The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-03-08
IDAHO NEWS REVIEW

resident Of Twin Falls, was stricken
with heart failure Monday while driv
ing horse attached to small load O.
wheat bundles, fell from the load ant
died before his neighbors could reacl
him.
A law and order mass meeting Sun
day evening at the Congregations
church at New Plymouth resulted II
the formation Of an association o.
most Of the towns people TO dowr
rowdyism and drinking on New Ply
mouth streets Saturday evenings.
Lying on the ditch bottom six miles
from the spot from which he fell into
the Ridenbaugh canal Thursday even
ing, searchers found the body Of G.
year-old Cecil Carpenter about 1C
o'clock Friday morning near Meridian
Nearly 300 depositors of the defunct
Bannock National Bank at POcatello,
held a meeting last Sunday at the
chamber of commerce and perfected
an organization for the purpose of in.
| vestigating the conditions surrounding
the failure of the bank.
A costly fire occurred at Kimberly
last week resulting in loss Of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 and destroy
ew two business buildings occupied by
the Thomas Russell Mercantile Co.,
Stull Swc rington, barber, and Harry
Newkirk, baker. The loss is partly
covered by insurance.
It took the American Falls Chamber
of Commerce committee only few
hours Wednesday to raise $500 in sup
port Of the move to irrigate the Fort
Hall project, including the Power ir7ri
cation district adjacent to American
Falls.
The Bull high school has been
placed on the accredited list of schools
by the Northwestern association Of
the secondary and higher schools. This
makes it possible for the high school
graduates to enter any college or uni
versity of the association without ex.
animation.
E. G. White, trustee for the new
mems dormitory at the Idaho Tech. at
Pocatello, which was erected by sub.
scription of local citizens, has just
completed distribution of the quarter.
ly dividend of 8 per cent to those who
contributed to the erection of the
building.
Invitations for the pioneers celebra.
lions to be held at Gooding college No.
vember 4, are being sent out this
week. A number of the most prom
inent citizens Of the state have already
agreed to take part on the program,
while an old fashioned basket dinner
a banquet and football game, will
furnish thrills for the occasion.
The thirty-nlnth annual session of
the grand lodge of Odd Fellows of
Idaho, the thirty-fourth annual ses.
sion of the grand encampment, the
thirtieth annual session of the Re
bekah ASSEMBLY, and the fourteenth
annual session of the department
council, Patriachs Militant, will be
held in Lewiston October II to 20.
The board Of county commissioners
at Lewiston have decided to readver-
tise for sale the 100000 county road
and bridge bonds which were auth.
orized in October 1919. This will be
the third advertisement Of the bonds.
The money derived from the sale of
the bonds will be used to a great ex.
tent, in the construction of the bridg.
es along Clearwater river in connec.
ton with the putting through of the
LSlO Pass "Cutoff."
Fire burned for three hours in the
Masonic building at Pocatello Sunday
evening and the damage is estimated
Mt several thousand dollars. The third
floor, with lodge rooms, suffered the
most damage, including the almost to-
tai loss of the Scottish rite equipment
and uniforms. The floor below was
occupied by Mrs. Nelson as a room.
Ing house, and some damage was done
by water.
j. II. Parman, of Rupert, a taxpayer
of the highway district, has applied
for temporary injunction restraining
highway district from sci.
ling $165,0OO worth of bonds to Den.
yer corporation. Mr.. Parman alleges
that the bonds were offered at a lower
price than the state law permits.
Governor D. w. Davis has issued q
statement in which he calls on the cit.
liens of the state of Idaho to observe
the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt,
October p, will be the six.