Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-01-03
IN THE GEM STATE

Miss Ada B. Erwin of the South Da-
Sota State college has been named
demonstration agent in home econom-
les for the Boise valley.
Farm bureaus have heen organized
In nine Idaho cSandes since the con
ference of leaders of county agricul
tural agents in the west at Salt Lake.
Paul Karl Herman Hempel was
placed in the county Jail at Boise by
the federal department of justice,
charged as being as alies enemy. He
was arrested at Nampa.
has been held at Boise to answer a
charge of being Stacker, was released
last week upon conclusively showing
that he was under the draft age.
A sack of wheat donated to the
Caldwell Red Cross chapter was sold
on the streets fOrty-eight times, the
purchasers returning it each time to
the chapter. A total of $54650 was
realized from the sales.
T. E. Munhalh who WAS appointed
federal disbursing officer for Idaho
last spring under the civil service
rules. has resigned, and will be sue
ceeded by Captain Frank A. Mccall,
U. S. R., of Occur d'Alene.
Unusually high records for attend
ance were made by the Caldwell pub
lie schools during the month of No
vember, according to figures compiler
last week. A percentage of SO was
maintained by the high school.
A contract for the building of the
large bridge across the Clark's Fork
river, in Bonner county, will be
awarded January 10, when the high
way commission meets. The bridge
will contain five spans, each 200 feet
long.
For a consideration of $1,000 a Poca-
tello Greek was to deliver his pretty
15-year-old daughter in marriage to an
other Greek, according to the story
told the police officials by the girl,
who objected to becoming the Greeks
wife
The Seventh Day Adventists can
collect $500 from the Hartford Fire
Insurance company for the loss of the
church school building at Star in No
vember, 1911, the state supreme court
held In an opinion handed down last
week.
Attempts to bring about Industrial
of 1. w. w. who appear as public
speakers, will not be tolerated by the
State Council of Defense, and will be
blocked by executive authority, it is
announced
Edward L. Wells, who has been in
charge of the Boise weather bureau
for the last thirteen years, received
word last week that he would be trans
| feTred to the Portland office of the
weather bureau, to take charge there,
January 1.
Idaho sheriffs are going to help win
the war by gathering up contraband
liquor for the federal government.
Liquor seized by the peace Officers
will be distilled under the direction of
the war department for the alcohol
contained in 1t.
o. v. Allen, former state treasurer,
was legally sentenced to a term in
prison and now has no recourse
through the law by which he can gain
his liberty, it is held by the attorney
generals office In a brief filed with
the state supreme court.
The loss to the administration build
ing at the Lewiston State normal will
total $S4 .86, according to figures
compiled by adjusters representing the
insurance companies carrying policies
on the building. The loss was orig.
inally estimated at $4,000.
A menu composed, from soup t.
nuts, of horticultural products, is be-
ing arranged for the banquet to be
| given ~ the State Horticultural so
faety on the opening evening of ita
two-day annual session, which will be
held at Nampa beginning January %.
The names of the members of SIX
new county organizations recently
formed by the State Council of De
Tense were made public last week. A
total of thirty-one counties have been
organized, leaving ten counties yet to
be invaded by the state organization
Two hundred and fifty-four Canyon
county boys and girls, four of them
state champions and seven county
champions, were awarded pins to sig
nifty the meritorious completion Of tn
prescribed school club work, at the an
nual Achievement Day exercises al
| Caldwell.
o. p. Henderson,, secretary of the
Idaho State fair, who has just re-
turned from the twenty-seventh an
lual convention Of the American Asso.
citation of Fairs and Expositions, an.
nounces that the state fair of Idaho
stands at the head of the list for In.
creased receipts increased attendance
and increase In concession sales.
Valuations on hogs and sheep will
be advanced another notch, 1t was
agreed by the county assessors in SEES
sion at Boise. A uniform valuation OF
50 head will be placed upon common
sheep, and hogs will be assessed at &