The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-02-08
In THE GEM STATE

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ect viii be sold about the middle of
/ March.
The sum of S67.97 was realized this
year from the sale of Red Cross seals
in Jerome.
Farmers In the vicinity Of Bull are
ballng large quantities of alfalfa hay
| and shipping 1t to southern points.
More than 100 people in the vicinity
| OF Filler have made income tax returns
| to the deputy collector who has been
stationed there.
A company composed Of farmers
east Of Rupert have Incorporated and
will build an electric light and power
| line for their own use.
1t is estimated by the state farm
markets bureau that 100000 tons of
hay were cut in Idaho last season from
the 725,000 acres devoted to the crop.
The body of Murdo Neal Stewart,
the young man who was found dead
on the railroad right of way at Poea-
| tello, was shipped to his home at
| Carey.
The late Senator Brady's estate is
valued at approximately $2,000,000, ac-
cording to o. Il. Cannon, one of the
recently appointed secretaries of the
senator.
John Mcdonald, the Boise boy who
had his leg broken in two places and
received minor injuries in troop
train wreck in Texas last fall, is now
out on crutches.
Ten teams are at work on the road
near the Il. Il. Gibbens' place near
Lake Crowell. The graveled highway,
which extends three miles from Cald-
well, is to be finished to the lake.
The fruit men around Collister are
beginning the pruning of their or
chards. DR.. Collister has uprooted all
his pear and apple orchard and will
SOW the land to alfalfa this spring.
According to tabulated figures Mini
doka led all counties in the state in
the last Liberty Loan drive. The re-
port shows that Minidoka county
placed $105,0 in bonds with 1854 peo-
pie.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Nampa Farmers Society
of Equity was held at Nampa last
week, with special sessions for fruit
growers, seedgrowers and hay ship
pers.
In the Twin Falls district the farm
ers get three big cuttings of alfalfa,
and the yields there run from four to
| five tons an acre, and they have been
known to go as high as seven and
eight.
1t seems that Idaho is importing
school teachers. Miss Anna Scanzon
of Everett, Wash, and Miss Nettie
Cornell of Bellingham, WASH, arrived
last week to take up work in the city
! schools at Boise.
A. w. War;, a rancher near HALEY,
had an exciting encounter with rabid
| coyote recently. The animal attacked
the dogs at the War; ranch and at
tackled MIR. War; when he went to their
/ rescue with Il shotgun.
/ Enforcement in Idaho of the order
against boarding of flour has been en-
| Joined on X. f. Bicknell, food admin
istrator for this state, by Herbert
1
was announced last week.
/ +. A. Freeland will be in Boise
from February IL to February 2S to
advise citizens on the making out of
income tax returns. All single persons
! with an income of more than $1,000 per
year and all married persons with
more than $1,000 must make returns.
j. X. Hood, postmaster at FernwOod
in Benewah county, has complained to
the public utilities commission of the
Interstate Utilities company's action il
taking out all telephones in his town
He declared in Il letter to the commits
sion that not telephone remained il
the town.
Potato growers, dealers and business
interests of southeastern Idaho met a
Idaho Falls last week to offer profess
to Food Administrator Hoover on the
action Of the national car service com
mission in ordering all Refrigerator
cars, regardless of ownership, out o
Chicago delivered to lines in Wiscon
sin, Minnesota and the Dakotas for Pc
tatpeS.
The state agriculture college hai
been advising the farmers for SOM
years to feed their alfalfa to livestocl
with view to building up and en-
riching soils, and now the count,
arm bureaus throughout Idaho ar
ending their efforts, with the resul
chat more and more farmers each yea
are buying small hocks of sheep o
some steers and making them ready TO
market.
Twenty-seven Idaho counties nov
have, or will have, county agriculture
agents in the near future. ENceptin
Idaho, Adams, Owyhee, Butte and Gus
ter counties, all counties south of tn
Salmon river have organized farm bu
reauS.
Four stacks of hay belonging t
, Miguel Gablca, Spanish sheep owner
were burned two and one-half mile
south Of the Nampa ferry on Snak
! river As the SfarkS were in differ