The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-09-16
IDAHO BUDGET

building committee of the stewards of
the Catholic church has rejected all
bids for the construction of a new
| church building at Twin Falls.
Transmission lines of the Utah
Power & Light company and of the
Idaho Power company are to be joined
at Blackfoot and at Pocatello by No
vember l, to provide additional power
for the. vicinity of Idaho Falls and the
| Tipped Snake river valley.
Mrs. George Rode of Ulysses, and
Eli Allen of Gibbonsville, were killed
when the car in which they were rid
Ing went over the grade at point
| thirty-fve miles down the Salmon riv-
er from Salmon, pinning the occu-
pants under it.
Peaches are going to waste in the
Twin Falls district through over
abundance of the crop, according to
the county farm bureau. In one Or
chard great heaps of Elbertas, toO
ripe to can, are piled up to rot, it
is reported.
The rodent control law passed at
the last session of the state legisla-
ture will be enforced in Canyon county
this fall and the farm bureau will
start countrywide campaign Ito ex-
terminate pocket gOphers as the ini-
tial step.
The tabernacle at Montpelier has
been completed. The tabernacle is
built in the circular form. 1t is so
constructed that there are classrooms
around the sides which can be turned
into main assembly room when nee
essary.
Southern Idaho grain growers and
shippers have been notified that a tenn
porary embargo has been placed on
shipments of grain to Galveston, Tex,
due to heavy shipments to that port
from various sections of the west.
The city council has awarded a con.
tract for trunk line sewer at Twin
Falls tGCharles W. Heinecke of Twin
Falls and Portland. The total amount
involved is $35,575.75, which is $424.25
below the city engineers estimate.
Latah county's tax burden for 1919
is to be $161, 1893, compared with $685.
1856 in 1918, The general tax jumps
from $45,O15 to $sS,456 and the state
highway tax from $1O,321 to $40,333.
There is an increase in all taxes.
While sewing bags with threshing
crew, man pitching bundles caught
his fork in the belt of the machine and
the tines penetrated the neck and
and shoulders of Abraham Schulz,
farmer, causing severe wounds.
Robert, the fourteen months-old baby
of III. J. and Mrs. Slayton Of Firth,
died of vapo cresoline poisoning. He
reached up onto table and tipped a
bottle Of cresoline into his face and
died few hours later
To cope with the labor situation in
Idaho Falls and vicinity, brought about
by threats of general strike in the
building trades, $50 employers have
organized the Bonneville County EN-
ployers' association.
Upward of 10000 acres of govern
ment land will be withdrawn for home
stead entry. on October 8 in Bonnie
vile and Caribou counties, according
to information received by the Black
foot land office.
Among the hundreds Of visitors who
came to Salmon for the annual Lemhi
county fair are Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie
Burk, who rode horseback for 200
miles over mountain trails to attend
the event.
Under the rodent control act where
a landowner refuses to kill gophers on
his land after being notified the county
may hire the work done and charge
it against the owner when he pays his
taxes.
Prominent speakers of national i'm
portance are expected to attend the
third annual Northwest conference on
tuberculosis which is to be held in
Boise September 49, 30 and October 1.
4, The Wood River Power company at
Bellevue has asked the public utilities
commission for permission to provide
Picabo and Carey, two Blaine county
towns, with electric lights.
Fire consumed about one-fourth of
an eighty-ton stack of hay at the farm
of Thomas and John Davis at Pleas
ant View. It Is presumed that the
fire was caused by lightning.
A vigorous one-week campaign to
Increase it's membership will be launch
ed the latter part, Of October by the
Nampa Chamber of Commerce.
ViolatOrs of the Idaho game laws
since January have paid fines ag-
$314775 into the treasury Of
the game department.
The Pocatello Commercial club has
adopted the budget system, and the
new financial arrangement will go into
effect January 1.
Extensive building programs have
been planned in the stakes of Black