The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-12-05
In THE GEM STATE

a new home.
Shelley will have new park and
children's Fairgrounds.
The Christian Science church at
Twin Falls, will build new edifice.
Organization Of the Rotary club of |
Blackfoot was completed last week |
with eighteen members.
A milk condensary will be estab-
lished in Bull, If contract for $500
gallons of butter fat can be obtained.
Gooding college, at Gooding, is So
Letting funds and propose to erect a
dormitory to cost approximately
S15000O.
Idaho revenue officers will put the
ban on all classes of liquids containing
alcohol in sufficient quantity to make
them Intoxicating they say.
An intensive campaign to drive the
I. W w from every lumber and min
ing camp in northern Idaho has been
launched by the Idaho state constabu-
larry.
Two new sewer projects planned for
the southern part of Twin Falls have
been accepted by the city council,
which will soon call for bids on con-
struction.
The recent drive for the Roosevelt
memorial fund in Bull resulted in S317
being subscribed for that purpose,
Three hundred dollars was the amount
asked for.
Bids received for construction of the
proposed new Bonneville county court
house are so high that Chairman Chris
tan Anderson announced himself as
| being stunned"
w. II. Steber, yartlmaster employed
at Lewiston by the Camas Prairie rail
road, was placed under arrest on a
charge of criminal syndtcalism, and
was released on $1,000 bonds.
Pocatello will have baseball club
next summer, but whether the team
will play with the Yellowstone crowd
or join the Southern Idaho league is
matter yet to be determined.
That Stacker aliens should be de-
! ported without further delay is the
decision reached by the John Regain
| post, American Legion of Boise, which
has passed a resolution to that effect.
The Oregon Short Line has been or
dered by the United States railroad adj
ministration to complete at once the
| spur track near briggs which will I'M
lock 100000 tons of coal for use in
Idaho.
The state department of public
works and law enforcement and the
state bureau of highways have is
sued joint bulletin explaining the
state traffic regulations, for general
distribution.
A party of four young residents OF
Paul had an almost miraculous escape
from serious injury, when an automo
bile which they We're riding plunged
down a seventy-fve-foot embankmen
and was wrecked.
Dog team practice, in anticipation
of the annual winter races at Ashton
is starting, despite the scarcity o
snow in this section. Several prospec
tive contestants are getting their dog
in trim for the event.
Wflder's telephone troubles wer
partly quoted last week when tn
state public utilities commission grant
ed to James E. Weston the requisit
authority for establishing a telephon
exchange in that city.
Arrest of Leonard Rose, aged 10, o.
a charge of ''moonshining' was effect
ed at Kimberly. Rose is alleged t
have been implicated in the operation
of a private whisky still recently III
earthed near Rock Creek.
Harry Woods, Boise travelling sales
man. who was injured recently whe
an automobile crashed through tn
plate glass window of hotel lobby q
Caldwell, has recovered sufficiently
3 be released from the hospital.
The results of inspection of scale
in Idaho by the state farm markt
bureau show approximately one-ha
of the scales tested to be inaceurat
and they have been condemned fC
repairs or condemned Internationally,
1t is said that the Oregon Short Lin
shops in Pocatello will be used fC
the instruction of apprentices in a
the branches of work handled in til
shops, including classes for machil
lists, car builders, boilermakers an
in locomotive work.
Although the legislature of this stat
adopted an amendment to the sta
constitution prohibiting the manufa
ture of intoxicating liquors in Idaf
forever, and the people ratified Il
amendment later, the legislature HI
never passed the necessary legislatic
to make it effective, in the opinion
II. j. Hull, prosecuting attorney
Shoshone county.
A fftering process is used by Il
traftickers in wood alcohol in Idah
according TO revenue officers, al
much of the poisonous element is I