Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, April 26, 1918, Page 1

Lt > LIBERTY BOND * SP ith tthe nega ae Ppa COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE VOLUME 26. NUMBER 17. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1918. $1.50 PER YEAR. SALES CONTINUE Cottonwood Away Over the Top With $60,000. Liberty bond subscriptions here still continue with great interest and by another week, when the time is up, Cottonwood and vi- cinity will be “away ahead of the hounds.” The county’s quota is $240,000 and we understand that about $200,000 of this has already been subscribed. ; Today, Friday, is a national holiday, declared by President Wilson for the purpose of allow- ing everybody who can possibly spare the time to close up their business houses and get out.and boost the sale of Liberty bonds. The nation’s quota of three bil- lion dollars is almost subscribed, buta tremendous drive is being made in every nook and corner of the United States to make the to- tal this time $5,000,000,000. Up to Friday noon of last week the total subscriptions here amounted to $54,750. Since that time the following bond sales have been made here, totaling over $5000: $200—Adolph Hinkelman, W B Moughmer. $150—Grangeville L. & P. Co. $100—Dr Wesley F Orr, John Hamill, Anonymous, S R Butler, Carl, Otto, Annie, Helene Hinkel- man, Johanna Heartburg, Her- man Kaschmitter, Arno Buettner, Aug Kopezynski, Lenora Mough- mer, Debie E McKinley, Chas D Luech, Theo Toennis, Jacob Lor- entz, Mrs MA Wassmuth, A O Martin, Henry Forsmann, Henry Uhling, Gottfried Halter, AC Gentry. $50—J B Hattrup, AB Rooke, Joseph Ritter, A McMaster, Tek-' la, Ellen, Martha, Mae, Frans Jr, Oscar, and Nick and John P Schaefer, Mrs ‘| rea Nannie Rooke, Joseph Uptmor, Mrs Saffronia Morgan, Alois Wemhoff, Mary Challenger, Re-| gina, Henry, Louis and Frank erage eS hae wal man, Robert E Wright, Isaac C/ q Pauline, Preiss Ae en eny 4 |Condensed for the Benefit owner, Catholic Parish of Green-| cree, Anton Schumacher, Win # ; of Chronicle Readers. elsey, Herman Uptmor, Ben) Grandma Swan ison the sick Arnzen, John L Rooke, Frank | jist this week at her home just Rad, Leo Rad, Roy D Williams. north of town. Cottonwood’s quota was $50,-| ‘ 650, and the people of this town! ;, yiss Elma Bashaw of Orofino and vicinity deserve all kinds of confectionery store credit for being the first in Idaho | ‘ : county to “go over the top” with; Miss Lou Lytle, one of our a crash that was heard throughout schoolmams, is having a tussel the state. | with measles at the home of Mr. a0 jand Mrs. O, D. Hamlin. r | F. B. McKinney of Grange- Boys Off to Camp Lewis. /ville spent Sunday here at the The 15 boys recently drafted home of his father, Geo. F. Mce- for army service from this county Kinney. | The 40 business men whose! |Mames are on the Chautauqua contract are requested to meet in | the city council room next Mon- |day evening at 8 o’clock sharp. | Important business. | Dr. and Mrs. Reilly expect to/ jleave Sunday for their former ;home at Moscow to attend the| ; wedding next Monday of Mrs.! | Reilly’s sister, Miss Mabel Ken-| \nedy, to Harry Driscoll, a young | business man of Troy. | The baseball season opens next | Sunday afternoon at Fenn with a |rip-snorting game beiween the |married and\single men of that place. Admission 25c, proceeds | to go to the Red Cross. The Cot- | tonwood Band will furnish music, | 'anda large crowd will go from aeons | will leave next Sunday for Camp | A Public Retraction. Frank Foresman this week} WORK BEGUN ON ELEVATO Cottonwood M. & E. Co. Al- most Doubling Plant. A small army of men has begun work on the new elevator for the Cottonwood Milling & Elevator Co., which is being built on the west side and adjoining their big mill near the depot. Geo. Grosshoff of Spokane has the contract for the work, which must be completed by the 1st of August—in time to handle this seascn’s grain crop. The size of the new elevator will be 30x60 feet and 90 feet above the founda- tion and will contain 11 tanks witha ey of 107,000 bushels. This will be in addition to their Lewis. They will all start from) bought a new Dodge carand John | Mherpublic ‘having throligh its | 50,000-bushel elevator now in op- Grangeville on the early morning | Seyler a second-hand Ford from County Council of Defense re. | ration. train, which is due here at 8:10. | Only two boys from this section | will be among them—Herman | Seubert of Cottonwood and Clar- ence Williams of Salmon river. Leroy Terwillegar of Greencreek the Cottonwood Hdw. Co. | quested that I appear and answer Mr. and Mrs. Asa Jones and certain charges made against me, | son Lewis of Boles spent several | Wherein my loyalty asa citizen of | days this week with their relatives | the United States has been ques- in Cottonwood and Grangeville. tioned, reciting in the charge cer-| |be reinforced Chas J Heartburg,: Third Liberty Loan Campaign is on. 