The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-03-02
IN TIE GEM STATE

On March / the Middleton postof
fee will be located in a new home.
The postoffce at Rexburg will be
moved into new quarters on June. 1.
The west district Of the South Idaho
Christian Missionary society held a
convention at Ustick last week.
Fully 300 persons attended the ded-
ication of the attractive little Nazar-
enc chapel at Boise last week.
William Oler OF shelley was kicked
in the face by a large work horse. The
blow knocked out his front teeth and
fractured the jaw.
By the kick of a horse c. A. VII
liams OF Bowmont, deputy assessor
and well known resident Of that sec.
ton, had a leg broken.
Materials for the building and ma
chinery equipment for the plant have
been ordered for the new cheese plant
to be erected in Ustfck.
The Lake H$zel school is closed on
account of the measles. The teach
er is quarantined and there are four
or five cases among the pupils.
Interest in the Red Cross work is
being shown in Idaho towns. At Wei
ser last week a chapter was formed
with sixty-ive charter members.
The Boise Payette Lumber com
pany has a crew working on the log
pond at Barber, getting it in shape.
The ice attained a depth of 20 inches.
bCon a Dzr11- D. II@---4 81 Aw-1s1
Himself of the United States Bank
ruptcy Law?" was the subject of an
address delivered at Collister last
week.
Robert M. Terrell, a PocateIlo at
torney, has been named a second
Judge in the Fifth judicial district by
Governor Alexander to sit with Judge
]. J.. Guheen.
The Scism school house was the
scene of a box supper M night last
week. The proceeds are to be used in
purchasing suitable lamps for the
school building.
Following the re~introduetion Of the
antialien land bill in the Idaho sen.
ate, a bill was introduced last week to
prohibit the marriage of white per-
sons and Mongolians."
The fire hydrants at P~ocatello are
again in working condition. One OF
the serious features in connection with
the recent cold snap was the freezing
up of the fire hydrant1.
The Idaho Technical Institute of
Pocatello will take part in a triangular
debate between the three leading edu.
cational institutions of southern Idaho
on the subject, Compulsory Voting
Painstaking and extensive prepare
tions are being made by the higi
school chorus for the presentation o
the comic operetta, .Bulbul" at Cald
well on the evenings of March 9 anC
10.
Odd Fellows of Middleton were
hosts last week - the third annua
session of the district association o.
the order. Delegates were in attend
ance from the seven lodges in the
district.
Middleton's new commercial or
g~anization, the Cooperative club,
starts with a membership of 55. The
membership committee met with ex
cellent success in lining up farmers
and business men.
Dedication services of the new
Pentecostal mission in Star were held
February Is. Members of the congre-
cation and friends came with bias
kets and remained all day, enjoying a
public dinner at noon.
If plans nov being promulgated by
the College of Idaho are carried
through, the scholastic basketball
championship of southern Idaho and
eastern Oregon will be decided in
Caldwell at a big tournament.
The new Christian church at Bull
has been completed. The new church
was built entirely by donation labor.
1t is an attractive building on Broad
way str ct, containing a large audi
forum. choir loft, and two small side
rooms.
Indicating something of the urgent
need for new houses in Nampa may
be cited the fact that one builder
has already contracted with thirteen
future home owners to erect resi-
dences for them, and expects to more
than double this number in coming
months.
Fred M. Coleman is free. After hay-
ing served a term of two years and
two months in the Idaho pe~nitentiary
under a sentence of from two and a
half to ten years for self-confessed
embezzlement of s22, 900 from the state
treasury while he was deputy state
treasurer, Coleman was released last
week on a writ OF habeas corpus.
E. r. Hickey. who has occupied the
position of assistant yard master with
the Oregon Short Line at Pocatello,
charged with entering a car containing
an interstate commerce shipment aud
abstracting a Isl of whisky, has been
bound over to the federal court and