Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, June 7, 1918, Page 5

Local Items of Interest H. H. Nuxoll returned home Monday from a couple of days’ visit with relatives at Lewiston and Clarkston. _A free wedding dance will be given in the Greencreek hall next Tuesday night, June 11. Every- body invited and a good time as- sured for all. No doubt the largest crowd ever seen in Winona will witness the ball game at that place next Sun- day, June 9th. The Cottonwood band will be there “with bells,” M. Kashmitter, president of the Farmers Mutual Fire Ins. Co. of Idaho county, requests the Chron- icle to announce that a regular annual meeting of the policy hold- ers will be held in Cottonwood next Monday, June 10, at 2 p. m. A few days ayo Jacob Reidhaar bought a new Oldsmobile and last Friday one of the Reidhaar boys was “trying it out” at Greencreek when he collided with John Mey- er’s auto, damaging both cars con- siderably. Mrs. Clara McGrew is getting ready to leave next week to join her family at Oaks, N. Dakota, after residing here for about four years. Her daughter, Miss Fan- nie, the schoolmam, returned to the old home last April. Joe Kuther of the firm of Kuth- er & Kinzer of Ferdinand, exclu- sive agents for the Paige car in Idaho county, was in town fora few minutes Wednesday. These gentlemen have just sold one of these splendid cars to Everett | Adair of Winona. Elvin Parker will leave on June 18th for Judith Basin and the Red. Water Valley in Montana on land business, Mr. Parker has a lot of good land in that country for sale very cheap, and anyone here who is thinking of making such investments should see him before he leaves. The musicale given at the Or- pheum on Thursday evening of last week by St. Joseph’s school netted the splendid sum of $138, | which was donated to the follow- | ing worthy causes: Junior Red Cross $60, K. of C. War Fund $60 and local Red Cross $18. The ex- _ penses were $12.50. Bill Simon left a bunch of rye in this office Monday, taken from his farm east of town, that stands 6 feet high. All kinds of grain on the prairie never looked better at this season.of the year, and it is sincerely hoped that nothing will prevent the heaviest yield in the history of the country. Miss Frances Hattrup is the re- cipient this week of an American Penman Certificate of Proficiency for excellence in penmanship. Miss Hattrup is to be congratu- lated upon her success. This is the first certificate of this kind to have ever been received by any of the pupils in the Cottonwood schools. See notice in this issue calling for bids for macadamizing several pieces of road adjoining the city limits of Cottonwood. For the present it is the intention to ma- cadamize a couple of miles or so of the main roads leading into town, and later on extend the work many miles on the main thoroughfares. Remember that you can save 50c by subscribing for the Chron- icle or renewing your old sub- scription before the 1st of July. After that date the yearly sub- scription price will be $2 and for 6 months, $1.25. Any subscrip- tions that expire within the next year can be renewed at the old price of $1.50, if paid before the 1st of next month. _ A large number of people from this section will attend the an- nual K. of C. convention at Gen- esee, leaving here Saturday andj Sunday. Among them will be Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Jenny, Mr.| and Mrs. August Seubert and} Mr. and Mrs. John Hoene, who | will go on from there to Camp; Lewis by auto for a visit with Herman Seubert. Mr. Hoene will | probably go to Portland where he will receive medical treatment | before returning home. 5) climatic changes. suggestions to offer. ——SaEaE—EeE=EaEIELEL—EE—E Ih ——EEEa—— EES] S|] === It Is Your National Duty To Protect Your Property From Decay and Ruin Protective painting is an insurance policy Millions of dollars are lost annually because buildings are unpainted. They cannot resist the action of rain, hail, sleet, snow, heat, cold, sunshine. against the elements. Paints and varnishes for the important task of saving property for the nation should be of the finest quality manufactured. Tough and durable, of great elasticity to withstand Sherwin Williams paints and varnishes are the highest grade protective finishes. Come in and talk over with us your painting and decorating plans. We may have a few A Finish For Every Surface SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINTS &= VARNISHES Great Majestic THE RANGE —~ THAT Two New Features!! 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This isn’t a temporary finish---it is These two features help make it a convenient and satisfactory « Stockholders’ Meeting A regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Farmers Union Warehouse Co., Ltd., will be held in Odd Fellows hall on Saturday, June 8, 1918, at 2 p. m. for the purpose of electing new officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of any other business. that may come before the meeting. A. O. Martin, Seey. Portable Field Granaries Will store your grain at a cost of 5c per bushel for the cost of materials. Come in and see our plans and you will not let the sack problem worry you any longer. Hussman Lumber Co. Lady Wants Work A lady residing at Joseph, Idaho, desires a job of cooking for a threshing outfit. Inquire at this office. 23 Bull for Sale Registered Shorthorn, age 2 years. Phone or write Fred Rothlisberg, Grangeville, Idaho. 