Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 15, 1918, Page 1

—— COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE VOLUME 26. NUMBER 11. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1918. $1.50 PER YEAR. EMERGENCY DRAFT CALL IS MADE Farm Laborers Not to be Called for th the Present. A Waahingtan: ‘Gispatch dated March 11th says: Provost Marshal General Crow- der announces an emergency call for 95,000 men, who are to be sent to camps March 29. Idaho is required to forward to Camp Lewis March 29 a total of 246 men under this order, of which six are to come from Idaho county. These six will likely be Henry J. Hesterman and Vernon McKenzie of Grangeville, Omer Ewing of Stites, Lawrence Lustig of Green- creek, Wm. Yinst of Winchester, In view of the great need for farm labor, President Wilson di- rects that local boards, in filling this emergency call, shall defer) thé call of farm laborers for the present. ° A former dispatch read: The time of the next army draft call is still conjectural, no official information yet being available. However, as the straws lay now, it does not seem that the call can come before July. This conclu- sion is reached from the fact that Provost Marshal General Crowder desires that all the Class 1 young men arriving at the age of 21 since the original draft law went into effect be included in this next call. A bill is now pending in congress upon the enactment of which all young men will auto- matically become subject to draft upon reaching their 21st birthday. This enactment and the subse- quent registration details cannot be carried out in less than about four months, and if Genera Crowder’s wishes as to these men are followed, it will be seen the call must wait till July at least. SSS The Federal Reserve System Helps You It was created primarily—— To help the business men and farmers; To provide plenty of currency at all times; To effect a steadier The system merits citizens; it must have its full development. You can secure th system and at the same time assist directly in developing it by depositing your. money with FIRST NATI Local Items of Interest. | | It’s Farmers Week next week k. | pat about dragging the streets? | M. Belknap is out again, tier his illness of three weeks. Elvin Parker made a business trip to Tacoma.this week, leaving} Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. August Von Bar- Mrs. Loevia Tefft of Salmon | gon received two letters Monday river spent a couple of days in| fom their son Fred, who is with town this week at the home of her | |the boys in France. He reports daughter, Mrs. Ed Lancaster. lall of the Cottonwood soldiers If you notice Geo. Rustemeyer | well and getting as much enjoy- stepping as high as a blind mule| 'ment out of army life as possible. in a bumblebees nest, the reason|'The boys had just been paid off is that he is daddy of a fine little) their first pay-day since going girl baby that came to his home| across four months ago—and Fred early this morning. | says they all got so much French Geo. Poler left this morning for| money that they couldn’t find GOOD NEWS FROM BOYS AT THE FRON Cottonwood S Soldiers Well And Ready For Action. Spokane. His daughter, Mrs. | McMahon, wired him that her little son was not expected to live, and Walter Evans of Whitebird. ' pockets enough to hold it—and it almost made them bow-legged packing the money around. caused by pneumonia and an op-| eration. Wm. Lindquist of Lew-' ‘iston has charge of the depot dur-! our 50-cent piece. Therefore the ing Mr. Poler’s absence. | reader may imagine what a pock- Frank Stewart and his son-in- etfull only a few dollars would A French franc is 20 cents, and a frane coin is about the size of are the new owners of the Cotton-| week. They are experienced ga-| rage people and are sure to make a success of the business here. They and their families will oceu- py rooms in the garage building. | wood garage, taking charge this) law, M. C. Jasper, of Lewiston, ake. | No doubt it will be a relief to the Cottonwood girls to know that there is not much danger of |our boys becoming lonely over | there for lack of company of the ‘fair sex. Fred says that in every | French town they visited there jare about ten times more girls {in the Salmon river country. bought from John Bentley 1000 | « acres of excellent pasture land on | Salmon river, near Rocky, Can-| each other very well. yon, and will embark in the sheep; When the boys made the trip business on an extensive scale. | over there the fore part of Decem- The consideration was $12,000) ber most of them got pretty sea- and includes all necessary farm|sick, Fred was one of them, and implements. Less than 100 acres} while leaning over the railing, of this land is in cultivation— ‘feeding the fish and whales with mostly alfalfa. This is the best/the contents of his stomach, an price yet reported for grazing land | officer came up and