The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-07-05
In THE GEM STATE

The women Of Idaho sold Liberty.
Bonds Of the third loan TO the amount
OF s1,008, 400. These bonds were pur-
chased By 1888 persons.
Lemhi county has just Installed mod
crn equipment for surfacIng roads, and
the devices are 70 have their first try
out on finishing two miles Of road east
Of Salmon.
The meeting OF Democrats and Re
politicians at Boise last week were both
wen attended, and members OF both
parties are claiming Increased enthu-
slasm III their ranks
Boys Of the ages Of II, - and 10
years have filed their applications for
jobs with the junior employment office
at Boise, and are anxious to get places
20 work during their summer vacation
from school.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. NJ Trotter of Cald-
well have received the sad intelligence
Of the death OF their son, Loren NJ, on
the battlefront In France. Young
Trotter enlisted nearly three years ago
at the age of 20.
Ray Cammack, state dairyman, has
just completed "A two weeks trip
throughout the southern part of the
state on which he conducted series
Of eight farmers meetings for n dis.
cusslon Of dairy problems.
A fire which broke out In a rooming
house at Welser completely ruined the
building and contents. The blaze broke
out at 3 o'clock and gained consider
able Roadway before II was discovered
The roomers barely escaped with their
lives.
Lee Fluharty, director of the Unlver-
sity of Idaho extension department,
has received communication from an
eastern chemical concern quoting a
price of % cents pound for the dried
roots Of the lowly despised dandelion
plant.
g. S. Venable Of Ketchum shot and
killed himself at his home In Ketchum
while In fit of dependency over CON
tinued i'll health. lie was one Of the
pioneers of Ketchum, having been en-
gagged In the livery business there
since the early sos,
Frank A. jameson of Moscow was
killed on June 13 in France. The
young man was well known in Moscow,
where he had lived since childhood.
He entered the national guard and
when that organization was mustered
into the national army he enlisted in
the engineers corps.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Clifford exper-
| fenced narrow escape from bolt
of lightning during severe electrical
storm at Ashton. They We're in the
| barn milking when the barn was STRUCK
by lightning, rendering Mr.. and Mrs
Clifford unconscious for a brief TIM
and killing one of the cows.
The Pocatello canteen unit of thu
Red Cross has achieved no little fame
through the excellent care and man,
attentions shown the troop trains pass
ing through, as no such bounteous hos
pitality has been shown the boys II
any other point of their journey, &C
cordlng to the many letters of thank
received.
Thomas h. Goode Is the first Bots
boy killed in action In France. Prlvat
Goode enlisted In G company, Cald
well, and departed with the Secon
Idaho regiment for Camp Mills, NeN
York, where his command was merl
ed into the 10th engineers which late
became Second engineers.
Wages as high as $3.50 per day an
board, and in rare instance as much a
81 and board, have been paid recent
for farm labor in Idaho, but only 70
special labor requiring the services {
men highly skilled In certain kinds {
farm work-as, for instance, ha
stacking
Alfalfa harvest Is in full swing an
Is favored with fine haylng weatht
generally. Some tracts In Payett
county have been damaged by weevi
Clover In the Twin Falls district is il
tested with aphides, but so far the ere
has not suffered serious damage. Gra'
IN dry farm meadows Is short.
Labor slackers in Idaho are a
tempting TO confuse the campaign
force them TO accept at reasonah
wages jobs that win help in crop pr
tluction as war necessity by circula
ing In certain communities stories
higher wages In other sections SO tn
laborers viii continue to be on Il
| move.
| Nampa's "Help Win the War" Ha
vest Festival will be better than evt
according TO plans being made by 4
executive committees The festiv
, this year. September is to %, will
run ON strictly war basis, as &
. object Of the men In charge Is to ma
2 the festival "a necessary adjunct
: the war"
The outlook for the wheat crop CO
!. tlnues generally promising, althoui
!. the yield Is likely to he affected a
/. versely by the heat and drought III