Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-10-08
IN THE GEM STATE

four-team basketball league.
Lutherans Of the intermountain sec
tion held four-day conference in
Pocatello, beginning September 25.
Reports Of the killing Of a number
Of fine deer come from the Slate Greek
section, about 80 miles north Of
Mackay.
The Oregon Short Line is enlarging
Its yards at Pocatello by laying 1850
feet Of new track and setting eleven
new switches.
More than 100 cars of potatoes have
been shipped from the South Side Min
Idoka project already this season, ac-
cording to one estimate.
Idaho farms and ranges are now
producing an annual wealth of $140.
100000, according 20 a report issued
from the office of the governor.
A Boise woman bought reund-trip
ticket to indianapolis last week, to at
tend the G. A. R. eneampment Will
dimes she had saved up during several
years
II. f. Samuels has filed with the Sec
rotary Of state his formal notice of
withdrawal as a candidate for United
States senator on the Non-pnrtisan
ticket.
Census figures just received from
Washington show that Madison county
has population OF 9167; Franklin.
$3.50; Jerome, 5729; Butte, 2940, and
Clark, 1885.
1t is expected that more than the
customary number of farmers of Bing-
ham county will feed stock this com
Ing winter, thus using up tine surplus
Of hay in the county.
The Idaho Falls High school began
Its third week of school work last week
with a largely increased enrolment.
There are close to 500 attending the
high school there this season.
Virgil Brunt, aged IA, was instantly
killed at Idaho Falls by the accidental
discharge Of revolver with which he
and young Allen Pike, neighbOr boy
Of about the same age, was playing.
Business men of Twin Fails have
resumed the campaign to raise 100000
as that city's share Of h bonus to be
paid for the building OF the proposed
railroad from Twin Falls to Wells.
New.
Twelve Bonner county farmers of
Cabinet and Colliner communities esti-
mate that they made an extra 1888 ON
two lots of cattle by shipping them re-
Gently in community cooperative ship
ments.
The beet committee of the Franklin
County Farm bureau has reported that
4500 acres are signed up for beet pro
duction. and is ready to guarantee the
remainder required for the erection Of
a sugar factory.
The increase in attendance at the
Bull schools is SO great this year that
two more routes win probably be add
ed to the present number, making the
tJtal Of school wagons bringing
school children into Bull number 20.
j. r. Baymiller, Of Bull, has re-
ceived a patent on a revolving house
hold cabinet, which Is meant especial
" for apartment houses, and makes
two rooms do the service Of four, also
saving 5000 In furniture, 1t is claimed
by the inventor.
From present indications an alfalfa
feed mill viii be constructed at Bull
during the coming year. The matter
Is being given serious discussion by the
Bnhl chamber Of commerce, in cooper
alton with the farmers and alfalfa
growers In that section.
One Of the largest eales of rams In
the Bull country this year was con-
summated last week when Hobbs s
Gillette, of Castleford. sold $50 bucks
to the Williamson Sheep company, OF
Colorado. The price paid was $40 a
head, total Of $10,500.
Vance D. Slime, OF Pocatello, who
has been missing for some time, has
been located in California, and man
named Groves, who was arrested at
Auburn, Calf, with Shines Identified
ton papers In his possession, has been
held on the charge OF burglary.
The county commissioners of Lincoln
county have discontinued the practice
Of supplying free poison for rabbits,
and instead have appropriated 5000 an
a bounty, at one cent per scalp, this
being regarded as sufficient to pay
for the killing OF 100000 rabbits.
Evidently dynamite is not a very
wholesome food for cows, as two be-
longing to Todd Frizzell, a stockman
on the Salmon river, ate several
sticks OF the high explosive belonging
to contracting company working on
the north and south highway, and died.
Approximately 80 per cent Of the
prune packing IN Idaho has been COM
pleted. according to the report of Miles
Cannon, state commissioner Of agricul-
tJIre. Fruit men in all sections of the
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