Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, September 21, 1917, Page 1

aS COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE VOLUME 25. NUMBER 38. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 1917. $1.50 A YEAR. LOCAL ITEMS OF INTEREST In and Around Cottonwood and Camas Prairie. Geo. M. Robertson spent Tuesday in Lewiston on business. L. C. Hoffinan and William Schaef: fer are in Spokane this week. Deputy Sheriff Wm. Eller of Grangeville is in town ‘today. Mrs. Aichlmayr and family have moved to Clarkston for the winter. Today, Sept. 21, the days and nights are exactly the same’ length. Carl Rheder has returned from a trip to the upper Salmon river country. Mrs, Stevens of Nezperce is a guest at the Strickfaden home here this week. fe Frank Kelsey, with an auto party, enjoyed Sunday at the village of Mt. Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Strickfaden left Tuesday for a few weeks’ visit at Mis- soula, Mont. A. L. Creelman, the merchant, made a business trip to Lewiston the first of this week. Geo. F. McKinney and _ his partner W. T. Simon were Nezperce business visitors Tuesday. J. V. Baker and family motored to Nezperce Sunday and enjoyed the day with friends there. T. A. Bayliss of Grangeville, man- ager for our electric light system, was in the city yesterday. Dr. J. E. Smith is now snugly lo- cated in his new office next door to Baker's store. See his card Joe Kolbeck treated himself toa fine new Buick car this week, bought from the Hoene Hardware Co. J. B. Fehlhaber of Spokane has ac- cepted a position with the Hoene Hardware Co. as automobile expert. Edwin Nelson of Fenn was in town yesterday. , He is thinking of selling out this fall and moving to Grange- ville. Miss Grace Fargo returned to her home at Lewiston Monday, after a pleasant visit here with the Jessup and Dye families. Dr. Shinnick reports the birth of a bouncing baby boy this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Casand, three miles north of town. Ira Gentry left this morning for Palo Alto, Cal., where he will begin his third year in the law course at Stanford University. John Maugg and Dome Romain of Keuterville, with their families, spent a couple of days this week with their telatives at Grangeville. Max Rader returned Wednesday from Casper, Wyoming, where he had been several weeks attending to his extensive farming interests. Editor Smith of the Grangeville Globe was seeing the sights in Cotton- wood a few minutes Monday, and made this office a friendly call. Miss Evelyn Porter, our accom- plished music teacher, returned last night from a few days’ visit with friends and relatives at Lapwai. Of course every farmer in the coun- ty and his family and all of their neighbors will attend the Farmers In- stitute at Cottonwood on Oct. 2 and 3. A. R. Johnson of Lewiston, local manager of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. made his regular monthly visit here the first of the week. Ira E. Smith, former deputy game warden, is being tried today at Grange- ville on the charge of embezzling $700—money collected for game li- censes, Mr. and Mrs. Doc Warden of Sal- mon river left Wednesday for Port- land, where Mr. Warden will remain for awhile under expert treatment for rheumatism. O. D. Hamlin went to Ilo today to act as witness in a horse-stealing case which occurred in this vicinity several months ago. He will also go to Nez- perce for a short visit. Leonard Huffman of Greencreek left Monday for a Visit with relatives at several points in Montana, after which he will report at American Lake as one of the new National army men. Jim Butcher, who has been helper at the local depot for a month, left Tuesday for Austin, Minn., where he will railroad with one of the big East- ern companies, According to letters received here from members of the Second Idaho regiment, the Idaho troops will leave Boise next Monday for the training camp at Charlotte, N. C. Hill brothers, former residents of this place, came back here this week from their homes in Montana and took back with them this week a car of horses, which they will sell up there. Arthur McSpaden and wife and Kenneth Barrett of Doumecq, P. L. Keener of Joseph and Sam Jones of White Bird are among the Idaho countyites attending the Roundup at Pendleton