The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-11-19

pArtment OF agriculture, there are IN
1920, 42,1O9 farms In ~the states Of
Idaho, as against 3O,SO7 In 1910 and
17,471 in 1900. Twin Falls leads the
counties In the state In the number
total Of 2746 In 1920.
yield Of 85h bushels Dicklow
wheat per acre is reported from the
farm Of Lee Greenwell, northwest OF
Paul. The average for his entire wheat
acreage Is IA bushels per acre. r. III.
Bohon, also near Paul, threshed 7SO
bushels from IL acres, an average yield
OF 65 bushels pei acre.
A tire blowout was responsible for
painful injuries received by Harold
Wilson OF Rupert and Jack Vaugen
OF Delco, proprietor of a garage at
that place, and for whom Wilson was
working. Mr.. Yaugen was cut about
the face and his employee received a
lacerated arm and face cuts.
The Idaho Falls High school foot
ball team defeated the Pocatello High
IN slow game played on the Idaho
;; Falls gridiron, November 8, q to O
The field was covered with snow
which kept the ball slippery, making
1t hard to handle. The local boys out
weighed the visitors considerably.
Luther Kirk, charged with shooting
Jack Merrill, October 18. and held In
jail at Rupert since that time, hal
been released on bail. Merrill, wh<
was taken to Salt Lake hospital fol
treatment, viii be brought home wher
wounds made from probing for the twt
bullets lodged In his body have healed
Idaho ranks third In the percentag,
OF Increase In the number OF farm
during the period from 1910 to lfe0
according to the bulletin issued BY th,
department of agriculture In conjrnc
ton with the bureau of census, fron
figures complied by the fourteenth con
sus Of the United States, taken Il
1920.
A farmer living north OF Idaho vAll
was surprised when he dug into hi
straw stack on his ranch and foun'
n handsome automobile filled with ex
pensive robes spare tires and extr1
parts. The car was stolen from
private garage recently and the acces
sories from a public garage a fev
nights previous
A piece Of steel from q wedge h
was driving into tree in the timbe
north of Boise just missed the juxula
vein Of Dugnn Gillis, which account
for the fact that he is alive toda.
Gillis has deep cash In the nee
where the steel cut him.
G. F. Baker, reported to have bee
killed when he leaped under trai
near Oakland, Cal, was for sewers
years practicing dentist at Twi
Falls. He sold his practice and lei
last September to Join his family, col
, sisting OF wife and two daughters.
San Jose. Cal.
, The members Of the Pocatello chan
Der of commerce at a meeting la,
week went on recSrd as favoring
commission form Of government fc
that city.
, Senntor-elect Davis from Bots
county had his right foot crushed {
Horseshoe BEND when a 5O-gallon 0
tank fell on it. He is in a hospitI
} at Emmett.
The Red Cross ro,! call opened /,
Pocatello, November 3, with the can
paign for the sustaining membershl
and $1,000 was subscribed by the me
chants and professional men Of II
city.
The Parma packing house recent
shipped several thousand boxes of a
pies to London, and had crops al
packing facilities been larger, the
foreign shipments would have BET
much larger.
d Glenn T. Masterson, service static
superintendent for the past year f
the Continental Oil company at Poe
i tello, was placed under arrest la
week for an alleged shortage
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