Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-04-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS

the state the past week.
About 800 women met in Bull last
week and perfected an organization
of the Red Cross society.
Frank p. AXE, prominent sheepman
and banker of Mountainhome, died |
suddenly last week of heart failure. |
The home of w. w. Russell, west of |
Nampa. was destroyed by fire last |
week. the loss being estimated at 81 |
600.
Senator Brady has reintroduced |
bills of the last session providing for |
public buildings at Payette and Black
foot.
Mrs. G. /. Pearson, wife of promi |
nent rancher of the Fargo district, out
from Nampa, was killed in runaway
last week.
Herbert Leonard, member of com
pany X, l. N. G., of Bull, dropped dead
early last week. Death was due to
heart failure.
A special investigation was recent
ly made by postoffice inspector and
favorable report made for city deliv-
cry in Payette.
The first discovery of hog cholera
in the Boise valley this season is re
ported from farns located just west
of Onwiler station.
John F. Condor, aged about 20, COM
mitted suicide at his ranch, four miles
southwest of Bull, by cutting his
throat with a pocketknife.
Mildred Wilson, aged 8, of Bull, is
to be given the Pasteur treatment, she
having been bitten by dog which it
is believed was suffering from the
rabies
Eleven of the best high school speak
ers of southern Idaho will compete at
Caldwell, April IA, in the contests
staged under the direction or the State
| Oratorical association.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Jones, among the
oldest residents of the Star commu-
nifty, quietly observed their fifty-third
wedding anniversary at their home
1 Monday of last week.
Members of the senior class at the
University of Idaho who enlist with
the state militia or volunteer for ser
vice in the army are to be graduated
and given their diplomas
1t is announced that George N. lift
of Idaho, American consul to Stuff
CART, Germany, is on his way to
Washington, and is expected to ar
rive within week. He is now on
the water.
To ascertain the attitude of Middle
ton taxpayers on the proposal to have
the board of education issue bonds in
the sum of 81 900 for erection of a
gymnasium and community hall, petit
lions are to be circulated.
The four companies of Idaho mill
tia modified at the Boise barracks
will be detailed for duty in the state
or transferred to some other point be
fore any additional units are ordered
to that city, it has been announced.
The Modern Woodmen of America
of Ada county, while assembled in
county convention for the purpose of
electing delegates to the state con
vention to be held in Gooding May q
adopted resolutions indorsing the &C
ton of President Wilson.
No Boise men need hesitate to en-
list for fear of losing their positions
upon their return. A canvass of a
number of the business houses of the
city reveals that the business men OF
Boise intend to stand Loyalty by the
men who serve their country.
Wong Fong, 73 years old, who fol
about 40 years had been a resident
of Idaho, died last week in a Boise
hospital. In the course of his life il
Idaho he had made his residence II
Placerville, Idaho City, Silver City
, and De Lamar.
Herbert Lemp of Boise, one of the
best authorities in the country OF
horses and who has sold more thar
2 500, 900 worth of horses himself t
) the allies, is of the opinion that thu
: government should take steps at onc'
, to commander artillery and cavalr!
horses.
Residents of Taber deny the use o
a German flag, although they admit
pronounced pro-German sentiment
Several affirm the presence of tn
flag ON two occasions lately. Tn
Blackfoot citizens compelled tn
hosting OF American flags on tn
schoolhouse.
The trip of the University of Idah
: Glee club through southern Idaho wa
: tragicaIly terminated at Boise. whel
= vernon Henry, student manager @
the organization and son of Superir
tendent Henry of the Moscow cit
- schools, died as the result of IL
: iuries and shock received from an al
tomobile accident
q J. H. GIBSON, chairman of the Nav
"a league for Idaho, enlisted i've n
II eruits Sunday, bringing the total 70
the week up TO nine. which Is consiC
N cred an excellent record for city tn
n size of Caldwell.
n The state now gets revenues froT