The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-30
In THE GEM STATE

The Boy Scouts of the kexhurr
wards have left for camping tri, in
the mountains.
The total stored water for the Mini
doka project is 26SOOO acre-feet. being
o3,ooo acre-feet more than all the stor-
age available last season.
Seventy thousand pounds of wool
were consigned by one hundred ana
nifty men in MlnidOka county to Bos-
ton wool warehouse last week.
Sanford Larson, farmer of Jerome
suffered a broken right leg last week,
when he was precipitated from a hay-
stack by the breaking of the stacker
cable.
The public library at Rupert will re-
main open on Saturday evenings until
3 :OO p. m, for the benefit of farmers
and those workers who are not able to
get books in the afternoon.
State Fish Commissioner George
lsaacs was in Anaconda, Mont, last
week for the purpose of purchasing
a halt-milliOn grayling ffngerlings with
which to stock Idaho streams.
Last week members of the congress
sional committee on appropriations
visited the great irrigation reservoir
at Minidoka, in the vicinity of Burley
and the American Falls project.
A man giving his name as J. NJ.
Petersen, said to be an employee of a
local paving company, had narrow
escape from death at Pocatello when
he INDUCED too freely in wood alcohol
A potato grower of the King Hill
district received 1928 from his crop of
300 square rods of ground. The bulk
of the King Hill crop sold this year
for prices ranging from 10 to IS cents
pound.
Hay crops in Lincoln county are sur
| fering from a need of water, accord
| ing to J. E. DOrman. chief of the in
| termOuntain office of the dairy division
Of the United States bureau of animal
| industry.
| Ninety percent of the cherry crop
In the Emmett section is signed up
| in the Emmett Cherry Growers asso-
citation, which was organized this sea-
son under auspices of the Gem county
farm bureau.
Four testing clubs have been formed
among Ada county boys who purchased
| purebred dairy cattle through the
| farm bureau. Demonstrations in Bah
cock testing have been held in three
| communities.
The ElmOre county wool pool closed
with $4,000 pounds of wool pooled.
Twenty-nine growers joined the pool
with clips ranging from seven to 2,447
pounds. The clip was consigned TO Il
L Ortland warehouse company.
Dorothy Parish, of Twin Falls, is
dead as the result of falling into d
boiler of scalding water. The child
had been warned to stay away
from the vessel, and while scampering
around, fell backward in the water.
Plans are being formulated to or
ganize an irrigation district in the
Kimberly, Hansen and Murtaugh sec,
tons of Cassfa and Twin Falls county
to irrigate II 900 acres of dry lands in
what is known as the Hansen-Butte
project.
As many as tifty-two cars night Is
the record number of automobiles
parked on the municipal campus
grounds at Ashton during the pas'
| week. Free lights, water, fuel stoves
tables and chairs are provided for the
tourists.
An old landmark was destroyed a
MaIad last week when the Eliza Jones
| building ON South Main street was de
stroyed by fire. This building wa'
| constructed in 1913, and at one time
was Malad's leading general merchan
| dizing establishment.
The Ashton Commercial club ha'
built large sign, as a map ana Sulde
hoard. at the Vernon church for th'
1 information of tourists bound for TIT
park. The sign is 14x17 feet in dimen
sions. and map Of the upper Snake
river country is painted on it IN mll'
units.
In order to get some definite acton
regarding an armory and suitable drill
grounds for E troop, First ldah'
cavalry. committee was appointed b!
the board of governors of the ehambe
of commerce at Pocatello TO inveSti
gate the matter of purchasing oloci
in the Fairview district.
Two demonstrations in weed KILN!
have been held under auspices OF tn
Ada county farm bureau. A CONNER
cioI weed killer was used. Each plo
that was treated contained quaci
grass, Canada thistle, sweet clover an'
willows. In so days, all the plaht
were killed and the roots were fouh'