Onions Prove Profitable For Intensive Farming Near Rupert
J G Connors on a 3 acre plot one mile southeast of Rupert sold 1100 dollars worth of onions this season. He stresses a specialized intensive farming method that yields large firm salable onions for local markets. He urges irrigation company or farmer associations to employ his approach to train others under supervision to expand onion production on the Minidoka project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.G. Connors
Rupert
Connors
Minidoka
Ship Your Christmas Presents Early
Ship your Christmas gifts early by December lith for delivery before Christmas. Use wooden boxes for fragile items, write the full address in ink or crayon, and include your own address on the package. Prepay charges by marking Paid plainly, insist on a receipt with the amount paid and declared value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Express Company
Expressman
Prom-Seventh: Enclose a card in each box F packere reading
Address i This in order should the outer mark ings be destroyed, the inner mark will insure prompt forwarding and delivery. Eighth: If not convenient to ship in wooden boxes, use strong seripptic paper and tie with strong cord. Ninth: If package contains anything of perishable nature, write the word Perishables it large plain letters on the box, or package, to insure special attention and first delivery. If you will observe these suggestions you will greatly assist in insuring the prompt delivery of your gift in good condition.
Bold Robbery of the Heyburn Post Office
Early Saturday night two men forced the Heyburn post office, loaded the iron safe onto a heavy truck, and moved it to a nearby warehouse. After breaking the safe with a sledge hammer they found about 700 to 1000 dollars and stamps, then fled toward the railroad with footprints noted. A detective traced tracks, suggesting two suspects, one in high heeled boots and another in a peculiar shoe, with a possible entry attempt at Rupert’s Idaho Hotel about 1 am.
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Heyburn
Post Office
Minidoka
Rupert
Idaho Hotel
Election of road overseers December 6
The first Monday in December is the legally fixed election day for road overseers. Voters in each road district meet at 1 p.m. to elect a judge and clerk from among electors. The winner must post a $300 bond and take the oath before assuming duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of County Commissioners
Piopeer
Borah backs large bond issue for irrigation projects
Senator Borah of Idaho discusses a proposed 20 to 40 million dollar bond issue to accelerate 32 approved irrigation projects. The plan would fund construction via revenues from public land sales, enabling Minidoka area expansion and a possible northward pumping system covering 100 000 to 120 000 acres, contingent on congressional action.
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Washington
Borsh
Idaho
West
Senate
White House
Congress
Statesman
The
Lincoln County
Borah
Idaho Republicans hail governor as model of pledges kept
In Idaho the editorial tone praises the governor for delivering on party pledges and running a steady administration. Democratic papers are chastised for bias as voters in the Panhandle and across the state consider potential candidates. The piece notes Idaho as a strong place to live and predicts continued support for the current administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise-way
Republican Party
Panhandle
Idaho
Democracy
Apples from Carey and Picabo to Boise Flourish in Idaho Fruit Boom
A Boise Valley note chronicles Idaho apple expansion with Carey and Picabo shipments to Boise. It praises high altitude areas like Blackfoot Preston and Richfield for abundant, high quality, worm free apples, aided by irrigation and expert guidance from horticulturists and W. S. Guilford. The piece promotes a statewide fruit growth vision and upcoming plantings across higher elevations.
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Carey
Little Wood River
Richfield
Boise the Beautiful
Picabo
Boise
Payette
Emmett
Snake River Valley
Idaho
Leat River
Blackfoot
Horse
Preston
Alexander McPherson
Recorder
Guilford
Fori i
North Side’ Company
Jerome
Wendell
Washington
Colorado
Lincoln County
Bel Northwest
Apple Planting In Idaho Seen as Top Money Maker
Richfield Recorder reports a view that planting selected adaptable apples across Idaho could become the region’s leading money maker among crops. The comment emphasizes profitability and suitability of apples for local growers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Richfield Recorder
Milner Boosters Formed As Business Leaders Gather
Milner hosts a Saturday night meeting at 8 30 in L W Howard Co offices to organize a Milner Commercial and Boosters club with about twenty five of the town’s leading property holders and businessmen in attendance Officers were elected and will be named next week The North Side Canal work is nearing completion with trains to Oakley expected by Christmas day Milner schools enrollment at forty prompting a need for a new building See L W Howard & Co for insurance and investments
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. W. Howard & Co
Milner Commercial and Boosters Club
Milner
John Okleberry
F.R. Cellenbeck
Riverside Inn
Ogden
A. J. Henry
Twin Falla
Lins F
L.W. Howard & Co
North Side Canal
Stanley A. Gillespie
Greenville
T. H. Howard
Oakley
Idaho Southern Railroad
D. D. MacWatters
California
Saloon Licenses in Lincoln County
Lincoln County reports nine saloon licenses with issuance dates for operators and towns including Shoshone Minidoka Hagerman Heyburn Jerome and Hagerman. Due to a supreme court ruling the attorney general says licenses from April meetings run a full year while licenses after April expire 90 days after local option elections in the dry counties.
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Lincoln County
Mat McFall
Shoshone
Fader & Nelson
Minidoka
Coltharp & Johnson
Hagerman
Cottle
Chas
Sturgis
Neil
Lin- Ivoln
Hagerman alfalfa seed sales total five thousand dollars
Hagerman valley farmers twelve miles from Wendell harvested alfalfa seed, with Durfee's 35 acre crop bringing $5,000 at two and a half cents a pound. Ebbert, Jones, and Sherman also reported sizable yields sold to exporters, while demand grows as eastern and southern markets seek seed. The piece notes rising export interest and the local impact of alfalfa seed production near Wendell.
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H. E. Barrett
First National Bank of
Wendell
George L. Durfee
W. H. Ebbert
Daniel Jones
E.E. Sherman
Hagerman Valley
Ricker
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Lincoln
Gorah
Boise Valley
Pittsburg
Brocton
Jerusalem
Rome
Patrick O
Hagerman Rancher
Warren
Boston
Mass. A
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