The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-04-26
IN THE GEM STATE

/ A thorough organization Of the east
/ ern section Of Canyon county for pa
triotic purposes has just been COM
pleted by the Nampa Home Defense
league.
| The Boise river water supply for III
| rlgation this season promises to be
less than usual, as the accumulation OF
snow on the watershed is considerably
below normal
Butte county was the third Idaho
county to go over the top in the third
Liberty Loan drive. according ~ re-
ports that reached the state head
! quarters in Boise.
Bank clearings of the five institu-
tlons in Boise were 81 ,455 06S.5S for
| the week just closed, compared with
| 81, $3.50, 1925 for the corresponding
week year ago.
Subscriptions Of S25, 400 We're made
TO the third Liberty Loan Sunday at
Rose Lake The towns quota was
$14,400 ana residents declared their
intention of raising $4,000
The state highway commission has
| agreed to designate the road between
Albion and Marshfield as a state high
way with the understanding that, the
Albion highway district would expend
$4,000 on it this year.
Wool may be billed straight through
from Idaho points to Boston, accord
| ing to Il statement made by r. +. Bick-
nell. Heretofore an embargo has been
] in effect on all western wool to the
principal markets of the east.
zone of the strong impressions that
the traveller from Idaho always brings
back with him is the unquestioned
superiority of the climate here" said
prominent Idahoan upon his return last
week from visit to the east.
| Special application blanks for fur
loughs for enlisted men who We're en-
gagged in agricultural occupations and
who are needed ut home to assist in
| taking care of the crops, have been
received by the Pocatello exemption
board
| pocatello baseball fans are arrang
| ing for the organization of two clubs
20 represent that city in the amateur
league which has just been organized
and which includes Pocatello, Idaho
Falls, Shelly, Blackfoot and Lava Hot
| Springs.
/ Miss Ethel e. Redfield state sDper-
intendent of public instruction. is
back from Spokane, where she went
| to attend the Inland Empire Teachers
association meeting. Miss Redfield was
elected president of the association
without opposition.
The sheriff's office and the local
police department will cooperate il
conducting " vigorous campaign to ria
Pocatello of all idlers and fioaters. All
such characters will be required
| either to go to work. leave town or
serve Il Jail sentence.
This is an American town, and we
| viii not tolerate the presence of slack
ers and loafers," is the warning di-
rected to slackers, |. w, WIS and
loafers, by the Caldwell, Home Defense
association IF you do not want to
work, beat it." the notice says.
The Canyon county farm bureau is
Einstructing the farmers of the sect 4
in approved methods of gopher Pc
soning, and from the interest that il
shown in the subject by the agricul-
turists it is hoped that the pest will
soon be among the things of the past.
Erick Erickson, Finlander, was
arrested by Bonner county officials as
he arrived at Standpoint from Spokane.
He admitted that he was an l. w. w.
organizer and that he had been sent
there to promote his organization in
opposition to the Loyal Legion cam
paign
The first stones to grind wheat in
the state of Idaho have been recovered
from a creek bed where for many years
they have been used as stepping stones,
and will be presented to the State His
torical society. They We're first used
by Cal White in u mill ten miles be
low Boise.
The teaching of German in the public
schools of this state up TO and includ-
ing the eighth grade is prohibited
through the passage by the state board
; of education of resolution so provid.
ing. The question of German in the
high schools was left to the determines
ton of local school boards.
Idahos state treasury opened the
present month with balance of ST.
325.913.20, of which $T3,S94.39 is in
cluded in the general fund. The total
receipts for the month amounted to
$694,a75.S0. There was apportioned to
the charitable Institutions a total of
$3,1S1.1S and to the normal school
fund, S2,T93.61.
! L. W. Bewhey, sheriff of Tulsa coun.
! | ty, oklahoma, arrived in Boise last
+ week TO arrange for reuuisition papers
; 10 transport Dale DuvNl to Tulsa coun.
3 ~ to stand trial ON charge of rob,
: berry and Jail breaking. Dual was
: recently released from the Idahu peni
e Tertiary where he served term OF
tbrna vtylfS and nina unnnrhSs for rrt... ;, /.