The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-17
IDAHO BUDGET

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Weiser's fourth annual ROUNDUP
will be held Wednesday, Thursday an
Friday, September rs, 20 and q.
During August 10 cars of shee
were sent out from Mccall and tina
number is likely to be equalled thi
month.
| With an initial enrolment Of 211
pupils this fall, as against 2OO3 las
year, the four Twin Falls school build
ings already are overcrowded.
| The immense Canyon county whea
crop is moving steadily and prompt,
to market, according to Frank G
Stephens, Canyon county director o
commercial economy.
| w. ]. Dyer of Eagle, who was re
ported missing in action with the ma
rines June Is, writes his mother, Mrs
NJ Chilcott Of Boise, formerly O.
Eagle, that he is "still kicking"
Two cloudbursts which occurred be
tween Holcomb and Sherman, result
ed In two washouts on the line of thu
Intermountain railway into the Boise
basin, and traffic was temporarily in
terrupted.
The Gooding public schools opened
on September 16. Military training un
der competent instruction will be car,
ried on In the high school, and classes
in first aid will be given the girls OF
the high school.
A telephone line will be built by the
forest service from the Nelson ranch
to the Painter ranch, connecting a gap
that separates north and south Idaho
With this connection communication
will be possible to Grangeville through
Dixie.
Idaho State Life Insurance company
has already announced to the state
Liberty loan headquarters that it will
subscribe to $4,000 worth of fourth
issue Liberty bonds and that it is
now waiting for the application blank
to sign it.
A statement issued by the county as
SCISSOR shows that there are in Twin
Falls county this year $500 registered
motor vehicles, as against 2751 in 1917
and 61S in 1915. The total automo-
bile tax collected up to date this year
in this county is $62,9S0.
With the return of the Middleton
canning team from the interstate fair
at Spokane it became known that the
Idaho team took second prize for can
ming demonstration in competition
with picked trios from Oregon, Wash
ington, Montana, Utah and Nevada.
A deal was completed at Caldwell
last week with the Apple Growers
association of Caldwell and vicinity
for the sale Of so carloads of apples
at $37, 300. Practically all the apple
growers of the Caldwell country have
entered the contract for the sale of
their apples.
Convict George w. Graham escaped
from the HURT ranch, near Nampa,
where he was employed as trusty.
Graham was received at the state
penitentiary from Bonneville coun-
ty, April n, 1918, under sentence of
from one to fourteen years for the
crime of embezzlement.
Government estimates are to the ef-
feet it will take 1912 cars to move
the 1918 potato crop of Idaho, This
is much lighter than shipments made
last year, that ran near the 1900
car mark, even when loss of 1000
cars is figured into the last year es-
innate, as result of car shortages.
Reports from twenty-six out of
ninety threshermen operating in Twin
Falls county, for the months of July |
and August, show an aggregate yield |
Of 437,SS8 bushels of wheat threshed |
hs the crop from an area Of 11,714
acres, or an average Of 4O.4 bushels
per acre. Every section Of the county
Is represented in these reports.
In answer to a request for double
deck stock cars for the shipment of
sheep and hogs from southern Idaho
points, the Oregon Short Line railroad
has reported to the public utilities
commission at Boise that there are but
wo double-deck cars available at this
lime for the filling Of an order for
rs Of these cars in southern Idaho.
Range conditions continue good gen.
rally, although there is some COM
'laint from the southern counties that
he fall and winter range feed will be
'oor on account Of the present lack
+ moisture. However, stock are still
eported in good condition.
William Gwin, prominent farmer
ear Shoshone, for many years a resi-
ent Of Lincoln county, died suddenly
asst week. Mr.. Gwin was feeling Ill
nd started to take bath at his
ONE. He tainted while in the tub ]
nd never regained consciousness. Ii
Down in Bear Lake county winter I
7heat harvest is just nicely under
'ay and spring wheat is ripening
asst. Up in Spokane valley, Kootenai
ounty, farmers are busy seeding win Z
pr wheat Recont rains have MT the | =,