The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-02-27

Idaho automobiles, 42,732 In mum
Der, brought 1928 3.9OO.l4 into the state
treasury during 1919 All motor We
hicle licenses and chauffeurs' licenses
brought total OF $729. .70294 to pub
lie Golfers.
The Chamber OF Commerce of Ru-
pert Is to have a paid manager. A
big membership drive is now on. One
team signed ITO new members, and
are to be honored guests at big ban
quet In the near future.
The Ashton dog races for the year
1920 have been postponed indefinitely
This action has been caused by the
unexpected and exceedingly warm
weather prevailing in this section for
the past two weeks.
Mrs. Nolera Romanza Nelson. for
mer resident Of Rupert. where she be-
gan her career In motor lines, has the
distinction of being the first woman
in America to obtain pilots certif-
icnte from the Aero club OF America
State Commissioner of Public In
yestments Charles A. Elmer has
recommended to the state land board
that It either collect fees due on co.
GOO acres of state grazing land, or
cancel present leases and release the
lands.
Within three years, unless there Is
a tremendous increase In the produc-
tion of wheat, the United States will
be importing that grain, Governor
Davis told the state farm bureau in
an address delivered at the Boise
meeting.
The Ashton Townsite company has
been dissolved by mutual consent and
the holdings sold TO the firm of Moore
4 Fuller The townsite company was
formed at the founding Of the town
and owned practically the entire town
at one time.
Contracts were let last week for
sixty residences to be built immedi-
ately in Pocatello by the Northwest
ern Investment company to J. II. Mar
shall, local contractor. This is the
largest home-building campaign ever
initiated in south Idaho.
o. +. Hendershot, secretary of the
Gem State Fair association, was ac.
quilted of the charge of manslaughter
brought against him. due to the death
of Michael Morris, with whom he had
nm alteration at tbesfair grounds al
Boise. Henershot struck Morris. Two
weeks later Morris died.
The searching party that went 90
miles into the snowbound country
above Cascade to bring out the body
of O. h. Able, reported as having been
killed by one of his purebred bulls,
week. Able's friends openly charge
that he was murdered.
The total cost of the 1919 state fair
is shown to have been $S2 $40 80 in
the report of the state department OF
finance. Receipts were $62 ,405. 49,
The excess expenditures over receipts
is $40. .3S416, which sum is fully cov-
cred by the $20.871 80 which has been
ordered paid out of the 1920 appropri-
alton.
Joseph II. Peterson. former attor-
ney general of the state, has been ap-
pointed by Governor Davis as the
chairman of the drive in BannoclS
county for raising its share of the
$1,000 expected from Idaho as this
states share of the $25O,0oO which will
20 toward Americas gift to the
French republic.
A hint of the work against tubercu-
losis is given in the figures showing
that 1856 herds were tested during the
past year, 3I20 cattle being examined.
among them 1872 being listed as reac-
tors. S3143.16 in indemnities was
paid to owners of these animals.
There must be a heavy fall of snow
in the higher attitudes, especially in
the mountains, if Idaho is to have
sufficient water this year for the irri-
cation of its crops. This is the belief
Of w. G. Swendsen. commissioner of
reclamation with the state govern
ment.