The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-11-03
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Nampa business men are efated over
the fact that the city captured the
grand lodge session OF the Odd Eel
lows for 1917.
More than 100 enthusiastic county
teachers were present at the meeting
OF the Ada county Teachers associa
ton in Boise last week.
A case of infantile paralysis was re-
ported to the state board of health
last week from Lewiston. The victim
Is an 1S-months-old child.
Nose Croney of Spencer was con.
victed of killing deer in the closed
season. Croney was fined 800 and
costs, amounting in all to $103
From what are believed to be very
near the official figures, the wool clip
Of Idaho from 100000 sheep covers
a value of $6,948, 4S0 for the season Of
1916.
Work has been commenced on the
building of the spur which will con.
meet the tracks of the Oregon Short
Line with those of the Idaho Southern
at Jerome.
Idaho grown celery finds a better
market than the ciery OF Florida, Cal
ifornia, New York, Michigan and
Ohio, the big producers of the blanch-
ed leaf stocks
Articles of incorporation of the AL
bion Water company have been filed.
The water company fixed it's capital
stock at 100000 The water will be
drawn from deep wells.
The extension of the Raft river
branch of the Oregon Short Line,
which was started early in the spring,
is nearly completed and will be in oper.
alton during the winter.
few cases of blackleg have been
reported in the vicinity of Star
recently. As d result many OF the
ranchers are taking the precaution to
have their cattle vaccinated
During the past three months one
OF the leading stock dealers of Nam
pa has shipped out to the eastern
market 100 carloads of cattle and
twenty-slx carloads of sheep.
Thousands of bass, perch and carp
have been taken from the Deer Flat
reservoir by the state game warden
and distributed in the streams at
Minidoka, Bruneau, Gooding and Lake.
port.
SO successful has the secretary OF
the Y. M. c. A. at Boise been in hunt.
n iph fnr IA
want to work their way through
school, that he now has more Jobs
than boys.
Betty Dysart, the colored woman
who was shot at Pocatello by man
named Harry Allen, also colored, is
reported to be resting easily at the
general hospital and to have a good
chance for recovery
Idaho boarding house keepers can
not enforce liens against railroad cor.
porations for board bills incurred by
laborers in the employ of contractors,
the state supreme court held in an
opinion handed down last week.
trip to hospital and the pain of
a fractured arm were the cost TO Ed
ward, 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Il, o. Nelson of Star. to learn by ex-
perience that calf may prove about
as dangerous steed as bucking
broncho.
Prisoners now at work on the north
and south highway will be permitted
to remain at the convict camp near
q ~ hn 90 h.
unless the weather should become too
severe. There were twenty-five pris.
oners in the camp.
Two hundred and fifty horses were
last week sent from Caldwell to Jer.
sey City, where they will be loaded
on shipboard for shipment to France,
The shipment flled twelve cars and
was the largest yet sent from that
locality for the battlefelds of Europe. |
From a report of State Mine Inspec. |
tor Robert Nj. Bell it would seem that
Idaho is prepared to supply the world |
with phosphate Mr.. Bell claims there
is known to be 10000, 100000 tons of |
high-grade phosphate, which has been |
discovered by the geological survey. |
The shortage OF cars for shipment |
of potatoes is creating great hard |
ship upon the potato dealers of Idaho |
Falls, Nearly all the frost-proof Gel |
AIRS and every vacant brick or stone |
building and basement has been |
illed, and hundreds Of wagonloads |
are coming in every day.
That people of the central western
states are considering Idaho as a place |
in which TO locate is attested by the |
fact that a supply of 500 booklets re-
citing Nampa's attractions. recently |
sent to the office of the colonization |
agent of the Union Pacific railroad at !
Omaha. has been exhausted.
Three small children. while playing |
in the yard of George Fisher at Idaho |
Falls, were struck by an automobile |
driven by JOY riders who lost control |
OF the machine and it ran away, jump |
ing across the sidewalk and into the |
lawn where the children were, one !
child being seriously injured
The price of beans in the north end |