Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, January 3, 1919, Page 1

COTTONWOO VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1919, ; IN COTTONWOOD “People Rejoice That Re- strictions are Removed Schools Open. People of Cottonwood generally rejoiced Monday when it was an- nounced that dwing to the great improvement jn influenza condi- tions in the city the ban which has been on practically for forty days would be removed and _per- mit the general resumption of business again. The city council met Monday afternoon and decided it was nc longer necessary to keep the bar » on as there has been no new ases of influenza for two weeks . and all the old cases reported ou‘ tof danger. Father Willibrord of -the Catholic church and Professo: Lustie were appointed by the council to act on the health boar¢e in conjunction with the city council. The ban was raised on every- thing. Schools opened Thursday * morning and the Catholic school ‘will open Monday. Poolrooms opened also on Monday and Sun- day the moving picture shows will start, opening with Douglas Fairbanks featuring in a good “reel. This is more than good news tc those who have been practically tied down and their movement: restricted to a limited amount of iness which was considered ab- d sible another spread of the epidemic. They should refrain from expectorating on the side- walks or in other public places— if you must spit do so. in the fireplace or stove. When unnec- essary people should not crowd together and expose themselves. 2 OOS, | FLU BAN LIFTED {Chronicle Celebrates its Cut of Commission. The city pump in the northern part of town has been out of com- mission part of last week and part |of this week and has been under- |going repairs. The other pump |is still working but is inadequate | to furnish sufficient ‘water and as With this issue the Chronicle starts on the twenty-eighth year of its career as a journal in Cot- tonwocd. The first number of the Chronicle appeared January 27, 1893, under. the caption of the Cottonwood Report, published by Elmer Waldrip and E. T. Tan- nant and was a very creditable paper, having been issued on short notice and always under a great many disadvantages. It is apparent that from the very first the paper was received with warm welcome and received the undi- vided support of the publie and| the town geneially which it has| ‘ continued to enjoy continuously | The Force Observes since. | Ofcourse the office force ob- Like most country publications|served New Year’s Day. They the paper has had its ups and| heard it was coming so they quit frequently | work and “rubbered” as it flitted been light on the high places. Watet in the streams is also low | on account of the freezing weath- jer. Many water pipes have been |frozen up. Tuesday morning |nine degrees below was reported |in town and in some parts of the | country a few miles out as low as 15 below. At Howard McKin- |ley’s ranch only four degrees be- low was reported. aR ARP NY, Jowns and has thanged management, but has by. They say it was a beautiful] ilways emerged victoriously every |sight. This week the paper has time from beneath and has kept been issued under some diffiulties. on top, sailing gracefully over the | One of the employes was laid off turbulent waves of diversity | last Friday by illness and the edi- which often threaten the destruc-| tor also has been gone, leaving tion of the most promising journ-|us somewhat handicapped. Any alistic crafts during their life. noticeable shortcomings in the Today the Chronicle greets its) appéarance of the paper this week readers with the same cheerful, may be attributable to the above message which its columns car-| reasons. ried twenty-seven years ago, that} of fulfilling its mission as a journ- Saw the Sights at Capitol al for the promulgation of the | Washington, D. C., Dee. 25.— progress and general upbuilding | Dear Folks: Well I suppose you of Cottonwood and community. |are wondering what I am doing. ero a ohsehvation Ott lamin Washington, D.C. and siles:pf the Chronicle it is appar believe me it is some fine place. ue aes h helmsman who nae I got a three day’s pass—wish it had the guidance of the destinies | thies “Gnohthe Ca” ies of the paper has lived up to their). This 3 - 7,.\48 so much to see here. vores have made bright | norning we went down to the each striving to} : ya score higher than their predeces®| Museum which was built in 1879. a consequence the pressure has)’ sors. Result isthe Chronicle has | kept abreast of the times and progress of the town and com-| munity which it represents and| will compare favorably with any newspaper published in a country town the size of Cottonwood and in many instances it is far ahead | of many. | ee i Tt sure is great and “grand: “This afternoon we hired a ear an! went through the park and around | the capitol and the White House. | This is a great Christmas for me. There are six of us boys, so we} are going up to the capitol toa} big Xmas tree tonight. Wish I had the old Buick and you folks, we sure would have some time. ~F. VON BARGEN WRITES PARENT Sees With Own Eyes Re- sults of Cruelties Practiced. ar ; With American Exp. Forces, France, Nov. 24.