The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-01-16
IN THE GEM STATE

pleted.
More than 1900 people paid admis-
sion to the Southern Idaho fair during
the five-day session at Filler.
rancher came into Boise last week
with dressed hog in the rear seat Of
his automobile which he sold for
$3.50.
The enrolment of the pocatello
schools shows a substaptial increase
over the registration last year of more
than 1000.
F. c. Bowers Of Eagle is in the hos
pital with broken leg, the result o5
an accident in the lumber camp where
he was working.
The third annual convention of the
chiropractors of southern Idaho was
held in Boise last week, about fifty
being in attendance.
The twenty-third annual session Of
the Idaho conference of Congregation
al churches will open at Boise Oc-
tober and continue for three days.
Students Of the Boise high school
have been adding to their pocket
money by picking prunes in the or
chards of the valley, the average pay
being Is cents box.
A return of Sill an acre on wheat
reported by N. F. Bow Of Bowmont is
said to set a new record for agricul-
rural prosperity based on this COM
modify in the Boise valley
Excellent reports from the county
chairmen of the Idaho women's COM
mittee, Council of National Defense,
are being received almost daily by
Mrs. s. H. Hays, state chairman.
Odd Fellows Of Nampa are laying
extensive plans for entertainment Of
the grand lodge four days, beginning
October 10, when it is expected nearly
1000 Odd Fellows and Rebekahs will
gather there.
Ben Allison attempted suicide at
Pocatello upon learning that his wife
had started divorce proceedings on the
coast. He fired shot into his chest.
Doctors were summoned and say he
has a fair chance of recovery.
Another Of Idaho's well-known pio-
neers passed away in the death Of
Robert l.. Justice, at Hagerman, re-
Gently. Mr.. Justice freighted with OK
teams between the Missouri river and
Denver in the early fifties. He came
to Idaho in 1864.
Twelve prisoners in the state peni-
Tertiary have been sent to Bonneville
county to work on the roads near Co
nant basin, according to action taken
by the prison board. The men will be
used for two months and will receive
80 cents day.
The grades of the Nampa schools,
which began the years work last
week, are crowded as never before,
pointedly attesting the city's rapid
growth in recent months. Many of
the grand teachers Monday found
themselves facing from 40 to 4S pu-
pills.
At meeting of the fruitgrowers in
the vicinity of Fruitland it was agreed
to pay the pickers 80 cents an hour
and to invite the merchants of On
tariO and Payette to come one day
each week and help in the picking. La
Dor is needed badly to help care for
the fruit.
The marriage of Miss Minerva Kohl
epp, the young Idaho artist, who has
been living in New York for several
years, but who came to her native state
last winter to paint mural decora-
ton in the new Pocatello high school,
to NJ. Teichert of Sterling, Idaho, was
announced last week.
The freight rate from Boise to Chi
ago is 81 cents per 100, or 34.2 cents
l bushel, which would make wheat
here worth little more than SISSY
,ents bushel. The freight rate from
Boise to Portland is S2h cents per
100, or 1917 cents bushel, which also
would make wheat there worth about
'1.S5.
Shipments Of potatoes and grain
rom southern Idaho are now under
way. Although crop yields are not
quail to those of some former years,
he high prices for all classes Of farm
PRODUCTS will more than compensate
VI uly SllOTtdS0 anu IdTul0rS are go
ng to have more money than at any
'reviOus time.
James F. Callahan, pioneer and mil.
ionaire mine owner of Wallace, has
lied second amended complaint in
lis divorce action, in his attempt to
issolve the marital bond between him
elf and Helen Elizabeth Callahan,
Ehom he married at Los Angeles in
1arch, 1916.
A drug store at Blackfoot was rob-
ed one night last week. Two men
Tere arrested, and when searched at
he city Jail yielded up a considerable
upply of Opiates. They gave the
ames of Charles H. Davenport and
like Penfold and stand charged with
burglary.
Walter G. Wagner, an electrical en-
ineer with the bureau of standards at
has taken up with the
ublic utilities commission of this