The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
IDAHO AND |DAH0ANS

only half mile from the county line
and the marketing place for large
section of territory in both counties.
Fire in the new southwest school
building at Burnley caused damage esti-
mated at $4,000 Although workmen
near the building saw the flames as
they began to spread along the cor
nice, the fire gained Roadway for
nearly two hours, owing to the delay
in connecting line of hose with the
nearest fire hydrant.
The car situation for the shipping
Of farm produce is beginning to bother
the idaho Falls dealers and Is hamp-
erng the shipment of wheat Pota-
toes are now being dug, the price be-
ing $1.4O per hundred. Wheat Is be-
ing quoted at $3.25 for No. 2 soft
and $40 for No. 2 Turkey Red.
The work of harvesting one of Bear
Lake cOunty's most bOunteous crops
is in full swing and in some districts
| farmers are operating their header
outfits with headlights, attached by
| means of batteries. in order to make
time and get the grain cutting finished
before bad weather sets in.
J. w. Nichols. manager of the seed
department Of the Michigan farm bu-
reau, recently visited the alfalfa fields
of growers at Mayfield, with a view to
| buying at least one carload of seed di-
rect from the farms, through the Ell
more county farm bureau.
Crumley Brothers, who operate
marketed their crop of twenty-five
acres of peas last week. The crop
averaged thirty-three bushels to the
acre. which, at the current price, net
ted them 500 per acre.
The Canyon county commissioners
have put the state rodent control law
into operation in the county, in CO.
operation with the canal companies
the university extension division, the
bureau of biological survey and the
county farm bureau.
The Camas county farm bureau has
put man in the field to hunt the beds
of grasshppper eggs, preparatory to de-
stroying them by cultivation this fall.
so as to prevent a serious infestatlon
with grasshoppers next spring, such as
occurred last spring.
What is considered the largest cache
of liquor ever unearthed in that sec
ton was located by the police in the
basement of grocery store at POca-
tello. More than forty gallons of moon
shine were found secreted in the base
ment of the store.
Miss Olive NJ. Petrashek, nominee
of the Democratic party in Idaho for
the office of state superintendent or
public instruction. has filed with Sec
rotary of State Robert o. Jones a
statement. in which she declines the
nomination.
The recent blaze ut Filler did a little
more than 100000 damage. instead
of 100000 as at first feared. TWO
buildings, the Filler Hardware store
and the Woods flats, besides three
smaller frame structures, were de
stroyed.
John G. Harvey and Mrs. Ernest
Lloyd We're injured in an auto acct
dent near Pocatello. the car turning
turtle. Harvey managed to free him
self. and aided Mrs. Lloyd in eXtri
eating herself from the wrecknge.
Reports recently issued by the bu
reau of crop estimates indicate tina
Idaho farmers are going to market one
of the largest wheat crops in the his
tory of the state. Wheat is the aver
age farmers big cash crop.
Preliminary reports on livestock eN
hibits of farm bureau junior clul
members entered for the Junior fair
at the Idaho state fair, show that "a
animals. mostly purebreds, have beef
entered by the youngsters.
At two-day clinic conducted il
Mountain Home under farm bureau
auspices, forty-six children underwear
operations for the removal of tonsils
The school building was converted int
, a temporary hospital.
a Search for the body of F. A. Recto
d of Oakley. business man who wa
r drowned while duck hunting in Muir
8 laugh lake. twenty miles east of Twi
s. Falls. has been continued withou
e avail.
t Hay growers of Central, Sunnysid
8 and Hale communities in Washingto
county are obtaining Information rela
tive to the establishment of alfalf
meal mills in their communities.
Nine Valley county farmers inter
ested in dairying have agreed to atten
the state fair To study dairy breeds
with II view To deciding upon Il bree
suitable to that county.
y Yeggmen made two unsuccessful II
9 temptS to blow the postofl'ice safe Il
r. Parma. They used nitroglycerin, br
'. their charges were evidently not heav
d enough.
n Dorothy. 3-ycar-old daughter of NJ
IS and Mrs. Henry GlcSchen of ldah
y Falls, died as Il result of injuries T.
II pniynI whom Tho rur in which Shh W.