The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-09-30
UTAH NEWS REVIEW


deputy state game warden, surprised
his friends of Nampa by bringing a
bride from Pennsylvania a few days
ago. He was married to Mrs. Eliza
beth j. Alben, boyhood sweetheart
at the old home town, August 80.
William L. Young, age 20, was killed
at the Mcguire paving plant at Black
foot Tuesday afternoon when his hand
caught in the conveyor belt and his
body was drawn in and crushed, death
being almost Instantaneous. Mr.. Young
is survived by his widow and an in
FAINT son weeks old
Arthur A. Amos, a prisoner at the
state penitentiary, is at ST. Alphonsus
hospital suffering from doubly frac-
tured leg received Saturday when he
fell from a wagon while working al
the penitentiary. At the hospital il
Is feared that he may lose the use OF
the leg, as u result of the injury.
After having been formally wei.
coined to the west in Yellowstone Ma
tional park by Secretary of the Inter
ior Albert b. Fail and Governor d. w.
Davis of Idaho, the lightweight mem
bers of SCOTS modern caravan, trav-
cling from Brooklyn. N. Y. to settle
near Bull Idaho, reached their des-
tination this week.
Samuel c. Foote. of Lava Hot
Springs, Idaho, has applied to State
Engineer Caldwell for permission to
use on second-foot of water from
spring &c" in Boxelder County between
Plymouth and Fielding, for medicinal,
bathing and heating purposes. Seven
miles of twelve-inch pipe is planned
for the diversion of the water.
Ada county led the state with POS
cows tested In the Cow Testing asso-
citation for the month of July, eccord-
ing to the report of NJ. l.. Gorow to
F. r. Cammack, field dairyman in
charge of the Idaho dairy extension
service. The Ada county cows aver
aged 779.5 pounds of milk per COW, al
SO leading the seven county associa-
tons.
A meeting Of the Mayors and City |
Councilmen of Rexburg, st. Anthony,
Idaho Falls, and Ashton was held at
ST. Anthony and also as Ashton last
Monday to consider the feasibility Of |
a joint municipal power
plant to serve these communities. Ar
were made for appropri-
atoms to cover the cost of a prelimin-
iry survey.
E. w. Sinclair has resigned as men,
Der of the city council and mayor of
Shoshone, in order that he may give
more of his time to the duties of ma
-ional committeeman for Idaho of the
American Legion, to which positions We
vas elected at the recent annual meet
ng of the Legion at Kellogg w. Hail
Horne has been appointed to fill the
-acancy on the council.
With so per cent shortage of APP
lies reported over the countyr Idaho
las better than 80 per cent crop,
.ccording to assertions of buyers sat
Irday. These apples, carefully packed
nd wrapped, are moving now at the
ate of 20 or more cars a day from
his section and by the middle of the
week the movement will be in full
wing at the rate of from so to 100
ars a day.
Considerable interest Is evidenced
round Payette over Inc big Payette
as we'll The drill made $50 feet in
yo days the latter part of last week
nd dropped into the first gas sand at {
depth of 345 feet. When match .
as held above the casing this gas
urned to height of more than Is !
eet above the casing and singed the
)pe on the end of the walking beam.
his flow of gas remained steady until s
was partly cut off by water flow from {
he same sand. 7
Five hundred stockholders of the c
lackfoot Potato Growers association
lme from Blackfoot Aberdeen, River.
de, Thomas, Moreland, Wapello and I
her points throughout the country {
attend the banquet given at the r
,ening of the new warehouse at Wa 2
lilo Friday evening. Thebullding, one S
the most modern west of the v
ississippi. is 100 feet long and60 feet {
lde. 1t is equipped with electric lights il
Id all things necessary to the effe '
emit handling of potatoes. v
A remarkable record has been made il
Alfred Randall on his 200 acre Il
rm near Lewiston. The land has a
Zen growing wheat for 40 years, and h
lis year on 100 acres yielded an ay- d
age of 40 bushels to the acre and
sted 63 pounds, of the Walla var
ty. The other 100 acres on the f
rm went SO bushels to the acre, and h
so tested 63 pounds.