The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-05-07

handled total of 100 carloads dur
ing 1919. OF the outgoing shipments
were:
Sixty cars of cheese,
200 cars of Live Stock (Cattle, hogs
and Sheep.
IT'S cars of Wheat,
$50 cars of Fruit (Green)
so cars of Dried Fruit Dried Prunes
and Apples.)
This makes total of 635 cars
shipped out. Included in the incoming
carload freight of 465 cars, there
were so cars of apples for the two
Meridian dryers, and 80 cars of
prunes for the dryers.
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The Salt Lake trade extension ex-
| cursion is made up of 100 of the
| leading business men of the Utah city
who desire to extend their trade ac-
quaintance with Idaho people. Merid-
ian is favored by their visit and we
are glad to welcome them to the
heart of the Boise valley"
The Meridian schools, with about
500 scholars and l6 teachers, are
| considered the best in the state. Two
large school buildings are oVercrowd-
ed and more room is needed.
An old bachelor said recently that
the women of Nampa and Caldwell
have no excuse in wearing skirts as
| short as they do, but that in Merid-
ian its different Nearly every one
of them here has two good reasons.
| # sugar goes up much higher the
ladies around Meridian. who have
lots of nice fruit to put up this fall
and also a vote-will proceed to can
| a few democrats--or whoever is re-
sponsible.
| Meridian has rattlin good base
ball club and has a cinch on the
championship of the loop league Ii
| she Is able to get in enough home
lruns and not make too many. errors
/ lssseSe Increase at the grade school tha
fpast year was 26 per cent in attend
ance over last year.
The Boise-Meridian state highway
/ is a beautiful scene of midsummer 9
night, There Is a constant stream o.
autos and at distance Is seen the
procession of bright-colored lights as
! far as the eye can see. At night the
/ highway is certainly popular place
for the motorist.
Y The Meridian Times has been mall
ed in. the postoffice each week for IL
4 years-52 times a yearly the same
publisher, and tais week we start on
the twelfth year. While the paper
has it's good features, many people
think it is not as good as a Boise
paper or some other PAPER some
where back east. That's human
nature!
Four live Meridian boosters aisc
sell hardware and implements. Ell
mer Sims and Mllt Lauderbaugh, un'
der the firm name OF Vickers-Sims
leo. and John L.Waggoner and James
Jackson, under the tirm name o.
Meridian Hardware G. Implement Co
look after this trade.
Meridan's opera house and picture
tpalace, owned by John Hedges, gives
the best In motion pictures usually
a few nights ahead OF the time tne
pictures are shown in Boise. lne
4 auditorium furnishes meeting place
for community gatherings.
! Most of the Meridian business met
ARE more or less impartial a. 70 aeal
ing with Salt Lake or Portland houses
; but there is unanimous ssntimen'
that the Salt Lake mountain time II
preferable to the Pacific time, any
way.
u Meridian has three rural mail routes
with from 100 to $50 families Oh
each route. s. w. Hutcneson is th'
veteran carrier, and Ray Wolfe, an
i other carrier, has red auto bug II
Il which he travels 80 miles each DAY
: and serves over a hundred farn
homes each day on route L.
/ Meridian has the two largest frni
drivers in the northwest and the frui
) is shipped here from all over this sec
ton to be made into evaporated truit
There is also q mammoth business
in handling green fruit Tor the mar
Eket While much Is shipped In u
keep the packing houses going, TN
bulk of it is raised in this vicinity
A million acre feet of flood waite
goes down Boise river and is Waste'
each spring, for the reason that TN
Arrow Rock anu Deer Flat reservoirs
even with their enormous capacity
J cannot take care of 1t. Wnat ah op
, nortnnitv to increase the water SUP
ply.
4 Postmaster j. j. Caldwell y amonl
t a few of the real enthusiastic Gem