Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-11-08
IDAHO STATE NEWS

In the section between Corral and
Fairfield the wheat is yielding from
Is to 40 bushels per acre.
Lieut.. Il. L. Everly of Nampa has
been wounded in France. according To
word received last week by his mother.
The estimated population of Cald-
well based on the canvass made by
A. Y. Ecksteine for the Il. L. Polk
and company directory is $500.
DR.. H. u. Spencer of Idaho Falls
has been notified that he has been APP
pointed captain in the medical de-
partment and is ordered to report for
duty within two weeks.
Mrs. John Van Allen is at the
Nampa general hospital in a critical
condition from the effects of an at
tempt at suicide by taking 10 grains
of bichloride of mercury.
Reita INLAY, former Boise girl, now
stationed at Goat Island as yeoman-
cite. gave an address in the interest
of the fourth Liberty loan at Coat Is
land and raised $4,000.
The organization in Twin Falls
county to conduct the united war work
drive, November II to IS, has been eff
fected with L. L. Breckenridge as chair
ian of the executive committee.
Robert Henry of Rigby, in the voca-
tiOnal section of the s. ~ I. c., died
in the Inland Empire hospital at Mos
COW from pneumonia. His death is the
fourth in the vocational section.
Idaho has been divided into six war
labor districts. each having a war la
Dor board for the purpose of handling
the labor situation as it exists under
present war emergency conditions.
Bee culture is a growing industry
on the farms surrounding Caldwell.
Large shipments of honey are made
which top the eastern markets. Poul-
try is also a growing and profitable in
dustry.
The receipts of the Boise Red Cross
Salvage Shop for the month of Oc-
tober amounted to $23S7. % and the
total receipts from the opening of the
shop September to date have been
s519614.
The 191s-19 edition of the r. L. Polk
& Co. directory for Twin Falls. Cassia,
Minidoka, Lincoln and Gooding coun-
ties. shows that the population Of
Twin Falls has increased since the
1917-1s edition was issued from 500
to 10000 persons.
Representative Addison T. Smith IS
urging the director of railroads to
waive the % per cent Increase in
freight rates on hay shipped from
Southern Idaho TO drought-stricken
areas of Montana and to the north
west where crop is short
Idaho's food administrator expresses
the opinion that with sugar allowance
of three pounds per person per month
all families that are to any degree
practicing conservation are now re-
stored to what practically amounts to
a normal consumption basis.
George Cleveland of Twin Falls, a
member of a beet club organized as one
of the boys and girls vocational clubs
during the summer, raised two acres
of sugar beets, which yielded 90 tons
of beets and Let profit of $50, the
cost of production being SIS.
Christmas package headquarters of
the local Red Cross has been opened
at PocateIlo by a committee of promi-
nent women, who viii take charge of
the two weeks work of distributing
cartons and receiving Christmas pack
a.,ae for tho havS OvprSpaS
Gas Mask day will be celebrated |
November 9 in Idaho under procla- |
nation issued by Governor Alexander !
calling upon all citizens to max
every effort on that day to gather nut |
shells and fruit pits of all kinds and |
take them to some central point in /
each county.
News has been received at Idaho
Falls that Captain George w. Edging-
ton has received another promotion /
and is now a major. Major Edging-
ton resigned the office of mayor of
Idaho Falls and went to an officers
training camp and was made first
lieutenant and later a captain.
The influenza epidemic has been
making rapid strides in Idaho Falls
and Bonneville county and stringent
measures are being taken to overcome
it. Every person has been ordered to
wear a mask over the nose and mouth
and all business houses. except drug
stores and cafes, are closed at p u
A supply OF vaccine for the proven
ton of pneumonia consequent upon in
fluenza was received ~ a Idaho Falls
drug firm from Seattle last week, and
aas been distributed among the physi-
clans of the city. The first lot of the