The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-11-03
In THE GEM STATE

Canyon county seems assured of
one Of the strongest ald most effective
farm bureau organizations in the coun-
try.
Nampa business men are elated over
the fact that the city captured the
grand lodge session of the Odd Eel
lows for 1917.
More than 100 enthusiastic county
teachers were present at the meeting
.of the Ada county Teachers associa-
tion in Boise last week.
A case of infantile paralysis was re-
ported to the state board Of health
Sast week from Lewiston. The victim
is an 1S-months-old child
Nose Croney of Spencer was con-
victed of killing deer in the closed
season. Croney was fined 800 and
costs, amounting in all to SOB.
From what are believed to be very
near the official figures, the wool clip
of Idaho from 100000 sheep covers
value of $6,94S, 48O for the season Of
1915.
Work has been commenced on the
building of the spur which will con-
meet the tracks of the Oregsn Short
Line with those of the Idaho Southern
at Jerome.
Idaho grown celery finds a better
market than the clery Of Florida, Cal
ifornia, New York, Michigan and
Ohio, the big producers of the blanch-
ed leaf stocks.
Articles of incorporation of the Al
bion Water company have been filed.
The water company fixed its capital
stock at $4,000. The water will be
drawn from deep wells.
The extension of the Raft river
branch of the Oregon Short Line,
which was started early in the spring,
is nearly completed and will be in oper-
alton during the winter.
A few cases Of blackleg have been
reported in the vicinity of Star
recently. AS result many of the
ranchers are taking the precaution to
have their cattle vaccinated.
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of the leading stock dealers of Nam
pa has shipped out to the eastern
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twenty-six carloads of sheep.
' Thousands of bass, perch and carp
have been taken from the Deer Flat
reservoir by the state game warden
and distributed in the streams at
Minidoka, Bruneau, Gooding and Lake
port.
So successful has the secretary of
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ing up jobs for high school boys, who
want to work their way through
school, that he now has more jobs
than boys.
Betty Dysart, the colored woman
who was shot at Pocatello by a man
named Harry Allen. also colored, is
reported to be resting easily at the
general hospital and to have a good
chance for recovery.
Idaho boarding house keepers can
not enforce liens against railroad cor.
porations for board bills incurred by
laborers in the employ of contractors,
the state supreme court held in an
opinion handed down last week.
A trip to hospital and the pain of
fractured arm were the cost to Ed.
ward, 9-year-old son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
L. o. Nelson of Star, to learn by ex-
perience that calf may prove about
as dangerous stesd as a bucking
broncho
Prisoners now at work on the north
and south highway will be permitted
to remain at the convict camp near
Whitebird until the first of the year,
unless the weather should become too
severe. There were twenty-five pris-
oners in the camp.
Two hundred and fifty horses were
last week sent from Caldwell to Jer.
sey City, where they will be loaded
on shipboard for shipment to France.
The shipment filed twelve cars and
was the largest yet sent from that
locality for the battlefelds of Europe.
From report of State Mine Inspec-
tor Robert NJ. Bell it would seem that
Idaho is prepared to supply the world
with phosphate. Mr.. Bell claims there
is known to be 10000, 100000 tons of
high-grade phosphate, which has been
discovered by the geological survey.
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Of potatoes is creating a great hard
ship upon the potato dealers of Idaho
Falls. Nearly all the frostproof eel
lars and every vacant brick or stone
building and basement has been
filed, and hundreds of wagonloads
are coming in every day.
That people Of the central western
states are considering Idaho as place
in which to locate is attested by the
fact that supply Of 500 booklets re-
citing Nampa's attractions, recently
sent to the office of the colonization
agent of the Union Pacific railroad at
Omaha, has been exhausted.
Three small children, while playing