The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-01-25


Southern Idaho will ship direct to
Constantinople az soon as the snip
ming orders can be made out, Il car OF
Idaho condensed milk to be used 1of
the starving children of the Near East
Personal taxes paid in Cassia county
for the current period total $9OOO. Ihls
is less than onc-fourtn or the total
personal tax of $41 ,4O3.l6 "A large
part of the real estate tax has been
paid.
A deed conveying to the United
States the Black Canyon damsite Z
the consideration of $500, was re-
corded IN the Gem county courthouse
at Emmett.
w. Bloomer, the 16-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. BlOmer of Weiser Fiat,
accidentally shot himself in the knee
with a 80 calibre rifle near his home
in Weiser few days ago. He was
brought to Weiser where the wound
was taken care of.
From the milk of three cows owned
~ J. F. Cole, Of Emmett, 300 pounds
If butter were made and sold between
August Is and December Is, not count
ing the butter and cream used by the
family. This is at the rate of 20
pounds month from each cow.
Seventy-five hens owned by Will
am Pyle, a poultry raiser of Gooding
county, netted him $69425 during the
year 1921, according to figures recently
submitted by him. He has kept an ac-
curate record of the activities of his
flock.
A meeting at Twin Falls of about
SO potato growers and shippers voted
unanimously in opposition to sugges.
ton of adoption by the state of Idaho
IF a proposed "combinatln grade" of
potatoes, consisting of IS per cent No
l and 20 per cent No. 2.
Three hogs were delivered to tho
North Idaho sanitarium at OrotinO, that
weighed together 1920 pounds on foot,
the largest one pulling the beam at 100
pounds. The hogs were 18 months old
Two of them were of the Chester White
and the other of the Berkshire breed.
Henry Richards of near Nampa, Is
putting in eight acres of lettuce for the
early spring market. He already has
two acres planted. There is no Ion
ger any money in wheat or hay, he
said, and we can't all grow potatoes.
We must diversity if we make farming
at all profitable.
lege have already been mustered into
A troop of the 10th cavalry. Captain
II. A. Padgham will be in command
and Y of the 76 allotted men hive al.
ready been secured. The horses have
been ordered from American Falls and
active drill on the fairgrounds will
commence at once.
II am trying to make 100 per cen,
Americans of them,' says H. H. Hoff.
man, superintendent Of the Mullan
schools. Mr.. Hoffman has class OF
II in which there are five Jugo- Slavs
three Greeks, four Swedes, two Films
two Russians and one Jew, every ono
single man.
Southern idaho fruit growers re-
ceived more money for their apple,
and fruits this vear than any othe,
part of the United States did. accord
ing to John Denny of Denny & Com.
pany, Chicago, Ola Of the largest fruit
and vegetable commission houses In tbe
United States. Nh Denny is pay,nc
his third visit to Idalo this season and
is at the Owyhee.
Two examples of pns'el sketches y,
MICS Lnreno Moore, 11O.' North Tween.
ty-first street, displayed in ehe windows
attracted attention and much favorable
comment. One Of the Sketches Is m
enlarged copy of PHOTOGRAPH of tbo
Twin Falls, of southern Idaho, and the
other IS copy IF landscare. Miss
Moore is n jun or in the Boise ,irh
school and received all of her art tr,tn.
ing during two preceding years in t,e
departmental instruction given in H.
high school.
Because he charges, his wife hcad
him arrested December 80, 1921 on
charge of vagrancy, Frank Enpe,v,t
OF Boise field suit for divorce FRO,
Julia Engelike. Among other acts q,
cruelty and inhuman treatment wh,o,
ne alleges caused great mental main
sulfer'ns and embarrassment, the plain