The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-10-31
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is being considered by Camas county
farmers.
Pocatello engineers have formed a
local club. which eventually viii be
come local chapter of the American
Association of Engineers
The county commissioners Of Wash
lngton and Payette counties have made
appropriations for hiring county
club leaders for the boys and girls
work.
Arrangements have been made for
the testing Of several dairy herds OF
Madison county for tuberculosis. One
herd of 81 which was tested showed
no reactors
Offers on potatoes produced from
certified seed In the Dietrich tract thus
far have averaged from 40 to 80 cents
more per hundred pounds than the
market price.
More than 400 people attended the
first market day sale held under the
auspices of the Gooding county farm
bureau The returns from stuff sold
totaied SS33.34.
Lemhi county will soon have pub
lie health nurse. the action to employ
one having been taken by the Red
Cross chapter, Jointly with the county
commissioners.
Recent inspection Of six Fremont
county demonstration plots on which
pocket gopher eradication work was
done in July revealed that more than
30 per cent of the gophers had been
killed.
There is possibility THAT the fit.
teenth Idaho legislature may be con.
vened some time during November in
a one-day extra session for the sole
purpose of ratifying national woman
suffrage.
The Teachers institute for all edu-
Gators in the nine counties in south.
eastern Idaho, adjacent to Bannock
county, was held at Pocatello Hun.
dTeds of teachers were in the city for
the occasion
Peas which grew on irrigated ground
| IN Camas county in one instance made
vine growth of more than eight feet
Men who are trying to grow field peas
there are confident that it will make
a good pea country.
The outlook for water supply in
Bear river and the recuperation OF
Bear lake looks promising for next
season, according to Commissioner OF
Reclamation W. G. Swendson, after an
extensive inspection trip to the Bear
lake region.
Seven carloads of sheep shipped to
Omaha made up the second shipment
from Boise valley for this season. The
/ shipment went from Caldwell, Meri-
dian, Nampa and Kuna and represent
ed both the Canyon and Ada county
farm bureaus.
Jay Rugg, the '9-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs J. j. Rugg, of Bull, lost the
thumb and two fingers of his left hand
from an explosion of a .22-caliber cart
ridge. The boy poured the powder
out of the cartridge upon hot stove
and the explosion followed.
John Ours, a workman employed OF
the concrete elevators being construct
ed at Idaho Falls by the AIidlands
Elevator company, died from injuries
received when he fell eighty-five feet
to the concrete floor of the elevator
when a scaffold gave way under his
weight
Judge ]. j. Guheen, prominent
I1nanfaII, tu,.iet onp,p,iFfa1 et,in;Jn ~
Portland by shooting himself. The
reason for the act Is said to have beer
poor health, Mr.. Guheen was in Port
land taking treatment at a hospital
for general broken-down condition OF
his health.
The news comes from Bull that the
Farmers Mutual Power company has
purchased the power site at Clear
lakes from W. C. Hazard for a con
sderation Of $4,000 The purchase
includes steam engines and all the par
| aphenalla TO be used in the construc
ton of a power plant
Joseph Unger, wealthy hotel mar
OF Pittsburg, Pa, is lost somewhere IL
the mountains of Idaho, where he wen
early ia the month with four otheI
Pennsylvania men. He has been miss
ing since October s, when he left tbs
remainder of the party with guide
and later left the guide.
j. n. Nankervis. grand chancello
of Idaho, and VIII NJ. Cochran, pas
grand chancellor of South Dakota, o
the Knights of Pythias, were guests o
the Blackfoot Pythians in mallarC
duck dinner, served ia the lodge rooms
One hundred members participated il
the feast, which was followed b,
toasts.
The recent decision of the publ,
utilities commission of Idaho, to thu
effect that electric heating in Idaho il
impractical, is at variance with condi
tions existing on the Minidoka project
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