Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-11-16
IDAHO STATE NEWS

this year.
The Volunteer Firem.n's association
celebrated its sixth anniversary at
Boise last week.
The Red Cross society OF Cambridge
IL furnishing twenty-five Christmas
kits for the soldiers.
III. Prisand, who SO nearly lost his
life In runaway accident at Payette
last week, will recover.
Ed u. Douglas. arrested on a charge
OF having burned the haystack Of Hem
~ Butcher, near Eight Mile. has been
released on $500 bond.
Moses Maxfield. In his ninety-second
year, whose friends claim for him that
he Is the oldest man in Boise, is recov-
e-ing from a brief Illness
United States Senator w. +. Borah
has reconsidered his decision to re-
tire from public life and will become
candidate for senator Il succeed him
self.
Mrs. Mary Ivers, charged with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses,
was bound over to the district court
with bonds of $1,000 In the prelimln-
airy hearing at Pocatello
The federal grand jury has Indicted
Il. Hofstede, AN attorney OF Orofino.
for inducing Leland Mooers and others
to avoid registration for military serv-
ice June s, in violation of the act OF
May is.
II. Il. McGown and associates OF
New York have taken over the opera
tons of the Boise Rochester mine mt
Atlanta ons a lease aud option basis.
and have arranged tn put a force OF
men 10 work this winter.
A carload of Canyon county clover
seed shipped last week from Caldwell
is believed TO have been tile most val
liable car OF products ever sent out.
The seed company placed its valuation
at approximately $4,000
A genuine ease OF hog cholera was
found in the Riverside district last
week by DR. f. Z. Durham. In charge
of hog cholera control aud lnvestiga-
lions In Canyon. Ada, Gem and Owy.
hee counties for the United States de-
partment of agriculture.
Idaho jack rabbits are reported TO he
In demand by Chicago commission
houses. Although Jack rabbits In Idaho
are seldom used as food Il Is said that
In many Chicago restaurants they are
now being regularly served as "hares"
and that the demand for them Is in
i creasing.
The German class has been discon-
tlnued In the high school Mt Payefie
on account or iack Of interest IN this
study. The domestic science depart
ment is stressing food economy meth
DDS. There will be no big feeds ut
class parties during the continuation
of the war.
Ia order that the continued feeding
Of wheat. to hogs. wheat that our nj
lies need, shall be stopped In Idaho.
L. f. BickAeiI, food administrator for
the state, is going to great lengths to
get food for the Idaho hog delivered
here mt price that will be a saving
on wheat
The Oregon Short Line has issued Il
statement in which AZ IN claimed that
the existing car shortage In Idaho Is
largely due to the failure Of Shippers
In loading and unloading. Instances
are cited where cars have been held
up US much as four days longer than
1 was necessary.
/ Driving large car, Henry Munson.
living near Keever, lost control, tipped
over and scattered his companions
over distance of fifty feet. william
Bliss received dangerous injuries VIII
| liam Fau..AssaA ssa4yassseI Ia
juries, Muns0n and two men named
Hardy aud Stone We're not severely
hurt.
After several days use OF canned
fruit. put up hast August, the family
Of Lawson Shepherd, Of Pocutello, dis.
covered that II contained quantities OF
1 ground glass. Mrs Shepherd and
other members Of the family have COM
planned of severe pains since eating
the fruit No dangerous symptoms
have developed.
Thinking to escape the rush Of an
angry hog. Clay Kearns. who il em-
ployed at a packing plant at Eagle,
jumped fence beside chute up
which he was endeayOring 10 drive the
brute. and landed Ia the middle of
large vat of hot water which was being
used for scalding. but miraculousIy es-
cnped without injury.
A post card vote OF the patrons Of
the Filef school district Is being made
this week to determine whether the
| local school shall be Ia session for
six days week after Christmas.
Under this plan the term would close
on April - and release all Of the pu-
pills needed for work on the farms.
Lawrence Smith. aged IL. OF Poem.
tello. was run down by an automobile
and fatally injured, death resulting
soon after he had been removed TO the
hospital