The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-15
IN THE GEM STATE

new $4,000 high school building a,
Caldwell.
Complete records of the proceedings
Of the Boise city draft board have been
boxed and shipped to Washington.
The documents filled 10 boxes.
Southwestern Idaho's prune industry
is to be thoroughly Investigated by
the newly created department of az
riculture, Miles Cannon, director, has
announced.
Teton recently has organized Com
mercial club with a charter member
ship of 100. The club has been in
stalled in ample quarters on the Sec
Ond floor of one of the towns bank
buildings.
Citizens of Moore, a village in Butte
county, will have telephone service if
the public utilities commission acts
favOrably on petition for certifi-
cate of public convenience and neces-
sity filed recently.
The state board OF education has
completed plans for pushing new con-
structiOn work at three state insti-
tutions-the normal at Lewiston. deaf
and blind school at GoOding, and the
industrial training institution ut ST.
Anthony. -,
POcatello Baptists will do their
share in the state appOrtiOnment in
the $6OO0,O0O drive, which is being
made by the Baptist church in the
United States. Plans for raising Po-
catello's membership quota have been
completed.
The Omaha Livestock Market Boost
err excursion is scheduled to reach
Boise April 10. 1t will consist of about
80 prominent livestock dealers, several
OF whom are experts on certain i'm
pOrtant topics pertaining to the live
stock industry.
Ariel Daniel, 6 years of age son of
L. E. Daniel, while playing in the road
in front of the Pleasant View school
house, near Twin Falls, was run down
by car driven by E. E. Hall of Filler,
suffering a fracture of the skull from
which he died.
Attorney General Black has an
nounced the appointment of Raymond
L. Owens as assistant attorney gen.
eral, the third in his department, to
conduct the public utilities commission
legal work. Owens was a member of
the last house of representatives.
Surplus jobs for 5000 men are wait
ing in Idaho for those who want work,
according to an article in the New
York Evening Sun for March 20. The
article goes on to state that such was
the information received from Idaho
although no definite source in the state
is indicated
l.. l.. Folsom is lying in bed with a
broken rib, badly injured eye, and
his face and body covered with bruises
and Arch Matthews is under Il $3.50
bond and charged with battery after
an attack by him at Boise on
Folsom following the conclusion Of
suit brought by Folsom.
Returned Idaho soldiers have en-
cOuntered an obstacle in their efforts
to get the $50 bonus to discharged
service men under recent ruling of
the war department, regarding dis
charge papers. Officials figure that
there is due Idaho boys total of ST.
100000, figured on the basis of $4,000
men in the service.
Prevention of the introduction in
Idaho of the white pine blister rust
which has caused incalculable losses
to the white pine lumber industry Of
the middle western states and which
threatens the very life of the industry
in Minnesota and other states is the
basis of the work introduced by the
federal bureau of plant industry.
Ad Santel was declared winner Of
his wrestling bout at Boise with Nick
De Court when, after De Court had
taken first fall, the light heavyweight
champion clamped on a head scissors
that severely wrenched his opponents
spine.
About 125 acres of land within the
city limits of Nampa in the Kurtz adj
litiOn has been so combined as result |
If the city councils action that the
and will be sold in tracts with two
acres as minimum instead of by city
blocks.
Thirty-four alleged I. w. w. and
,ther undesirable aliens from Seattle
md other Pacific coast cities passed |
through Pocatello one day last week
lnder guard on their way to Ellis |
sland for deportation. Five Of them
we're women.
Prem Moore, poultry specialist of the
University Of Idaho extension depart
nent, will be in Canyon county March
g to April 1, holding meetings Of per-
ions interested in the production Of
,etter poultry and more eggs per fowl.
Idaho Rotarians, accompanied by /
lands and Indians in war paint, will
invade Salt Lake during the big RO-
arian convention, June II to q. Plans
re maturing by the four Idaho clubs