Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, January 10, 1919, Page 1

‘ i aw ana © E 1 rience renthepinietropnneee- image mtanetaonninear i bungee ir beteninncuiniiamiee Sanrpenneiaciep * ‘ COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1919. Idaho No Home for Soldier Has Big Feed = - Foreign Born Slackers! In France Thanksgiving Dear Brother, — I received your letter a month or so ago. Being on the lines I could not write. Iam in EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DEAD Death Came Monday Morn- American Public Asked A Message From People q . ally The legislatures of} western to Subscribe 30 Millions te soon to meet have hada . IN BIG RESERVE “The number of American re: message. It has been written Sorat lief workers among the destitute and delivered at the poles to the ‘ ‘ members-elect of the legislature Dead Timber Covers Large and starving peoples of the Near in the form of election returns. East has been augmented by ‘The institutions were t the law- Spokane, Wash., January 9.— Idaho is tobe no home for for- eign born men who gave up their citizenship papers in preference Amount of Grazing to entering the war for the United | the hospital now, doing well, will| ing---Only Negro Attend- Americans who were imprisoned makers and the state adminis-|States, Following close upon the! be up and around in a few days tP i Land. during the war by the Ottoman’ tration. These bodies were told: | announcement that the Atlas Tie ¥ an sent, In Idaho county in this state lies the Nez Perce forest reserve embracing approximately 2,000,- .000 acres, Here and there in this government reserve a number of settlers were allowed to file home- steads in certain townships that were thrown out of the reserve. Most of these settlers have en- gaged in the cattle industry. As these herds increased the grazing area gradually became insufficient for the requirements of the farm- ers and stockmen. Forest fires have burned over great areas and all that remains is a mass of twisted, blackened .dead timber waici if cleared up would provide the best of grazing land. Stock are unable to penetrate .some of these jungles. i Stockmen who have located government. | A cable received by the com- mittee also states that Americans imprisoned during the war are now at liberty and are actively jengaged in relief work in Arme-| niaand Syria. Among them are William Nelsen, former Vice- Consul at Tripoli, Syria; Charles! Arthur Dana, of the Presbyterian | Board of Foreign Missions, and Mr. Levine. All of them wereac- cused of espoinage, by the former Turkish government, the charge growing out of the help the Amer- icans gave to Armenian refugees. For the purpose’ of continuing its relief work among the people of the Near East, the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief has appealed to the ‘American public to subscribe $30,- ;900,000. A nation-wide cam- paign to raise this amount will be! Tha* they velopment. ; That they must invite immi- gration and capital with a guat- anty that both will be protected. That they must keep admihis- must encourage de- tration free from everything that | savors of socialism and give the state a straight-up business deal— safety and progress the motto, The people have instructed the |it was learned that they had re-| incoming state government to) nounced citizenship. avoid radicalism to keep the ship. of state in safe waters and to keep it moving. uaphbalacts A Case of “Have to” If there is such a thing as being a “buttinsky” or such a thing as/States. appearing meddlesome it will truly apply nicely in the case of the news gatherer for the newspa- per. But the news which appears “| that no private corporation may | || first declared his intention of be- company of Coeur d’Alene was barring all such-men from its em- ployment comes the announce- ment that mining companies, the! Blackwell Lumber company and| other concerns are notifying ey-| eryone concerned that these slack- | ers cannot be employed in their’ plants. Many former employes| have been discharged as soon as | In Shoshone county officials are prepared to preceed under the idaho statutes, which provides} ;employ a foreigner who has not} coming a citizen of the United} ——— i ‘Should Start Something Reports from Boise as well as I was shot in my leg, half way between the knee and the ankle, was lucky it did not hit the bone. Tam in one of the best hospitals I sure am glad that I do not have to fight anymore. I may go to the frontier, but that will be nothing. We had one of the best thanksgiving dinners, I ever had, I will send you the in France. menu. It was. grand. Salted Almonds, Clear Soup, tur- key, chestnut dressing, potatoes, stewed celery, ice cream and cake, fruit, nuts, raisins, cof- fee. Tam hoping I can get home be- |fore spring, it is pretty hard to make connections. No Bert I had the influenza last July, but now it is different. Say, do you get the Stars