Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-06-13
idaho STATE NEWS

best pyrofechnlcal display ever giyeI
In Canyon county. as portion Of fh'
big July Fourth celebration.
NJ e. Anderson of Salt Lake has
been awarded "A contract 10 build o
tabernacle for the Blackfoot stake OF
the l.. ID. s. church at II cost Of APP
proximately $4,000
That Idaho Is threatened with q
water shortage for irrigation purposes
during the coming summer. is the de
claratlon Of w. @. Swendson. commits
sioner OF reclamation for the state.
The people OF Ammon, which Is sit
uated about four miles east Of Idaho
Falls showed their patriotism on June
6. when they. for the second time. gave
rousing celebration in honor Of the
returned soldiers
The sheriffs office has announced
he discovery In unclaimed sagebrush
land south of Bull of rude whiskey
still. together with several gallons OF
raw corn whiskey and more than 1850
gallons OF sour corn mash.
Jackson lake reservoir still lacks
more than 100000 acre feet of being
filled TO ITS capacity, and 1t has been
necessary to stop the flow of water
into the reservoir, that it may pass
down the regular channels.
Prizes aggregating not less than
$3.50 will be offered by the Twin Falls
county fair association to boys and
girls vocational clubs members, eX-
hibiting at the county fair ut Filler,
September 30 to October 3.
Idaho crops this year are going to
exceed all previous records, according
to II. V. Plat. general manager of the
Oregon Short Line railroad, who has
Just completed an inspection tour over
the lines In Utah, Idaho and Wyoming
Reports being circulated that certain
mining companies of the Occur
d'Alenes are discharglng union men in
an attempt TO keep miners from be-
coming organized are not borne out
by inquiries here, says a Wallace dis
patch.
Patients at the states insane asy-
lums at Blackfoot and Orofino must
pay the cost of their keep If they pos
sess property, Attorney General Black
ruled in an opinion prepared for J. X.
White. state commissioner of public
welfare
Plans have been completed for the
addition to the Bannock hotel at Po-
cateIlo, which will be the first of a
number of contemplated improve
ments which are destined to bring the
capacity of the hostelry up to a 300
room building.
Returned service men have been In
vited TO join with the veterans of the
Civil war in parade and Joint meet
ing June Is. during the annual en-
of the Idaho department, |
G. A. r., to be held at Twin Falls, |
June II. 1S and 10.
Ada county's new excavator recently |
ordered by the county commissioners |
has had its trial demonstration and is
giving satisfactory service I'm everyday |
work, according TO the county officials.
The machine is now being used at the
gravel bank at the foot of the fair
grounds grade.
Andrew Lounsbury of Albion, grand
master of the Idaho grand lodge, f. 4
4. NJ, is patient in Twin Falls
hospital, suffering from serious at
ack of heart disease, with which he
vas stricken while on the train at Bur
ey, on his way home from Long
3each. Cal. where he spent the win
err.
Arrangements had been under way
" the Red Cross of Bonneville TO hold
celebration for the returned soldiers
md sailors of the county on June IA,
Tag day, but owing to the fact that
Bonneville county has not quite half
4 her men home as yet, II was
bought best to postpone the formal
feicome home.
Soda Springs, like many other
ounty seats in Idaho, is not large
nough to justify the maintenance OF
government employment office. How
yer, the Bank of Soda Springs has
ome to the front and cheerfully Of
cred It's services to help discharged
oldicrs and sailors and others desir-
X employment.
The city of Idaho Falls has disposed
Z its $4,000 municipal bond issue.
hlch was voted for the Improvement
{ the city water and light plant; and
10 $4,000 issue voted for special
The former bonds
I'D nc premium of $lT5, with 5la
or cent interest. and the latter drew
per cent. and solo AT par,
Another big liquor haul was made
Idaho Falls last week when the
,erlff intercepted wagon en- route
.om Wyoming TO Idaho Falls Fifty
,ses of whiskey were piled In the
nron. which was driven from Wyom-
" hy man named Warren. AT pre-
,iling prices the liquor would have
,ought bootleggers about $500.
An aerial wedding took place in Los
a.