remarked: “Young man, I see you havea }weak stomach also.” Fred re- are strong” for the Americans— even if they don’t understand J. B. Luchtefeld this week/than pboys—and that the girls’ ONAL a supply of credit. the support of all good yours in order to reach e benefits of this great J. V. Baker & gon’) Have just added CHASE & to their stock the SANBORN line of Teas and Coffees Formerly handled here by Goldstone, Nash & Creelman The public knows there is none better Try it and be convinced “WHERE QUALITY AND PRICES MEET” |plied, between gasps: “I don’t see how you figure that out; I notice I’m throwing it about as far as any of them!” Riley Rice received a letter last | week from his son Arthur, “Some- where in France,’ dated Feb. 3. Following isa portion of the letter: We received our mail last Sun- day, Jan. 27—the first since we }eame over. I got 16 letters, but only one from home, and haven’t received any packages. Mother |had written that she sent three boxes of things to me, but have given up hopes of ever receiving hem. Had a few cold days, damp and foggy weather, but the last few |days have certainly been beauti- jful. Ishall always remember my 25th birthday, as I sat up all even- ing, had breakfast at 1 a. m., was loaded on a train at 2and taken to the ferry, was loaded on the ship just before noon and sailed |that nightatla.m. I certainly | have been feeling fine since com- the close of business on March 4, 1918. ing to France, and believe this} | First National Bank Rerort No. 7923. Report of the condition of the First National Bank, at Cottonwood, in the State of Idaho, at RESOURCES. climate agrees with me, as I can’t wear my old clothes now. a, Triplett was greatly surpris- he other day when he saw one ne on boys of the regiment driv- ing his old saddle-horse, which he sold two years ago at Cottonwood. We are not allowed to mention any interesting sights or any of the towns through which we pass: ‘We all look forward to returning before another winter. Have seen only one Cottonwood paper since arriving here—an old one that Roy Meade chanced to have, My address now is Pvt. Arthur L. Rice, Co. C 2nd U.S. Eng., A. E. F., France. Geo. M. Robertson the first of FARM BUREAU GROW- ING IN INTEREST Big Meetings Expected at Cottonwood 20 and 23 Every farmer in this portion of the county is expected to meet at Cottonwood on next Wednesday, 20th, for the purpose of making plans for organizing a Farm Bu- reau for Idaho county. On Saturday, 28, the farmers from all over the county are ex- pected to meet at Cottonwood to perfect permanent organization, as per mention made in all of the peunty, papers last week. this week received an agreeable} An expert from the Extension jsurprise in the form of a letter | department of the University of | i from Wm. H. Pardee, a radio op- | |Idaho will be present at these erator of the Armed Guard Detail, meetings to explain the Farm Bu- written in New York on March 6th, which read: “T have just returned from reau plan in detail. The movement was first launch- ed last October and since that ‘land, was with your son and I en- France and the day before leaving] time the farmers and_ business I met your son Ira. He gave me, men of Idaho county have been your name and address and asked informing themselves on the ben- me to write you and let you know | efits of the farm bureau and the that he is getting along fine and) county agent. enjoying the best of health. A| The movement is being direct- young man named Norby, of Port-|ed by the extension department of the University of Idaho under joyed a pleasant chat with them.| the auspices of the U.S. depart- I will return to France soon, and any word you may wish to send I will gladly take to him.” Mr. Robertson promptly wired Mr. Pardee in New York, thank- ing him for the weleome message from his son. Wes Hockersmith also received a letter this week from his son Del, written in England, and who was on the ill-fated Tuscania which was recently torpedoed two miles off the Irish coast. Del de- ment of agriculture and it is ex- pected both meetings here on the |20th and 28rd will be largely at- tended and a definite plan adopt- ed for presenting the matter to the board of county commission- ers, Pee by > a The long-delayed work of grav- eling the street from Main street to the depot has at last begun. Every other street in~the town is also groaning for a similar dose. scribed the narrow escape he had and said when he reached the} place his lifeboat was supposed to be it was missing, and it was an hour and a half before he got) away. An hour or so later the ship sank. Two of his pals were| drowned and he lost everything | he had—even his hat. Terrible as the disaster was, it was a relief to the boys to know that within an hour after -the torpedo did its dirty work the submarine was run down and destroyed, along with its murderous crew. you as a depositor of Mrs. L. B. Hale