The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-08-31

,mining board at Burley. only 73 men
we're accepted.
Net receipts for the Boise national
forest during the fiscal year ended
June 80. 1917, amounted to $14,072.
The cold storage plant at New Ply
mouth has been started with full
crew, and the building will be rushed
to completion.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Poole of Nampa,
were hurt in an automobile accident in
the Yellowstone national park, and are
now at Denver, receiving treatment.
More children will be In attendance
at the opening of the Boise public
schools September 10 than were in at
tendance on opening day last year, 1t
ls announced.
The Powell exhibition Of paintings,
which since June 16 has been in the
auditorium Of the Carnegie library at
Boise, will be returned withon a few
weeks to New York city.
Plans are being considered by Filler
citizens for obtaining an adequate
water supply. Filer's present system
has been outgrown, and the need for
double system is accute.
Business men of Shoshone have per-
fected an organization for protecting
the city and surrounding country
against the l. w. w. menace and such
other dangers as war conditions may
create.
Southern Idaho Is prepared to pre-
vent 1. w. w. depredations, the sher-
ifs Of different counties having or
ganized deputies and citizens for in
stant service in the event of our out
break.
Twenty-one men have been selected
by Mayor Hays to give talks in Boise
theaters on phases Of the war under
the direction of the "fourminute men"
department of the committee on public
Information.
Payette county has organized 4
county defense league. The object is
to assist county officers in dealing
with l. w. w. or persons trying to
strike or make trouble during the har-
vest season.
An electrical storm last week start
ed eighteen fires In the Payette for
est, and the forest ranger together
with the fire wardens of Long valley
were Kept busy fighting them for for
ty-eight hours.
The dates for the agricultural week
to be staged at Caldwell have been
fixed at October 1927, inclusive. The
event is to be known officially as the
boys and girls club exhibit and farm
ers' experimental school,"
In two suits filed at Caldwell last
week, Canyon county seeks to recover
from the two bonding companies which
were sureties for A, 0. Christopher,
former assessor and tax collector, q
sum slightly exceeding $4,000.
A new high school and consolidated
grammar school building is soon to
be erected at Cascade, and $4,000
bond election will be called for the
purpose of raising funds to cover the
cost Of the proposed structure.
The Boise Commercial club is off,
cially behind the move inaugurated by
Representative Addison r. Smith at
Washington. to secure the purchase, in
Boise instead Of Portland of supplies
for the troops at the Boise barracks.
Unless present plans are delayed by
unforeseen circumstances. work will be-
gin September Is on the remodeling
| and refurnishing of the First National
bank of Twin Falls. The alterations
will cost between $50 600 and $4,000.
Valuations on dry lands in Adams
Bannock. Gem, Washington and Val
ley counties were reduced last week
by the state board Of equalization. Val
uations on grazing lands and waste
lands were permitted to stand as re-
ported by the counties.
, Whisky worth, at allegedly prevail
ing prices, In the neighborhood OF
$1,000 was seized when O.. W. More
haufer 'and Alvin NJ Harris was ar
rested just after having crossed the
Nevada state line, between Mud
Springs, Nevada, and Bruneau.
Idaho people have been slow to re-
spond to the request made for books
and magazines for the American sol
diers, Mrs. Marie Schneider, state trav.
cling librarian announced last week
and an appeal is made for reading
matter to be sent the boys in France.
Another Idaho irrigation project
launched with high hopes nearly ten
years ago, gave up the ghost last week
when the state land board voted to re-
linquish the Wickahoney Land &
Water company's segregation in Owy.
bee county to the federal government
The secretary Of the state board OF
health issues waring against ped
dlers. and says peddlers are alright in
their place, but they are out of place
In Idaho at this season of the year
with the war in progress, when the
German imperial government Is seek
ing to spread disease germs among the
people of peace-loving nation.
Because Of n shortage Of materia
and labor the bath house being bull
by the state at Lava Hot Springs can
not be completed before the fall o.
1918, II is said.