Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-08-06
In THE GEM STATE

near future, the local EIks' lodge is
entering upon o campaign TO create
3 building fund.
In semi-annual report for the past.
six months by John w. Eagleson, state
treasurer, to Governor Davis, he
shows a balance Of $3,012, 164.33 on
June 80, 1920, while the balance on
January 1, 1920, was $2,606, 307.11
w. ]. Sergel, one of the pioneers
Of the Bull country, arrived from FL
sinore, Calf, for 8 brief visit and
expressed himself to q Bull repre-
sentative as being astounded at the
growth of Bull and the surrounding
country.
The Boise troop Of cavalry for the
national guard has mustered in 46
men so far, according to the report of
Maj. J. B. Burns. Sixteen prospects
were given the physical examination
and passed for enlistment into the
troop last week.
B.. b. Muehlen, electrician for the
Idaho Power company, was drowned
last week few hundred feet below
the power plant in Snake river. He
had been instructing his two children
in swimming along the sand bar on
the east bank of the river.
The Bull beet crop gives promise
this year Of being the best ever raised
m the Bull country, hence the best
ever. produced in the wide world, in
the opinion of John Conner of Ogden,
head of the agricultural department
of the Amalgamf ted SugSy company.
The Rupert post of the American
Legion has started movement to OBJ
tain the opening of 10000 acres,
known as the Minidoka project extern
sion, for filing. Efforts will be made
to get all the Legion posts in the state
to cooperate in urging Congress to
take action.
The high cost of sugar has resulted
in much less jelly-making and canning
this season than usual, according to
the grocers of 3oise, who say that
the housewives ere bottling their fruit
juice and will wait to add the sugar
until it is cheaper. They are using
only enough to keep" the canned
fruits.
Negotiations are being conducted
for the purpose of bringing about an
adjustment of the differences between
the successors in interest Of the Twin
Falls Oakley Land & Water company
and the settlers who took farm
lands under the Carey act project,
which was promoted by the company.
The construction of the American
Falls reservoir and more liberal pol
icy for reclamation in the west never
looked so encouraging as it did when
the appropriations committee of the
UrSed States House of Re-resenta-
lives completed its tour through Idaho,
during which the committee visited
some of the leading irrigation prof
ects of this state.
Sheep ready for market may be
shipped for immediate slaughter with
out dipping, if accompanied by a GER
tificate from a federal or state in
spector indicating that the animals
are free from infection, according to
statement interpreting quarantine
! order No. II of the bureau of animal
industry, Issued by authority of the
bureau.
The >ndition of Idaho sugar beets
IS 90 per cent, as against the ten
year average of 90 per cent, accord
ing to the July crop report Of the de-
partment of agri ulture, and it is es-
timated that the states crop will reach
508,00t tons, as compared with 208,-
900 tons in 1919. The Idaho beet
acreage this year is $1,000, an in
crease of 1900 acres over last year.
Arthur Johnson, a grandson of Her
man Anderson of BuAl, left for New
York to join the crew of the steam
ship Northern Pacific. He went in re-
Spouse to a telegram appraising him
Of the opening on the same ship on
which he had served during the war.
He served two years on the Northern
Pacific, making regular trips between
New York and the ports of France
when the Atlantic was supposed to be
hotbed of Hun submarines.
Scarcity and high price Of seed did
not tend to reduce potato acreage, as
expected, for $1,000 acres were plant
ed, as against $4,000 last year, says
julius H, jacobson, field agent of the
Idaho crop reporting service, in a
weekly crop summary. The crop is
flourishing. A condition Of 95 per
cent of normal is in marked contrast
to rs per cent on July /, 1919, and in
dicates total crop OF $780, 900 bush
els, as compared with 100000 bush
els harvested last year.
The murder Of John Bartholomew, a
sheepherdcr of Price. Utah. seven
| wears agn. has been nartinlIY ex.