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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
8
Railroad operations report mixed weather and personnel updates. Cattle shipments pass through Pocatello while train crews from Ashton and Idaho Falls plan weekend returns, and safety meetings at Glenns Ferry review May activities and June 6th committee results.
A regular American Legion meeting convenes this evening at the library in the Y M C A with plans for the Fourth of July celebration and routine business on the agenda. Concrete street standards in downtown are being painted white by a morning work crew to improve nighttime visibility.
The St Anthony ball team returned home after a Brady Park game against the Pocatello Indians. Chic Gandil’s youngsters were defeated yesterday by a 9 to 5 score.
Pocatello chapter No. 6 R A M holds special meeting tonight to confer M M P M and M E M degrees with a smoker and luncheon after initiation. Monday's session includes B A degree and a large summer attendance planned. Portneuf lodge No 0 LO O F meets Friday at the Odd Fellows hall to confer the first degree on a candidates class.
Glen O Perkins, principal of the high school, leaves tonight for Boise on a business trip and will join a teachers agency this summer then move to Tucson Arizona to lead another high school. D H Hunter and Harry M Morey visit from Boise. E A Krussman of the Y M C A is homebound on South Johnson avenue. J H Beatty of Twin Falls visits for the day. H E Holmes and wife of Idaho Falls are in town a few days. A F Smith of Grace also visits today.
The week’s mean temperature ran slightly below average due to early frost followed by a warmer later period improving growing conditions. Strong winds reduced soil moisture, rain was general except in the Panhandle, and irrigation districts fared better. Wheat rye barley oats progress fair with some frost damage to wheat. alfalfa lags about two weeks. Harvest began in Lewiston valley and shifts to Boise-Payette and Twin Falls. Winter killing and prior cold snaps have lowered yield. first cutting reported as only partial.
The report says growth was slow for grasses and pastures remain short though improving. Ban nock county lower range drying while range grasses elsewhere are fair to good. Frost early in the week damaged some crops, but fruit crops advanced. prunes apples cherries ripened well. Strawberries priced by sun and lack of rain. later blooms damaged by frost. Garden and truck crops slowed by cold with some tender-plant losses, but warm days brought recovery. Potatoes and corn grew slowly. sugar beets slow. Idaho Falls district frost wiped out acreage. Pocatello also heavily frosted. Cultivation under way.
In a campaign to save America’s song birds Chicago asks boys and girls to help by making bird houses in schools. The effort promotes wildlife support through student projects and community involvement.
Shanghai officials announce conversion of the famed Wheel gambling house into a charity hospital. The facility, costing over 500000, has stood dark as authorities plan confiscation while owners vow to contest. Once among the Far East’s largest gambling dens, it sat on North Henan road near the city core.
A nearly bald New York businessman claims a prolific hair growth at age 66. He offers a genuine recipe free on request to anyone seeking to overcome dandruff or grow hair, with a testing box of Kotalko mailed if 10 cents or silver is sent. Address: John H. Brittain BT-301 Station F New York NY.
The report notes six layouts beside fare and other games, with gambling curtailed after missionary pressure. It recalls The Wheel and a smaller roulette joint near it shutting down after a brief reopening, ending large scale gambling in Shanghai. England and France women football teams set for matches in London.
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