The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-10-18
IDAHOBUDCET

Owing to the prevalence of Spanish
Influenza the Child Welfare campaign
at Caldwell has been indefinitely post
poned.
Emmett entertained the delegates to
the thirty-second annual convention of !
the Woman's Christian Temperance
union October 8, 8 and 10.
The big roundup at Blackfoot last
week was a success in every way. The |
attendance was large and the attrac-
tons were well patronized.
Insurance men of Canyon county
met at Caldwell last week and per-
fected the Canyon county division OF
the State Insurance federation.
Potato growers have been called to
attend conference in Boise In the i'm
mediate future to learn further details
Qf the methods to be inaugurated this
fall in handling the potato harvest.
Word has been received at Midvnle
from France, telling of the death of
Private Floyd Reavis from pneumonia.
| Mr.. Reayis was in the June call and
was in training less than Il month be-
fore being sent overseas.
A new course OF training has been
added to the list in Boise high school.
Girls gymnasium classes will be held
regularly each Friday. There will be
a class each period, so that all the
girls may be accommodated.
Brig. Gen. Noble Of the hospital divi-
sion. war department, will soon visit
lseise to inspect the buildings ut Boise
,, barracks and determine the feasibil-
: i!y OF establishing a reconstruction and
! educational hospital camp there.
:. Officials hnve been successful ii
! running down Asnether bunch Of al
legged cattle rusf1ers in the Haf1e.
: district. Three men We're arrested las
week. They are Jesse Scoble, w. l.
West and Harry Burnell. Scoble ant
, West are ex-convicts.
, The Idaho Master Bakers associa
ton, through its officers, j. w. Wilson
president, and A. j. Stephan, secre-
tary, have entered Il protest to the
, state food administration against the
price Of bread announced by Food Ad-
minstrator II. f. Bicknel.
The Red Cross drive for Belgian re-
lief was responded to with a donation
of 800 pounds of clothing by New Ply
, mouth citizens. The hospital linen
shower was also Il success and lis
new garments have been finished and
, sent in by the New Plymouth unit.
; The body Of Jack Howard, known
! in the Warren mining district as
, miner Jack" was found in the Sal
mon river near the Higgins place
| Howard is the man for whom search
: was made after he had attempted to
t commit suicide by cutting his throat
An order of the board of health
l made public October 10 calls for the
! closing of all theatres. churches and
r assembly halls, including also dances
i Liberty loan gatherings and all gather
: ings of a public character, but does not
} include the public or private schools OF
the state.
The county food administrators re
l duced the maximum price of Il 10
ounce loaf of bread in the state to
cents wholesale and 10 cents retail
unWTuppeu, anu recommended an III
crease of So per ton to farmers fol
: sugar beets, making price of SD pei
ton, at their meeting held at Boise.
Students who desire to enter the
collegiate section of the students
army training corps at Moscow who
have at least 13 units of credit in {
standard high school and who have
registered and who have not been clas
sitied in class l A by registration
Y prior to September II are eligible.
+ campaign will soon be started b.
f the Canyon county bureau to poison
e gophers on the farms in Canyol
d county. While gophers have not be
: come serious menace to- the farmer
: in Canyon county, there are grea
many in some districts, and genera
cleanup will be started to esterml
nate them before they increase.
g In The government through Dnrecto
= Haga, recently called for u report fror
& saIdaho manufacturers as to the capacit
n of their plants and for a statement a
II to how much work each manufacture
can handle over and above his regula
trade. The report has been made, an
large orders are expected for thi
state in the future.