The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-07-11
In THE GEM STATE


Twin Falls and 125 from Emmett,
Business firms Of Caldwell engaged
in selling and repairing automobiles
and supplies have organized an asso-
citation.
FruItland will ship more apples than
any other point in Idaho this year IL
being estimated that it will take 700
cars to handle the output.
Approximately 1900 freight cars VIII
be required of the railroad to handle
this falls Idaho fruit crop in the
Weiser to Pocatello district.
Almost every business house In
Idaho Falls was closed July and o
thus giving their employees three
days holiday for the weekend.
The adjutant general announces
that the state has been authorized to
muster the various newly organized
militia companies into the service.
Ashby Turner, of Collister, while
working in the mines in Owyhee
county, was caught under car OF
ore which fell on him, badly injurlng
one foot.
B, l.. GiTlett and A. w. Piper, Of
/ Pocatello, have been elected delegates
to the national convention of mainten.
ance of way employees of American
railroads to be held in Detroit, Mich,
September 8.
The annual outing of the shop en-
ployes of the Oregon Short Line In
Pocatello, is scheduled for Sunday,
July Is, Two special trains will carry
the employees of the shops and their
families to Big Springs.
According to report, no water has
passed over the Miner dam in the
past sixty days. and campaign for a
conservative use of water in the Twin
Falls tract is now being undertaken
by the reclamation department.
Criminal complaints We're filed in
the probate court at Caldwell by DR..
Ernest r. Laubaugh of the state health
department against Mayor H. I'll.
Keim of Nampa and Ira Beam, charged
with violating health regulations.
The Canyon county commissioners
have granted the petition for forma-
ton of the new school district, to be
known as South Side Boulevard school,
formed from parts of Happy Valley,
Greenhurst, and Sunny Ridge districts.
With officers in pursuit, touring
car laden with fourteen cases of liquor
collided with calf few miles from
Lava Hot Springs and wrecked the
car, allowing the sheriff and his dep
uty to confiscate the contraband
liquor.
The state board of education has
decided to make use of the lesson
taught by the war savings campaign
of last year, and introduce thrift into
the schools of Idaho as an independent
study, carrying the idea through all
the grades.
OF the 1900 carloads of fruit to be
, shipped out of Idaho this season, it is
estimated that 1850 cars will be neces
, sary to handle the apple crop alone
J while 500 cars will be devoted tC
: prunes, and peaches will make up an
additional $50 carloads.
: After successfully Guiding the of
ficers Of three counties and a score OF
, cities and villages for more than two
months, Charles Galloway was taker
into custody by the BannOck county
officials at Pocatello on the charge Of
being a whiskey runner.
That the water situation in Idaho i!
acute is the substance of a report made
by the commissioner of reclamation o.
!. this state, w. G. SwendSon, upon hi.
return to the state capital after an in
8 spection trip through southeastern
Idaho and the upper Snake rive
region.
Representative Smith of Idaho ha
: brought to the attention of the fedora
. trade commission and the house of rep
: rsentatives, the matter of the eXorbi
tant price of gasoline in Rocky noun
q tain states. which is nearly twice a
= much ms the price charged in eastern
(, states.
r, While the Twin Falls section i
Y. threatened with a great decrease il
h available water, portions of the uppe
ID Snake River valley are actual
g threatened with complete shutoff o
,e irrigation water, due to the situation
le because the lower projects have pr
lie GRITTY rights.
Final papers have been signed fo
the transfer of Highland park to tn
= city of Idaho Falls This gives til
4 city a fine recreation park within
j short distance of the business section
n Facilities are at hand for making
4 swimming pool, and baseball dis
\ mond will he laid out at once
4 Revival of the so-called Dubois n
clamation project in eastern Idaho
4 proposed by Representative Smith. r,
4 publican, Of Idaho, who Introduce
1 n hill directing the reclamation servic