Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-05-23
idaho STATE NEWS

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June Is to. 20, inclusive.
The home of William Miller, near
Jerome, was destroyed by fire last
week.
At Occur d'Alene recently an in
spection excursion of silos was held
with marked success.
The bond election at MaIad for an
issue of $250,000 was carried In favor
of the bonds by large majority.
The Lewistown normal summer SEES
sion of nine weeks begins June 8 with
prospects of an unusually big atten-
dance.
Lemhi county is surfacing the high
way north of Salmon with gravel and
is spending some $4,000 between Sal
mon and Carmen.
A meeting is to be held in Boise May
| % for the purpose of forming an Ada
county council of the National Boy
Scouts commission.
l. Construction of two Snake river
bridges to connect Owyhee and Canyon
counties will begin as soon as prelim-
mary steps can be taken.
Determined efforts by the depart
ment of law enforcement are to be
made to compel every Idaho auto
owner to adorn his car with 1919
| license. sW
| H. b. Praeter has been named to
succeed r. b. Robinson as engineer of
maintenance of way of the Oregon
Short Line, with headquarters in Po-
catello.
Alfalfa is growing very slowly, as
are all pasture and range grasses, due
! to the continued cool weather and the
depletion of soil moisture. Alfalfa was
badly frostbitten in Bannock county.
Boise Commercial clubs barbecue,
and annual event which was postponed
| last year because of food administra-
ton restrictions, will be held Wednes-
day, September "a. at the state fair.
Plans are under way at Sugar City,
for the welcome-home demonstration
in honor of Private Thomas G. Mel
baur who was awarded congress
sional medal for bravery in action in
the A. Il. u.
All danger of local tong war in
the Chinese colony at Boise is past for
! the present. The trouble was settled
by arbitration, but it took delegate
from the Chinese Benevolent society
of Portland to accomplish it.
In line with the announced policy
of having the Boise city police force
made up, in the main, of returned sol
diers, the mayor has notified four po-
licemen that they will be released, and
their positions given to soldiers.
Progress on the construction of the
suspension bridge to span Snake Riv-
er canyon north of Hansen, which the
contractors expect to complete by June
10, was held up last week when a
number of the men went on strike.
Child welfare in home, school,
church and state, is the slogan of the
National Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teacher associations, the Ida
no branch of which held its fourteenth
annual meeting in Boise last week.
An appropriation of $4,000 has been
made to rebuild the Mink Creek-Crys-
tai highway from the Pocatello city
limits and extending fifteen miles
south to the postoffices of Crystal and
Mink Creek. Half the sum will be ex-
pended this year and the remainder
next season.
The validity of millions of dollars
of treasury certificates or notes to
rofsa tho naoaSSory fund, IN ,,,aat +hA
expenses of state government and to
carry on the program of state highway
improvements is involved in litigation
instituted in the supreme court of
Idaho ON May II.
Pocatello's growth during the last
few years has been so phenomenal that
the school system is inadequate to care
for the big school population, and dur
ing the last two or three years port
able buildings have been erected on all
the school grounds to care for over
flow attendance. One school has four
these portable buildings.
Adjournment of the Idaho council of
defense win not deter work on COM
piling data on the states war activi-
ties, according to the department of
law enforcement. This work is being
done in the offices Of the state con-
stabulary and it is expected five or
six months will be necessary to COM
plete the record.
Since December 20, 1918. pneumo-
MIA has caused more than 4S per cent
of all the deaths reported in Idaho,
according to an announcement made
by the department of public welfare.
The number of deaths recorded in this
period is 1875 and Of this total 953
were attributed either directly or sec
ondarily to some form of pneumonia.
The new administration at Idaho
Falls has considerable work ahead for
the coming summer, which will include
the completion Of another large unit to
the city's hydroelectrlc plant, which
will add 075 horSanOyyer TO the nresant