and | Stripes, if not, let me know right Colonel Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep early Monday at his home on Sagamore hill in Oys- ter Bay. Death is believed to have been due to rheumatism, which affected his heart, The colonel suffered a severe at- tack of rheumatism and sciatica on New Year’s day, but none be- lieved that his illness was likely to prove fatal. The former president sat up most of Sunday and retired at 11 o'clock Monday night. He came to his home on Sagamore hill from the Roosevelt hospital on Christ- mas day, but a week later. was stricken with a severe attack of rheumatism and sciatica, from which he has been suffering for. some time. ‘The rheumatism af- Olives, mashed jaway. ITamsure you are glad that the war will soon be ended, | Lam glad too, but this bed is get- waged during the week of Janu-| ary 12th to 19th. The Rev. Dr. Franklin T. Con- nor, Pastor of the Bethel Presby- terian Church, Spokane, who has been doing organization work, fected his right hand and it be- came, much swollen. He re-— mained in his room and efforts were made to check the trouble, Last Saturday the colonel’s seere- tary, Miss Josephine. Strickler, called to see him but the colonel was asleep in his room. Miss Strickler said that no one had any idea that death was so near at hand. Colonel Roosevelt was laid to rest without pomp or ceremony in Young’s Memorial cemetery in in the paper is for the public, not | from other sections of the country for any individual and _therefore| are to the effect that labor is con- it is for everybody's interest that | jesting now ag soldiets are be- ting awfully hard. If anyone the reporter may seemingly make | ing released by thousands at 2 asks you who won the war, you himself appear obnoxious in his time when work of all kinds is! 4.1) them that the Red Cross did, quest, for the grist of daily hap-|Practically at a’ standstill. The! “pow jg Charlie and the rest of throughout Eastern Washington penings. It is simply a case of | Powers to be should start SOMEC- | the folks. By the time you get and Northern Idaho, has been | “have to.” : thing, anything, if it isin their this letter, I will be able to leave recommended to be a_ member of purisio kN ce | Power.to .doso. There are mil-| 44, hospital. Iam in the Amer- a commission going to Armenia, Anton Staab. | liens of acres of arid land that) ican Red Cross Military No: 1 due to his having been so greatly 5 need water'which would provide hospital in Paris, I am_ getting interested in the work since it| Anton Staab, who ownsa fine|homes for millions and would tired so, I will close, hoping you | F : . Las | . i was started. farm about a mile north of Fer-|also provide work’ for millions. |had a good Thanksgiving dinner, ——c—— | dinand died at the Alcorn hospital | Also there are hundreds of thous-| phi you a sl Cheaes within these large forest areas or reserves are in favor of petitioning the head of the forestry department to permit the settlers in conjunc- tion with the forest rangers and mnder the latter’s supervision and direction to burn off this dead burned over timber, thus clearing the ground covered by it witha view of seeding it to clover and other grasses. The idea is a good one from 1 every point of view. The timber pm is worthless, unless it could be é) Ris y impracticable because of the great ia this country, and came here from | fit’ f6¥ Hoimes. Could riot the gov-| : a elie looking Long Island sound, a plot. bag _. distance from . transportation |. Now that the war isover, many | western Minnesota shortly after | ernment help out on projects of | Co. B. 2nd U.S, Engrs. which he and Mrs, Roosevelt sel- : > MM *,---points and the nature of the| restrictions on min ing develop- | the reservation opened and pur-| this kind in some other way? \ American E, F. | ected oe after he left the White Bi a A sated jeading to it. As it is|ment should be removed. chased the farm he owned. | eae pier | France. pel wider Pen Metin.” ow the land is more valuable for] Qwing to government orders} The deceased was taken ill dur- [jt al BES NP inset Piaban eeges ike ty hag grazing purposes than any other. large producers were resticrted and ing the summer with what devel- High Cost of Feed Men | Wh H Edit athe America ® TAOS, typical ¥ Also if the land can be made fit} many small producers suspended oyed into leakage of the heart y 's an itor American,” known in every cor- converted into fuei wood which is for stock grazing it will help in- crease and stimulate the stock in- dustry of “Idaho county. The only objectionable feature and probable the only one which the government officials will find is the danger from fire in burning it. But the danger would not be great if fired close to the wet sea- son and care used as in any for- Give Mining Even Chance entirely. Restrictions were necessary in order to win the w-.r, and the mining industry responded with | superb