Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-06-28
IDAHO STATE NEWS

the information OF travelling tourists.
Bids for the construction Of approx
imately $4,000 worth Of roads in
Custer and Lemhi counties are being
asked by the state highway commits
sion.
Ada county intends to enforce the
work or fight" ruling OF the United
States government and If men leave
jobs their employers are going to
know the reason why.
The outlook for the wheat crop con-
tinues generally promising although
the yield is likely to be affected adj
versely by the hes and drought pre-
vailing in the dry farm country,
Five thousand dollars worth of cat
tie, hogs, sheep, horses, household
goods and machinery were sold at the
recent traders day sale at Nampa.
About 800 people attended the sale.
1t Is proposed to organize threshing
committees in every wheat-growing
county in the state. These committees
will guard against profireering and de-
termine what Is considered a just
threshing fee.
Mrs. Virginia MeCraig of North
Idaho, who was one of the enrolling
clerks in the last session of the leg
islature, has recently been appointed
country club leader for the boys and
girls club work in Bannock county.
Unless the amendment to the draft
act is passed, raising the age limit so
as to include men without dependents
between the ages of 80 and 40, 1t will
be necessary in this state to meet
future calls from deferred classes Nos.
2, 3, and 4.
The Nampa division of the Insurance
Federation of Idaho was temporarily
organized last week at Nampa. The
| organization Is a patriotic one to OPP
pose radical Socialism in national,
state and civic affairs, according to
the organizers.
Mrs. w. II. Dewey, wife of Col. w.
III. Dewey of Nampa, died suddenly
last week from complication growing
out of heart trouble, at the age Of 81.
Mrs. Dewey was one of the pioneer
| women of Idaho. Colonel Dewey died
| May 8, 1903, at Nampa.
A. e. Marshall of Rupert has re-
| ceived word that his son, George f.
Marshall, private Company d, Second
Engineers. was killed In action in
France. June Il. Young Marshall was
10 years old. He enlisted in the Sec
Ond Idaho in April, 1917.
Twin Falls county is anticipating
the largest wheat crop of it's history
this year. The acreage is % per cent
greater than last year and a recent es-
innate of the crop for this season by
the Twin Falls county farm bureau
places the figure at about 4,250,OOO
| bushels.
Samuel G. Winters, pioneer attOr-
ney of southern Idaho, was buried at
PocateIlo, June %. He was the first
district attorney of the Fifth judicial
district after Idaho became a state,
and was later law partner of Judge
J. ]. Guheen, of the present Fifth
judicial court.
1 Wages as high as $3.50 per day and
board, and In rare instance as much as
81 and board, have been paid recently
for farm labor in Idaho, but only for
special labor requiring the services OF
men highly skilled in certain kinds OF
farm work-as, for instance, hay
stacking.
Alfalfa harvest is in full swing and
is favored with fine hayIng weather
generally. Some tracts in Payettt
county have been damaged by weevil
Glover in the Twin Falls district is in
a.,
has not suffered serious damage. Grass
in dry farm meadows is short.
Labor slackers in Idaho are ut
tempting to confuse the campaign t,
force them to accept ut REASONABLE,
wages jobs that will help in crop pro
duction as II war necessity by circulat
ing In certain communities stories o
higher wages in other sections so tina
laborers will continue to be ON tn,
move.
Nampa's Help Win the War Har
, vest Festival will be better than ever
according to plans being made by tn
executive committee. The festiva
this year. September Is to %, will b.
run on strictly war basis, as tin
| ObJcCl vi llc lIlEll Ill Is To Iidh
!: the festival "a necessary adjunct t
TIE war;"
/, Zeno ]. Case. who claims to be TN
secretary of what is known as the In
ternational Detective Association O
|. America, With offices In Salt Lake
was arrested at POcatellO on tn
y charge of carrying on cOllectio
agency business in this state withou
:. first obtaining the necessary bond an
license.
John Reynolds, miner employed q
y the North Star mine ut Haley, wa
severely injured by cavein las
week. He was working alone when
large block of rock and dirt brok
5, loose from the wall of the tunnel. PHI
ming him to the floor. Both Les
were broken and he is badly bruise