Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-02-14
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The PocatellO city. council is prepar-
ing an improvement program which
VIII include many blocks Of paving
during the coming spring and summer
The annual meeting of the Eastern
Idaho Grazing association was held In
Idaho Falls February 7. There were
about 100 sheep and cattle men
present.
Bids on $4,000 steel bridge across
the Snake river ar Nampa ferry, in
Canyon county, will be asked by the
state highway department within a
short time.
Falling in faint at the high school
at Boise, Miss Ruth Calender struck
against schoolmate and broke her
neck. The break was peculiar one,
and it is believed she will recover.
A baby boy, born to Mr. and Mrs.
f. o. Ropp of Priest River is the elev-
enth child to bless their union, nine of
whom are living. Mrs. Ropp is but 30
years of age The oldest child is IA.
Purebred Poland China hogs, forty
seven of them, sold at Wilson brothers
annual sale at Caldwell for total of
S4320, an average price of $92.50. This
includes a number of young pigs in the
lot.
To reclaim between $4,000 and 10000
acres of dry land south of Nampa
near the Snake river which is known
as the Dry Lake country, meeting
hoIs Il Is.arf IN
terested farmers and land owners in
the district.
The plans have been accepted and |
the foundation completed for new |
Presbyterian church at Idaho Falls TO |
cost about $4,000, but the war caused |
all work to be suspended. 1t has been
decided to go ahead now and complete
the work as soon as possible.
Idaho Theatre Managers association
held its third annual convention at
Boise last week. About thirty man
ayers and propretors of motion pic
ture theatres in Idaho, together with
of the film-producing
were present at the ses-
sions.
Roosevelt memorial services were
held in the churches of Pocatello Feb
ruary and at the Y. NJ. c. A. At
the Congregational church, DR.. o. b.
Steely, a personal friend of the late
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, gave a
splendid review of the life of the noted
statesman.
A large number of people of Poca-
clio and many from the county at
ended the opening of the Pocatello
General hospital on February s, when
hat institution was formally opened,
fter undergoing extensive improve
nents and additions at cost aggre-
ating $S0,0O0
A jury at Twin Falls declared Frank .
)olan, ditchrider for the Salmon River
ANAL company, not guilty of an al
eyed assault with a deadly weapon :
october 20, 1918, upon Fred W. Berger
Berger, Non-partisan candidate on
ne Democratic ticket for state repre- I,
last fall
On February 8, Soda Springs cele-
f the Caribou county bill. making
oda Springs a permanent county seat.
anners reading "Soda Springs, Carl W
Du county," were in evidence on the n
lsiness streets. A ball was held at Il
lie schoolhouse gymnasium at night CT
Former Governor Alexander's proc
nation of February 10, 1918, which :.
lthorizes SEEMING for fish in the larger y
reams of the state and in Occur a
Alene, Hayden, Payette, Salmon and
otlatch lakes is no longer operative, II
,cording to an opinion handed down al
ON the office of the attorney gen !"
al. n
Pending probable action of the Boise
alley Traction company to install g
e-man cars and to increase its fare N
city lines to Z cents, the Boise Rail- - -
~ company has asked a rehearing
fore the public utilities commission
its petition. on which ii was allowed
increase of fare, but denied one st
IN cars. NJ
In city name census, completed at be
lnO fHliS, IL WIS louhu tit hdiiie VI az
iderson was held by forty-two fam
rs. Running a close second appears
1t of Johnson, with total of forty ue
miles Smith follows with thirty
lie, while the name of Miller extends as
thirty homes. The Brown families WI
mber 20. and the names of Nelson M
Peterson are tied with twenty :.
zee families, respectively.
azing association, operating in Ban
TX county in the Soda Springs re
N. together with the state land
,rd. has been made defendant in a
( brought by citizens of Soda VIII
rings and other points in eastern so
mock county, seeking cancellation all
grazing land leases made to the col
no Citizens Grazing association by thr
outgoing land board in November Civ
t year. FIRE
tor