Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-02-17
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

Pocatello.-A $4,000 addition viii
soon be made TO the postoffice at Po-
catello, Idaho.
Occur d Alene-The proposed S2Zs,-
900 school bond issue was defeated at
the election In Occur d Alene by a
vote of 997 TO $50. Although the day
was stormy, record bond election
vote was polled.
Oakley-A- E. Avery Of Oakley, Ida
no became violently insane at his home
recently. He threatened to kill his
family and struck one of his children
with chair but did not infllct serious
injury.
Buhl-Over 300 fowls were exam
ned in the poultry demonstration held
here by Prem Moore, poultry expert
of the extension division of the state
university. Demonstrations in cullinS
and mating were given.
Burley-T L. Ferrin, living half y
mile south of Burley, sold 200 sacks Of
Idaho Rural select potatoes to H. Ram
DO of Ontario. Ore, for 50 per 100, f. 0. b.
Burley. The demand for select seed
potatoes is remarkably good
Progress toward the realization OF
the American Falls dam project is ex-
pected to result from a meeting to
be held at Pocatello within a few days,
according to Governor Davis. Officers
of all canal companies in southern Ida
| no who have contracted to use water
from the reservoir have been invited
to attend.
Hailey-A man driving a team with
| bobsled attached endeavored to cross
! rhe track ahead of a freight train in
Bellevue. He didn't succeed. One
horse was struck aid crippled, the sled
was wrecked and a step on the loco
motive torn off and one GA the ca
boose. The driver of the experiment
escaped intact.
st. Anthony.-Lack of salt and food
is the cause of an outbreak Of 81
sease known as "hemorrhagic septi-
! cemia" among cattle of Lemhi and Free
mont counties, according to DIR. ]. D.
| Adams, director of the bureau of animal
Industry, who has just returned from
a personal investigation Of diseased
animals. One herd Of 200 cattle
owned in Lemhi county has lost Is
head as a result of the disease
Twin Falls-A delegation Of dairy
men appeared before the city council
recently to urge more rigid inspection
of dairies and strict enforcement of
the municipal ordinance providing for
! licensing of diaries and offered to as
siSt, through payment of higher license
fees, in meeting the expense incl
dent to the employment of an assistant
for the dairy inspector.
Moscow-George Borvich, age 30.
a Jugo-Slav, is in the Latah county
| Jail for stabbing Herman Gustlock, q
camp cook, four or five times In the
| face with a table fork. The stabbing
occurred when Herman Gustlock, the
cook, had asked Boryich to move over
at the table and make room for an
other man. Unexpectedly Borvich
| plunged the unique weapon into Gust
locks face several times.
| Occur d Alene-W. II. Armstrong
risked his life to save hil wife. baby
and S-year-old son, when his farm
home was destroyed by fire. Mr.. Arm
strong was preparing dinner When the
! fire was discovered and Immediately
| rushed to his wife, who was confined
to her bed with a 6-day-old baby, and
| gathered her up, together with the
child. and carried her to a barn near
| by where she was forced to stay until
neighbors three miles distant could
arrive. Mr. Armstrong rushed back in
to the burning building to get his 8
year-old son, i'll with pneumonia.
BOise.-Ihe variey or wheat recon-
mended for spring plaintig on the irri-
gated farms of southern Idaho is Dick
low. This is high-yielding. soft white
wheat which has proved its worth
Experiments conducted on the Aber-
deem Experiment Station at Aberdeen.
over q period of five years showed
Dicklow TO outyield all other varieties
81 bushels per acre. In buying seed
be careful TO buy certified lDlckl0w,
as statistics obtained thru rhe Fasli
Management Department OF the Uni
yersiy and L. 5. Department Of Agri-
culture. Cooperating, showed that an
average OF 83 bushels Of DleklOw wheat
was produced per acre, In Twin Falls
county. and during die same season
the certified Diekl0w wheat growers
OF that county produced an average u