The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-24
IDAHO BUDGET

| AL Interesting war relic, GerInal
helmet, is being displayed at Caldwell
having been sent back by Lieut.. M. 6
Mcconnell Caldwell boy, who is ii
the service.
The Caldwell Commercial club ha
received request from the war de
partment for farmers to submit bid
on dried onions and potatoes for us'
at Camp Lewis.
According to the county assessor
there are $500 motor vehicles in ust
In Twin Falls county. License fee,
aggregate $62,9SO for this year agains
81, 1922 last year.
The honor of having the first com
munity Liberty chorus organized ir
Canyon county goes to Caldwell. A
committee of fifteen last week me-
and perfected the organization.
Through the Cambridge, Council
and New Meadows districts, stock is
reported to be in excellent condition
with hay yields sufficient to carry
them through the winter season.
The adjutant generals office for the
state Of Idaho has fixed the county
quotas in the next draft call for 487
to leave for Camp Lewis during the
five-day period beginning October Z.
The plant of the Idaho National
Harvester company has been secured
at Moscow by contract for the training
of 300 men in military mechanics, in
the eight weeks, class A, work to be-
gin October /.
Club women who attend the State
Federation meeting at Payette Octo-
Der l, 2 and 3 are urged to wear no
new clothes. The women are expected
to set the example for simplicity of en-
tertainment and economy Of dress.
Boise has been asked to obtain five
tons of clothing for the Belgian refu-
gees. The request comes through Her
bert Hoover to the Red Cross, asking
it to use it's splendid machinery, the
same as it did last winter, for this pur-
pose.
Oliver O. Haga, state director of
commercial economy, wants all Idaho
manufacturers who can produce any
thing for the government to write
him at once at Boise for blanks to fill
out in regard to the capacity of the
plants. ..
The receipts of the Red Cross Sal
wage shop at Boise for the first seven
days the shop was in operation, were
$1312.50. The sum has even staggered
the workers themselves, who could
hardly believe the total of the cash
register.
J. G. RObosser was locked up in the
county Jail at Pocatello following a
hearing before United States Commits
soner Theodore Turner on charges of
violating the espionage laws. Robosser
has been resident of Pocatello for
several years.
DIR. J. L. Bybee has left Idaho Falls
for Fort Douglas, where he will enter
the government service in the dental
corps of the medical department. Dr.
Bybee has been practicing in Idaho
Falls for number of years and stands
high in his profession.
A. Poster, living near Boise, suf-
fered "a dslocation Of his left arm at
the elbow when the buggy in which he
was driving home with his wife and
daughter was struck by an automobile,
driven at high speed, and hurled
whirling over and over into ditch.
A. D. Robinson of Jordan valley had
thumb amputated as a result Of an
injury received while trying to rope IA
calf. Mr.. Robinson had roped the calf
and as the rope frightened a loop
caught around his thumb and mashed
it badly, so that it could not be saved.
Leaving camp and becoming lost in
the hills, spending the night in "a
rainstorm and going for twenty-four
hours without food or shelter, was the
experience Of ten young women men,
bers of the Twin Falls high school
faculty, who had gone on camping |
trip.
Members of the Idaho State High |
way commission met last week to con- |
slider bids on the construction of ~
miles of state highway between White
bird and Grangeville, but failing to re-
ceive bids for the grading work, as
called for, it was decided that no action
should be taken on the matter at this
time.
An increase of three-quarters of
million dollars over last years figures
for the assessed valuation Of the tax
able property of Twin Falls county
this year is shown in the statement
issued by the county assessor. The
valuation of the county this year is
$21, 775,951, as against $21, DOL ,24S in
1917.
Damage done to the Boise Basin
railroad by the cloudburst some days
ago has been completely remedied.
The dirt and debris, from nine to ten
feet deep, over a stretch Of one-fourth
mile, was cleared away.
Simplicity will be the keynote at
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