The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-03-19
In THE GEM STATE

IbCdtellO real estate uedleTS HaNS
formed an organization to be known
as the PocateIlo Real Estate board.
Forty inmates of the State Mental
hospital at Blackfoot have been re-
moved to the home for the feebIe-mind-
ed at Nampa
The Furcht-Baker Aerial company
will have a large passenger plane on
exhibition and for public use at the mo-
tor show at Pocatello, April 6 to 10.
The superintendent of the Jackson
Lake reservoir reports a storage sup
ply of 122,570 acre-feet compared with
300.T80 acre-feet at the same date last
year. -'. sa
Montpelier is now in line for free
club has taken up the proposition of
naming the streets and numbering the
homes.
Lewiston has appointed a motor
cycle policeman who will patrol the
main streets Of the city with the duty
of enforcing the city traffic and speed
ordinances.
Voters of the west end of Twin Falls
| tract have voiced sentiment in favor
of issuing $4,000 road bonds, the
vote at the bond election resulted in
1892 for and 154 against.
Effective April 1, all mercantile insti-
tutions of Bull will go on new working
hours. Stores will open at s a. m.
and close at p. M, except Saturdays,
when the closing hour will be 9 p. m.
| Thirty-five of Pocate1lo's best must
clans have organized under the name
of the "Pocatello Bannoeks" and will
make their initial appearance at the
opening of the big auto show on
/ April 6. .e.-
Bert Sparks of BONN, Mont, and
James OIeary of Butte, Mont, were
sentenced to serve from one to fifteen
years in the penitentiary at Boise for
| breaking into a Chinese restaurant at
Dubois March 6.
Officers made a raid on house at
Jackson and secured eleven gallons of
moonshine liquor and some mash. The
still was not found. A foreigner was
arrested, however, charged with unlaw-
full possession of intoxicants.
Contracts aggregating 500, 96S.64
have been awarded by the state depart
ment of public welfare to Contractor
Sells of Pocatello for the construc-
ton of a new state natatorium on the
states land at Lava Hot Springs.
The officials of the Idaho Co-opera-
tive Beet Sugar company are said to
have reported favorably upon the plan
of building a factory on the Minidoka
project, provided sufficient local sup
port and encouragement are received
w. G. Swendson, state commissioner
of reclamation, states that in his next
report, which will be printed within a
few days, there will be much valuable
data on stream measurements made by
state and federal agencies during the
past six years.
The board of county commissioners
in session in Paris, discussed the mat
ter of granting franchise to the
American Phosphate corporation tC
construct a railroad spur up Montpe
lter canyon to the phosphate property
put deferred action.
William Galbraith has been sen
fenced to serve from two and one
half to fourteen years in the state
prison for an alleged assault on his
wife with intent to murder. The
crime, it is alleged, was committed il
Montpelier, February IL.
The expansion of ice on Payette lake
has caused the lake to swell Because
of the shoreward movement of ice
piles driven near the edge of the Lake
have been tilted TO an angle of As de
grees and wharves and buildings along
the lake have been damaged.
Four children narrowly escaped be
ing burned to death at the ranch o.
T. D. Lee, near Twin Falls, when {
barn in which they We're playing
caught fire from q lighted candle ONT
of the children had been carrying
Stacked with several tons of hay, thu
barn burst into flames instantly.
DR.. L. c. Henderson, state veterin
arian, is comforting with stockmen re
garding the hog cholera situation il
the southern part of the state. Las
fall the disease gained quite start
but was finally put under control ant
the state veterinary department ha
been keeping close watch on it since.
Indictments were returned by tn
federal grand jury at Pocatello agafns
Fred Wheeler, Don Moore and A. Il
Mcdonald. Wheeler and Moore ar
charged with selling liquor to the In
dams and Wheeler pleaded guilty. Nc
Donald is charged with the causing o
. unlawful issuance of free transports
ton in intereststate commerce.
Idaho farmers in the Snake Rive
drainage area must depend for suffi
cient water on the spring rainfall, nc
cording to the reclamation commits