The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-03
In THE. GEM STATE

the Camas prairie last week.
All livestock organizations in the |
state have pledged their support to !
the campaign for the eradication Of
rabies.
| Salmon Is destined to become one
of the greatest sheep shipping points
in all the country, in the opinion OF
we'll informed fockmasters.
The city council has ordered the
issuance Of eighty thousand dollars OF
bonds for the purchase Of the pres
ent waterworks system in Twin Falls
At a recent meeting of leading citi
zens, a good roads association was
organized in Malad to be known as the
Oneida County Good Roads asoscia
ton.
The Bull Automobile association
has been organized. There are about
125 automobiles in the Bull district,
the largest percentage of them being
owned by farmers.
Walter Garron, in Jail at Pocatello
for applying air brakes to train near
Soda Springs, so that he could alight
sawed bar off Of his cell door and
escaped from Jail.
Stockmen and business men OF Nam.
. pa and vicinity have united in an or.
: ganization which will give the town
a large and thoroughly modern stock.
yard establishment.
! A shipment of six dozen Bob White
quail is coming from Kansas City for
the fish and game department. The
birds will be liberated in Lemhi, Ban.
: mock and Twin Falls counties.
Pocatello celebrated Washington
birthday in a complete manner The
business Of the city was practically
suspended for the day and the even
ing was replete with social functions
William Weatherholt, an old-time1
90 of the Squaw creek country, wa
found dead in bed in a cabin on wha
is known as the old Bill Fuller ranch
1t is thought he had been dead seE
:, eral days.
- John Peters, a farmer residing nea
=, Twin Falls, has been awarded dan
~ ages in the sum of $500 on account c
az injuries received by him on defe'
q, of $2,SS2.
- The directors of the Jerome schot
"a district have decided to submit to tn
=. voters a proposition to vote bon
- issue of $4,000 to erect a new hig
20 school building at Jerome. The pre-
20 ent school facilities are inadequate.
:. Farmers in the Salmon and Lem
- river valleys are turning their ate
-, ton to the production of hay, in
:; ticipation of the growing demand +
- winter feed for stock Hay has BET
high for the past three months, up
"a $40 and SIS per ton.
~ The annual meeting of the fore
az. rangers of the northwestern secti
of Forest District No. convened
:. the rooms Of the Club OF Commerce
- Idaho Falls on February p for
- three days session, with over foT
- forest rangers present
Plans for the observance of Phone
day at Bull on April Is now indics
MY that it will be the biggest event eN
pulled off on the Twin Falls ira
There will be monster parade,
fha which IL IS esIluldeSu Ih0AS -"
800 automobiles.
The body Of Daniel Ask. the G
wm tractor who met his death at 70
"a telo by being buried under tons
g earth and gravel while digging W
was recovered two days later
40 soil in which the we'll was being
- was of such a nature that one cave
a followed another.
aA The little 11-year-old nephew
~ DEPUTY Forest Supervisor H. G.
pbaters met with an accident WI
~ skiing on Trail creek. The lad
~ and fractured his leg midway betw
~ the knee and hip. When he tell
skis turned under, twisting MS
causing the fracture.
- The work of excavating LOT
- erection OF the Fales Houston II
ing company's plant at prospect
M, ~% north of Pocatello, is progressing
m ;dlv The building Of this plant
- giva Pocatello one of the most vi
@ date packing plants in the INFERNO
~. tain country.
- At a largely attended mass III
ing at Bull of farmers 1t was Ut
ID cd TO devote five days to ROAD
tha farmers to donate the time
tba use of their teams and mel
cooperate with the highways
missioners of the Bull highway
Il trict in repairing the roads OIL
ma district.
n The Franklin County Good n
a association is planning to JOIN
- Northern Utah Commercial clubs
:. Good Roads association for the
@ pse OF permanently locating tne
coin and Yellowstone park hign'
ss through Cache valley. thence tnr'
franklin county to Bannock 60
sa on the north.