The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09
In THE GEM STATE

The Idaho State Dental association
held a post graduate course In Poca-
| tello last week.
Ada county election registrars have
begun special drive for early regis
tration of voters.
A 14-room frame lodging house at
HALEY was destroyed by fire, the
! origin of the blaze being unknown.
J. d, Baker, farmer near Bliss,
while working with his hay derrick
was struck by the fall pole, being
fatally injured.
Russian sunflowers for silage are
| popular with Lemhi county farmers,
| 14o acres in all having been planted
to the crop this season.
The six-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Larson of Preston, had Its
| shoulder broken last week when II
| was thrown from a buggy as the re-
| suit of a runaway.
Ingots of copper are now being pro
duced at the Pope-Shenon mill just
south of Salmon, where facilities ars
installed for reducing copper ores by
! the Bradford process. ...
The county school superintendent
of Idaho, who are attending a confer
ence in Pocatello, are planning to at.
tend the National Education associa.
ton convention at Salt Lake in a
body.
Burley has the distinction of being
the second largest potato shipping
point in Idaho. Last year 1850 car
/ loads of spuds were shipped from this
point, each car averaging $4,000
| pounds.
| A. r. Sheehan has returned to
Boise from Salt Lake and has given
himself up to serve the ninety-day sen
tence for illegal transportation of
liquor to which he was sentenced in
January, 1917.
| Pocatello will send large delega-
ton to the N. E. A. meeting to be held
at Salt Lake. Many of the 300 sum-
mer normal students at the Idaho
| Technical institute will attend, as well
as the faculty.
For the immediate present Burley's
water supply troubles are at an end.
| Augmenting the regular municipal
supply, water is to be taken from the
| Oregon Short Line railroad company
well at the station.
Because of the extraordinary heavy
demand for service the Farmers
Mutual Telephone company at Filler
will shortly increase it's capitalization
from $4,000 to $4,000, according to
officers of the company. t
Challis, county seat of Custes
county, has formally invited the bust
ness men of Salmon to pay that city
two-days' visit, the date Of the get
together being fixed for July 1919,
and Salmon has accepted.
Petition has been filed with the
public utilities commission Of Idaho,
by Jerome business men, urging an in
vestigation of need of a downtown
depot and loop from the present main
line to the business district.
DIR. A. B. Parkinson of Lewiston,
who suffered severe injuries IN an au'
tomobile accident, is reported recover
| ing. His injuries were the ught to be
of sGch serious character that he
could not live when he was first given
treatment.
With a happy Irish smile and ac-
companied by at least three Irishmen
on his staff of trainers, Mike ODowd,
former middleweight champion of the
world, has arrived at PocatellO to train
for the big fight with Gordon Mckay
| on July 8.
A permanent camp will be located
on the Boy Scout camping grounds on
Indian creek within the government
reserve this summer. The boys will
use pup tents, with which a number
Of them provided themselves, until
cabin can be erected.
| Manuel Chavez and Frank M0ntaya
we're arrested near McCammon on the
charge of operating a still. They
were found at the Moss ranch near
McCammon and the officers stated
they found about three gallons of
mash in their possession.
1.-THE wearing of high-heeled shoes
and georgette waists by the teachers is
not the method of teaching economy to
the youth of the lands" declared Miss
Ethel Redfield, state superintendent Of
public instruction, in addressing the
normal students at the Idaho Techni-
cal Institute at Pocatello.
Crop, conditions on the Minidoka
project, according to crop authorities.
are at least 30 per cent better than
ever before at this season of the year.
Almost perfect stands of wheat, sugar
beets, potatoes and similar crops have
been obtained by the big majority Of
farmers on the project.
The Idaho Irrigation company has
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