The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-08-15
In THE GEM STATE

he Twin Falls County Farmers .dssp-
CATION has been formed al Twin Falls
% promote agricultural and ranch in
Eerests IN this district.
A church building TO cost approx
mateIy $4,000 is 10 be erected by st.
Edwards Catholic parish at Twin
Falls as early in the coming spring a
weather and working coalitions viii
permit.
The Twin Falls Dehydrating Com
pany. established By local people, viii
begin its initial operations next week.
\ special run On strfaglp~s beans.
peaches and windfaH apples Will CON
stitute the first list Of produce to BE-
manufactured.
Proceeding under instructions from
A. Mitchell Palmer, United States at
trrTley general, J. J.. 3FeCgpar, United
States district attorney for Idaho, has
put in motion the machinery u the
government TO ascertain the cause ~
the high prices Of foe,lstuffS il Idaho.
Mail service at Teton. Idaho. has be-
come 20 unsatisfactory that the Conn
mercial Club has inaugurated a move
ment to obtain Improvement If pos
sible The club has sent letter 81
the fourth assistant postmaster gen
eraI at Washington, who has charge
of all rural mails
The Idaho Technical institute viii
/ fnauzurate a vocational department at
/ the opening Of the school next month.
/ The department will be a dressmak-
/ ing school conducted on large scale.
4 and IS to be under the supervision 81
/ Mrs Harriet Adams Of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Adams has instructed IN this
class Of education for six years in q
large California school
Attacked by a mountain lion and
yiciously cIawed and scratched. Letha
/ BurreII. daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Bur
reII. who reside on the eastern edge
Of HALEY. was found unconscious in
a field a short distance from her home
1T 10 o'clock this morning. The girls
clothing was torn to ribbons and one
shoe has not yet been found.
The Owsley irrigation project. a
Carey act undertaking, obtaining its
water supply from Mud lake. and lo
Gated about % miles north Of idaho
Falls, viii be completed next month.
Next Spring an additional 1900 acres
Of Idaho land viii be reclaimed by ir-
rigatfon, says Fred A. WiIkie. chief
engineer for the Carey Land and Irri-
CATION Company, promoters Of The
Owsley project, and former state en-
gineer.
Thine first airplane service 70 be es-
tabIished in Boise has been estab-
iished BY two Boise young men. Gro
; yer {. Taylor and Walter W. Lind
: say OF the Boise Automobile market.
: They have purchased Curtiss air.
: plane. 1t will be operated for sight
seeing trips about the city and sur
:. rounding country and will carry pas
sengers for pressing business engage-
D menrs 10 various parts Of the state.
: Bruce LampSon, county agent and
member of the board Of directors Of
= the cooperative bureau Of Power
: county. has received telegram from
{ L. w FIuharty. state director OF ex-
e tension work. stating that congress
planned relief for farmers injured by
' the drought and requested that infor-
; nation be gathered Immediately that
h would give approximately the amount
j, Of money needed 10 procure feed and
: seed and the number OF farmers who
+ would neesI federal aid
/ A fatal wreck that claimed twc
lives and seriously injured other mem
It bers Of the train crews occurred Al
a Yaie siding. fifty miles west Of Poest
II EeEl0 Al est>Theund extra freight go
il ing down grade At thirTy-fiva miles al
hour jumped switch frog and IilUngei
headlong into another freight rrs.u
The fan term At Gooding college vii
begin September 9. and the practicsl
Z features that Will be offered tneiud
a a night school for adults. a chair i
n rural sociology and economics, a sec
r retarial course for high school gradu
i, ateS and q country life rally sinIila
y TO that which has just been held 3
=, the Washington State college for tn
: rural pastors.
N John w. Hardin of Kimberly hai
le disposed of his apple crop on the tree
$ for SO per ton. This viii mean abou
lie 500 an acre for the crop, it Is said.
Corporal Harold Thompson. son .
n William Thompson Of ST. Anthony. ha
Il been awarded the distinguished Servfct
n craSS for heroiSm in action during III
i late war.
e With view to consolidating tn
Christian ana the Baptist churches q
Twin Fails a series of joint meeting
. Of the two congregations is To be aT
= ranged by committee Of the tw,
:, bodies in which the pastor Of tn
!, Christian church will present the fun
= damental doctrines and practices o
= the IliScfnltaS- anff the BantfSr r,.lsrnr i