The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-03
INLAND NORTHWEST

that are at the present time being |
planned for Dillon, Mont, this sum |
mer is large indoor swimming pool.
A man who stood on the high hin |
overlooking the river west of Dillon. |
Mont, one day last week, counted AZ |
tractors engaged in blowing on the !
benchlands and the farms in the val |
ley.
A census just completed by the
Denver Bar Association shows that
more than fifty local attorneys have
either gone into military service or
chosen something besides law for their
vocations.
The committee In charge of the Lib
erty loan campaign at Dillon, Mont,
has decided that all those who have
not purchased bond without a good
excuse will have their names pub
lished in the local paper.
Orders to open ranch offices in
Butte, Dillon, Livingston and Kalispell
have been received from Washington
by Thomas Topping, special representa-
tive of the employment bureau of the
federal department of labor.
Each person in the state of Washing
ton who bought one or more Liberty
bonds without solicitation between the
honor period of April 6 and April
13, is wearing a reproduction of
George Washington's coat of arms.
j Applications for loans for spring
planting will not be accepted by the
Montana state council of defense after
May 10, it is announced. So far the
council has loaned of the 100000
available $1S4, 625.S5 to 600 applicants.
Brooks, a little village north of
Lewiston, Mont, has just raised nearly
$500 for the Red Cross through. an
auction. Everything went at very high
prices, chickens bringing over $40 each,
heifer $14S aad an ordinary cake
$23.
Should this war continue for some
time into the future, we. may expect
to see thousands of women doing reg
ular mems work on farms in this coun-
try, is the statement of E. L. Currier
of Bozeman, who is federal farm help
agent for Montana.
Payments for specific injuries anc
incapacity run consecutively and moi
concurrently, ruled Attorney Genera
Ford of Montana, in an opinion to tht
industrial accident board, covering
cases where an employee has suffered
specific injury and also other in
iuries in the same accident.
Five Utah and three Idaho boys an
, one from Wyoming were among tn
graduates from the third Officers
training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga
/, whose promotions as prospective sec
ond lieutenants were announced Apr
, 25 by the Committee on Public In
, formation at Washington, d. C.
l Louis Smell of Butte was electe
: president of the Master Horseshoer'
I National Protective Association O
f Montana, which held it's annual cor
! vention at Missoula last week an
: Lewistown was selected as the 191
:, meeting place. Delegates from all part
4 of the state attended the meeting.
Telegraphic and telephone instruC
; tions went out last week from the Of
flee of Chancellor E. c. Elliott to a
The institutions of Montana, includin
!, the University of Montana, directin
: that the teaching of German cease q
once, and that classes, if any are
:, progress, be Immediately dismissed.
4 There are more enemy aliens in tn
rural districts and rural counties {
the state of Montana than in the cite
and industrial centers, according
= figures prepared by United States Ma
: shall Ashbridge. They show there al
o 1,49S persons registered in the state &
n enemy aliens, of whom 1,066 live
r rural districts.
e Capt. H. G. Clark, commandant ;
IS the Montana State college, has receive
l. instructions to take applications fl
n the fourth officers training CAM
# which will open May 10. Applican
are restricted to graduates who ha,
4 had at least one years military instru
n ton at an educational institution u
< der supervision of an officer of Il
y United States army. The quota f,
= Montana is 10.
: Breeders of. pure bred Hereford ca
!, tie, mostly from the northern al
= some from the southern part of Il
state, met in Great Falls, Mont, duriI
l. the Stockmen's convention to organi
= the Montana Hereford Breeders ass
ID citation. Only partial organization w
affected. Permanent officers will
2 selected during the state fair to
" held at Helera in September.
N The potato campaign has begun
ID earnest in the northwest. The ma
e, idea of this campaign is to save I
wheat by using more potatoes and tn
have more wheat for shipment to t
{ men who are fighting in France. Sor
one has suggested the slogan ESP
the Kaiser" as an appropriate o
for this campaign and this is attract
interest among many people.