The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-12-14
Short News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO


to county authorities. that she hat
been commanded by the Lord to en-
ter upon campaign Of destruction
Mrs. s. Prough set fire to shed al
her home here and endeavored to per.
suade fireman to desist from their ef
forts to save the building. Mrs
Prough was recently discharged from
the state insane asylum.
idend paying companies in the Os
burn district of the Occur d'Alenes
will spend $256,700 during the calen-
dar year 1923, according to data COM
piled by Ravenal Macbeth, secretary
of the Idaho Mining association. The
table made public itemizing the ma
ture of the expenditures is figured on
basis of actual expenditures up to
October 81 and an estimate for Nov
ember and December.
Weiser,-November 10, George w.
Triplow of this city picked and deliv-
cred four quarts of ripe, everbearing
Strawberries of large size and good
color, from his residence lot in East
Weiser.
Wallace, = Damages aggregating
$74, 077.30 are asked of the Northern
Pacific railroad company in a suit
filed in the district court for 80 prop
erty owners who lost their holdings at
70 fr,aA Of no Tt,l ,soI
wiped out the business section of the
town.
Wendall,-The Johnson Thompson
ranch in Wendall shipped 1902
pounds of certified Grimm alfalfa
seed TO Salt Lake a short time ago.
the seed having been harvested from
record yield in Idaho for this year of
12.17 bushels. Twenty-Five acres
threshed 113 sacks, weighing 1921
pounds per sack. That is total of |
267.S1 bushels from the % acres.
Couer d'Alene,-When the Occur d
Alene Canning company closes its
season this year, it will have packed
1000 tons of fruit, nearly III of which
las been grown in the immediate vi
Unity of Occur d'Alene,
Filer,-N. B. Keeney & Son have
completed the building of an addition
0 the bean warehouse and mill III the
vest part of the local shipping dis
riot M a cost of SS000
Payette,-Arrangem have been
made to install a branch of the Idaho
AIMING company's factory at Cald-
yell, to be ready in time for the 1924
rop of corn. The plant at Payette
ill be continued to its full capacity
he same as in the past.
Kuna.-Kuna claims the largest out
ut of any cheese factory in the state.
he Cooperative Creamery factory
sceives from 10000 to 1900 pounds
I milk day and 1740 pounds of
leese is made each day. Big trucks
aul this cheese, which is packed In
5-pound boxes to Meridian, where 1t
given the paraffine covering by ,
cling dipped in a vat and placed In :
,mporary storage on racks to cure {
II shipment I
Observation-Disclosures work on
sw state highway to connect Black I
'ot and Arco, will be started shortly 4
2 Bingham county, it was announc- II
by w. H. Gregory, director of high
avs. Mr. Gregory has just return c
from eastern Idaho, where he had q
zen on highway matters. b
Malad, - Idaho stockmen are pre-
ring for determined fight against
increase in national forest graz )
z fees proposed by forest officials n
the close of a three-day meeting o
Boise.
Malad Idaho is to have cooper
I've poultry marketing association,
gned and operated by Idaho people, :
r the benefit of the Idaho poultry =
oducers. The Idaho branch of the :,
lcific Cooperative Poultry Producers =
s withdrawn from the parent =
anch, with headquarters at Port
nd. and leaves the Oregon and G
ashington branches In that organi- y
ton. .,
crew of men, under d
E supervision of f. II. Southern and e,
ri Evans, of the state highway de-
rtment, started this week on the :,
'rk of building guard rails on the :,
tside OF the curves at the two rail- h,
Id crossings south of McCammon- =,
tn crossing are reached just after ~
lnding curves and have been OF n
danger to autoists.
Boise, - William ]. Hall, commits W
ner OF public works has gone to ii
rthern Idaho to let contracts for al
yeral sections of state highway to
Instruction in that district. Bids for W
construction of a portion OF the d.
nth Pacific highway between Wal to
g and Kellogg will be opened at 81
lllace. nj
Albion, = A Camas county Demon