The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-03-29

reserve.
A new telephone connection with
Council has been installed at the post
office at Cuprum.
Placerville is busy hunting up old
clothes for the Belgians' relief, and
boosting the saving stamp.
A home talent minstrel show given
at Ashton for the benefit of the sol
diers' smoke fund netted $780,
Increases in the wages of several
city employees were authorized last
week by the Nampa city council to be-
come effective April 1.
In the federal court at Pocatello,
Guy Thomas, young man from Spen
Ger, charged with raising 81 bill to
$40 and passing 1t, was found not
guilty by the jury.
A concerted movement has been
launched to insure an abundance of
labor for the farms of Idaho and to
prevent interference of any kind with
workers, either from within or with
out.
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yived at Ashton last week, and as new
capital has been interested apparently
assures the factory for the 1919 crop.
All growers are now renewing their
contracts for next year.
Boise's reasons for not entering the
annual high school declamatory con-
test this year, to be held at Burley,
April II, are due to new rulings that
call for two contestants to be sent by
the entering high schools.
The third newspaper to be estab-
lished in Idaho by the Nom Partisan
league will enter the field at Nampa as
weekly early next month, it has been
officially announced. 1t will cover the
Boise and Payette valleys.
Rev. Eugene Deane, former pas
tor of the Methodist church of En-
nett, has been caught in the net for
traitors and has been sentenced to the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kan, for year and day
Considerable activity in the sale Of
lands on the King Hill project is now
manifest. Many of the settlers are
making extensive improvements to
their properties, and many tracts not
titled heretofore are being put in shape
to produce crops.
Two hundred and fifty Mexican fam
lilies from the interior of Mexico have
arrived at Idaho Falls from FL Paso,
Texas, and will take up work in the
sugar beets fields, it is announced
They We're brought to Idaho by special
arrangement with the government.
About thirty-five sheep shearers rep
resenting their organization in Idaho
met at Boise and fixed a scale for their
work for the year. The organization
demands Is cents head and board for
clipping the fleeces. The scale last
year was from 8 to II cents and board.
! Mrs. Lucy Roger of Meridian was
chosen to fill the position as principal
of Maple Grove school in the place OF
Miss Lucy Higgins, who was asked to
j resign as principal of the school on
account Of her affiliation with sect
that is not in sympathy with the war.
The stern reality of war has been
brought to the family Of Congressman
Addison t. Smith in the death of their
nephew, Franklin G. Fairchild, son of
| Congressman Benjamin l.. Fairchid, of
New York, who was killed in an aero
plane accident at Fort Worth, Texas.
United States soldiers who have
been on patrol duty at st. Maries fol
lowing the attempt of Industrial
Workers of the World to release mem-
bers of their organization from the
county jail have left for Fort George
Wright, near Spokane The Idaho home
guards remained on duty.
On recommendation OF the Bannock
1 county farm bureau the county COM
mssioners have appointed j.. Wyley
Sessions as county agent. Professor
4 Sessions has resigned as instructor OF
/ agriculture at the Idaho Technical in
stitute and will begin active work
along lines already mapped out.
G. G. Allen who owns a dry farm on
the bench south Of Boise, reports that
upon visiting his ranch Sunday with
a view of making preparations for es-
tablishing his residence there for the
summer, he discovered that his house
had been wrecked by vandals to such
an extent as to make 1t unhabitable.
The Canyon county commissioners
have been petitioned by the farm bu-
reau to rigidly enforce the state va
grancy laws, the bureau being In re-
cipt of many complaints that the float
ing population of the county was in
clined to feel insalted at the wage
offer of $50 per month, with board,
room and washing included.
Former Senator Fred II. Dubois has
been appointed as civilian member of
the board of ordnance and fertilization
| This appointment carries with ii a sal
ary of $500 a year.
]. X. White, the state. dairy. food
and sanitary inspector, is planning to
use all the power of his office to sup
press the sale of impure and injurious
substitutes for food under the plea of
war saving"