The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-10-19
IN THE GEM STATE

Perry Ragsdale. aged Is, was kicked
IN the head by a horse near Star, death
resulting after he had beer moved to
a hospital at Boise.
Ten thousand five hundred acres of
state school lands sold last week in
Bingham and BanBock counties
brought approximately $4,000.
People Of Meridian vho have beer
without slab wood during the summer
hailed with JOY the arrival last week
Of a carload. The wood was quickly
taken.
At a meeting Of the school board
held at Poeatello it was decided by
unanimous vote to discontinue the
4eaching Of German in the city schools
and to substitute French.
The Oregon Short Line hauled 49,
600 tons Of coaI ineo Idaho in August,
according to a report filed with the
public utilities commission. In Au-
gust, 1916, 10000 tons came in.
The new water main which is being
installed at Mccall is now nearly all
in and the building Of the tank a
been started. Tie system will prob
ably be completed before snow flies.
Mrs. Lorensa C~alzacorta. charged
with the murder on July s Of her hus-
band, ]. j. Calzacorta, at Nampa, en-
tered a plea Of not guilty when ar
raigned last week, and the case was
set for trial on October %.
Twenty members of the Fruitland
Commercial club met one day last
week and went out between Payette
and FruitIand to rake the rocks of the
road so that the ranchers could get
their apples hauled to tow
The large freight and parcel post
shipments going via Mccall to the
Warrens and Marshall Lake country
indicate the great activity of mining
operations in those parts. Freighters
to the upper country are exceptionally
busy.
The members Of the Boise Minis
terial association voted at their meet
ing last week to observe October 81
as food conservation Sunday and on
that date to call attention, either
through announcement or special ser
mons, to the plans Of the food admin
istrator.
Clarence Van Dusen, state auditor,
is home from a trip which took him
into Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon
and Washington. He visited the cap
itais OF the different states for the
purpose of investigating the methods
Of bookkeeping employed in the land
departments.
r. f., Bicknell, food administrator
for Idaho, has appointed Miss Jessie
NJ. Hoover director Of household Eco
nomics at the University Of Idaho, as
I campaign manager for the north, and
the university faculty arranged her
e duties so that she may aid in this
patriotic work.
Believed to have been murdered, tn
body OF John L. Dunn was found
his cabin twenty-five miles south {
. Twin Falls The body was lying on i
back and the face and head was bad
n mutiIated. There was q bullet no
II through the chin and a revolver ":
lying at his feet.
The department OF the interior hl
refused to set aside $1,000 acres {
1 land in eastern Idaho for the exclusiv
use of the Fremont W~o0lgr0wers' as
ISOLATION. That information is con
tanned in a letter TO the state ianC
commissioner, from the commissions
of the federal land office.
Finley Yaryan and family, OF Boise,
had the unique experience OF turning
completely over in an automobile and
then riding into town in Lhe same car.
Other autoists were passing at the
time and helped to pun the car out OF
the ditch and rescue the four persons
beneath, none of whom was injured.
The Idaho Transmission company
will be granted a certificate of public
convenience and necessity. The COM
pany will transmit power to the mines
of northern Idaho from the Montana
Power company. 1t will serve the Tam
10 arack and Custer, Greenhill-Cleveland
Federal. Hercules and other large
IN properties.
At the opening meeting OF the Pres
byterfan synod for Idaho At Pocatello,
the Rev. w. S. Snoddy of Burnley was
elected as moderator for the session
and the ensuing year. The Rev. q. w,
RI Banum of Boise vas named as stated
il clerk, the Rev. W. S. Williams, per-
manent clerk, and the Rev. r. L. Rob
In erts of Jerome, temporary CLERK.
Boise high school students spent
e fourteen days in picking prunes, in
a which time over 26I tons of prunes
s. were picked and more than 146 tons
OF packed. The total earnings amounted
We TO S1241.S0. The largest number OF
lie students out on one day was $50. orel
ok 500 girls and over 200 boys were en-
ed gagged in the Boise valley prune work
n The expenses of fire fighting in The
re national forests OF Idaho for the sea
os son Of 1917 range from S6S6.9S, the
us cost of extinguishing thirty-six fires il
as. the Boise forest which covered ap
Gu nrnvimarafy thirty acres. TO about So,