The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-09-17
.LATAH COUNTY
NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Clipped From The Columns
Of Neighboring Papers.

Genesee News: Since the rain
of last week tine weather has been
exceptionally fine for havesting and
threshing just right. The weather
has been cool and the dust bothers
but little as compared with many
former years.
According to reports of threshers
the heaviest part of the work will
be over in another week or ten days.
The haulers are about as thick on
the roads as flies ordinarily are dur
ing this season of the year when
they are hunting warm place to
light, and thousands of bushels of
grain are being stored in the ware
houses and elevators in Genesee.
There is storage room here for about
million bushels, and 1T is expected
it will all be used.
Juliaetta Record: VIM. Fields has
been disposlng of some fine water
melons the past week. He brought
two fine ones from the patch few
days ago, one of which weighed 81
pounds and the other 35. He has
many large melons this year and
has sent several loads to Coltax.
Pullman and other places which it
is believed would easily average 25
lbs. melon. He has already sold
about SIX tons to outside points be-
sides disposing OF about two tons
locally. This is not half Of what
he will have provided the weather
conditions remain favorable for a
short time Until those now on the
vines ripen.
Troy News: Monday evening q
few of the members of the Com
mercial club met IN the club room
and discussed ways and means tC
get the side walks and hitching
racks fixed up IN this town. A
committee will call on each Dusl.
ness house next Monday morning
, and you want to be ready to tel
them just what you will do toward
this much needed Improvement
All present were heartily in favor
of building up the old walk anc
putting in new racks. But some O.
the work will have to be donated
and the News is safe in saving tina
the committee will not receive ;
1turn down.
Deary Press: According to re
ports from different sections, roa'
work in all parts of the county vii
be resumed as soon as the fall rains
now nearly due, soften the groun,
so that ut can be worked. Roa'
construction in most sections wa
suspended at the beginning OF har
:. vest so that the farmers and labor
= ers thus employed could go to. tn
harvest fields.
: District No. A has carried on roa
work all summer on the Helmel
Park highway. and will continu
:. during the fall. No. 8 has finishe
: large section of the Pine Cree
road and expects to resume work o
:, this and other important projects g
e e soon as conditions will permi
: This fall and winter would be
!. good time to attend to the seilin
- of such bonds as NAV be necessar
" to provide funds for next season
work, so that these details will /
out of the way when the spriu
road building season arrives.
Next year will be the create
lie of all years for road building.
~ Star Mirror: That land piaste
70 70 used extensively in this country II
:, alfalfa and clover, is also a gre
~ help in increasing the production
:. peas is the statement OF Jam
!. O'Conner, one of the pioneers in p'
a. growing in this section. Mr.. {
Conner said: my son George hi
. four acres of land on which he tri,
&c this land plaster as he had enoui
:. of it left to cover that much.
~ had the land in peas and he got
sacks per acre, or about double t
81 average yield. He is enthusiast
over land plaster for peas" N
O'Conner sold his farm last year
T. H. Rogers, or $50 and N
~, ad Rogers has just sold it for Sl6O Al
ist keeps the crops. Mr.. O'Conner sa