The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-02-07
In THE GEM STATE


mum was S1,791,5 57.
Two boys died at Boise last week
from spinal meningitis, and rigid
quarantine has been ordered as re-
suit.
Work on the o. S. L. depot at Lava
Hot Springs is progressing rapidly.
When completed the new building viii
have cost between $4,000 and $4,000.
The Idaho state highway commission
is making plans for the construction
Of the Lewis and Clark highway the
survey to be made along the Clear
water river.
The labor demand just about equals
the supply at the present time, accord
ing to r. H. Hasbrouck, examiner for
the United States employment bureau
of Boise district.
Membership in the Intermounta1n
Fair & Racing association, one of the
largest circuits in the United States,
has been obtained definitely for the
Idaho state fair.
The Lewiston highway district has
voted $113,0Cy bonds for construction
of link of the Lewiston and Clark
highway from Spalding to the Clear
water county line.
Pat Wellzer, one of the boys from
Cambridge who has just recently re-
turned from service in the army, has
secured position as reading clerk in
the house of representatives.
Arrangements have been completed
in Twin Falls county for the formation
of COW testing association. AbOur
twenty farmers we're present at the
meeting, all of whom We're much inter-
estad in the plan as outlined.
Mrs. NJ r. Taylor. who was arrested
some time in December on charge
of assault with intent to kill, allegedly
made upon one Of her children who is
only few years old, will stand trial
at Caldwell in the near future.
Creation of a representative COM
mission designed to lift the state fish
and game department from the realm
of politics was endorsed at a meeting
of almost 100 sportsmGp from different
parts of the state held at Boise last
week.
The city council of Gooding has dc
termined to appoint appraisers to place
valuation on the city waterworks,
now owned and operated by former
Governor Frank K. GoOding. The peo-
pie feel that the city should own its
own waterwOrkS.
For some time past the residents of
both Little Willow and Big Willow
creeks have been trying to get daily
mail service. The department is now
asking for bids for carrying the mail
daily on this route, except Sunday,
service to begin March 1.
Settlers and tourists TO the number
of several thousand might be attracted
to the state through the general circu-
lation of a booklet reciting in detail
the opportunities Idaho offers, accord
ing to Dick Donovan, deputy director
of farm markets.
Every phase of the work of the dairy
industry will be covered by men promi-
nent in this work in both government
and private circles, when they deliver
their addresses and lectures at the
Western Dairy show and conference,
which will be held in Boise February
10, IL and II.
Anticipating congress may fail to
pass an omnibus public building bill,
Representative French has introduced
bill authorizing erection of public
buildings at Nampa, Payette, Cald-
WELL Weiser and Occur d'Alene, ana
Representative Smith has introduced
bill for a building at HALEY.
The number of horses on farms in
Idaho January l, 1919. as reported by
was 276,000, or 1000 less than on
January 1, 1918. Mules are reported
at 1000, the same as last year The
number of mich cows in the state has
remained stationary at $4,000 head.
The school children of Idaho will
enter the lists of the great modern
health crusade for the fifteen-week pc
Rod beginning February 9 and ending
May "A. This is national tournament
in which the "'Crusade Leagues" of
every state in the Union will joust for
the trophies offered by the American
Red Cross and the National Tubercu-
losis association.
Drowned in four feet of water, in a
cistern at the family home, five miles
south of HOlliSter, the body of Esther
Malmgren, two-year-old daughter of
Henry Malmgren, was recovered by his
father few moments after the baby's
fall into the cistern, was reported to
the parents by her 5-year-old brother,
who witnessed it.
A series of tests given to 375 Uni
versity of Idaho students by Professor
H. B. Reed, head of the psychology
department, showed 40 per cent of the
men scored an "A" rated as compared
with % per cent of the women. The
tests We're the same as those given in
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