The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-05-10


week at Payette, under proclama- /
ton issued by the mayor.
Several instances are noted where !
each member of family at Kuna
We're subscribers to bonds.
Thirty-nine people in the town of
Banner north Of Idaho City. at the
Banner mine subscribed $3.50 to the
Red Cross.
| A group of prisoners will be put 20
work on the highway in Canyon coun-
ty leading to Walters ferry on the
Snake river
Boise is to have a fruit and vege-
table dehydrating plant of 70 to 100
tons capacity that it is planned to be-
gin construction work on by May Is.
The Boise Ad club, which has com
plete charge of publicity work for War
Savings Stamps is planning to make
Memorial day special day for War
! Savings societies.
Lincoln, one of the smaller school
buildings of Boise, has just taken stock
of its Liberty Loan, War Savings
Stamps and Thrift Stamps among the
pupils, and they total $5,S14.40.
High school commencement will be
held at Payette, May 10. President
Ernest II. Lindley of the University of
idaho will give the commencement ad-
dress. There will be about 80 gradu
ates.
Liberty Bond subscriptions to the
amount of $3,T00 were obtained by 20
members of the Nampa Boy Scouts
organization, who combed the streets
in a campaign directed by their scout
master
Fruitgrowers should not apply ar
senate Of lead and other poisonous
sprays to fruit trees while they are in
full bloom, says Guy Graham, state
Horticultural inspector, in a statement
issued last week.
Because of his activities in the dis
tribution of printed matter that was
recently suppressed as being disloyal
! TO the United States government
Prentice G. Gloyestein of Twin Falls
} was ordered detained for trial
Manlus Bennett, a boy about 16
) years of age, received severe wound
in the right foot, at a sheep camp near
) Caldwell when a dog Knocked rifle
t from the support against which the
boy had leaned it, and the tirearm was
discharged.
= Alleging that instead Of Marcus
wheat the Farmers Society OF Equity
1 of Canyon county delivered wheat of
|. inferior quality when they purchased
r a quantity of seed, the Payette First
/, National bank has filed suit for
S1.29S.50 alleged damages.
t Dick Donovan, head of the labor
department In the state farm markets
r bureau, wants Is men for ranch work
at Grandview He is anxious TO find
: experienced irrigators, general farm
hands and sheep herders for work in
r other sections of the state.
Senator Borah had head-on COLI
; sion in the senate lobby with Buck
y Bryant correspondent of the Butte Mi
ner. While neither party Vas seri-
ously injured. both were put out of
commission for the balance of the
= day. The collision was entirely an
accident.
+ Spirit Lake, numbering town In
n Kootena county, has gone over the
d top in the Liberty loan drive in man
l. uer in keeping with the spirit of 4
S patriotic people. The town was asked
to subscribe $1,000. over $4,000 has
l. been raised and subscriptions are still
/ coming in.
d Better sanitary conditions in the
lumber and mining camps of the state
l. will be insisted upon by the STATE
!, board of health in the future. Thi
= state health department has just is
q sued pamphlet containing rule
which must be observed in camps b.
5, campers generally.
Coal contracts for the Soldiers
II Home were renewed last week 10y III
!. Soldiers Home board, with the SAM
dealers who held the 1918 contracts
Agreed prices of $3.50 for lump ah'
S905 FOR nut. in accordance with IN
government prices we're the figures Sc
y for the 1919 supply.
II After being Obliged to keep the fac
"a of their being union men secret 70
le many years in order to obtain employ
v ment through the Western Union Tcie
IL graph company, the commerciai ieit
It graphers of Boise, eleven in nunlbel
le have openly affiliated with the Con
~ mercial Teleraphers' union.
The trapping of goph9rs and squii
rels has proved profitable to two q
The Weiser high school boys Ro
Il and Leigh Lint, who have put N thei
~ spare time catching the rodents. The
o. receive cents apiece from the owne
'e OF the ranch and the bounty 0i NV
re- cpn,s. Thcy have caught 500 squirrel
in the pas, five weeks
With "A legacy of $42.479.39 almos
( within her grasp the property oi he
" murdered son. K. G. Goodnin OF Bois
~ Mrs. Lau.iuda Goodwin of Butle
:" Tonu.. May haze 10 rennqnish the ei