Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-11-07

est during the 1919 season.
The retail merchants of Bull are
planning the organization of Retail
Dealers Credit association.
The work of paving the streets OF
Bull has begun. Two miles of pave
ment will be put down in the city.
Approximately 60 insurance men of
the state of Idaho met at Boise for
banquet given in honor of the new
and retiring insurance commissioners
of Idaho.
A. K. Baum, an attorney of northern
Idaho, has been selected by the gov
ernor as judge of the Fifth judicial
district to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Judge Guheen.
Farmers are experiencing much diff
ficulty in getting their sugar beets
out of the ground in some sections of
the state. Frost was followed by a
fall of eight inches of snow.
The Boy Scouts at Pocatello have
formed an athletic club and have out
lined a broad program of athletic
events for the winter. Suitable quar-
tiers for the club have been obtained.
Governor Davis has sent formal let
tiers to governors of western states
setting forth the purpose of the irriga-
ton congress he has called to be held
In Salt Lake City, November 81 and %.
The state fish and game department
Is seeking the famed ibex in Idaho,
now almost extinct. Reports coming
to that department indicate the ami
mails are to be found in the mountain
Businesses.
Responding to the call for commu-
nifty service through greater COM
munity organization, cry organiza-
ton and element in Nampa Is back
ing the move for an enlar ysd cham
Der of commerce.
The governor has turned ov sr to the
state treasurer a check for $115,-
$780, representing the states per-
centage of the earnings of the ma
tional forests in Idaho during the fis-
cal year closing June 80 last.
Fred Gruber, who was sentenced to
life Imprisonment, and who escaped
with another prisoner from the state
penitentiary November IL, 1918, was
arrested short time ago for the theft
of an automobile in California.
1t is announced that should the
Mondell soldier land reclamation bill
pass, Idaho would receive approximate
ly $37,OOO,0O0, and that the American
Falls dam is one of the first under
takings that would receive considera-
ton.
The state board of examiners has
the issuance of $650,000 in
treasury notes, under the authority
vested in 1t by the last legislature, to
put the state on a cash basis pending
receipt Of the tax Nllection for the
year.
Alfred n. Wilke, proprietor of a
poultry farm four miles from Boise,
where White Rocks are raised, has a
new pullet named LADY Mary AL
breida Wilkes" which he says has es-
tablished the unofficial record of 352 |
eggs in one year.
A coroners jury at Blackfoot which |
investigated the killing of Leon Reese
returned verdict that the |
young mans death was caused by gun
shot wounds inflicted by J. Vance
Johnson. Johnson was arrested i'm
after the killing.
Bull will soon have tourist park
II plans are carried out which were
begun by the city council last week
1t is planned to equip the park with a |
to be used as a garage, with |
a concrete floor and running water to
be used for cooking purposes by the
autoists.
The district court at Rupert has de- |
cided that the claim of Twin Falls |
county against the commissioners OF |
Minidoka county for $7750, alleged |
due in payment of a share of the cost |
Of constructing the Hansen bridge
spanning Snake river, Is a just claim
and must be paid by Minidoka county.
Sudden ending of mine strikes in
northern Idaho means immediate in
auguration of new free mining schools.
Officials of the state department of
have announced that four
schools will open on or soon after
November 1 and that others will be
provided should the enrolment neces-
state them.
An election to provide $4,000 for |
use in building a water system has |
been called at Richland. The voters
had previously appropriated $4,000 |
for this purpose. but the advance in
material and labor prices since then
Is said to have made an additional
amount necessary to the completion
Of the project.
Honey production as an occupation
for returned soldiers who are DESTROYS |
Of getting into some line of industry |
different from what they had before
they entered the military service Is
suggested by the extension division of |