Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-04-01
IN THE GEM STATE


$4,000 bond issue for the purpose
Of the extension, repair and Improve
ment of the waterworks plant.
Burley is to have a first class. up
to-the-minute creamery just as soon
as the machinery can be installed.
which will be not later than the mid
die of April
Ray Porter the man who under the
alias of F, HI. Eavins, is charged with
issuing lot of fraudulent checks to
Shoshone business men, will be tried
on charge of forgery.
Mrs. o. B. Steely of Pocatello was
elected corresponding secretary of the
state organization of the Daughters of
the American Revolution at the meet
Ing which was recently held at Boise.
About $50 of the sugar beet growers
on the Minidoka irrigation project in
Idaho have organized for the purpose
of lettering conditions, according to
the current issue of the Reclamation
Record.
HI. L. White and Bryan Hammock,
both of Boise, charged with stealing
an automobile owned by a resident of
Boise, have been apprehended at
Tonopah, New, and will be brought
back for trial.
Contracts have been let by the city
for the laying of $4,000 square feet
Of sidewalk in Pocatello this spring,
amounting to approximately twenty
miles. Besides this, property owners
will lay several miles more.
Water stratas between the So
called desert" lands between Poca-
tello and Blackfoot may mean the re-
claiming of several thousand acres of
waste region as soon as the. wells can
be put on an operating basis.
Bannock county will receive $4,000
for the relief of the farmers in the
purchase of seed grain of the $1,000
600 recently appropriated by the
United States congress for loans to
farmers in the drought-stricken areas.
The Pocatello council will immedi-
stely call for bids for an extension of
the sewers on South Lincoln street
between Whitman avenue and the city
| line. The conditions In that district
are classed as unsanitary by the SAM
tary Inspector.
According to announcement by Di
rector G. HI. Lewis, head of the educa
! ton department of the Idaho Techni
cal institute and director of the sum
mer normal, the Idaho Tech summer
normal will open for registration OF
June 10 and II.
| The upper Snake River valley, from
Idaho Falls north, will receive $685.
of the 100000 federal appropriation
for dry farm relief, it was decided a
a meeting held at Idaho Falls between
federal, state and local officials 0
the farm bureau.
The high schools of Grace, Rock
land, Roberts and Dubois are in eN
cellent condition, according to Pre-
fessor J. e. Rutherford and Professo
G. H. Lewis of the Idaho Technica
Institute, who have just completed tn
examination of these schools.
The name of DIR. S. w. Mcclure, 0
Pocatello, for many years secretary 0
the National Woolgrowers' association
Is being suggested for nomination t
membership on the interstate con
merce commission in the event tina
Frank J. Hagenbarth shall find it in
possible TO accept the position.
J. S. Lawrence, proprietor, and A. \
+ | of a
renee Machine and Iron Works. O
Twin Falls, suffered painful burn
about the face and head as a result G
an explosion occurring while both me
were engaged In welding a pun
plunger.
Needing representations that the
continuance in office would endenge
authorization ut an election of bon
issue necessary to continue operi
ton of schools mt Twin Falls this yea
w. L. Nixon. treasurer. and Geora
G. Bryant. clerk last week resigne
as members of the TWIN Falls scho
board.
A Japanese noodle parlor at Foe
tello was held up by four negroes, wi
obtained a small sum of money. 4
the robbers escaped except one bur
black named J. Balbala, who, viii
in the kitchen, asked the propriett
for his watch and was knocked dow
by the Jap. The others beat has
retreat.
The heaviest average of potato
ever planted in Idaho will be plantt
this year, is the opinion expressed
]. G. jacobson of Idaho Falls. The d
mand for seed potatoes is the heavie
ever known and carload shipments
certified seed potatoes are being mat
from Idaho Falls to points south al
west to meet the demand.
Ten gallons of moOnshine whlsk
worth 800 at prevailing prices, we
eonfiscated by the sheriff's for,
when Russell Bullock of Acequia al
Sam shaffer of Paul were arrests
driving car near Rupert on the