The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-15
IDAHO BUDGET


of the Boise valley Friends was held
last week at Star.
The village cemetery at Meridian
has been cleaned up and put in order
by Il corps of volunteer workers.
1t is now calculated that 50 per cent
more farmers of Canyon county are
engaged in raising hogs than were en-
gagged in the industry last year.
Owing to the mild winter no
natural ice was put up at Meridian and
the town will depend on the Boise
deg iers for artificial ice the coming
season.
a. Il. Coward was sentenced to 60
days in Jail and was fined 500 by
Judge Bryan ut Caldwell, of the dis
trict court. for unlawful possession of
intoxicating liquor.
Leaders in boys and girls club
work in southwestern Idaho met w.
L. Mccall, state leader, and his as
sistant; Miss z. Fay Fowler, in con-
ference at Boise one day last week.
From Nampa comes word that in the
higher-lying orchards at least even the
tender apricot and almond blossoms
have not taken material damage from
the recent cold weather and the later
species have not been touched.
With the exception Of II members,
the guardsmen from Standpoint have
been returned hon,. They were
called out early in March for duty in
Benewah county, when the I. W. w.
attacked the sheriff at st. Maries.
S. J. Jones, who has for several years
been the manager of the Mountain
States Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany for the southern Utah district,
has been transferred to POcatello to
take the management Of the POcatellO
district.
Mrs. w. B. Lyman, chairman Of the
treasure and trinket fund for Idaho,
shipped two barrels of trinkets which
had been sent from Idaho club women,
to the New York headquarters last
week. This fund is used exclusively
for the seroplane service.
From Emmett comes the report that
while the damage to the peach crop is
severe, still it is estimated that the
section will shop 50 cars of peaches.
provided no further frosts are ex-
perienced, and that apples and prunes,
as elsewhere, will make fair crop.
A lecture on prevention of smut ex-
plosiOns in grain was delivered at
Caldwell before an audience of ranch
ers and threshing machine operators
by H. II. Miller of the United States
department of agriculture's bureau of
chemistry. About 35 attended the
lecture.
Planned to take care Of the entire
sugar beet crop of 1919 grown in the
Malad valley, a 100000 factory is
to be erected at Malad. Already. it is
said, $500 acres of beets have been
signed up on a seven-year basis, to be
handled by the company.
In 1917 an area of $4,000 acres was
sown to wheat in Canyon county. This
year the area of the crop will be n 600
acres. The oat crop area was then
1900 acres. This year it is to be 1900
acres. The barley area of last year
was 200 acres. This year it will be
$500 acres.
Settlers living on the Owsley irri-
CATION project have asked the state
land board to force the water COM
pany to install headgates and weirs
on the laterals. The settlers want the
work done under the direction Of the
state engineer at an early date that
they may have water taken out this
season measured.
Sprinkling the streets was begun at
Payette on the 18th. The work will
be done this year with truck. The
truck will be run in two shifts of 10
and nine hours each. The contract
price for the work is $500 per month,
as against $3.50 for the same work.
done by teams, last year.
A call for $4,000 men skilled in
| many different kinds of work was re
ceived last week by the adjutant gen.
erals office. The call will be trans
mitted to the several county boards
| of the state. The artisans are wanted
for war work. Only men Of draft age
will be taken at this time.
Efforts to secure a reduction Of two
fifths from present freight rates. in
order that several hundred cars Of
choice potatoes held up last winter by
the car shortage may be put on the
market and thereby supplant wheat
products is asked by a Caldwell mer-
chant in petition sent to Washington.
Lewis r. Holton, superintendent for
the state of Washington Of the Anti
Saloon league, who has been touring
north Idaho, is now ready for tour
of the southern part Of the state In
| the interest of the league.
G. w. FlemmOns, a merchant Of
| Claytonia. accidentally backed his car
off the Snake river ferry near that
place. He narrowly escaped drowning.
| being able to save his life only because
of being an unusually good swimmer.
Lemhi county went lover the top"