The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-09-01


concrete curbing will be constructe
this season.
} Blackfoot.-Farmers from Frankli
are searching this district for health
seed potatoes.
Boise.-A Fall fashion show Wi
be staged by the Boise Business We
mems club, probably during state fai
week.
Weiser.-Since the auto park wa
opened this spring, ITO parties hav,
registered here and camped for a
least one night.
Boise.-Club women are interestins
themselves in candidates for the two
vacancies on the board of the Boise
Independent school district. With the
terms of two women expiring, they
are anxious to replace them by two
more.
Moscow.-1daho stands good
chance of winning the trip to Paris
offered to the prize team of the can.
ming clubs of the United States, ac-
cording to Miss Amy Kelly, head OF
the home economics department of
the university extension.
Emmett.-Due to the falling of
prunes, the tonnage has been reduced
in the past few weeks to about so
| per cent OF normal crop. In some
orchards, especially the older ones.
there will hardly be 40 per cent of a
crop. The younger trees are holding
the fruit better. and some orchards
report only a slight dropping. The
prune crop in the entire state is af-
fected by falling fruit.
Par1s.-Farmers who decided not to
grow sugar beets this season because
OF the low price of sugar last spring
and the lower guarantee which the
companies consequently were able to
offer are regretting their decision now.
The sliding scale contract by which
the growers are paid according to the
selling price of sugar has advanced so
greatly and the crop is in such fine
condition the farmers who stuck TO
sugar beets are promised a very prof
liable return on their seasons work. |
1t is generally believed that IL prices |
hold to their present levels or 20 |
higher the acreage will be greatly in
creased next year.
Boise.-Nearly three-quarters of a
million dollars in prize money is be-
ing offered to boys and girls in club
work this year in the United States.
according to f. B. Duncan, Idaho state
club leader This is exclusive of the
funds appropriated by the
government and matched by the state
% conduct the work. This sum of
money is provided by fair associations.
livestock and breed associations. man.
bankers and bankers asso-
packers, land companies
chambers Of commerce, farm bureaus.
boards of agriculture.
stockyard companies, county
commissioners, school boards, seed
irms, railroads, retailers, livestock,
commission firms, livestock exchang-
IS, directors Of extension. individuals.
nd by the junior clubs themselves.
Laclede.-Fire, starting from an ov-
rhead machine In the planning mill,
Practically destroyed the $500 900
liant and lumber stock of the A. C.
White Lumber company.
Caldwell.-Fifty or more Caldwell
usines men will probably make a
isit soon to the Boise project, to OBJ 8
erve the condition of land in the pro- {
ect waterlogged or becoming water
'gged.
Boise.-Youth was an advantage to '
lice Crozier and Margaret Brant, Of e
ewiston, when they were arrested re- q
emily by deputy game warden 9
harged with fishing without a H. =
snse. Reports filed with the state II
anne warden stated the two were ),
ned the minimum costs because they Il
ere young girls" The alleged dis m
gard for the law cost each S29.65. p
Idaho Falls.-The first car of new
rs has been shipped out of this sec
on, the grower receiving As cents b.
,r hundred more than was paid for bl
e first new oats last year. The al
ain came from the L. A. Hartert W
nch, and brought the owner S1.2o II
r hundred, as compared with rs a.
nts paid year ago. -
Nampa. -Mainteoance charges for :,
% were fixed at a meeting of the &c
ard of directors OF the Nampa and nc
sridian irrigation district. This sea- In
4 more than $4,000 had to be ex- or
nded to repair breaks in the canals, be
even with this unlooked-for ex-
Use. the levies for this year will be ~
s than for 1921. .
growers are begin Hp
z the annual harvesting of their ~.
p in this valley handicapped by the -,
certainty Of procuring refrigerator