The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-02
News Notes
IT., a Privilege to Live in
IDAHO

5000. 900 90, according TO careful sur
} vey made of the state by the Iedera'
crop statistician, the Union Pacific
railroad and the Idaho Home indus'
tries association. This does not IN
clude the lamb crop, estimated at $l5'-
600 900. wool estimated at $S,0O0,0OO'
several million dollars for hogs, sew
eral million dollars for beef and dairy
cattle and horses and at least $2,000,-
600 for Idaho honey.
Shoshone.-Second Lieutenant Con-
nit T. Carver of Shoshone has been at
tached to A company, 123rd service
battalion of the communication zone,
according to word received from
Ninth corps area headquarters in San
Francisco. Lieutenant Carver Is re-
serve officer and his assignment is
on the basis of a call to actual duty
in case of war.
Payette.-O e. Bossen, assessor OF
Payette county and ex-officio tax col
lector, and the National Surety COM
pany, his bondsman, have been made
defendants in suit filed in the dis
trict court by the county, through Cal
vim Keller its county attorney, to col
lect $500, which, it is alleged, the
county has failed to receive through
the failure of the assessor to legally
assess personal property.
Nampa.-The city council has de-
cided to call an election for the pur-
pose of voting on the issuing of $780,
900 street improvement bonds, the
proceeds of which will be used for
and otherwise improving
upward of thirty miles of the city's
streets. The election will probably
)e held the)first week in January.
Parma.-Majority Keep, 16, was ia
ally injured when 22-caliber rifle
which was being cleaned by her bro ,
her Joseph, II years of age, was &C ,,
identally discharged. The bullet ,,
truck the girl in the head, and she
wed but a few minutes.
Mountain Home.-Discussion of the
disability of obtaining the surplus 6
100000 acre feet of water which will
e stored in the American Falls dam v
| the event the reservoir is enlarged
its maximum capacity, has been |,
ken up by the Mountain Home COM a
ercial club. Proposed additional wa
r could be used to irrigate between a
10000 and 100000 acres of land in
e Sunnyside tract, lying between d
olse and Mountain Home, it was Il
tinted out
Idaho Falls.-A shipment of foxes. =
lued at $4,000, is enroute to Idaho :
Ills from Prince Edward island and y
expected to arrive here shortly.
le foxes, which are of the silver
riety, are the first Of consignment -
lpped to local investors. I
iooding.-Twenty corn exhibits in A!
n the one and ten-ear classes were pr
pped from Gooding county this
elk to the International Hay and I'm
ain show at Chicago, according to
e. Mcconnell, county agent.
'ampa.-Nampa's sedate business
n, 30 strong, led half a hundred iol
ice Thanksgiving turkeys through ios
city streets to the strains of "Tur- oe'
on the Straw" played by shay- % y.
Dand. Accoutered in panta- W
IS step-ins or other pieces of tail. ."o
1inery, the birds We'd for atten- uai
with their attendants, who were '"e
in noveltv. oo,4,.--'-' "Ao were sas
oise.-The Idaho state seed show c
De held in February, probably the Not
!, lzth and 18th, it was announced dali
ne olllce OF the state department neet
grlculture, following the meet;ng seal
'ocatello which was attended nv Add
: Dpangier, state director of fairs CUT
'teiIo will probably be the place CUT
''eu lor the show. The displav
eeds will follow ON the heels 80
'ne Union Pacific seed w
: scheduled to make stons more
lsnout the state February to 10 w
g,
Ford, Wendell ,ooo,
~no IS attending o. A. c.. holds ouos,
~, sup IN more honorary fra.
.ies .nan any student in the col. IT.,
auu IS among the leaders of tho ,..,.
ut body He is president Of tba 'NsA
Beta Pi, an engineering frater
ana vice president of the scab
ana Blade, the military fraterni
issues 81; carrying his regular en-.
ring course with a straight A
Wright, a farmer
Nez Perez prairie, is comnlet g
le marketing of his potato cron q
'aOo acres of summer-fallow land q
.es ranging from two to three u
per pound. He estimates his a
, turns a In excess of $4,000. The q
country this year is markot,nS "a
~, : potato crop, the yield and a
oeing exceptionally good. a
1'eno'- Impressive Ceremonies "
u the inouc,,a4. A~uico = .