Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-02-25
In THE GEM STATE

is 41A per cent, but Idaho's percentage
has been reduced to pa per cent.
The news come froB Occur d'Alene
that the Atlas tie mill has resumed
operations, after having been shut
down since the middle of December.
Leo Provost of Wallace has left the
University of Idaho to prepare for the
final examinations for the United
States military academy at West
Point.
The state department of reclama-
ton has issued permit for reservoir
site sufficient to store 100000 acre
feet of water to II. w. Katerndahl OF
Dubois.
The Boy Scouts OF PocatelIo will
need a budget Of $500 for the coming
year, according to the schedule out
lined by S. T. Brady, president of the
council.
AT a meeting at Roswell those pres
ent decided to instruct the school di-
rectors to obtain plans and bids for
the erection of new school building,
to cost approximately $4,000.
Hazel Cool, year-old daughter Of
Fred Cool, was seriously injured in an
automobile mishap. The automobile
driven by her father plunged into a
gravel truck east of American Falls.
A case of smallpox was discovered
in the seventh grade of the schools at
Genesee last week and the city health
officer placed ban on all public gath
erings and closed all places of amuse-
ment
Walter Mana, who has been super
visor of the Idaho national forest with
headquarters at Mccall, has been mp
pointed administrative assistant of the
Wasatch forest, with headquarters in
Salt Lake.
Business men Of Payette have or
ganized a Chamber of Commerce
Payette has tried a Commercial club,
made up of business men of the town,
which has not In the past generally
been satisfactory.
James L. Graham, who was one Of
the earliest pioneers in that section,
died at a Boise hospital recently. Mr.
Graham, who was born In New Paris,
Ohio, came from Indiana to what was
later Boise in 1862, settling on Eagle
island.
Ray Rose of Boise was disqualified
by Athletic Commissioner Tom Rick
ard from fighting in Idaho for one
year for refusing to go ON in the main
bout at Pocatello with Kid Davis be-
cause the box office receipts did not
look big enough,
9. w. Martindale, conductor on the
interurban electric, tainted and fell
from the rear platform at Bissell sta
ton from Caldwell bound car. He
received numerous bruises on. both
legs and a cash On his head, although
his injuries were not serious.
At the meeting of the village board
of trustees Of Parma, 1t was decided
to call an election for the issuing of
bonds to relay the water mains and to
also put in a drainage system at the
same time. An ordinance Was passed
calling the election for March 10.
Charles III. Turner, former mayor of
Caldwell, was instantly killed at that
place when westbound Oregon Short
Line passenger train crashed into a
car which he was driving. Witnesses
claim that string of box cars stand.
ing upon a siding 0bstructed hiv view.
John Wlrta. Finnish miner at the
Morning mine at Mullan, seriously
wounded a fellow miner, George Davis
in a fight On the 2OOO-foot level OF
the mine, two miles underground
Wirta attacked Davis with a sharp
long toOthed timber saw. striking him
across the back.
The value of all oil crops for Idaho
In 1919 was S126, 459, 1855. The total
value of cereals was $43, 11S.42S; OF
dry edible beans and peas, 50 ,387 1877
of clover and alfalfa seed, 81, 10, 294
Of hay and forage. $5O,SO7, 437; of po
tatoes, $13.546,T9s; Of sugar beets
S2,733. 24S; and of apples S6.379.S73.
A 100000 canning factory will be
built at Paul this spring. Rupert
business men and farmers have sub.
scribed one-thlrd of the required CAPT
tai. The plant will have a capacity
of $4,000 cases OF peas. It is estimated
that 300 acres In the neighborhood OF
Paul viii be planted to peas.
Members of the present legislature
are considering the proposal that the
state be required TO sell part of its
Liberty Bonds and loan the money In.
vested in them to farmers who find
themselves hard pressed to meet theii
obligations. Idaho has about $500, 00G
in these government securities.
According to John Hanson, who re
Gently returned to POcatelIo after be
ing marooned at the Fish Lake for
estry station of the Idaho ontans
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