The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-25
IDAHO BUDGET

1ealers and farmers of southern Ida.
40 will be resumed March "a.
Keen interest is being shown by
all the leading business men of Poca-
tello in the coming municipal election.
The twenty-fOurth annual meeting
Of the Women's Missionary society of
Boise Presbytery will be held in Par
ma, April 2 and 3.
Approximately $125,OOO was collect
ed by the eBoise internal revenue Of
flee through income tax returns with
in the last two weeks.
Wheat will be the chief crop for
Idaho farmers this season, according
to e. r. Bennett, extension horticul.
turist for the University of Idaho.
Under the title of "A Whirl Of
Mirth," the Elks' Minstrels, composed
Of Idaho Falls talent, filled a three
nights engagement at Idaho Falls
last week.
POcatello Odd Fellows are planning
a big celebration for April Is, the date
Of the One-hundredth anniversary of
the founding of the order by Thomas
Wildey, April 20, 1919.
Walter G. Cady was found dead In
q field near Blaine. He had gone
on skis to visit neighbor, and
while returning, is thought to have
succumbed to heart disease.
If anything inside of quarter of a
million dollars will bring the Jess
Willard-Jack Dempsey fight to Poca-
tello, Ida, July 4, that place is out
after the battle and determined to get
it.
After rObbing three Boise grocery
stores in less than one week, Antoine
Hinkey and Stanley Jones, both of
whom gave their ages as IA years,
were committed to the state indus
trial school.
To investigate the different kinds of
sllOs In Canyon county, and to COM
pare their merits, the Canyon county
farm bureau held an excursion March
20 and q, visiting the principal farms
using different kinds of silos.
Jack Mink Of Boise, returned after
being overseas Is months, is perhaps
the only Boise boy who was aboard
the Tuscania when that ship was sunk
off the coast of Scotland by a Ger
man submarine February Z, 1918.
The campaign for victory gardens is
already well under way in Idaho.
Food production is still pressing
necessity, and both men and women
owning little plot of ground in the
owns can help by growing as much
IS they can to feed themselves.
One of the cases being tried in the
FEDERAL court now in session in POca-
clio is $4,000 damage suit in which
Melissa A. Duensing of Neoga, ILL.,, is
suing to recover heart balm from J. |
:. Murray, prominet PocatellO con-
ractOr on breach of promise charge. !
Didn't know it was loaded" was
he cause of Bert Sanderson, the Z
son of D. A. Sanders0n, be-
ng accidentally shot and killed by his |
'rOther, two years older, at their home |
n New Plymouth, with "A calibre |
'arbine rifle belonging to their father. |
The Idaho Congress of Mothers and |
he z. Z. A. feel that they were ex-
'eedingly fortunate in getting two
measures in which they were interest
ID passed by both houses of the leg
the county nurse bill and the
ill providing for bureau of child
lygiene.
Entering his house north of Nerd
an, from the field where he had been
Freme Aikens discovered the
outheast corner of the building on
Ire, and, even with the aid Of neigh
ors, was unable to put the blaze out.
he house was destroyed and most of
IS contents.
The south wing of the university
uilding at Moscow is to be completed
OOn; also the new administration
uilding at Lewiston. Two dormitor-
IS for girls must be built at st. An
iony, and shops and buildings are to
e added to the school for deaf and
lind ut GOoding.
Returned soldiers who were former
in the employ of the Oregon Short
inc in Idaho, find their positions
aiting for them when they are ready
} resume work. The Short Line is
aking good IT'S pledge to take back
| men who gave up their positions
enter the war service.
Boise, the states capital, has
unched into an era of building and
lprovement which means the expendi-
re of hundreds of thousands of dol
RS during the next two years. The
really took place when by
pular subscription $165,OOO was c
ised from more than 1000 subscrib-
$ to erect new Y. NJ G. A. build :
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A society on the league Of nations
IL be organized at Nampa as re-
1t of mass meeting held to discuss q
open forum both sides Of the pres I