The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-03-23
IN THE GEM STAT.


dearth of hotel and rooming house
accommodations.
1t was highly enthusiastic assem-
blage of about 300 Ada county ranch
ers who organized the Ada County
Farm bureau at a meeting held at
Boise last week
More than half the school pupils
OF Pleasant View have been absent
the past few days because of the
measles epidemic. Several of the
victims are seriously Ill.
boycott on potatoes, instituted by
prominent women of Nampa, prom
ises to take on important proportions
In the. movement designed to force a
lowering of tuber prices
When she fell on strip of ice, Mrs.
w. w. Lewis OF Caldwell suffered a
fracture Of the arm. Being of an ad-
vanced age, the injury is rather seri-
GUS in it's consequences.
The Caledonian. Rupert's $4,000
hotel, was formally opened to the
public last week, when over 300 peo-
pie attended the opening. which con-
sisted of a dinner and dancing.
Farmers in the vicinity of Malad
are warning against squirrels, the
county commissioners having appro-
priated $500 with which to purchase
poison to carry on the campaign.
Another carload of elk will be ship
ped to Gibson Jack creek in the Po-
catello forest reserve. They will be
turned loose in the same locality as
the herd that was brought there last
spring.
The divorce bill will cease to make
Idaho the Mecca for those seeking to
sever the holy bonds of matrimony
Pending suits are not affected, as
the law does not go into effect for six
months.
Governor Alexander has signed the
bill increasing from six months to one
year the length of residence required
before one may obtain divorce in
this state. The law is not to become
effective for six months
The class in sociology at the Black
foot high school is making an inter
esting' and instructive study into in
creases in the cost of living. The in
vestigation covers the rise in prices
between January l, 1914, and January
1, 1917
A movement has been started to
bring Pocatello under the city man
ager plan OF municipal government,
as provided by a bill introduced by
Senator B. A. Cummings and which
passed the recent session of the legis-
lature.
! 1t is announced that already more
, than 200 members have joined the
county farm bureau of Lincoln coun-
, ty and that at least 100 more would
: be secured before the permanent or
ganization would be perfected on
March 49,
' Fire caused by the explosion of a
l coaloil stove in the superintendent
a office of the Central school building
/. at Idaho Falls destroyed the type
i writer, adding machine and all the
0 furniture of the room, causing loss
o of about $1,000.
4 Governor Alexander may veto In tote
d all Appropriation bills passed by the
0 fourteenth Idaho legislature and cal
8 a session extraordinary. A definite de
e cision will be reached when the chic
n executive has all the appropriation
l. bills before him.
r To date County Assessor Russell
has issued 673 automobile licenses tc
Canyon county owners of cars fol
this year. In addition he has issued
s thirteen dealers licenses, seven chauf
T. feurs' licenses and a goodly number
E. Of motorcycle permits.
T. Upon entering a plea of guilty t,
l. perpetration of check forgery a
E. Caldwell, Charles Pinson waived tn
y statutory time permitted before ser
II tence may be passed, and was at one
t. given term of one to fourteen year
in the state penitenitary.
The twenty-sixth wholesale cor
Germ to settle upon Pocatello as a dis
is tributing center for southern Idah
r is the Stacy Brothers & Merrill con
y pany. This is an eastern concern dc
y ing an annual business of several mi
e lion dollars in fruits and other prt
If duce.
1t Senator Brady through the mex
10 congress will retain his committee a
o slgnments of the last congress anu I
sr addition becomes member of tn
y committee on public lands and mine
and mining. Senator Borah retain
his old committee places, but gets Il
new ones.
lg Under the county classification ac
1t Bonner is placed in the first elias
ag where the commissioners are paid 81
IS 500 per annum; Latah, Kootenai Clea
ed water, Benewah. Idaho. Nez Perce an
by Shoshone in the third class, salar
IT 500; Boundary, Lewis and Selway
IL the fourth class, salary $500.
In sending Speaker B. Harvey Al
red of the house to take referendul
vote in the territory comprised with
III, the boundaries OF the proposed ne
or county of Portneuf. Governor Alexal
ial der has adopted an unusual methc
ip- to enable him to decide as to wheth'