The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-07-29
IDAHO NEWS REVIEW


Miss Nsya Ebert of RIehfeld won
ene OF The $40 prizes offered by ,na
United States forest service for the
BEST essay TO be written by q girs be-
tween II and I'D years OF age on tne
subject OF "Esrs Prevention.s
Two cars of pipe have been rece.y,
cd BY the city of Wieser for repairing
ahe old broken down line 10 tile high
pressure reservoir which ne city Will
again place In commission, and for d
asw intake at the pumping station.
$50
Frank T. Stephan, prosecuting at.
sorney for Twin Fails county, announc.
% that no further action win be taken
against Lydia Meyer Southland before
Sail. He asserts that the case will not
be permitted to 90 to trial until tile
state y fully prepared 70 present Its
evidence.
y. III. Raeder. recently appointed to
the position of assistant plant pafhol-
sgist In the state agricultural expert
m,en station. win In company with
State Pathologist G, w Hungerford,
aeaye soon for south Idaho to make a
comprehensive study OF potato tllseas.
es
The Rev. +. A. Davis. pastor Of the
First Methodist church ut Gilbert,
small town on the upper south fork
Of the Clearwater, was drowned In the
kamey mill pond there recently while
teaching a group of Boy Scouts the art
eS swimming, according To-, word Teceiv.
cd In Pocatello.
RepoiiS have been received In Idaho
Falls that the Williams syndicate, OPP
erating In the Cht Greek, Mont OH
helds, has struck oil The well ID
said 10 produce three hundred barrels
day Several prominent men Of that
city hold practically all the stock in
this company.
Combine harvesting In the Lewiston
valley i now in full swing, and yields
ef 30 10 40 bushels TO the acre are the
common thing. Grain from this sea.
sons harvest has already begun to be
received by Lewiston warehouses,
Yields IN che hail belt are reported to
be running from 10 10 Is pusheis to
The acre.
4 4. Fisher. state manager OF the |
idAho wheat growers association an. |
nouneed Sunday at American Falls |
thai eyery bushel of wheat raised in
The internounfain region will be pro-
iuced at loss to the grower, despite
bumper crops, unless marked de |
crease Is noted IN freight rates within
the next thirty days.
Caribou county commissioners at their /
session this week took up ways and |
mems for raising the $4,000 which |
the county must furnish for the com.
pletion Of the highway cast to tie Bear
La'se county line. II appears, accord.
Inc 10 discussions at the meeting, That |
.i.s motley was apportioned last yvar,
ba WIS used in the construction y.
The Tin Cup road, leaving no available
funds for the completion Of the high.
way
$40. Kate Richards o'Hara, widely
kown Socialist lecturer and writer, Wild
Was kidnapped from the home OF her
sponsor In Twin Falls, Ida, July after I
q lecture by her had been announced
FOR that evening. has employed Jake
A. Sheppard Of Fort Scott as her at.
iorney. Her daughter, Kathleen 0Hara
announced that Mrs. 0'Hara will pros.
ecu Z the case against the eleven men
who are said TO have abducted her,
Carl De Long and Doctor Shook of
Twin Falls are two of the nine men
arrested By Sheriff Robinson OF Mon.
tello. New,
The brick plant on the west side of
the river north of Idaho Falls
shout a mile has resumed operations
after having been shut down for con,
Siderable period Twenty inen are
1osS heing employed. The owners OF
the plant state that there Is little call
for brick at the present time, but that
shey expect some building operations
AIN soon be resumed aud that then The
market win be opened. II Is the pur
psse Of the plant TO make a sufficient
supply Of common brick so that Il win
not be necessary to ship any OF that
grade here.
The unusal spectacle was witnessed
AT Salmon. Sunday evening of deer
sunning through the streets Of the
town, closely pursued by a number OF
hunttng dogs. The animal was first
seen by some boys as II came swim.