The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-10-18
In THE GEM STATE


a plea for unused feather beds
At the roundup at Blackfoot last
week an Indian was thrown from
bucking horse in one of the contests |
and severely injured, but will recover. |
The state board of education has |
revoked the license of teacher who |
failed to complete her term of school |
as agreed In contract with the EN-
ploying board.
The Rev Harry S. Hamilton of the |
First Methodist church at Pocatello |
left last week for training at Camp |
Zachary Taylor, for commission as
an army chaplain.
George GoOch met with a serious ac-
cident while working in the city gravel
pit at Preston. The gravel caved in,
partly burying him and breaking his
leg near the thigh.
Another call for men has been re-
ceiyed by the adjutant generals of
flee for Idaho, and 27l men will en-
train for Camp Rosecrans, Cal, be-
tween October q and 90.
The monthly report of the Star
schools for September showed that
only five pupils were without Thrift
or War Savings stamps and that
stamps TO the average of $3.50 per
pupil were held.
Through a deal recently closed, Il.
n. Wood received $7250 for the crop
of alfalfa grown on his 90-acre ranch
near Nampa This equals over $50
an acre, which is not unusual, but in
dicates the progress made by farm
ers in that section.
Ray Averill, aged 10, was accident
ally killed near Weiser The lad was
returning from hunting trip with his
| two brothers, when double-barreled
| shotgun, which one of the boys was
carrying over his shoulder, was acct
| dentally discharged.
Drastic closing regulations have
| been passed by the state board of
| health, owing to the Spanish influenza
epidemic. Theatres, churches and all
public meetings are put under the ban,
but the public and private schools
have not been closed.
Earl Oakley, IA teacher in Caldwell
high school, has contracted smallpox,
and two other teachers near town are
reported afflicted with the disease. 1t
is thought that the disease can be
traced to the teachers institute, held
in Boise some time ago.
Under Idaho statutes the governor
of the state has 20 authority to veto
| ,,e in,
preparation bill but must either APP
prove or disapprove the entire item,
L. A. Walters, attorney general, holds
in an opinion rendered last week.
The home of Luke Sonners, living
six miles south of Bull, was recently
visited by unknown parties who treat
ed his house, barn, outbuildings, auto
asls9 some of his livestock to a gen
erous smear of yellow paint. No clue
as to the perpetrators has been found
A new ruling by the state food adj
ministration of Idaho makes it com
pulsory for potato growers to sort and
grade their product ais year before
offering them for sale. Under this ar
rangement potato consumers will no
longer have TO pay top prices for
small potatoes.
+. NJ. Neigho, for ten years vice
president and general manager of the
Pacific and idaho Northern railroad
operating between Weiser and New
Meadows, has resigned owing to i'll
health, and has been succeeded by H.
t. Dunn, former manager of the Pay.
cite valley railroad.
The Master Bakers association an,
nOunces the cost of production of
bread in various localities in the state
as follows: PocatelIo, Twin Falls
Boise, Rexburg. Idaho Falls, Bull and
Blackfoot, and reported the following
average: Raw, .059; labor .O29; over,
head, OLA; cost, .099.
Glenn G. Perkins, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. ID. c. Perkins, who reside ON the
Brady property north of Pocatello
was reported by the war department
as having been killed in action in
France on July 10. Several letters
have been received by the parents
from Glenn since that time.
Connell Christensen met with Il serf
! Gus accident while exercising on the
trupeze bars at the jefferson schoO
at Preston. The bar turned, uneX
pectedly precipitating the boy to the
ground, cutting cash the entire
length OF his nose to the bone, and in
flicting other injuries to the face.
Fifty-seven death claims have beer
filed with the state Industrial acct
dent board since January l, when thu
board was organized. This is a high
er rate than normal, and is attributed
to employment IN hazardous occupa
tons of many unskilled laborers, OF
account of loss of skilled men wht
have gone TO war.
AS an outcome of the recent surve!
of the manufacturing capacity of tht
various factories in Idaho this state
now has an opportunity to receive
large orders from the war department
according to o. o. Haga, state direc