The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-22
IDAHO BUDGET

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sa'es at Collister are using scraps
iert from Red Cross work TO niece ;,
quit to be sent to the Belgian sufr,r.
ers.
! The Jerome postoffice was robbed
'aht week, and the footprints and other
evidence at hand Indicate that the of.
tense was committed by barefOOted
boys
Idaho will send total of 33 men to
training camp in special call Nav
49, naiiroad men, transfers, plumb
ers' boiler makers and machinists will
be taken.
Idaho has not only gone over the
So,bOO,OOO allotment from one-half to
ohe million dollars for the third Lib
erty loan, but what is even better, she
mas doubled her number of subscrib-
ers.
Dell Blancett, one of the well known
cowboys and roundup riders Of the
northwest, was killed in France last
month during the big German drive,
according to word which had reached
Boise.
Canyon county ranchers estimate
that they will plant 1885 acres of
wheat this year. This is 9758 acres
more than was planted in 1917. This
years crop will go % bushels per acre,
1t is estimated.
BannOck county exceeded it's Liberty
loan quota of 100000 by $2O7, 800.
POcatellO banks subscribed q total of
S33l, 800, and outside banks $18O,25O,
the Oregon Shore Line $1S5, $50, and
pulic utilities $4,000.
The Rev. William G. Simpson, pas
tor of the Boise Methodist church in
1873, when the first brick structure
was built, died at San Francisco last
week. He had served in the Method,
list ministry for 43 years.
Boise high school students had SUBJ
scribed 327,OS5.50 in Liberty Loan
Bonds and Thrift Stamps up to May l,
The girls of the school are responsible
for S12,652.65 and the boys for $14,.
1925 of the total amount.
1t is believed that the fruitgrowers
at Council will ship 40 or 80 cars Of
peaches this season. The trees in that
locality were not in bloom when the
frosts of ten days ago caught the fruit
in the Boise and Payette valleys.
Two small children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Il. L. Titus had an exciting ride
through the streets of Nampa, when a
four-horse team hitched to a dirt wa
gon into which they had crawled ran
away with them. Neither OF the tots
were hurt.
! briggs has lost the high land ex-
detrimental station and the indications
now are that it will go to Felt, an
other Teton county town The expert
mental station is to be built with an
appropriation set aside by the last
legislature.
Charles C. Farr, who is said to have
a wife and four children living in
North Ogden, Utah, was arrested in
Burley on charge of polygamy, on
the advice of the Ogden authorities.
1t is claimed Farr was married in
Idaho to Il woman he brought from
Utah.
, Governor Alexander has appointed
, Evan Evans of Grandville to succeed
, himself as member of the state board
Of education. of which he is chair
man. Mr.. Evans is a prominent Re
,, publican and recently resigned as
chairman of the state central COM
nlittee.
Mons. gnor Daniel u. German, who
Was on May l cOnsecrated bishop OF
Boise ut st. Raphaels cathedral, Du-
buque, Iowa, during Il strikingly im-
nressive ceremony. will be installed in
his new position with the church ut st.
Johns cathedral in Boise, Wednesday,
May IL.
f J. Cannon ended his life by cut
ting his throat with razor, in a III OF
dependency in his room at Boise, as
y result of i'll health. He had been IN
Boise but il short time, and was a
more shadow as Il result of tuberculo-
sis from which he has suffered for
some time.
The boys department of the Poca-
tello Y. Nj. c. A. has just completed
thrift stamp campaign which gives 1t
first place among the twelve oregon
and Idaho boys departments compel
inc. Portland, Ore, with its large
membership, taking second place on
the roll of honor.
A snrinkage in alfalfa tonnage IN
CANYON county is to be expected TINS
yenr, Judging from the assessors flg-
ures. Last year there were l4'4I2
tons cut; the estimate for 1918 IS 49,
900 tons. reduction of 2l,4oS TONS
rho acreage estimated for this year is
5los which will be 997 acres decrease.
Women of Latah county are helping
,oora than ever before and In many
fia,ds can be seen driving teams
Wanting. blowing or doing other farm
work II is believed the crop i'll l.atan
county will be planted at least ~
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