The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-11-12

revived at a meeting last week.
Business men Of Wilder met last
week and organized the Business Mems
association Of Wilder.
The state meeting of the secretaries
If Commercial clubs will be held at
Caldwell from November % to "A.
The annual Idaho Sunday School as
ISOLATION convention was held at Cald-
we'll, Sunday and Monday Of last week.
The municipal employment office at.
Boise during October found work for
266 persons. % more than were placed
Turing September.
Archie Young, negro, IS years Of
age, dropped dead on the depot plat
form at Green River. Wyo., while
waiting for a train.
A Caldwell resident has launched Z
scheme for free laundry, where poor
families can do their laundry work
with all modern conveniences.
A sad feature of the opening of the
pheasant season was the death Of Vir-
| gil Trout of Sandoval, ILL.,, who acct.
1entally shot himself near Meridian.
Former students and educators of
Kansas, VINO are now doing either edu-
! cational or public work In Idaho, were
entertained at a banquet at Twin Falls.
The public school at Rupert re-
opened on November 2, after being
closed for week to allow the teach
ers to attend the institute at Twin
Falls.
Ninetyseven buildings permits for
building and alterations amounting to
s211 ,480 were issued through the
building inspectors office at Boise
during October.
Members Of the M. e. church Of Kim
berley and others have just completed
a successful drive In shower of
blessings" for the benefit of the Good
ing college at Gooding.
! Joe Miller and Harry Flattery were
arrested at Pocatello on advices from
| Sheriff Whitaker Of Evanston, WyO.
The men will be held here until an
officer arrives from Wyoming.
A loss Of 10 per cent in the potato
crop is estimated as the result of last
weeks storm In the Rupert section.
In regard to hay, 1t is thought that the
loss will not be more than per cent.
The Armistice day football game to
be played at Boise between the Uni
versity of Utah and the University of
Idaho will be the first intercollegiate
football game in the history of the city.
The accidental discharge of his shot
gun, as he was climbing into ma
chine, three miles west of Meridian,
caused the death Of Virgil Trout. who
with two friends was hunting pleas
ants.
Kid Davis, internountain feather
weight champion, lost a decision in II
rounds at Pocatello with Spug Myers.
Davis does not lose the championship
on this fight, because Myers weighed
100 pounds, ringside.
One Of the interesting issues that
will go before the next legislature is
the question of the removal of the
county seat of Boise county from Idaho
City to Horseshoe Bend. If this Ia
done practically the oldest city in the
state will virtually be abandoned.
The first carload of head lettuce
shipped from Wilder brought 1920 on
the Chicago market, it Is said. Part
of this shipment was locked on nc
count of being colored by rain after
Grating A large number of farmers
will grow head lettuce next year. it is
announced.
The winter semester opened at the
Idaho Technical institute at Pocatello
on November l with large increase
in enrolment. The earliness of the
snow, preventing many farmers from
getting their beets and other crops har-
vested. will keep many farm boys out
Of school for two weeks yet
Roy Benson was accidentally shot In
the knees by Ora Roselle at Humph-
rey. Roselle was shooting ducks over
the o. s. l.. ice pond. and at the time
was standing in wagon. His horses
started up, and in trying to stop them
the gun was discharged. making seri-
Gus wound in Benson's knees.
frankie Regan, the Pueblo light
weight, who has been boxing in Idaho
for some time, has been suspended by
the state athletic commission for
period Of six months, beginning Octo-
Der 20. He Is suspended for his re-
fusal to carry out his contract with
the Gate City Athletic club at Idaho
Falls to box George Soils.
John Kaneister of Hngerman, stu !
dent at the Idaho Technical institute
at Pocatello, narrowly escaped death /,
or serious Injury at the college shops. !
when an emery wheel he was using |
broke and three pieces hit him.