The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-08-22
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Half a million dollars worth OF
clover seed will be shipped from the
| Twin Falls district this year.
The annual geeting Of the Boise
Valley shorthorh Breeders association
win be held at Caldwell Wednesday,
September 3.
More than 25,0O0 acres Of state
school land will be sold in northern
Idaho the latter part Of August and
early In september.
Presence in Gooding county OF a
minute insect, which Is attacking al
falfa and destroying its seed-producing
qualities, is announced.
The Idaho State grange and It's var
ious branches are placing themselves
on record in favor Of the Mondell bill,
intended to provide homes for Ameri-
can soldiers, sailors and marines.
Thirty refrigerator cars daily, and
possibly more. to move the Canyon
county potato crop have been assured
to the public utilities commission by
the Oregon Short Line railroad com
pany.
The Twin Falls de-hydrating plant.
established by local farmers and cap
italists last week started its first sea.
sons pack of local products, beginning
with stringless beans and windfall
apples
A committee to make survey of
the housing conditions in Boise rela-
tive to women and girls who are en-
gagged in work, has been ordered by
the Business and Professional Wo-
mems clubs.
Thieves robbed B. Hammond Of
Moore of $11450, a watch and other
articles, while he and his wife were
asleep in a small tent pitched in the
municipal automobile camp at the City
park at Blackfoot.
Municipal expenses of the coming
year at Twin Falls necessitates tax
levy of 271a mills, which was assessed
by the city council at its Monday night
meeting. This is 121a mills over the
regularly prescribed levy.
July brought no relief from the Sc
we're drought and Idahs's wheat crop
suffered further shrinkage, according
to the monthly bulletin issued by the
Idaho crop reporting service. The out
look now is for some 14013,900 bushels
The city council of Blackfoot has
voted unanimously in favor of the ex-
tensiYe plan of street paving recently
proposed, wherein the main thorough
fares into the city will be paved. Bids
for this work will be Immediately adj
vertised.
A complete grain sampling station
and school is to be established in Po-
catello for three days to instruct the
farmers, millers, grain dealers and
managers of grain elevators and ware
houses in the proper method of sam
pling wheat.
r. f. Bicknell, still technically fed
eral food administrator for Idaho, is
again in the harness-called to active
duty by the national administration to
ferret out profiteering in Idaho and
report all cases to the attorney general
at Washington.
Frank Poulos, 81, and a young wo-
man giving her name as Dorothy Pet
erson, are being held by the authori-
ties at Pocatello. Poulos is charged
with violating the Mann act, having
registered at hotels there in company
with the Petersen girl as man and
wife.
Many farmers through Canyon
county have already disposed of their
hay crop, both to stockmen and to hay
shippers. There has been talk of spec
ulators buying up all the hay they
could, hoping to corner enough of the
crop to demand from $40 to $50 ton
for the hay.
Formation of the Idaho Freight Rate
association is the plan of G. b. Graft
traffic secretary of the Boise CONNER
cial club, who is touring the state in
the interest of an organization tina
Will work for just freight rates from
Idaho to the leading markets of the
country on Idaho products.
}. B. Evans, special tax agent for
the Oregon Short Line railroad, ere,
ated sensation at hearing at Boise
before the state board of equalization
when he charged that the confidential
agents appointed by the board haf
tled a secret report on the valuation
OF public utilities and were unuuoli.
fled in their work.
The city administration OF Twin
raiS' has announced its intention 70
go as far as human effort could pro
geeu IN lettering conditions set forth
by a delegation from the Central
lraue council, headed by it's president
H. :. Scranton, calling upon the mum,
clpallty to assist in the solution locally
OF the high cost Of living problem.
Because he took his children from
the Childern's home without narm,s
s'on' Albert Hadley of Idaho Fall
faces u phopna NeAA'