The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-10-24
In THE GEM STATE

More than 40 silos have been ana
are being constructed In Washington
county this summer and fall.
Jerome county exceeded its quota
in the Salvation Army drive by $50,
and was the first to send In its quota.
The Idaho Cattle and Horse Grow
ers' association will hold its annual
meeting in Payette this year in De
cember.
A branch of the American Legion TO
be known as the Clark \. Post was
organized at Buhl with 16 charter
members.
A number of farms in Wood River
valley have changed hands this sea-
son at prices ranging from $50 to $l3o
per acre.
A drainage district has been organ
lied in the vicinity of Picabo to drain
several hundreds of acres of swamp
lands along Silver creek.
The public utilities commission Of
Idaho denied the request of the opera
tors of the Ousley ferry for an in
crease in the rates charged.
Ed Young of Bull was accidentally
shot while cleaning a % caliber
rifle, the ball penetrating his right
hand and inflicting painful wound.
Oneida county farmers are organ
izing, under the leadership of the farm
bureau, to conduct systematic pois-
oning campaign against rabbits this
winter.
The first farm bureau community
fair held at Clark's Fork was a great
success. The weather was ideal and
farmers from all sections of the coun-
ty were present.
Auto tourists to the number of 2097
have been visitors at the Boise tourist
park so far this season, and the total
number will, in all probability, reach
2200 before the present year ends.
Water supplies of more than half of
the 10 Idaho cities Investigated by
the state health department during
four months just ended were found
to be "prejudicial to public health"
G. v. Call, living in the Wapello dis
trict, was severely injured when an
automobile driven by NJ. G.. Udy of
Elba collided with the farm wagon
driven by Mr.. Call, north of Black
foot.
P. NJ. Gladhart of Salubria commu-
nifty has reported to the Washington
county farm bureau a yield of 30 tons
of sunflower ensilage on an acre and
quarter of subirrigated land. This
is yield of "a tons to the acre.
Idaho's quota in the campaign for
funds for the Roosevelt memorial as
ISOLATION is fixed at $4,000 and it is to
be raised during campaign COM
mencing October 20 and concluded on
October 81, the date of Colonel Roose-
velt's birth.
IdahO's total wheat production, as
indicated October 1, is 17,604,O00 bu-
shells. 1t was grown on an estimated
area of 100000 acres with an average
yield of 1871 bushels per acre. Last
year the average yield per acre was
21.4 bushels.
Harry White, president of the First
National bank of Wallace, Ida, and
president of the White & Bender Mer-
camille company, the largest retail and
wholesale grocery establishment in
the Occur d'Alenes, is dead after an
illness Of nearly year.
Indignant at the alleged machina-
tons of the United States grain cor
poration, North Idaho farmers, assem-
bled in five separate mass meetings
last week, voted to carry their case
directly to congress and the president
of the United States.
Don De Shirila Pocatello patrolman,
who is charged in complaint filed
by Andrew ]. Atkins with the murder
OF Charles Atkins on the morning of
October s, has been held for trial.
Atkins was shot when De Shirila made
raid on a still south of the city.
Potatoes begin to move from the
Burley-Rupert district in September
and continue as late as June. These
two areas are the main shipping points
on the Minidoka reclamation project.
In 1916-1917, Ala cars moved out /; in
l9lt-l9lS, 700 cars, and in 191S-1919,
929 cars.
Machinery for the Rupert cheese
factory, which will he RIM co-onar
atively by the farmers, has arrived.
The market for dairy cows around Ru-
pert is reported to be little stronger,
owing to prospects for the cheese fac.
tory and the return of hay to more
moderate prices.
Farmers in the beaver-infested dis.
trlets OF the state may lose the priv.
iege granted by the state game depart.
ment to trap beavers, which have been
proving a menace in farming sections
particularly in the Oakley district he.