The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11
In THE GEM STATE


duce from S5,o00,OO0 to $S,OG0,000
worth ~ creamery products a year.
Idaho raised $35,O00,000 worth Of
hny, S4.000OO0 worth Of fruit and $4,-
100000 worth of potatoes last year.
The largest pipe organ in the state
and the third largest in the northwest
Is now claimed by the management Of a
theatre at Nampa.
Property damages by recent foods hi
Wardner and Kellogg have reached
thousands of dol airs and many per-
sons have lost their homes.
The evaporating plants IN the Boise
and Payette valleys dried an esti-
mated total of 100000 bushels Of APP
pies and 1900 tons Of prunes the past
season.
Willard, the 11-year-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs q. FL Benson Of Nampa,
was painfully injured last week. when
his hand became ltangled In an cleo
trio wringer.
Through the efforts of the Mnidoka
county auxiliary OF the state defense
council the German Lutheran parochial
schools ait Paul and Eden win be closed
until after the war
The Idaho Association for the Study
and Prevention Of Tuberculosis, pre-
liminary reports Indicate, win have
$4,000 or $4,000 from this years sales
Of Red Cross seals.
Mrs. J. II. Hoffman OF Boise attempt
ed suicide by shooting but will re-
cover. She feared that her husband
would be sent to Fra nee, and he re-
fused to claim exemption.
From Idaho's hills $4,000 horses and
mules have been supplied to the Unit
ed States army. A billion feet of Ida
10 lumber has gone, directly or indi-
rectly, into the conduct of the war
The Canyon county exemption board
has classified 292 men, of whom 96
came In the first class, SO In the sec
ond class, six in the third class, 100
in the fourth class and % in the fifth
class
Ten years ago there We're but five
creameries in the state, while at the
present time there are in operation
forty-two creameries and cheese fac
tories, nearly all of which are in south
ern Idaho.
Many houses were washed away at
kellogg by the high water in the Coeul
d'Alene river and Milo creek and a
score Of families We're rendered home,
less. Damage Is estimated at thou.
sands of dollars.
The principal stock shipping cen
| ters of the state during the past yeal
have been Mackay, Ketchum, Salmon
Dubois, Pocatello, Preston, Gooding
Blackfoot and Caldwell, all of which
are tributary to the big Idaho ranges
George II. Fisher of Bancroft has
been elected chairman and president
OF the Industrial accident board better
| known as the workmen's compensation
commission, the important law govern
which went into effect with the new
year
Idaho's mines have poured $4,000,
600 into the national wealth. They
produced 350,000,000 pounds of lead
100000 pounds of zine, 10,000,00C
pounds of copper, 100000 ounces o
silver and $4,000 ounces of. gold il
1917.
While 1t is only few years sine
dairy products were shipped into ldah
from Kansas and Nebraska, figure
which have been compiled for 1911
show the shipment from this state q
about S5,O00,0O0 worth of butter an
cheese.
Preparation for one-day Institutes
all of the forty farm bureau district
of Canyon county is now being mad
Stock judging, clover seed productio
and livestock production and distribI
ton will be the chief features of Ii
Institutes.
; Sheepmen at the convention of ii
, Idaho Wo0lgrowers' association
Boise voted unanimously TO bring
friendly suit to decide whether or II,
, their industry comes under the prov
, sions of the w0rkingmens compenS
tion law passed by the last legisl
/ ture.
r The annual meeting of the Sta
= Hotel Clerks association was held
D Idaho Falls last week. The followil
5 officers we're elected for the ensuil
+ year: President, Leon Bachman, Id
no Falls; secretary and treasurer, J.
Mulloy, Focatello The next meetil
win be held In Pocatello,
z A total Of 1900 cars of cattle we
h shipped from Idaho over the Greg,
i Short Line i'm 1917. Of this total, u
4 proximately $500 cars were shipp
; from the different range districts
Il southern Idaho during the past TO
% months The shipments have av,
q aged about % head for each car.
i A patent on an internal combusti
engine has been given to Samuel
Grimmett and Fred Goette of Caldw,
The new engine is a radical departr
" from the ordinary type Of internal co
D. buStion engine. in TINT 1t has Of
Is seven moving parts and that II ]