Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, April 5, 1918, Page 1

VOLUME 26. NUMBER 14. “FIGHTING McKIE”. VISITS COTTONWOOD Patriotic League is Organ- ized as a Result. FLAG DAY APRIL 16 Cottonwood Boys Left Year Ago That Date for War One of the largest audiences that ever gathered in Cottonwood to hear a public speaker listened nearly four hours Monday night in the I. O. O. F. hall to “Fight- ing McKie,” who recently return- ed from nearly three years’ active service in France. The band furnished music for the occasion, and the speaker was introduced by W.’W. Flint, who acted as chairman of the meeting. The large crowd—nearly 400 of them—paid the closest atten- tion throughout the long lecture, during which he described the great. war in all its frightfulness. He unmercifully flayed pro-Ger- mans, and in the most forcible manner explained the duty of all loyal Americans in stamping out treason and _ disloyality while our boys are giving their lives in the cause of freedom and humanity. One of our citizens next day took occasion to criticise Mr. Mc- Kie’s remarks, and intimated that he should be run out of town—or words to that effect. Our Council of Defense officers notified this party to appear at the hotel Tues- day evening, and before Mr. Mc- Kie anda large crowd of our loyal citizens, he apologized for his ob- jectionable remarks. The crowd at this meeting con- cluded that it was a most appro- priate time to organize a Patriotic gue, to assist the county coun- cil of defense in stamping out dis- loyalty and encouraging patriot- = COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1918. ism in every possible manner. W. W. Flint was elected presi- dent, Ed Blake vice-president, Ira Newman secretary and Tom Ran- dall treasurer of the League. As rapidly as they could write their names, 60 men signed as mem- bers, and at another meeting held in Odd Fellows hall last night 25 more signed up. The member- ship fee is $1.00 and every male citizen in this vicinity is expected to become a member as soon as possible. These Leagues are be- ing organized in every town and city in the United States. The League passed a resolution of thanks to Mr. McKie, prepared by the following committee: W. W. Flint, chairman, J. V. Baker, man, John Meyer and Ed Blake. Following is the resolution: “Be it resolved by the Patriotic League of Cottonwood, Idaho, That we appreciate the patriotic work done by Fighting McKie during his visit in Cottonwood at this time and we hereby pledge ourselves to support the senti- ments of patriotism created by tim in his lecture and_ talks among our people and commend him and his services to every community throughout the land.” The League will meet in Odd Fellows hall every Thursday even- ing, and everybody is urgently in- vited and requested to attend and become members. At the meeting last night it was decided to raise our service flag on Tuesday, April 16th—that being the first anniversary or date of the departure of the Cottonwood boys of Co. E., who left on that date a year ago. Judge Ailshie of Coeur d’Alene has promised to be pres- ent to make a patriotic address, and _ there is no doubt that one of the largest crowds ever seen in the town will be present that day. he city council will declare April 16th a holiday and all busi- ness houses in the town will be expected to close between the hours of 10 a. m. and 5 p.m. Particulars and program next week. MEMBER “i < PEDERAL RESERVE os SYSTEM s | RE lig Call and get a Farm Record NOW Splendid Coffee} In order to cut down our stock of cof- fees we will give with every 3-pounds of ROYAL CLUB COFFEE one bottle of lemon or vanilla extract. With every 1-pound of this excellent brand we will give a 10c can of pepper. For Cash Only We have some real bargains in work shoes for you. See them in our window J. V. Baker & Son “WHERE QUALITY AND PRICES MEET” Geo. M. Robertson, I. A. New-| == Third Liberty Loan April 6, 1918 If you can’t put a gun on your shoulder, buy a Lib- erty Bond at your bank. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK COTTONWOOD, IDAHO Will gladly accept your application and secure the Bond without any expense or inconvenience to you 7 LOCAL ITEMS — OF INTEREST Condensed for the Benefit of Chronicle Readers. Com’l. Club luncheon at the hotel next Monday. Firemen’s Ball at the Orpheum |next Monday night. