The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-11-14
TN THE GEM STATE

Twin Falls. ar .1 @# IS H@ss ri
Rupert Ia to own the electric plant.
This was decided at a special meeting
Of the city council last week.
The University Of Idaho Glee club
will make a trip through southern
idaho the first and second weeks Of
February. .f |
II One-man street cars for the Boise
1 Valley Traction company's belt line
were authorized last week by the pub
Tic utilities commission.
Because Luther Stephenson Of Mel
4 ba couldn't wait until the law was out
Il on Chinese pheasants, he contributed
n $2S to state game law enforcement
4 funds.
Rigby and Jefferson county have ap-
4 1propriated $500 for the big celebra-
ton to be held on Armistice day, No
u vember IL, in honor of returned SOL
y diers, sailors and marines.
The erection Of the Weiser Seventh
3 Day Adventist church will begin at
N once. The church will be Of the bun
galow type. It is estimated that the
4 value of the structure will be 5000.
\ Imprisoned for twenty-one hours in
\ a dry well, Paul Bennett was rescued
alive from under seventy-two feet of
Y dirt and stones. He was working in
well near Nampa when the cavern &C.
Cured.
Vance Johnson, 50 years old, was
bound over to the district court at
\ Blackfoot on a charge of first degree
murder and is held without bail. It
Is charged that Johnson killed Leon
A Reese Harvard, 10 years old.
II you happen to be woman,
4 child or Civil war veteran, You are
at perfect liberty to 60 hunting with
out license in Idaho. You may kill
the limit Of game, whether it be deer,
4 mountain goat, elk or anything else.
Upwards of 5000 acres of beets have
been contracted to be grown next sea-
son and delivered to the Idaho Co
operative Beet Sugars company mil
liOn-dOllar factory at Filler, which will
slicing.
The president of the Bull chamber
( of commerce has been authorized by
that body to appoint committee of
three to help organize the towns of
southern Idaho into baseball league
and get good club for Bull next
season.
Leland Norton, returned soldier,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Norton, who
reside on a farm two miles south of
Rupert, dropped dead at their home,
death resulting from effects of having
been gassed while at the front in
France.
Owing to the long illness of the late
Z Judge j. J. Guheen, compelling him to
remain off duty, the business of the
( district court at Pocatello was placed
on the shoulders of one judge, and
: an accumulation of cases is said to
have resulted.
The strike of mechanics at Twin
Falls, appears to have no end in sight.
Many of the largest garages are do
ing business, but are employing non
union men. The union men refuse to
return to work until their demands for
recognition are met.
Reports from the upper Snake river
watershed in Wyoming are that on
November 1, at Moran, the outlet of
Jackson lake dam, there was one foot
of snow on the ground. At the south
entrance to Yellowstone park there
was two feet of snow.
Thomas c. Neibaur of Sugar City,
Idaho's war hero, was married at
Idaho Falls last week. to his boyhood
/ sweetheart, Lois Shepherd, also of Su-
gar City. Neibaur was one of the sew
enteen men of the American army who
received congressional recognition.
New working hours went into effect
last week in some of the departments
of the Twin Falls county administra-
ton. A working day henceforth will
be from Il. m. to p. IN. In most de-
partments, however, offices will re-
main open until ) p. m. to comply with
statutory requirements.
Newton Wonacott the 14-year-old |
high school lad who disappeared from
Twin Falls some time ago has not |
been found. He went to school one
morning. laid his books down and
walked uptown. Then he vanished |
and it is feared that he has met either
with an accident or foul play.
Rigby is now sugar-producing COM
muity. Last week the Beet Growers
Sugar company turned out its first
quantity Of sugar and since then has
been producing at the rate of 100
pounds a minute. The product is said
to be Of better grade than that which
heretofore has been shipped into
Rigby.
There is shortage of coal in Po-
catello that may cause a great deal of
hardship later on if the weather re-