The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16
IN THE GEM STATE

IT is estimated that there are now
between ten and fifteen homes being
constructed In Nampa.
A new street sprinkler and fiusher,
and combination truck costing approx
imately 5000. will be purchased for
use on the city streets at Nampa.
Lawrence Smith, aged il, OF Poca-
tello, was run down by an automobile
| and fatally injured, death resulting
soon after he had been removed to the
hospital.
There was not a single complaint
or grumble from patrons of Caldwell
restaurants over the observance Tues
day Of the eating houses first meat
less day.
Five dollars is the price l.. e. Om-
men is asking for potatoes taken from
three hills raised ON his place near
Nampa. The potatoes from one of
the hills weigh 1111 pounds.
Fifteen tons of onions, which sold
for $500, were raised on 20 square rods
Of land, less than a half of an acre,
by G. l.. Rand, north Of Nampa. This
Is at the rate Of more than $14OO per
acre.
| A verdict OF guilty was returned by
the jury at Caldwell in the cases OF
Mrs. Dora Harvill and James Dugger,
who were charged with statutory
crime involving Mrs. Harvill's 13-year-
old daughter Edith.
The seed from an eight-acre crop OF
clover west of Eagle has netted the
owner mere than 5000 per acre. and he
has disposed Of the hay for v12 per
ton. Ninety bushels of seed were har-
vested from the small tract.
Refrigerator cars have been sent to
, Jerome for use in moving the potato
crop in that section. The Jerome Com
mercial club and the Lincoln county
farm bureau had complained to the
war secretary of car shortage.
That test case must be brought in
the state supreme court by the direc-
tors of the Gem Irrigation district to
quiet title to lands recently disposed
OF to them by the state land board, Is
the opinion of the attorney general.
Three hundred Christmas kits, cost
ing about $1.5O each, will be donated
to the soldiers Christmas fund of the
Red Cross by the Caldwell chapter.
The kits are to be prepared as fQr us
pseetisa .Ah ~ N lfllnnlf Aoxx an'
teer. r.
AS the result of consultation be-
tween r.. f. Bicknell, food administra-
tor for Idaho, and H. W. Hochbaum,
leader of county agricultural agents,
a buy and store potatoes and apples
movement has been started throughout
the state.
which was one of the first in the state
to send out its quota of Christmas kits
for the boys in the trenches, Is prepar-
ing a second shipment for distribution
among the soldiers at the environments
and training camps.
The New Plymouth Fruit Growers
District association was given enough
cars by the Oregon Short Line to en-
able it to remove apples from it's ware
house, which had collapsed. Fourteen
carloads of apples were In the build
ing when it collapsed.
Work of codifying the state laws has
now progressed to point where the
state supreme court is asking for bids
on the printing. The state has an ap-
preparation of 5000 with which to
have printing done. Eight hundred
copies are to be printed.
A shortage of tenant houses has
forced several business men who re-
Gently came to Nampa to make their
home in Boise temporarily. Town lots
are being purchased rapidly by the
newcomers ard building boom Is pre-
dicted for early next spring.
The Oregon Short Line hauled 32,29O
tons of coal into Idaho in the first
three weeks of October, according to
reports filed with the public utilities
commission by the railroad In Octo-
ber 1916, the railroad delivered As, ,731
tons of coal to Idaho dealers.
A 2-year-old baby belonging to Mrs.
e. w. Green's sister, who is.a guest at
the Green home at Five Mile, got into
| a dry irrigation ditch and followed 1t
up two miles TO tHe JOHHSOH Iduch,
where the child was rescued four
hours after it had been missed.
There are more than 200 Canadians
In southern Idaho who have registered
and claimed exemption under our draft
law as aliens, according to Sergeant
II. S. Mccall OF the Canadian forestry
service, who is endeavoring to enlist
all male Canadians between the ages
Of Is and 40.
verdict Of not guilty was returned
after five hours of deliberation by the
jury at Caldwell in the case of Patrick
Volpandist, charged with having made
an assault with Il deadly weapon last
July upon the person of G. X. Emmett
with whom he quarreled over the use
of water In an irrigation district.
Careless driving of an automobile
by Charles ID. Snyder, a rancher and
mining man of Robinett, Oregon, was
found by coroner's jury to have been
the cause of the accident that result
ed in the death of James A. Flood, q
resident of Meridian, employed by the