The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-08-01
IDAHO BUDGET


Camp Lewis have been rejected and
will return home.
Caldwell's budget of expenses for
the fiscal year were fixed by the city
council at Il meeting last week at
$9O,91O.
Work on the city and county hos
pital at GoOdng is moving along nicely,
though some delay has been due to
slow shipments from Ogden.
Thirty-fOur of the first 80 regis
trants of this year who have returned
their questiOnnaires to the Ada cOun-
ty local exemption board have been
assigned places in class La
Five thousand people cheered them
selves hoarse and the horns from hun
dreds of autos added to the joyful din
at the flag raising which was a part
Of Rupert's celebration of Independ-
ence day.
Nampa's employment office has a
surplus of labor for the first time. The
office has six men that want work and
the office has no calls for men wanted.
There has been until now big demand
Iva WI hCls'
To gather data for a chapter in the
early history of pioneer days, Andrew
Jensen. assistant historian of the Nor
mon church, has gone to Fl Lemhi.
Ida. the first settlement made in Idaho
by white men.
The Camas Mutual irrigation dis
triet. organized last week at Lamar,
nj f1
| ter will be furnished. The land will
be watered by the construction of a
huge storage system.
Delays in the receipts of machinery
| and building material have prevented
the CarnatiOn Milk Products company
at Nampa from starting the actual
work of condensing, which they had
hoped would be in full swing by this
| time.
The haying season in the Gooding
section is open and the first cutting
of alfalfa is about all in the stack.
The yield for the first cutting in many
parts of Gooding county is as heavy
as was the first and second cuttings
Of last year.
l III ACAo thC tOtdA huA1DCl Va AA1dA-
| riages contracted in Ada county was
4O1. with LA divorces. This is a di-
vOrce percentage of 1874 per cent
During the years Of 1917 the marriages
tOtaled 466 with $50 divorces, a per-
centage of $50.
| 1t is declared that the bakers Of
Idaho are ready and willing to do
/
program of the nation, and are back
fling Mr.. Bicknell. food administrator
for Idaho, to the limit in his endeavors
along that line.
| Llyd Hutchinson of Meridian, who en-
listed last fall. going to Camp Greene,
n. c., thence to France, was killed in
action with the American forces, adj
vices of his death having just been
received by his parents. He was mar
ried the day he entraineo.
Pocatello is the first city in the state
to report TO the State Council Of De-
| Tense the organization of a Liberty
chorus. The singers do their part to-
| ward winning the war as an OrganiZa-
ton by singing patriotic songs at pub
| lie gatherings and in special concerts.
| Lee Powell and daughter of Midway
precinct, while returning in a buggy
from an evening call Sunday, were
struck by an auto without lights
driven at high rate of speed, which
ran into the rear end of the buggy
throwing both occupants out and
demolishing the vehicle. Both escaped
without serious injury.
The state land board has extended
until January 1, 1919, the time limit
in the contract of o. E. Strangland,
| covering lease of the. bed of the
Occur d'Alene river from Occur
| d'Alene lake to the Shoshone county
| line, which Strangland plans to dredge
| for minerals washed down from near
| by mines.
Field Horticulturist Bennett re-
ports that the Idaho fruit crop will not
| Some sections, notably the Emmett
and Hagerman valley districts. have
good crops on scattered orchards.
Miss Isabel Stephens of the Univer-
| sity of Idaho extension department
spent three days last week at Cald-
| well in games, dances and pageants
that can be put on at the Canyon coun-
| ty picnic at Lake Lowell on August 8.
Harry. the 9-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. B. Cline, of Emmett, had both
| legs crushed and broken when the au-
| tomobile his father was getting ready
for an outing slipped from the jacks
| and struck the boy, who was filling
| the radiator.
The city librarian at Caldwell re-
ports that books loaned for the year to-
| tailed 1875. Eight hundred and fifty
more books were loaned for the past
year than the previous year. and 1872
| less books of fiction were taken out
than the previous year.
Mammals Harvest Festival executive