Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-02-15
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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OF the 500 men registered i'm Ada
county for military service only It's,
or about 20 per cent, have been placed
I'm the first class.
Five hundred feet of new seven-fOot |
cement sidewalk in the business por-
ton of Middleton was accepted from
the contractor last week.
At meeting Of representative eiti-
zens who are backing the Caldwell
chautauqua, held last week, plans for
the coming entertainment We're made.
The citizens Of Gooding and the sur
rounding country have undertaken to
raise enough money to run the Red
Cross during tile summer without any /
further drives. E
The Boise Trade and Labor council
has decided to donate the use Of it's
council rooms and hall, on week days,
to women doing patriotic service for.
the government.
Leroy Jones, state game warden, Is
Of the opinion that Idaho should put
out hay each winter for the elk In Vel
lowstone park and induce the animals
to feed in this state.
Plans for the construction of con-
densary at Meridian by the Boise Co
operative Creamery company have
been temporarily postponed because of
inability to get machinery.
Stephen d. Taylor of Boise, formerly
Of Bonner's Ferry, was elected Repub-
lican state chairman by the Republic
an state central committee to succeed
Evan Evans Of Grangeville, resigned.
twenty-five head of elk captured in
Yellowstone park were liberated last
week on Moore creek and driven into
the Boise national forest reserve above
Arrowrock dam by the state game de-
partment.
William Blume, prominent farmer
near Bonners Ferry, shot and instantly
killed his three months old baby and
then turned the gun on himself, in
tlicting wound from which he died.
1t is thought Blume was demented.
Major Carroll G. Conant of Weiser
has been named sanitary inspector for.
division in France, according to-
letter received from him. Major Co
nant was formerly in command of the
medical corps, Second Idaho infantry
regiment.
The petition of =. III. Plowhead for
rehearing of the proceedings instl-
tuted to GUST him from the office Of
mayor of Caldwell in favor of Fred L.
Lilly, his opponent at the polls last
June, has been denied by the state SUI
preme court.
The board of awards of the National
Dairy show, held last fall In Column
bus, Ohio, have given the Meridian
cheese factory first prize on an exhibit
of American (pepsin-made) cheese, ac-
cording to word received by the COM
pany last week.
Director o. G. f. Markhus of the
public service reserve has entered ac-
lively into his new duties to mobilize
the working reserve Of Idaho, the first
step of which is to enroll Idaho's quota,
or 900, Of the $4,000 men who are to
form the great shipyard army.
The federal government has issued
patents to the state on 81, 440 acres of
Carey act lands In Idaho for which
original entries never have been made
by settlers, Clarence Van Deusen,
state auditor, told the other members
# the state land board last week.
A bloodhound placed on the trail, at
ter Windsor j. Lloyd Of the Gem Lum-
Der company discovered that burglars
had entered the Nampa office, 'treed"
three Mexicans on boxcar in the Ore
gon Short Line railroad yards All
three are being held in the city Jail.
1 oSanalOh cIIUaT
/ through her seven factories In 1917 to
feed approximately 1,25OiOO0 soldiers
for an entire year, according to q tele-
| gram received by the Idaho food ad-
ministration office at Boise from Jas
w. Jones of the Idaho sugar admin
| istration, ~
While the law does not prohibit
i Idaho people from speaking the Ger
/ man tongue nor groups of individuals
/ from employing the German Language
mt public meetings, personal safety
might make 1t wise that aliens ust
English both In the home and in pub
lie places, DIR. Enoch A. Bryan, chair
/ man of the State Defense Council
/ pointed out in a letter addressed e
one Of the auxiliary county councils.
i Refrigerator cars will be sent t.
Idaho at an early date to move pota
toes and apples out of this state, &C
cording to a promise given the STATE
farm markets bureau by Herber
Hoover, national food administrator
Because OF q shortage in good wheat
oats, barley and corn in Ada county
O. p, Henderson,, secretary Of the u
creased production committee. IS ufg
Ing til farmers In this section of tn
state to purchase their seed at once
School is being held Saturdays q
Hazelton, that the spring closing ma!
- EARLY nnnnph for the older boys G