Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-11
IN THE GEM STATE

Fitzpatrick BrOtnefS nave ihuue '"N
Red Cross auxiliary ut Picabo Il gift
of $500.
School was closed at Hepburn last
week, due 10 scarlet fever, dlphtheria
and measles.
Five new cases of smallpox were
qunrantined ut Boise one day last
week. They were all in one family.
Three thousand head of calves were
vaccinated in the ant-blackleg cam
paign just completed by the Canyon
county farm bureau.
The twenty-five young men leaving
as Bannock county's quota of the
draft contingent ut tins time were
given a rousing sendoff ut banquet
at Pocatello.
Official notice has been received
from the postoffice department, auth
orizing the opening of the mail route
between Cascade and Yellow Pine as Il
star route.
The concrete floor on the new
bridge across the Weiser river at
Weiser is being laid and the bridge
is expected to be open to traffic with
in the next ten days.
Water will be available for 5000
acres of land in the Big Lost River
irrigation project this spring. Ii viii
be apportioned to settlers living on the
Arco and Era tracts.
y. Stiyer of Nampa was severely
gored - bull u few days ago while
unloading the animal from Il car. The
bull thrust Il horn nearly through Mr..
Stiyer's arm, making surgical treat
ment necessary.
A new church building, to cost
$4,000 and TO be used as main
auditorium with the present structure
us an auxiliary unit will be built this
spring by the Nampa United Presby-
terrain congregation.
The Ashton-St. Anthony Power COM
pany at Il meeting of stockholders held
at Ashton voted to increase its stock
from S250,000 to S1,0OO,0OO in order
to provide power for pumping water
on to 100000 acres of land ut Mud
lake.
Citing chapter S6 Of the 1917 session
laws as his authority, Judge Me
Carthy at Boise hit the tax sharks IA
jolt in a decision that eliminates the
allowance of SO attorney fees that
has been granted heretofore in tax
foreclosure cases.
The Great Northern railroad has
applied to the Interstate commerce
commission for general increase of
~ per cent on carload rates on lum-
Der and other forest products from
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana, to Canadian points
Out of 439 doctors in Idaho. 20 have
been commissioned or recommends
ed for commissions in the army. ac-
cording to statement made by the
surgeon general. Idaho's rate of con-
tribution of army doctors exceeds that
Of all but 10 other states.
ID. l.. Evans, Malad banker. is 20.
ing to become a candidate for the
gubernatorial nomination in the Dem.
ocratic primaries, according TO talk
now going the rounds in Bosses DO.
ltlcal circles, but no direct announce
ment has come from him yet.
The state land board last weel,
authorized the register of the state
land department to purchase S125 900
worth of the third issue of Liberty
Loan bonds. This was the first bond
purchase announced In the state for
tpe drive which started April 6.
During show at a moving picture
house at Jerome, the orchestra PLAYED
the Star Spangled Banner" ana one
man refused to stand. He was roughly
handled by Il number of men i'm the
audience and told to leave. He has
not been seen or heard from since.
Arrangements are being made To
nave photographs and finger nrint
records made Of all /. w. IS taken
IN northern Idaho, and these records
VIII be circulated through the United
States departments. Particularly win
this apply to all agitators and unac-
countables.
Representative Smith has brought
TO the attention of the adjutant gen-
erai the proffer Of DR.. e. A. BRYAN
commissioner Of education of Idaho
Tor the use Of the university at Mos.
COW and the Technical institute Mt po-
catello in giving military instruction
during the summer.
Richard c. Smith, one of the GOV
eral men of draft age called TO Amer,.
can Lake from Ada county last wool
mad a deferred classification until his
wife asked the Ada county exemnt,on
BOARD to put him in class 1. The w,fs
is one of the few women In the st.to
VINO wanted to send their husbonds to
war at the earliest possible date.
In connection with the suspension
Tor thirty days of meatless dnvs no
ginning Saturday, United States Food
Administrator Hoover states in n wire
10 Federal Food Administrator Bick.
neil mat the announcement should
not De considered by consumers MS n
departure from general principles of
conservation of all foods.
More than $4,000 was realized nj