The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31

The rural life school at Gooding col
lege opened last week with good at
tendance.
The erection of silos for peas and
Dat silage as well as sunflower silage
is being considered by Camas county
farmers.
Pocatello engineers have formed
local club, which eventually will be-
come a local chapter of the American
Association of Engineers.
The county commissioners Of Wash
ington and payette counties have made
appropriations for hiring county
club leaders for the boys and girls
work
Arrangements have been made for
the testing Of several dairy herds of
Madison county for tuberculosis. One
herd Of 81 which was tested showed
no reactors
Offers on potatoes produced from
certified seed in the Dietrich tract thus
far have averaged from 40 to 80 cents
more per hundred pounds than the
market price.
More than 400 people attended the
first market day sale held under the
auspices of the Gooding county farm
bureau. The returns from stuff sold
totaed SS333I
Lemhi county will soon have pub
lie health nurse, the action to employ
one having been taken by the Red
Cross chapter, Jointly with the county
commissioners.
Recent inspection of six Fremont
county demonstration plots on which
pocket gopher eradication work was
done in July revealed that more than
30 per cent Of the gophers had been
] killed.
There is a possibility that the fif-
teenth Idaho Legislature may be con-
vened some time during November in
a one-day extra session for the sole
purpose af ratifying national woman
suffrage.
The Teachers institute for all edu-
Gators in the nine counties in south
eastern Idaho, adjacent to Bannock
county, was held at Pocatello. Hun
dreds of teachers were in the city for
the occasion.
Peas which grew on irrigated ground
in Camas county in one instance made
vine growth of more than eight feet.
Men who are trying to grow field peas
there are confident that it will mike
good pea country.
II t.,
i Bear river and the recuperation of
Bear lake looks promising for next
season, according to Commissioner of
4 Reclamation w. G. Swendson, after an
| extensive inspection trip to the Bear
! lake region.
Seven carloads of sheep shipped to
Omaha made up the second shipment
from Boise valley for this season. The
shipment went from Caldwell, Mcri-
dian, Nampa and Kuna and represent
! ed both the Canyon and Ada county
\ farm bureaus.
jay Rugg, the 9-year-old son Of Mr.
and Mrs. j. J. Rugg, Of Bull, lost the
thumb and two fingers of his left hand
\ from an explosion of .22-caliber cart
ridge. The boy poured the powder
out Of the cartridge upon hot stove
and the explosion followed
John Ours, a workman employed OF
the concrete elevators being construct
ed al Idaho Falls by the MidlanGs
Elevator company, died from injuri ::
: received when he fell eighty-five fee
4 to tia concrete floor of the elevator
a shen scaffold gave way under his
weight.
Judge J. J. Guheen, prominen
Pocatello jurist, committed suicide a
! Portland by shooting himself. TIL,
reason for the act is said to have beer
poor health Mr.. Guheen was in Port
land taking treatment at hospita
for general broken-down condition OF
his health.
The news comes from Bull that the
Farmers Mutual Power company ha.
purchased the power site at Cleal
lakes from w. c. Hazard for "A con
sideration of $43 600. The purchase
includes steam engines and all the par
aphemalia to be used in the construc
ton of Il power plant
r. Joseph Unger, a wealthy hotel mar
of Pitt sburg. Pa. is lost somewhere il
the mountains of Idaho, where he weni
early in the month with four Other
Pennsylvania men. He has been miss
ing since October s, when he left the
remainder of the party with a guide
and later left the guide.
j. n. Nnnkeyis, grand chancellor
. of Idaho. ana VIII NJ. Cochran, pas
grand chancellor of South Dakota, 81
the Knights Of Pythias, We're guests o.
the Blackfoot Pythans in mallart
duck dinner, served in the lodge rooms
: One hundred members participated il
the feast which was followed b,
toasts.
The recent decision of the public
utilities commission of Idaho to the
Z effect that electric heating in Idaho Il
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