The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-11-14
IN THE GEM STATE

Rupert h IL own the electric plant.
This was decided at special meeting |
of the city council last week.
The University Of Idaho tHee club
Will make trip through southern |
Idaho the first and second weeks OF
February.
One-man street ears for the Boise
Valley Traction company's belt line
were authorized last week by the pub
lie utilities commission
Because Luther Stephanson of Mel
ba couldn't wait mtil the law was out
on Chinese phessants, he contributed
S2S to state game law enforcement
funds.
Rigby and Jefferson county have ap-
proprlated $500 for the big celebra-
tion to be held on Armistice day, No
yember II, in honor Of returned sol
liers, sailors and marines.
The erection of the Weiser Seventh
Day Adventist church will begin at
once. The church will be of the bum
galow type. 1t is estimated that the
value OF the structure will be $500.
Imprisoned for twenty-one hours in
a dry well, Paul Bennett was rescued
alive from under seventy-two feet Of
dirt and stones. He was working in
Well near Nampa when the cave-in oe-
Cured.
Vance johnson, 80 years old. was
bound over to the district court At
BIackfoot ON charge of first degree
murder and Is held without bail. II
Is charged that johnson killed Leon
Reese Harvard, 10 years old
If you happen to be woman,
child or a Civil war veteran, you are
at perfect liberty to 20 hunting with
out license In Idaho. You may kill
the limit 0f game, whether 1t be deer,
mountain gcat, elk or anything else.
Upwards Of 5000 acres of beets have
been contracted to be grown next sea-
son and delivered to the Idaho Co
operative Beet Sugars company mil
l,on-dollar factory at Filler, which will
be completed in time for next seasons
slicing.
The presidentfof the Buhl chamber
Of commerce. has been authorized by
that body 70 appoint committee OF
three to help organize the towns Of
southern Idaho into baseball league
asNl, get good club for Bull next
! seassur. ~
Leland Norton. returned soldier.
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Norton. who
reside on farm two miles south Of
Rupert, dropped deAd at their home,
death resulting from effects Of having
been gassed while at the front In
Ernnce.
Owing to the long illness of the late
Judge j. J. Guheen, compelling him to
remain of duty, the business OF the
district court at Pocatello was placed
on the shoulders of one judge, and
an accumulation of cases is said to
have resulted.
The strike of mechanics at Twin
Falls, appears to have no end in sight
Many Of the largest garages are do
ing business, but are employing non
union men. The union men refuse to
return to work until their demands for
gnition are met
reports from the upper Snake river
watershed In Wyoming are that on
November /, ut Moran, the outlet of
jackson lake dam. there was one foot
OF snow on the ground. AT the south
entrance to Yellowstone park there
was two feet Of snow.
Thomas G. Nebaur Of Sugar City.
Idaho's war hero was married nj
Idaho Falls last week, to his boyhood
sweetheart. Lois Shepperd, also Of SUI
gar City. Neibaur was one of the sew
enteen men Of the American army who
received congressional recognition.
New working hours went into effect
last week In some of the departments
of the Twin Falls county adm.nistra-
tion. A working day lienceforth will
be from q. IN. to p. IN. lp most de-
partments, however, office48 will re.
main open until f. m. to cplnply with
statutory requirements.
Newton .Wonacott, the t4Syear-old
high school lad who disappe&Yed from
Twin Falls sNme time sas
been found. He ws1 aSo oehaas nas nn' no'
ws,.aa aau n Fbooks down and
w., wa'nsa np'ovn rhen he vanished
bu .',tn :. = ls~ that ~ has met either
u n,.' :" "' vsesa orf1,fl spiay.
,,,,, m,s's = hc~ I Producing com
u, S'nas kast week the Beet Growers
"s" company turned out its first
1tlty Of sugar and since then has
En producing at the rate of 1Ot
/pounds a minute. The product is sait
to be of better grade than that which
heretofore has been shipped int
Rigby.
There is shortage of coal In Pc
cAtello that may cause IA great deal 0,
hardship later on If the weather re
mains cold. Dealers were unable t,
supply ene-tenth of the demand in thu
latter part Of October, and now, witt
the coal strike in operation, the deal
ers figure that they will not get =