The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-10-19
Short News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

pile OF old railroad ties will be In
troduced by Chief of Police Lebrbra
to persons arrested for vagrancy thii
winter.
: Boise,-The state reclamation bono
commission has approved the is
suance of bonds for the Carey Valley
irrigation district to the sum o.
$500, 900.
Rigby.-The Rigby flour mill was
destroyed by fire which broke out in
the basement.
st. Anthony,-Girl and women en-
ployees of the Everett B. Clark Seed
company went ON strike for high
er wages and shorter working hours.
Pocatello,-Edwin Quereau post,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, was per-
fected last week with a considerable
Membership.
Twin Falls, = Melvin Blackburn,
charged by the state with first-de-
gree murder was found guilty OF in
voluntary manslaughter of his girl
wife, Cecil Hurst Blackburn, by
poisoning last May.
Boise,-In order to make the horse
shoe contest at the Nampa Harvest
festival the official championship of
Idaho, the Idaho State Horseshoe
Pitchers association was formed last
week.
Pocatello,-James Thomas, SO, well
known here and at Idaho Falls, died
in an Idaho Falls hospital from in
juries received in an automobile &C
cident some days ago.
Bruneau-Mrs. Hazel Stillinger,
%, of Glenn's Ferry, Idaho, was in
stantly killed here when an airplane
in which she was a passenger fell
into nose dive and dropped 500
feet to the ground.
Twin Falls,-Two of four nurses,
in the employ of general hospital
here. we're badly hurt when truck
struck the four who were walking at
the edge of the highway.
Earnest Bond, IA, of Ola, received |
a broken hip when a horse he was
riding to school stumbled, throwing |
him to the ground
Caldwell-Idaho will produce about
1S9 900 busbe els of onions this season
according to a forecast based on con-
ditions and received by the Califor-
mia Vegetable union office here.
Twin Falls-Melvin Blackburn, Fill
er youth, held on the charge Of MUIR
dering his girl wife, Cecil Hurst
last May by feeding her
poison powders is now on trial here.
Meridian-The first carload of live
chickens to be shipped from Boise
valley left Meridian last week for
California
BlacEfoot, - John r. Rogers died
asst week from injuries received
when he fell from a truck on the
pavement at Blackfoot.
Cascade,-Eire of unknown origin
destroyed the Boise Payette Lumber
ompany's warehouse at Cabarton.
Hailey,-Blaine countys tax levy
or county purposes is increased this
ear to 2.45 cents on the dollars
ompared with 1.65 cents on the dol
ar last year.
Wendell-Harry Kamman, a cheese
laker at the local factory was badly
calded when he slipped and fell into
tub of hot water at the factory.
Mackay-Twenty cars of head let
ice bringing in the neighborhood of
1000 per car, has been recently
arvested from 16 acres Of land at
eslie.
Parma-The last car of prunes for
lis season was shipped from Parma
st week, making a total of 127 cars
be shipped from this section this
ear. Movement of potatoes is in full
wing. SC
Nampa,-J. NJ. McCraw, city engi- al
ser, is draughting plans and prepar L,
Q estimates for the new storage Dc
JuSc anu icpdlI onOp loi lic Sily W
ater and engineering departments. rs
nj
last week COM M
etely destroyed the roundhouse OF an
e Craig Mountain railway and one Z.
ssenger coach and damaged an en- US
ne. -
- Eighteen hundred stu
nts of the University of Idaho have l
UNFAIRLY agreed to pay $40 each =
ward the fund for building an ar
Dry and gymnasium as a memorial {
World war veterans.
Pocatello,-Mrs Jessie Scott Mil
Ter, librarian of the Pocatello pub =
library, has resigned her position
d left for New York City, where Id
. will make her home. n
c. c. Moore has =
iDted requisition papers from the n
IT.