— Dear Dad. We received word last’ night that we could write home and tell our ‘whole history. We left Hoboken Jast November, I think it was the 20th and we landed in St. Nazarre fourteen days later. We had quite a time dodging U- boats. At times we would be sailing back toward the United States. The sea was quite rough Most of the way over and most of the boys got very seasick. From St. Nazarre we went toa little town close to the foothills, where we remained a little over a month. Then we moved to a place called Seller su Chare; there we stayed for about a month and from there we moved to Angers and have been here ever since. At St. Nazarre the regiment was split up and about half. the | boys went to the Second U.S. | Engineers on the front to take the place of a lot of the boys who had been killed. The boches caught them without their guns | while they were working, and | they had to fight with whatever they could get hold of. Itisa known fact that one of the Yan- |kees killed eight boches with a pickhandle. I have never been near the front. I have tried hard time ond time.again but the answer | was always no. Our. duties since we landed here was to train troops for the front. I have had as high as 50 squads since we ar- rived here. Our work consists of infantry, engineer, wire entangle- ments, trenches, demolition, camouflage, machine gunnery, dugouts, map reading, drawing, and the Second Engineers turned the tide. The boches got all that was coming to them when the Yankees got there. Those boches thought they had the world whipped until they run into the Yanks. They were gétting it so hard that they put the Prussian Guards against them, but they. couldn’t do anything either, Many of the boys have started home. All the fellows who have bad feet or anything wrong with them go back first. I see so many men coming in from the | States and they usually aré both- \ered with the same complaint — homesickness, but they are put to drilling so fast they don’t have time to think of anything but sauerkraut Bill. He is the one man that everyone curses. Every time it rains they curse Kaiser Bill. .I have not taken my fur- lough yet—don’t think I will now. Corp. Fred Von Bargen, Co, E. 116 Eng. A. E, F, "Slacker Marriages” Now Bearing Fruit The “slacker marriages” per- formed by’ thousands in the edly days of thé selective service law are beginning to bear fruit in’ the form of deserted wives and chil- dren in ‘every quarter of the United States, A Chicago judge disgusted by the many tales of woe related by war brides, who have haled slacker husbands into court, announces that he will see that as many as possible of the culprits are sent to jail. When the selective servicé att came these fellows hurried to gét a marriage license and then pleaded that they had deperident women who kept thei out of the war. The judge said the increase in complaints against slacker hus bands had been alarming. In December, 1917 there were 34 such ‘warrants. In December thus far there has been 280 in Chicago alone. wives, Now they aré showing! their realealibre by deserting’ the}. - Hub City Is Gaining Great Deal of Notoriety Spokane is gaining more or 1és§ notoriety asa city for wife hut: ers, and Bonners Ferry is also coming if for its shareas agood place for husband hunters. Ifa a Bonners Ferry man suddenly feels inclined to enter the league of | Benedicts he has only to go to Spokane, open @ iattimonial of- fice, isert. ai advertisement in a paper, establish office hours then sit down and wait for r.sults, ahd judging from the success they are. meeting with they do not ; long to wait. Recently a Mr. - Perry of Bonners Ferry, gets the lead of another Bonners © Ferry citizen who found a wife!in ashort time in this way, opé ed up his office and told of his wants in theadvertisement, ‘Ihe | same day thirty different appli- ° cants answered by calling up be office and it was necessary for him to discontinue his: advertise- ment. The former Bénnérs Fer- ry resident only remained two — weeks at his office, being so vis : cés8ful that he ‘fotnd a suitable partner and retuttied to his honie. _ There is also a motal to this _ story: It pays to advertise, : : : ; Has Hand Injured, Felix Martzen has been suffer- ing with a painful, hand this / week as a result of cotning! in. contact with a cogwheel at the city water puinp Friday. After finishing a job of repairing he was preparing to leave when he accidently put his hand on the~ wheel, receiving'a’ severe wound’ back of the right Hid: Hits Wool Industry The stiesp and wool indlipteyt ta hard hit by the proposed advance in rangé fees oh’ the: foeest’ re- serves, There.wad’an ddvatice’o! on thé | i S S. | I guess I am the only one of thre| BOREOGD bridges and gas. Iam Be Able to Handle Ford J.B. O'Neil, quite well known in this section, writes from Spo- kane and said he was going to an auto school and among other things he would learn something about the electric starter, genera- tors, storage batteries, magneto, tireing, timeing of valves, trans- mission, differentials, bearings and piston fittings. He added that by the time he had _ success- fully mastered these branches of motordom he