The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-08-27
IDAHO BUDGET


the cooperative bureau of Power
county, has received II telegram from
L. w. Fluharty. state director Of ex-
tension work, stating that congress
planned relief for farmers injured by
the drought and requested that infUr-
nation be gathered Immediately that
would give approximately the amount
of money needed to procure feed and
seed and the number of farmers who
would need federal aid.
Thine first airplane service to be es-
tablished in Boise has been estab-
llshed by two Boise young men. Gro
yer c. Taylor and Walter w. Lind
say of the Boise Automobile market.
They have purchased Curtiss air.
plane. 1t will be operated for sight
seeing trips about the city and sur
rounding country and will carry pas
sengers for pressing business engage
ments to various parts Of the state.
The Owsley irrigation project, n
Carey act undertaking, obtaining its
water supply from Mud lake. and To-
Gated about % miles north of Idaho
Falls, will be completed next month.
Next Spring an additional 1900 acres
of Idaho land will be reclaimed by ir-
rigatiOn, says Fred A. Wilkie, chief
engineer for the Carey Land and Irri-
CATION Company, promoters Of the
Owsley project, and former state EN-
gineer.
hU MN fnfs
viciOusly clawed and scratched, Letha
Burrell, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Bur-
rell, who reside on the eastern edge
Of HALEY, was found unconscious in
field short distance from her home
at 10 o'clock this morning The girls
clothing was torn to ribbons and one
shoe has not yet been found.
The Idaho Technical institute will
inaugurate a vocational department at
the opening of the school next month.
The department will be dressmak-
ing school conducted on a large scale.
and is to be under the supervision of
Mrs. Harriet Adams Of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Adams has instructed in this
class of education for six years In q
large California school.
Mail service at Teton, Idaho, has be-
come so unsatisfactory that the Com
mercial Club has inaugurated move
ment to obtain improvement If pos
sible. The club has sent a letter to
the fourth assistant postmaster gen.
eral at Washington, who. has charge
of all rural mails.
Proceeding under instructions from
A. Mitchell Palmer, United States at.
tOrney general, ]. L. McClear, United
States district attorney for Idaho, has
put in motion the machinery of the
government to ascertain the cause of
the high prices of foodstuffs in Idaho.
The Twin Falls Dehydrating Com
pany, established by local people, will
begin its initial operations next week.
special run on stringless beans,
peaches and windfal apples will con.
stitute the first list Of produce to BE-
manufactured.
A church building to cost approx
mately $4,000 is to be erected by St.
Edwards Catholic parish at Twin
Falls as early In the coming spring as
weather and working coalitions will
permit.
With a charter membership of fifty,
the Twin Falls County Farmers assO-
citation has been formed at Twin Falls
to promote agricultural and ranch in
terests in this district.
/
| fatal wreck that claimed two
lives and seriously injured other men,
bers of the train crews occurred at
Yale siding, fifty miles west of Poca-
tellO. An eastbOund extra freight 60
Ing down grade at thirty-five miles an
hour jumped switch frog and plunged
headlong into another freight train
The fall term at Gooding college will
begin September 8, and the practical
features that will be offered include
a night school for adults, chair In
rural sociology and economics, Sec
retarial course for high school gradu.
ates and country life rally similar
to that which has just been held at
the Washington State college for the
rural pastors.
John w. Hardin of Kimberly has
disposed of his apple crop on the trees
for 500 per ton. This will mean about
500 an acre for the crop, it is said.
Corporal Harold Thompson, son of
William Thompson Of st. Anthony, has
been awarded the distinguished service
cross for herOiSm in action during the
late war.
With view to consolidating the
Christian and the Baptist churches OF
Twin Falls "A series of joint meetings
OF the two congregations Is to be ar.
ranged by committee of the two
bodies, in which the pastor Of the
Christian church will present the fun
damental doctrines and practices OF
the disciples, and the Baptist pastor IN
turn will present those of the Baptists
That he will insist on the filing Of
specific charges against him and NJ
immediate trial when he will answer
the allegations, is the Information tina
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