The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-03-13
IDAHO BUDGET

from the QuestiOnnaires of the Ada
county men has been done entirely by
the city teachers Of Boise.
The finance committee of the State
Sunday School association reports
that the funds asked for are now in
sight, Gem county being the first to
pay its pledge in full.
Plans have been circulated and adj
vocated in the Panhandle camps and
labor centers, advocating system
OF reading rooms to be installed in the
pool and cigar halls of the north
Idaho cities.
The first night school term at the
Idaho Tech at Pocatello closed last
week. 1t was decided to start another
term Immediately. The courses are
chiefly in commerce, stenOgraphy and
language for foreigners.
With a charter membership of 25,
Rotary club was organized in Twin
Falls last week by committee Of
Rotarians from Salt Lake and Boise.
Similar organizations were affected in
POcatello and Idaho Falls.
Canyon county has no great short
age of farm labor. This was brought
out at a meeting of the executive COM
mittee Of the Canyon county farm
bureau at Caldwell, when labor prob
lens were discussed at length.
J. II. Smith, state engineer. has re-
signed his position, because, he says,
the appropriation given him by the
last legislature was trimmed to a
point where he could not successfully
handle the work in his department.
Miss Esther Anderson, stenographer
for the past several months in the
offices of the Twin Falls county agri-
culturist's office, has received word of
her appointment to position in the
navy department, to report for duty
March l.
Up to date the Gilmore chapter of
the Red Cross has finished COZ gar
Inents; have knitted 318 pairs of
socks, Jog sweaters. 80 mufflers. 40
pairs wristlets and 10 helmets. Three
commOdiOus rooms are given over
for the Red Cross work in the new
court house at Mountain Home.
A request from the surgeon generals
office asking that the condition of the
teeth and mouths of all drafted and
enlisted men be ascertained and re-
ported to the war department has re-
resulted in every dentist in Boise and
the dentist at Meridian uniting in the
offer to make examination free.
The people of Horseshoe Bend
mOurned Fred G. Groomer. soldier
from that place. as among the missing
when the transport Tuscania was tor
pedoed by a German U-bOat. Private
GroOmer was safe, however, for he
was landed at Halifax when the trans
port touched there because of an at
tack of measles, and SO escaped being
on the doomed vessel.
The Idaho State Council of Defense
has inaugurated plan TO mobilize
he entire state in the carrying out
of war work. Following the informa-
ton of the fighting forces At the
front, the counties will be divided into
sectors each sector being a school dis
trict wherever the size and situation
of these districts will answer the pur-
pose At the head of each sector will
be Il captain.
If no legal objections are raised by
the attorney general, the state game
department will permit SEEMING in the
larger streams of the state. Only nom
game fish, that will not take the hook.
can he coupht with net
A militia company of 1O3 men and
officers was mustered in at American
Falls last week. 1t is the first COM
pany accepted for service by the state
In the guard organization now being
formed to succeed the Second Idaho.
Sufficient money will be advanced
to the state board of education by the
state board of examiners to pay the
cost of completing temporary quarters
at the Lewiston state normal to re-
place the building which was burned
last fall.
A coyote, which. from its actions, is
believed to have been infected with
rabies. was driven from bushes along
the interurban railway right of way
about two miles west of Meridian when
it became frightened at the noise of an
electric car.
Until litigation now in the court be-
tween the Twin Falls South Side Land
& Water company and the Twin Falls
South Side Canal company is settled
the state land board will not accept
any more water contracts sold by the
irrigation company.
Idahoans desiring to enlist with the
public service reserve for ship build
ing are urgently requested not to leave
for any of the coast towns or any ship
building centers until they are called
upon by the government through
some authentic agent, to do so.
Beginning abou: March there
will be a systematic canvass of the en-
a.