My grandfather ran for the prestigious position of school board director in 1946 for Independent School District No. 35 â otherwise known as the Buhl-Kinney Board of Education.
It was reported that 1,080 voters cast their ballots in that election, and, in the end, he received the most votes (492). According to a newspaper story in the Buhl Herald, his victory set him up to earn a âlushy $1,800 three-year term.â
The idea that $1,800 is âlushyâ seems a little absurd today but a quick Google search shows that after adjusting for inflation, that amount of money in 1946 is equal to the buying power of $25,761 in 2021.
He hit the jackpot, I suppose, considering the price of things then.
Apartment Fire in Buhl Sunday Evening
BUHL, Idaho (KLIX)-A fire ripped through a two story apartment complex in Buhl Sunday evening.
The Hagerman Fire Protection district posted on social media it had responded to help the Buhl Fire Department with a structure fire. The Buhl Herald posted video of firefighters using a ladder truck to spray water from above onto what appears to be a partially collapsed roof of the Meadow Brook Apartments on the north east side of town.
In an earlier video posted by the Buhl Herald at around 7:22 p.m., flames could be seen come from the roof of the apartments.
Borah Avenue West and
Barry was born in 1887 on a farm in
Pennsylvania. After he graduated from school, Barry s father farmed him out to a neighbor, who paid the Barry family
$30 per month for his labor. His father allowed him to keep
$2 of the monthly wage for himself.
After three years of the arrangement, Barry decided he didn t want to spend the rest of his life looking at the south end of a horse going north, according to a short biography written by his son David in 1988.
Barry put himself through
Kansas State Teachers College and in 1914 sent his resume to the