The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-01-17
IDAHO

All indications point to the fact tina
the potato crop Of Idaho win be
record-breaker this season.
1t has been definitely decided tina
the telephone rates at Moscow will
not be raise6 just at present.
The people of Bonners Ferry ar,
planning upon extensive paving i'm
provements as soon as spring weather
comes.
There was an increas.. of over 1Ol
per cent in the number Of cattle fat
tened In the Weiser sect on the pas,
season.
The domestic science rooms Of thu
Gooding high school have been ION
verted into temporary hospital fel
influenza patients
Six million tons of coal are In sigh,
In the Teton basin section It IL ds
serted by those who should be In !,
position to know.
The city council of Bull has under
consid aration plans for constructing a
building to be used as a city hall, Jul!
and necessary offices.
A former near Boise, who last sea.
son had fourteen acres planted to clio.
yer seed, reports that his returns for
his small tract was $4272.
The workmen at the penitentiary are
busy putting up ice from the pond ar
ranged for that purpose. Ane peni-
Tertiary ice house has capacity for
200 tons.
New state officials were inaugurated
shortly after noon on January 6 in the
house of representatives in the pres
ence of both houses Of the fifteenth
session of the legislature.
A serious outbreak Of influenza
among the horses owned by dry farm
ers of Bingham county was combatted
by the farm bureau and $1,000 was
saved in actual horse value.
Out of respect to the memory of the
late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, both
houses Of the legislature adjourned
soon after organizing Monday noon I'M
til 10 O'Clock Tuesday morning.
The city of Caldwell is planning to
build crushed rock roads, which, it is
believed, will greatly aid the trans
portation problem in that section. The
first mile to be built, 1t is estimated,
will cost $4,000.
One Of the business reforms expect
ed to come before the present session
of the legislature will be proposition
for the creation Of a county purchasing
bard to inject business principles in
the county schools.
The advance in wages, freight rates
and the increased cost of supplies has
brought the cost of producing metal;
in the state Of Idaho to more than
bile tine pre-war cost, it is asserted
by the mining men of the state.
The prison board, consisting Of Gov.
ernor Davis, Roy L. Black, attorney
general, and Robert O. Jones, secre-
tary Of state, has officially announced
the appointment of w. L. Cuddy of
Boise as warden of the state peni-
tentiary.
There are now thirty-eight cases Of |
Influenza at the penitentiary, only a |
lew having developed in the past week.
The sixth death from the disease &C.
cured when Mike Penford, sent up
rom Bingham county for burglary,
passed away.
Announcement of staff appointees,
IS required by law, was the first Of
lcial act Of Governor d. w. Davis
lfter he was sworn in as the states
hief executive. Captain A. H., Wilson
vas named as adjutant general, and
fajor Jabez B. Burns, assistant adju.
ant.
Bingham county now has the largest
arm bureau In the state, both as to
lumber of farmers belonging and as
0 per cent of farming population Gov.
red. AS result of the membership
rive, which closed last week, the total
f members has reached 1885, which
epresents 10 per cent Of the farming
Opulation of the county.
A labor bureau organization to as
st the returned soldiers, sailors and
Their war workers has been organized
! Gooding county. Committees from
ach of the towns in the comfy have
cen appointed and these, with the
representatives. from the council of de-
,nse and the Parents association, will
AXE up the organization.
One Of the largest conventions to be
ED in the state this winter is the .
laho irrigation congress, to be held
!: Twin Falls January ID, ii, Is and
!, at which time group Of organiza- ,
ons, all having kindred interests, six
en- in all, will confer with reference .
mutual interests, the agricultural.
engineering and irrigation :
cieties of the state.
For the first time in many years
dicati0ns are that there will be only
e or two county division fights, If :