The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-07-05

Bonds OF the third loan to the amount
Of 81 sos, 400. These bonds were pur
chased by 1888 persons.
Lemhi county has just installed mod
ern equipment for surfacing roads, and
the devices are to have their first try
out on finishing two miles of road east
Of Salmon.
The meeting of Democrats and Re-
publicans at Boise last week were both
well attended, and members of both
parties are claiming increased enthu-
siasm in their ranks.
Boys of the ages Of II, ~ and 13
years have filed their applications for
Jobs with the junior employment office
at Boise, and are anxious to get places
20 work during their summer vacation
from school,
Mr.. and Mrs. 0. NJ Trotter of Cald-
well have received the sad intelligence
OF the death Of their son, Loren NJ, on
the battlefront in France. Young
Trotter enlisted nearly three years ago
at the age of 20.
Ray Cammack, state dairyman, has
just completed two weeks trip
throughout the southern part of the
state on which he conducted a series
Of eight farmers meetings for a dis
cussien Of dairy problems.
A fire which broke out in a rooming
house at Weiser completely ruined the
building and contents. The blaze broke
out at 3 o'clock and gained consider
able headway before 1t was discovered
The roomers barely escaped with their
lives.
Lee Fluharty, director of the Univer-
sity of Idaho extension department,
has received communication from an
eastern chemical concern quoting a
price of % cents pound for the dried
roots Of the lowly, despised dandelion
plant.
G. S. Venable Of Ketchum shot and
killed himself at his home in Ketchum
while In a fit of dependency over con-
tinued Ill health. He was one Of the
pioneers of Ketchum, having been en-
gagged in the livery business there
since the early sos.
Frank A. Jameson OF Moscow was
killed on June 13 In France. The
young man was well known in Moscow,
where he had lived since childhood
when that organization was mustered
into the national army he enlisted in
the engineers corps.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Clifford exper-
fenced narrow escape from bolt
of lightning during a severe electrical
storm at Ashton. They were in the
barn milking when the barn was Struck
by lightning, rendering Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifford unconscious for brief time
and killing one of the cows.
The Pocatello canteen unit Of the
Red Cross has achieved no little fame
through the excellent care and many
attentions shown the troop trains pass
ing through, as no such bounteous hos
pitality has been shown the boys at
any other point Of their journey, ac-
cording to the many letters Of thanks
received.
Thomas f. Goode Is the first Boise
boy killed in action in France. Private
Goode enlisted in G company, Cald-
well, and departed with the Second
Idaho regiment for Camp Mills, New
York, where his command was merg
ed into the 116th engineers which later
became Second engineers.
yuor.. 70 l;rl, or GO EO v,o~ <lox, or<9
board, and in rare instance as much as
81 and board. have been paid recently
for farm labor in Idaho, but only for
special labor requiring the services Of
men highly skilled in certain kinds of
farm work-as, for instance, hay
stacking.
Alfalfa harvest is In full swing and
is favored with fine haying weather
generally. Some tracts In Payette
county have been damaged by weevil.
Glover in the Twin Falls district is in
tested with aphides, but SO far the crop
has not suffered serious damage. Grass
In dry farm meadows is short.
Labor slackers In Idaho are at
tempting to confuse the campaign to
force them to accept at reasonable
wages jobs that will help in crop pro-
duction as 8 war necessity by circuat-
Ing in certain communities stories Of
higher wages in other sections so that
laborers will continue to be on the
move.
Nampas Help Win the War" Har-
vest Festival will be better than ever,
according to plans being made by the
executive committee The festival
this year, September 18 to 25, will be
run on strictly war basis, as the
object Of the men in charge il to make
the festival "a necessary adjunct to
the war"
The outlook for the wheat crop con-
tinues generally promising, although
the yield Is likely to be affected ad-
versely by the heat and drought pre-
vailing In the dry farm country.
As soon as possible the Commercial
club intends installing huge road map
showing roads leading from Boise for
the information of travelling tourists.