this week. Henry Mager and several other men returned yesterday from Elk City, where they had been fighting forest fires for several weeks. The re- cent heavy rains assisted them greatly in putting out the fires, J. A. Bushue and family of Ferdi- nand left this week for Joseph, Ore- gon, near where they have purchased a 500 acre farm. Mrs. Bushue was here the last of the week visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Hussman. Ed Blake was in town yesterday from Westlake. He reports a fire scare in his neighborhood Wednesday, when A. S. Leister set fire to some brush ina clearing. It required some pretty hard work by several men to keep the fire from spreading and doing damage. Miss Helen Johnson of Vollmer, who spent several days here this week visiting her friend, Miss Bernice Ed- wards, left this morning for Spokane, where we understand she is soon to be married toa prominent young busi- ness man of that city. Miss Edwards accompanied Miss Johnson to Spokane for a short visit. B. Tacke arrived home Wednesday from a few days’ visit with his rela- tives near Carter, Montana. His three sons—Joe, Tony and Barney, and nephew, Lou Tacke, and son-in- law Fred Funke, are all prosperous farmers at that place and _ getting along nicely. The Cottonwood Chron- icle is a welcome weekly visitor to all of their homes. Gus Seubert, wife and baby and Pete Bies arrived home last night from a record-breaking auto trip to Spokane, having made the round trip in his Ford car in just 32 hours, with 12 hours’ rest in Spokane. The ob- ject in making the hurry-up grip was to get some extras for the Bies thresh- er--which would havg, taken 4 or days to get by express. . € Ex-Editor Wier is now a full- fledged farmer;#and takes to the wofk like a duck to water. This week he bought 8 good horses—4 from Geo. Killmar, 2 from Theo. ‘Poennis and one each from Fred Pfannebecker and Andy Rustemeyer. Frank has been busy all week hauling all kinds of new machinery out to his farm, and in fact is as busy as the proverbial cat. P. H. Sallee and Miss Elsie Gray, both of Westlake, were married Sun- day at noon, Sept. 16th, at the bride's home by Ed Blake, Justice of the Peace. Only members of the family and a few friends were present and en- joyed a fine wedding dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Sallee have gone to Olympia, Wash., where they have relatives and where they will spend the winter. Wes Hockersmith, who conducts the Rice creek ferry and stopping place, was in town Saturday. He ex- pects to circulate a subscription paper among our citizens within a few days for the purpose of raising funds with which to improve the Grave creek road. Last spring the road was wash- ed out for a distance of about five miles, making it impassable for autos or wagons, and the many people of that part of the Salmon river country are forced to use pack-horses in com- ing out to Cottonwood to do their trading. Mr. Hockersmith thinks the washed-out portion of the road can be put in shape for wagon travel for less than $500. He says this road has been sadly neglected by the coun- ty court, although some of the heavi- est taxpayers in the county live in that locality Mrs. J. Matthiesen has a number of 8. C. White Leghorn cockerels for sale at $1.50 each. 40 BIG STOCK SHIP- MENT TUESDAY Forty-four Cars go Out From This Vicinity. A total of 44 cars of stock were shipped out from this section Tuesday —32 cars of cattle and hogs over the Camas Prairie line and 12 cars of cat- tle, hogs and sheep over the Clearwa- ter road. The stock was billed out to three different firms—Carsteen Packing Co. of Tacoma, Fry & Co. of Seattle and E. H. Stanton & Co. of Spokane. All the stock was extra good stuff and brought top-notch prices, the Far- mers Union paying as high as $17.15 per hundred for hogs in this shipment. A contract has been awarded for a $27,575 administration building for the Lewiston State Normal. Con- tracts have been let at Moscow for two University buildings, one to cost $7,995 and the other $11,698. Lee Strickfadden, who is engaged with his brother Charles in the farm- ing of 1000 acres of land a few miles north of Cottonwood, was in Lewiston Tuesday and toa Lewiston Tribune re- porter said: “Our crop this year re- turned about 25 bushels of marquis