Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-02-13
In THE GEM STATE

second. were won by two Ashton grow
ers at the recent POcatello seed show.
/. N. Akin, owner Of the C0rcoran
rooming house, at Twin Falls, fell
down an elevator shaft and broke his
back.
In "wet'' days Boise numbered on
her police forc> from twenty to twen-
ty-five men. The present force is an
exact dozen.
Nearly $50 persons from BlackfOot.
Shelly, Bingham and Rigby stakes
attended the four-stake III. L A. con-
ventiOn at Idaho Falls.
Institution of a meat and abattoir
inspection department, as a part of
the municipal administration, has been
authorized by the city council at Twin
Falls.
The city of Twin Falls has entered
Into a contract agreement with A. r.
Roberts of Portland, Ore, for the sale
of carload of army merchandise
and goods there.
Fifty pupils of the rural high school.
fed their desire to enter the declama-
tory contest which will take place at
Filler some time during February.
Howard Talkington of Jerome lost
the sight of one eye from the careless
use of rubber flipper in the hands
of playmate last week. A piece Of
barbed wire penetrated the eyeball.
Equipped with apparatus of the lat
est design, hospital is to be insti-
tuted in Burley, according to authori-
tative information. 1t will occupy the
entire upper floor of the new Pixley
building.
An ordinance which will be voted
upon at the next meeting of the Nampa
city council will provide severe penal
ties for the people living in the city
who permit debris to accumulate on
their property.
Building permits covering construc-
ton estimated at $3OO,OOO were issued
by the city clerk at Twin Falls during
January. This is the heaviest months
permit business in the history of
Twin Falls city.
Employers of child labor must pay
10 per cent of their net income to
the federal government, Sam ]. Hind
man, chief field deputy in the office
of Lewis williams, revenue collector,
announced last week.
The "open shop" policy has been
inaugurated at Twin Falls by the
Twin Falls Employers association.
Official notice of the associations ac-
ton has been served on business agents
and secretaries of the various crafts
involved.
A dam which had been built in Cow
Creek this winter for the purpose of
providing water for their ranches at
Cow lakes went out with the high
water, a few days ago. The dam had
just been completed and had not had
time to settle.
Captain Jones was burned about the
face and head when the furnace in
his home at Basalt exploded. The
boy had attempted to build fire In
the furnace, and being unsuccessful, he
threw in a quantity of coal oil, caus-
ing the explosion.
"The increase in the receipts of the
department of commerce and industry
over 1918 is within $532.7O of being
sufficient to pay the entire expense of
the department" said Jay Gibson. COM
missioner of that department, in his
report to Governor Davis.
The Cove Motor company has pur-
chased from N. M. Eldredge twenty
acres in north Pocatello and started
excavations for a plant. A portion
will be laid ont in city lots for the
homes of the workmen in the factory.
The factory itself will be located near
the town.
With a beet sugar factory assured
for the Filler district, and arrange
ments proceeding for the operation
of this institution to handle the 1920
beet crop, executives of the Idaho
Cooperative Beet Sugar company of
Twin Falls are negotiating for the es-
tablishment Of a similar factory in
Bull.
1t is rumored that there is to be
constructed a line Of railroad extend
ing from the present main line of the
Oregon Short Line at Hammett,
through Twin Falls to Wells, New, a
distance of more than $50 miles. This
would, it is said, put Twin Falls on
the main line Of the Oregon Short
Line.
The Central Idaho Antlers' associa-
ton, made up chiefly of members of
the B. P. o. e. of southern Idaho,
will transfer before spring forty elk
from the Jackson Hole country to the
Copper Basin near Mackay. The trans
fer will cost approximately $1,000,
which cost will be borne by the asso-
citation.
There was $10.27 saved for every
dollar expended in farm bureau wor,
in Idaho in 1910, according to a table
Of figures presented by the university
| extension division to the county com.