Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, May 10, 1918, Page 1

| COTTONWOOD CHRONICL VOLUME 26. NUMBER 19. . COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1918. $1.50 PER YEAR. > LOCAL ITEMS OF INTEREST Condensed for the Benefit of Chronicle Readers. Band concertand dance tonight. Frank Kelsey is expected to ar- rive home next Sunday from Port- land. Ben Hussman is over from Fer- dinand this week visiting at the home of his parents. He is called in the draft the last of this month. Miss Viola Killmar of Winona was in Grangeville the first of the week having Dr. Stockton treat her for bloodpoisoning of the hand. George Haskins left Tuesday to resume his work at the Vancouver shipyards. While here he visited at the home of his father-in-law, I. M. Julian. Notice in this issue the half- page ad of T. F. Schaecher the druggist, announcing the one-cent sale put on by the United Drug Co. of Boston. Our publie school will close on Friday, May 24. Commence- ment exercises of the high school will be held on Saturday evening, 25th. Program in next week’s issue. Amos Phillips, one of the old pioneers from the Reubens coun- try, visited this week with his son Wendall, of near Ferdinand. The latter left this morning in the draft contingent. The new top on the front of the Cottonwood Mere. store building adds greatly to its appearance. The old one looked like it had been struck by lightning—or by A fine little daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stolz of! Greencreek on May 5th. sae Miss Leasel Hussman and the} several Luchtefeld children enjoy- | ed a several days’ picnic at Lake Waha this week. Miss Lauer of Grangeville, vis- ited her sister, Mrs. John Jack several days this week before leav- ing for her old home in the east. Pete Rustemeyer, a young rail- road man of Los Angeles, is here for a brief visit with his relatives before going into army service the latter part of this month. Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Martin were in Grangeville Thursday evening visiting Wendall Phillips, | who left this morning for Camp Lewis. His father, A. H. Phillips of Reubens was also present. ‘The ladies are invited to meet} with the men in Odd Fellows hall, at the meeting of the Patriotic) League next Thursday evening at’ 7:30 for the purpose of discussing | the advisability of organizing a “War Savings” society. Red Cross Speaker Coming. Judge C. L. McDonald of Lew- iston, state chairman of the Idaho Red Cross Auxiliary, will speak in the I. O. O. F. hall at Cotton-} wood tomorrow (Saturday) even- ing at 8 o’clock; at Greencreek! Sunday at 2:30 and Winona at 8 o’clock that evening. A large delegation and the band from Cottonwood will accompany him. | These meetings are in behalf of) the Red Cross drive which will} begin on May 20. Everybody) should hear him. The Cottonwood crowd expects The Long Arm of Mercy © By DR. FRANK CRANE The Red Cross is the Long Arm of Mercy. It is the Kindness of Mankind—organized. In Man is an Angel and a Devil, a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. thwart the Bad. The Red Cross is the Good, aroused, energized to It is the best antidote we know to the bane of war. There are other Charities, more or less helpful. The Red Cross is the mightiest of all Charities, the Love and Pity of all men made supremely efficient. If, as Emerson said, “sensible men and conscientious men all over the world are of one religion,” this is the ex- pression of that religion. The Red Cross is Humanity united in Service. It asks no man’s opinion; only his need. Black or White, Friend or Foe, to the Red Cross there is no difference; it only asks: to him it goes. “Who is Suffering?” And The Red Cross is so Efficient that Governments recog- nize it; so Pure in its purpose that whoever wishes well his fellow men, desires to help it; so Clean in its administration that the most suspicious can find no fault in it. The Red Cross not only seeks to alleviate the cruelties of War; it is the expression of those human sentiments that some day will put an end to War. It is the impulse of Love, striving to overcome the im- pulse of Hate. It is Mercy’s co-operation struggling against War’s ri- valries. It is the one Society in which every Man, Woman and | Child should be enrolled; for it knows no sects, no preju- dices, no protesting opinion; the human being does not live that does not feel that the starving should be fed, the sick tended and the wounded healed. Majestic and divine is this Long Arm of Mercy; it finds the fallen on the battlefield, it brings the nurse and the physician to the victim in the hospital; it leads the weeping orphan to a home; it feeds the starving, cares for the pest- smitten whom all others abandon, and pours the oil of Help and Pity into the bitter wounds of the World. |at one o’clock. _— SS RED = Drive 4 ~FOR- 4 $100,000,080 Donate Liberally and you won’t be ashamed when the boys come home THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK COTTONWOOD, IDAHO <> one of the big-gun shells from: to leave for Greencreek promptly France. Where a volcano has wrought desolation in Japan, or a Flood in China, or a Hurricane in Cuba, or a Famine in India, or a Plague in Italy, or ravaging Armies in Poland, Servia or Belgium, there flies the Red Cross, the Angel of | God whom the fury of men cannot banish from the Earth; | and to the Ends of the Earth, over all the ways of the Seven Seas, wherever is Human Misery, there is extended, to bless and to heal, its Long Arm of Mercy. THE SCARLET CROSS Margaret Widdemer Of the Vigilantes, What is it that you do today, who lift the Scarlet Cross? For all the withered world is down in ruin and in loss, And all the world hears clashing sword, and hears no sound less plain— What can you do who lift the Cross, but heal to fight again? We guard the women left alone, heartbroken for their dead, We save the children wandering where all save Fear has fled, We raise again the broken towns swept down by shot and shell, We heal again the broken souls hopeless from learning Hell— Oh, they who saw but Grief and Hate see now our red sign plain— We save the sad world’s soul alive that War had nearly slain! JHE BEST WORK SHOE, JN THE WORLD. We have a Farm Record for you (eit And your money back-to the wearer who finds paper in the