The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-07-28
In THE GEM STATE

ues at high tide in Nampa.
The wool clip in the Blackfoot sec
ton is heavier than in former years
Lewiston now has two supervised
Fairgrounds and two public swim
ming ponds.
Work of throwing up and prepar-
ing the grade on the county road be-
tween Yost and Onwiler stations has !
been completed.
The Idaho regiment was the only |
national guard organization that went |
into Nogales ready to the ultimate |
detail, it is reported.
Willard Phippen, a farmer living |
one and one-half miles from Carey, |
was struck by lightning and killed
while at work in a field.
The city health department makes
public the statement that there has
never been but the one case of infant
paralysis in Boise this year.
John Fitzgerald, an employee in the
Pocatello street department, suffered
a dislocated shoulder and several
bruises as the result of being struck
by an automobile.
The outlook for the starting of Con-
struction work this summer on the
new Catholic hospital which is plan
ued to be erected at Pocatello now
seems most favorable.
The increase in the number of
cattle and sheep in southern Idaho
has been marked by the purchase of
better grade of sheep and cattle
than in former years.
During an electrical storm, Mrs.
William Cunningham, living a few
miles from Jerome, was killed by
bolt of lightning. She was in an out
building which was struck.
After nearly a week of intense suf-
fering, Miss Beulah McMaster died at
the Twin Falls hospital as the result
of burns received at her home as the
result of a gasoline explosion.
Beets and wheat in the vicinity OF
Blackfoot are in better condition
than for several years, and the farm
ers look forward to having bumper
crops of both commodities in the fall.
Lightning has caused three fires in
the Boise forest recently, according
to the local forest office, but the vege-
tation is still so green that the fires
! did no harm beyond burning a few
trees.
| Teachers taking the state examina-
> tion are to be questioned as to their
5 knowledge Of Idaho history, according
to an announcement made Saturday
q by Edward o. Sisson, commissioner
a of education.
:, On Good Roads day sixty-three
s miles of road wJrk was completed by
s volunteer workers in Lemhi county at
e the low cost to the county of $6085
II Meals were provided by the women Of
g the different communities.
The Pocatello General hospital is tc
h have new improvements costing ap
g proximately $29,5O0. The present
e building is to be remodeled and an ad
V dition built which will give the hos
l. pital almost twice the capacity of the
i present institution.
). By way of extending Idaho hospital
n lty to large circle of friends, Mr.. anC
Mrs Leo Marsters entertained abou
" $50 people at dinner at their rancl
Ii home four miles north of Meridian
n The feast was served on table near
r ly 100 feet long, built on the lawn.
n Five members of the family of JET
d, ferson McCorkle at Meridian wer,
N seriously affected with ptomaine poi
IL soning Sunday evening of last week
n Careful investigation has failed t,
disclose the source from which tn
Of lives of the family were endangered
TT Petitions are being circulated OF
N Camas prairie for signers opposed t
is county division. 1t is claimed that
s. the present county of Blaine is Gu
lg into three counties, the extra expens
i'd of additional county buildings and OF
IN ficers will increase the burden of tax
1t payers.
The Lemhi Historical society i
e. making plans to commemorate the an
lie niversary of the date of the last camp
as ing place selected in Lemhi county b
It, the Lewis and Clark expedition. TIL
is date was August 80, 1905, and tn
n place was close to the present site Q
le the town OF Salmon.
n Never before have the boys an
le girls of Canyon county ha1 hung u
before them anywhere near tn
in amount # prizes which are to b
e given at the fall tairs this year 70
er the best club work done by them.
g, is announced that the club wor
at prizes will total $1,000.
a Mrs. Willard McMaster and Mis-
IN Bulah McMaster were seriously burr
IN ed as the result OF gasoline explt
sion in the cellar of the McMaste
rs home at Kimberly A three-year-ol
IN child had got hold Of some gasolin
C. and poured it on the cellar steps
e. The amount of the increase In tn
Ct property valuation of Idaho count
d, for the wear 1914 ovar tha year 1911.