The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-10-23
POTATO FREAK EXHIBITED
Filler Rancher Has New Variety Of
Killed Potatoes.


Price McCallister brought a strange
potato freak to town this week 1t
was hill of potatoes all grown to-
gether There are % potatoes all con-
nected together some of them a splen-
did size.
DR.. Hack and Ray Lee were in Salt
Lake last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. F. Allen were
Twin Falls visitors Tuesday
Dan Conner attended political
meeting at Bull Tuesday evening.
c. j. Crosby, candidate for coroner
on the Democratic ticket, has been
working this territory the past week.
E. w. Payne. of Morrison, Ill.,, was
here the past week looking after his
or chard tract north Of town. Mr..
Payne manages to get out here every
year and thinks more of the tract on
each visit.
W. w. Taylor, one of the proprietors
of the new store, moved his family to
Filler yesterday and now getting his
household in order. They have rented
the Craven property on Yakima av-
enue.
r. H. Miller and family left last
Saturday morning for Oregon, where
they go to make their future home. 1t
is probably a question of less than a
year before they will return. When
that time comes they will gladly be
welcomed back.
/ Trying to run for office and running
a newspaper at the same time is not
a very clever joke. We ask those of
our readers to bear with us for the
next two weeks and the Journal will
endeavor to be a bigger and better
paper than ever.
Talk about an apple country! One
day this week Geo. Drake brought a
twig of Jonathans to town and left it
at Case and Anderson's office that con-
tanned % apples on an IS inch limb,
all large sized.
Ex-Governor Hawley, Democratic
candidate for United tSates senator,
was shaking hands with old Filler
friends Tuesday. He addressed large
audience at Twin Falls Monday night,
held an afternoon meeting at Hollister,
Tuesday and spoke in the evening at
Bull. His time was SO taken up that
couldn't stop in Filler this trip.
G. T. Harvey returned to his home
in Decatur, H., last Friday. Mr.. Har-
ney is closing out his business as fast
as he can and his circle of friends in
Filler hope he will return and make
this his permanent home. He has con.
siderable interests here to look after
and Idaho appeals to him as a perma
nent place of abode.
Local merchants are having hare
time filling their orders for apple box
J es as the crop is SO much larger thar
was anticipated that the supply ha'
, been exhausted The tract lacks thou
! sands of apple boxes of having enough
, to pack their apples in and when {
car arrives the farmers are right there
to get the boxes The last car onl!
lasted four hours.
Mrs. Phillips accompanied by hel
sister, are over from Shoshone on ;
) brief visit.
w. P. Hillstrap is late arrival ant
has purchased the Merton Lyons resi-
> dence.
l. S. Landing, of Pocatello, dropped
, in on his friends yesterday for shor
visit.
: Hub Walters secured 4SO sacks o
o potatoes from measured acre. Thi
is splendid yield for this year.
T Mrs McClarey has purchased tn
Harry Daigh place. E. B. Ripley, tn
! real estater. handled the deal.
o Sumner Musser is erecting a ney
y house on the 40 acres laying just cas-
Of the one he recently sold
There are so many newcomers i
A this section that a person thinks he i
= in a strange town when he passe
q down the street.
. James Erhardt has the belt SO ia
on single hill of spuds. 1t weighe
n Is pounds, with only one Gull. Thi
n is the top up to date.
# The Eastern Star gave a receptio
v to the members of the order at Twi
: Falls and Bull. Fifteen members froI
: Twin Falls and seventeen from Buf
h responded Two candidates were civ
q en- the work by the Filler chapter
q which was pronounced as near perfee
I as they had ever seen. A cafeteri
" lunch was served and at late hou
q the visitors returned to their severe
o homes.
! Al Holmes has the distinction of be
n ing the first man to ship carload c
apples from Filler The apples wer
# mostly Jonathans and were raised 0
# the Ben Lewis place. The apple
S we're packed and wrapped by BE
Hartly and will be shipped to De
4 Moines and sold at retail by some c
v the Holmes family.