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Show PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION GROWING IN IDAHO P.olse, Oct. 1 An association which is rapidly assuming importance In Ada and Canyon counties is the Idaho Promotive and Protective association, associ-ation, with headquarters at the state capital, and sub-nfflres in every town of the two mentioned counties. While the aim of this society is to promote all of the interests of the state and to protect the citizens who need the backing of a large organization organiza-tion and the settlement of damages, the immediate cause of its existence is the floods of last spring, which invaded in-vaded the towns of Xampa and Caldwell. Cald-well. Many settlers in the Immediate vicinity of these places' were seriously damaged by the overflow of the irrigation irriga-tion ditches in the early spring, fleeing flee-ing from their homes to save their lives, and later id the season suffering suffer-ing from a lack of water In their fields and orchards. It Is the Intention .of this association associa-tion to secure the adjustment of these difficulties by placing reservoirs at close Intervals for the reception of the waste water, the cementing of por-i por-i (Ions of th canals arvd th- deepening of others. The officers of the association associ-ation are: President. I. A. McfJee. Xampa; vice president. Robert Noble; ; lioise; secretary, John Davis. Cald-we Cald-we I; treasurer, .1. W. Robinson, , Poise. A campaign through the ave ' n ue of the press Is ooe of the active j departments ol the association, and a I strong committee has been -eeured, ! with Mrs. E. J Dockery of P.olse, chairman; Miss Pearl Tyer. Flnlse, secretary, sec-retary, MIps Mae Hart. Caldwell, assistant as-sistant secretary; C. O. Rroxon. Poise, and William Lemon, Xampa. |