The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-08-19
Short News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

dt OudHd heluTuluS lTOm lHe Sldte
convention which closed at HALEY,
delegates and officials of the post Of
this city Immediately began prepar-
ing plans for the national convention.
Twin Falls.-Members of the school
board of this city in session agreed
to postpone the opening of schools
for one week on account of the Twin
Falls county fair. Under the new
plan schools will open September IA.
This is in accordance with decisions
reached at Bull and Filler of schools
there.
Pocatello.-In a report submitted
by w. c. Stevenson, engineer for the
Idaho Rating and Survey Bureau, Of
Boise, to the Pocatello realty board
at its regular meeting, the inadequacy
of the present water supply in this
city was clearly demonstrated. The
supply in event of a serious fire or
shortage in the feeder streams would
be inadequate and recommendations
for the installation of additional
mains and feeders were made.
Hansen.-Edward Miller, IS, son of
Henry Miller of Hansen, was drown
ed in the high line canal six miles
south of here. The youth with two
other boys, Bud Larsen and Edwin
Thompson, went swimming about
noon and the Miller boy who could
not swim got beyond his depth and
went under. Efforts were made by
his companions to save him but were
without avail.
Grangeville.@The Northern Pacific
and Union Pacific railways took NOV
ing pictures of the Camas prairie
grain fields recently. The harvest is
the biggest and best crop the prairie
has ever known. Delivery of the new
crop was handled at the rate of be-
tween 5000 and 1000 sacks a day.
Rupert.-A big deposit of lava ash
near here, which is said will stand
the hottest heat without any effect
has been examined by Dean Roberts
of the school of mines of the Univer-
sity of Washington, recently. He
has said he believes it will prove
unexcelled as a mixture in building
material and may be the means of
revolutionizing the building world.
The claims are in the Raft river
country and are owned by Seattle par
tea
Fairfield.-For the second time in
two years, the vote on country high
school for Camas county has been
lost, in the election recently 210 voted
for the high school and $50 against
At the first election the odds stood
two to one agai1st the establishment
of the school.
Hailey-At the close of the seventh
annual convention of the American
Legion and the fifth of the legion
auxiliary, Lewiston was chosen for
the 1926 sessions. o. w. Worthwine
of Boise was elected department COM
mander and Lester F. Albert, also of
Boise was reelected adjutant.
Boise.-Idaho's representatives in
congress are urged by the Ada coun-
ty Pomona Grange to introduce in
congress a measure that will take
from the secretary of the interior al
legged discriminatory power that
makes that official an absolute mon
arch" over government reclamation
project farmers.
Notwithstanding in Importance
any move toward the growth of Poca-
tello as an industrial center made in
many months, the sale of the 600
Darrell Pocatello Milling and Elevator
company's flour mill property to the |
Colorado Milling and Elevator COM |
pany, largest operators in the inter
mountain country, looms large on the
prosperity horizon.
Boise=Unsettled outstanding bal |
ances for the sale of fish and game |
licenses for the years of 1922, 1923 |
and 1924 amount to s40S.20, according !
to an audit of the state fish and game
bureau recently completed by B. E. |
Hyatt, director Oh PUBIC ACCOUNTS,
and submitted to Governor c. c.
Moore.
Boise.-Judge Frank S. Dietrich OF
the federal district court for Idaho
has handed down an important decis
ion to homesteaders recently. In it he
holds that homesteads can be held ex
empt in bankruptcy. The decision
and opinion is in the form of mem
orandum denying application for re- /
view of the referees order setting
aside homesteads as exempt in the
case of E. E. Woodward, bankrupt.
The case is from the northern divi-
sion of the district court for Idaho.
Idaho Falls.-Idaho Falls is to have
4 Diesel engine installed as an added
auxiliary to the city power plant. Up
IN the recommendation of the water
md light committee, the city council
voted 70 accept the bid of Fulton Iron