Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, August 30, 1918, Page 1

=| the logs and build the facbstary | bad +f a : of that amount. | or less, Wednesday Ben had gone to mee “Mr. Kenneth Ross of the “§; vision rep- resenting the government and at the head of that™ division for the Inland Empire, to see ‘about fur- nishing logs or dumber ‘for‘aero- | plane construction. recently made ; experimel nts ‘with Idaho White’ Pine-a Pine with the result th these woods have. been found highly satisfactory’ and. thes partment. is- now anxious tose vast quantile ered The Aeroplane departs has i: Mr, Hussman. 3 ments to:supply te and shipped to either= otlatch.or Coeur D'Alene andin any amount that he may Be able- to: gebout up toa million: feet, +, However, the distance these logs mist be hauled, and that on motor tracks andthe lateness of the. season will limit. his output to: perhaps’ one ae cannot urider.the mot fay able’ weather conditions hope to have good roads for more than ‘a few months. But the department: is. yery! anxious to Secure even thé small-, est amountand at the very ear- liest date so'that. laboratory tests may be'made of the grain, texture and strength of lumbér-frem this particular district. and. if fotind superior to that from: othér dis- trict; as, Mr. Hussman feels con- fident that it. is, we may. Jook “for vast quantities” of “fogs” to” “be shipped from the Craig: Mountdin section, To secure. the ». pmality |: of logs wanted requ logging;... since. they straight grained, fi ss or other defects anid24 ‘feet ong. One would think that i€ would be more -économical ‘to saw the logs into lumber - here and thus save a great deal “of heavy haul- ing and freight‘on. ‘the logs which, so Mr. Hussman tells us, will nét saw out more than 20. per cenit of aeroplane lumber, But-. this is not possible, because the lumber cannot be air. seasoned’ and re- quires specially constructed kilns, hence the government hagtmade arrangements with the Potlatch and Coeur D’Alene mills to saw! roads?” If so you know their depositors, *}at nothing to bring early. victory --Jover the Huns, and the aeroplane Good: Roads in Banking Have you ever deiven over one of -the new “good Banking = System is doing for its member banks and dry kilns. It isa big undertak- ing, but our Uncle Sam is ies promises to play the final and de- cisive factor to bring this about. | We are glad that Cottonwood| will thus be able to actively pare ticipate in actual war work and| sincerely hope that the operations | co! to war charities, er ing and selecting suitable trees; | trucks, teams, loggers, cutters, | M wee! “While the labor situation is bad | at this matter just now is of | ¢ : |justas much: importance as har- | |by a German who was stationed | won| vesting, and that if sufficient meni, 2 town which has now. been abe ied cannot be secured lozally the de-! captured, said: partment will furnish them, per- | thaps taking some: of the enlisted | men into this service. ' Let the good. work go on, and may the weather man favor the! undertaking by giving us another | two months of dry weather and good roads. ee aR bie|Wan Sicklin is in the Race to Stay ».Van Sicklin, | .overti- | Enemies of E., “jAemoeratic candids or; are‘circulating: \the effect that-he has withdrawn | from the race. has just received the following dispatch from Mr. Van Sicklin: “The report that I contemplate withdrawing from the race for Governor ‘is false and without foundation, and of course is done for.-the “purpose of injuring my) candidacy. Iwill remain in the) face to the end, and feel confi-| | br | in al | m m mary election next Tuesday.” Pr get Monday and‘ Tuesday, Holidays m makirig three days, with Sunday, di For this reason our banks will re- Main open for business a couple of hours longer on Saturday after- noon than usual... Don’t forget this, . .. 5 ERC Realy \ly British navy is preparing to change it to ““Hellandgone.” iG lal what the Federal Reserve DEFEAT STARES HUNS IN FACE: * Captured officers say that Ger- |" |Prisoners Admit There is will, assume such proportions as to! along a front of 75 miles the Ger-| admit that the submarine warfare | bring to our community an op-! mans are sufferi ing the most erush- portunity of contributing towards|ing defeat ofthe war and that winning the war, besides buying. many thousands of the butchers | Liberty Bonds and contributing are being killed and taken prison- | _Mr. Hussman has already put | lars’ worth of guns and. war ma-} ‘of stamina of the latest -recruits, three men into the timber eruis- terial captured. ‘is building a loading platform’at Germans have lost a dozen or cally incapable of sustaining the the siding here to.load logs onto. more of their greatest strongholds | heavy strain of defensive warfare, | the cats, engaging, outside motor | such as Montdidier, Albert, Arras, The mere presence of these new étc., and will be ready tocom-| Bray, Chaulnes, Noyon, Roye and | company a demotalizing effect | mence shipping within a few. | numerous others—and the good | upon the older:men because it in- | ks. | work still goes on. at. this time owing %o the harvest | oners and dead Germans indicate | poor material. vy being i in full blast, he has gece \th | tions to. prdpéed witho elay;) to time, only those high up are fail-! ing to admit it.” Germany, only the dead at the| front have forgotten this swindle.”’ er,” wrdee the “drafts. Germany is sure to! lose very soon,’ ed rts to:| OMers, whether written or received | i a by them, are in the same vein. Phe Chrowiclet One German in Berlin chided shis | | then predicted the war was surely | coming toan end and with the’ fore the British began their drive, 2nd a plan for a permanent Hooy-| dent. that I will win at the pri. Germany is not planning any one of a party of seven of a Ger- Next Monday is Labor Day;Americans Sunday at Fismes. | 0? the use of substitutes and’ Miss | and Tuesday is election day—_ The prisoner said the German sol-| Margaret Sweet, school superina that the banks Will be closed. |siasm for war and were thorough-/ heed of this organization, three years and. declared he was | Matthiesen, Germany’s strongest fortified | thoroughly tired of it. He said | Mrs. O. D,’ Hamlin, local chair-| island isnamed Helligoland. The | the soldiers understood that the ™an, and Mrs. Will Ruhoff, Mrs. 'as to be beyond belief; ports were credited by the soldiers Saturday, and were having a demoralizing | time Miss Taylor, who is eniploy- | effect. division of 15,000 which ‘had been | Work, will demonstrate the mak- | reduced to. less than 1,000. , would desert and surrender, if giv- | en the opportunity, and were do- \ing so by the’ thousands, ‘| foundry tobe eanvented into. ord *|mance, as had also the ‘roofs of churches, Many entered. this war with en- ‘thusiasm, but this has* long since disappeated and it is now adread= ful and hopeless struggle with no} chance for ; Today’s dispatches from France| America is ‘entering the war‘on ntain the glorious news that/|sucha gigantic scale. They algo | No Chance for Them. ig a failure. « These officers attribute re-| cent defeats to the inefficiency of! their air service and more espec- lially to the inexperience and lack daily, besides millions of dol- | who are most inadequately drilled | Within the last few days the and trained and who are ‘physi-| onchy, Bullecourt, Bapaume, | récruits, they say, produces in a | | dicates to what straits Germany | # Many letters taken from pris-| must be reduced: to employ such at hopeless despair is beginning prevail on the German side of | eline. A letter written home! 700 More réea Caiied From Idaho: Another call for 700 men to en-| |train Sept. 8rd to 6th for Camp Lewis to join the national- army jhas been apportioned to the coun- Sy | Hes of the state by the Adjutant | Oh, poor | ;General’s department. “The war has been lost for some The letter added: «ig14 men, half a dozen’ or more Another letter said; jofthem being from this vicinity. This Wena Jas“ much long-| | We have been unable to get their while still another German} names for this issue. “Several hundred Rgpple—most af, them from ‘the . Greencreek ebuntry—were at the depot this horning to cheer,,.the 26. hoys Many Jetters..taken.from prig,| rfrém: ‘this’ county > who- left “Our losses greatly exceed all | Camp Lewis. + pt lit ~ Hoover Organization. (contributed) A preliminary’ meeting of the! | ladies of Cottonwood ‘and chair-) organizations «in other at the front about mak- g rapid progress to the rear. “He lies then making an economic Men of other war, Germany would be ruined, | daho county was held at the Red Many of these were written be- Cross rooms. Saturday. afternoon German soldiers believe that ¢ organization was formed. This organization is for the pur- | ore offensives because of the Pose of aiding the Government in| an. power shortage, according to food problems, Miss Taylor of the University any patrol captured by the of Idaho gave an interesting talk ers no longer had any enthu-, tendent of this county, told of the} worn-out and whipped. |» There isa county chairman be-} Most of those with whom he Sides a local chairman and com-} came in contact’ believed the war, Mittee, the-latter to solve local | would end soon.’ food problems. The following officers were elected: Mrs, Maude | The prisoner had been fighting | county chairman; erman losses during the recent| Ray. Nims and Miss Theresa | lied offensive were so ‘frightful | | Funke, local committee. ‘These res). A meeting was arranged for Sept. 7th, at which | He said he knew of one/¢d by the® government: in this| | ing of