave Main street.
LAST week 552 acres of land near
Weiser was sold for $4,000.
Richfeld women have organized a
local chapter Of the Red Cross.
The Spring meeting Of the Boise
Presbytery was held in Caldwell last
! week.
Miss Evaline Nelson. a teacher in
the Meridian schools has been ap-
pointed probation officer.
April %, 20 and q were the days
set aside as cleanup days throughout
the state by the state board Of health.
\ Lincoln county citizens have asked
the public utilities commission to as
sist them in getting a reduced freight
rate on seed this spring.
The architects have been selected
for the new $4,000 physical education
building TO be erected at the Idaho
Technical institute at Pocatello.
Idaho farmers are being urged by
J. X. White. state pure food inspector,
/ to declare war on the barn lot rooster
in the interest of egg conservation.
A delegation of twenty-five Salt
Lake Rotarians will participate in
the installation Of a new Rotary club
at Boise. Ida, Friday night, April 81.
Last week a transaction took place
by which the Boise Gas. Light & Coke
Co. practically reverted back TO the
former owners. Boise and Spokane
men.
The Weiser Commercial club has
inaugurated a movement to "stake"
ranchers who are pinched for money
and help increase production of the
soil.
1t is announced that $4,000 in
building operations is under way at
Caldwell at the present time, with
more new buildings expected in the
near future.
The land board has ordered maps
printed showing the location of state
lands In every county of Idaho. Ths
maps are to be hung in the county
recorders offices.
According to report made to the
governor by the state veterinarian,
Idaho is in a position to supply 10000
head of horses for service in the
United States army.
A serious shortage of hay is still
being experienced in many sections of
southeastern Idaho, and owing to the
backward spring. vegetation has thus
far gained no Roadway.
Estimates of the percentage of al
falfa winter killed in the Middleton
section run from 65 to IS per cent.
Field after field is being plowed up
to be sOwn to other crops.
Excavations have been started for
a new hotel at Lava, new bank is be-
ing organized, a business block being
built, and one of the busiest seasons in
the towns history is expected
Eight young men who enlisted in
the United States army few days ago
left Paris last week for Salt Lake. At
least one-half of the town was at the
station to wish them God-speed.
Agitation of schemes for fostering !
school garden clubs on a comprehen- |
sive scale in Nampa has resulted in |
over 200 children of the city having |
pledged themselves to take up the |
gardening campaign.
J. n. Mcbride was convicted at |
Caldwell of the charge of illegal pos
session of liquor. Mcbride was ar
rested in Nampa August "a at the
of
on these premises the Nampa officers
found 20 cases of liquor.
Ada county's commissioners have
taken heed with a vim to the warning
that the county court house would be
sealed up" unless certain improve
ments suggested were made imme-
1iately. The notice was served by the
state sanitary inspector.
The state land board has agreed TO
sell the 1900 acres of state land now
in the prison farm near
Homedale when the rest of the lana
owned by the state in the Gem dis
.rict is sold next month.
Losses as the result of the fire in
American Falls on April 20 are esti-
mated at 100000, with insurance of
$4,000 The fire. which broke out in
he busters in the top story of the
American Milling company elevator,
s presumed to have been caused by
In explosion of dust.
Along the lines of encouraging /
arger crop production in that section, /
after Day Saints authorities have
ent letters to church officers asking
and Offering prizes for 1
arge crops. Prizes from $3.50 to $1,000
re offered for the best yield of po-
atoes from one acre and spring wheat
rom five acres.
Students in the department of law
f the state university who have grad
ated, and upon whom diplomas have
cen conferred, will be admitted by
he state supreme court, upon motion,
D practice in all courts of the state