The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-11-14
In THE GEM STATE

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Rupert is to own the electric plant.
This was decided at special meeting
of the city council last week.
The University Of Idaho Glee club
will make u trip through southern
idaho the first and second weeks of
February.
One-man street cars for the Boise /
were authorized last week by the pub
lie utilities commission.
Because Luther Stephenson of Mel
ba couldn't wait until the law was out |
on Chinese pheasants, he contributed |
SIS to state game law enforcement |
funds
Rigby and Jefferson county have APP
propriated $500 for the big celebra-
ton to he held on Armistice day, No
vember Il, in honor of returned sol
diers, sailors and marines.
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 $1,000.
Imprisoned for twenty-one hours in
a dry well, Paul Bennett was rescued
alive from under seventy-two feet of
dirt and stones. He was working in
well near Nampa when the cavern oc-
Cured.
Vance Johnson, 50 years old, was
bound over to the district court at
Blackfoot on a charge of first degree
murder and is held without bail. 1t
is charged that Johnson killed Leon
Reese Harvard, 10 years old.
If you happen to be woman,
child or Civil war veteran, you are
at perfect liberty to go hunting with
out a license in Idaho. You may kill
the limit of game, whether it be deer,
mountain goat, elk or anything else.
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 mil
lion-dollar factory at Filler, which will
be completed in time for next seasons
slicing.
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 a good club for Bull next
season.
Leland Norton, a returned soldier,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. NJ. Norton, who
reside on a 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.
Owing to the long illness of the late
Judge ]. ]. Guheen, compelling him to
remain off 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.
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
union men. The union men refuse tC
return to work until their demands fOi
recognition are met.
Reports from the upper Snake river
watershed in Wyoming are that of
November 1, at Moran, the outlet Of
Jackson lake dam, there was one foo
OF snow on the ground. At the soutl
entrance to Yellowstone park there
was two feet of snow.
Thomas G. Neibaur of Sugar City
Idaho's war hero, was married a
Idaho Falls last week, to his boyhoot
sweetheart, Lois Shepperd, also of Su
gar City. Neibaur was one of the sew
enteen men of the American army VIII
received congressional recognition.
New working hours went into effec
last week in some OF the department
of the Twin Falls county administers
tion. A working day henceforth viii
be from s a. m. to i p. m. In most dc
partments, however, offices will re
main open until p. m. to comply wit
statutory requirements.
Newton Wonacott, the 14-year-ol
high school lad who disappeared fror
Twin Falls some time ago has nc
been found. He went to school on
morning, laid his books down an
walked uptown. Then he vanishe
and it is feared that he has met elthe
with an accident or foul play.
Rfgby is now a sugar-produeing con
muity. Last week the Beet Grower
Sugar company turned out its fir!
quantity of sugar and since then ha
been producing at the rate of II
pounds a minute The product is sal
to be of better grade than that whic
heretofore has been shipped I'M
Rigby.
There is a shortage of coal in P
ratello that may cause great deal (
hardship later on if the weather r
mains cold. E~alers were unable
snnnlv nne-tenth of the demand in Il