would perhaps be able to drive a Ford. ——————): Prosperous New Year to all. Governor Broke | Yesterday morning the big governor of the level sifter broke in the mill of the Cottonwood Milling Co. and laid them off until repairs were made. This governor issome governor as it weighs 840 pounds. The parts were repaired here in Cotton-| wood, being welded together bY” the oxyacetelene process, | pesca Rev. E. L. Tabor and wife ex- pect to go to Lewiston Monday to attend the district meeting which is to be held in the M. E church at that place. A Checking Account at the First National MEMBER FEOERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Will make it easy for you to keep track of your receipts and expenses. The Income Tax Law makes it imperative that you keep accurate rec- ord of your business transactions in order to make an accurate tax report, besides you should have this information for your own benefit. Let us Help You With Your Bookkeeping Problems- For the farmer and stockraiser we have a farm record book that is simple and easily kept, yet is accurate and up-to-date. is yours for the asking. One of these books THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK {of influenza, iis j ; ‘y |wife and three little children. | tice was signed the people’ were ‘Red Crots P : w ki e' Si family who ever saw Washington. [BOM WORSHE Gn a ggg ape ; jand physical training. iets 15 ONG TAG DIAGEO |sists i pio vines of physi- ing to see before I return home i and that is Yellowstone Park. Rew bee gr and two hours of Teoh? | bayo ; A a you, a Happy” New on wis oe ie _— : | Point of A. E. F. e have a Co gga ar girs rt | West Point officers here and I News WH: 7 jam telling you tly know their pear ay |business. We get all the recruits _.4 “ | from the states and break them To Preach Funeial wp |in here and send them to the Rev. E. L. Tabor was called to | front. Canfield, Idaho on the Domaneq| There are sure some pretty Plains yestarday to conduct the/girls here. A fellow could take funeral service of of Charles Clark | back a dgzen if he wanted to. who died Monday from an attack) They sure think a lot of the U. S. Deceased leaves a|Soldiers. The night the armis- The trip is a rough one, part of it/S0 thick that a fellow could walk having to be made over trails on n0 direction except the way the horseback. ‘crowd was going. I never saw anything like it. They almost | went wild. They were all yelling Meeting Called “Hurrah for the U.S. A.” At the business meeting of the; You people at home might Red Cross called a week ago,!think the war was terrible but Mrs. McKinney resigned her these poor people sure know office and the resignation was ac-| what it was, I will not mention cepted. Home conditions that in this letter some of the terrible prevented her giving the proper, things these inhuman brutes have amount of time to the work made | done to the female class, but I her resignation necessary. | willlell a little. They would A meeting for the election of a' take the French soldier’s wives, chairman to fill this vacancy is| mothers and children and place called for Saturday afternoon at them in front of their machine 3:30. All members of the local) gun and artillery fire, or they branch are urged to be present. would take, the little children Beg ee ee xr ae and put their helmets on them 1 jand hold them up over the Will Raffle Off Property trenches to be shot, or they would W. R. Rogers will rafflé off his’ take the little boys and cut. the house and one and one-half acres mus¢les out of their arms so they ane land in the near future. He will could not become soldiers when be selling chances on the property | they grew up. at $2 each. Good opportunity| That is not what I heard—it is for some one to get a home if what I really seen. Things sure they are lucky enough at a reas-| jooked mighty bad here fast onable figure. [spring up until the U. S. marines In many instances young men who sought to evade service iff the army in their haste married on short notice just anything in the shape of a womah. Now, that hostilities have ceased and there is no immediate liability of service these spitieless créaturés seek to avoid the burdens and re- sponsibilities of family life and would desert their wives and children, leavipg them dependent upon the mercies of the public: Many of these “brave” fellows before the selective service act had not the remotest intentions of marriage—it suddenly d..wned ue them that they “néedéd” a wife. H. C. MATTHI 26 per céiit in rahbe'fecy in 191’ and now it is proposed to add an- nother big increase in rates, j The charges for running sheep atid livestock of the fore’: re sérves have been profitable to the states and nation. There is no excuse foradvancing the charges at present when’ sheep and wool prices'are on the decline. The’ only effect in the opinion of the Idaaho Woolgrowers Association will be to shut out the little herds: Hugh Sprodt, president-of the Idaho Sheepmian, is authority for the statement that if thé rates’ are raised there will be none but 100,000 head herds in a few-yeard —a government monopoly, _ E. M. EHRHARDT, President M.M. BELRNAP, Vice Président , Cashier