Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-09-17
IN THE GEM STATE

for Meridian will cost approximately
$65, 900.
Women Of Smiths Prairie, In El-
more county, made 1878 pounds q
cheese last summer.
Twelve carloads of potatoes shippeu
from. Twin Falls last week sold nc an
average price of $1.35 hundred.
Mathew Scully, who lives four miles
northwest of Bull, got an average Oh
500 bushels of wheat to the acre Oh
a field of forty acres.
while out hunting up Walker creek,
near McCammon, AL Stoker ana bill
Woodland ran onto a good SIZED DoD-
cat which they killed.
A yield of seventy-five bushels OF
wheat to the acre was threshed last
week on the ranch of Ed Sinclair Veh
miles northwest of Buhi.
Gordon Mckay administered tne
knockout to Romeo Hagan, Paclhc
coast champion, in the sixth round AZ
Twin Falls on Labor day.
The new Touring mill at Bellevue
has been completed and the machin-
ery is being installed. The mill VIII
begin operation October 10.
Work has been started on new build
ings on the state fair grounds for the
exclusive use Of prize-winners among |
the members of boys and girls clubs
In Idaho.
"Spug" Meyers, Pocatello's agrees
sive young bantamweight, won a de-
cision over Ray Rose Of Boise IN
holly contested twelve-round go at
Pocatello.
Plans for the Cassia county fair and
roundup are now complete for sep
TENDER %, % and "a for one of the
very best exhibitions ever seen in that
section of Idaho.
1t Is estimated by the state agricul-
tural authorities that the anti-grass-
hopper campaign in Idaho county This
summer saved the farmers approx
mately $2O5,329 on their crops.
AS the result of an accident at Po-
catello, Harry Taft. brakeman, suf-
fered injuries to his right foot which
made it imperative that part of It be
amputated when he was taken to the
hospital.
II has been learned that for the first
time since the National Tournament
| of Health Crusaders was inaugurated
] Idaho has not won a national pennant.
I n 191S-19 the Idaho schools won four
! national pennants.
] Church and civic organizations
I throughout southeastern Idaho anu
| particularly throughout the upper
/! Snake river valley have taken up the
| matter Of enforcement of the law on
! the sale of tobacco to minors.
! Charles Jelm Of Charleston, As years
| old, was killed when his automobile
! plunged over an embankment near
! Lake Waha, and George Weeks,
! prominent stockman of the Waha sec
] ton, suffered serious injuries.
I Dizziness in the hay market is still
holding, with no prospects of being
] succeeded by any considerable activi
o ty. What offers are made range mon
So to $40, and what the farmers are
holding out for is at least $12.
With the assistance of Deputy Vet
.R erinarian Edwin L. Powell ant
leaders Of the farm bureau, 1873 cattle
belonging to IS Bonner county farm
ers were tested recently for tubercu
losis and only one reactor was found
Ira Roach, aged Ia, was seriously in
jured and Jack Sheriff., aged abOu
=. 50, badly cut and bruised in an aut'
accident near Banks, while on fish
ing trip, the machine failing to tax
a sharp turn, going over an embank
III ment.
# Franklin county farm bureau mem
u bers have obtained the services Of
drainage engineer to work in the cour
", ty in September and October. Sex
eral thousand acres are to be drained
up A cooperative shipment of tile wi
ave be made.
not For saving the life of an Is month
my old child at the risk of his own, II.
a McMaster, formerly telegraph 0peri
as tor on the Oregon Short Line,
INIT Mountain Home, has received
De ward from the Oregon Short Line. I
axe sixty merit marks.
- The government geological surv'
shows that Della mountain, a mi
inns south of HALEY, is 1857 feet above Il
me river flowing at It's base; Carbona
4 I hill, 145O feet above the river; o
,wd Badly, $500 feet above the river,
trv- $3.50 feet above sea level.
! of William Z. LASTLY, who lives ne
Orofino, was killed on the -Pard
grade when an auto truck he W
|zE driving went over the grade. 1t seel
that his death was instantaneous,
Bll. though there was no witness, and
cause Of the accident is not known
A saad erroyUers, association has he