The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-11-12
Short News Notes
From All Poyts of
IDAHO

deals Of the year was completed here
when the Rome Beauty crop OF the
Trowbridge and /. o. Hanldns or
chards on the bench was sold to an
Emmett fruit association at $135 per
busheL Tho Trowbridge crop will
exceed 10000 baskets and the Han
kins crop will b about 1000 baskets.
ArcoeThs cheese making industry
in the Lost River country has reach
ed undreamed Of proportions during
the few short months it has been es-
tablished. Agent Hewlett Of the o.
S. l. furnished figures showing that
22O,319 pounds Of cheese, or seven
carloads, have left the two factories
at Arco and Darlington in the few
months that the factories have been
established. During this period Arco
shipped $500 pounds while from
Darlington 1859 pounds were ship
ped
Emmett,-A temporary organize
ton for library association was for
med at Emmett with Howard Hetchr
ner as temporary president and W.
E. Renner temporary secretary. Mem
bership dues will be 25 cents a month
for the present
Nampa,oSheep men here reported
that an offer to buy 10000 tons Of
iay in the Grandview district at $40
a ton has been rejected by ranchers.
The buyers have been forced to go
elsewheres and reported that they had
procured sufficient hay to tide them
over this winter.
Nampa,-According to specifca-
tons and plans received, the group
Of Pacific Fruit Express car shops t.
be built in Nampa and for which con-
tractors are now preparing bids, Will
consist of 16 buildings.
Blachoot, Representatives of
Bannock, Bingham and Bonneville
Z mites met here recently and per
led plans for the holding Of .
Sd kheastern Idaho Fair next year.
The county commissioners of Bi1g-
ham County have offered the use of
the coyty fair grounds.
Burley- More than one-third of
the exhih&s at the attractive Idaho |
booth at the recent national dairy ex-
position in Milwaukee were sent |
from the VICINITY of Buriey. Poto-
toes, corn, wheat, oats, clover, alsike. |
alfalfa ands<Sudan grass, as well
as fruits and manufactured products.
were shown. While Idaho was herald
ed as the Chg dairy capital of the
west the was not overlooked |
to get i1 for her other lines
Rupert Baker. is year old
schoolboy. ed with killing his
ta er. De on Baker. on September
%. was pitted by jury in the
district here
Mann with the winter months
-apidly preaching. the time is at
hand FOR a cleanup campaign to put
he dE in a spic and span condition,
n the opinion of Mayor Emerson
who has issued a proclamation max
ng next week Cleanup Week" for
Nampa-
Parma, Parma's new $4,000 ice
liant, being built by VIM. Boehringer.
S beginning TO loom up in fine shape
the frame work is nearly completed
nd the structure is beginning to take
N the appearance of building OF
proportions.
Mountain Home,-Contract for the
of the Camas canals
md reservoir was let last week to the
company, which
commenced work Immediately.
Arco-Farmers in this vicinity are
n the lookout for a huge bear which
; believed to have been responsible
or the killing of so head of sheep
n the ranch of the Utah Construction
ompany at Era Flat and a calf and
lamb belonging to Earl Miller. Mr..
filler shot the bear and wounded it
ut by the time saddle horse could I
e procured so that the animal could :
e chased, the bear had disappeared. :
Lewiston-The 20 per cent payment
necks, amounting to $4,000, were
attributed to the depositors of the
irst National bank of Charleston last
eek Receiver R. D. McCulley an
ounces that this dividend was made
ossible without single foreclosure
. forced sale, which he considers re-
srkable under present conditions
roughout this section.
Twin Falls,-Commissio of the
win Falls highway district and
illsdale highway district at joint I
Getting here, awarded contracts for
flooring of the Hansen bridge over {
lake River canyon, involving an
innate expense of $1,000. Specifica-
ms provide for replacement Of
,oden floor and covering the new T
NOT with sand and oil.
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