The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-17
In THE GEM STATE


issue Of Liberty Loan subscriptions biz
far more than 100000.
More than 100 children in CaIdweI}
and Nampa We're organized last week
for school garden work.
G. ,. Mosher Of Idaho City has beer
named chief deputy in the United
States marshal's office to succeed q
b. Steunenberg.
The institution for feeble minded IN
Nampa may be opened about June
| Failure Of the furniture to arrive has
delayed the opening
Coal has been purchased for four o.
| the six educational institutions of the
state by the state educational depart
ment, for immediate delivery.
There are % families in the Warn
River district who bought % Liberty
bonds and three $40 war Saving
Stamps in one day of the last drive.
| Train service on the Oregon Short
Line through southern Idaho will not
be affected by the proposed routing
Of passenger traffic west from Chi
! cago.
The annual G. A. r. encampment OF
Idaho will be held this year June IL
at Payette, at which time delegates
from all the posts of the state are ex.
pected
The railroads Of the state have FLIED
an application with the Interstate com
/ merce commission for permission to
advance the minimum on special pas.
senger fares from 20 fares or S25 to &c
fares or 500
Aaction has been brought by At
torney Il. r. Dampier Of Rupert, charg.
4 ing twelve prominent citizens of Mini
,dola county with conspiring to com
init battery, false Imprisonment anG
criminal libel.
The appointment of w. IT. Thorpe
chief deputy, as state fish and game
warden TO succeed Leroy G. Jones.
who has been appointed United States
marshal, was announced last week by
Governor Alexander.
Rathdrum's business men, provoked
because the Milwaukee railroad closes
It's freight station and passenger sta
ton there from l TO 5 o'clock each
i afternoon, have filed complaint with
the public utilities commission.
The Rev. Marcus L. Lindsay, who
4 for the past three years has been pas.
for the Presbyterian church in Pc.
i catello, will soon leave to serve as 4,
M. G. A. secretary in France. He vol
unteereG his services several months
ago.
Al farmer near Viola, whose only UNI
married son, has been called to war.
has two daughters ut home and one OF
these has developed into an expert
farm hand and drives four and six
horses and does as much work as a
man.
Commencement week of the Caldwell
high school will be dedicated to the
Red Cross, of which 100 per cent of
the pupils are members. Celebrations
and functions begin Sunday evening,
May 10, and close Friday evening,
May "a
Edmund Mayor of Payette county
has been arrested by the federal
authorities for failure to fill cut his
QUESTIONABLE in the draft. He will
be taken to Fort Douglas for trial by
military court. Mayer was arrested
in Boise.
Crawling of the entire canyon grade
at Shoshone Falls will begin soon, the
county commissioners announce. with
the opening of the tourist season, when
scores ofsauto tourists visit the falls.
lAe need for better road to this
scenic attraction is demanded.
Miss Judith Morrisette, 20 years OF
age, nurse in training at the hos
pital at Twin Falls for the past two
years, is dead us the result of the ac-
cidental discharge of rifle ut the
home Of her brother-in-law and sister
eighteen miles from Twin Falls.
The general fund in the state treas
ury had balance of $7,SSS.71 at the
close OF business April 80, according te
the April report filed with the state
auditor by John w Bagleson, state
treasurer. Receipts for the month III
the general fund totaled $63,6T9.fl.
Martin Gaze, an Engishman who
was employed in the royal gardens IN
England before coming to this eoun-
try, and who has been suffering from
cancer on his face for the past two
years, committed suicide at jerome
literally blowing his head off VITA
shotgun,
Prof. Frank r. Shepherd, federal In
spector ON special education for the
army service, after spending two days
looking over the Idaho Technical IN
stitute plant at Pocatello, has recon-
mended to the war department tha'
100 men be sent there for two months
beginning July l,
Kellogg is one of the 10 cities in the
the United States to receive the ma.
tional pennant for the sale OF heo