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Arnold O’Dell on March 30th, a daughter. Emmet Mulhall of Fenn was in town Tuesday. See ad in this is- A big stockmen’s dance and jauction given at White Bird Fri- day night netted the magnificent sum of $756.25 for the Red Cross. Fred Edwards and Jake Cap- ‘tein left Tuesday for Colville, |Wash. Fred may conclude to |spend the summer there, but Jake | will return next week. |. Herman Wiegand, the barber, | had one of his eyes badly injured |one day this week by a stick of wood striking him in the eye while wielding an ax. Bernard Geise, an old German | bachelor who is not yet natural- jized, set a wholesome example | this week by investing in $500.00 | worth of Liberty bonds. Miss Stella Roark, the popular schoolmam of Red Rock, was in |town several days this week for |treatment for a very sore foot, a by stepping on a rusty | nail. “Neptune’s Daughter,” which was postponed from last February, will be shown at the Orpheum on Friday night, April 19th, for ben- \efit of the Red Cross. A dance will be given after the picture. It is thought that A. B. With- row, who was operated upon in a | Walla Walla hospital for an ab- cess and blood-poison, cannot re- |cover. His wifeand her daugh- |ter, Mrs. A. L. Harchelrode of Wi- \nona, have been with him fora | week or more. Sidney Brown this week bought \from Eugene Andrews a 640-acre |stock ranch on the breaks of the ‘Salmon river, about two miles ‘from Keuterville, for $6000. Sid |is in the market to buy some young cattle with which to stock | this ranch, Howard McKinley this week sold 8 more of his purebred Po- land China hogs, age 9 months, ;and averaging 2624 | for $338.10. Howard finds that it | pays to raise purebred stuff, and is making a complete success of the hog business. | Miss Lodiska Miller, teacher of | the Stock Creek school, requests ‘us to mention that a basket social {and dance will be given atthe | school on April 12. The proceeds | will go to pay a few incidental | expenses and the balance will be used for Red Cross work. Her many friends will regret to jlearn that Mrs. Mary Pierce, | mother of Mel Pierce, is lying at | the point of death at her home in |Cottonwood with pneumonia. | Her daughter, Mrs. H. H. Shellen- burger of Spokane is here with ‘her mother, and a son, E. J. Pierce, a prominent business man \of Omaha, Neb., is expected here | this evening. Frank Puthoff moved his fam- \ily, as well as all their household | goods, farming implements, etc., |this week to Chewelah, Wash., where he bought a 295-acre ranch \a short time ago. Mr. Puthoff {traded in on the deal all the land he owned in this county and also |his residence property in Cotton- | wood. Joe Bauer, the Greencreek mail-carrier, will occupy the Put- hoff house. All that Joe lacks now is a wife—but we advise the girls to not all rush at once. | Geary Trautman, an enterpris- ing young farmer of Greencreek, and Miss Hilda Eckerman were married Tuesday at the home of her mother, Mrs. H. C. Ecker- man, three miles east of Cotton- |wood. Father Baerlocher per- formed the ceremony. * A large crowd attended the free dance given in the Greencreek hall Tues- day night by the groom. Their |many friends wish the happy | young couple all kinds of happi- ness in their voyage over the sea of matrimony. /sue of his big horse sale April 20. | ounds each, | Our Council of Defense officers | —John Funke and Fat Hamlin— | were in Grangeville yesterday on | | defense business. | | Wm. Mulhall of Denver was | badly injured a few da {his horse falling on him, but is getting along nicely. Dr. Schilling has made arrange- ments to receive from Moscow dow. Mrs. Albert Nau is making a nice recovery from an operation Orr, assisted by Dr. Stockton. W. B. Hussman arrived home | Wednesday from a few days’ trip | to Seattle. While on the Coast | he visited his brother Clem at the| |Bremerton navy yard and also! ithe great army camp near Ta-| ;coma. Our readers will be favor-| jed next week with an interesting jarticle on Mr. Hussman’s visit to the Coast. As was expected, a tremendous |erowd attended the Jim Wright | sale Tuesday and everything sold jat wonderfully good prices, the ‘total sales amounting to more | | than $10,000. Jim recently sold | his 440-acre farm for $37,000, and |is now able to ciean up better than $50,000. This gives some idea of what a man can do in this | country—with good management —as he bought this place 13 years | ago for $10,000, and all he had at | that time was $3,500. Mr. Wright jand family will move in a few days to Asotin, where they will! | invest and make their home. | Red Cross News. |e The Red Cross has moved from | the Funke building into the Gold- stone building, across the street| from the Chronicle office. A vote ,of thanks was given by the society to Mr. Funke, who so kindly do- ‘nated the use of his room since \the society was organized. He not only did this but built all the \fires and did the sweeping this |winter. Words cannot express ‘our appreciation of his help and |interest shown in our work. He |was a true neighbor and _ patriot and we are very sorry the room |was not larger. We also appre- |ciate Mr. Hamlin’s help in donat- |ing dray service. We wish to! thank all who helped us to get) |settled in our new home, includ- ing Butt Cutt, who helped clean | the rooms, Our enrollment is 596, about half of whom are women, but not ‘a great percentage are workers. Why are you not? Get “over the | top” and into our new quarters jand give one day a week to the 'boys who are giving their life- | blood for you. We have room for | jallof you. Could you listen to |Mr. McKie Monday night and not feel conscience smitten for |not one stitch have you taken for | the cause? It is true many of you with families of little ones