soles, counters or heels of a pair of Peters “Diamond Brand’ -For Sale By- Shoes Bombardments Cannot Drive This Woman Back She Thinks Coffee for Soldiers More Important Than Safety. The following extracts are taken from a letter written by a Red Cross Canteen worker, Helen McElhone, an American woman and college graduate now located in a district almost con- stantly under bombardment: “Foyer des Allies, “Bar-le-Duc. “Things look very black to me, I am discouraged at the big outlook of | affairs and also at my small doings, but it may be the blackness that comes before dawn. Let us hope so. Our men certainly need help now as much as the poilus. I am beginning to see those who have been at the | front. In fact, I am beginning to see | some of the results of this life. They | are sick and homesick, and worse things have happened to them. Sey- eral have said: ‘All we ask is to get to the front and do what we have to do. Anything is better than this life. . . . This morning we had more Americans than I have seen before at one time. Qne came up to me here as I was drawing coffee from a big marmite as fast as I could fill cups and, pointing to his pipe, said, ‘Tobac, tobac,’ I said, ‘Do you want some tobacco?’ He seemed stunned for a moment and then said: ‘Do you know it nearly gave me a fit to hear you speak Eng- lish. I haven’t heard a woman speak English in tive months,’ He said he had been walking about in the cold since four o'clock last night. He couldn’t find a hotel or a bright light because, of course, everything is closed and darkened on account of the bom- bardments. . . , The Americans are very fond of ham sandwiches. They eat much more than the French gol- diers, and when they first came in and ordered six eggs apiece it caused con- sternation throughout the land. The funniest thing of all is to hear the Sammies grandly urging these wealthy English girls to ‘keep the change—oh, keep the change!’ . . . We start the day at five and work continuously un- til nine, when three fresh cantinieres relieve us, At five we go on for the evening shift from five to eight, and it is the most exciting and exhausting of the shifts, There is a certain time when they come down on us like a flood, eight or ten deep around the | counter and three or four hundred al- together in this little room, as eager | and tired as schoolboys.” The foregoing letter indicates that our soldiers look to the Red Cross Canteen as an oasis in a desert. They would not have it if it were not &! your Red Cross, In the Red Cross drive beginning May 20th, the quota for | Cottonwood and vicinity is about $2500. German Speaker Coming One of the ablest and most bril- liant speakers in the entire North- west is Prof. O. C. Gebert, teacher of German and French at the Washington State College at Pull- man. A few nights ago he deliv- ered a war lecture in behalf of the Third Liberty Loan at Union- town—in German and English— Pai of which were printed in last unday’s Spokesman-Review and is considered among the best and most influential speeches ever heard in the Northwest. Our Patriotic League has ar- ranged for Prof, Gebert to deliver a lecture describing. conditions in Germany, in Odd Fellows hall at Cottonwood on Saturday evening, May 18, and every man and wom- an in this part of the country should hear him. The first half of his lecture—say from 8 to 9 o’clock—will be delivered in Ger- man and the latter half in Eng- lish. This will provea great treat to the many people in this com- munity who understand German and who prefer to hear a lecture . a language rather than Eng- ish. Prof. Gebert is a native of Ger- many and spent most of his life ona farm near Berlin. He knows all about Prussianism, the unjust rulers and _ laws of that country, and his lecture here no doubt will be the most interesting ever heard in this part of the country. It will bea great privilege as well as duty for every citizen of Camas Prairie who understands the German language to hear this noted scholar and lecturer. Every effort will be made to arrange so that the great crowd will be able to hear the lecture. Those who do not understand the German language will not likely care to be present during the first half of the lecture—if the crowd is too large to admit all at once. The admission is free, as our Patriotic League bearsall expenses. Let this bea record-breaking crowd for Cottonwood on the 18th. campaign, an calling at COTTONWOOD We have received the THIRD LIBERTY LOAN BONDS on the full paid subscriptions that were placed with us during the first fif- teen or twenty days of the scribers may receive their bonds by ‘ANOTHER QUOTA OF MEN CALLED Thirty-four Must Go From Idaho County. The war department has formal- y notified the adjutant eral’s epartment of the state that Tda- ho must furnish 792 additional men for the national army and to prepare to draw upon the forty- . one counties of the state for their entrainment on May 25. This is the third call that has been receiv- ed under the second draft. It is but one ofa series of several ex- ‘pected to meet the war depart- ment needs to supply men for ov- ersea service under the call. The | states are to furnish 288,742 men, Thirty-four men are called from Idaho county in this draft and six jare from this part of the county, as follows:. Henry Downer Cottonwood, Wm. Mundt of Wi- nona, Bernard Hussman of Ferdi- nand, Joe Thompson and Glenn Norris of Spring Camp and John T. Unzicker of Joseph. : Of the 165 men drafted from this state last week, 4 went from” this county this morning, enroute — jto Fort McDowell, Cal. They are, Bernard Doll and Jas. Wen- dall Phillips of Ferdinand, Frank | Keeler of Grangeville and Dwight J. Anderson of Mt. Idaho. : Leo Robertson of Nezperce and. ‘Joe G. Enneking of Keuterville are in the May 25th draft from Lewis county. ee ee The Cottonwood Service Flag now contains 53 stars—5 more having been added for that num- ber of boys in the service who left here recently. They are: Herman Seubert, Earl Van Pool, Clarence Williams, Arthur Jack- son and Charley Nave. At the \rate the boys are being called, it ‘begins to look like this flag will | soon have to be enlarged, =. d such sub- this bank. STATE BANK 6a E. M. Ehrhardt, President M. M. Belknap, Vice-President H. C. 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