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Show NORTHWEST NOTES At n meeting of the grade school board of Meridian Wednesday evening It wns decided to open tho grndo school Monday morning. Tho presence of competing liny buyers buy-ers in Gooding, Iduho, aud vicinity Is assisting materially In moving the hay crop. Tho p- lllng prlco remains at $18.00 on r. Pluns nro t ape for the hulliV Ing In Boise . memorial hall In honor of thu Ada county men who hnvo served as' welt as died lu tho causo of their country. Lieut. A. F. Hogland, army aviator flying from Mather field, Sacramento, landed ut 3 '.12 p. in. Wednesday on tho Jefferson golf links lu tho southern part of Seattle. A call Issued by T. W. Tomllnson, secretary, summons tho American National Na-tional Livestock association to moot here on Junuary 21 In Denver for Its twenty-second annual convention. Tho session will last three days. Rafaclo Grufelo, charged with bombing the grocery storo of Francisco Lombardl at Anaconda, Mont,, early In tho morning of November 1, pleaded not guilty. Ho Is held under 55000 bond. To protest against an advance tn freight rates, A. R. Currle, president of thu Butto Chamber of Commerce, has gono to Helena, where ho will meet In conference with representatives from other cltlcSi In order to protect tho regular passengers pas-sengers and to glvo the best service to Its' employes and their families who. may ho 111 with thu Influenza, tho Oregon Short Lluo has run a spcctul hospital car Into Bolsu for tho last seven weeks. An order has been Issued hy tho Motnanu railroad and public servlco commission granting to thu Missoula Street Railway company nn Increuso in aites from G to 0 cents und permission per-mission to abolish special round trip reduced rates to out-of-clty points. Tho now rates nro effective December Decem-ber 15. 1 After hnvlng been out threo hours, u Jury In tho district court brought In a verdict of guilty In tho sedition case of F. J. Israel, n former employe of thu reclamation service ut Billings, Mont. Tlio principal witnesses ngnlnst him wcro young women employed In tho saiuo office. Acting on Instructions from the city health department, Chief of Pollco Jero Murphy of Butto has notified tho undertakers un-dertakers that further restrictions hud been placed on funerals. Under tho now ruling, funeral processions mny bo comprised of only four vehicles lu addition tn the licursc und thu car for pallbearers. Thero Is every Indication thnt tho first of tho year will see Dillon an exceedingly ex-ceedingly dry town, with regard to tho suloons, ns each day sees the boozo rapidly rap-idly diminishing from tho stock of every bar In tho city. This does? not mean that all of It is being sold over the "mahogany," ltowever, but never-thcless never-thcless It Is going, nnd going fast. Attention of denlcrs and millers Is directed by Food Administrator BIck-ncll BIck-ncll to tho fact that under tho substitute sub-stitute buying plan of tho United States food administration grain corporation, cor-poration, holders desiring to dlsposo of their surplus products In carload lots must notify M. II. Houscr, zonal agent cereul division, food administration administra-tion grain corporation, Portland, Ore., of their Intention to sell prior to Friday, Fri-day, December 20, nnd get rnllroad routing from him. After not hnvlng heard from his cousin, Frank E. Zlmmer, of Colorado ufter reading In the printed casualty list throe montlw ago that he hod been "wounded, degree undetermined," F. A. Fisher, night yardmaster In the Boise, Idaho, Oregon Short Lino yards, had tho unusual experience of seeing this cousin's face smiling ut him from the screen of one of tho local playhouses play-houses which was running n series of America at War films Issued by tho committee on public Information. Montunn will receivo at least f 18,000 this year to old tho Montana Society for tho Prevention of Tuberculosis In Its campaign of education aud Its wnr on tho grpnt-whlto plague. Certain sections lu Montunn nro con-fronted con-fronted with a coal famine nnd Stnto Fuel Administrator Gerry hns nd-dressed nd-dressed a letter to tho chairman of tho hoard of county commissioners lu every part of the stnto whero u short crop was harvested. Stato reports Show that sales of war savings stumps In 'Montana havo fallen considerably below tho montkly quotas of lato and thnt about ?2,000.000 must bo disposed of In December. Total November No-vember sales were about $i82,000. Under tho now schedule, nil grazing fees nro to ho based on cuttlo rates, whlcli- will vary from 8 cents to $1.00 per head for year. I-ong period In Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana rato ou cuttlo for full year will rango from $1 to $1,20. A preliminary survey of tho Mis-soula Mis-soula river valley, from Mlssoulu to Huson, bus been started by Irrigation engineers, with a view toward possible development of tho country for thb benefit of returned soldiers. Utuh Is on tho evo of. u great nnd unprecedented manufacturing rcvlvnl, according to A. O. Roes, secretary of tho' Utah Manufacturers' -association. Ho bnses this statement on tho fuct that the war Industries hoard has reminded re-minded mnny of- Its- rulings and g-inr-intees havo conio 'that! materials can ie obtained lu neede-t quantities. v " i 1 v ' 1 ..-ij&iatv-" " 'aa |