22-23 Old Suits and Hats Made to look like new, at small expense. Send them to us by mail. Idaho Cleaning Works, Lewiston, Ida. Straw Hat Dye Just the thing for renewing your last year’s hat. Geta bottle at the Rexall Drug Store. “Can’t Sag’’ Gates Hussman Lumber Co. Ford Cars Orders taken for Ford cars at Hoe- ne Hardware. Pants at Baker's store. Your Building Problems Let us help solve them. Hussman Lumber Co. Sheep for Sale Fourteen head of purebred Shrop- shire ewes and 20 lambs. Howard McKinley. Stock Tonic Now is the time to commence feed- ing Stock Tonic to free your stock from worms. Hess and International | stock food for sale at the REXALL drug store. Lost Dog On Flag Day—April 16—a black |to the home of Mrs. Schober in Cot- tonwood and is there yet. Owner can have the dog by paying for this notice The national farm gate, for sale by} Full line of dress and work pants | and white-spotted Shepherd dog came} Lumber! Lumber! Saas Rough lumber of all kinds Cedar siding and shingles Elevator Cribbing Field Granaries Coast Finishing Garage Material Bridge Plank : Barn Lumber eee WE are this year cutting more than a million feet and can take care of your orders promptly. We will deliver anywhere and believe we can save you money on your lumber needs. Let us figure with you before you place your order. Hussman Lumber Company OLD SEA PORTS COME TO LIFE Revival in Shipping Brings Pros- perity to American Sea- board Towns. ONCE BUSY MARTS OF TRADE Game Spirit That: Made Old Salem Rich Now Seen In Merchant Ma- rines’s Development—New Ports Springing Up. Washington.—One effect of the pres ° ent rapid’ expansion of the American merchant marine ts a sudden and un- precedented revival of business at ¢er- tain American ports which a few years ago were thought to have passed their zenith, Bath, Me,, ts cited as an example. In the prosperous nineteenth century days of sailing ships Bath was the country's leading shipbuilding port. It declined steadily after the introduc tion of steel as a building material. . Now Bath, building both steel and wood vessels, is so prosperous that the housing of the workmen taking jobs there is a pressing problem, The same {s true of several other North Atlantic ports, while {n other sections ports are springing up where none existed before, Close observers of the present re- vival in shipping say that before the United States shipping board's present construction plan is completed—a plan by which a vast new merchant fleet Is to be brought into being—the develop- ment of American ports will parallet on a larger scale that which took Place tn the “good old days of the square riggers,” In earlier times, as at present, every- body in a port touched by the pros- perity of seagoing was keenly tnter ested In shipping. Present-day secre- ey about contracts, sailings and divi- dends, had its prototype in the secrecy that enveloped such matters more than a hundred years ago, in a score of American ports, notably in Salem, Mass. In those days, we are told, “rival merchants sometimes drove the work of preparation for voyages night and day. Ships which set out for foretgn. ports were watched when they slipped their cables and sailed away by night.” Personal Touch In Voyages, In those times there was a more per- sonal touch in voyages than now, as every man making a voyage was al- lowed a certain space in the hold for goods of his own, People in the home port of a ship outward bound intrust- ed their savings to their seafaring neighbors for ventures in far coun- tries, This spirit of commercial adventure is finding. expression today on a larger of the shipping board; dents of conditions trace the present enthusiasm of the nation for seafaring to beginnings in definite periods in which our old-time ports were at the height of their prosperity. In so do- ing, they cite Salem as a good exam- ple of what a venturesome people may gain upon the sea. Salem at one time stood at the head of the cities of the United States tn the value of its imports. In 1812 it had 125 ships in the deep- water trade, and of these, 68 were East Indiamen, These vessels brought home cargoes of fabulous richness— silks, Indigo, spices, ivory and other products of the far Hast. There are old people living in Salem who remember when the city’s ancient warehouses were full of “hemp from Luzon, pepper from Sumatra, coffee from Arabia, palm ofl from the west coast of Africa, cotton from Bombay, duck and fron from the Baltic, tallow from Madagascar, salt from Cadiz, wine from Portugal and the Madeiras, figs, raisins and almonds from the Mediterranean; teas and silks from China; rum, sugar and molasses from the West Indies; !vory and gum-copal from Zanzibar; rubber, hides and wool from South America, whale oil from the Arctic and Antarctic, and the sperm from the South Seas.” Pioneers in Commerce. Salem ships were pioneers in open- ing new routes of commerce, Salem merchants were the first to bring pep- per from Sumatra, rubber from South America and coffee from Mocha. The Salem ship Recovery, Capt. John Ropes, was the coffee pioneer, and be- tween the landing of her first. cargo of the fragrant berry in 1798 and 1805, Salem imported not less than 12,000,- 000, pounds of Mocha coffee, Salem men were perhaps no more active than other American deep-water sailors of the period but their records were better kept. They abound in stories of their adventures. Examining the causes of Salem’s great fame won upon the sea, a recent historian of the merchant marine found that it was “not in her harbor nor in her store of shipbuilding timber. . . . It was Salem men. . . . Americans of the Americans who built up the ro- mantic commerce that left no sea un- visited, no land unexplored. . . Their business required iron will and iron nerve, a noble imagination, belief in themselves and in their fellow man.” The case of old Salem, and of the newer ports now flourishing under the impetus of the country’s present com- mercial expansion, convinces the mari- time sp clalists ality which : ene