Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-02-07
IDAHO STATE NEWS


made at once by the state land board,
Permission TO charge a fare of Z
cents, beginning February >, was grant
ed the Boise Railway company by the
public utilities commission.
Do Frugoli, Pocatelo boy, re-
turned from France last week Fru-
goli was once enormously reported
killed in action at Belleau wood, but
instead was seriously wounded.
From thirty-five to forty pupils of
the star schools received the national
achievement pins this year There
were fifteen champions in the county
and Star won seven out of the fifteen.
Bonneville county commissioners
have passed resolution calling for
special bond election Of the county
for the purpose of erecting a court
house at cost not to exceed S225, 900
According to the coronor's inquest
Abe Terry, who was found dead in
his home at POcatello, died from a sud
den stroke of heart failure. Terry
was aged "a and had resided in Poca-
tello fifteen years.
If the present bill which is now
before the house in the national con-
gress at Washington is passed, Idaho
will receive about $4,000 a year adj
1itional for agricultural extension
work to what it is receiving now
More than 100 people were present
at "A reception given at Caldwell in
honor of b. NJ. Holt of that city, who
has just returned from service over
seas since last year in the civilian re-
lief department of the Red Cross.
Signed reports from SO4 farmers in
thirteen counties show on 1877, 4S7 acres
n total possible loss in grain valued at
$774693 in 1918, had no poisoning of
rodent pests been done. This makes
an average possible loss of S6.O7 per
acre.
Increased activity will be waged in
the 1919 war on rodent pests by the
farmers of Idaho as a result of a most
successful fight on these pests in 1918,
according to w. E. Crouch, federal
agent, in charge of the rodent control
in Idaho.
The Twin Falls county farm bureau |
executive committee has gone on rec |
ord in favor of continuation this year
of the maximum So daily farm labor
wage scale, adopted and carried into
effect by farm bureaus throughout Ida
ho last year.
Since December, 1917, when state
and federal livestock inspectors CO.
operated in the work of tuberculosis
in Idaho, there have been
80 cows out of 174O animals tested
which We're found to have been infect
ed with tuberculosis.
1t was the sentiment of all the as
SCISSORS who met at Boise that the
state board Of equalization, when it
meets in Boise next August, to equal
iZe the assessments between counties,
should also have the assessors assem-
bic at that time to meet with it,
The Western Retail Lumbermen's
annual convention, which was to have
been held in Boise February 10, 20
and p, has been postponed until next
year because of influenza conditions
prevailing in many of the states in
which live many of the members.
"Orchardists should begin now TO
arrange for spraying outfits for their I
and also begin to look now
or a supply of lime, sulphur and ar
enate of lead sufficient to insure eff
ective work." declares T.. f. stephens [
# Nampa, president of the state hOrti- I
cultural board i
Numerous compliments to the city of t
'ocatello have poured in to various G
chiefly the Red Cross 2
nd city government. from soldier boys
n all parts of the country, expressing
heir thanks for the royal welcome and
ind treatment accorded during the e
top there while passing through. c
Idaho Technical institute faculty t
eem to favor the proposal by the o
gard of education to consolidate the Il
.1biOn normal with the Technical in b
htute, but is strongly opposed to any n
anne which includes "South Idaho"
+ any submersion of the technical ma
IRE of the present school under a
ormal title. d
Tie school children of Idaho will u
nter the lists of the great modern u
ealth crusade for the fifteen-week pc d
cd beginning February 3 and ending 81
lay "a This is a national tournament o.
which the "Crusade Leagues of u
very state in the Union will joust for
he trophies offered by the American
ed Cross and the National Tubercu-
sis association. 4
Drowned in four feet of water, in =,
stern ut the family home. five miles -
,uth of HOLSTER, the body of Esther -
almgren, two-year-old daughter of =
enry Malmgren, was recovered by his =
Their few moments after the babys '"
II into the cistern, was reported to
e parents by her 5-year-od brother,
hO witnessed it; III
Pat Welker, one of the boys from 70
lmbridge who has just recently re- he