The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-07-24
IDAHO BUDGET

call with quota of y, and Jefferson
will furnish the lowest, 3 men.
A patriotic Fourth of July celebra'
ton is to be held in Preston under the
auspices of the Council of Defense and
the Preston Athletic association.
To raise money for needed wal
work, the Honor Guard girls have been
| given permission to conduct tea
house at the Boise County club.
Wilfred Allison, the Meridian boy
who was aboard the "President Lin
coin" at the time it was sunk by q
| German submarine, arrived home last
week.
Not in years has the water been sc
high on the Snake as it was last week
Many ferries refused to take passen
gers across on Saturday, and on Sun
day none could cross.
Paul Wenger, state seed analyst, has
returned to Boise from Aberdeen
where he has spent the three weeks OF
his vacation helping to solve the farm
labor problem by working on his
fathers farm.
Home demonstration meetings con.
Quoted at Occur d'Alene and Sand
point were the best attended and most
successful held so far in that section
of Idaho, according to Miss Amy Kelly
state home demonstration leader
The members of the Pocatello Ro.
tary club, through their president, are
backing up the war savings stamp
| campaign by the formation of give
Hundred Dollar" club throughout the
city. The membership of the Limit
club is also most satisfactory.
While motoring in the Basin. about
two miles from Centerville, the engine
of the car driven by Ed White died and
the car turned over. Mrs. White and
one child jumped. but the 7-year-old
daughter of Warren White was unable
to get out and suffered broken arm.
Fifteen hundred acres of land neai
Downey, to which water is furnished
by the POrtneuf-Marsh Valley Canal
company, through failure of the entry
men to make payments as they have
fallen due, will again be thrown open
to entry in about 60 days under the
Carey act.
News of the death of Paul Davis,
the first Bannock county man to be
killed in action, has just been received
from Washington by his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. H. Davis, who reside on
a farm near McCammon. Mr.. Davis
was % years of age and was private
In A company, lend infantry.
The Salmon forest now has 200 miles
of telephone line in operation, con-
Meeting the Salmon forest office with
the various ranger stations and look
out eminences where, during the sum-
mer, fire wardens are stationed to
watch for smoke. There are five look
out points established in this county
on five mountains.
Quarantine regulations which pre-
vented the shipment from Utah of
hundreds of carloads annually of salt
grass, used for packing merchandise,
fruit and vegetables, will be removed
by other western states as a result of
conference of quarantine officials at
Salt Lake last week. Guy Graham,
state horticultural inspector, represent
ed Idaho at the conference.
William Kerr of Washington has
been added to the extension force Of
the University of Idaho as swine
specialist. He will devote his efforts
to the increase of hog production in
the state of Idaho.
Fred Hemmingsmyer, alleged pro-
German, was released from custody
at Boise by United States Commission
er jackson on payment of $500 bond
and condition that he moves to another
locality and keeps his mouth shut.
The range below the 5OOO-foot level
is fast drying up. 1t is said to be as
brown and dry now as in mid-July of
other years. Stock have generally
been driven to the midsummer range.
which is still in excellent condition.
The hay harvest is progressing and
the largest first cutting of alfalfa in
the history of Gem county is being
stacked. There has been a scarcity
of hands and a number of the business
men have gone out and helped the
farmers.
Believing that interest in war work
will be stimulated and closer unity
brought about between the state and
county defense councils the executive
committee of the State Council of De-
Tense has arranged for a series of dis
trict and county war conferences to
be held during the summer in all parts
Of Idaho.
The assessor of Bannock county re-.
ports that total sales of automobile
licenses for the year of 1917, was
passed last week, when it was found
that so far this year, 1854 auto licenses
have been sold. The total number
sold during 1917 was 1850. In 1917 80
motorcycle licenses were sold and so
far this year 55 permits have been
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