has just receiv- ed a letter from her son, Walter Odell, stating that he had arrived safely in France. Walter left here about two years ago and was at Camp Lewis several months be- fore going dcross. Mrs. L. E. Wimer has just re- ceived word that her nephew, Isaac Davis, oxe of the Iowa boys who recently went to France, was killed in action last week. SECURITY that cannot be questioned, lo- cation that is convenient, a courtesy and ac- commodation that is uniform, are all afforded ee |, TRE eee. German State Bank CAPITAL and SURPLUS $30,000 E. M. Ehrhardt, President M. M. Belknap, Vice-President ‘H. C. Matthiesen, Cashier Two Deaths This Week. Mr. and Mrs, Jake Welte’s five- months-old son died last Sunday, after a brief illness with pneu- monia, The burial took place in the Catholic cemetery Tuesday morning. On Tuesday evening, Annie May Goeckner, aged almost elev- en years, died at the home of her mother, Mrs. Jake Jensen, three miles east of town, the cause of her death being rheumatism and heart failure, with which she had been troubled for some time. The burial took place Thursday morning in the Catholic ceme- tery, Rev. Father Willibrord con- ducting both funerals. The parents of both of these children have the sympathy of all in their sorrow and bereavement. piles mes Power Plant Being Enlarged The plant of the Grangeville Electric Light & Power company, controlled by Spokane capital, is being doubled at an expense of $125,000. Work is being rushed with a large crew of men and it is hoped to complete the new power dam by June 1 before high water. The men are paid $3.50 a day for nine hours, The dam is in the Clearwater river, eight miles southeast of | Grangeville, and develops power for nine towns on Camas prairie supplied by the Grangeville com- pany. The dam is circular in form, 400 feet long, 20 feet high, and will develop 1500 horsepower when completed, or more than double the capacity of the old rock crib dam. cucibathdawaia The price of hogs is stiil on the rise—the price paid here Monday being $15.90. | Loans and Discounts (except those shown on band c).--::.00-s0000eeseseeeees $213,700.60 ARCA GaN Cane SG aise cen vb aaaveN Og x $213,700. 60 | | Overdrafis, secured, none; unsecured : U, S. Bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value). «+++ $25,000.00 ° U.S. Bonds and certificates of indebtedness owned and unpledged. + ST300o.00 a | 40,000.00 | | Liberty Loan Bonds, unpledged, 34 per cent and 4 per cent... i 9,600.00 | Securities other than U. S. bonds (not including stocks) owned unpledged cme, s 5,168.23 | ar e oc on an Total bonds, securities, ete 5,168.23 | Stock of Federal Reserve Bank hah of subscription) rrerrer tr 1,200.00 | Value of banking house . 6,000.00 Furniture and fixtures..0.000c00.000. Bee Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank : 15,680.66 t : Cash in vault and net amounts due from national banks 44,454.85 Bed d Lib ry Tabl | Checks on other banks tn the same ity or town as reporting bank $33.60 easteads ora ables Redemption fund with U, 5 Tiseuret and due from U.S. Tre: a aie 1,250.00 | ee | Interest earne ut not collecte: —approximate—on notes an ‘bills f receivable mot past due ie 1,924.00 Lounges Dining Tables War Savings Certificates and Thrift Stamps actually owned.. seecee . 120.00 Other qunets, if AMY... ...0sscccccccssersccesscoccscoces “ 168.38 ‘otal fa 309.90 Davenports Dressers | LIABILITIES | Capital stock paid in Prerrirr ys Pr sees eseee 25,000.00 s g s 2 4 Seles et iSite ining Chairs Rocking Chairs Undivided profits, . see $ 5,932.76 1 | Less current expenses, ‘interest, and taxes pa mid.....-.-+ sere 2,266. 3,666.52 | wt | | * ° Interest and discount collected or credited, in advance of maturity and not All h h- d d. t 1 t carned—approximnate ah 4,271.06 | 1 rade goods at lowest prices Circulating notes outstanding... 25,000.00 | Demand deposits; | Individual deposits subject to check ..-...:..+00-csc00scsrcerseeesees 140,196.98 i Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other ‘than for money hor- pastel Complete line of Funeral Furnishings carried Cashiers’ checks outstanding 5 5 5h yeah ps 276.05 | Total demand deposits subject | to reserve, Items 34. 3 36. 3 38,39. 40, 41 . 177 566.4; | Time deposits subject to Reserve [payable after 30 days, or subject ‘to’ 30 Both Enon, Calls answered day or night | days or more notice]: Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed) : sees ose 90,095.93 Total of time deposits subject to reserve, items 42, 43, 44 and 45....-.- + $90,095.93 $340,599.92 pistes of Sanka » Conny, of Idaho. ss: | Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statsineetd is ie Poe best of my knowledge and belief. GHO. Cashier. sworn to before me this 12th day of March, 1918. CORRECT—Arrasr: KE. l. PARKER, J. P. MANNING, W. W. FLINT. Subscribed and . ROBERTSON, Frirx Martzen, Notary Public. . Directors. | Nau’s Furniture oe