The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-04-01
In THE Gem STATE

a $4,000 bond issue for the purpos
OF the extension, repair and improve
0 ment of the waterworks plant.
Burnley IS to have first class, up
/, fo-the-ninute creamery just as 500
: as the machinery can be installed
| which will be not later than the mid
, die OF April.
Ray Porter, the man who under thu
alias of +. H. Eavins, Is charged viii
issuing a lot Of fraudulent checks I,
Shoshone business men, viii be tried
on a charge of forgery.
Mrs O. b. steely Of Pocatello was
elected corresponding secretary of the
state organization of the Daughters OF
TIE American Revolution at the meet
Ing which was recently held at Boise.
About 100 of the sugar beet growers
on The Minldoka irrigation project In
Idaho have organized for the purpose
Of bettering conditions. according 10
the current issue Of the Reclamation
Record
II. l.. White and Bryan Hammock
both of Boz e. charged with stealing
an automobile owned by n resident Of
Boise, have been apprehended at
Tonopah, Nev., and will be brought
back for trial.
Contracts have been let by the city
for the laying of 100000 square feet
of sidewalk in Pocatello this spring,
amounting To approximately twenty
miles. Besides this, property owners
will lay several miles more
Water stratas between the So
called desert lands between Poca-
tello and Blackfoot may mean the re-
claiming of several thousand acres of
waste region as soon as the wells can
be put on an operating basis.
Bannock county will receive $4,000
for the relief of the farmers in the
purchase of seed grain of the $4,000
600 recently appropriated by the
United States congress for loans to
farmers in the drought-stricken areas.
The Pocatello council will immedi-
ately call for bids for an extension of
the sewers on South Lincoln street
between Whitman avenue and the city
line. The conditions in that district
are classed as unsanitary by the sani-
tary inspector.
According to announcement by Di-
rector c. II. Lewis, head of the educa-
ton department of the Idaho Techni-
cal institute and director of the sum-
mer normal. the Idaho Tech summer
normal will open for registration on |
June 10 and IL.
The upper Snake River valley, from |
Idaho Falls north, will receive S5S,00O |
of the 100000 federal Appropriation
for dry farm relief, it was decided at |
a meeting held at Idaho Falls between |
federal, state and local officials of |
the farm bureau.
The high schools of Grace, Rock |
land. Roberts and Dubois are IN ex-
fessor J. e. Retherford and Professor
G. III. Lewis of the Idaho Technical
Institute. who have just completed the
examination of these schools.
The name of DIR. s. w. Mcclure, of
Pocatello, for many years secretary of
tiit -NttilOItl w OOiEIONtIN QNNOtldlttiis |
is being suggested for nomination to
on the Interstate com
merce commission in the event that
Frank J. Hagenbarth shall find it inn
possible to accept the position.
J. S. Lawrence, proprietor. and A. n.
an employee of the Law
renee Machine and Iron Works. at
Twin Falls, suffered painful burns
about the face and head as n result of
IN explosion occurring while both men
we're engaged In welding a pump
)lunger.
Needing representations that their
in office would endanger
at an election of a bond
ssue necessary to continue opera ,
ion of schools at Twin Falls this year.
". e. Nixon treasurer and George
J. Bryant, clerk last week resigned >
IS members OF the Twin Fails school :
BOARD. 7
A Japanese noodle parlor at poca- 7
clio was held up by four negroes, who !
obtained small sum of money. All :
he robbers escaped except one burly Il
lack named J. Balbala, who, while
n the kitchen. asked the proprietor
or his watch and was knocked down \
y the Jap. The others beat hasty :,
etreat. \
The heaviest average of potatoes s
yer planted in Idaho will be planted a
his year. is the opinion expressed by "
c. Jacobson of Idaho Falls. The de-
iand for seed potatoes is the heaviest h
yer known and carload shipments of n
ertified seed potatoes are being made n
'om Idaho Falls to points south and n
est to meet the demand. s,
Ten gallons of moonshine whisky, s
orth S400 at prevailing prices, were Il
,nfiscated by the sheriff's force
hen Russell Bullock of Acequia and n,
nm Shaffer of Paul were arrested n,
living car near Rupert on their nj
ay from Acequ,a. .,
a resident of Glenns Ferry few la