The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-05-30
In THE GEM STATE

3ull strength.
a movement is under way to pro-
Nlue suitable and permanent soldiers
memorial for Jerome.
A larger per cent of the apples in
the Pleasant Ridge district were dam
aged by the freeze than at first es-
timated.
June IL has been named as COM
mencement day for Gooding college
ana the summer school will begin the
following Monday.
The county commissioners nave de-
cided to spend $4,000 within the next
TWO months in surfacing the highway
between Salmon and Baker, in the
Lemhi valley.
A big time is planned FOR the Idaho
Technical Institute during the week
from June l to 6, graduating week, and
diplomas will be granted to u class of
nearly $50 students.
An increase of 80 cents day, from
S425 to $4.T5, became effective in
mines of the Occur d'Alenes district
on May 20, according to bulletins post
ed in the principal mines.
BY a resolution passed at meet
ing of representative men of Ada coun-
ty, held last week, Boise and Ada
county took 5000 memberships at
large in the Idaho Reclamation associ-
alton.
The Oregon Short Line has inaugu-
| rated mixed train service on the Vel
| lOwstone branch, and the schedule in
cludes a mixed passenger and freight
train each Sunday until June Is, when
the regular Salt Lake Yellowstone
special will be put on.
Actual bank returns to the Twelfth
federal reserve bank at San Francisco
| show that Idaho oversubscribed its
$11150,OO0 Victory loan quota by
$236, $50 with a possible increase which
may be made when Teton and Latah
counties submit their final reports.
That inmates of the Idaho peniten-
tiary should be given greater consid-
GRAFTON and extended a helping hand
rather than condemned at every turn,
is the opinion of Judge Charles T. Me
Carthy of the Third judicial district
court, as expressed in an address given
at Boise last week.
The fruit situation in the Payette
valley is encouraging. Barring fur
ther destructive freezes, there will be
big crop of apples. In fact, it will
be necessary to do large amount of
thinning in good many orchards be-
cause there is a larger crop than the
trees can possibly mature.
To avoid confusion of dates, the
state meeting of delegates represent
ing the soldiers. sailors and marines in
Idaho who served with the cOlors in
the European war will be held in Boise
June % instead OF June 6, if heads
of country organizations who signed
the call will consent to the change.
Governor Davis has set aside May
27, as the date upon which all Idaho
will honor Private Thomas G. Neibaur,
Bear Lake boy, who, single-handed,
held an entire German division IL
check, and although seriously wound
ed captured eleven Germans and es-
corted them into the American lines.
The $1,000 silver service set which
the state gave to the old battleShll
idaho when it was launched some years
AFRO has been dug up in Washington
bv Franklin ID. Roosevelt, assistant
secretary of the navy, and busted OH
and polished up and presented to the
new buttleship Idaho, with Governor
Davis compliments.
E. G. Gallett, state auditor, wants Q
ruling from the attorney general De
fore he will pay out $3S99 in bach
Claims on bounties. The claims Were
taken care of in az appropriation BY
tbe last legislature, after the STATE
sunreme court had held that the stare
could be held liable. The oouhtle'
we're brought in back in 1914.
beginning June 6, the Idaho FIRE
mons association will open its annua
convention at Boise, which will con
tinue through June Z and :, ana, l.
the proposed plans for tHelr elitei ''iii
ment are carried out, the delegates
who will come from throughout thu
state will have busy time while Il
Boise.
That mart of the Snake river DASH
which is tributary to Boise has IN al
aitiop to the land susceptible OF lrrl
cation. 100000 acres Of dry farm Lane
and 1000 square miles of timber AM
mineral land. There is a possible
oOoOOO horsepower in electricai en-
orev IN the Snake and trlbufar!
streams in the Boise area.
All danger of local tong war u
Tho Chinese colony at Boise is past Iol
tha present. The trouble was settlet
Nv arbitration. but it took a delegate
rom the Chinese Benevolent society
~ portland to accomplish it.
Roise Commercial clubs barbecue
opd annual event which was postpohe'
Iast YEAR because of food administra
zion restrictions, will be held Wednes'
AN