The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-06-20
INLAND NORTHWEST

lEoSb at SUPERIOR MOutdilh.
The Pacific Coast Advertising Mems
association held It's annual convention
at Portland, June 10 and II.
One per cent of the payroll is the
average cost to the employer for com
pensation insurance in Montana.
While driving cattle, Loren Alt,
aged 10, of Roundup, Mont, was
thrown from his horse, death resulting.
Approximately two million pounds
of Wyoming wool has been sold at
prices ranging from IS to 50 cents a
pound.
Prospectors have made "A strike be-
tween Nyala and Current Greek, Ne
vada, which is showing up rich in gold
and silver.
A new corporation headed by Former
Congressman Roberts of Nevada, will
start developments in the Lander oil
fields, near Fallon, Nevada.
An open air dance pavilion has been
added to the amusement resources of
Twin Falls, Idaho. The pavilion is
Id feet long and 30 feet wide.
The chamber of commerce has con-
tracted for tract of land near the
central part of Forsyth, Mont, that
will be converted into city park.
Under the auspices of the CONNER
cial club of Sheridan, Wyo., some 300
business men will visit Hardin, Mont,
and intermediate points June II and
Is.
The people Of Hardin, Mont, the
! coming metropolis of that section of
| the state, recently celebrated the
| twelfth anniversary of the birth of
that town.
| Preparations are now under way for
! the thirty-second annual cOnclave of
Grand Commandery, knights Templar
of Montana, which will be held in Bill
ings June 10 and 20.
James Hutchinson Karr, 81 years of
age, a pioneer of Colorado and widely
known as geologist and mining en-
| gineer, died at Colorado Springs, June
10, after short illness.
The commissioners of White Pine
| County, Nevada, have announced their
intention of borrowing $4,000 for the
purpose of repairing the roads and
highways in that section.
That Idaho is threatened with a
water shortage for irrigation pur-
poses during the coming summer is
the declaration of the commissioner Of
reclamation for the state.
The ranchers in the vicinity of KEN
merer, Wyo.. who had been worrying
over lack of precipitation were made
happy last week by rainstOrm which
assures an excellent hay crop.
Representatives of Utah Boy Scouts
who requested the government for use
of tents to be used at summer camps,
were informed that the law prohibits
the loaning of tents by the govern
ment.
The new herd district law appears to
be somewhat popular in Montana, pc
titions having been filed with the com
near Hobson, Stanford, Roy and Coffee
Creek.
No special session of the Wyoming
state legislature will be called to rat.
ify the federal suffrage amendment
according to Governor Carey, and the
matter must wait Until the next reg.
ular session in 1921.
Feed distributors Of Philadelphia are
buying from the Kansas City market
alfalfa hay shipped from the Idaho
fields, paying fency prices for the
same, because they desire alfalfa from
the irrigated areas of the west.
At the big coal mine at Klein, Mont
the record for days production was
shattered one day last week, when
1896 tons of coal We're hoisted in an
eight-h0ur shift, exceeding the sup
posed maximum capacity by SO tons
A masked robber entered the bank
at Beaverton, Oregon, and at the point
of pistol forced Miss Lillian Evans
the assistant cashier, who was alone
ut the time, to hand him currency
amounting to $1,000, making his es
cape in an automobile.
The continued dry spell is causing
many farmers in the vicinity of Round
up, Mont, to worry about the early
! winter wheat, some of which is com
mencng to head, and little had start
ed to fire slightly when the cool spell
set in few days ago.
That divorces have ceased TO dis
courage second marriages in many in
/ stances is indicated by the records al
Billings, Mont, which show that dur
ing the month of May out of the sixty
marriage licenses applied for, thirty
eight of the parties had been pre-
viously married.
Cards urging tourists to remall
away from Salt Lake during the date:
of the International Rotary conven
tion, June 16 to 10, inclusive, TO enable
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