The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-05-18
IN THE GEM STATE

has winter killed to n much greater
degree than the earlier reports indi-
Gated.
A second carload of tested seed DO
tatoes has been purchased by the state
farm markets bureau in the Twin
Falls district for distribution in Ada
county
The largest flag in Idaho was un-
furled from specially erected flag
pole at Pocatello on May 8, and now
floats over the car shops of the Oregon
Short Line.
A goodly sum was turned over to
the organized Red Cross Society at
Caldwell last week as the result OF Il
hve-day street fair and carnival held
in that city.
School childen being enlisted In the
Idaho inceaseG production service are
to be assigned to the different indus
tries of the state in which they are
best fitted to serve.
The Gooding schools were closed
week ahead of the regular date. This
action was taken in order to release
boys for farm work, also the teams
used on the school wagons were badly
needed.
The oranges OF Ada county are op-
posed to bonding plan for meeting
the expenses Of the war. This was
made clear at the quarterly meeting
Of delegates from all the granges over
the county.
Idaho Is to have a noiseless Fourth
Of July this summer. The stamp of
disapproval has been placed on the
tirecracker, the Roman candle, the
sky rocket, the torpedo, the toy pistol
and other fireworks.
Idaho Greeks are urged by President
e. Venizelos, Of the provisional gov
ernment of Salonica, to support Ameri-
can democratic ideals as symbolized
by the Star Spangled Banner, and to
mid America in the present war.
Work on the Idaho & Pacific high
way through Bannock and Power coun-
ties will soon be in progress, the con-
tract for building twenty miles OF this
highway having been awarded by the
state highway commission last week.
The Chicago, Milwaukee st. Paul
railroad is being extended into the
great white pine belt tributary to the
Clearwater river and the extension
marks the opening of the last large
stand Of white pine In the United
States.
Partially following the lead Of Boise
BARRIERS, razor wielders of Nampa
have announced that In future it will
cost the patron % cents per treatment
to have facial adornlnents planed off
and the chin properly groomed for
the day.
Members of the International Car
penters' union are voting on the ques-
ton of paying the $500 death benefit
to members who are killed while sery-
ing in the army or navy. The Boise
local has gone on record as favoring
the payment.
Boise banks, as revealed by the f1g-
ures they present in response to the
call of the comptroller of the currency
for q statement of their condition as
of May /, show that they are gaining
In every department, but are keeping
less cash on hand.
There is much agitation at Rupert
regarding the guarding. of Minidoka
dam. 1t has been estimated that to
guard the works properly will entail an
expenditure of $500 month This
expense must be borne by the irrign-
: ton district and the county.
Joseph Corbridge, aged 9, met death
: by drowning in the Rice Reservoir
: several miles northwest of Pocatello.
: The child, with two boy companions.
had gone to the hills to pick wild flow
: ers and, while walking along the en-
bankment which edges the reservoir,
he slipped and fell in.
J. =. Davis, United States surveyor,
who has just returned from a two
weeks trip through the Shoshone, Po-
: catello and Idaho Falls districts re-
ports that many rancners in that sec
tion are losing hundreds of head of
cattle through inclement weather. One
: man, he says, lost 5000 sheep in II
single blizzard.
In order that the work of organiza-
tion in Idaho might be carried on
smoothly and without trouble, the
Idaho council of defense has divided
the state into ten districts, composed
of one or more counties, over which
the various members of the council
will have jurisdiction and be held re-
sponsible.
The Idaho council of defense de-
clared for the organization of home
: guards at its concluding session at
Boise. All communities are urged TO
organize home guards companies which
may be called into service for the pro-
lection of home and property and see
TO it that peace is kept during the
; present national crisis.
James Pennington of Blackfoot,
whose 14-year-old daughter was COM
mitted to the Idaho Industrial Training
school at ST. Anthony about one year
ago, abducted the girl from the insti-
tuition one night last week and escaped
in waiting automobile.