The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-07-03
IDAHO BUDGET

10 udte the alerl0lan pOStOffice has
sold War Savings Certificates and
Thrift Stamps to the amount OF $500.
Peter Smith. while driving team
near Boise. sustained n broken hip.
IN automobile crashing into his wa
gon. causing a runaway, Smith being
, thrown from the wagon.
During the last two weeks the Par
ma elevator has shipped more than
100000 pounds of wheat to the food
administration at Minneapolis, leaving
the elevator wheatless.
William BrOOmfield of Tamarack
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head with large caliber rifle.
Dependency caused by Ill health is
believed to have been the reason for
his action.
When his auto was struck by an
interurban car at Boise, w. F. Scott
was seriously injured. Mrs. Scott, six
children and two men were other &C.
cupants of the auto, but they all es-
capped with a few bruises.
Both the First and Second District
Federation meetings of the wOmen's
clubs IF the state at their meeting re-
Gently voiced the desires of the wOmel
of the state of Idaho that suffrage %
a war measure be Immediately passed.
Grasshoppers are causing destrue-
ton of crops at Tyhee, near Pocatello.
During the warm weather o fthe past
few days the young grasshoppers have
appeared in such numbers as to threat
lost % AHo
conditions continue.
The 5-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Otto ObendOrf received severe bruises
and was unconscious for II hours from
falling through the chimney chute
from the second floor to the basement
of the bungalow which Mr.. Obendorf is
building at Roswell.
A compression drilling outfit is be-
ing used on the construction of the
north and south stateway where rock
work is needed. About 80 men are
employed by the contractor on the
stretch of road between Fruitvale and
Starkey Hot Springs.
Bosses two delegates to the annual
meeting Of the Idaho-Oregon Osteo-
l.athic association held at Baker May
81 to June l, DR.. Walter S. Kingsbury
and DR.. Carrie E. Freeman, have re-
urned to the city and report an ex-
ceedingly interesting meeting.
To provide facilities for training a
quota Of 100 of the draftees which the
war department has asked educational
institutions of the country to receive,
the proposed physical education build
ing of the POcatello Technical insti-
tute will be rushed to completion.
The unskilled laborers of Boise have
perfected an organization which will
affiliate with the Boise Trades and
Labor Council and the Idaho State
Federation of Labor. The new organi-
cation is composed Of hOd carriers, all
concrete workers, building and COM
mon labOrers.
No men will be called in this draft
from Bear Lake county, as voluntary
inductionS in that county the last few
days have reached SO, which is more
than the quota would have been.
Oneida county, which was short Is
class l men under the last call, will
oicO hOI DC So1lCu upOH.
Letters sent from the Ada County
Council of Defense to the people of
Ada county announce June % as War
Savings Stamp day. On that day
through means of the country sector
organizations census will be taken
of the number Of War Savings Stamps
held by every man, woman and child
in the county.
Herman J. Brown, Boise theater
manager, has received a beautiful cane
presented him by the inmates of the
state penal institute. The cane, made
from more than 5000 pieces of paper
taken from the pages of The Motion
Picture News, theatrical magazine,
was given to Mr.. Brown as. a token
Of appreciation Of his efforts in fur
\ nishing the penitentiary with free
\ shows twice a month.
The Boise Commercial club proposes
to press upon the attention of Secre-
tary William G. McAdOo the injustice
done this section in the matter of
freight rates, not as result of The
great increase just ordered, but with
the long standing injustice under the
old traffic arrangements.
Alfred h. Mayhem. formerly junior
engineer Of the Arrowrock dam when
it was in process. of building and prior
to that stationed in Boise with the
reclamation service, was drowned
while working in the government SER
vice at Dayton Ohio, on the Ohio flood
commission, May II, it has just been
learned here.
Every cent of the state land boards
$4,000 appropriation provided by the
legislature for paying state and cOun-
ty taxes delinquent on property on
\ which the land board foreclOses to re-
4 cover farm loans is tied up in fore
closure actions now pending.
In report received from the head Of
flee at Salt T.oEo IF n yol pocruit.