Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-04-26
IDAHO STATE NEWS

field on the Deer Flat.
The wage scale for city labOrers at
Nampa has been raised by the city
council from So per day to $3.50.
The almond trees in the Wilson
orchard near Nampa are in bloom and
good crop Of almonds is expected
this season.
All settlers living on the Blaine
county irrigation project are entitled to
water If they pay their maintenance
charges, the state land board has
ruled.
An order authorizing the payment OF
$4,000 worth of bridge bonds standing
against Canyon county has been, is
sued by the board Of county commits
siOners.
Residents of Blackfoot have protest
ed to the public utilities commission
against the Blackfoot Waterworks COM
pany being given permission to in
crease its rates.
P6eatell0 will have q memorial tab
let which will contain the names of all
Pocatello boys who give their lives for
their country according to the plans of
the PocatellO Rotary club.
None of the fruit crop at Payette
except the earlier apricots and peaches
have been injured yet by frost. Apples
and prunes are still unlnjured and the
outlook is for good crop.
Irrigation water win be supplied
Bosses war gardens at 10 cents front
foot. In furnishing the town garden
ers water at that rate, the water COM
pany is cutting its regular rate in
half.
War preparations are vigorously in
progress on the farms of Lemhi coun-
ty, and the grain acreage this season is
sure to surpass all previous years. In
the main the farmers are sowing oats
and barley.
Or the several varieties Of fruit
grown in the Boise valley only the
cherries appear to have been badly
injured by the recent cold nights, ac-
cording to Guy Graham, state horti-
cultural inspector.
Arrangements are being made to i'm
port men from the coast when it is
no longer possible for the farmers to
get help without going outside of the
state, 1t was announced last week at
the markets bureau.
Guy Kimbrough Of Higgins, a well
known stcckman of the New Meadows
section, was drowned while attempt
ing to ford the Salmon river on horse
back. He was advised not to do SO,
but thought he could make it.
If plans presented for the consider
alton of the Rotary club by Secretary
Krussman of the Y. M. G. A. are car
ried out, Pocatello will soon have a
large and artistic, permanent "Wel-
come" arch opposite the entrance to
the Oregon Short Line depot.
Judge Carl A. Davis, Judge of the
Third judicial district, in an official
announcement given out last week,
says he will not be a candidate for re-
election in the coming campaign next
fall, He recommends that all present
officials be supported for reelection.
The state educational board has de- |
cided that it would select no schools
for the training of teachers in addl- |
ton to those now in use That will |
make it impossible for the educational |
department to recognize Kicks acad- |
envy ut Rexburg as a summer normal. |
Acting upon the suggestion of for
mer Governor Frank r. Gooding, state |
fuel administrator, Idaho coal dealers
have issued a statement calling upon |
to purchase and store |
without delay as much as possible of |
their fuel supply for the coming win |
ter.
After an assembly meeting of the |
Filler High school in which the spirit |
of patriotism was keen, number of |
pledged themselves to raise
sugar beets this season to help in
crease the sugar supply and fill the
great demand of the armies ut the bat |
tie fronts.
A unique feature in Pocatello will be
tAlC NAuoSCS III auIO1uOO4AC
for women which will be offered ut the
Idaho Technical institute summer
school which opens June for a six
weeks session Other courses offered
include all branches of commerce and
and kindred subjects.
As the outcome of an escapade, dur
ing which the homes of several Jap
anese were entered and robbed and
their wives subjected to indlgnities,
Henry Kicks and Edward Levine were
sentenced to from five to fifteen years
and Dewey Arnold and Lavon Williams
to from one to fourteen years in the
state penitentiary.
Madison county. Idaho, will be
heralded throughout the United States |
In the War Savings Stamp campaigns
as being the first county in any state
in the union to reach the 100 per cent
mark, BY every school child enrolled