The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-01


Idaho will observe registration da
June 5, under the selective draft Law
as a legal holiday.
The Mackay dam Is to be rebuilt
The Utah Construction company ha
the contract for the work.
| Only twenty-four men are needed Ii
the guard to bring 1t up to the requires
strength, or 100 men to company.
Construction of silos In country sur
rounding Meridian promises to assum,
unprecedented proportions this year.
| All towns are being urged to put Ii
a sufficient supply of coal In June, Jul,
and August to carry them through un
| til spring.
/ The state horticultural inspector es
Inmates that 1000 cars Of prunes ant
25OO cars Of apples will be produced
this season.
Snake river Is higher than usual al
this season of the year, but the high
water usually does not come until the
middle Of June.
When the circus came to Salmon last
week the Red Cross auxiliary equipped
lunch counter, from the sales of
which they realized SOB.
The largest class In the history OF
the Pocatello high school, numbering
thirty-three students, will be graduated
ON Friday evening, June i.
With the opening in Pocatello of an
enlistment station for the navy hospl-
tai corps, all branches of the recruiting
service are now represented there.
Menan is to have beet sugar fac
tory, according to an. announcement
by i. II. Cutler, vice president and
general manager of the Utah-Idaho
Sugar company.
II class of 20 or more desire to
learn telegraphy, to respond to the
call sent out by the government FOR
10000 more telegraph operators, class
will be started In Boise.
Two residents of Oakland, CAL, were
the first men to make out their regis
tration blanks In Pocatello, according
to the provisions of the selective draft
order recently passed by congress.
Plans have been completed to OBJ
serve Decoration Day at Idaho Falls,
as general recruiting day for the
seven counties which make up the dis
trict, with Idaho Falls as the center.
Guy Crockett, aged %, was shot in
the leg by Night Waterman Koford at
Pocatello. Koford claims he attempt
ed to arrest Crockett, who ran, and
that he fired simply to scare Crockett.
The body of Glenn Hoffman, the
young lad who was drowned in the
Snake river below Jerome, May 5, I'M
der circumstances which suggested foul
play, was discovered floating in the
river abou two miles west of Hager-
man.
The graduation exercises of the
Idaho Technical institute will be held
on Thursday evening, May 81, and the
Rev. John Hallowell Dickinson has
been chosen by the students to deliver
the commencement address on that oc-
casion.
At large and representative meet
Ing of the members of the Pocatello
Commercial club a committee was APP
pointed again to take up with Senator
Borah and Brady the possibility of es-
tablishing an army training camp ih
Pocatello.
High water in Sand creek and Will
low creek has done large amount of
damage around Idaho Falls and the
creeks are still rising. 1T is estimated
that 1000 acres of land In wheat Is
under water. Several potato cellars
have been flooded and caved In.
A number of the Sisters of Mercy,
who came to Pocatello from the Judge
Mercy hospital in Salt Lake City and
who have been working In TINS cIry
pending the completion of the new
$4,000 Catholic hospital, which is now
under way, have been called to Namps.
% take charge Of the general hospitai,
which will be taken over by them on
June /.
b. NJ. Holt, who was recently named
by Governor Alexander to serve as
assistant secretary of the Idaho war
council, has issued a statement en-
phasizing the necessity of guarding
against oyerbuying of staple roodstufrs
and against production or TOO much
perlshable food products to the exclu-
sion of articles which can be ex-
ported.
The state board of examiners has
laid down hard and fast rule regard
ing the making of expenditures from
the revolving funds of the several state
institutions as authorized by the last
This rule is TO the effect
that money from the funds can only be
used for the payment of incidental ex-
penses which require cash, such as
freight postage stamps, express, etc.
Practically every legitimate financial
demand of the farmers of Bannock
county has been met by local banks,
and as result there will be an in
creased acreage of both grain and POI
tatoes.
Ranchers and gardeners located
along the Portneuf river in the vicinity