The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
In THE GEM STATE

quota for the fourth Liberty Loan cam
palgn $1,5O0,000, according to figures
prepared by Monte b. Gwinn, state
chairman.
Public lands In Bannock county will
hereafter be leased only to bona tde
residents of Idaho for grazing pur-
poses, according to decision reached
| by the state land board.
A census of the students at Caldwell
buying war savings stamps showed the
school was nearly 100 per cent. Stud
ents have been buying thrift stamps at
the rate OF $50 day for the last two
weeks.
Out of IS class / registrants of the
class OF September IL, 1913, submit
ting to physical examination at Twin
Falls last week, 76 have been passed
by the local board as being qualified
for general military service.
Henry Book was arrested at Grang-
erville on charge of dlsloyalty and
sedition. He waived preliminary ex-
animation and produced a $1,000 cash
bond. His case will be heard by the
federal grand jury in November.
Private George Alridge, mentioned In
the casualty list as severely wounded.
Is the first Ada county drafted man
to be reported as being in the midst
of dangerous fighting. He was in
Quoted October 3, 1917, from Ustick.
The hearing in the case of Carl II.
Davis, Nonpartisan league manager for
north Idaho, on the charge of making
seditious -utterances was called at Lew
iston last week. Davis waived exam
ination and his bond was fixed at
$500.
Word has been received lat Malad of
the death of John Daniels at Camp
Fremont, Cal The young man has
been at Camp Fremont for the past
two months. His death was caused
by pneumonia, superinduced by Span
ish influenza.
Contractor Boomer has two steam
shovels at work on building the State
highway along Salmon river besides
having opened up half dozen camps
for employment of men and teams. The
first seven miles of the road south of
Salmon will be completed and sur
faced within a month.
Eleven business men of Pocatello,
who recently have enlisted in the tank
service of the army, have received no
tice to report for duty at Gettysburg,
Pa, within seven days, and are max
ing preparations for a hurried depart
ure These men are middle-aged and
have had wide experience.
On October %, seventeen young men
from Pocatello and Bannock county en-.
| trained for Fort Rosecrans, California
! for general military service. The usua'
reception was rendered the departing
BOYS In an open-air meeting by city
, and county officials, and luncheon
was served before their departure.
School children Of Boise, during
their enforced vacation, are asked to
gather dandelion roots and jimson
weeds from the lawns and vacant lots
of the city, which If shipped within tn
next month will bring guaranteed
price of % cents pound for dande,
lions, and 13 cents for jimson leaves.
Teachers temporarily out of employ
! ment because of the health boards
order closing schools during the Span
| ish influenza epidemic will not lose
| their pay where they have contracts
not making other provisions in cases
| of this kind, Miss Ethel E. Redtield
state superintendent of public instruc
ton, announces.
shn no
alert for Colorado potato beetles in
their shipments, Harvery Alfred, direc-
tor of the state farm markets bureau,
announced last week. Warnings that
the beetle is beginning to work in
some parts of Idaho, Arizona, Oregon
and Washington have been issued to
quarantine inspectors.
August G. Allen, believed to be the
second shell shock victim from that
section of the state, sent home with
an honorable discharge, is in Boise re
ceiving special treatment. private AL.
len was drafted from Llmore county
and was in the first detachment OF
American boys that was sent to the
front early in the spring.
John Richards negro, was burned
TO death in fire In an east side room
ing house at Pocatello, when flames
practically demolished an old frame
building. George Smith, owner of the
rooming house, and his wife are con
fined in a hospital as a result of in
iuries sustained when they jumped
out of a second-story window.
The authorities of Gooding college
I are congratulating themselves that n,
: case of influenza has appeared at thC
! institution. Every precaution is being
$ taken to prevent the disease from
i reaching the college. All teachers VIII,
have been residing in the city are nov
! living in the college dormit0ry. an,
d there is no visiting between the col
lege population and that of the city.
y The department of agriculture, i
: naming men to work with the distric