wheat, 23 bushels of forty-fold wheat and 20 bushels of barley to the acre. The crop will bring about $25,000, whereas with normal climatic condi- tions the yield would have been such as to have brought the figure up to about $60,000. “We consider the show- ing made by the marquis wheat as be- ing most remarkable. It received not a drop of rain from date of planting, yet matured 25 bushels of sound hard wheat. Up to the early part of July the stand of barley could not have been better, but the drouth then began to affect conditions and while the heads seemed normal, when threshed the re- sults showed how serious the blight had been.” Raise Wheat, Not Smut, | Wa. Shockley, a prominent farmer from the Nezperce, in a recent inter- view on the smut subject with County Agricultural Agent A. E. Wade, re- marked that smut could be entirely eliminated from the country by re- plowing the summer-fullow after the fall rains. He says that in this way the smut spores that have fallen on the ground during the smut shower are buried so deep that they cannot infect the sprouting grain. Mr. Shockley has followed this plan for 20 years and has never raised any smut to amonnt to anything. He says that the plowing should be fairly deep, the furrow being turned bottom side up with care, and seeding should follow as closely after plowing as possible and that the seed should be treated in the usual manner. This is the only possible method that can be followed this year with any degree of assurance that we may raise a clean crop. The present indications are for the smuttiest crop of wheat next year that the prairie has ever seen if this meth- od is not followed out. Mr. Wade will deliver an interest- ing lecture on smut in the sfternoon of the first day—Oct. 2—of the Farm- ers Institute at Cottonwood. RED CROSS DOINGS. (Contributed) The Red Cross room will soon have to be supplied with fuel. Those not able or prepared to help with the sew- ing should donate a sack of coal. Watch for the date of the Home Talent play to be given early in Octo- ber for the benefit of the Red Cross, The instruction and needles for woolen knitting are here. Lewiston chapter has notified us that the wool will be ready in a few days. Coming —- “The Old Home- stead.” This high-grade special in motion pictures will be shown next Wednes- day afternoon and evening—*Sept. 26, for the regular prices of 10 andgll 5c. @ 9:00 a.m. Band Concert. 10:00 a, m., Lecture on,Smut, 11:00 a. m. a No. 7923.4; the close of bubjpess on Tuesday, Sept. 11th, 1917. Home Economy Demonstration and Lecture. Clover Seed, by A. E. Wade. a . Stock Judging, followed by Live Stock Sale. (Lae SENET ASSIS FARMERS INSTITUTE AT COTTONWOOD 3 @° PROGRAM e ““OCTOBER 2 ‘by A. E. Wade, County Agri- culturist Lewis county. Pleas for the Camas Prairie Farmer, by Prof. Farm Markets Dept., by Chas. Waggoner. Lecture on Dairying by U. of I. Dairyman. ; + Control of Weeds, by A. E. Wade, followed hy y. 1:30 p.m. Band Concert. @ 2:30p.m. Tractor Demonstration. @ 2:30 p.m « 7:30%p. m. Band Concert. 8:00 p. m OCTOBER 3 9:00 a.m. Band Concert. 10:00 a. m. 11:00 a. m. Lecture on Soils by University Expert. 11:30 a. m. 1:30 p. m. Band Concert. 2:00 p. m 2:30 p. m. Home Eeongmy Lecture. 7:30 p.m. Band Concert. 8:00 p. m. an organization of farm bureau. © oe: fg) * First National Bank Report * Report of the condition of the First National Bank, at Cottonwood, in the State of Idaho, at RESOURCES. ‘Total loans .. U.S. Bonds d Liberty Loan Bonds, unpledged.......- Securities other than U. S. bonds (not inc! Value of banking house... Furniture and fixtures... acbeagsaeney Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank....... Total Capital stock paid in.. Surplus fund.......- Circulating notes outstanding........ Demand deposits: Individual deposits subject to check. ---. Certificates of deposit due in less than 3u days (other than for money bhor- Certified checks.. Sasriatas Cashiers’ checks outstanding. .....-- ‘ ‘Total demand deposits subject to reserve, Items 31, 32, 33, 34,35, Time deposits subject to Reserve [payable after 30 days, or subject days or more notice]: Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed) Total State of Idaho, County of Idaho, ss: Loans and Discounts (except those shown on band c).- Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (SO per cent. of subscription. Cash in vault and net amounts due from national banks ses sees Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U.S. Treasurer... «...--+ LIABILITIES -$239,162.78 $239,162.78 25,000.00 1,050.00 6,898.00 1,200.00 10,844.78 3,221.10 172,410.61 34,671.15 es I, Geo. M. Robertson, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true tothe best of my knowledge and belief. GEO. M. ROBERTSON, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of Sept., 1917. Herman H. NuXott, Notary Public. CORRECT—Attsst: W. W. FLINT, E. L. PARKER, J. P. MANNING, Directors. COTTONWOOD'S ENTERPRISES The Biggest Little Town on the Map for Its Size. In order to give the outside reader some idea of the immense volume of business done at Cottonwood we here- with publish a list of the town’s enter- prises and resources. Cottonwood, a live up-to-date mod- ern little city with less th&n a thous- and people, is located on Camas Prai- rie on the Northern Pacific bran! railroad in Idaho county, 61 miles southeast of Lewiston, Idaho, in the heart of the richest grain and stock country in the United States. No where in the entire country can be found a more intelligent, energetic and prosperous class of farmers and stock- men than in this community. West of here is the Craig mountain country and a nice belt of timber, with half a dozen sawmills operating within ten miles of the town, Farther west and south is an immense stock country along the Salmon and Snake rivers, nearly all of which is tributary to this town and ships its stock from here. Railroad people say that, as a produc- ing district, more stock—especially hogs—is shipped from here than from any point west of the Mississippi river. The town has electric light and power, and a splendid gravity system of pure mountain water piped from Cottonwood Butte, a distance of about three miles. Foran elevation of 3,- 400 feet the winters are not severe, the mercury seldom going below zero, and then only for a short time. Just enough snow falls to insure good crops, The work of putting in a sewerage system has been postponed until next year, as was’also the work of complet- ing conerete sidewalks and street pav- ing, which was begun some time ago, In the town we have two of the strongest ‘ganks in the state, with de- posits of nearly three-quarters of a million dollars; three immense grain warehouses, two large grain elevators, two of the largest and best flour mills in the state with a daily capacity of about 200 barrels; two big lumber ards, one with a planing and wood- working mill in connection; a thor- oughly equipped creamery and cold storage plant erected little over a year ago which already has turned out over 100,000 pounds of butter, be- sides during the summer months ship- ping to outside points over 1000 gal- ions of ice cream monthly; two of the biggest hardware and farming imple- ment stores in the state of Idaho; four well-stocked general merchandise stores; one of the finest cold storage meat markets in the entire Northwest; two hotels, three restaurants, two drug stores, furniture store and undertaking parlors, harness.shop, moving picture show, two confectionery stores, three garages, two livery stables, two black- sinith shops, two panper shops, two plumbing and tinshops, two pool halls, thtee soft-drink parlors, two jewelry stores, photo gallery, millinery store, second-hand store, tailor shop, shoe shop, laundry, three doctors, two den- tists, veberinary surgeon, occulist, newspaper, two real estate offices, Cot- to arm Loan Association with Edgar Fry as president and Felix Martzen segretary and treasurer; two excelle# gehools—public and Paro- chial, hese er an enrollment of about 160 pupils and with the same num- ber of teachers; three churches—Meth- odist, Catholic and Baptist; two tele- phone systems; lodges represented— I. O. O. F., Rebekah, K. of C, K. of P., and Moose. Members of the City Council—J. V. Baker, mayor; Geo. M. Robertson, John Hoene, Geo. F. McKinney and John Funke, councilmen; M. M. Bel- knap, clerk; E. J. Terhaar, ‘l'reas; Ed Malerich, marshal. Justice of the Peace, B. L. Huss- man; constable, Oscar D. Hamlin, who is also our drayman and stock in- spector, We have a live commercial club, with