The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-02-27
IDAHO STATE News


1t is estimated that from 30 to 30
silos will be built on the Minidoka ir-
rigation project during the coming
year
Power county was the first county
in Idaho to go over the top in the
campaign to feed hungry children In
Armenia.
The public schools of Lewiston have
been reopened after having been
closed for two weeks because of the
influenza.
Jersey and Shorthorn owners of
Payette county are adopting the ac-
credited herd plan Of tuberculosis
elimination.
At the recent election at Wendell
the voters decided to issue bonds TO
the amount of $4,000 for building q
new high school.
Idaho's 100000 capitol wings build
ing fund will be increased by the adj
dition of all interest and other accru-
ais on and to the fund.
Without any form of recruiting
campaign, one scout per day has been
the record of the Pocateilo Boy Scout
troop for some weeks past.
Dewey G. Holt and Roderick Nc
Leod are in jail at Pocatello. charged
with burglarizing pool hall ut Nc
Cannon few nights ago.
The Bear Lake county farm bureau
is unloading $4,000 pounds of feed
corn to farmers at savings Of from %
to 80 cents per hundredweight.
Affiliation with the American Farm
Bureau Federation was voted by the
Idaho state farm bureau which held
its annual meeting at Boise recently
Lewiston is experiencing record
prices In the potato market Potatoes
| are now retailing at S. per hundred
and seed potatoes will probably reach
$3.50.
Preponderance of sentiment among
| the shareholders In the Twin Fall
| Canal company favors some sort O
water impounding system at American
Falls.
"This is one-flag country ant
there is no place In II for allegiance
to any other flag" declared Gov. w
G. Harding of Iowa in an address a
Bull on "Americanism."
Twenty-Five carloads of Idaho pota
to seed were shipped into Canyo
county last fall The price at tina
time was 1915, but it has Increase
to $3.50 for hand-seiected seed.
Pocatelio will have free tubercr
losis clinic and a clinic for cripple
children for several weeks at the en-
of the Red Cross and anti-tuberculosl
census, which was begun Feb. 16.
BY Il decision Of the referee. job
Freberg, the champion wrestler {
Sweden, forfeited his match to A
Santel at Boise, after having his rigl
arm injured to the extent that he wa
unable to continue the match.
Idaho beet growers have decided
hold their annual convention in Poci
tello February 20. Each beet GROWN
district will be allowed TO send l
many delegates as they desire, b'
they will be entitled only to one vot
NJ A. Kiger, representative fro
Kootenai county and speaker of Il
house of representatives. has a
nounced his candidacy for govern,
and his name will go before the X
{ publican state convention at Pocatel
August "A.
J. II. Wilson. carpenter of Poe
e tello. has received information fro
! his brother in Chicago that after $
}. years of litigation they have esta
r lished their claim to an estate In En-
: land which will net them appro,
: mately $3.50 600.
i l.. s. Otto. president Of the Sou
u Idaho Duroc-Jersey Swine Breeder
I association, has paid nm average pri
e OF $1,000 each for five Duroc-Jers
brood sows The bunch cost 5000
& sales of thoroughbred stock held Ia
t week In Nebraska.
n Squire Hepworth. aged So. residi
II with his son near Elba. arose FRI
I, his bed at night and wandered IN
n the mountains south of town. He "
II found thirty-six hours later alm'
frozen to death. He WAS clad only
l. his night garments.
" The indications are that there "
n be an unusually heavy planting Of
u iatoes throughout southern Idaho q
e, year. The high price and constant I
ID mand of last year have Induced ma
j. of the beet growers TO plant potato
a for this years crop.
The Rotary club at Pocatelio
" decided To cooperate with the COVE
re mers I'm the essay contest relative
he the desirability of entering the serv
~ of Uncle Sam. and has decided TO
ne an award of 81 to the boy or girl
or school who writes the best essay.
IA The Oneida county farm bureau
or January shipped into the county
tons of alfalfa. 10000 pounds
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