The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-04-18
IN THE GEM STATE

Saturday afternoons win be observ-
ed as holidays by majority OF the
offices at the statehouse for the re-
mainder Of the spring and summer
Jess Marshall was taken into GUS
tody at Nampa when officers discoy-
cred more than two gallons Of pure
alcohol hidden in his heating stove.
Sugar beet growers are contracting
their 1919 crop Of beets for delivery
at $40 ton, a price which is from
Sc. SO to So a ton higher than prewar
figures.
Miss Retta Martin, FOR the last six
years county superintendent of schools
in Lewis county, has been named as
sistant state superintendent of public
instruction.
Francisco Nicaldi, VINO voluntarily
put in two nights in the jails Of Can
yon county and the city of Nampa,
was adjudged insane and comm.s-~-.
to Blackfoot.
A garage Is being erected by the
commissioners of the Bull highway
district for the accommodation of
trucks and other road machinery own
ed by the district.
Owyhee county will be brought into
closer association with the counties
lying north of the Snake river this
summer by one, and possibly rnree
substantial bridges.
According to Mrs. Auneta Fergu-
son, who recently opened a municipal
employment office at Nampa, she has
places for at least so men and is un-
able to supply the demand
Plans for widening the scope of the
Y. NJ. G. A. in Idaho to include the
country districts in the work of the
association were formulated at con-
ference held in Boise on April IL.
A horse was killed and an automo-
bile badly damaged on the Shoshone
grade when the car got from under
the control of its driver, an Eden cit
izen named Montgomery, and struck
a four horse team.
Joseph Hansen, secretary of the
State Council of Defense since its
organization soon after war was de-
clared, has closed his office in Boise
and the council has ceased to exist,
its work having been completed.
A visiting nurses association of
Boise and Ada county has been or
ganized by Representatives from
number of the prominent organiza-
lions of the city including the insur-
ance companies and the trades council.
DR.. Ernest e. Laubaugn, captain in
an army medical corps stationed at
Camp Stuart, former state bacteriol-
ogist under the Haines administra-
ton, has been offered his old place by
j. X. White, commissioner of public
welfare.
The Farmers Cooperative Cream
cry company is making improvements
in the way of adding warehouse room
to the plant at Payette. Three trucks
are now used in gathering cream from
the territory contributory to the
creamery.
Waiting to have the Pasteur treat
ment applied for the bite of mad
coyote, Frank Tama, % years of age,
is at an Ogden hospital. He was
rushed there from Blackfoot, after
having been bitten while working at
his sheep camp.
A man named Gaulco is at the Bur
ley hospital, in serious condition, as
the result of a wound five inches deep
in his back, caused by a broken piece
of windshield being driven into his
body when car in which he was rid
ing turned turtle.
By system of voluntary quarantine
the public school at Rexburg has prac-
tically kept full control of the influ-
enza situation, All physical exercises
were held on the campus and prac-
tically every amusement for pupils
was conducted in the school gymnas-
ium.
Building permits issued by the city
engineer at Nampa during March to-
tailed $121,750, per capita investment
based on an estimated population of
$500, of more than SIS. OF the "a
permits issued, 16 were for residences
having cost running from $4,000 to
$4,000.
A monster petition is being for.
warded to Secretary Franklin K. Lane
requesting him to complete what is
known as the Payette- Boise irrigation
project as soon as possible, following
plans indicated and in keeping with
surveys made by D. w. Ross and other
engineers.
Under the belief that it was mice
in the penitentiary," and that he could
get an, education there, Frank Baker
pleaded builty in Bonner county TO n
statutory charge in April, 1914 he told
the state pardons board. The board
decided to parole him April %. He
has served about five years,
Contracts are to be let soon for
two navy hnildiOUS 49,,