The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-02-22
In THE GEM STATE

| DnhuSi W. IlHCOCk VI sugar OlLyt.
listed as missing from the transport
Tuscania, has been reported safe.
Mrs. II. W. Stoughton, wife of a
prominent farmer north of Payette,
died last week following an operation.
The annual meeting of the Idaho
State Dairy association viii be held
Monday and Tuesday, March and 5,
at Boise.
A plan is on foot at Caldwell to
purchase barn for the city stock.
1t is proposed to sell lot belonging
to the city to raise the money.
Albert Wondershek of HALEY was
one Of the survivors of the torpedoed
Tuscania Mr.. Wondershek enlisted
In the Twentieth engineers two months
ago.
Latest measurements on the Arrow
rock and Deer Flat reservoirs show
the former TO contain 108,420 acre feet
Of water and the latter S5,954 acre
feet.
The home of @. A. Larson, of Boise,
! burned last week The fire is sup
posed to have started from sparks fall
ing on the roof, and the house was
total loss.
j. M. Neal, who operates ferry
on the Snake river, has been denied
rehearing of the case in which it was
recently decided that the ferry was
public utility
Income Tax Inspector Freeland is
In Boise for the purpose of giving
! information and assistance to the tax
payers in making out their returns,
until February %.
Edwin Stephen Whittier, an old
time Idahoan, died recently in Cali
fornia. Mr.. Whittier was department
commander of the Idaho G. a. r. in
1903. He was n years of age.
Moneys received from the endow-
/ ment funds credited to the different
state educational institutions cannot
be placed in the general fund of the
state treasury, Attorney General Wal
tiers has ruled.
4 One thousand Junior Red Cross but
| tons We're distributed to students of
the Nampa public schools as part of
the Lincoln day exercises. The stu
dents Joined the Red Cross in re-
| cent campaign.
| Shorthorn breeders of Canyon coun-
ty formally organized at a meeting of
about fifteen prominent stockmen, at
| Caldwell last week. Membership will
be open to breeders Of Ada, Owyhee
and Payette counties.
| Citizens of Deep Creek, Boundary
! county, have filed petition with the
| public utilities commission asking that
i the Spokane 4 Inland Empire Railroad
| company be compelled to stop its To-
cal passenger train at the Deep Creek
| station.
Idaho sheepmen lost their fight
| against their inclusion under the
worlSmens compensation act when the
| state supreme court denied to them
write of mandate directed against
G.. o. Broxon, manager of the states
insurance fund.
The registration of alien enemies, in
Canyon county the past week disclosed
the fact that there are few former
subjects of the kaiser in that sec
tion who have failed to take out their
final naturalization papers. Only a
dozen We're registered.
r. H Dunlap, probate judge of Ada
county, conferred with Attorney Cen
eral 4. A. Walters last week upon the
! issuing of alcohol permits, and upon
his advice decided to discontinue the
| practice of making out the slips for
the pain balm and cure-all
George Smalls of Walla Walla,
Wash, aged 50 years, died at Twin
Falls ut the home of his grandson,
whom he had been visiting. Mr..
| Smalls was one of the early settlers
Of the northwest, travelling through
Idaho SO years ago in an OK. cart.
That Idaho may cooperate with
Utah in the matter of marketing crops
this year, Harvey Alfred director Of
farm markets for the Gem state, has
written to 4. G. Rees, secretary of
the Utah Council Of Farm Markets,
for full information as to the plans
of this organization.
The Idaho women's committee,
council of national defense, is sending
letter to every county chairwoman,
asking that meeting he called at
once for the purpose of taking up the
sale of war savings stamps, of which
Idaho is expected to huS SS,o00,000
worth within the next several months.
The family of Pirtle It. Under,
member of Company f, sixth v !
TALON, Twentieth engineers, who en-
listed in the forestry regiment from
Indian valley the latter part of De
cember, have telegram from the adj
iutunt generals office that Under was
on the Inflated Tuscania but escaped
safely.
The woman's committee, Council of
National Defense. is trying to get to-
gether an interesting series of arti-
Giles about what women Of different
training and experience are finding to
Ito in practical war work and are de-
sirous Of obtaining interviews from
Idaho women who have had any I'M