The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-08
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; The Blackfoot high school football
squad is the champion team of the
scholastic class in Idaho.
Agitation of the need for commo
iious addition TO the Caldwell high
school building has been started.
Two carloads OF turkeys and chick
ans were shipped from Emmett last
week. being destined for San Fran.
CISCO
Idaho, it is estimated, will have a
population of 436.SS1 on New Years
lay. Its count. according to the 1910
census, was 325.594.
Every man in Pocatello who had
10 invitation to 60 elsewhere was in
gited by the Salvation Army to par
AXE of its big Thanksgiving dinner.
Warden Shook has been given au-
ihority to sell off bunch of hogs
now ready for market from the prison
farm in the Gem irrigation district.
Boise high school pupils have elect.
ed student council OF twelve mem
oers, two from each class and four
rom the school at large. The election
was by Australian ballot
The recent two-day Sunday school
convention held in Caldwell was at
.ended by 100 delegates and was pro
/ bounced the most successful conven-
lion ever held in the county
1t is reported on good authority
mat government officials have recent
ly been continuing their Investigations
Of the plan of establishing an i'm,
nense paper mill at Idaho Falls.
r. N. Bell, state mine Inspector,
mas Just been advised of the death OF
cousin, George Brambley, who was
! serving as a non-commissioned officer
with the English army in France.
Plans for providing a hot lunch
daily to the rural pupils attending
he Gooding schools have been work,
ed out in the domestic science de.
partment, and 200 children are being
served.
One of the best clover seed crops
IN the Minidoka project this season
was grown by George Bray on the farm
owned by S. d. Parke of the Burley
Bulletin. The seed from twenty-five
acres brought $4,000.
AS token Of remembrance to the
Twin Falls boys with the Second
Idaho regiment on the border, local
people contributed 1855 for fund
which was wired to the boys as a
| Thanksgiving remembrance.
Plans have been completed for the
sixth annual boys conference of the
Y. Nj. q. A, which is to be held in
Pocatello from December Is to II.
Delegates are expected from many
rections of Idaho and Utah.
Secretary A. Wells of the Anti-Sa.
loon League of Idaho. has been max
ing short stay in Pocatello, arrang-
ing Tor big meeting to be held there
On Tuesday, December -, in the in.
terest Of national prohibition.
Walter Pierce. one of the best
known and most popular of the young
men employed by the Oregon Snort
Line, died at Pocatello at the emer.
gency hospital. He was taken VIC
lently i'll while at work in the shops
Despite the fact that chilly wind
was blowing several hundred people
gathered at the Methodist church cor
1er Sunday, November 20, to witness
he ceremony attending the laying OF
he cornerstone of the new Methodist
church at Twin Falls.
John Shaffer, living near Star has
carried away the prize offered by thu
Sweet-Telier Hardware company o.
Boise for the best yield of oats re
ported from the Boise valley. On ter
acres of land Mr.. Shaffer the past sea
son grew $50 bushels, or Sc hushel:
per acre.
Eighteen herds were included on the
list of those in the Boise Valley Cow
Testing association which averaged
40 pounds or more of butterfat pei
animal during the seventh month o
he associations existence. The mum
Der of cows on test during the pas
month was 437.
Regret is quite generally espresso.
over the fact that the propose
to bond Owyhee county for the pur
pose of providing funds with which Il
erect four bridges over the Snak,
river failed to carry at the genera
election. The proposal was defeatel
by less than 60 votes.
} Albert Pletz Of Aberdeen has aske,
the public utilities commission Il
take action in forcing the Utah-ldaht
Sugar company to strengthen thei
beet dumps on the Wood river branc!
Of the oregon Short Line, and so ar
range them that teams cannot fal
while wagons are being unloaded.
Idaho citizens always viii have (,
purchase their coal from neighborini
states in the intermountain region, aC
/ cording to the state mine inspector
and the thought sometimes expresses
since the recent coal shortage began
that the people of this state shoult
develop Idaho mines, can not be real
lied. or coal there is little, he says