The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-03-18
In The GEM STATE

again working ON the roads and all
available equipment is being used.
The good roads committee Of the
<Nampa chamber of commerce has I'M
der consideration plans for maeadam-
izing and surfacing most of the streets.
The management of the Gooding
county hospital has been turned over
to the Methodist church, and will be
operated under deaconess manage
ment
The directors of the Boy Scout Of
ganizatiOn in Pocatello have decided
to make an appeal for immediate as
sistance from the Rotary and Kiwanis
clubs.
Valley county is transferred FROM
the Third to the Seventh judicial dis
trict as the result of the signing by
the governor of house bill No. II, by
Moore.
Joseph Manville, aged so, was found
dead in his home at Occur d'AIene
by, neighbor, who missed his daily
visits and went to his home to inves-
tigate. .......
Temporary plans for the formation
Of business mems alliance were pre-
scented to the chamber of commerce
at POcatello last week, and were adopt
ed by the club.
The Idaho Power Company has ap
piled to the federal power commits
sion at Washington for a permit TO
develop hyro-electric power at the
Twin Falls on Snake river.
The Idaho state board for vocational
training, in cooperation with the
school of forestry at the University OF
Idaho, is conducting course in log
scaling at Occur d'Alene lumber
mill.
Because several people have start
ed planting garden, the chief of police
at Caldwell has issued orders that all
chickens must be locked up in coops
to prevent them scratching up the
planted seed.
Il. A. Van Sicklin was arrested at
Payette as he was leaving for Weiser
in his automobile, two five-gallon kegs
of wine and case of quart bottles of
wine being found in his car. He has
been released on $1,000 bail.
There will be adequate water supply
from the Wood river watershed for
the coming season, according to word
received at the Boise weather bureau.
The snow in that section now ranges
from two to seven feet in depth.
Governor d. w. Davis has an
nounced his appointment of the men,
beers of the veterans welfare commits
sion created by the sixteenth legis-
lature. The first meeting of the COM
mission will be held on March Is.
Exclusive of highway or school dis
tr1ct issues, $250,000 is the total bond
Ell debt of Twin Falls county. The
valuation of the county is shown to
be $50, $50, 479, of which 500, 163, 2S0 liz
the value of real estate and improve
mentS.
The Canyon county commissioners
in lining out their road improvement
program, will include grading and
hard surfacing the highway from
Caldwell to Nampa. More than 400
miles of roads and highways are to
be maintained.
A recent church survey made at
Gooding shows that only 800 residents
of that city are members of some
church in Gooding; and that there
are 3S3 persons who are regular at
tendants at church, and 46T regular
attendants at Sunday school.
On account of a shortage of teach
ers n Lemhi county, School Superin-
tendent Mrs, Ethel Watkins is teach
ing temporarily at the Bohannon Creek
district school, so that the school dis
trict will not be allowed to lapse, in
accordance with the school law.
George Z. Todd iras resigned as
scout executive of the Boy Scout or
ganization in Poeatello, to return to
the ministry. During Mr.. Todd's fiji
teen months of active work there the
number of scouts has Increased from
20 to 240, and the troops have been
increased from six to eleven.
There is some of the best white pine
and cedar lumber timber in the world
still standing in large areas in Boun-
dairy county, according to E. Fitz-
gerald, who has just returned from a
several months cruising trip in the
mountains of north Idaho under d.
rection of the forestry department.
Joseph w. Hobson, % years of age,
was killed at the Nampa railroad
yards while unloading a new boiler
for the sanitarium. The boiler slipped
in such a manner as to fall to the
ground and hit crowbar, which flew
into the air and struck Hobson on
the temple, killing him instantly.
r. I Morgan who was shot in tha