The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-09-29
In THE GEM STATE

in the Filler school. This is SO more
than last year
! The University Of Idaho will offer
this year new department Of study
that Of business administration.
The Malad high school and public
schools opened September 10 with
an enrolment of $50 students.
Payette schools opened last week
with an enrolment of eco in the
grades and IT'S in the high school.
The Baptists hold state convention
at Mountain Home September 26 to
20 and are expecting more than 100
delegates.
Andy Mattson last week sold IA
acres Of land adjoining Filler for 1929
| per acre, the highest price ever paid
for land in that vicinity.
G. G. Long, of Pocatello, won the
| gold medal for the best score made by
member of the citizen soldiery at
the encampment at Fort Douglas,
| Utah.
Mrs. William Roper of Burley cut
her throat with razor and was found
dead in the bathroom by her husband.
Ill health and dependency was the
cause,
Robert King, aged %, was adiudged
insane by Judge Ostrom at Twin Falls.
King has been somewhat deranged
since an attack of typhoid fever some
years ago.
The body of jeremiah Sivels, the
man who fell from the Tilden bridge
| several days previous, was found in
the river about eighteen miles from
| Pocatello
! With the voting of 100000 in
water works bonds at the recent bond
election, one of the greatest obsta-
cles to the growth of Pocatello final
! ly has been removed.
Rinaldo Aristodemo, the young Ital-
ian who is said to have shot and killed
Mrs. Alba Favero at Poeatelo, has
been bound over to the district court
on charge of first degree murder.
The police department of Pocatello
has announced that hereafter all auto
drivers who fail to use their DINNERS
on their headlights when driving with
in the city limits will be arrested.
James Lynch, rancher near Soda
Springs, was killed accidentally while
cleaning his gun. 1t was the old story
OF not knowing the gun was loaded.
Deceased was a Spanish-American
war veteran.
Officials of the Utah-Idaho Sugar
company practically have completed
arrangements for the building of a
sugar factory at Shelley. A plant at
Shelley has been under consideration
several years.
Emmett Brubaker of Payette, hurt
IN an auto accident last week, is still
in a critical condition. The entire
right side of his face was smashed in.
The cheek bone, nose and both Jaw
bones were broken.
A Payette firm last week shipped
a car of eggs to Butte, Mont This is
the largest single shipment of the
season. The produce department of
this company has paid out $4,000
since last February.
James H. Wallis, formerly sanitary
commissioner for Idaho, but now a
resident of Utah, has been employed
by the state board of health to score
the clean town contest being conduct
ed in Utah this year.
The Idaho Technical Institute at Po-
catello opened its doors for the 1916
II school year with a good enroll
ment, which is normal All the teach
ers were present but one, who is alb
sent on account of sickness.
The laying Of the corner stone of
Gooding college at Gooding, Idaho.
was an impressive event of last week.
The 100000 subscribed insures the
success of the institution, portion Of
which will be opened next fall.
An unclaimed automobile, contain
ing fifteen cases of whisky and one
case Of beer, was found short dis
lance from the business district of
Malad. The car had a broken axle |
when discovered. The license mum
Der was missing.
The first woman to be nominated |
on any ticket for governor of state, |
~
Triplow of Weiser, who was placed at |
the head of their state ticket by the
Socialists of Idaho at their recent
state convention.
The Indians of Bannock county will |
be in Malad Wednesday, September
81. They will give free exhibition
of fancy riding and roping. An invi-
tation has been extended to the farm
ers throughout the county to enter
their outlaw horses.
Three times in one day for team
to run away was the experience
Thomas Rowberry had with a pair Of
horses which he was driving on the
farm of George Stratham near Hib-
bard. His horses in one of their flights
smashed up a buggy.
Despite the fact that he had no op.
position in the primaries the gov.
ernor spent $162S5 to get the nomina.