The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-02-09
IN THE GEM STATE

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lem at cost of $4,000.
A new Methodist church building IL
% be erected at Plummer.
The Masonic temple being con-
structed at st. Maries IL nearly COM
Dleted.
The Lspwai valley highway district
,as sold $150,000 road bonds at \ pre-
MUM of $3,135.
Subscriptions to stock In the Buhl
Farm Loan association have passed
the $4,000 mark.
Tho c. NJ. 4 st. P. spent $3,0oo,0o
n 1916 for improvements In Idaho,
Montana and Washington.
One hundred homes are to be built
1T Emmett to accommodate men to
20 employed in new mill
An increase Of 30 per cent In out
put over the previous year is the graf
flying record OF the Nampa Coopera-
tive creamery reported for 1916.
All present officers OF the Nampa
Chamber Of Commerce were unani-
nously reelected last week at the
drst weekly conference-luncheon In
augurated by the directors.
The program for the Business Mems
convention to be held in Pocatello on
February and 9, Is now on the press,
and shows that an excellent program
Df speakers has been arranged for.
A petition has been extensively
signed by the people Of Rupert ad-
dressed to the board OF trustees ask
Ing that the village of Rupert be in
corporated into = city OF the second
class.
The matter OF investigating the
feasibility Of forming a corporation
among local business men and farmers
to finance construction Of flour mill
at Middleton has been left to q COM
nittee OF interested citizens.
A few weeks ago the Oregon Short
Line announced it would supply posi-
&ions to members of the Second Idaho
who wished railroad work. A number
of the discharged soldiers have re-
Gently been given positions.
One Of the additions to the activi-
les OF the Boise Commercial club will
oe the formation Of a meal ticket
eague for the children of stricken
Belgium il the plans of Jess Haw
ey, president of the club, carry.
A person guilty OF criminal o.
tense, but released by court because
ne was charged with crime undel
the wrong statute, cannot be permit
ted to maintain an action for maliciou:
prosecution, it was held by the stat'
supreme court last week.
Plans for free public swimming
pool have often been discussed II
Twin Falls, but no definite steps wer'
ever taken in the matter until recent
iy, when the proposition was take1
up by the Twentieth Century club ant
will be carried out by them.
Canyon county grapes won gol
medal award at the Panama Pacifi
international exposition. ]. F. Stout
who lives near Caldwell, has just re
an exhibit from his young vineyard
planted only four years ago.
Inability to get the new high scho6
building ready for use this winter ha
initiated to put the Nampa scho<
basketball team out OF the running l
the scholastic league OF Southwestern
Idaho since the boys have been unabl
to find an empty building in which
play
D. o. Van Voris, reporting the Sal
of six horses through the market {
Caldwell, states that he received a
cents a pound" for the animals. A
the smallest weighed 1.450 and tt
largest 2,150 pounds, it will be see
that the prices received ranged fro
$217.5O to $322.b0 per head.
Professor Hochbaum, in charge
the county agent department of II
University of Idaho, is working at r
pert to effect an organization of Il
farmers of the Minidoka project In
a farm bureau, under the joint at
pices of the university and the Unit
States department of agriculture.
The secretary OF agriculture Ia
week allotted to Idaho $120,9 as
pro rata share OF the good roads ful
available this year. This is exclusi
OF the amounts recently allotted
roads In forest reserves. The sta
must match this allotment.
Three young people who we
sleigh riding near Weiser one day Ii
week had n narrow escape from dea
when the team became frightened a
plunged over the bank into the riv
The occupants OF the sleigh were r
cued from the water by ropes.
Entering plea of guilty to ira
ereseion OF the prohibition laws OF
state and waving all stays to whi
he was entitled, Sefneo Baldez v
sentenced at Caldwell to pay fine
500 and committed to the county
to serve a term of ninety days.
1t is stated on good authority Il
work will be started early In Feb
ary on the relaying of track on
Idaho Northern branch between Ns
pa and Emmett.
A representative meeting at Pc