Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-08-30
idaho STATE NEWS

Friday, September 10. 10. 20 at
Nampa.
The federal reserve has admitted 10
membership in the federal reserve sys-
TEN the Anderson Brothers bank of
Idaho Falls. Idaho. with resources of
81, 5Ss, 900.
After travelling from Pensacola,
Fla. on a two weeks furlough, in the
hopes of seeing his mother, Mrs. H. II.
Cole, alive, Raymond Cole reached
Boise only TO learn that she had been
buried two days before.
John Shrake of Ogden, Utah, has
purchased the George Duval dairy
Nampa for $4,000. The ranch is re-
garded as one of the best equipped
dairy farms in the state.
The assignment of an unskilled la
Dor quota of 2020 men to Idaho in
the drive to obtain workers TO fill
100000 vacancies in government war
industries does not necessarily mean
these men will be withdrawn from the
state.
At recent meeting of the executive
committee of the Twin Falls Fedora
ton of Rural clubs the following reso-
luton was voted: Resolved, That
members of the Federation of Rural
Womens clubs will not wear overalls
except in their own homes"
George Davis and Miss Susie Hobbs
met with quite a serious automobile
accident near Colllster last week. The
car causing the trouble kept on travel
ing, and the number was not secured.
Miss Hobbs was badly cut and bruised
and her back severely sprained.
F. F. Harding, postmaster of Weiser,
while running to catch "A train as ne
was starting on short vacation, over
taxed his strength and collapsed upon
boarding the train. He was removed
to the station waiting room and died
before medical aid could be summoned
The Rev. ]. H. Dickerson. formerly
of Pocatello, has written from New
York that he is about to Ego over
The Rev. Mr. DickersOn enters the
Y. NJ. c. A. service and will leave i'm
mediately for France to help look after
the welfare of the boys in the service
An innovation has been introduced
by the reclamation service which is
now using girls for operators at the
power house at the Minidoka dam Two
girls started work as oilers in the
power house August y. and from all
reports are making good ia their new
work.
Production of timbers and beams
for American fighting airplanes has
been begun at the Barber mill of The
Boise Payette lumber company The
drying kiln at Barber has been pract- !
caTy reconstructed to handle the job, /
and new system of drying has been
installed.
r. +. BickneIl. food administrator for |
Idaho, has authorized the sending OF |
instructions to all county administra-
tors asking that they make as effectiv
a plan as possible to have all confec-
TONERS cut down on their sales OF
candies to a limit of one pound at any
time TO one person.
Sergeant Leroy Womack wrote re-
Gently to his mother, Mrs. Marion
Womack of Firth Idaho, that he is
safely in France after pleasant triI
across the seas and a short visit in
England. He was one of the American
BOYS to receive a letter of greeting
from King George v
Floyd King is alleged to have gained
entrance to p. Fl. DOnahue's residence
lt Picabo during the absence OF the
family. and to have stolen several
guns. some jewelry and money The
sheriff and posse captured him thar
night near the ranch. and he was
placed in Jail at HALEY
The director general of railroads re-
emily advanced the rate on corn from
Nebraska to Idaho points from 10
.ents to 81 cents per 100 pounds. An
,ffort will be made TO get some relief
rom this order, at least during the
season of the year when the bulk OF
he Idaho freight is moving eastward
Inaccurate data furnished the state
,oard of equalization for the last four
n five wears on the valuation of the
ines of the Mountain States Tele-
,hone & Telegraph company has re-
ulted in the loss TO the state OF taxes
N between S5.OO0,OO0 and S10,000,00O
Turing that period, according to John
V. Eagleson, state treasurer.
Local authorities should see that the
Gales used for weighing grain are
ested and corrected, for with grain
eIling ar around 3 cents a pound a
ew pounds discrepancy on each load
ill amount TO quite sum during the
eason. In fact, an inaccuracy or /
er cent in the scales on which the
iaho wheat crop is weighed will
mount TO approximately 100000 on
he price received by the producers
,r the grain.
Two young women made application
II the position of motor or ambulance
liver in France under the supervision