The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-09-20
IDAHO BUDGET

VIII De neiu wednesday, thursday ana
Friday, September %, &c and o.
During August 40 cars of sheep
were sent out from Mccall and that
number is likely to be equalled this
month.
With an initial enrolment of 2114
pupils this fall, as against 20O3 last
year, the four Twin Falls school build
ings already are overcrowded.
The immense Canyon county wheat
crop is moving steadily and promptly
to market, according to Frank g.
Stephens, Canyon county director of
commercial economy.
w. j. Dyer of Eagle, who was re-
ported missing in action with the ma
rines June 49, writes his mother, Mrs.
M. Chilcott of Boise, formerly Of
Eagle, that he is "still kicking"
Two cloudbursts which occurred be-
tween Holcomb and Sherman, result
ed in two washouts on the line of the
Intermountain railway into the Boise
basin, and traffic was temporarily in
terrupted.
The Gooding public schools opened
on September 16. Military training un-
der competent instruction will be car
ried on in the high school, and classes
in first aid will be given the girls of
the high school.
A telephone line will be built by the
forest service from the Nelson ranch
to the Painter ranch, connecting gap
that separates north and south Idaho.
With this connection communication
will be possible to Grangeyille through
Dixie
Idaho State Life Insurance company
has already announced to the state
Liberty loan headquarters that it will
subscribe to $4,000 worth of fourth
issue Liberty bonds and that it is
now waiting for the application blank
to sign it.
A statement issued by the county as
SCISSOR shows that there are in Twin
Falls county this year $500 registered
motor vehicles, as against 2751 in 1917
and 61S in 1915. The total automo-
bile tax collected up to date this year
( in this county is $62,9SO.
With the return of the Middleton
canning team from the interstate fair
at Spokane it became known that the
Idaho team took second prize for can
ming demonstration in competition
with picked trios from Oregon, Wash
ington, Montana, Utah and Nevada.
deal was completed at Caldwell
last week with the Apple Growers
association of Caldwell and vicinity
for the sale of SO carloads of apples
at $37 800. Practically all the apple
growers of the Caldwell country have
entered the contract for the sale of
their apples.
Convict George w. Graham escaped
from the HURT ranch, near Nampa,
where he was employed as trusty.
Graham was received at the state
penitentiary from Bonneville coun-
ty, April 81, 1915 under sentence of
from one to fourteen years for the
crime of embezzlement.
Government estimates are to the ef-
feet it will take 1912 cars to move
the 1918 potato crop of Idaho. This
is much lighter than shipments made
last year. that ran near the 1900
car mark even when loss of 1000
cars is figured into the last year es-
innate, as a result Of car shortages.
Reports from twenty-six out of
ninety threshermen operating in Twin
Falls county, for the months of July
and August, show an aggregate yield
of 437 .SSS bushels of wheat threshed
as the crop from an area of 11,Tl4
acres, or an average of 4O.4 bushels
per acre. Every section OF the county
is represented in these reports.
In answer to request for double
! deck stock cars for the shipment of
sheep and hogs from southern Idaho
points, the Oregon Short Line railroad
has reported to the public utilities
commission at Boise that there are but
| two double-deck cars available at this
time for the filling of an order for
275 of these cars in southern Idaho.
Range conditions continue good gen.
orally, although there is some COM
plant from the southern counties that
the fall and winter range feed Will be
poor on account of the present lack
of moisture. However, stock are still
reported in good condition.
William Gwin, prominent farmer
near Shoshone, for many years resi-.
dent of Lincoln county, died suddenly
last week Mr.. Gwin was feeling i'll
and started to take a bath at his
home. He tainted while in the tuf
and never regained consciousness.
Down in Bear Lake county winter
wheat harvest is just nicely under
way and spring wheat is ripenini
fast. Up in Spokane valley kootena
county. farmers are busy seeding win
ter wheat Recent rains have put the
soil in excellent condition and an ex
ceptionally large acreage will be sowr
in that county.
At a special election called 70 vot,
, q special tax for the maintenance o.
? the high school in Jordan valley, thu
I in fa nf tho