Geo, M. Robertson, president, and Walter W. Flint, Sec. and Treas. Excellent band of 20 pieces; rod and gun club, fire department, ete. Two daily stage lines— one to Keu- terville, the other to Winona and Greencreek, Among the new enterprises contem- plated for next summer is a firstclass hospital, the stock for which is already subscribed; a large modern brick ho- tel and a city hall. Cottonwoed’s ambition to become a county seat will soon be a reality— and then watch us grow with leaps and bounds into one of the largest and most flourishing cities in the state of Idaho, ss Cottonwood Public Schools. (By Prof, Skinner) The high school last Friday organ- ized a literary society which will hold its meetings twice each month in the high school room, The first meeting will be held Tuesday evening, Sept. 25th. The public is cordially invited to attend. Caroline Terhaar was elected . president; Euclid Rice, vice- president; Anna Peterson, secretary; Miss Sloneker, treasurer; Lee Gentry, sergeant-at-arms, The following pro- gram will be given at the first meet- ing: Song, The National Air, by the school Reading, German dialect August Schroeder Duet Celia and Katherine Nacke Reading Harold Simon Reading Katherine McDonald Piano Solo Anna Peterson Reading Bertha Terhaar Violin Solo Floyd South Reading Olen Hamlin Reading Arno Buettner School paper Carolyn Terhaar and Myrtle Rhett Song by six girls Piano Solo Mary Byam Aim of Literary Society Prof. Lustie Owing to teachers’ institute at Grangeville, there will be no school during the first week in October. Floyd South entered school last Monday bringing the Senior enroll- ment up to nine. The Senior class organized last week and elected Myr- tle Rhett president, Aloysius Wagner was chosen vice-president, Caroline Terhaar sec-treas, Anna Peterson and Francis Hattrup were elected taem- bers of the social committee. The class intends to give a party to the Freshmen in the near future. Those having drills accepted in the high school to date are: Aloysius Wagner, Caroline Terhaar, Euclid Rice, Anita de Courcey, Catherine Nacke, Wallace Rhett, Ferdie Nacke, Henrietta Manwaring, Myrtle Rhett, Frances Hattrup, Olin Hamlin, Ade- line Gaul and Arthur Peterson. No department grades will be issued this year in the high school. Instead a merit grade will be given which combines good behavior in school and punctuality. Watch for the names of those who secure the high averages. Those having high averages will be excused from examinations. The domestic science department has been having lessons in canning during the past week. The manual training boys are making work bench- es this week. In 7th and 8th grades four new pu- pils arrived whom we most heartily welcome. We would like many more, The drawing and penmanship class- es are progressing nicely and expect to accomplish much more than last year. Watch us, : In the 6th grade not a word was missed in spelling during the entire week. Keep up the good work, Burdette Belknap has entered schogl,. Market Report. ‘ Wheat, Marquis, per bu........ Wheat, Bluestem, per bu...... Wheat, white Russian, per bu. Wheat, club, per bu.......... Wheat, white Oregon. Oats, per hundred...... Barley, white, per hundred . Barley, blue, per cwt....... Barley, feed, per hundred Butter, per pound.. Eggs, per dozen.... Flour, per sack, Tip Top Flour, per sack, Union...... Hogs, top stuff, per hundred ..... Cattle, prime steers, per cwt...... ta Corrected every Thursday P. M. Bank Report (Official Publication.) No. 67, ~ Report of the Condition of The German State Bank at Cottonwood, in the State of Idaho, at the close of business Sept. 11, 1917, RESOURCES Overdrafts Stocks, Bonds, and Warrants Banking house, furniture and fixtures. . LIABILITIES Individual deposits sub- ject to check... $131,930.60 Time Certificates Cashier's Checks.. Total Deposits 788. Capital stock paid in.. ++ 25,000. Pai plew soccssy ss sceeace ++ 5,000.00 Undivided Profits, less expenses, inte- rest and taxes paid. <+ 2,929.74 named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. H.C. MaTTHIESEN, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of Sept., 1917. I certify that lam NOT an Officer or Director of this Bank. Geo, M. RoBERTSON, Notary Public. Merman Von Rargen, M.M, eanniar eee CoRRECT—Attest: 4 :