The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-05-14
In THE GEM STATE

pAceS oL the BUM chamber Of com.
merce.
The first annual convention Of prayi
dents and secretaries OF Chambers 80
commerce Of the state was held last
week In Pocatello.
A new creamery building is helm,
erected at Rupert at a cost Of $1,000
1t being expected 1t win be completed
within the next thirty days.
Inside electrical workers are an
strike at Pocatello. They are demand.
ing a wage of 50 day, which has
been refused by the employers.
Preparations are under way for
floating 100000 railroad ties down
from the two forks Of the Blackfoot
river In Idaho to Granger for shipment
Examinations are to be held at Rur.
ley on May 10 of applicants for the
post office at Rupert, the post master
having resigned. The position pays
| $2400 year.
Dates for the annual Minidoka
county fair have been set for Sep
TENDER 0, 10 and IL. 1t is announced
that government officials will be in
attendance as judges and demonstra.
tors.
Wireless telephones will be used in
the Thunder mountain forest and sur
rounding forests of Idaho this summer
as a means of communication in the
event of forest fires, it has been
learned
| A plan for an improvement district
Is being prepared to take care of the
additional lighting system to be in
| stalled in the business district of Ru--
pert. The cluster system of lighting
will be used.
Tiburcio Salgado is in q serious con-
dition from knife wounds alleged to
have been inflicted by CONSTANCE,
0rtez and Auretio Ortez at Grace
Both men are being held awaiting the
outcome of the injuries,
Officers of B troop, First Idaho cav
airy, at Pocatello, have been advised
that the new equipment for the troop
/
is growing in membership and So
cial club will be organized soon.
Charles r. Rathbun, defaulting au,
ditor Of the Boise Artesian Hot & Cold
Water company, has been sentenced to
serve not less than three nor more
than fourteen years in the state peni-
! tertiary for the crime of embezzle-
ment.
The senate has concurred in house
amendments to the bill authorizing the
| city of Pocatello to acquire by pur-
chase from the government $3.50 acres
of public land to protect it's water
supply. The city is to fence the prop
| erty.
An infant girl was found near Poca-
tello, in field. The child had been
deserted and its hands and feet were
partly frozen. The baby was taken to
a Pocatello home and carefully treated
and revived and doctors thinks no Sc
rious results will ensue.
Minidoka county, through its farm
bureau, has started on an ambitious
program of poultry Improvement
which carries with 1t the possibility
of saving the people of the county
more than $4,000 year by the elimi-
nation of the Gull hen.
Idaho farmers were virtually unan-
nous in their vote of disapproval OF
the Nolan bill, providing a l per cent
tax on land holdings in excess of Slo'-
600, according to an announcement
made here by L. w. Fluharty, secre-
tary of the state farm bureau.
A large cooperative project is to
be financed by the forest service ana
the stockmen in the vicinity of Three
Creek, within the next three months.
This project, which will consists of =
miles of drift fence, is something when
has been needed for some time.
A garden contest, in which any chill"
under 10 years of age may enter, mas
been sponsored by the Amphictyoh"
Council, the women's club of Parma
Supervisors are to keep track of the
gardens throughout the season and ore
rlze of $40 and five OF 80 Will p'
Tarded in the fall.
Francis Pickett, aged 8, is dead as
a result of an accidental discharge OF
o shotgun in the hands of his brother
Leon, aged IL, while the two boys were
hunting near their home at Murtaugh'
The older boy was taking aim at u
bird when the younger brother stepped
in front of the weapon.
Shot following an alteration. over
water rights, 1t is said, John Abbl, Il
Filler district farmer, died last week
IL. h. Ramseyer, a neighbor, is unue'
arrest, charged with having fired the
fatal shot. Ramseyer claims that ne
acted in self defense, being first AT
/ tackled by Abbl who used shower.