have not the time, but how about you who |have time for everything except jthis? You don’t have to be a general; you don’t have to wear a }uniform nor go to a foreign land. The time has come when a man |or woman is going to be measured ‘not by money, not by name, not | by family, but by service. | Get your name on the Service roll of the Red Cross as well as on ‘the membership roll. Come in| and help. Many are working in | their homes. | The cutting will also be done} at Red Cross rssms as well as| | basting and stitching. | Weare grateful to the following | for quilts: Mesdames Will Buett-! |ner, Wasem, W. H. Fortin, L. S. | |Fortin, Chas, Staal. Mr. Will, Buettner donated $10, Mr. Jake} ‘Jensen $11.90, Mrs. H. B. Blake} $5, Mrs. Felix Martzen $1, Mrs. Jack Moriarty $1, Mrs. Fitzger- ald $2. | We wish to thank Mr. Kendall | |for wiring the new room and El-| vin Parker for some shelving, also | Jas. Wright for $23, the proceeds | of a bridle auctioned at his sale) for the Red Cross, | The two entertainments given) by the Troubadours March 23 and | 24, netted the Red Cross $44.50. | | $52.25 was_ cleared on the lecture! by Mr. McKie and the dance |Tuesday night brought in $6.25. |The Entertainment Committee |has turned over the $44.50 to the | Red Cross, but will hold the lect- | | ure and dance proceeds asa re- | Gros fund until the next Red|ff Cross entertainment is given. A HORRIBLE [fgets FIRE ACCIDENT It is thought the fire sta the air-tight stove either - ing or the top blowing off, ¥ beds whi were only a few feet distant. The financial loss is also a gering blow to Mr. and Mrs. poor and were ys ago by Mike Geis Loses Little Son and Home by Fire. | One of the most frightful acci- ‘every evening the latest war dis-| dents that ever occurred in this ing hard to build up a home. |patches. See bulletin. in his win Part of the country was the fire] "T Monday evening which destroyed the Geis home 3 miles northwest |¢@me to their rescue wi of town, and in which their little | Performed upon her at her home| 4-year-old son was burned to cash and near Ferdinand Tuesday by Dr.} death. Dining Chairs COTTONWOOD * A ~ Father Willibrord cond: ing sparks onto the who are vi rovisions. ——0—_- ary, containin; They pad Henry Soards, age 55 being investigated. jand at the death of our wife and mother. Henry Uhling and A Checking Account promotes credit and establishes respon- sibility. The advice and the use of the credit of German State Bank will aid in developing the business of worthy patrons, ——— 8 6 ae E. M. Ehrhardt, President M. M. Belknap, Vice-President H. C. Matthiesen, Cashier FURNITURE Large Stock Always on Hand Bedsteads Library Tables Lounges Dining Tables Davenports Dressers Complete line of Funeral Furnishings carried Both Phones. Calls answered day or night V—————————— Nau’s Furniture Store tion of several hundred dollars Frank sey circulated a subscription er in town Wednesday for Mr. and Mrs. Geis and three Srlaloes family. : ‘ little children had been over to Greencreek Monday and returned home about dusk. once“ built a fire in the heating stove and after putting the three children to bed he and his wife went to the barn to feed the stock and milk the cows. The loss is over morning. W have not been able to learn wheth. er the explosion was accidental or not, Soards had a great deal of trouble with Salmon river people, who accused him of cattle “rust- ling,” and this may have led to his tragic death. The matter is el tlget ae Card of Thanks. We desire in this manner to Sit-o- cerely thank the kind friends who showed us so much aes. an ‘assistance during the loey e Rocking Chairs All high-grade goods at lowest prices | (etowea the remains to the he big-hearted people of Co tonwood and vicinity ee a.don Neal McGuire’s house, 6 ee The father at | northwest of Keuterville, burned to the ground Monday evening with all its contents. His all of his spring seed grain and a number of farm thought the fire started from a Imagine their horror when|fective flue or from they discovered their house a before being discov roaring mass of flames. rushed inside and rescued the two| quired the “hardest. kin younger children, who were badly | to prevent the fire from spreading burned and almost suffocated,|to the barn. — i The oldest child’s bed being va-|*100, with no insurance. cant, the parents thought he had already gone out or had been car- married, was killed by an explos- ried out by one or the other of|ion in his cabin near White Bird the parents. _ Then they heard| early Wednesda: the little fellow’s pitiful cries and again rushed back into the! flames in the wild search for him. The frantic father finally found him under a bed and dragged him out just as the roof fell in, getting badly burned himself in his des- perate attempt to rescue the child. But it was too late, as the little body was burned almost to a crisp. The burial took place Wednes- day, and nobody but parents can realize the feeling of the broken- hearted father and mother as they ks, had ga possible to save anything. Aft and un- \ n 10 Family.