The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-02-08
In THE GEM STATE

ect will be sold about the middle Of
March.
The sum of $6797 was realized this
year from the sale of Red Cross seals
in Jerome.
Farmers in the vicinity of Bull are
! baling large quantities of alfalfa hay
and shipping it 10 southern points.
More than 100 people in the vicinity
of Filler have made income tax returns
To the deputy collector who has been
stationed there.
\ company composed of farmers
east of Rupert have Incorporated and
will build an electric light and power
line for their own use.
1t is estimated by the state farm
markets bureau that 100000 tons of
hay were cut in Idaho last season from
the 725,000 acres devoted to the crop.
The body of Murdo Neal Stewart,
the young man who was found dead
on the railroad right of way at Poca-
tellO, was shipped to his home at
Carey.
The late Senator Brady's estate is
valued at approximately $2,O0O,OOO, ac-
cording TO 0. f. Cannon, one of the
recently appointed secretaries of the
senator.
John Mcdonald, the Boise boy who
had his leg broken in two places and
received minor injuries in a troop
train wreck in Texas last fall, is now
out on crutches.
Ten teams are at work on the road
near the +. L. Gibbons place near
Lake Crowell. The graveled highway,
which extends three miles from Cald-
well, is to be finished to the lake.
The fruit men around Collister are
beginning the pruning of their or
chards. DIR. Collister has uprOoted all
his pear and apple orchard and will
SOW the land to alfalfa this spring.
According to tabulated figures Mini
doka led all counties in the state in
the last Liberty Loan drive. The re-
port shows that Minidoka county
placed 100000 in bonds with 1854 peo-
pie.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Nampa Farmers Society
of Equity was held at Nampa last
week, with special sessions for fruit
growers, seedgrowers and hay ship
pers.
In the Twin Falls district the farm
ers get three big cuttings of alfalfa,
and the yields there run from four to
five tons an acre, and they have been
known to so as high as seven and
eight.
1t seems that Idaho is importing
school teachers. Miss Anna Scanzon
of Everett, Wash, and Miss Nettie
Connell of Bellingham, Wash, arrived
last week to take up work in the city
schools at Boise.
y. w. War;, rancher near Haley,
had an exciting encounter with u rabid
coyote recently. The animal attacked
the dogs ut the War; ranch and at
tackled Mr. War; when he went to their
rescue with u shotgun.
Enforcement in Idaho of the order
against boarding of flour has been en-
Joined on Il. f. Bicknell, food admin
istrator for this state, by Herbert
A1OONSAS 1OOu administrators, 1T
was announced last week
L. A. Freeland will be in Boise
from February IL to February % to
advise citizens on the making out of
income tax returns. All single persons
with an income of more than $1,000 per
year and all married persons with
more than $1,000 must make returns.
j. h. Hood, postmaster at Fernwood.
in Benewah county, has complained to
the public utilities commission of the
Interstate Utilities company's action in
taking out all telephones in his town.
He declared in letter to the commits
sion that not u telephone remained in
the town.
Potato growers, dealers and business |
interests of southeastern Idaho met nj
Idaho Falls last week To offer protest |
to Food Administrator Hoover on tho |
action of the national car service com |
mission in ordering all refrigerator |
cars, regardless of ownership, out of !
Chicago delivered to lines in Wiscon- |
sin, Minnesota and the Dakotas for DO
tatOeS.
The state agriculture college has
been advising the farmers for some
years To feed their alfalfa to livestock
win view To building up and en-
richtng soils, and now the county
arm bureaus throughout Idaho are
ending their efforts, with the result
mat more and more farmers each year
are buying small flocks of sheep or
some steers and making them ready fol
market
lWehty-SeVen Idaho counties now
nave or will have, county agricultural
agents in the near future. ExreDtinr