The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-08-02
In THE GEM STATE


shell fragment.
Idaho ranges have suffered little
this year from drought and the pros,
poets for good live stock production
nre as favorable as usual.
Two thousand acres of land In the
Twin Falls north side project under
the Carey act Will be thrown open TO
homestead entry July 80.
Ninety-two per cent Of the so Idaho
alumni, undergraduates and prospec.
| tive students who held their annual
picnic az Boise last week were girls.
Ii is planned to organize company
OF Boise business men and men who
come under the draft, for the purpose
Of instructing then in the rudiments
Of military training.
! G. o. Broxon, state insurance man
ager, is willing to invest from $4,000
to SIC, 900 of the state insurance funds
in farm loans approved by the state
land board, he has informed the land
board.
Mrs. Cox was strack by lightning
and instantly killed at her home In
| Shelley. Leonard Cox, who was stand
ing beside his mother, was rendered
unconscious by the bolt, but soon re-
| covered.
The report that the treasury depart
tent contemplated removing the in
ernal revenue office from Pocatello to
Helena seems to have been without
foundation. The office will remain al
Pocatello.
In the call for eolored men, Bannock
county sends 81, Bonneville 10, Lin
coin 8, Twin Falls and Camas 8, Ell
more 2, while but one goes from Bear
Lake, Benewah, Bingham, Latah, Mini
doka and Power.
The nomination of James F. Ailshie
Of Occur d'Alene on the Republican
ticket for the senatorial snort term, to
succeed the late Senator James II.
Brady was filed at the office of the
secretary of state last week.
Methods by which he believes will
save q 900 bushels of grain to farmers
of the state through efficient threshing
were outlined at meeting of thresher-
men and farmers held at Boise by Fl.
r. Hartenbower, federal threshing ex-
pert.
The Minidoka farm bureau has
taken over the management of the
county fair which will be held at
Rupert September Is to 20. Farm bur-
eau members are busily engaged In
making plans and collecting exhibits
for the show.
Leo Finch, 16-year-old son Of Mrs.
Louise Ward, living on ranch near
Picabo, was accidentally shot by COM
panion while preparing to go hunting.
. Young Finch was taken Immediately
to hospital in Twin Falls, but died
! on reaching there.
Lewiston is to have the third rank
t ing livestock show in the United States
r this fall according to o. P. Hendershot
t acting secretary of the Northwest Live
{ stock Fafr-associatfon. The increased
e Importance of the Lewiston show is
due to an increase in the funds avail
able
! Pursuant to the election of June %,
. at which time it was voted to create
] the Twin Falls highway district, a
: board of directors consisting of three
il citizens of the county has been named
and these men will administer the
. affairs of the district if approved by
il the governor.
It Robert Fuller, 81 years of age, while
e working in the Boise Payette lumber
4 mill at Emmett, was instantly killed,
r his clothing catching in a cog. He was
y the foreman of the stacker department
e but was taking another mans place
y on the machine because there was a
rt shortage of help.
T c. M. SHETLAND has sold his mine
:, 20 miles from Murphy, one of the 0wy
i hee mining groups, to DR.. Lyle anc
4 associates of Seattle, Wash. for $25,
= 600. Improvement work will begin al
nf once. The mine adjoins the Berg mine
,r one of the well known owyhee count!
G. mining properties.
~ In attempting to rescue Grace Par
sons, the 6-year-old daughter of L. F
Parsons, chairman of the Latah coun
IN ty council of defense, who had falleI
MT into a small pond near Moscow, Eliza
TT beth Parsons, aged 8, and Lucille Miller
III aged o. daughter of Mark p. Miller,
I'LL pioneer grain dealer, were drowned.
80 For some time there has bee
=, apprehension that the beet crop Il
the Idaho Falls section was going t
80 be a failure, but experts who hav
s, recently been making an examination
.. say that during the past ten days Their
N has been a great change and it no'
~ looks as though there would be
bumper crop.
all The sheriff at Pocatello one day las
an week took possession Of four trunk
ct labeled "Campbell's Soups" while
were consigned from Butte to Sa
ter Lake City. Each trunk contained
IA twelve-ral lion key of whisky. nacke