The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-09-22
In THE GEM STATE

liberia peaches being harvested At /
Emmett are bringing god prices.
More than $4,000 worth Of cream /
will be shipped from Cambridge dur (,
ing the year 1916.
On the opening day Of the Boise
schools there were IS more pupils en-
rolled than last year.
A strong effort is being made by the
Cambridge Commercial club 10 put the
Canyon road in better condition BY
next spring.
Forty-one carloads Of potatoes we're
shipped out Of Caldwell during Au-
gust. 1915, and sixty-one carloads dur
ing last August
Ted Marks, while working at the
mill at Emmett, fell distance of
twenty feet, escaping with badly
sprained ankle.
L. B. Douglas, Nampa dairyman,
has been fined $50 for selling milk
when he knew there was a case Of
typhoid fever in his home.
Roy Nelson OF PocateIlo has been
appointed lieutenant commander in
the United States navy. and is now in
charge of the submarine Hi
Attendance at the Nampa schools
this year show wonderful increase
From total OF SOS in the grades last
/ year, the enrolment this year jumped
to 951
| A blaze started from a defective fue
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| Methodist parsonage at Meridian and
extinguished BY the village fire de-
/ partment without serious loss.
| Peaches, just is Of them. that I'll
regulation sized box, we're exhibited at
/ Boise last week. One OF them weighed
Il ounces and a fraction and was
| more than II inches in circumference.
Canyon county's tax levy has been
fixed at 80 mills This is one and
half mills lower than the levy OF last
4 year. which it is claimed was the
lowest made BY any County OF the
state.
The town Of Cambridge and sur
rounding country we're never more
prosperous Crops in general have
been good. prices are excellent, and
new enterprises are springing up in
the town.
Marion 4 Lufkin. in jail at ST. An
thony, charged with conspiracy to
kidnap Roland Hartman, son OF the
late E. H. Hartman, railroad king.
has been bound over to the district
court for trial.
The matter OF voting bonos 70 the
amount OF s125,o0O will be submitted
to the people OF Bonneville county
at the general election held Novem-
Der Z, the money 10 be used in build
ing a court house.
Thomas Nevins, who died at Boise
last week, was one OF the best known
and best loved prospectors OF the old
days The latchstring OF his cabin
always hung out, and many the man
he had aided in time OF need
Nick ST. Clair. who killed his wife
on the road between Sweet and Mon.
tour. was placed in the Caldwell jail
to forestall mob violence, and later
bound over to the district court for
trial. He seems indifferent TO his
fate.
The spiritual and moral welfare Of
the Idaho boys on the border is Be
ing properly looked after. according
TO Chaplain Stewart, Who was IN Ida
no on a Through last week. He speaks
in the highest praise OF the Idaho
boys.
II is being demonstrated that pota
toes are profitable or cry farms. Al
bert Alternately, recently brought 4
Cambridge a sample OF = potatoe:
from one hill Of dry land. They were
perfect in size and conformation and
weighed six pounds.
Another proposed extension TO small
railroads in the Twin Falls distric
died when the Boise Payett Lumbel
company purchased from the Oregon
Short Line Il carloads Of rails bough
up four years ago for the Perrint
electric road in the Snake river val
ley,
D. c. Briehaux, an automobile driv
. er OF Ontario, Ore, has confesse,
killing R. G. Goodwin, a wealth!
sheepman of Ontario and Boise, ant
throwing his body in the river. bu
declares the killing was academia
and that he tired 10 dispose OF TN
body. fearing no one would believl
his story.
During the progress OF poke
, game in a negro rooming house a
Blackfoot, Don Brock. a negro belong
ing to the street paving crew, wa
! shot and killed Four negroes ant
one white have been arrested. includ
: ing Billy Jordan, another negro. wh
suffered the loss OF an ear and man,
! bruises in the mix-up
Shelley is TO have a sugar factory
: The new factory will be erected abou
fiye-eighths Of mile east Of the rail