Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-11-14
In THE GEM STATE

Rupert is to own the electric plant.
This was decided at a special meeting
Of the city council last week.
The University OF Idaho Glee club
win make a trip through southern
Idaho the first and second weeks Of
February.
one-man street cars for the Boise
Valley Traction company's belt line
were authorized last week by the pub
lie utilities commission.
Because Luther Stephenson of Mel
ba couldn't wait until the law was out
on Chinese pheasants. he contributed
SIS to state game law enforcement
funds
Rieby and Jefferson county have APP
propriated $500 for the big celebra-
| ton to be held on Armlstlce day, No
vember II, In honor of returned sol
diers, sailors and marines,
The erection of the Weiser Seventh
Day Adventist church will begin at
once. The church will be of the bun
galow type. II Is estimated that the
value OF the structure will be $500.
Imprisoned for twenty-one hours In
a dry WELL Paul Bennett was rescued
alive from under seventy-two feet of
dirt and stones. He was working In a
well near Nampa when the cavern oc-
Cured.
Vance Johnson, % years old, was
bound over to the district court at
Blackfoot ON charge of first degree
murder and is held without bail. II
is charged that Johnson killed Leon
Reese Harvard, 10 years old.
If you happen to be a woman,
child or Civil war veteran, you are
at perfect liberty to 90 hunting with
out a license In Idaho. You may kill
the limit of game, whether 1t be deer,
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
be completed in time for next seasons
slicing.
The president of the Buhl chamber
va ONth ny
that body to appoint a committee OF
three to help organize the towns of
southern Idaho into u baseball league
and get a good club for Bull next
season.
LelanS Norton, returned soldier
son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. 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
Judge ]. J. Guheen, compelling him Il
remain Off duty, the business OF the
district court at Pocatello was PLACED
on tie shoulders of one Judge, anC
r an accumulation of cases is said Il
have resulted.
The strike of mechanics st TwiT
Falls, appears to have NO emo In sight
Many Of the largest garages are do
ing business, but are employing non
union men. The union men refuse Il
return to work until their demands 10
recognition are met,
| Reports from the upper Snake rive
| watershed in Wyoming are that OF
/ November /, at Moran. the outlet O
| Jackson lake dam, there was one foo
| of snow on the ground. At the soutl
| entrance to Yellowstone park Their
| was two feet of snow.
Thomas G. Neibaur of Sugar City
| Idaho's war hero, was married q
| Idaho Falls last week, to his boyhOo
1 sweetheart, Lois Shepperd, also of So
1 gar City. Neibaur was one of the sew
1 enteen men of the American army VIII
| received congressional recognition.
| New working hours went into effec
last week IN some OF the department
/ of the Twin Falls county administrn
ton. A working day heDceforth vii
be from 8 a. m. TO 4 p. IN. In most de
partments, however, offices will re
u main open until p. m. to comply wit
statutory requirements.
Newton WOnacott, the 11-year-ol
high school lad who disappeared fror
Twin Falls some time ago has no
been found. He went to school on
= morning, laid his books down an
: walked uptown. Then he vnnishe
n and IL is feared that he has met eithe
n with an accident or foul play.
RIgby is now a srgar-produelng con
multy. Last week the Beet Grower
,e Sugar company turned out its frs
" quantity Of sugar and since then ha
a been producing at the rate Of 10
d pounds minute. The product Is sal
n to be Of better grade than that wbic
II heretofore has been shipped Int
Rigby.
E. There is a shortage Of coal in n
e, -atelIo that may cause a great deal q
hardship later on II the weather r.
Iaains cold. Dealers were unable (
IN supply one-tenth Of the demand In IN
liz inter mart 0f October and nOW wifi