The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19
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On May 8 the new factory turned
ont the first cheese ever manufactured
In Star.
Five hundred and twenty pints of
whisky were taken from an alleged
bootlegger at PocateIIo one day last
week.
BY way of creating two public parks
and beauty spots in Nampa, the city
council is cooperating somewhat with
members of the Century club.
The new chapel of the stake at
Carey was dedicated last week. The
building contains electric lights and
heating system and cost $1,000.
BY selection of the department of
agriculture, Canyon county is to be
the third county in the United States
in which home survey is to be made.
A committee on finance consisting
Of the bankers and business men of
the city raised 5000 in two hours for
the support of baseball club in Bur-
ley.
Fire originating from short cir
cult in electric wiring destroyed the
barn and garage owned by S. M
Nixon, at Pocatello, entailing a loss
estimated at $4,000.
Plans are under way for the cree.
ton of $4,000 hospital in Poca-
tello, which will be under the direc-
ton of Sisters of Mercy of the Judge
Mercy hospital at Salt. Lake.
ri of rIip1 etaore fnor,
Burley, were sold at Portland last
week for $9.15 per 100 pounds. This
is the highest price ever paid at the
local stockyards for yearlings.
A baseball league has been organ
lied comprising the towns of Rupert,
Burley, Kimberley, Twin Falls, Sho-
shone and Jerome. 1t is known as the
Southeastern Idaho State Baseball
league.
Jess Mcconnell, 26 years old, one of
the Mcconnell brothers, well-known
sheepmen of that section, committed
suicide by shooting on Monday morn
ing at his sheep camp, one mile north
of Gardena- 1t is said he had been
respondent for some time.
| Near Filler there is thirty acres of
mother beets from which it is hoped
to raise large quantity of sugar
beet seed during the coming year. A
similar field of beets is being planted
at Burley. They are among the few
such fields in the United States.
The state board of livestock sani-
tary inspection adjourned last week
without taking any action with re-
spect to the eradication of rabies. 1t
did not appear possible that the board
could do anything more than has
been done to keep down the scourge.
Governor Moses Alexander of Idaho
and A. G. Bachelor, road expert Of
The executive board of the American
Automobile association, will be among
the speakers when the annual conven-
ton of the Intermountain Good Roads
association is held in Ogden, Utah,
June Ii and IA.
J. B. Jones, son of State Game War
den Jones, resident of Pocatello, was
arrested last week for stealing dia-
monds and the sum of $3.50 in cash
from Mrs. Ida Dexter of Salt Lake, on
a train coming from Butte. 1t is said
Jones confessed taking the diamonds
but pleaded intoxication.
The Snake River ellowstone Base
ball league has been organized, com
prising eight teams-Driggs, Drum
mond, Ashton, st. Anthony, Sugar
City, Rexburg and Rigby. These
towns have all agreed to observe ev
cry Wednesday afternoon as hall
holiday and devote it to baseball.
The mineral exhibit shown by the
state of Idaho at the Panama-Pacific
exposition in San Francisco last year
has been installed in the old Central
school building at Boise and is now
ready for inspection. The exhibit is
said by mining men to be the most
complete ever assembled by any state
The worst wind and dust storm the
Twin Falls tract has experienced II
Eve years struck Twin Falls almost
without warning Saturday night anc
continued undated nearly three
hours.
In Idaho, 2O3 mills reported pro
duction of 770O31, 900 board feet O.
lumber in 1915. The estimated mum
Der of mills in the state is 20, and the
estimated production for last year M,
$1,000.
Miss Ethel E. Redfield, for the pas
four years superintendent of public
instruction for Nez Perce county, ha'
announced her candidacy for the OF
fee of state superintendent Of public
instruction.
Mrs. Adelaide V. Leonard, a pioneel
of Silver City, died at Berkeley, Cal.
last week, at the age of rs years. Mrs
Leonard, whose husband was a prom
inent mill man of Silver City, came t.
Idaho as bride in 1857.
With the advent of spring, Black
foot has taken on a building boon
that promises to eclipse anything 0
the kind in her past history. There