The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-14
In THE GEM STATE


present indications.
II. F. Bicknell Of Boise has been APP
pointed by the food administration as
federal food administrator for Idaho.
The 10-year old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. r. Palmer, who live on ranch on
the nixon road. was kicked by horse
and suffered serious injuries.
Realizing the urgent and long felt
need Of a hospital at Gooding, local
physicians have launched a movement
to provide such an institution.
Weiser's third annual Harvest Car
nival and Oregon Trail roundup will
be held October 3, and 5. The round
up features will be stronger than ever
this year.
The state will raise s90S, 584.37 in
taxes this year from among the Al
counties. This is an increase Of 1922
259.S9 over the taxes levied by the
state in 1916.
A farmer of the Deer Flat section
who bought his land two years ago for
SIS an acre has already sold his hay
crop for SIS a ton. He is cutting six
tons from approximately 60 acres.
The total carload shipments from
Caldwell in August was 105. These in
cIuded SO cars of horses, 80 cars of
potatoes, IL cars Of flour, IL carloads
Of brick and four carloads of goats.
Carrie Belle Prickett, the small
daughter of a Boise valley rancher,
was taken to a Boise hospital to have
several stitches taken in her cheek,
where she had been kicked by horse.
Idaho can have replica of the ia
nous Liberty Bell for show purposes
at the state fair if the state will pay
the freight on one that the Woman's
| Liberty Loan committee would send to
Boise from the east.
Sparks from a threshing engine at
Spring Grove ranch, near Weisef,
started a fire that destroyed wheat
valued at $4,000. The wheat belonged
to A. G. ButterfieId, whose loss Is
covered by insurance.
Federalized Montana guardsmen are
on duty in Burke canyon, northeast of
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by crowd of about seventy-five min
ers to force other miners in the dis
trict to quit their jobs.
Wilbert W. Hubbell of Bull has
signed a contract to twirl for the
| Giants during the 1918 season. Hub
bell is one of the best known all
round athletes in Southern Idahs, anC
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Ora T. Barnes, Jr., two years old
was killed when a car in which he wa.
riding with his parents, plunged of
the Arrow Rock road, near the Arrow
Rock hotel, and shot down 20 feet
The child suffered a fractured skull
At meeting at Idaho Falls of tn
executive committee and the advisor,
council of the farm bureau a price O
s cents per sack of two bushels fo
picking potatoes was agreed upon
This does not include board for the
picker.
The known phosphate lands OF Idaho
lie in the southwestern part of the
state, in Bear Lake, Bannock. Bling
ham. Bonneville and Fremont coun.
ties. The government has reserved
966,377 acres in Idaho as workable
| phosphate land.
Mrs. G. w. Narrell was brought to
the hospital at Idaho Falls from a
dry farm forty miles distant and
later gave birth to twins, both of
whom died. The mother also died
within short time. She leaves a
husband and nine children.
The governments method of de.
termining the fixed wheat price for
the different sections of the United
States, using Chicago as basis point,
are discriminatory to an unfair degree.
in the opinion of Harvey Alfred, di-
rector of the state farm markets bu.
reau.
The hog department is going to be
one of the strong features Of the
state fair this fall. according to Sec
rotary Henderson,. Accommodations
have been provided at the grounds for
$50 animals and additional swine pens
will be built if there is a demand for
them.
Governor Alexander has suggested to
the governors of adjacent states that
they gather with him in a conference
for the purpose of discussing the labor
situation in the northwest There has
been no tentative date set for the
meeting nor has the place been sug-
| gested.
The Boise Commercial club, as as
signee of IL local firms. has brought
suit against the Oregon Short Line
Railroad company to collect the sum
of S29T7.52. alleged overcharged in the
years of 1918 ard 1914 on $50 ship
ments of merchandise from various
eastern points.
Falling in line with economy sug-
gestions emanating from Washington,
Nampa groeerymen are arranging for
a cooperative delivery system. BY
having joint system. let by con-
tract to one responsible party, the
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