The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19
In THE GEM STATE

by the chamber of commerce, Deem
Der ) to IL.
Idaho boys and girls made a clean |
sweep in the Pig and Calf club com
petition at the Western Royal Live |
stock show at Spokane.
The Parma fruit packing house
closed its doors last week, after a sue. |
cessfuI season. A force exceeding 1O0 |
persons was at times employed.
With an average production of $3.50
pounds of butter fat, Canyon County
Contrasting association ranks second
in the state for the month of October
Nampa streets are to be put in q
better condition at once. Lava gravel
or crushed rock will be used, the esti-
mated cost of improvement being
$4,000.
The members of the POcatello cham.
Der of commerce at a meeting last
week went on record as favoring 8
commission form of government fol-
that city.
Senator-elect Davis from Boise
county had his right foot crushed at
Horseshoe Bend when a 50-gallon oil
tank fell on it. He is in a hospital
at Emmett.
The Red Cross roll call opened at
Pocatello, November 8, with the cam
paign for the sustaining membership
and $1,000 was subscribed by the mer-
chants and professional men of the
| city.
The Parma packing house recently
| shipped several thousand boxes of ap-
| pies to London, and had crops and
| packing facilities been larger, these
foreign shipments would have been
much larger.
Glenn 7. Masterson, service station
superintendent for the past year for
the Continental Oil company at Poca-
,tellO, was placed under arrest last
week for an alleged shortage of
S1260.S5 in his books.
John ("Pony') Young, veteran race
track owner in Idaho, is dead. He died
a few days ago at the age of 80 years
and his passing removes one of the
most picturesque characters of the
early days of the territory.
Plans to wipe out the College Of
Idaho debt of $4,000 were laid at g
meeting of the Caldwell Commercial
club last week A committee of TWEEN
ty-five men and six women was ap
pointed to have charge of the drive.
News has been received from Wash
ingtOn that the plans as worked on
by the United States reclamation ser
vice for the building of the dam a
American Falls for the creation of {
great reservoir have been approved.
Twin Falls taxpayers, at a specia
election, approved the issuance o
municipal bonds in the amount of SIS
tersectiOns paving fund, and $1,000
for motorized fire-fighting equipment.
According to the report of the dc
partment of agriculture, there are i
.. 1920, 42,1O9 farms in the states Q
Idaho, as against 30,SO7 in 1910 an
!, 17,471 in 1900. Twin Falls leads tn
, counties in the state in the numbe
of farms within it's borders with
+ total of 2746 in 1920.
0 A yield of ssh bushels Dicklo'
- wheat per acre is reported from tn
: farm of Lee Greenwell, northwest {
r Paul. The average for his entire whef
i acreage is IA bushels per acre. F.
BOhOn, also near Paul, threshed e
: bushels from Il acres, an average yiel
: of IS bushels per acre.
n A tire blowout was responsible fl
= painful injuries received by Haro1
e Wilson of Rupert and Jack Eauge
e of DeIco, proprietor of a garage
n that place, and for whom Wilson WI
: working. Mr.. yaugen was cut abol
T. the face and his employee received
, lacerated arm and face cuts.
!. The Idaho Falls High school foe
= ball team defeated the Pocatello His
u in a slow game played on the Ldal
Falls gridiron, November 8, ~ to
= The field was covered with sno'
= which kept the ball slippery, makil
- it hard to handle. The local boys OF
weighed the visitors considerably.
nj Luther Kirk. charged with shootil
is Jack Merrill. October 16, and held
,g Jail at Rupert since that time, h
" been released on bail. Merrill, WI
G. was taken to a Salt Lake hospital
in treatment, will be brought home VIII
wounds made from probing for the ty
err bullets lodged in his body have heale
ht Idaho ranks third in the pereenta
of increase in the number of farr
C during the period from 1910 to 10:
ne according to the bulletin issued by I
a department Of agriculture in cOnjuI
&C. ton with the bureau of census, fro
g. figures complied by the fourteenth &C
us sus of the United States, taken
he 1920.
a A farmer living north Of Idaho Fa
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