The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-01-29
IDAHO BUDGET

Mr. and Mrs. William Toy of Castle
Creek, Owyhee county, have sent
huge squash, weighing 1O7 pounds, to
the Red Cross Salvage Shop at Boise.
The fourth Liberty Loan bond drive
for Payette county on October u
showed a total of SOL ,225, with 14Os
subscribers. The quota for Payette
county was 100000.
The 1918 county fair held at Salmon
last week was the biggest and best
ever held in Lemhi. The agricultural |
and horticultural exhibits were the
finest of local history.
Curry school was awarded third |
prize for best display of school work |
at the Twin Falls county fair at Filler. |
Fourteen premiums for work done by |
individual pupils were also awarded |
the school.
Two trusty prisoners at the Canyon |
county Jail took French leave from the |
courthouse grounds and have not been
captured. The two men were William
Fuller, held for grand larceny, and G.
b. Smith, held for bOOtlegging.
For time a portion of the east side
business district at POcatellO in the old
restricted district was threatened by
| flame that broke out in an old building.
Both departments responded to the fire
| alasm and subdued the flames.
At the state w. c. T. U. session at
Emmett last week these officers We're
elected: President, DR.. Emma Drake;
vice president Mrs. Vance; treasurer,
Mrs. Prescott; secretary, Mrs. Polly;
recording secretary, Mrs. Thomps,n.
Laura E. Hanks, 40 years of age, was
arrested at Ogden, Utah, at the request
of the sheriff at Montpelier, Idaho,
who holds warrant charging Mrs.
Hanks with the crime of forgery, al
legged to have been committed at Mont
! pelier.
The state has posted a reward OF
$500 for the apprehension of the slayer
of ]. c. Sherrod, a member of the
Pocatello police force, and candidate
for sheriff of Bannock county, who
was killed by negro. Pocatello has
also posted a reward of $500.
The enrolment in the Students
Army Training Corps, section A, at
Moscow, is steadily increasing, includ-
ing men not eligible for general mill
tary service. The total enrolment is
COG, which will be increased by the
arrival Of the 300 men in section B.
Preparations are we'll under way for
launching the united war work cam.
paign in the southeastern district OF
, Idaho, headquarters for which are 10.
, Gated in Pocatello. The states allot
: ment in the welfare fund drive which
| is to be made from November II to IS
? is $426.25O.
l MethOdists held their church ser
vices on the lawn on the east side OF
: the church at Boise last Sunday.
r piano was moved on to the main en-
trance and the program was given ovel
! largely to singing Automobiles were
? drawn up to the curb and We're use(
for church seats.
3 The Idaho Falls school board OF
October Is, decided to close all depart
l ments of the school until the quaran
I tine for Spanish influenza has beer
raised. Several mild cases of the cpl
D demic have developed in this vicinity
;. two of them being transients. Thu
i country schools have not been closed.
). Lieut.. Raymond Hill, formerly /.
: member of f company, End Idaho, wa
I killed September IA in France, &C
cording to word received by friend
: at Lewiston, his home. He had BEEF
I assigned to the aviation service an,
was expecting to enjoy furlougl
d after years duty when he was killed
L Mrs. Nelson Millick of Post Falls
/ working in the interest of a measur
s which she hopes to see enacted as
d law in Idaho at the next session of tn
e legislature. The measure, if placed o.
Q the statutes, would make state care O
all deformed children mandatory
where the parents We're unable to car
III for them.
Il Judge Dunlap of the probate cour
at Boise decided in favor of the illegit
II mate daughter in the case of Gertrud
Binner Lewis VS.. Eugene Looney, aG
/ ministrator for the estate of r. {
III Goodwin, in which she will receiv
III more than $4,000. Goodwin was
II wealthy sheep man of Boise, who wa
murdered in the fall of 1916 at Or
tariO.
In connection with the annual NEE
ing Of the synod of the Presbyteria
church of Idaho at Twin Falls, the OF
e. ganizatiOn of the WOmen's SynOdics
% Missionary society was effected at
u meeting of 80 women who were in a
u tendance and who enrolled as tn
Is charter members of the organization
!. Sheep shipments are very heav
!. from Mccall this fall. About 1890
h. head will be shipped out during tn
- month. Orders have been placed {
the local depot for 100 cars.
Prof. Solen w. Cunningham, TO
merly head of the department of al
=. riculture and director of athletics {
10 the Albion state normal school, die
70 Wednesday, October 8, of bronchi,