The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-10-05
In THE GEM STATE

The broken span of the bridge over
The Boise river at Star has been coIu-
pleted.
More than 1900 people paid admis-
sion to the Southern Idaho fair during
the five-day session at Filler.
A rancher came into Boise last week
with a dressed hog in the rear seat Of
his automobile which he sold for
$3.50.
schools shows substantial increase
over the registration last year Of more
than 2O0O.
F. G. Bowers of Eagle is in the hos.
pital with a broken leg, the result OF
an accident in the lumber camp where
he was working.
The third annual convention of the
chiropractors of southern Idaho was
held in Boise last week, about fifty
being in attendance.
The twenty-third annual session of
| the Idaho conference of Congregations
al churches will open at Boise Oc-
tober 2 and continue for three days.
Students of the Boise high school
have been adding to their pocket
money by picking prunes in the or
chards of the valley, the average pay
being Is cents a box.
A return of Sill an acre on wheat
reported by N. F. Bow of Bowmont is
said to set a new record for agricul-
tural prosperity based on this COM
modify in the Boise valley.
Excellent reports from the county
chairmen of the Idaho women's COM
mittee, Council of National Defense,
are being received almost daily by
Mrs. S. H. Hays, state chairman.
Odd Fellows of Nampa are laying
extensive plans for entertainment of
the grand lodge four days, beginning
October ID, when it is expected nearly
1000 Odd Fellows and Rebekahs will
gather there.
Ben Allison attempted suicide at
Pocatello upon learning that his wife
had started divorce proceedings on the
coast. He fired a shot into his chest.
Doctors were summoned and say he
has fair chance of recovery.
Another of Idaho's well-known piO-
neers passed away in the death OF
Robert L. Justice, at Hagerman, re-
Gently. Mr.. Justice freighted with OK
teams between the Missouri river and
Denver in the early fifties. He came
: to Idaho in 1864.
{ Twelve prisoners in the state peni-
1 Tertiary have been sent to Bonneville
~, ~.
nant basin, according to action taken
by the prison board. The men will be
used for two months and will receive
Is 80 cents a day.
The grades of the Nampa schools
N which began the years work last
n week, are crowded as never before,
% pointedly attesting the city's rapid
It growth in recent months. Many of
the grand teachers Monday found
: themselves facing from 40 to 4s pu-
e pills.
At a meeting of the fruitgrowers in
r the vicinity of Fruitland it was agreed
to pay the pickers 80 cents an hour
J and to invite the merchants of On
tario and Payette to come one day
each week and help in the picking. La
Dor is needed badly to help care for
; the fruit.
The marriage of Miss Minerva Kohl
epp, the young Idaho artist, who has
been living in New York for several
years, but who came to her native state
last winter to paint mural decOra-
ton in the new Pocatello high school,
to NJ. Teichert of Sterling, Idaho, was
announced last week.
: The freight rate from Boise to Chi
} cago is 81 cents per 100, or 34.2 cents
: a bushel, which would make wheat
: there worth little more than S1.S5A
, cents a bushel The freight rate from
Boise to Portland is 321a cents per
} 100, or 1914 cents bushel, which also
{ would make wheat there worth about
f s1.S5.
Shipments of potatoes and grain
from southern Idaho are now under
way. Although crop yields are not
equal to those of some former years,
> the high prices for all classes of farm
3 products will more than compensate
: for any shortage and farmers are GO
: ing to have more money than at any
. previous time.
5 James f. Callahan, pioneer and mil
T lionaire mine owner of Wallace, has
! filed second amended complaint in
his divorce action, in his attempt to
dissolve the marital bond between him
self and Helen Elizabeth Callahan,
Y whom he married at Los Angeles in
{ March, 1916.
' A drug store at Blackfoot was rob-
( bed one night last week. Two men
: were arrested, and when searched at
{ the city Jail yielded up a considerable
= supply of opiates. They gave the
names of Charles H. Davenport and
Mike Penfold and stand charged with
first-degree burglary.
, Walter G. Wagner, an electrical en-
! gineer with the bureau of standards at