The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-07-12
In THE GEM STATE

isfaction from the fact that the reserve !
water at Deer Flat is now more than
twice the supply Of year ago. The
reserve at Arr0wrock is somewhat less.
L. g. Miller a prominent Canyon
county farmer. broke his leg close TO
the hip in fall from a hayrack. Mr.
Miller was unloading a rack of hay
into his barn. when the accident hap
pened.
Raymond Roberts. a Murtaugh boy,
is nome on short furlough while he
is being assigned to new vessel. Mr..
Roberts was one of the crew of the
President Lincoln, which was sunk by a
submarine.
Adyices from Washington are to the
! effect that Judge Robert S. Loyett, di-
rector of railroad expenditures for the
government, has officially approved Of
| the construction of branch coal road
! in Teton valley, Idaho.
The convict camp for road work
near Melba will not be established
until some time next week. The delay
was caused by the inability of farmers
of that section to cooperate just now
on account Of haying operations.
Basil Key, Bert Skidmore and James
Frazier. three runaways from the State
Industrial school at st. Anthony, who
escaped from that institution after
assauiting a guard and stealing an au.
tomobile, were captured in Ogden.
Governor Alexander spoke at Media
on the Forth of July; Clarence Van
Deusen, state auditor, and T. A. Walt
ers. attorney general, both spoke at
Cascade, and w. 7. Dougherty, secre-
tary of state, addressed the people at
Duboise.
This seasons chautauqua at Payette
was successful both in point of quality
If talent and patronage. A vote Of the
udience was taken on the question
. of having chautauquas next year and
, it was almost unanimously voted tC
have it.
The jury at Boise returned a verdict
Of S1S029.24 in favor of the plai'
as a result of the suit Of the Unitet
States versus the De Lamar Mining
company. that arose over timber Gu
{ by the defendant company from gov
!, eminent lands.
: The Payette creamery has shippel
4 a car of butter to New York, realiz
! ing Al and ~ cents per pound ne
The shipment met with such favo
that another car was ordered and ha
. been shipped. The first shipment wa
Z of 10000 pounds, the second 400t
z pounds.
< Troop L Nampa Boy Scouts, has T
= ceived thanks from James X. Lyme
. chairman of the Liberty Loan gener
executive board and governor of {
3 Federal reserve bank at San Fra
= cisco. for the work the scouts did
o soliciting and distributing the thi
< Liberty Loans in Namna.
= The farmers of Idaho are paying
z war tax on a 100000 pound carlos
. of wheat of $50 when shipped to CT
. cago, while farmers in the states ia
& Their east are paying but So war {;
q on freight in similar cars, il vi
y charged by representatives of farm b
. reaus at meeting held at Gooding.
: State Food Administrator Bicknt
3 SAYS he does not think sugar cards W
! be resorted to in Idaho until towal
. fail, at least, and not then unless Il
: public takes advantage of the prese
equation which puts housewives
heir honor not to buy but three poun
per month for each member Of 4
family.
to S. NJ White, threshing expert of t
IS threshing division of the United Stat
or department of agriculture, gave prs
nd teal threshing demonstration at Cal
in well on July 5. Through the mea
he of the threshing school conducted
Ter Mr.. White it is estimated that I
to usual average loss Of 81 per cent
Ter the wheat crop win be saved.
In Idaho 756 incomes were taxed
re- total of $40, 1876. The largest
IN come is somewhere between $1,000
and $4,000. One other Idaho citiZ
paws tax on an income between $50
ut 600 and 100000. one on an income
tween 100000 and S250.000. one
his tween $4,000 and 100000, two
rat tween 100000 and $4,000 and Q
ng between $4,000 and 100000. Oh
icy two women in Idaho made separ;
ese returns.
lly The l5-months-old daughter of n
De- ]. G. Palfreyman, Of POcatello, v
ow playing around wash boiler filled "
boiling water. and while the mot
my was in the house tending TO other
In ties the child pulled the plug out of
or, washer, which allowed the boiling y
1t ter to run out over her body, inf
ing fatal injuries.
Ammer f. Lowe was killed n
Melba in a haying accident. His ch
was crushed and his lungs punctu
" when he was thrown from hay r
l M and either run over or stepped on
-, a horse.
CO.. Although the number of silos I
+bo dairy cows in Ada county has
49,, creased above 10 per cent, it is
- pected that the butter fat to be n
ar+ keted will be 5000 pounds less t
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