The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-02-13
In THE GEM STAT

ers at the recent Pocatello seed show.
rooming house, at Twin Falls, fell
down an elevator shaft and broke his
back
In wet days Boise numbered on
her police force from twenty to TWEEN
ty-fve men. The present force is an
exact dozen.
Nearly 900 persons from Blackfoot,
Shelly Bingham and Rigby stakes
attended the four-stake M. l. A. con-
vention at Idaho Falls.
Institution Of meat and abattoii
inspection department, as a part OF
the municipal administration, has been
authorized by the city council at Twin
Falls.
The city of Twin Falls has entered
L into a contract agreement with A. X.
Roberts of Portland, Ore, for the sale
Of a carload Of army merchandise
and goods there.
Fifty pupils of the rural high school
% girls and as many boys, have slgni
fed their desire to enter the declama-
tDIy COHttSl WHICH Will take Iltte III
Filler some time during February.
Howard Tallington OF Jerome lost
the sight of one eye from the careless
use of a rubber flipper in the hands
of a playmate last week. A piece OF
barbed wire penetrated the eyebaIl
Equipped with apparatus Of the lat
est design, a hospital is to be insti
/ tuted in Burnley, according to authori
Il tative information. 1t will occupy the
entire upper floor Of the new Pixley
\ building.
h An ordinance which will be voted
Il upon at the next meeting of the Nampa
Il city council will provide severe penal.
| ties for the people living in the city
| who permit debris to accumulate or
| their property.
Il Building permits covering construc-
II ton estimated at $500, 900, were issued
Il by the city clerk at Twin Falls during
II January. This is the heaviest month :
Il permit business in the history OF
Il Twin Falls city.
II Employers of child labor must pa!
II 10 per cent Of their net income to
i the federal government. Sam j. Hind
Il man, chief field deputy in the office
i of Lewis Williams, revenue collector
i announced last week.
i The open shop" policy has beer
Il inaugurated at Twin Falls by the
II Twin Falls Employers association
Il Official notice of the associations &C
II ton has been served on business agents
Il and secretaries of the various crafts
II involved.
III A dam which had been built in Cow
III Greek this winter for the purpose o.
I providing water for their ranches a
Cow lakes went out with the higl
: water few days ago. The dam hae
just been completed and had not hat
time to settle.
r Captain Jones was burned about thu
face and head when the furnace il
his home ut Basalt exploded. Thu
boy had attempted to build a fire IL
the furnace, and being unsuccessful, h,
threw in quantity Of coal OIL caus
= ing the explosion.
. 1.-THE increase in the receipts of tn,
: department of commerce and industr,
n over 1918 is within S532.70 of ben,
8 sufficient to puy the entire expense o
q the department" said Jay Gibson, com
( missioner of that department, in hi
5 report to Governor Davis.
4 The Cove Motor company has pur
+ chased from n. M. Edredge twent,
e acres in north Pocatelo and started
4 excavations for plant A portion
G will be laid out in city lots for tn,
+ homes of the workmen in the factory
The factory itself will be located neai
the town.
! With beet sugar factory assured
for the Filler district, and arrange
ments proceeding for the operat Ito,
! of this institution to handle the 1925
beet crop. executives of the Idaho
= Cooperative Beet Sugar company o
: Twin Falls are negotiating for the es
adjustment of similar factory il
. Bull
Y 1t is runored that there is to b,
: constructed a line of railroad extend
e ing from the present main line Of TIL,
$ Oregon Short Line at Hammett
j
: distance of more than $50 miles. Thi.
4 would, it is said, put Twin Falls OF
2 the main line of the Oregon Shor
$ Line.
$ The Central Idaho Antlers' associa
tion, made up chiefly of members o.
the b. p. q. +. of southern Idaho
will transfer before spring forty ell
from the jackson Hole country to the
Copper Basin near Mackay. The trans
ca viii cost approximately $1,000
xhch cost will be borne by the asso
citation.
There was $10.27 saved for ever,
dollar expended in farm bureau worl
in Idaho in 1919, according to a table
of figures presented by the university
extension division to the county com
missioners of the counties of Idahf
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