The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-04-26
IDAHO SIATE NEVIS

SPeaAeEs sent out by the different
organizations of the state 10 talk In
the interest Of war activities will be
asked TO gather in Boise for a confer
ence May 20 aud q.
The superintendent of the Bull pub
lie schools has issued an order requir-
ing all students attending school to be
Vaccinated because of the increased
prevalence of smallpox in Buhl.
More than 10000 books were col.
lected In Idaho for the sailors and
soldiers now with the coIors by the
American Library. association In the
March drive for reading material.
Malta, Cassia county, wants long
distance telephone service to Idahome
and because the people In that section
can't get what they want, they have
complained to the public utilities COM
mission
SLOWING up on the job is the /
W. W. definition of sabotage, accord
Ing to the testimony of Charles Cliff
ford, member of the /. w. w. or
ganizatiOn on trial at Moscow for
criminal syndicalism.
Judge Mccarthy dismissed the jury
which heard the I'D w Douglas case
at Boise, after it was unable 10 agree
Douglas was on trial for the alleged
burning of haystack last December
owned by II. L. Butcher.
Teachers employed in the schools
OF the state must be given reason
able hearing by their board of trustees
before they can be dismissed, said I.
A. Walters, attorney general, In an
opinion prepared last week.
Interest in the clnnabar deposits of
Valley county will result in many min
ing men going into the johnson creek
country this season, according to Al
bert Hennessy, u prospector and trap
per living south of the Yellow Pine dis
tTict.
Salaries paid teachers in Idaho
should be increased from Is to % per
cent IL they are TO meet the high cost
of living brought about by the war, ae-
cording to an announcement coming
from the state educational depart
ment
The Caldwell Commercial clubs
committee appointed to look after the
welfare of the local boys In the coun-
try's service is raising a fund with
which to send camp kits to the nine
young men who left recently for Camp
Lewis.
In a formal order issued last week,
the public utilities commission gave
the Gilmore County Irrigated Farms as
ISOLATION permission to borrow" wa
ter for the season of 1918 from the
Mountain Home Cooperative Irriga-
ton company.
o. V. Allen, former state treasurer
has been taken TO the HURT place near
Nampa which the state will operate
this season with prisoners from the
penitentiary. Nine prisoners, includ-
ing Allen, are now employed on the
farm and others will be sent from day
TO day.
The superintendent of the Banner
mine, about % miles north of Idaho
City, telephOned to Boise last week
eve have total population of -
people and have raised $445O for the
purchase of Liberty bonds, and we
sent eight men to the army. We are
showed in"
Appealing to the farmers of Bonnie
Vile county to raise more sugar beets
as a patriotic duty, business men of
Idaho Falls and prominent farmers
are making a systematic canvass for
additional acres Anything from one
acre up will be accepted, just so it is
sugar beets.
Corporal w. II, Kingsley, son of
Mr.. and Mrs James II. Kingsley of
Boise, is winning hondrs at Camp Jo-
seph L. Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla,
where he was recently granted Ger
tificate in the motor truck and tractor
course of the training camp with the
grade of expert chauffeur.
Recently the citizens OF Murtaugh
held patriotic meeting at the school.
house grounds. A large pile OF straw
and brush was gathered. and big Lib
erty Bond bonfire was built A flag
pole, flying the German flag, and the
kaiser in effigy were burned, amid
cheering Of the spectators.
Through thirty-seven county chair
men of the federal food administration
in Idaho, representing that number OF
counties out of forty-one In the state.
Idaho pledged its entire store Of wheat
and wheat flour to the government. |
subject to call at any time. in a reso-
luton passed unanimously at the food
held In Boise.
The state highway commission pur-
chased 40OlD nnirs OF automobile IL |