The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-03-12
IDAHO STATE NEWS

equipped hospital.
An Employers association has been
organized at st. Anthony.
The Idaho Livestock association is
planning To establish stock feed mill
at Pocatello
II Is proposed 10 hold an auto show
al Pocatello. the probable dates being
April g 10 10.
Plans are rapidly taking shape on
Shoshone's new public park and auto
camping ground.
The First National Bank of briggs
has been authorized To- increase its
capital from $1,000 To $4,000.
Idahos share of the $257 10000 ap-
propriated by the federal government
for road building in 1920-21 is ST.
159961.6l.
That Idaho Falls has excellent pros
poets for the establishment of paper
mill, was indicated at a mass meeting
held recently.
A candy factory was opened at
Caldwell last week and the statesmen
will soon be on the road throughout
the Boise valley.
The mining companies in the Occur
dAlene district announced last week
an increase in wages to all employees
of 30 cents a day.
A campaign TO raise budget Of
$500 for the Salvation Army work
hn ai,rt To
planned at Twin Falls.
Experiments with quail of the scaled
partridge or blue Mexican type. not
native to Idaho. are being inaugural
ed by the state game department.
The average Idahoan claims cOnsid-
cradle satisfaction in the fact that
Idaho is reputed 10 have the best or
ganized farm bureau in the United
States.
The treasury department has au-
thOriZed conversion of the Bank Of
Commerce, limited, of ArcO, into the
First National Bank Of ArcO, capital
$4,000.
Records show that adult farm bu-
reau work in Idaho during 1919 re-
turned net saving to the state of
| $2,5OO,0OO above the cost of conducting
the work.
So many arrests have been made at
GOOding in the past few days that the
Jail is crowded to the limit. II male
| factions continue, additional bastile
quarters will be needed.
The plant of the Idaho Stave Silo
| company at Nampa was damaged to
the extent of $4,000 by fire, caused
by defective wiring. The plant had
but recently been completed.
More than 500 Shriners and their la
dies were entertained by the people
of Burley on February % at one of
the most largely attended ceremonials
of Shriners ever held in the state.
Orders have been issued for the sale
| of So, 200 stock in the Twin Falls De-
MIGRATING company in order to give the
concern capital sufficient to tide it
| over a present embarrassing period.
The jury at Caldwell in the case of
Yertram w. Dresser, charged with the
| nurder of Prince Bennett, his father
| in-law, returned verdict of not guilty
after being out less than an hour.
The John f. Pohlman residence on
Blue Lakes boulevard, the most fash
ionable district of Twin Falls, was al
most destroyed by fire last week. The
fire Is believed to have caught from
an overheated flue.
| A petition is being circulated for the
| purpose of inducing the government to
provide new quarters and equipment
for the Rupert postoffice. The pres
ent quarters and equipment are said
to be unsatisfactory.
| Eleven thousand souvenir booklets.
| gifts of the French government TO the
men who served with the A. L. f., are
| being sent out To southern Idaho legion
posts from the office of the state ad-
| jutant for distribution.
| A petition signed by several hundred
persons on the east side of Pocatello,
requesting that the governmental pos
| tai department re-establish the east
side substation has been turned down,
according to adyices received from
| Washington.
Seeds sold for feeding purposes
only" This sign appears in many
dealers establishments throughout the
state. according Ia Il. r. Sheehan, state
seed commissioner who has issued a
statement advising farmers TO buy only
tested seeds.
The president of the Idaho Fedora