The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-09-03
IN THE GEM STATE

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The Iowa society held its annual
picnic last week at Payette. About
500 were In attendance.
Estimates point to hay crop with
value of approximately $150,000 in
the Lewiston-C Charleston valley.
Representatives of the department
of agriculture are making study of
potatoes in the Rupert section.
Idaho Is to have q million-dollar
fair at Boise this year, according to
the announcement of the secretary and
manager of the fair association.
From 40 to 80 automobile parties
are camping nightly at the public
camping grounds just south of HALEY.
and the tourist season is at its height.
The state convention of the Chris
tian Endeavor societies was held in
Rupert last week, the opening session
occurring on August 26 and lasting
three days. ~
PocateIlo's American Legion base.
ball team claims the amateur cham
pionship of the entire west with a
record of 80 games won of A played
this, season.
| Six months in the county jail was
| the sentence imposed by Manga
Judge upon Benjamin Blanton, so
years old, on charge of failure TO
support his wife.
With the wheat harvest practically
complete in the Lewiston valley, wheat
in considerable volume has been com
ing into Lewiston. The market has
been holding at around $2.15.
Andrew Depre has been arrested In
Shoshone county on charge of GRIM
inal syndicalism, the state department
of law enforcement has been advised.
1t is said Depre is confessed /.
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Six big steam threshing machines
are at work in fields adjacent to Idaho
Falls, beginning the task of threshing
the product of 10000 acres of seed
peas, with total shipping crop of $50
carloads.
The apple crop in the state this year
seems to be a normal one, with storms
In the north of the state and water
shortage in some districts preventing
the crop from being as large as was
at first expected.
Theodore Nye, Homedale banker,
charged with having recently taken
the life of Frank Trotter, editor of
the Homedale Empire-Press, was dis
charged in Silver City following a pre-
limlnary hearing.
George 3. Chambers. of Salt Lake,
was drowned at Phoebe Springs at
ReXburg. Mr.. Chambers attempted TO
bring large log from deep to shallow
water in the pool. He became ex-
hausted and drowned.
The marketing of hail-marked fruit
Is presenting a difficult problem to
growers in the. west portion Of the
Lewiston district, where hail inflicted
considerable damage on the fruit
crop, especially apples.
An electric Illuminated clock has
been erected in front of one of the
banks at Rupert. The clock is artistic
III appearance and is completed with a
full set of Westminster chimes which
ring every quarter of the hour.
q. B. Walker has resigned his Do
Sltlon as state commissioner of fl
nance, to become president of the
First National bank of briggs. The
resignation of Mr.. Walker is the sec
ond since the cabinet was formed
William Sutton, fisherman. was
shot, fatally, near Chatcoet by Cap
tain Eli Laird, commander of tug
boat on the St. Joe river, following a
struggle during which Sutton, accord
ing to stories of the captain and crew
OF the boat, attempted to board the
vessel.
n partial survey of automobiles in
Idaho by the recently organized Idaho
Automotive Trades association leads
to the belief that there are now 4S,5O4
autos and trucks registered in the
STATE and that less than / per cent of
these cars are used for purely pleasure
| purpose.
Parma apples are worm-free and OF
good quality this year, and it is ex.
, pected that they will come near to
being the best on the market. Many
orchards are practically free from
worms, and others have low per,
centage of loss, the average being
about 2 per cent.
The members of the Nelson and
Hogan families, pioneers of the Salt
Lake. Cache, Gentle and Gray's Lake
valleys gathered in Lava Hot Springs
and Soda Springs last week and OBJ
served the eighth annual family re
union. Eighty-nine members of the two
FAMILIES were present at the gathering