The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1915-12-10
In THE GEM STATE

49, 'Si0 "Sti1 poout HIty entries.
The Bannock hotel at Pocatello
which was closed last May, has agar
opened its doors.
David Sprubeck age 81, Of Geriesee
resident OF that region since 1877
met his death at Lewiston as the re-
suit of an automobile accident.
News has been received from Wash
ington that r. +. d. route No / viii
be established out OF McCammon
service to begin on February /, 1916
Payette is to have modern hotel
to cost approximately $4,000 The
structure will be three stories high
and will be OF brick with pressed
brick front.
The Pocatello lodge of Elks il max
ing elaborate preparations for the
opening exercises which will be held
When the new building, costing $780,
000 is completed.
: Two new unions, which will be iden-
tilted with the American Federation of
Labor, are in course of formation in
Pocatello-the Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers and the Laundry Work
ers.
The board OF directors of the pnb,ic
schools at Pocatello has decided to
give the children ten-day Christmas
vacation. The schools will close De.
cember 23 and remain closed until
January 3, 1916.
Articles of incorporation of the Po-
catello Traction Interurban com
pany have been filed. A strong effort
will be made to promote the company
with local capital and offices will be
opened and a vigorous campaign
Mrs. W. H. Ridenbaugh, official
hostess at the Idaho building at the
Panama-Pacitic exposition, has re-
turned to Boise after spending thirty
weeks greeting visitors from all over
the country. who called at Idaho's
headquarters.
With the prospect of huge smell
ter being erected at Kellogg by the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Con
centrating company the estimated
cost of which is one million dollars,
the rich mining district in that part
Of the country will take on boom
The children of the Pocatello
schools will be encouraged to acquire
habits of thrift. The school savings
system, successfully employed in
many other cities, will be established
and the children will be furnished en-
gelopes in which to deposit weekly
savings
Boise has been selected by the ma
1onal research committee of the AS
ISOLATED Advertising Clubs of the
World as one of the leading market
ng center of America in which it
VIII make thorough investigation of
business conditions and prospects for
he year 1916.
Charles Brown and C. j. Watts, two |
iapper individuals who are alleged |
o have inveiglsd a stranger into a |
ard game and robbed him out of |
'140, were arrested at Pocatello. After
hey had returned the money to the |
ictim, they were fined $50 each and !
to go.
The Christian Brethren convention |
or church and Sunday school work
rs closed two days session at
tampa on Friday of last week The
Meeting has been an interesting one
nd there were twenty-five delegates
a constant attendance from all parts
I southern Idaho.
AT the suggestion of the Mothers
ircle, a grand cleanup was held at
one Star school, three miles west of
'ampa. The women belonging to the
Tub brought and prepared dinners for
Il the workers, and the men fur
ished teams, scrapers and all the
ecesSary machinery
From Bull comes the news of the
of a club which is unique in
S formation and requirements for adj
lission. 1t is called the $500 Per
ere club" and consists OF those
lrmers who have raised crops during
lie past year which have netted them
least 500 per acre.
According to State Mine Inspector
ell, who recently made an examina-
on of the Leadore and Gilmore min
e districts, the properties there sim
y want campaign of intelligent
nd energetic deep development to re-
lit in one of the most profitable and
ornament resources of desirable
ad-silver in Idaho
With an enterprise that would be
in their elders, the BOYS
I'd girls of the Tech at Pocatello rails
fund sufficient to supply dinners
number of families whose circum- |
ances were such as to make turkey
i'd fixin's" impossible.
G. A. Line of Sterling three years
20 moved on a farm four miles from
.erling with the idea of experiment.
4 in the culture of alfalfa seed. This |
Ear he raised 1875 acres of the Grimm ,
dry farm variety. In the beginning ;
e entire farm was sagebrush.
After January 1 all employees of the
ate holding appointive offices, and
no have received state loans and I
I'VE become delinquent in their pay
ents, must pay one-half of their sal
y or its equivalent to the state !;
onthly, to apply on the delinquency.
A firm of Pocatello architects has