The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-04-19
in THE GEM STATE


to reach its quota in the third Liberty
loan drive.
Idaho sent 240 men to Camp Lewis
fortnight ago when the government
asked the nation for more than 10000
soldiers.
Idaho will be asked to furnish 604
men in the April draft, according to
figures compiled at the adjutants gen
erals office
Emmett last season shipped $50 cars
of peaches. This year the district will
not ship more than 20 cars If estimates
Of damage by recent cold weather is
correct
Thirty-seven county chairmen and
representatives of the forty-one coun-
ties of Idaho met Ia conference at
Boise last week to discuss food situa-
tons and problems.
A total of S565334 was turned over
to the Caldwell Red Cross chapter last
week by the chairman Of the financial
committee of the auction sale held for
Red Cross benefit March 26.
Six Homedale boys, five of whom are
not q years Of age, joined the colors
In Boise one day last week Homedale,
proud of its sons, sent a delegation of
Al people to Boise with the young
men.
Beans, potatoes and other products
specified as substitutes heretofore, Will
not be recognized as such in the fu-
ture, according to a telegram sent to
all county chairmen by r. f. Bicknell,
federal food administrator for Idaho.
1t is said the farmers of Smiths
Prairie section are plowing, but that
the price of seed wheat is so steep that
they may not be able to plant 1t costs
S5.25 per hundred pounds by the time
1t reaches the farmer in that section.
| The high school teachers who last
land Empire Teachers association, at
Spokane, report highly interesting
and profitable session. Idaho was we'll
represented in attendance and on the
program.
James F. Murray, prominent contrac-
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tello by slashing his throat three times
with razor. He has good chances for
recovery. III health and brooding over
the death of his wife two years ago
led to the deed.
AT a Red Cross auction sale held ar
Ashton, one-half dozen pure-bred white
Leghorn hens brought $151S. They were
sold many times, ranging in price from
$40 to $3.50. After the chickens were
sold, single feathers were sold at $40
each. An egg was found in the coop
and it brought $2S more.
]. M. Neil and Charles Orr have
disposed Of their herd of more than
1900 head of cattle In Owyhee county
to Herbert Lemp of Boise, according
to reports from Oreana, their head
quarters. April 10 was the date set for
delivery Of the stock and the transac-
tion involves nearly 100000.
Because of the belief that every dol
lar Idaho has to spare should go to-
ward the winning of the war, espe-
cially in view of the terrific battles
that are waging on the western front
in France, the state board of exami-
ners in this state has put the lid down
tight on public improvements.
Plans for the organization of a
baseball league, comprising Pocatello,
Blackfoot, Lava Hot Springs and
American Falls, We're perfected at a
meeting held at Pocatello last week.
! Pocatello will have two clubs, one
representing the Elks and the other
the Oregon Short Line railway.
z. Hofsted, an attorney, who was
convicted of seditiOus utterances and
actions at Moscow, and served three
months in Jail for the offense, has been
retained to represent the l. w. w. In
their fight before Spokane courts. Hof-
sted is now facing disbarment proceed.
ings before the Idaho supreme court.
G. b. Smith, chief of the states re-
lation service at Washington. has asked
that H. w. Hochbaum, director of
county agricultural agents in Idaho,
spend two weeks this month at the ma
tional capital. Smith wants the Idaho
man to assist the federal government
in organizing county farm bureaus in
other states.
Some firebug. presumably with the
intention of cutting off the water sup.
ply for the King Hill project, set fire
to the "big flume" on the ditch Ex-
cept for an early discovery Of the
blaze the entire flume might have been
destroyed, which would have resulted
In destruction Of all the King Hill
crops this season.
At the annual meeting of the Utah
Press association held at Salt Lake
April and 8, James H. Wallis, former
state dairy food and sanitary commits
sioner, was elected president Of the
association. Mr.. Wallis has published
papers at Paris, Rexburg and Preston
and is one of the best known news
paper men in Idaho. He Is now pub
fishing the vernal, Utah, Express.
Canyon county farmers will raise
800 acres more wheat this year than
last, according to an estimate based