Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05
In THE GEM STATE

The Christian Science church at
Twin Falls, will build a new edIfce.
Organization of the Rotary club of
Blackfoot was c>mpleted last week
with eighteen me'Abers.
A milk condensary will be estab-
lished in Bull, IL a contract for $500
gallons of butter fat can be obtained.
Gooding college, at Gooding, is So
Letting funds and propose to erect a
dormltory to cost approximately
$150OO0.
Idaho revenue officers will put the
ban on all classes of liquids containing
alcohol in sufficient quantity to make
them intoxicating, they say.
An intensive campaign to drive the
l. w. w. from every lumber and min
ing camp in northern Idaho has been
launched by the Idaho state constabu-
| larry.
Two new sewer projects planned for
the southern part of Twin Falls have
been accepted by the city council,
which will soon call for bids on con-
struction.
The recent drive for the Roosevelt
memorial fund in Bull resulted in $317
being subscribed for that purpose,
Three hundred dollars was the amount
asked for.
Bids received for construction of the
proposed new Bonneville county, court
house are so high that Chairman Chris
tian Anderson announced himself as
being stunned"
w. H. Steber, yardmaster employed
at Lewiston by the Camas Prairie rail-
road, was placed under arrest on a
charge of criminal syndicalism, and
was released on $500 bonds.
PocatellO will have baseball club
next summer, but whether the team
will play with the Yellowstone crowd
or join the Southern Idaho league is
matter yet to be determined.
That Stacker aliens should be de-
ported without further delay is the
decision reached by the John Regain
post, American Legion of Boise, which
has passed u resolution to that effect.
The Oregon Short Line has been or
NNANN " iAiN Chibth olutCo du-
ministration to complete at once the
spur track near briggs which will UNI
lock 13,O00,000 tons of coal for use in
Idaho.
The state department of public
works and law enforcement and the
state bureau of highways have is
sued joint bulletin explaining the
Sfota traffic combinations foc ,,ona-.I
distribution.
A party of four young residents of
Paul had an almost miraculous escape
from serious injury, when an automo-
bile which they were riding plunged
down a seventy-hve-foot embankment
and was wrecked.
Dog team practice, in anticipation
of the annual winter races at Ashton,
is starting, despite the scarcity of
snow in this section. Several prospec-
tive contestants are getting. their dogs
in trim for the event.
Wilder's telephone troubles were
partly quieted last week when the
state public utilities commission grant
ed to James n. Weston the requisite
authority for establishing a telephone
exchange in that city.
Arrest of Leonard Rose, aged 10, on
a charge Of "moonshining'' was effect
ed at Kimberly. Rose is alleged to
have been implicated in the operation
of private whisky still recently un
earthed near Rock Creek.
Harry Woods, Boise travelling sales
man, who was injured recently when
an automobile crashed through the
plate glass window of hotel lobby at
Caldwell, has recovered sufficiently to
be rel ased from the hospital.
The results of inspection of scales
in Idaho by the state farm market
bureau show approximately one-half
of the scales tested to be inaccurate
and they have been condemned for
repairs or condemned Internationally.
1t is said that the Oregon Short Line
shops in POcatello will be used for
the instruction of apprentices In all
the branches of work handled in the
shops, including classes for machin-
lists, car builders, boilermakers and
in locomotive work.
Although the legislature of this state
adopted an amendment to the state
constitution prohibiting the manufac-
ture of intoxicating liquors in Idaho
forever. and the people ratified the
amendment later, the legislature has
never passed the necessary legislation
to make 1t effective. In the opinion of
II. J. Hull, prosecuting attorney of
Shoshone county.
A filtering process is used by the
traffickers in wood alcohol in Idaho.
according to revenue officers. and
much of the poisonous element is re-
moved by the process. 1t is purchased
for $3.50 per gallon. it is said. and
undergoes a certain percentage Of d.
luton before it Is ready for the con-
sumner. 1t is then sold at prices vary
ing from 50 to 81 a 0uarf