The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-10-17
In THE GEM STATE


Boise.
Thirty-eight wiremen of the Twin
Falls electrical workers union are on
strike. They ask % per cent wage IN
crease.
Through change in the time table
Of the Oregon Short Line, victor, Q"
the Yellowstone branch, will receive
direct train service to Salt Lake ana
vice versa.
The Pocatello fire department mas
lust completed a six-story practice
tower, which is thoroughly equipped
for giving the firemen the latest ideas
in fire-fghting practice.
The Idaho state school system, pro-
fitting by the dearly bought lessons OF
the great war, will stress Americana
cation and physical culture IN TINS
years educational program.
Payette county is well satisfied with
its participation in the state fair this
year. The county won $500 in prizes
and exhibitors are enthusiastic over
the showing they intend to make next
year.
The fruit dryer opened at Weiser IS
now employing nearly 40 people, ana
the force win be increased. The plant
uses Gull apples, heretofore loss, and
will continue in operation for at least
three months.
George Western was severely in
jured while firing on helper engine
at King Hill. He was going from the
cab back over the tender when the
coal gave way and let him fall some
is feet to the ground.
| While the state of Idaho has been
making good on all other financial
campaigns she has failed in the war
savings campaign, according to Allen
| b. Eaton, director for the state on the
federal savings organization.
'If many Idaho farmers are to Sc
cure maximum returns from their fall
seeding of wheat, they must sow
pure, plump and clean seed says B.
f. Sheehan, agronomist of the Uni
versity of Idaho extension division.
Robert S. Built, the engineer who
pulled the first train over the old Utah
Central railway when the golden spike
was driven January 10, 1870, was
found dead in room of the First Ma
tional bank building at st. Anthony.
He died of heart trouble.
BY voting down resolution to de-
clare the strike off, Burke local of the
International Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers again delayed re-
sumption of mining and milling opera
tions in the Occur dAlenes, which
have now been idle since July IL.
The lowly prune has come into its
own. No more will it be the butt of
boarding house jokes, for this season
the prune will be a luxury, growers
netting 500 ton for the dried fruit,
an unheard of price, says C. ]. Sin
sci, president of the state board of
horticulture.
Michael Morris died at Boise a week
after he had been struck in the face
by o. p. Henderson,, secretary of the
state fair, following an alteration.
Should an autopsy develop that blow
produced the condition resulting in
DEATH charge of manslaughter will
be filed against Henderson,.
The bureau of markets, Idaho de-
partment of agriculture, has recently
promulgated standards for sale of tim
othy, alaflfa, red clover, alsike clover
and white clover in this state. These
grades went into effect July l, 1919,
and it is upon these grades that all
sale of the above mentioned seeds
shall be made.
The special bond election held at
Burnley for the purpose of voting 1926
600 for the purchase of the Willow
creek water and installing the system
was lost, there being 142 votes cast
against the proposition while there
We're only 1877 for the bond issue. II
required two-thirds vote to carry
the issue through.
John Fleming, who was sentenced
to death in 1908 in Lincoln county
|
dered a man, and whose sentence was
committed in 1911 to life imprison.
ment, now wants the state pardon
board to free him.
A two-year experiment in the use
of sulphur on alfalfa fields is being
started in Canyon county through co.
operation of two farmers with the
county farm bureau and the soils spe
cialist of the university extension
division.
The law requiring automobiles car
rying passengers and freight to fake
out licenses, and exempting machines
on star routes, is held constitutional
and not class legislation by Judpe
Reddoch in decision rendered Al
, Boise.
OF community shipment of Bon
ner county beef cattle recently con
signed to the Spokane Union Stock
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