The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-07-09
In THE GEM STATE

The Seventh Day Adventists con
yention al Caldwell was attended by
large crowds.
The Idaho State Dental association
held Il post graduate course in Poca-
tello last week.
Ada county election registrars have
begun a special drive for early regis
traton of voters.
a li-room frame lodging house at
HALEY was destroyed by fire. the
origin of the blaze being unknown.
J. H. Baker, farmer near Bliss,
while working with his hay derrick.
was struck by the fal pole being
fatally injured.
Russian sunflowers for silage are
popular with Lemhi county farmers,
40 acres in all having been planted
to the crop this season.
The siX-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs Larson of Preston, had its
shoulder broken last week when 1t
was thrown from Il buggy as the re-
suit Of runaway.
duced at the Pope Shenon mill JUST
south of Salmon, where facilities are
Installed for reducing copper ores by
the Bradford process.
The county school superntendents
of Idaho who are attending Il confer
ence in pocatello. are planning to at
tend the National Education associa
tion convention at Salt Lake in a
body.
Burey has the distinction of being
the second largest potato shipping
point in Idaho. Last year 1850 car
loads of spuds We're shipped from this
point, each car averaging $1,000
pounds.
A. II. Sheehan has returned to
Boise from Salt Lake ana has given
himself up to serve the nlnety-day sen
tence for illegal transportation OF
liquor to which he was sentenced i'll
January, 1917.
Pocatelo will send large delega
tion to the N. e. A. meeting to be held
at Salt Lake. Many of the 300 sum-
mer normal students at the Idaho
Technical institute will attend, as well
as the faculty.
For the immediate present Burley's
| water supply troubles are at an end.
Augmenting the regular municipal
supply, water is to be taken from the
| Oregon Short Line railroad company
well at the station.
Because Of the extraordinary heavy
demand for service the Farmers
| Mutual Telephone company nj Filler
will shortly increase its capitalization
from $4,000 to $4,000, according to
officers of the company.
Challs, county seat of Custer
county. has formally invited the busi'
ness men of Salmon 10 pay that city
a fwo-days visit, the date of the get
together being fixed for July 1919,
aud Salmon has accepted.
Petition has been filed with the
public utilities commission of Idaho
by Jerome business men, urging an in
vestigation of need of a downtown
depot and loop from the present main
line to the business district.
DIR. A. b. Parkinson of Lewiston,
who suffered severe injuries in an au-
tomobile accident, is reported recover
ing. His injuries were thought to be
Of such il serious character that he
could not live when he was first given
treatment
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companied by at least three Irishmen
on his staff of trainers, Mike O'Dowd,
former middleweight champion of the
world, has arrived at Pocatello 10 train
for the big fight with Gordon Mckay
on July ).
I A permanent camp will be located
on the Boy Scout camping grounds on
Indian creek within the government
reserve this summer. The boys will
use pup" tents, with which a number
of them provided themselves, until a
cabin can be erected.
;~rop conditions on the Mnidoka
project, according TO crop authorities,
are at least 30 per cent better thah
ever before at this season of the year
Almost perfect stands of wheat, sugar
beets, potatoes and similar crops have
been obtained by the big majority OF
farmers on the project.
The Idaho Irrigation company has
set aside funds to build canal about
seven miles in length above Magic
reservoir to carry the waters of the
Big Wood river across a sink hole III
the gravel The changing of this
source of the stream will save about
$4,000 acres of water annually.
Two large dehydrating plants will
be ready to handle the apples and
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