The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-08-31
In THE GEM STATE

Work on q $4,000 warehouse began
at Burley last week.
Out of $50 men called before the ex-
amining board at Burnley, only 70 men
We're accepted.
Net receipts for the Boise national
forest during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1917, amounted to $14,072.
The cold storage plant at New Ply
mouth has been started with full
crew, and the building Will be rushed
to completion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Poole of Nampa,
We're hurt in an automobile accident in
the Yellowstone national park and are
now at Denver receiving treatment.
More children will be in attendance
at the opening of the Boise public
schools September 10 than We're in at
tendance on opening day last year, it
is announced.
The Powell exhibition of paintings,
which since June is has been in the
auditorium of the Carnegie library at
Boise, will be returned withon few
weeks to New York city.
Plans are being considered by Filler
citizens for obtaining an adequate
water supply. Filters present system
has been outgrown, and the need for
double system is accute.
Business men of Shoshone have per-
fected an organization for protecting
the city and surrounding country
against the /. w. w. menace and such
other dangers as war conditions may
| create.
Southern Idaho is prepared to pre-
vent /. w. w. depredations, the sher-
/ ifs Of different counties having or
ganized deputies and citizens for in
| slant service in the event of our out
/ break.
Twenty-one men have been selected
| by Mayor Hays to give talks in Boise
theaters on phases of the war under
the direction of the .four-minute men"
department of the committee on public
information.
Payette county has organized a
county defense league. The object is
to assist county officers in dealing
with l. w. w. or persons trying to
strike or make trouble during the h;lr-
vest season.
An electrical storm last week start
ed eighteen fires in the Payette for
est, and the forest ranger together
with the fire wardens Of Long valley
were kept busy fighting them for for.
ty-eight hours.
The dates for the agricultural weel
to be staged at Caldwell have beer
fixed at October 23-27, inclusive. Tn
event is to be known officially as tn
boys and girls club exhibit and farm
> ers' experimental school"
In two suits filed at Caldwell las
: week, Canyon county seeks to recove
T from the two bonding companies While
Q were sureties for A. o. Ghristophe
q former assessor and tax collector,
5 sum slightly exceeding $4,000.
/ A new high school and consolidate
: grammar school building is soon t
t be erected at Cascade, and a $1,000
bond election will be called for tn
! purpose of raising funds to cover TIL
t cost of the proposed structure.
The Boise Commercial club is Off
, cially behind the move inaugurated By
Representative Addison T. Smith al
Washington, to secure the purchase in
Boise instead of Portland of supplies
for the troops at the Boise barracks.
Unless present plans are delayed by
unforeseen circumstances, work will be
gin September Is on the remodeling
and refurnishing of the First National
bank of Twin Falls. The alterations
will cost between 100000 and $4,000
Valuations on dry lands in Adams
Bannock Gem, Washington and Val
ley counties were reduced last week
by the state board of equalization. Val
uations on grazing lands and waste
lands We're permitted to stand as re.
ported by the counties.
Whisky worth, Mt allegedly prevail
ing prices, in the neighborhood OF
$4,000 was seized when o. w. More
haufer and Alvin NJ Harris was ar
rested just after having crossed the
Nevada state line, between MUD
Springs, Nevada, and Bruneau.
, Idaho people have been slow to re
; spond to the request made for books
, and magazines for the American sol
diers, Mrs. Marie Schneider, state trav
! cling librarian announced last week
and an appeal is made for reading
: matter to be sent the boys in France.
> Another Idaho irrigation projec
] launched with high hopes nearly ter
! years ago, gave up the ghost last week
when the state land board voted to re
linquish the Wickahcney Land {
I Water company's. segregation in Owy
hee county to the federal government
The secretary of the state board o
health issues waring against ped
! dlers, and says peddlers are alright il
: their place, but they are out of plac
: in Idaho at this season of the year
: with the war in progress, when tn
! German imperial government is seek
ing to spread disease germs among TIL