The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-12-08
In THE GEM STATE

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Thanksgiving diners by the growers
Of Cooling and vicinity.
The Blackfoot high school football
squad is the champion team Of the
scholastic class in Idaho.
Agitation Of the need Tor a commo-
dious addition to the Caldwell high
school building has been started.
Two carloads of turkeys and chick
ems were shipped from Emmett last
week, being destined for San Fran
cisco.
Idaho, it is estimated, will have
population OF 1851 on New Years
day. It's count, according to the 1910
census, was S25,594.
Every man in P0catello who had
no invitation to go elsewhere was in
vited by the Salvation Army to par
take of it's big Thanksgiving dinner.
Warden Shook has been given au-
thority to sell off a bunch of hogs
now ready for market from the prison
farm in the Gem irrigation district.
Boise high school pupils have elect
ed student council of twelve mem
bers, two from each class and four
from the school at large. The election
was by Australian ballot.
The recent two-day Sunday school
convention held in Caldwell was at
tended by 100 delegates ana was pro
nounced the most successful conven-
ton ever held in the county.
1t is reported on good authority
that government officials have recent
~ been continuing their investigations
Of the plan of establishing an i'm
mense paper mill at Idaho Falls.
r. N. Bell, state mine inspector.
has just been advised of the death of
a cousin, George Brambley, who xas
serving as non-commissioned officer
with the English army in France.
Plans for providing a hot lunch
daily to the rural pupils attending
the Gooding schools have been work.
ed out in the domestic science de.
partment, and 200 children are being
served.
One of the best clover seed crops
on the Minidoka project this season
was grown by George Bray on the farm
owned by S. D. Parke of the Burley
Bulletin. The seed from twenty-five
acres brought $4,000.
AS a token of remembrance to the
Twin Falls boys with the Second
Idaho regiment on the border, local
people contributed S155 for a fund
which was wired to the boys as a
Thanksgiving remembrance.
Plans have been completed for the
sixth annual boys conference of the
Y. NJ. c. A., which is to be held in
Pocatello from December 10 to IT
Delegates are expected from many
sections of Idaho and Utah.
Secretary A. Wells of the Anti-Sa
loon League of Idaho, has been max
ing short stay in Pocatello, arrang
ing for big meeting to be held there
on Tuesday, December II, in the in
terest of national prohibition.
Walter Pierce, one of the best
known and most popular of the youns
MEN employed by the Oregon Short
Line, died at Pocatello at the emer
gency hospital. He was taken VIC
lently i'll while at work in the shous
Despite the fact that chilly vino
was blowing several hundred people
gathered at the Methodist church cor
ner Sunday, November 20, to witnes,
the ceremony attending the laying Of
the cornerstone Of the new Methods
church at Twin Falls.
John Shaffer, living near Star. la,
carried away the prize offered by ths
Sweet-TeIer Hardware company O
Boise for the best yield of oats re
ported from the Boise valley On ter
acres OF land Mr.. Shaffer the past sea
son grew $50 bushels, or Sc bushels
per acre.
Eighteen herds were included on tht
list of those in the Boise Valley Gov
Testing association which averaged
40 pounds or more of butterfat pc
animal during the seventh month o
the associations existence. The mum
Der of cows on test during the pas
month was 437.
Regret is quite generally expressed
over the fact that the propose
to bond Owyhee county for the pur
pose of providing funds with which t
erect four bridges over the Snak
river failed to carry at the genera
election. The proposal was defeate
by less than so votes.
Albert Pletz of Aberdeen has aske'
: the public utilities commission t
: take action in forcing the Utah-Idah,
/ Sugar company to strengthen thei
: beet dumps on the Wood river branci
, OF the oregon Short Line, and so al
range them that teams cannot fal
while wagons are being unloaded.
Idaho citizens always will have Il
purchase their coal from neighborinI
,, states in the intermountain region. &C