Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-02-09
IDAHO NEWS REVIEW

lUAnU NEWO REVIEW
Prem Moore, poultry specialist, is
scheduled for Minidoka county in the
near future, to hold a series of breed
ing pen demonstrations. On preced-
Ing visits there he has given more at
tention to culling
For the purpose of building a $780,
900 fireproof warehouse at the corner
of Tenth Avenue and Front Street,
group Of well-known Nampa business
men have formed a corporation with
capital stock of 100000.
| Joseph Morley has received appoint
ment as postmaster of Idaho Falls,
and will assume the duties of that
office at once. Mr.. Morley has been
a resident of Idaho Falls for twenty
years.
The first large shipment of phos-
plate rock from Idaho to Japan soon
will be made, following up a series of
small shipments which have been made
at various times within the past year,
1t was indicated by the dock commits
sion for movement Of the rock through
Che municipal terminals.
Next spring the university school of
forestry will continue its policy of
supplying people of the state at cost
with trees for planting, according to
a forestry circular soon to be put into
the mails. Last year, through this
means, more than 100000 trees were
planted in Idaho.
M. A. Bieenberg, progressive
farmer living southeast of Nampa, has
developed laying strain of Rhode
Island Red chickens u trap-nest record
of thirteen of these hens during the
past year showed that they layed a
total of 1888 eggs, or an average of
better than 200 eggs per hen.
| Arrested on information of her hus-
band, Charlotte Woods was commit
ted to the county Jail at Boise to
await examination as confirmed suser
of narcotics. According to her hus-
band, the young woman is in a con-
I dition where she has lost all self-con-
/ troll. She will have her hearing soon,
in an effort to have her sent to Black
foot.
i AT a meeting of depositors of the
defunct Union State bank at Nez
Perez, the amount of stock required
for opening a new bank was oversub-
/ scribed. The new bank will be or
ganized with a capital and surplus of
/ $4,000 and the stock is distributed
among 40 stockholders representing
the farming and business interests of
the entire community.
n. A. Wilson, who lives in Nampa,
planted a part of a vacant lot to
caulifiower this past season. The re-
suit is that the piece OF land on which
the caulifiower was grown was mea-
sured and was found to contain three
square rods and on that much ground
cauliflower to the amount of $4865
was produced or at the rate of
$2593.60 per acre.
The new high school building at
Malad has been completed. The build
ing and furniture cost $4,000 The
building is two stories, with a full
basement. There are fifteen class
rooms, a large assembly han and lib
rary, manual training and domestic
science rooms, chemistry and physics
laboratories, boiler room, storerooms,
etc. This is the only high school in
Oneida county.
The Washington County Dairymen's
association is now fully organized and
cream stations were opened February
/. Upward of 100 farmers have signed
contracts to deliver cream, and these
are all working for higher produc-
ton and better stock. The associa-
tion has been the means of obtaining
for the farmers better prices for but
terfat in this district than have been
paid for some time past
Because of unfamiliarity with grow
ing conditions and the various RAM
ifications of the industry, farmers in
the Twin Falls district have been urged
by a special head lettuce growers
committee to refrain from making con-
tracts for their product until after
general meeting of the association. AT
this meeting all phases of lettuce
growing and marketing will be ex-
planned and discussed by experts of
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