The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-06-24
IDAHO STATE NEWS

the marine corps plane he was fiyin
! crashed at Colonial Beach, Va, on TIN
' Potomac river. Sergeant Buggy, pas
s | enger in the machine was injured.
Wednesday June %, all day and eve
ming, have been set aside for the dedi
cation of the new Oswsley bridge soutl
of Hagernan, spanning the Snake Riv
err and connecting Gooding and Twir
Falls counties. The event promises t.
be notable one In the history of ths
transportation advance.
Enlargement of the scope of the
farmer-owned sugar factory movement
initiated a year ago by the Interstate
Sugar company, is seen in the compile
tlon recently Of plans for under writing
bond issue for $1.5O0O00 to complete
the moving from Corcoran, Cal, of a
sugar 1actory for erection at Preston
Idaho.
Commissioners Of Ada county receiv-
ed from the Fidelity and Deposit COM
pany of Maryland, Friday a sight draft
Of SOL ,332 80, principal and interest to
cover the deposits tied up in the Over
land National bank. which recently
failed. This amount covers the en-
tire deposit of the county in this in
stitution.
Fry and company of Mampa who
operate the largest poultry feeding and
shipping plant in Idaho, have closed
for repairs, and for the purpose of in
Sailing new machinery and equipment.
TIL company whose headquarters are
highly pleased with the business of
their Nampa plant and will reopen
September l.
Work will beg in on the new -four
mill at Bull, within the next week or
10 days by an new company organized
last winter to replace the old mill
which burned down last February.
The mill will be built large enough to
install machinery with a capacity for
200 barrels, though for the present the
machine capacity will be 100 barrels. 4
A. S. Embree, l. w. w. leader was
sentenced to from one to ten years
In the state penitentiary at Wallace,
Monday, after having been found
guilty of criminal syndicalism, under
the Idaho law Saturday On the wit
ness stand Embree declared he filed
the place of William d. Haywood as
supreme officer of the l. w. w. for
two months in 1918.
That Parma is live town and rap
idly increasing in population and
wealth is evidenced by the rapidly in
creasing business at the pOstoffice-
quarter by quarter Postmaster Casta- |
ter's reports have shown a splendid |
gain and the Department at Washing
ton has notified him that his Kirk |
patrick is one of Parma's promclass
to a second class office to axe effect
July LIST.
Announcement of the appointment
of Prof. Martin Fuller Angel. Phi. d..
as dean of the college of letters and
scence of the of the university, efrec-
tive July 1, was made Friday by Pres-
dent A II. Upham. Professor Angel
succeeds Dean Edward NJ Hume,
whose resignation to take a position
ut Stanford university was announced
several months ago.
Quarantine against Idaho potatoes
On account of Eel worm" found in sec
lions of Canyon county win not be
necessary, was the decision of the west
arn agricultural quarantine board in
session at Victoria, b. c. according to
4 telegram Friday from w. II. WickS
S1r Wdcks is state director of the bu-
eau of plant industry, and is repre-
'enting Idaho at the meeting.
The Idanha hotel, named for the !
amous springs of that name located
It Soda Springs, burned Tuesday. The 4
building was a landmark and was built r
n 1887. by the Natural Mineral Water :
%. For a number of years the no
ell was maintained by the Union Pa
life as a DINING station and was pop
lar as q summer resort. The building
vas large. three stories high and built
ntirely of wood. At the time of the
re 1t was used as an apartment house.
Ititeracy Is fast dimishing in idaho.
ccording TO statistics gathered by the
ensus bureau. In 1920 there were
924 persons over ten years of age in
he entire state who could not write.
IA of these being native whites, the
being foreign born. The III
erats comprise only 1.5 per cent of the
)tal population. whereas in 1910 the
liteiHtes were % per cent of the TO-
n.
The Prune crop this year promises
, be the largest ever raised in Idahn.
year ago, condition of IS per cent
normal was reported end the final
'riot movement amounted to 1867
IRIS. This year the condition is 50
er cent of normal and a carlot move
ent of 1850 cars is considered con-
srvatlve. Ada County has IS per
mt of the prune acreage and the
'ndltion there is "a per cent of nor
al.
Experienced oil drillers form the w