The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-10-22
IN THE GEM STATE

A Parent-Teacher association was
nearly 100 members.
The Woman's club OF Parma has
given the Parma public library furnish
ings which amounted to $500.
Emmett irrigation district Is enjoy
ing at least double any crops and any
prosperity that it has ever known be-
fore it is claimed.
1t has been learned that the total
receipts of the recent state fair were
| $35, 45S73 as compared with $23,1 29,-
GA, taken in last year.
Ernest Erickson, woodsman, was
killed by a rolling log near Wallace
The accident happened at the junction
OF Cedar Creek with the North Fork
| An Observation-Disclosures convention
of Sunday school workers of the upper
| Snake River valley will convene in
Idaho Falls for a one-day session Oc-
tober 81.
A campaign to raise $4,000 in
southern Idaho to finance the construc-
ton of the proposed Salvation Army
rescue home in Boise, has been
| launched.
| Two small boys, about IL years old,
have confessed to robbery of store
in Blackfoot They took 81 or SO in
cash and $115 worth of ammunition
and guns.
The American Legion is bringing
lyceum course to Jerome this winter
and early spring, consisting of six
numbers of varied entertainment and
instruction.
Barley averaged % bushels per acre
on 10000 acres In Idaho this year,
totaling 4,104,O0O bushel crop. Last
year the average yield per acre was
only % bushels.
One hundred and fifty Kiwanians
and ladies were present when Herbert
Van Dam, Jr., district governor Of Salt
Lake, presented the international char
ter to the Pocatello club.
Standard time is legal time in the
state Of Idaho, according to an opin-
ion handed down by Dean Driscoll,
assistant attorney general, in response
to an inquiry from Twin Falls.
Idaho's apple crop improved some
what from last month. The total crop
is estimated at 1851, 900 bushels. Last
: years crop was 4,3500OO bushels.
Quality and color generally excellent.
A meeting Of the district convention
of the Royal Neighbors was held at
Blackfoot last week. Sixty delegates
were in attendance, representing Poca-
tello, Idaho Falls, Shelley, Arco Me-
nan and Roberts.
, ]. l.. Green was seriously injured
when he was attacked by bull at his
farm near Eagle. The bull, which
belonged to a neighbor, was in Mr..
Green's pasture when he went to drive
In his cows, and attacked him.
The oats crop of Idaho totals s.
100000 bushels. 1t was harvested from
100000 acres with an average yield
of 40 bushels per acre. Last years
crop totaled 100000 bushels, the av-
erage yield per acre being 35 bushels
A committee has been appointed to
make tests in different parts of the
. city of Burley to find out the exact
r level of the ground water. After this
is done plan for drainage will be
I worked out, according to the city coun
I ell
}. Governor Davis has assured The
d people OF the Big Lost river projec
: that the state of Idaho, through thu
- department of reclamation, will be
s gin a survey of the proposed plan t.
l. divert part of the waters of the uppe
) Salmon river for irrigation purpose
> in central Idaho.
! The State bank at Plummer wa
n robbed of $1,000 In currency and tw'
women were locked in the vault. The
!; are Miss Myrtle VIM, acting q
/ cashier and Miss Eva Usrfra. de
= positor. They We're the only occr
pants of the bank. The robbers es
capped in an automobile
" Idaho has just finished harvestin
15,456,000 bushel crop of sprin
wheat, the largest she ever produces
re- Combined with the 5,90S,0O0 bushel
Il. winter wheat crop, Idaho's total whea
a. productions for 1920 is placed at Il
Is 364,000 bushels, as compared with is
.. 100000 bushels last year.