The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-11-12
IDAHO BUDGET


catello that may cause great deal Of
hardship later on if the weather re-
mains cold. Dealers were unable to
supply One-tenth of the demand in the
latter part of October, and now, with
the coal strike in operation, the deal
ers figure that they will not get as
big an allotment Of coal as they got
in October
higby Is now sugar-producing COM
muity. Last week the Beet Growers
Sugar company turned out its first
quantity Of sugar and since then has
been producing at the rare vi 30
pounds a minute. The product is said
to be of better grade than that which
heretofore has been shipped into
Rigby.
Newton WOnacOtt, the 14-year-oId
high school lad who disappeared from
Twin Falls some time ago has not
been found. He went to school one
morning, laid his books down and
walked uptown. Then he vanished
and it is feared that he has met either
with an accident or foul play.
New working hours went into effect
last week in some of the departments
Of the Twin Falls county administra-
ton. working day henceforth will
be from a. m. to 4 p. m. In most de-
partments, however, offices will re-
main open until p. m. to comply with
statutory requirements.
Thomas C. Neibaur of Sugar City,
IdahO's war hero, was married at
Idaho Falls last week, to his boyhood
sweetheart, Lois Shepherd, also of Su-
gar City. Neibaur was one OF the sew
enteen men of the American army who
received congressional recognition.
Reports from the upper Snake river
watershed in Wyoming are that on
November 1, at Moran, the outlet of
Jackson lake dam, there was one foot
of snow on the ground. At the south
entrance to Yellowstone park there
was two feet of snow.
The strike of mechanics at Twin
Falls. appears to have no end in sight.
Many of the largest garages are do
ing business, but are employing non.
return to work until their demands for
recognition are met
Owing to the long illness of the late
Judge ]. J. Guheen, compelling him to
remain of duty, the business of the
district court at Pocatello was placed
| on the shoulders of one Judge, and
| an accumulation of cases is said to
have resulted.
Leland Norton, a returned soldier,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ Norton, who
reside on farm two miles south of
Rupert, dropped dead at their home,
death resulting from effects of having
been gassed while at the front in
France.
The president Of the Bull chamber
OF commerce has been authorized by
| that body to appoint a committee Of
three to help organize the towns of
| southern Idaho into baseball league
and get good club for Bull next
season.
Upwards Of 5000 acres of beets have
been contracted to be grown next sea-
| son and delivered to the Idaho Co
operative Beet Sugars company mill
lion-dollar factory at Filler, which will
be completed in time for next seasons
| slicing.
IT you happen to be woman. a
child or Civil war veteran, you are
at perfect liberty to go hunting with
out license in Idaho. You may kill
the limit Of game, whether it be deer,
mountain goat, elk or anything else.
Vance Johnson. IS years old, was
| bound over to the district court at
Blackfoot on charge of first degree
murder and is held without bail. 1t
| is charged that johnson killed Leon
Reese Harvard. 10 years old.
Imprisoned for twenty-one hours in
dry well, Paul Bennett was rescued
alive from under seventy-two feet of
| dirt and stones. He was working in a
well near Nampa when the cave-in &C.
Cured.
The erection Of the Weiser Seventh
Day Adventist church will begin at
once. The church will be of the bum
galow type. 1t is estimated that the
value of the structure will be $500.
Rigby and Jefferson county have APP
propriated $500 for the big celebra-
| ton to be held ON Armistice day, No
rember IL, in honor of returned SOL
diers, sailors and marines.
Because Luther Stephenson of Mel
ba couldn't wait until the law was out
on Chinese pheasants. he contributed
$28 to state game law enforcement
| funds.
One-man street cars for the Boise
Valley Traction company's belt line
were authorized last week by the pub
lie utilities Commission.
The University of Idaho Glee club
will make a trip through southern
Idaho the first and second weeks Of
February.
Rupert is to own the electric plant.
This was decided at special meeting
Of the city council last week.
The city council has let the contract