The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1922-02-17
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

PocateIlo.--A $4,000 addition will
soon be made to the postoffice at POI
catello, Idaho.
Occur d. AleneThe proposed S22s,-
600 school bond issue was defeated at
the election In Occur d. Alene by q
vote of 997 to $50. Although the day
was stormy, a record bond election
vote was polled.
Oakley--A. e. Avery of Oakley, Ida
no became violently insane at his home
recently. He threatened to kill his
family and struck one of his children
with chair but did not inflict serious
injury.
Buhl-Over 1900 fowls were exam
ined in the poultry demonstration held
here by Prem Moore, poultry expert
of the extension division of the state
university. Demonstrations in culling
and mating were given.
ouhAS5 =. A. pSAElA, ASlHB HILL
mile south of Burley, sold 200 sacks Of
Idaho Rural select potatoes to III. RAM
DO of Ontario, Ore, for % per 100, t. o. D.
Barley. The demand for select seed
potatoes is remarkably good
Progress toward the realization Of
the American Falls dam project is ex-
pected to result from a meeting to
be he at Pocatello within few days,
according 10 Governor Davis. Officers
of all canal companies In southern Ida
no who have contracted to use water
from the reservoir have been invited
to attend.
Hailey-A man driving a team with
bobsled attached endeavored to cross
the track ahead of a freight train in
Bellevue. He didn't succeed. One
horse was struck aid crippled, the sled
was wrecked and step On the loco
motive torn off and one on the ca
boose. The driver of the experiment
escaped intact.
st. Anthony.-Lack of salt and food
is the cause of an outbreak of Iii
sease known as ''hemorrhagie septf-
cemia" among cattle of Lemhi and Free
mont counties, according to DIR. ]. D.
Adams, director of the bureau of animal
industry, who has just returned from
a personal investigation of diseased
animals. One herd of 200 cattle
owned in Lemhi county has lost IS
head as a result of the disease.
Twin Falls-A delegation of daley
men appeared before the city council
recently to urge more rigid inspection
| of dafries and strict enforcement of
the municipal ordinance providing for
licensing of diaries and offered to as.
sist, through payment of higher license
fees, in meeting the expense incl
dent to the employment of an assistant
for the dairy inspector.
| Moscow-George Borvich, age 80
a Jugo-Slay, is in the Latah county
| Jail for stabbing Herman Gustlock, o
camp cook, four or five times in the
face with table fork. The stabbing
occurred when Herman Gustlock, the
cook, had asked BoTvich to move over
at the table and make room for an,
other man. Unexpectedly Borvich
plunged the unique weapon into Gust
locks face several times.
Occur d. Alene-W. HI. Armstrong
risked his life to save his wife, baby
and S-year-old son, when his farm
home was destroyed by fire. Mr.. Arm
strong was preparing dinner when the
fire was discovered and Immediately
rushed to his wife, who was confined
to her bed with a 6-day-old baby, ant
gathered her up, together with the
child, and carried her to barn near
by where she was forced to stay unit
neighbors three miles distant coulG
arrive. Mr.. Armstrong rushed back in
to the burning building to get his s
year-old son, i'll with pneumonia.
Boise.-The variey of wheat recon-
mended for spring plaintig on the irri
gated farms of southern Idaho Is Dick
low. This is a high yielding. soft white
wheat which has proved its worth
Experiments conducted on the Aber
deem Experiment Station at Aberdeen
over period of five years showed
Dicklow to outyield all other varieties
81 bushels per acre. III buying seed
be careful TO buy certified IDicklow
as statistics obtained thru the Farm
Management Department of the Uni
yersiy and U. S. Department of Agri
culture, Cooperating, showed that ar
average of 43 bushels of Dicklow wheat
was produced per acre, in Twin Falls
county, and during the same season
the certified Dicklow wheat growers