The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-09-18
IDAHO BUDGET

PlanS are DeihS maze to bu!ld n
$4,000 mOn-sectarian chapel for Deer'
Flat.
Weiser's fourth annual round.un,
will be held Wednesday, Thursday and,
Friday, September %, 26 and ~
During August 40 cars of shoor,
were sent out from Mccall and tbot
number is likely to be equallea this
month.
With an initial enrolment of 2111
pupils this fall, as against 2O)3 lost
year, the four Twin Falls school build.
ings already are OvercrOwded.
The immense Canyon county wbe
crop is moving steadily and prompuy
to market, according to Frank G.
Stephens; Canyon county director Of
commercial economy.
w. J. Dyer of Eagle, who was 70.
ported missing in action with the ma.
rines jane 10, writes his mother. Mrs.
NJ. Chilcott of Boise, formerly Of
Eagle, that he Is "still kicking"
Two clOudbursts which occurred be.
tween HOlcomb and Sherman, result.
ed in two washOuts on the line of the
Intermountaln railway into the Boise
basin. and traffic was temporarily in.
terrupted.
The GOOding public schools onened
on September 16. Military training I'm.
der competent instruction will be car
ried on in the high school, and classes
in first aid will be given the girls Of
the high school.
A telephone line will be built by the
forest service from the Nelson ranch
| to the Painter ranch. connecting Il gap
that separates north and south Idaho.
With this connection communication
will be possible to Grangeville through
! Dixie.
Idaho State Life Insurance company
| has already announced to the state
Liberty loan headquarters that it will
subscribe to $4,000 worth of fourth
! issue Liberty bonds and that it is
NOW waiting for the application blank
to sign it.
| A statement issued by the county as
SCISSOR shows that there are in Twin
! Falls county this year 1920 registered
motor vehicles, as against 2751 in 1917
and 618 in 1915. The total autOmo-
bile tax collected up to date this year
in this county is $62,9SO.
| With the return of the Middleton
canning team from the interstate fair
at Spokane it became known that the
Idaho team took second prize for can
ming demonstration in competition
with picked trios from Oregon, Wash
ingtOn, Montana, Utah and Nevada.
deal was completed at Caldwell
last week with the Apple Growers
association of Caldwell and vicinity
for the sale of so carloads of apples
at $37,5OO. Practically all the apple
growers of the Caldwell country have
entered the contract for the sale of
their apples.
Convict George w. Graham escaped
from the HURT ranch, near Nampa,
where he was employed as trusty.
sraham was received at the state
penitentiary from Bonneville coun-
ty, April q, 1918, under sentence of
from one to fourteen years for the
crime of ENLIGHTENMENT.
Government estimates are to the ef-
feet it will take 1912 cars to move
the 1918 potato crop of Idaho. This
is much lighter than shipments made
last year, that ran near the l2oW
FAR mark, even when n loss of 2000
cars is figured into the last year es-
innate, as n result of car shortages.
Reports from twenty-siX out OF
ninety threshermen operating in Twin
Falls county, for the months nj July
and August, show an aggregate yield
of 431 ,SSS bushels of wheat threshed
as the crop from an area of 1l,IH-
acres, or an average of 4O.4 bushels
per acre. Every section OF the county
is represented in these reports
In answer to Il request for double
deck stock cars for the shipment OF
sheep and hogs from southern Idaho
has reported to the public utilities
commission ct Boise that there are bur
two dOuble-deck cars available at this
time for the filling of an order for
! 275 of these cars in southern Idaho.
Range conditions continue good gen.
orally, although there is some com
plant from the Southern counties that
q the fall and winter range feed will De
poor on account Of the present lack
of moisture. However, stock are stu
reported in good condition.
William Gwin, prominent far"er
near Shoshone, for many years a resi-
dent of Lincoln county, died suddehv
last week. Mr.. Gwin was feeling Ill
and started to take bath at MS
home. He tainted while in the tuo
and never regained consciousness
Down in Rear Lake county winter
wheat harvest is just nicely uhdes
way and spring wheat is rpehips
fast. Up in Spokane valley, k"otea"
county. farmers are busy seeding WIZ
ter wheat. Recent rains have put NV
soil in excellent condition and IN eS