The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-09-22
In THE GEM STATE


liberia peaches being harvested a
Emmett are bringing good prices.
More than $4,000 worth OF cream
VIII be shipped from Cambridge dur
, ing the year 1916.
On the opening day OF the Boise
schools there were rs more pupils en-
rolled than last year.
strong effort is being made by thu
cambridge Commercial club to put the
Canyon road in better condition by
next spring
Forty-one carloads OF potatoes were
shipped out of Caldwell during Au.
gust, 1915, and sixty-one carloads dur
ing last August.
Ted Marks, while working at tho
mill at Emmett, fell distance of
twenty feet, escaping with badly
sprained ankle.
IL. b. Douglas, q Nampa dairyman.
has been fined $50 for selling milk
when he knew there was case of
typhoid fever in his home.
Roy Nelson of Pocatello has been
appointed lieutenant commander in
the United States navy, and is now in
charge of the submarine HI.
Attendance at the Nampa schools
this year show wonderful increase.
From total of S65 in the grades last
year, the enrolment this year jumped
to 951.
A blaze started from a defective flue
was discovered on the roof of the
Methodist parsonage at Meridian and
extinguished by the village fire de-
partment without serious loss.
Peaches, just Is of them, that fill a
regulation sized box, were exhibited at
Boise last week. One of them weighed
IA ounces and fraction and was
more than IL inches in circumference.
Canyon county's tax levy has been
liked at so mills. This is one and a
half mills lower than the levy OF last
year, which it is claimed was the
lowest made by any county of the
state.
The town of Cambridge and sur
rounding country were never more
prosperous Crops in general have
been good, prices are excellent, and
new enterprises are springing up in
the town.
Marion A. Lufkin in Jail at st. An.
thony, charged with conspiracy to
kidnap Roland Hartman. son of the
late e. II. Hartman, railroad king,
has been bound over to the district
court for trial.
The matter of voting bonos TO the
amount of $l25,00O will be submitted
to the people of Bonneville county
at the general election held Novem-
Der Z, the money to be used in build
ing a court house.
Thomas Nevins, who died at Boise
last week, was one of the best known
and best loved prospectors of the old |
days. The latchstring of his cabin |
always hung out, and many the man |
he had aided in time of need
Nick St. Clair, who killed his wife
on the road between Sweet and Mon
tour, was placed in the Caldwell Jail |
to forestall mob violence, and later
bound over to the district court for
trial. He seems Indifferent to his
fate.
The spiritual and moral welfare of
the Idaho boys on the border is be
ing properly looked after, according
to Chaplain Stewart, who was in Ida
no on a furlough last week He speaks
in the highest praise of the Idaho
boys
II is being demonstrated that pota-
toes are profitable on dry farms. AL
bert Alternately, recently brought to
Cambridge a sample of IL potatoes
from one hill of dry land. They were
perfect in size and conformation and
weighed six pounds.
Another proposed extension to small
railroads in the Twin Falls district
died when the Boise Payett Lumber
company purchased from the Oregon
Short Line IL carloads of rails bought
up four years ago for the Perrine
electric road in the Snake river val
ley.
ID. c. Brichaux. an automobile driv
er of Ontario, Ore, has confessed
killing r. G.. Goodwin, a wealthy
sheepman of Ontario and Boise, and
throwing his body in the river, but
declares the killing was accidental
and that he tired to dispose of the
body, fearing no one would believe
his story.
During the progress of a poker
game in a negro rooming house at
Blackfoot, Don Brock, negro belong
ing to the street paving crew, wa
shot and killed. Four negroes and
one white have been arrested, includ
ing Billy Jordan, another negro, who
suffered the loss of an ear and many
bruises in the mix-up.
Shelley is to have a sugar factory
The new factory will be erected about
five-eighths of mile east of the rail
way depot at Shelley and is to be com
pleted in time to handle next years
crop
While cleaning his rifle last week |