The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1907-09-07
AROUND THE STATE.

:rop Of rgunes was shipped from Payette
asst week.
Eighteen entries Of ie0 acres each
N coal lands in Cassia county were flied
10 the land office at HALEY last week.
The town of Twin Falls Is bow sup.
piled with electric light and power from
ihe plant al sno-hone inls.
There IL a shortage Of teachers Ia Ida
'o eounty and 40 OF thc 50 county
schools are still without teachers.
The state school Tor tie deaf. dumb
md blind will open in Boise sept. II.
rhe attendance this year will be about
dfty.
A Mary-yillo ianter harvested 500
busbel Of carrots from ono-fourth Of an
cre. They were grown without irriga-
ion.
Six Of the southern Idaho counties
viii hoid industrial fairs this iall--Free-
nont, Bingham. Elmore, Ada ai.i Twin
Fails
The poach crop about Emmett IS very
.ood. Peaches are more abundent even
than last year, and the quality is super
ior.
Actual threshing returns being pro-
-,ired in various sections. OF Lewiston
-nunty grain bc.t now leave not the
'lighicst doubt that The grain tonnage
Sill surmss all past records
The Orepon-Idaho Methodist confer
-nce. which met in Boise recently, Sc
lcted Weiser as the next place to hold
the annual meeting. The meeting at
Boise was the most successful in the
history OF the conference.
The shccpm,m shy tlist the feed in the
Sawtoo,h National reserve this year is
better than they ever saw it. IL is like
a well kept lawn. and the sheep are So
1T in consequence that they can hardly
walk.
A test made short tiiic ago at the
sugar factory at Nampa, on beets grown
by the company showed percentages
Of is. Tls is Il high test, and the COM
pany IL satisfied that this years crop
will be Il good one.
]. W. Cuucher, the jeweler of Sites.
tears that his son. H. II. Coucher, has
met with foul play. He wrote his faith
rr from Wallace that he was coming
home July 4th, and has not since been
! heard from,
The Jason Lee ncadeny, a Methodist
school a. Weiser, will be discontinued
as the attendance has not been suili,
lent to meet expenses. The school l.
now S-oUO III teDt-
!. party oi 81 prominent business men
and capitalists OF Pennsylvania visited
Lewiston county 1T week for the pur
pose OF investigating various projects
: with view OF investing ia them.
Mrs. c L. Greer, who lives nine mile
from Weiser, attempted to Kill her i've
little daughters with an AK. The woman
was released from the insane asylum
some time ago as cured, but her min
has again become deranged.
The farmers in the vicinity Of Ilo ar
:. harvesting bumper crops. II is esti
mated the wheat will average 10 bush
els and some 80 bushels to the acre an'
barley will run from 60 to rs bushels
There is =. few fields OF barley where TIN
n estimate is PLACED rs higl, as 90 bushels
Raymond Gilbert, small boy, o
Boise, was accidently shot by a conpan
/, ion while the tao were playing with
target rife, but will recover. founl
Gilbert got too close to the weapon am
when his companion shot the bullet Ell
tered the right side Of the boy.
re- Frank Thompson has just fni-h,'
4 threshing 100 acres Of wheat on hi
IN farm near Nez Perez. The grain aver
ii aged 43 bushels to the acre, ami Nh
~ Thompson estimates that on the -
r. acres he list between 500 and GEO bash
els by reason Of a recent wiulstorni.
While handling fruit boxes At hi
fathers warehouse at Troy, Ora l.. Dr
thier was suddenly stricken With vlin'
-, ness. Thinking the attack ten.l~far
and cansed probably 10y over-cxvFiio
he WAS taken at once to Spokane 10
r. specialist Who pronounced the case il
IL durable.
- Nettie Rogers, aged Il, oi Byise, vi
Il. lrou ned in the Payette river about
of miles above horseshoe bend last 5.
irlay afternoon. The briy has mn '
'bceu recovered. slr WAS With an o,
ing party ami icll from nail.