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 was temporarily exempted on ac-|_ Miss Velma Petersen, a popu- count of being engaged in farm-|lar schoolmam of Ferdinand, was ing. the guest Saturday and Sunday of A large crowd of our people, in- her friend, Mrs. H.C. Matthiesen. cluding the band, will be at the | Mrs. C. Wieber of Colton, Wn., depot to give the boys arousing) is expected to arrive here this send-off and wish them God-speed | evening with a nice line of mil- on their perilous journey and mis- | Jinery, See notice in this issue. Sethe larger the crowd the more} ‘The Hoene Hardware this week encouraged the boys will feel—so sold to B. Tacke and Peet Reuter let everybody shake off their lazi-| ¢acha 5-pass. Buick and to W. R. ness for a few. minutes and go to| Walker and A. E. Powers each a the depot Sunday morning. Ford car. ease Meat fe nd gs sir of be oe H ers Union arehouse Co. wi Notice to Farmers. |hold a meeting tomorrow to dis- We have been requested by the cuss the advisability of enlarging Food Administration to urge all | their elevator. farmers to bring in their wheat} Grangeville will raise a big ser- holdings at once. We are also re-| vice flag on May 4th, containing quested by the administration to| 163 stars—representing that num- give the names and addresses of) ber of boys from Idaho county al- all persons in this district who re-| ready in military service of the fuse to market their surplus wheat. | country. Cottonwood Milling & E.Co.| 4 May festival basket social jand dance will be given at Keu- 'terville next Wednesday night, |May 1, for benefit of the Red Cross. A good time is assured |and everybody is invited. Sergeant Jesse Robertson, who | is off on a ten days’ furlough from |Camp Lewis, is here visiting his |parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. ‘Robertson, Jesse went out today | with a bunch of boosters for Lib- erty bonds. | Sidney Brown has the proper |system in providing against the |shortage of farm labor. Last | Monday, 22d, another bouncing | little son came to bless the home |of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, four miles ‘north of town. Charley Johnston and wife have just closed a deal with J. I. Cook lof Spokane whereby they become ston are making a splendid suc- _— w A New Pair of Shoes Free q THE BEST WORK SHOE; JN THE WORLD. FULL DOUBLE TOE MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYsTim Call and get a Farm Record NOW | cess of the hotel business here, | Dr. Orr, assisted by Dr. Stock- jton, performed three operations |Monday, as follows: Mrs. Mel Pierce, E. E. Hale and Ollie, the 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. | Albert Zodrow of Ferdinand. All of the patients are getting along nicely. Charley Hall, a young man in {the employ of John Chase near | Winona, narrowly escaped being jed to a disc harrow, ran away, throwing him onto the harrow. He was terribly cut about the head, but it is thought he will re- cover. Geo. Downer and wife and his |brother Henry left Tuesday by auto for Montana, where they ex- pect to buy or file on homestead claims—if suitable land can be found. Henry has been drafted for army service and _ it is his in- going to war. In such cases a as if he were living on the claim. | the owners of the Cottonwood ho-| |tel property. Mr.and Mrs. John-| killed Monday. His team, hitch-| tention to file on a claim before soldier is given credit for the time he is in the service just the same Thirty young people—nearly all pupils of Miss Evelyn Porter’s music class—honored her with a most delightful farewell party Wednesday night at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Shinnick. The eve- ning was pleasantly spent play- ing games, music and partaking of everything good to eat. Asa mark of esteem the members of her music club presented Miss Porter with a “Hoover” set of i} garden tools, which she prizes And your money back-to the wearer who finds paper in the soles, counters or heels of a pair of Peters “Diamond Brand’ Shoes --For Sale By-- J. V. Baker & Son se ES MEET” | very highly. She expects to leave ee ee J jest pas 1 ioe io at Skid-| more, Mo, | | tain alleged statements made by} |me, which if trueand unexplained | |do impeach my loyalty toward} | my government, and the Council | |of Defense after a full and com-| |plete hearing having decided as ‘its judgment, by a unanimous | vote, that I should make a public ‘apology in which I should set | forth my unfaltering loyalty and \allegiance to the United States: | Now Therefore, I, Frank M.! |Bieker, in consideration of the| |foregoing premises, do hereby} |publish and declare my whole- |hearted faith in, allegiance and \loyalty to the United States of | America, and promise that I will| | ever continue to do all possible to} | aid the cause of the United States in the war against the Imperial| |German Government; assure the | people that I wish success and vic- | tory to attend the American fore- | es now in Europe and all soldiers |who may hereafter go to Europe| to fight in behalf of the United | States, and I wish to state that if |ever I made any statement since} \the declaration of war by the} | United States against Germany, | which appeared