The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-01-11
In THE GEM STATE

DOcSo0iA A>A3
Idaho's dairies and creameries pro
duce from $5,O0O,O0O to $SOo0,0O0
worth of creamery products year.
Idaho raised $35,OOO,OOO worth Of
hay, $4,O0O,OOO worth of fruit and 81
10000 worth Of potatoes last year.
he largest pipe organ In the state
,i, he third largest in the northwest
is n1,.s claimed by the management Of u
theatre at Nampa.
Prop rty damages by recent floods in
Warln,r and Kellogg have reached
thousands Of dollars and many per-
sons have lost their homes
The eyaporating plants in the Boise
and Payette valleys dried an esti-
mated total Of 100000 bushels Of ap-
pies and 1909 tons of prunes the past
season.
Willard, the 11-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. c. II. Benson of Nampa,
was painfully injured last week when
his hand became cntangled In an cleo
tric wrnger.
Through the efforts Of the Mnidoka
NOuAty duAllluly VI tllS StdlC OCiCuSS
council the German Lutheran parochial
schools at Paul and Eden will be closed
until after the war.
The Idaho Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis, pre-
liminary reports indicate, will have
of Red Cross seals.
Mrs. J. III. Hoffman Of Boise attempt
ed suicide by shooting, but will re-
cover. She feared that her husband
would be sent to France, and he re-
| fused to claim exemption.
From Idaho's hills 24,OOO horses and
mules have been supplied to the Unit
ed States army. A billion feet of Ida
no lumber has gone, directly or indi-
rectly, into the conduct of the war.
The Canyon county exemption board
has classified 292 men, of whom SO
came in the first class, 38 in the sec
ond class, six in the third class, 1870
in the fourth class and % in the fifth
class.
Ten years ago there were but five
creameries in the state, while at the
present time there are in operation
forty-two creameries and cheese fac
tories, nearly all Of which are in south
w. -fsta saroa
Many houses were washed away at
Kellogg by the high water in the Occur
d'Alene river and Milo creek, and a
score of families were rendered home
&c acti hor
sands of dollars.
The principal stock shipping cen
ters of the state during the past year
have been Mackay, Ketchum, Salmon,
Dubois, Pocatello, Preston, Gooding,
Blackfoot and CALDWELL all of which
are tributary to the big Idaho ranges.
George II. Fisher of Bancroft has
been elected chairman and president
of the industrial accident board, better
known as the workmens compensation
commission, the important law govern
which went into effect with the new
year.
Idaho's mines have poured $50, ,0OO,-
. 600 into the national wealth. They
produced 350,00O,0OO pounds OF lead,
, 100000 pounds of zinc. 10,000,0O0
! pounds of "copper" 100000 ounces of
, silver and $4,000 ounces Of gold in
1917.
While it is only few years since
r dairy products were shipped into Idaht
from Kansas and Nebraska, figures
which have been compiled for 1917
show the shipment from this state oi
about $5,000,00O worth Of butter anc
cheese.
Preparation for one-day institutes il
all of the forty farm bureau district.
of Canyon county is now being made
Stock judging, clover seed production
and livestock production and dstribu
tion will be the chief features of tn,
institutes.
Sheepmen at the convention of tn,
Idaho WoolgrOwers' association a
Boise voted unanimously to bring
o friendly suit to decide whether or no
their industry comes under the provi
i sons of the workingmen's compensa
4 tion law passed by the last legisla
f ture.
S The annual meeting of the Stat
l. Hotel Clerks association was held n
: Idaho Falls last week. The following
officers were elected for the enSuin
G year: President, Leon Bachman, Ida
o no Falls secretary and treasurer. ]. 1
; Mulloy, Pocatello. The next meetin
will be held in Pocatelo.
A total of 1900 cars of cattle wer
shipped from Idaho over the Orego
e Short Line in 1917. OF this total, az
u proximately 1900 cars were shippe
from the different range districts /
IL southern Idaho during the past fou
? months. The shipments have avel
aged about 25 head for each car.
: A patent on an internal combustio
engine has been given to Samuel
Grimmett and Fred Goette of Caldwell
The new engine Is a radical departur
. from the ordinary type of internul.con
10 bustion engine, in that it has onl
seven moving parts and that it ha
~ dicnopSpd with rrsp MI shaft an ord