The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-10-26
In THE GEM STATE

leg ut Middleton when he fell from q
buggy and caught his leg In the spokes
Of the wheel
The Nez Perez county campaign for
the Liberty loan opened with sub
scription Of $4,000 by Irm Small,
pioneer farmer.
Gadfield & Co., cattlemen, are build
ing two silos, each 20x32 feet on the
Hill ranch, near Roswell, where they
viii feed this winter.
Dedication services of the new $780,
600 Methodist church at Idaho Falls,
conducted by Bishop Mathew s.
Hughes Of Portland, were attended by
more than 1900 people at each service.
Miss Esther Davis has been APP
pointed leader of the Girls Honor
Guard of Boise, and Mrs. Norman
Beckley, head Of the state work, by
Miss Lucille Danforth, of Portland,
state organizer
OF more than 100 l. W. WIS ar
rested and brought to Moscow since
| the clean up campaign started in the
lumber camps In the early summer, all
have been released but four, who are
being held for trial.
Former Governor James HI. Hawley
fred the first gun in the Liberty Loan
campaign at Mountain Home. More
than 600 persons crowded the theatre
to hear Mr.. Hawley speak and 200
others were turned away.
- 40 Of
Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints, in
the state of Idaho have contributed
$2523.04 to the Red Cross and this
sum has been received by r. f. John
son, state Red Cross treasurer.
The war secretary has been advised
by the oregon Short Line that it is
putting racks on fiat cars used in
moving the sugar beets. That is ex-
pected to release a large number of
coal cars for use in hauling fuel.
Fire at Idaho Falls on October IL de-
stroyed property valued at $4,000. At
one time it seemed that two-thirds of
the entire business section of the
city would be destroyed and many of
the merchants began moving their
stocks.
Tests made in the state health de-
partment of samples of water out of
the artesian wells from which Boise
gets part of its water supply, show no
traces of contamination, according to
DIR. Emily Moshage, state bacteriolo-
gist.
Fruitgrowers must ship $50 boxes
of apples to the car, or they will en-
counter a shortage. of cars and make
it impossible for the potato growers
to get refrigerators, says Harvey ALL
red, director Of the state farm market
bureau.
The annual fair of the Eagle school
was held last week. Almost every
child in the school was represented
by one or more products which he had
helped to raise, and practically every
thing a child could make was ON e3-
hibition.
A deliberate attempt to blow up the
First National bank at Pocatello was
made one night last week. A fuse
refusing to burn on gaspipe bomb
prevented the loss of hundreds of
thousands of dollars and the magnifi-
cent new bank building.
The Twin Falls high school was
dismissed last week and the 500 stu
dents and teachers are assisting in or
chards and fruit packing plants for
! two weeks, picking and packing the
large fruit crop. From 50 to So per
day is made by the workers,
The Beet Growers Sugar company
of Idaho Falls has elected James II.
Hawley, former governor Of Idaho,
head of its directorate. The company
is erecting a large sugar milling plant
, mt Rigby, and will be ready to handle
its share of the crop of 1918.
J. j. MacMurphy has been convicted
by a jury in the district court at Wal.
lace of criminal syndicalism. This is
said to be the first conviction in the
: state under the recent act of the leg
islature defining syndicalism and sab
otage and making their practice and
agitation q penal offense.
The installation of the new city
lighting system at Pocatello which has
been delayed on account of the diff
! Guilty of obtaining some of the neces
: sary materials has been completed
: The new system includes all the
downtown district and good part Of
the close-in resident section.
In order to encourage the cultiva
: ton and development of the outlying
Hands Included in the townsite of Hey
: burn, ON the Minidoka irrigation pro
ject in southern Idaho, public salt
4 viii be held on November 10 of I
: number of attractive suburban lot
containing from one to 20 acres each
Fifteen feet Of the banks of RIDDEN
baugh canal, the main waterwa,
through the pa-Meriden irri
: CATION district, went out last week
: three miles and half southwest o
Meridian, cutting of temporarily tn
water supply of more than half tn
/ aren of the district or aDuroXimatel