Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-03-19
IN THE GEM STATE

has inaugurated an intensive campaign
for the securing Of new members.
Pocatello real estate dealers have
formed an organization to be known
as the Pocatello Real Estate board.
Forty inmates of the State Mental
hospital at Blackfoot have been re-
moved to the home for the feeble-mind-
ed at Nampa.
The Furcht-Baker Aerial company !
will have large passenger plane on /
exhibition and for public use at the mo !
tor show at Pocatello, April 6 to 10.
The superintendent of the Jackson |
Lake reservoir reports storage sup
ply of 1850 acre-feet compared with
300, 7S0 acre-feet at the same date last
year.
Montpelier is now in line for free
delivery of mail, and the Boosters
club has taken up the proposition of
naming the streets and numbering the
homes.
Lewiston has appointed a motor
cycle policeman who will patrol the
main streets of the city with the duty
of enforcing the city traffic and speed
ordinances.
Voters of the west end of Twin Falls
tract have voiced sentiment in favor
of issuing $4,000 road bonds, the
vote at the bond election resulted in
1892 for and 154 against.
Effective April 1, all mercantile lnsti-
tutions of Bull will go on new working
hours. Stores will open at a. m.
and close at g p. m, except Saturdays,
when the closing hour will be 8 p. m.
Thirty-five of Pocatello's best must
, clans have organized under the name
of the "Pocatello Bannocks" and will
make their initial appearance at the
opening of the big auto show on
April 6.
Bert Sparks of BONN, Mont, and
james OLeary of Butte, Mont, wert
sentenced to serve from one to fifteen
years in the penitentiary at Boise for
Dubois March 6.
Officers made a raid on a house at
Jackson and secured eleven gallons of
moonshine liquor and some mash. The
still was not found. A foreigner was
arrested, however, charged with unlaw
ful possession of intoxicants.
Contracts aggregating $3S, 96S.64
have been awarded by the state depart
ment of public welfare to Contractor
Sells of Pocatello for the construc-
ton of new state natatorium on the
states land at Lava Hot Springs.
The officials of the Idaho Co-opera-
tive Beet Sugar company are said to
have reported favorably upon the plan
of building a factory on the Minidoka
project, provided sufficient local sup
port and encouragement are received
w. G. Swendson, state commissioner
of reclamation, states that in his next
report, which will be printed within
few days, there will be much valuable
data ON stream measurements made by
state and federal agencies during the
past six years.
The board of county commissioners
in session in Paris, discussed the mat
ter of granting franchise to the
| American Phosphate corporation to
construct a railroad spur up Montpe-
Tier canyon to the phosphate property,
put deferred action.
William Galbraith has been SEN
fenced to serve from two and one
half to fourteen years In the state
prison for an alleged assault on his
wife with intent to murder. The
cJime, it is alleged, was committed in
Montpelier, February IL.
The expansion of ice on Payette lake
has caused the lake to swell. Because
of the shoreward movement of Ice,
piles driven near the edge of the lake
have been tilted to an angle Of As de-
grees and wharves and buildings along
the lake have been damaged.
| Four children narrowly escaped be-
ing burned to death at the ranch of
T. d. Lee, near Twin Falls, when a
barn in which they were playing
caught fire from lighted candle one
of the children had been carrying.
Stacked with several tons of hay, the
barn burst into flames instantly.
DIR. L. G. Henderson, state veterin-
arian. is comforting with stockmen re-
garding the hog cholera situation in
the southern part of the state. Last
fall the disease gained quite start
but was finally put under control and
the state veterinary department has
been keeping close watch on 1t since.
Indictments were returned by the
federal grand jury at Pocatello against
Fred Wheeler, Don Moore and A. r
Mcdonald. Wheeler and Moore art
charged with selling liquor to the In
dams and Wheeler pleaded guilty. Nc
Donald Is charged with the causing Of
unlawful issuance Of free transporta
ton In intereststate commerce.
Idaho farmers In the Snake Rivel
drainage area must depend for suffi
| cient water on the sDrinp rainfall az