The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-02-12
IDAHO BUDGET

wa 'h' day OF their de
parture.
News was received from Waslf,,,
ton on October % annoIIncin, 81,
death Of Mrs. Hugh Smith daupbtor
in-law OF Congressman Addison ~
Smith of Idaho.
August Hacket had his hand Amman.
tated as II result Of an accident at Nor.
ldian, when the member was cangh, r.
grinding mill, and badly mashed
severing three fingers.
No cases Of Spanish influenza have
appeared in HALEY or vicinity and
but two in Blaine county these ,vn
being at Carey. Both cases ara no,,,
considered out of danger.
Homer II. Lyon Of Melba dIed o.
Jefferson Barracks. Mo, Of Spanish in.
huenza and pneumonia. Lyon was in.
Quoted under call for Special or
limited service men on September .
Lafayette Jones of Caldwell hroko
his right ankle when a horse h. uas
riding fell on him. The boy was ridtna
horse out of horse shooting shon
and the horse slipped on the payemant
falling on his leg.
On account of the spreadin, of thu
Spanish influenza epidemic in the
southeast, the fall term of federal co,,,.,
that was to have been held in PorateIlo
beginning last Wednesday. has been
postponed until November II.
Letters received at Blackfo0t from
John Albert Anderson by his mother
preceding the announcement Of his
death from wounds in France. indicat.
ed that ne had participated in much
of the terrific fighting on the western
front.
Lawrence. Curtis foreman on tho
Hall ranch near Lucille. was killed
Wheh horse he was attempting to
ride. threw him off Curtis was ahou,
30 years Of age and was well known
among the stockmen of the Salmon
river country.
A communication has been addressed
To the parents of school children in
hammock county, asking them to see
to it that their boys and girls are kept
busy during the enforced vacatio,
which is now on owing to the influ.
enZa situation.
Mrs. Sam Koppel of Boise received
second staggering blow last week.
when the news came of the death at
Fort LeavenwOrth by Spanish influenza
of her eldest son. Nose, her husband
having been killed in an auto accident
two months ago.
The Indians of Fort Hall reserva-
ton. few miles north of Pocatello !
held their annual stock sale Monday. |
when 700 head of choice steers We're
sold mt auction under the supervision |
of II. H. Miller superintendent of the |
Fort Hall Indian agency.
Official order has been issued to |
turn back the clocks one hour. thus |
bringing the time system to the old |
running order. or as near sun time as
the zone limit established in the Unit
ed States will admit. The change will
be made at midnight October -.
L. ii. Ha>brouck of the federal la
Dor employment office in Boise. has
returned from Portland where he spent
three days placing men in the ship
yards and in the war work employment
there. While in Portland Mr.. Has
brouck placed IS men in the Shipyards.
The health officer at Pocatello has
sounded n warning TO the people of the
city not To become hySterical over the
Influenza situation. advising that if the
rules and precautions continuously
given out by health authorities are adj
hered to the situation will Straighten
itself out satisfactorily.
An inspection of gri>t mills in south
ern and eastern Idaho is being made
by c. f. Porter of the grain corpora
ton of the federal food administra-
ton. Mr.. Porter is acting under the
of Max HouSer, grain corpor-
alton director for the northwest. with
headquarters in Portland.
The value of the nurses survey
made by the wOman's committee. Coun-
ell of National Defense. is now being
shown. Through it Mrs. ]. Nj. Taylor,
the chairman of the nursing committee
has been able to give to DR.. +. T.
hiwer. secretary of the state board OF
health Il list of al! the nurses. either
or single. in southern Idaho.
for quick reference should an epidemic
break out in that section.
Indians on the Fort Hall reserva-
ZION near POcatello have responded lib-
orally to the call of Uncle Sam for
money with which to prosecute the
war. In addition to buying of the
lhree preceding issues of Liberty
bonds. they have been especially lib
pral in their investments of the fourth
issue.
The state land board has authorized
the land commissioner to select list
d lands in Power and Lincoln coun-
lies to- be offered at public auction
some time in December.
investments in War Savings
in Nx,-;v~ E,I |