to be against the} | United States or its interests or| |cause, that I do not so intend and} regret that any comment of mine} in any manner reflected upon my | {eountry or its soldiers. I do sol-) emnly and sincerely declare that | I owe nearly all which I possess, | since my birth in Indiana, to the | wholesome laws and privileges I }enjoy under the constitution and | laws of the United States, I will ever be loyal to the Stars and Stripes, and I will do all I can ac- |cording to my means and ability | to bring success and victory to the American army,- in this great struggle of ours for humanity and liberty. FRANK M. BIEKER. Dated at Ferdinand, Idaho County, Idaho, this 20th day of | April, 1918. | Foe TN | | ' Statement to the Public. To the Idaho County Council of Defense and the Citizens of | Idaho County: I, the undersigned, Rev. Boni- face Simmen of Ferdinand, Idaho, make the following statement: During the last yearand a short time prior to the declaration of war between the United States and Germany, I have at various| times made remarks and state-| ments which have been construed | as indicating that I was not as) loyal to the Goverment of the} United States as a true citizen} should be. For any such remarks I am sorry and .make an apology for the same. I have not in the past preached tomy congregation as I should | have done, in the way of impress- | ing upon them the necessity of | full-hearted adherence to our Gov-| ernment, and promise in the fu-| ture to do all in my power to dis- courage all disloyal talk oractions. | The United States is my coun- | try. I love its government and) principles. My church requires its priests to be loyal and to teach | and preach loyalty to the mem- | bership of the church, and I will) in the future do all in my power toaid our Government in the) great struggle for right and de- mocracy. try will be successful in the pres- ent war, and that out of this trial better, grander country. Ferdinand, Idaho, April 19, 18. REV. BONIFACE SIMMEN. | A new flour warehouse 80x84 | feet and new mill building 24x30 feet and 2% stories high is also be- ing built—all of the new work to concrete. Not a board will be used in the entire new structure. Two cars of sand and one car of cement—enough to make 1800 barrels—will be used in the build- ing. Rock for this work is being blasted out of the hill just north of the Parker store, from the prop- erty belonging to H. H: Nuxoll. A 30-hp electric motor will be used to operate the rock crusher. Manager Meyer informs us that the mill business office will also be enlarged to about double its present size in order to handle the increased business of the mill. When these new additions are completed this will be one of the very best equipped flour mills in the Pacific Northwest, and a cred- it to not only Cottonwood but the entire state of Idaho. Band Concert Friday, May 10 The band concert and dance has been postponed until May 10. Particulars next week. Buy Liberty Bonds A Checking Account promotes credit and establishes respon- sibility. The advice and the use of : the credit of Cottonwood State Bank will aid in developing the business of worthy patrons, E. M. Ehrhardt, President M. M. Belknap, Vice-President 6 H. C. Matthiesen, Cashier FU {March 30th, 08 NITURE in Honor of Herman Seubert Among the 15 boys recently drafted from this county, to leave Sunday morning for Camp Lewis, is Herman Seubert—the only one — at this time from Cotton- we Last Sunday at Herman’s home, (the J. F. Jenny home). one mile north of town, more than 40 of his relatives and friends gave him a farewell party, lasting all day and which was greatly enjoyed by all present. On Tuesday night about 75 of Herman’s relatives and friends honored him with another fare- well party at the home of his rel- atives in town—Mr. and Mrs. John Hoene. This was one of the most elaborate social func- tions of the kind ever given in the town and will long be remem- bered by all who attended. A grand dinner was served, com- mencing at 6:30 o’clock and last- ing well into the night. Poet el acy Red Cross Benefit Tonight. Thirteen good acts, sprinkled with music and vaudeville sketch- es, will be the program for the Red Cross Benefit at the Orph- eum this Friday evening. All: participants are local people, in- cluding selections by Fulton’s Or- chestra of Grangeville, which will furnish music for the dance after the show. Admission 25 and 85c; dance tickets $1.00. POMS Sf MATES Dell Blancett of Pendleton, the well known cowboy and show rider who took part in several wild west shows at Lewiston and Grangeville several years ago, was killed in action in France on He was with the Canadian mounted service and had been in France only a few weeks, Large Stock Always on Hand Bedsteads Lounges Davenports Dining Chairs Library Tables Dining Tables Dressers Rocking Chairs I hope and pray that our coun-| | by fire it will emerge a bigger,| All high-grade goods at lowest prices Complete line of Funeral Furnishings carried Both Phones. Calls answered day or night Nau’s Furniture Store COTTONW OOD