The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-22
In THE GEM STATE.

/ "h6ahl"Su ldSL week at AfcO with
nearly 100 members.
The Womans club of Parma has,
given the Parma public library furnish
ihgs which amounted to $500.
Emmett irrigation district is enjoy.
ing at least double any crops and any
| prosperity that it has ever known be-
| fore it is claimed.
| 1t has been learned that the total
receipts of the recent state fair were
5,45S.73 as compared with 1913. 129,-
81, taken in last year.
Ernest Erickson, a woodsman, was
! killed by a rolling log near Wallace.
Tine accident happened at the junction
of Cedar Greek with the North Fork.
An INSTRUMENTATION convention
Of Sunday school workers of the upper
Snake River valley will convene in
Idaho Falls for u One-day session 0c-
tober. y.
a campaign to raise $4,000 in
southern Idaho to finance the cOnstruc-
rion of the proposed Salvation Army
rescue home in Boise, has been
launched.
Two small boys, about IL years old,
have confessed to robbery of a store
| in BIacllfoot They took 81 or SIS in
cash and $l15 worth of ammunition
| and guns.
The American Legion is bringing a
| tyceum course to Jerome this winter
and early spring, consisting of six
numbers of varied entertainment and
instruction.
Barley averaged % bushels per acre
or 10000 acres in Idaho this year,
tOtaling a 4,1O4,O0O bushel crop. Last
year the average yield per acre was
only % bushels.
One hundred and fifty Kiwanians
and ladies were present when Herbert
Van Dam, Jr., district governor of Salt
Lake, presented the international char
ter TO the POcatello club.
Standard time is legal time in the
state of Idaho, according to an opin-
ion handed down by Dean DriscoD,
assistant attorney general, in response
to an inquiry from Twin Falls.
IdahO's apple crop improved some
what from last month. The total crop
is estimated at 1851, 900 bushels. Last
years crop was 4,35O,OOO bushels.
Quality and color generally excellent.
A meeting of the district convention
of the Royal Neighbors was held at
Blackfoot last week. Sixty delegates
were in attendance, representing POca-
tello, Idaho Fails, Shelley, Arco, Me-
nan and Roberts.
J. L. Green was seriously injured
when he was attacked by a bull at his
farm near Eagle. The bull, which
belonged to a neighbor, was in Mr.
Green's pasture when he went to drive
in his cows, and attacked him.
The oats crop of Idaho totals g.
100000 bushels. 1t was harvested from
2O9,OOO acres with an average yield
of 40 bushels per acre. Last years
crop totaled 100000 bushels, the av-
erage yield per acre being 35 bushels.
A committee has been appointed to
make tests in different parts of the
city of Burley to find out the exact
level of the ground water. After this
is done a plan for drainage will be
worked out, according to the city coun-
Gil.
Four men were seriously injured in
an auto accident near Paul. The men
were driving south from Paul at a
high rate of speed, when they discOv-
cred a stray horse in the road. In
trying to avoid hitting the horse they
missed the bridge across the drain
ditch.
Three lucky hunters from Twin
Falls the other day shot a deer from
their automobile in a road near the
Leon Creek mine, and shortly after
ward got two more on a sidehill just
above Yankee Fork, says a HALEY
correspondent.
A federal engineer is expected at
HALEY soon to make surveys and esti-
mates on the Trail creek road 1t is
proposed to change the route of this
highway on the Wood river side in or
der to eliminate the heavy grade in
several places.
Sales Of Lewiston orchards tracts
totaling one hundred fifty thousand
dollars were made last week. More
than 40 per cent of the tracts, placed
on the market by bond holders of the
former Lewiston Orchards company,
passed into the hands of individual
owners.
Governor Davis has assured the
people of the Big Lost river project
that the state of Idaho, through the
department of reclamation, will be-
gin survey of the proposed plan to
divert part of the waters of the upper
Salmon river for irrigation purposes
in central Idaho.