war bread. All-the ladies Plenty of Germans, he added Fe invited to be present. gulish iwi A man named Terpstra and) his family, new-comers from the| Many East, have secureda lease on the victory, © now that! - ‘administrator . and. ‘warehouse | ;wheat assured and a high price} | guaranteed, the outlook vis ex- |}: tremely: bright and farmers’ are|® of them are. constantly watching | for a chance to give themselves up. ; | Trouble has been threatened in| Here tsa hint to the govern: | |the German munitionsplantsand ment how to preserve paper:| | the army leaders were tightening Shut off the mails from the ship- | conditions there. ;ment every few months of the Germany, he said, has plenty millions of tons of catalogs from jof ammunition but the man pow-) the big mail order, houses. }er question and the actual entry’ Roy McKinney, wifeand daugh-| of American treops into the fight- | ter of Boise,. visited their relatives | jing are worrying the military here this weck--Geo. M.and wife. | leaders. | They left for home Wednesday, ~ An indication to the lengths to, “accompanied by their two nieces— which Germans ee going for-war Misses Margaret and Isabel Nash P. N, Huffman ranch east of town. -No moreruts and sandy spots, gullies and steep hills, but‘a smooth surface and even grades for the fi- nanging of business ‘and farming to travel over. Bs ~ Se FEDERAL RESERVE : SYSTEM FIRST NATIONAL BAI You can get on this good. road by ‘be- coming‘one of our depositors... Drop in and talk with us about it. ined’ ina Jetter' of Boles, who. will: attend -school taken’ from a, dead soldier. --It\in Boise this winter... Mrs. G, M. him that the great bronze far as Lewiston. was written “by his wife and in- /McKinney accompanied them as; Victor Pane county foo | |manager, sent the following i formation to’ the Spokesman-Re- [Ay | view and which Wwas'published in Saturday’s: issue of that ‘paper, Mr. Peterson™has been handling grain here-for many” yeats and is regarded “as good » authori grain statistics. He says: “While the-wheat yield may. be lighter than previous years figdred: on a basis of the number of bush \els to the acre, the total is “as |great, if not greater, than’-ever before. Many” farmers planted lara areas than ever in ‘wheat, larger total yield. “Phe, “bat! erop |\ is light “and there is not a great |P quantity of barley, but the wheat |° crop all over the: prairie is. good, | ¢ “Harvesters ‘report, fall ‘wheat yielding from 40. to 45, bushels per acre, The average ‘yield wi be between 25 and 30 “bushels: an |< acre, Very little'spring grain: has| been harvested to dated. “The dry weather ‘of Juneand| July. was. a setback to the grain |on the prairie and’ had_ thé: rain-}. Idaho county’s quota this time jifall in those :two months: |normal a record yield of. wheat} and. all -kinds» of small. grain would., undoubtedly ‘have been Mar harvested: . Some farmers: cla that oats and other grain’ suffered to’a shiall degree by the invasion of, grasshoppers. 4 This ig ‘the first | % S| year thatthe er all daniagin “Business conditionn af ally good, ~ With a large |plinning for 4 more. suecessful hyear’ th °1919, Stockmen of the Salmon.and Snake -river sections report'that the rains of the last two .weeks have been. of great benefit to the fall range’ and Asa result cattle and sheep owners aré | decidedly optimistic. “In the towns good reports ate |heard also, Money is not tight @hd all les of business. are pro- gressing’steadily, There has been some fair of a shortage of harvest | help, but so far the labor situation | has been satisfactory with plenty of work and enough help to take teare of it, Later, however, when ‘harvest ison full blast, a short- ‘age may be experienced. “Bankers and business men | generally report steady progress in all commercial lines with a bright outlook: for this fall and winter. Pfister is coming. See page 2. ‘ ta | * Muaperor William had! “Jarzan of the Apes’ at the OM, and sent to the/Orpheum tonight, * We Do a General Bank- = ing Business Courtesy Our Motto COTTONWOOD STATE BANK alan G Hina 2 er - Estimated yields: ¢ 000.1 slight See 4 While barfey and tim: nett tity Cs) ‘i ih che eat, shew ya the teibe sd i are tg e a bro: and Relta’Oliver ree -, several bad -wotinds. : are being todated at the Per. mand hospital. . : It is Now Gov= ernor E,t, Parker | Governor ‘Alexander ‘Wednes- day wired “Lieut. Gov, Parker to. come 'to Boise at once and assume, the duties of goverrior’ for: -about ten days, as he (Alexander) - was © obliged to leave the’ state for that * length of time. 4 Under the laws of’ this atate; ag absent from the ‘state, the duties of governor automatically reverts to the Lieut. Governor, who has © full power to act in that capacity, Gov. Parker left’ for Boise yes- terday. during -the time the governor is as)