The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-08-25

W - I0Opo0OO Oh september j.
F1ro At Bull destroyed the opers
house and three buildings adjoining
The contract for building the Ririe
school house in time for the coming
term has been closed.
1t Is estimated that $3.50. 900 bush.
els of winter wheat will be harvest
ed In Idaho this season.
The new -four mill at Buhl IL near.
Ing completion 1t will have a capac-
ity OF 100 barrels a day.
A field Of eight acres Of clover near
Filler has produced q crop that will
yield the owner 5000 an acre.
The hrst carload of cherries ever
shipped from the Occur d'Alene dis
trict was sent to Minneapolis last
| week.
The August forecast for Idaho DO
tatoes is 100000 bushels, as COM
pared with production last year of
100000 bushels.
The first report Of . wheat yield
OF IS bushels to the acre reached
Caldwell from the farm OF J. w, Coop
er OF the Huston community.
Work on the new six-foot steel
hume used to carry out the water of
Cedar creek to irrigate the Rosen-
worth project is nearing completion.
Huckleberries are now ripe on the
low mountains adjacent to Grange
vile, bNu reports received indicate
larger crop is found on the higher
mountains.
J. ID. Wherrall was shoeing a colt
at his home north OF Emmett, when
the animal made q lunge forward,
throwing Wherrall to the ground.
breaking his hip.
The report Of the threshing opera
tons near Culdesac show the wheat
yields to average from 80 to 40 bush
els per acre. While barley will aver
age about 10 bushels.
Considerable damage is being done
TO currant, gooseberry and berry
bushes by minute insect known as
the red spider in some orchards in
Ada and Canyon counties.
For their ranches in Jordan valley.
Fed Palmer and Arthur Dunning
have just purchased 25O head of
cows and calves. Palmer taking 1870
head and Cunning 100 head.
When the improvements now be-
ing made by the Electric Investment
company are complete, Caldwell will
have lighting system second to
none in the state, it is claimed
The early apple harvest is now I'M
der way at Lewiston, and it now
seems probable that three or four
times as many apples will be har-
vested this season as last year.
At the November election voters |
Oh Custer county will vote upon a |
proposition to issue 100000 bonds
for the purpose of building a part of |
the state highway and u repair roads |
in the county.
There is town for sale in Idaho.
1t is DeSmet 1t will be disposed of
at public auction to the highest bid
der. The government owns DeSmet.
It is located on the Occur d'Alene In
liam reservation.
The state land board has taken I'M
Ter advisement the question of for
letting the contract of the Twin Falls
Salmon River Land & Irrigation COM
oany to irrigate the lands within the
Salmon river project.
small boy of Moscow last year
lad a garden at the home in town
md sold SIS worth of produce frVn
in in
'e done by intensified gardening
within the city limits.
George A. Day, state land commits
'ioner under Governor Frank r. Good
ng, James II. Brady, James H. Haw-
ey and Moses Alexander, resigned
august Is, Heber G. Hale, register OF
he land department also resigned.
In attempting to cross Snake river
It the upper ferry at Heise Springs.
where the grade down to the boat Is
lutte steep, the driver of big auto
mobile from Pocatello drove into the
liver, but fortunately no one was in.
ured.
B. F. O'Neil, better and more IA.
niliarly known in Idaho and the
northwest as Barney" O'Neil, has
ONE into prominence again because
I his appointment as scout executive
n charge of the Boy Scouts in north.
I'm Idaho.
The right to employ laborers op /
tate work longer than eight hours
day will be tested in the courts OF
IDAHO. controversy over the en- I
loyn>Snt OF men on state highway :
4 Nez Perce county forms the basis
the suit
Two roads leading of of the high.
ray system of Benewah county will
e built into Hepburn park this
all. One OF the roads will lead into
he reserve from the south, the other
ill give an entrance to the park
'om the west.
With shortage of 20 per cent in
,e hay production of the state this
sason and the added presence of 90
DO sheep, held in the state for feed
lg purposes, alfalfa prices ip Idaho
romiSe to soar inward during the