The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-22
in THE GEM STATE

Saturday afternoons will be observ
ed as holidays by majority Of tn,
offices at the statehouse for the re
! mainder Of the spring and summer.
Jess Marshall was taken into Gus
tody at Nampa when officers discov
cred more than two gallons of pure
alcohol hidden in his heating stove.
Sugar beet growers are contracting
their 1919 crop of beets for delivery
at $40 ton, price which is from
$3.50 to SIS ton higher than prevail
figures.
Miss Retta Martin, for the last six
years county superintendent of schools
in Lewis county, has been named as
sistant state superintendent of public
instruction.
francisco Nicaldi, wnO voluntarily
put in two nights in the jails of Can
yOn county and the city of Nampa,
was adJudsed insane and comnl...,
to Blackfoot
A garage is being erected by the
commissioners of the Bull highway
district for the. accommodation of
trucks and other road machinery own
ed by the district.
| Owyhee county will be brought into
closer association with the counties
| lying north Of the Snake river this
summer by one, and possibly .Aree
substantial bridges.
According to Mrs. Auneta Fergu-
son, who recently opened municipal
employment office at Nampa, she has
places for at least so men and is un-
able to supply the demand.
Plans for widening the scope of the
Y. NJ. c. A. in Idaho to include the
country districts in the work of the
association were formulated at a con-
ference held in Boise on April II.
A horse was killed and an automo-
bile badly damaged on the ShoshOne
grade when the car got from under
the control of it's driver, an Eden cit
izen named Montgomery, and struck
four horse team.
Joseph Hansen, secretary of the
State Council of Defense since its
organization soon after war was de-
clared, has closed his office in Boise
and the council has ceased to exist,
it's work having been completed.
Wis nj ~
Boise and Ada county has been or
ganized by representatives from a
number of the prominent Organiza-
lions Of the city including the insur-
ance companies and the trades council.
DR.. Ernest y. Laubaugh, captain in
an army medical corps stationed at
Camp Stuart, former state bacteriol-
ogist under the Haines administra-
ton, has been offered his old place by |
J. X. White, commissioner of public
welfare. s.-r- s.y. +~s.
The Farmers Cooperative Creaa-
cry company is making Improvements
in the way of adding warehouse room
to the plant at Payette. Three trucks
are now used in gathering cream from
the territory contributory to the
creamery.
Waiting to have the Pasteur treat
ment applied for the bite of mad
coyote, Frank Tama, 20 years of age,
is at an Ogden hospital. He was
rushed there from Blackfoot, after
having been bitten while working at
his sheep camp.
A man named Gaulco is at the Bur-
ley hospital, in a serious condition, as
the result of wound five inches deep
In his back, caused by a broken piece
Of windshield being driven into his
body when car in which he was rid
Ing turned turtle.
BY system of voluntary quarantine
the public school at Rexburg has prac-
tically kept full control of the influ-
enza situation. All physical exercises
we're held on the campus and prac-
tically every amusement for pupils
was conducted in the school gymnas-
um.
Building permits issued by the city
engineer at Nampa during March to
tailed 1921, $50, a per capita investment
based on an estimated population Of
$500, of more than $18. Of the "a
permits issued, 16 were for residences,
having a cost running from $1,000 to
5000. Il
A monster petition is being for
varded to Secretary Franklin X. Lane,
him to complete what Is
Known as the Payette-Boise irrigation
project as soon as possible, following
plans indicated and in keeping with
made by d. w. Ross and other ,
engineers.
Under the belief that it was mice
n the penitentiary," and that he could
ret an education there, Frank Baker {
pleaded bully in Bonner county to a
charge in April, 1914, he told
he state pardons board. The board
lecided to parole him April %. He
las served about five years.
Contracts are to be let soon for