The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-03-16

WlnOu6.
The contract for the new $1,000
cannery plant at Lewiston has been
awarded.
The county assessor at Boise issued
10 automobile licenses in one day
last week.
A single cattle deal at Buhl last
week involved 5000 head. 100000
changing hands.
Agitation for pavement of long
stretches of streets III Caldwell is
how in full swing.
The creamery company at Payette
paid $4,000 to farmers of that sec
tion the past year.
The people of Moscow are combin-
ing In an effort to secure q new union
depot At that place.
1t is estimated that there will be
$1,000 acres in field peas In Latah
county the coming season.
An early morning fire at Filler de-
stroJed two buildings and their con
tents. causing about $4,000 damage.
Numerous calls for farm help have
reached the state farm markets bu-
reau at the state house In the last few
days.
A cement brick factory with 5000
daily capacity will be new industry
At Caldwell, machinery having been
ordered
Fifteen young ladies Of the Nampa
vicinity have alresdy enrolled for the
pod In nnrHfnR
and hygiene.
Among the bills that failed of en-
actment was Representative Smiths
measure to create the Sawtooth ma
tional park In Idaho.
Pocatello ID to have On Industrial
and fashion show from April 2 to Z.
according to the plans outlined at
meeting Of business men.
A Chicago concern is planning the
erection OF an enormous warehouse at
Idaho Falls to handle the entire po-
tato output Of the upper Snake river
valley.
Charity disbursements in Nampa
were remarkably amau during the past
oAassAsst ~
I the annual meeting Of IA DcIgeeii
I Charities.
> The senate failed to confirm the
I nominations of William S. Davis and
John Henderson OF Idaho as pro-
visional second lieutenants in the reg
: ular army.
Jack Gruinnett, who is charged with
> horse stealing, is to be brought back
J to Weiser for trial, he having been To-
) Gated In California, after he had
: jumped his bond.
Edward B. Sargent, fruit grower
: and rancher of the Fruitland section,
f, was arrested last week on charge
: of larceny involving the sale Of mort
gagged personal property.
Harry Gill. lineman, fell from a
power line pole at Pocatello and died
from the effects the same day. He
7. was q former resident OF Salt Lake
City and later of American Falls.s
Nominations for the municipal
!, campaign at Boise have closed with
) five candidates in the running for
mayor and four candidates for the two
two places on the city council.
C. A. Williams, deputy assessor and
4 prominent citizen OF the Bowmont
: section, who suffered a broken leg re-
4 Gently when his driving horse kicked
4 him. left the hospital last week.
n A Meridian correspondent an
I nounces that three electric dredges
are in full operation excavating drain
age bitches, one at Ten Mile, one al
Five Mile and the third in the Nc
d Dermott locality.
4 The Idaho senate followed the lead
Q of the house of representatives and
= voted to participate in the 1919 Gold
n en- Wedding anniversary celebration
g to be held in Ogden. The bill pro-
viding for an appropriation OF $4,000
The senate failed to confirm the
nominations OF the following Idaho
r postmasters: Marie Leeper. Elk Riv-
. er; l.. H. Merriam, Grace; J. v. Nash
$ Cottonwood; J. l. Allen. Rockland;
, Clarence p Sweeney, ST. Marros, and
y d. Rolla Harris, Sugar.
u Proceedings have been filed by the
government in the United States court
to cancel the certificate Of citizenship
/. issued to Gust Fellis Of Pocatello Sep
= tember Is, 1914. by the district cour,
= for Bannock county. 1t ia alleged the
! decree making him citizen wal
: fraudulently obtained
Boise advocates Of the now birth
control" movement now spreadins
throughout the United States, ars
# pointing to = recent city case as ar
= example Of what the movement hopes
8 to prevent. Recently a Boise mother
N who il but ~ years old. gave birth t.
n her seventeenth child.
The failure Of congress to enact the
sundry civil bill Will delay tho ap
preparation for the King Hill irriga
lg ton project in Idaho, but as this meas
y ure is to be passed at special session
IS some time before July l, 1t is expected
Is this item will be again included ant
that 100000 viii be available July