The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-03-10
IDAHO AND |DAHOANS

syrup and 10000 pounds Of corn.
These shipments were intended to re-
Iieve a feed shortage, and also to ac-
quaint livestock owners with the value
Of syrup and corn for feeding pur.
poses.
The Rotary club at POcateilO has
decided to cooperate with the govern
ment in the essay contest relative to
the desirabiiity of entering the service
Of Uncle Sam. and has decided to give
an award Of s25 to the boy or girl in
school who writes the best essay.
The Indications are that there will
be an unusually heavy planting Of pO-
iatoes throughout southern Idaho this
year. The hiel price and constant de-
n,and of last gear have induced many
Of the beet growers to plant potatoes
for this years crop.
Squire HeVworth, aged SO. residing
with his son near Elba. arose from
his bed at night and wandered into
the mountains south of town. He was
found thirty-six hours later almost
frozen to death. He was clad only in
his night garment.
L. s. Otto. president Of the South
Idaho DurOc-Jersey Swine Breeders
| association, has paid an average price
| of $1,000 each for five Duroc-Jersey
| brood sOws The bunch cost 5000 at
| sales of thoroughbred stock held last
week IN Nebraska.
| ]. X. Wilson. carpenter of POca-
teIIo has received information from
| his brother in Chicago that after six
years of litigation they have estab-
lished their claim to an estate in Eng
land. which will net them approxi-
mately $4,000.
NJ A. Kiger. representative from
'koOtenai county and speaker of the
house of representatives, has an!
ncunced his candidacy for governor
and his name will 90 before the Re
August 24-
Idaho beet growers have decided to
hold their annual convention liz p1ca-
| tello February -. Each beet growing
| district will be allowed To send AZ
| many delegates as they desire. but
! they will be entitled only TO one vote.
/ BY decision of the referee. John
! Freberg. the champion wrestler of
| Sweden. forfeited his match TO Ad
| Santel at Boise. after having his right
| arm injured TO the extent that he was
unable to continue the match.
Pocatello will have a free tubercu-
lo>S clinic and clinic for crippled
children for several weeks at the end
of the Red Cross and anti-tuberculosis
census, which was begun Feb. 16-
| Twenty-Five carloads of Idaho pota-
| 10 seed We're shipped into Canyon
! county last fall. The price at that
| line was 1915. but it has increased
| to $50 for hand-seIected seed.
| This is a one-flag country and
| there is no place in it for allegiance
to any other flag" declared Gov. W.
G. Harding of Iowa in an address at
Buhl on "Americanism."
| Preponieranee of sentiment among
the shareholders in the Twin Falls
Canal company favors some sort of
water impounding system at American
Falls
Lewiston is experiencing record
prices in the potato market. Potatoes
are now retailing at s. per hundred
and seed potatoes will probably reach
$3.50.
| Affiliation with the American Farm
Bureau Federation was voted by the
Idaho state farm bureau which held
its annual meeting at Boise recently,
The Bear Lake county farm bureau
is unloading 44o.Oo0 pounds of feed
cor, to farmers :s savings of from d
to 70 cents per hundretiweight.
Dewey c. Holt and Roderick Nc
I.eol are in Jail at Pocatello. charged
With burglarizing pool hall at Nc
Cannon Il few nights ago.
Without any form of recruiting
campaign, one scout per day has been
the record OF the Poca,ello Boy Scout
troop for some weeks past.
Iiaho's $4,000 capitol wings build
ing fund will be increased by the adj.
iitiun of all interest aud other accru-
ais on and To the fund.
At the recent election at Wendell
the voters decided to issue bonds to
the amount of $4,000 for huile ng q
new high school.
Jersey and Shorthorn owners of
Payette county are adopting the &C
credited herd plan of Tuberculosis
elimination.
The public schools OF Lewiston have
been reopened after having been
closed for two weeks because of the
influenza.
Power county was the first county
in Idaho to ''go over the top" in the
campaign TO feed hungry children in
Armenia.
It is estimated that from 50 TO ~
silos will be built on the Minidoka ir-
rigation project during the coming
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