The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-08-29
In THE GEM STATE

planning an elaborate observance of
Labor day
Road conditions In Idaho are only
fair, considering the time Of the year
according to auto tourists.
Extensive improvements are to be
made at once on ST. Joseph's school,
the Catholic educational institution In
Pocatello.
Bacon was included in every one Of
fifty orders for army surplus food
stores placed with the postmaster at
Twin Falls.
A number Of Caldwell children are
planning 70 exhibit for prize rabbits
at the Nalnpa Harvest festival and
the state fair AT Boise.
Non partisan league headquarters
viii be moved back to Boise from
Nampa about September !, according
10 Editor Mcdowell OF the Leader, the
official organ Of the party in the state.
The fixing Of the prices of hay was
the outcome of meeting Of farmers
and livestock men in the western part
of the state. Hay In the stack will be
$3.50 per ton and baled hay win be
$40.
A free auto park Is TO be established
at Nampa, where there is an abund-
ance of shade When site Is Sc
lected city water will be piped to it
and other convenienees will he in
stalled.
The Kimberly Grain & Milling com
pany of Twin Falls wrote check in
favor of Dick Graham for $2490.63,
representing the price Of crop of
wheat harvested from fourteen acres
of land.
Organization Of the Lost river stake
of the Latter-day Saints church, in
Guiding the wards of Arco and Moore
and the branches of Leslie, Past Creek,
Darlington and Chilly, was completed
last week.
An Improvement district, including
practically all of Nampa that has been
plated with the exception Of certain
lots in Kurtz addition was created
by special ordinance made by the city
council last week.
marry DldnuOll, lpuI iiiitS hoi III
west of Filler, has refused 81, 1920 for
his alsike seed crop from 10 acres
The yield, according to reports, runs
six bushels to the acre. or 6,4S0 pounds
for the entire patch.
Professor r. Courtney, for eight
Idaho Technical institute, will leave
the institution shortly to accept a po-
sitlon as the head of private COM
mercial school in Roanoke, Va.
A home treatment for rabies is now
being offered the public by the state
department of public welfare. The de-
partment has contracted with a Phil
adelphia firm for vaccine which can
be purchased by any physician for $50,
At Il meeting held at PocatellO, at
tended by sheepmen from the southern
part Of the state, an organization was
perfected under the name of the
Southern Idaho Sheep Growers assoc
citation with headquarters at Poca-
tello.
William NJ Bum, thirteenth terri
torial governor of Idaho, now resi-
dent of Philadelphia, is the only ter
ritorial governor of this state alive.
This information has just been trans
United 10 G. J. Brosnan, historian of
the state.
While hunting rabbits Saturday near
Ketchum, Cecil Perry, returned soldier
Of Twin Falls, met with an accident re-
sultlng in the loss of the thumb and
the laceration Of the flesh of his right
hand when his gun was accidentally
| discharged.
The Fremont Madison Reservoir
I company has filed with the state COM
| missioner Of reclamation on 1000 sec
ond feet of water, which will be stored
behind dam to be built on the
| Fan river meadows reservoir site in
| Yellowstone park,
Because of the inability of Governor
/ Davis to be present at the governors
| conference at Salt Lake, his paper on
"The Growth and Consolidation of Adj
minlstrative Boards was read to the
conference by Frank w. Brown, sec
Rotary Of the Idaho executive.
John -. Isaac, farmer living west
Of American Falls, was arrested on
charge of battery upon his l4-year-
old daughter, Lydia, and after a trial
before Judge Il. o. Jones in the pro-
bate court last week was fined SlOV
ana sentenced TO sixty days In fatl>
The Idaho Hay Growers association
and prominent stockmen at a meeting
nj Kuna agreed without dissentins
vote that S1750 ton was an eQuit
able price for 1919 hay while 1t Is II
the stack and that $50 was fan
price 10 both parties for haled an,
shipped hay.
According to w G, Svendson, state
reclamation commissioners, the distrt
hutton systems on the Idaho Farms DE