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Show I News Notes It's a Privilege toLiveln IDAHO I ! BOISE All Btate highways are either clear of snow or will be ! cleared quickly with snow plows, i the state highway department was I advised recently by its field en-1 en-1 gineers. J TWIN FALLS The mercury ! dropped to four degrees below zero i recently, the lowest temperature ! of the winter. The weather con- tinued cold throughout the day, 18 j above zero hfc.ng the highest tor I the day. Half an inch of snow fell durin - the day. I IDAHO FALLS Owners of approximately ap-proximately a million and a quarted sheep, more than half the sheep in Idaho, signed an agreement during the recent woolgrowers convention here to pay 12 cents a head and board shearers during the 1930 season, sea-son, it was announced. TWIN FALLS The first real storm of the winter gathered intensity in-tensity over this region Thursday, with snow falling all day and increasing in-creasing with wind as night approached. ap-proached. There was hardly an interruption in the snowfall since it started some time Wednesday night. BOISE Wednesday named the end of the duck season in Idaho, with hunters in this vicinity convinced con-vinced that the ducks had the "In- dian sign" on the hunters. Hunting along the Boise river was reported poor, and, until very recently, very few ducks were taken on the Snake river near here. BOISE Owyhee county ran off with premier honors in making prompt payment of taxes to the state, it was announced recently by the state auditor. That county has paid up all its 1029 taxes, though the final installment is not due until next June. Ordinarily the honors go to one of several counties in the southeast, although Owyhee is usually well up to the top. IDAHO FALLS Potatoes offerings offer-ings liberal. Russets U. S. No. 1, demand very limited market weak, too few sales to quote. U. S. No. 2, demand moderate, market slightly slight-ly weaker, mostly $1.60, occasional car $1.65. Rurals U. S. No. 1, mostly $2.00, few held higher. Twin Falls Demand very light, market weak. Too few sales to quote. BLACKFOOT Plans for the installation in-stallation of 103 ornamental street lights will be submitted to the city council by Don Brown, manager of the Idaho Power company, and if approved the company will be authorized to .install the system sys-tem at once. The proposed lights will be placed upon a post 13 1-2 feet high, and the globes will be equipped with the latest in reflectors. reflec-tors. POCATELLO The worst blizzard bliz-zard to sweep over the Spencer, Idaho, district in several years was raging in that section of the state ' recently, according to messages received re-ceived here. The mercury stood at 20 degrees below zero. The highway high-way was reported closed between Dubois, Idaho, and Lima, i.lont., and it was reported 30 below at Monida, Mont. Railroad advices said the cold wave was traveling south. BOISE The advent of winter at thi3 lata date has found Idaho big game animals in excellent dontli-'tion, dontli-'tion, reports to the state game department de-partment indicated recently. Reports Re-ports from virtually every game center in the state have declared ; the animals, with few exceptions, ; were fat and well able to forage ; through the balance of the winter. Only recently have the animals come down from the higher ridges, as snow has not been deep enough I to prevent their getting to feed. ! BOISE How several thousand ' young trout came near boiling to i death in the once cool waters of their native streams is revealed in i the annual report of the state game j warden. Many thousand young trout were being cared for in the j -rearing ponds at Ruby creek in Bonner county last summer when ! the heavy forest fire3 that raged through that section began heating ! up the water of the creek. Quick- ly it climbed to 50 degrees to 70 degrees and the young fish began . dropping cff. WASHINGTON The 1930 prize tour of the national oratorical contest, con-test, arrangements for which have just been completed, will be an extremely ex-tremely attractive one. Under the rules of the contest, now entering its seventh yer.r, the prize tour, with all expenses' paid, will he awarded to each of the seven participant parti-cipant in the national finals, to he held in Washington on May 24. An important feature of this year's trip will bo a two-clay visit to Oberam-morgau, Oberam-morgau, whore the party will attend at-tend the pi esentation o the "Pas sion PlavL" |
