The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-04-27
IN THE GEM STATE

last week.
A patriotic fund is to be raised for
company D in which the Emmett boys
are enrolled.
The Wendell Milling & Elevator
company is erecting an elevator OF
10000 bushel capacity.
A new postoffice has been estab-
lished at Declo, Cassia county, with
Lawrence A. Gillett as postmaster.
The Countrywomens club of the
Twin Falls section is about to emu
late the Crescent club If Emmett, and
own club house of it's own.
The truckers strike at the Oregon
| Short Line depot in Boise was called
off on April II, when the demands Of
the strikers for wage of $3.50 a day
for ten hours was met.
The regular meeting of the CONNER
cial club held at Pocatello last week
was devoted for the most part to a.
consideration of the problems relating
TO an increase in food products.
The Third Idaho regiment of ma
tional guard may be organized in the
near future if enlistments in the Sec
ond are sufficient to bring that organ
ization up to the required strength.
The spring stated meeting of the
Twin Falls Presbytery was held last
week at Pleasant View church, six
miles southwest of Twin Falls, where
the members were delightfully."- enter
tanned
An elderly man giving the name of
James Cramer was taken into custody
by the police at Pocatello on the
charge of having assailed the United
States government for taking stand
against Germany.
a meeting interesting to men en-
gagged in the manufacture of cheese
and butter was held in Caldwell last
week. One of the aims of the new
organization will be the standardizar
! ton of Idaho butter.
rousing farewell was given the
. high school boys who volunteered for
! the army when they left Pocatello.
The boys were Clarence Hewlett,
Frank Young, Frank Smith, Robert
Pugmire and Harry Keef
: Through showings made by H. R.
1 Z
were brought home to Nampa- from
the livestock show held at Salt Lake
last week in connection with the for
NAL opening of the hig Cudahy pack
ing plant.
= Walter Lux of Triangle, Owyhe
county, is reported to have killed
- white bear recently. This is regar
4 ed as a curiosity as they are usual
= brown this time of year. 1t is 81
posed the hard winter has turn
them white.
G. r. Hit, state bank commissi
er, last week announced that he
red taken UP with William G. Mead
secretary of the treasury, the mat
. of purchasing government war bol
= for the people of Idaho wishing
make such investments.
n Alfalfa growers of the Boise (
Fl trict are facing the probability of
- heavy loss, for as the spring advanH
it appears as though most of the {
acreage of alfalfa was killed at
roots by the repeated ice coatings
q the fields during the winter
Peter Wiser of Ogden, light-heav
-, weight wrestler won from Haro
II Christensen at Boise on April l
= Wiser took the first fall in fifty-on
minutes with a scissors. Although II
= jured, Christensen insisted on startin
q for the second fall, but was forced :
give up after a few minutes.
Ten prominent members Of tn
Boise Chinese colony, seven Hop
and three Hips, are out on 500 cas-
bonds, having been arrested late Sa
urday night for refusing to give thei
q names and occupations to the polio
i department, which is preparing Gel
sus of the Chinese of the city.
Interest in the Red Cross work a
4 over the state is keen. Application
= for charters have been made by tn
women Of Emmett, which will sta
with a good sized chapter. Halle
starts with charter membership
o so: Filler will meet to organize tn
week; Wendell has recently organize
and sets its mark at 500 members.
4 AS herd of IS fat cattle were b
. ing driven across the Boise riy
bridge mile south of Star, one col
plete span of the structure collapse
- precipitating Is of the steers and tN
I'd horsemen to the river bed below. T
men, horses and cattle escaped wi
= out serious injury.
/ The county agents of this state
being urged by the United States
partment Of agriculture, through
II states relation service, to do all
= their power to bring about the pla
ing of an increased acreage of land
H spring wheat barley, corn, oats, pc
II toes, beans, sugar beets and vegetab
- Of all kinds.
rel The state is selling 100000 acres
7e. school lands this wear. That '
70 place more than 100000 in the st