Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-09-06
IDAHO STATE NEWS


children Of Drs-sehool age has been
completed.
Work has begun on the highway be-
tween Mackay, In Custer county. and
Salmon. in Lemhi county, a distance
Of 10 miles, and the work will cost
S456. 600.
Campaign Manager Mansfield OF the
Salvation Army war fund is receiving
encouraging report from all over the
state relative TO the collection of Ida
hos quota.
Mrs. w. F. Gibbons was painfully
but not seriously injured at Caldwell
when a horse she was driving. ran
away. turning the buggy over and
throwing her out.
Boys at Nampa engaged In playing
war. In which bricks and stones were
used as weapons, broke all the win
dows in a vacant house. causing dam
age estimated at SIS.
Walter r. Cupp Of Caldwell has been
commissioned captain In the quarter
master corps. Marvin Fry OF Ferdi-
nand has been commissioned second
lieutenant in the signal corps.
Nampa was the host at a banquet
given at the Dewey Palace In honor
of the Draft contingentS from Canyon,
Valley, Owyhee and Gem counties who
left last week for Camp Lewis
SparrOws have become a pest In the
Preston section, and farmers are hav-
ing all they can do to keep their grain
intact, as the marauding birds hang
around the grain fields In fiocks.
There was good yield Of barley in
the Greenleaf neighborhood this year.
win Wlnslow having some that yielded
from 70 to 80 bushels per acre. Wheat
averaged about IS to 90 bushels per
acre.
were each given 80 days in the Ada
county Jail together with $50 fine
for having intoxicating liquor in their
possession, contrary to the Idaho
statutes.
Men in the draft qualified to enter
the University Of Idaho will be given
the privilege of enlistlng In the army
at the time they register for the
school term and will be given pay at
the rate of $50 per month.
Boys and girls of 10 and IL years
of age are working on the farms in
southeastern Idaho" says d. II. Hub
bard, who has returned from n 0O-dny
trip appraislng farm lands in that re-
gion for the federal loan bank Of
Spokane.
Real property and puhIlc utilities
in the state as valued by the state
board of equalization this year In
creased $1s,6OS5O2 over the valuation
for assessment purposes Of SALE. 1885,
POI found last year, the new figure be-
ing $430,s73.703.
Henry Waggoner of Caldwell was Sc
riOusly injured when a car in which
he was riding scraped hay-rack by
the side of the road In such way
as to throw a projecting board into
the car, striking Mr.. Waggoner and
breaking his left arm and several ribs.
Over her protest, Miss Ethel e. Red
field, state superintendent of public
instruction. was made chairman Of the
state land board at the session last
week In the absence OF Governor Alex
ander, who had gone to Camp Lewis
| and to California ON official business.
Sergeant Louis Goldsmith, former
| Idaho guard member of Caldwell, and
now with A company, gus and flame
| division Of the engineers, is lying
wounded in a hospital In France after
having acted, with three other com.
AIDES, as backstop for German
shell.
| A schedule Of warehouse rates for
Latah, Nez Perez, Clearwater, Lewis
and Idaho counties, arrived at by equal
izing existing rates. was issued last
week by the public utilities commits
sion. which conducted a hearing at
Lewiston last month with the ware
house men.
A request for extradltion papers for
James Parsons was issued last week
from the office OF the governor upon
the governor of Nebraska. where rar-
sons IL being held pending the arrival
of an officer to bring him back to
Pocatello. He is wanted ON charge
of grand larceny.
Reclamation OF arid lands, swamp
lands and cut-over and burned-oyer
soldiers when they return home, Is one
of the vital problems now before the
federal government. Congressman
Smith Of Idaho Is urging a bin in con-
gress to put the federal government
directly back Of this great work.
In order to let the Boise Y. w. g. 4.
carry on Its excellent work through its
free employment bureau f. II. Has.
brouck, head Of the federal labor bur.
eau for Idaho. considers this and the
city employment bureau. as branches
Of his own federal office aud a com
plete report of all workers placed and
all requests for employment Is made
to him by each branch weekly.
Mrs. S. II. Hayes, chairman Of tie
wOmen's committee. Council Of Nh.
tional Defense. is urging a display Of
the work Of this committee at the