The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-09-11
IDAHO BUDGET


town can now boast of eight blocks
of good paving. The good work will be
continued next spring should conditions
permit. trs.
Immediate attention will be given
the Idaho car situation by the car SER
vice section of the United States rail-
road administration, O. o. Haga. state
director of commercial economy, has
been advised.
Monthly report of the police judge
at Boise for August to the mayor and
city council shows the city the richer
to the amount Of $3OS, which repre-
sents the fines and forfeitures paid
into the police court during the month.
State War Savings Stamps headquar-
tiers has been Informed that Idaho City
has, out of population Of about 100,
signed AZ pledges, the total raised be-
ing $500. This is an average per cap
ita of $12S for each person who sub
scribed.
While Charles Baxter of Boise was
speeding to Caldwell to bring his
wife's mother, Mrs. H. H. Nolan, to the
bedside of her dying daughter, his car
turned turtle, two miles from Merid-
ian. and injured him and man named
Peter c. Damen.
Ira Gardner had a harrow escape
near Nampa When bank of sand he
was near caved in on hiin and team
of horses. Mr.. Gardner was covered
except for his head. His cries for
help reached party Of travellers on
the road who came to his rescue.
Two new school buildings are near
ing completion in Cassia county and
will be ready for the fall term. At
Sublett a pressed brick building is
being built 25x76 feet at the cost Of
$1,000, and at Malta a brick building
25x45 feet at tn cost of $1,000.
Efforts are being made by the
Boise Commercial club to retain Ser
geant Charles F. Clark, organizer and
in charge of the Boise Military re-
serve. Clark has received word to
send in all the recruiting equipment,
and expects call to Fort Logan, Colo.
A large number of members of the
Seventh Day Adventists of the south
ern Idaho conference were assembled
at Caldwell Monday of last week to
witness the laying of the cornerstone
Of the new Seventh Day Adventist col
lege, which is being erected in that
city.
The annual report Of the Middleton
school filed with the county superin-
tendent shows a splendid record for
the year. The number of pupils en-
rolled was, boys 112 and girls 122,
while the school census shows boys
la and girls 122, with the average
daily attendance of SO per cent.
The Idaho Christian Endeavor union
closed its twenty-sixth annual conven-
ton at Mountain Home with larger
registration than in any year since
1908. Debts Of the organization were
cleared up and sufficient balance left
in the treasury, with the amounts
pledged, to provide for a series Of
Christian Endeavor institutes, prob
ably in January.
Misappropriation of $425,OOO worth
of securities is one of the allegations
made by D. B. Norman of Twin
Falls, secretary and treasurer of the
Milner-Twin Falls Land and Water
company and president of the Miner
Twin Falls Canal company, in an ac-
ton filed in district court at Twin
Falls against the Milner-Twin Falls
Land and Water company.
NJ. L. Mueller, of Seattle, who has
charge of all dry kilns installed for
the aircraft production bureau with
offices at Washington, was In Boise
last week checking up on the aircraft
production at the Boise Payette mill
at Barber, where he supervised the In.
stallation of kiln dryers short time
ago.
An order for complaint against the
Alder Creek railway was issued by the
public utilities commission to T. A.
/. Walters, attorney general, last week as
means of instituting action to COM
pei the railway to furnish facilities to
serve the public, complaints having
been made that the railway refuses to
provide for acceptance of lumber ma
terial.
Railroad valuations this year total
$685., 473, an increase of $780,, 391.
Other utilities increased as follows:
Telephone lines, $2,2S4,5S4 to $2,6S1,-
S4S; telegraph lines, $1,O19,219 to ST.
143.157; electric lines, $14,0OO,5OO to
SIS 1897 $50.
s. L. Davenport, charged with the
numbering of Henry w. Stricken, was
bound over to the fall term of the
district court without bail at the pre-
liminary hearing held in Nampa. Dav-
export shot Stricken during a quarrel
over dice game.
The physicians of Idaho, both men
and women, are about to be modified
into the Volunteer Medical Service
corps at the request of the National
Council of Defense, this new plan
having the hearty Endorsement of
President Wilson.