The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-01-16
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fered with grazing and necessltated
the general feeding o. hay in Idaho
sheep raising districts.
The mill and elevator of the Idaho
Equity society now nearing completion
at Nampa will be ready for operation
the last of this month.
In Idaho six sugar beet factories,
handling POI .407 tons of sugar beets
during 1919, turned out 25,S67 tons Of
sugar, or 10000 tons below the 1918
output.
That Idano grown wheat Is equal to
the best in the world has been mani
tested at the international Hay and
Grain show held at Chicago last
month.
The Pocatello Boy Scouts associa-
timl is making plans for raising money
with which to carry out the proposed
program for the coming spring and
summer.
The application for pardon Of Jewel
Erang, who mS1dered Lewiston mer-
chant in 1917 and was sentenced to
life imprisonment, has been denied by
the state pardon board.
The highway commissioners at Ru-
pert are having difficulty in obtaining
gravel for their work, as the railroad
officials state they can hanGie no more
gravel shipments until March.
L. w. Ascheimer of st. Paul has
been appointed successor to Major
Horton FL. Miller, as superintendent of
the Fort Hall Indian reservation, and
has assumed the duties of the posi-
ton.
The automobile registration has In
creased in the state of Idaho the past
seven years by 2100 per cent, or from
little more than 1000 cars in 1912 to
Approximately $4,000 cars the first of
this year.
The ice on Snake river, near Paul,
is fourteen inches thick and the farm
ers are taking advantage of the fact
and are putting up ice for next sum
mer. Many loads are passing through
Paul daily.
1t is expected that work on at least
dozen new business buildings will
begin at Rupert within the next ninety
days. Several residences are in
course of construction, and many
more are needed.
In Idaho, the 1919 wage of farm
hands, with board, was 500 month,
and without board, $93.60, as against
$35 and S45.50 in 1910. Idaho pays
the highest wage without board of
any state in the Union.
The bonds for road building voted
on in, Jerome county carried by big
majority, about six to one. This win
give Jerome county about $4100 for
road building, besides the federal aid
which will be available now.
Idaho condensed milk shipments val
ued at hundreds of dollars have been
held up by order of the state depart
ment of public welt-re, peding prose-
cution of the manufacturers on
charges of violating state milk laws.
AS the result of the breaking of
the steering gear, which precipitated
the car in which they were driving
over an embankment near the Nevada
state line, two Twin Falls residents,
man and woman, were seriously
injured.
A convention of sheriffs and muni-
cipal peace officers of the state will be
held in Boise within the next sixty
dogs, when plans will be made for
nt@re vigorous enforcement of the state
rarjtor license law, as we'll as other
state statutes.
1t is announced that amity between
the state department of agriculture
aud the state fair corporation was al
most completely restored when the
corporation officials last week filed
with the department signed copy of
the new contract
The Bull Canning company an.
nounces that it will furnish hot beds
for the termination of tomato plants
early in the spring. This step will
greatly expedite the transplanting and
insure an early crop of the vegetable
for canning purposes.
The Northwestern Investment COM
pany of Pocatello has placed orders
with Pocatello lumber and building
materials companies for material for
$50 houses, to be erected in the towns
in which the company is operating
Pocatello, Nampa, Twin Falls, st. An
thony and Burnley.
In the matter of 1919 maintenance
of the Salmon river project the Unit
ed States district court at Boise has
ordered the return of 90 cents per acre
to the settlers, this amount being that
which is the portion of the mainten-
ance charge of 1919 applied TO the
construction of improvements in the
so-called Check basin.
There seems to be some kind OF a