The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-02-05
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The annual meeting of the Idaho
Society of Engineers was held at Twin
Falls last week as part Of the big
irrigation conference.
Bingham county has sent $4,000 for
Armenians relief. This Is the first
county in Idaho to Ego over the top"
in the campaign to raise $3O,OOO,OOO in
the United States for relief. in the
near east.
Sergt. Orville jackson, mentioned in
the casualty list as severely wounded,
has sent his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
g. F. Jackson at Middleton, a German
helmet. The helmet and letters were
mailed from Germany.
The triplets of Mrs. Thomas Moran
Of Boise, which have caused SO much
attention on the part of Idaho people
ever since their birth, are all sick with
influenza. Mr.. Moran's husband is
serving with the army in France.
Approximately 10000 acres Of Lem
hi county farm and ranch land changed
hands in 1918, the total aggregate price
being somewhere near 100000. There
were some 80 farms in the list and the
average price paid was $40 an acre.
Ernest Merrifield who was arrested
'or forgery some time ago. pleaded
guilty to the offense in the district
court at Caldwell and was given an in
determinate sentence of from one to
IA years in the state penitentiary.
Boise fire fighters are now full
1edged union members. They now
have their charter from the Interna-
tiOnal Association of Fire Fighters, and
the local union is to be known as Boise
Fire Fighters union local No. 149.
Ada County Council of Defense is
lending it's approval to the coming
! drive in which it is planned to raise
$1,000 for the relief of Armenian, Sy-
rian and other refugees of western
| Asia who have been made destitute by
| the war.
Governor D. w. Davis contract with
! the Idaho Power company, through
which his home at American Falls was
supplied with electricity, is not dis
| criminatOry, according to a decision an
| nOunced by the public utilities com.
| mission.
The report of the PocatellO post
office shows the sum of $112.734 in
savings deposits in the local office as
compared with s37.756 deposited on
last January 1. During the month Of
December alone $31. 900 was deposited
and only s2,44O withdrawn.
Influenza conditions are so serious at
| Kellogg that all public gatherings and
| schools have been put under the ban
by order of the board of health. No
| gatherings of any nature in excess Of
| six adults at any one place is permit
ted under penalty of arrest.
Officers of the Southern Idaho Wool
! growers association elected at the
Twin Falls convention were as fol-
| lows: President, Joseph Seaver,
Castleford, Idaho; vice president I. P.
Edwards. Kimberley: secretary treas
urer, H. H. Schildman. Filler.
There have been total of "a fatal
tiles in Lemhi county from influenza,
Is of which occurred at Salmon City,
| This is result of several hundred
cases which have been reported in the
county since the first outbreak of the
disease, about the middle of October
| J. w. Keefe. Boise accountant, has
been appointed chief clerk in the game
warden's office by Otto NJ. Jones,
warden. keefe was prominent among
the applicants for the position Of
| warden. and had the Endorsement of a
large number of sportsmen of the
| state.
| The Idaho Irrigation congress is to
back bill in the legislature which
creates Il bureau of water rights for
the administration of the waters of
| the state. to be composed of three
members. appointed by the governor
who are to serve nine-year terms at
alaries of $500 per annum.
Tentative announcement of the pro-
gram planned for the general sessions
of the Inland Empire Teachers asso-
| citation meeting which will be held in
| Spokane April ?. 3. and has been
made by Miss Ethel F. Redfield. Idaho
superintendent of schools and presi-
dent of the Inland association.
/ Efforts to secure half-mllion adj
n ditional endowment for the College of
] Idaho are progressing satisfactorily
according to DR.. Charles L. Chalfant,
Il the vice president who is chairman of
\ the campaign committee. OF the $780,
coo quota for southern Idaho and east
ern Oregon sl2l,OOO has been sub
scribed.
h The ushering in of the Greek new
4 year at Pocatello was the cause Of
4 wholesale arrests by the police in
1 Greek quarters on gambling charges.
Il A general roundup by members OF tn
/ police and sheriff's forces resulted in
thirty-seven arrests, and in each case
n the participants of the poker games
l were caught redhanded.
The secretary of the Ada county
Council of Defense and of the county
u bureau for getting work for returned
L lntt 70.