The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-24
IN THE GEM STATE

Nampa
Senator Borah is to be principal
speaker at Roosevelt memorial SER
vices to be held in Carnegie hall, New
York, January 26.
Joe James, colored, charged with
first-degree murder, is to be tried at
Pocatello this week. James is charged
with killing Mrs Johnson, colored, last
summer.
j. Fred Williams, superintendent Of
the State Industrial school at ST. An
thony since March 1, 1917, has ten
dered his resignation, to become eff
fective June /.
Boise will be one of the central for
est patrol aviation stations, if the
present plans of the war and forestry
departments Of the government are
worked out as projected.
Word has been received in Boise that
Wendell O'Day, former organist at the
Majestic theatre, died of the results of.
an operation upon him in Portland
for blood clot on the brain.
The Blackfoot schools opened with
an average attendance of 65 per cent.
In the high school practically the
normal attendance was noted with an
increase of % in the enrolment
Charles E. Struthers, United States /.
district employment agent for the five
northern counties of Idaho, died at
Wallace, of pneumonia following in
fluenza. He was member of the 1917
legislature.
Classification of all men registered
| for the draft in Idaho has been com
pIeted, according to information which
has been sent to the provost marshal
| general from the offices of Adjutant
General A. II. Wilson.
Lemhi beef cattle are bringing good
| prices in the eastern markets. The
top price recorded was S215.45 received
by James Isley in the Chicago market
for beef steer weighing 1890 pounds,
or 1914 cents pound
/ Warrens, a little mining camp of
50 souls, claims the banner for Red
! Cross and Liberty Loan work among
all the communities of equal size in
the United States. The gross total of
proceeds for the Red Cross to date are
s154LSS.
/ Lemhi county will without difficulty
provide employment for all her 800 or
more soldiers, as fast as they return
from the service. Thirteen of these
are known to have died or been killed
in action, while 80 or 40 others bear
the mark of wounds.
The State Seedgrowers' association
distributed cash prizes aggregating
800 and adjourned its three days
session at Twin Falls after selecting
'ocatello for its meeting place next
year. In resolutions the seedgrowers
favored adoption of state wheat
standard and inspection.
!, F.F. Johnson, Idaho member of
the Capital Issues committee, has been
officially notified of the going out of
existence of this war organization. He
has also received a circular letter
signed by John Perrin, chairman Of
the district committee, setting forth
the reasons for the action.
Reconstruction problems and how
best to care for Idaho's returning
soldiers were subjects that held the ut
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stock men present at the first days
session of the joint conference of
agricultural, engineering and livestock
association at Twin Falls.
i Two steam shovels and numerous
rock-blasting gangs are working stead
lily on the Salmon river highway Estate
and federal) south of Salmon. Cold
weather does not interfere at all with
this work, except that the teams can
not get such advantageous actions as
they might in milder seasons.
Vital statistics for Lemih county for
! 1918 show 90 births, of which 81 were
boys and 80 girls. There We're 81
,, deaths, of which % We're males and
! 81 females. Social statistics show a
marriages. Financial statistics show
S56S,000 invested in Liberty Bonds
and S150,O00 in War Savings Stamps
! Robert S. Stringer, who died re
Gently at Tacoma from influenza was
: a former resident of Boise, and was
for more than twenty years manager
: for Columbian and Pinney theatres
having acted in that capacity at the
: old Columbian theatre for 10 years
and fer the Pinney until two years
n ago when he left Boise for Tacoma
e Trips to nearby sawmills and log
n ging camps dances, banquets and q
I water carnival at the Boise Natator.
K ium will be among the entertainment
0 features offered to delegates who will
;, attend the 10Th annual conference OF
: the Western Retail Lumbermeu's asSo
Il citation and the Lumbermen's Mutual
society, to be held in Boise February
/, 49, 20. 81 and %.
/ The gist of an opinion by the at
torney general is that teachers in com
mon school districts can collect theil
3 salaries for time lost during the in
e tluenza epidemic. but independent