patriotism. | Thousands ofskilled men and mining engineers were taken out of development work and sent to the front to help win the war. last Friday, a short time before |ands of acres of logged - off land) noon. The deceased, was.horn in| which need clearing up and made} | which was finally the cause of his | death. | —_——0o—_——_— | | Cultivating Enterprise Wallace Dempsey, a 16 year old lad living at Priest River, Idaho, has demonstrated that pop- corn.can be grown successfully in that region. He planted a small ace to Stock Industry In sections where dairying is ex- tensive dairymen thought fora while they would have to sacrifice their herds on account of the high cost of mill feed and shortage of hay. In southern Idaho much al- falfa is raised and not so much) dairying is done. This surplus and a happy New Year. A boy was told to write a com- position and this is the result: “Don’t know how newspapers came to be in the world. think the Lord does for He hain’t got nothing to say about editors I think the editor is one of the missing links you read of and stayed in the bushes in the Bible. that village Wednesday afternoon, Ye was buried\on a: knollover- nor of the earth, will go to his grave as a “quiet, democratic, christian country gentleman be- loved by his neighbors.” \ After prayers at the Roosevelt home, at which only members of the family were present, the fun- eral services were held at 12:45 in Christ Episcopal chureh, the little old frame structure where I don’t until after the flood and then came out and wrote the thing up jand has been doing so ever since. Thousands of mines suspended production and development work to meet the government’s est fire to prevent spreading. Severed Connection hay is now being shipped to the! tract asan experiment. The corn} 7 i points where most needed at a turned out to be of such good) + abd do ncr | quality that a local merchant has | °°St of $24.50 per ton. for years the colonel and his fam- ily attended divine worship. ‘i Idon’t think he died. I never Seis demand for man-power. contracted to take all the corn) During the past summer thous- son a dead one and never heard | _ All schools opened Monday in Frank E. Buck has severed his} These mines suspended finan- the boy can raise next season, at 2248 of dairy cows were sent to! oF one getting licked. Cottonwood. The attendance connection as manager of the cial operations and closed up their properties until after the war and put their money into the war. All restrictions hindering legiti- mate development should now be removed and let the work of open- ing new mines go ahead. a price of one cent a pound above ze Sane ae Sed bende prevailing market quotations. it sal crea o gees ane whic ;were disposed of because, of the 3 | shortage of feed. These condi- The Old Silver Dollar tions were unavoidable as feed How dear to my _ heart is the! “A doctor can use a word a| Was not so large as expected in yard long without anybody know-| Some grades, yet, owing to condi- ing what it is, but if an editor | tions due to the flu ban which: uses one he has to spell it. was on for some time many pu- i : “Any old college can make a! Pils could not start as some were could not possibly be ob‘ained at doctor, but an editor has to be|out of town. The attendance ja profitable cost, and who regret his departure. - cad in most! born.”—Unityville Unicorn. will increase after this week. idee ee : old silver dollar when some kind cases it was not to be had at any y \ subscriber presents it to view.| Cottonwood Garage, and left Wednesday morning forthe coast. His family will remain here for the time being. During his stay here he has made mrny friends a EILEEN COTTONWOOD STATE BANK Cottonwood, Idaho E, M. EHRHARDT, Pres. H. C. MATTHIESEN, Cashiere M. MY BELKNAP, Vice-Pres. Condition, December 31, 1918 it. ; : tarvati th r Id to The wide spreading eagle, the [maroon satiety ware, Se a? : a things they tell. The coin of our | great waste to sacrifice young! 4 < > fathers, we are glad we know it.! i ; For some time or other it will | frees al The liberty head without necktie | Bae | packers in poor’ condition, being brood sows as has been the case come in right well. : Insome parts of the country 5 or collar and other strange things | li A Checking Account at the | arrow below The stars and only fit for what is known as can- | | in the past, but at the cost of feed The spread eagle dollar the hat to ui cee Hew, vestock were near perishing from First National . the words which the syenee | ners, At the price of pork it is a/ | it was either sell them or let them Will make it easy for you to keep track of your RESOURCES | eceipts and : ene Tax Lz ee. | Starve. ; i makes it imperative that you keep. accurate Tor star spangled. dollar we all love ——— | Loans and discounts...0....00.-..0 $220,153.90 | N ord of your business transactions in order to so well. R d c R tf D Stocks, bonds and warrants 12,907.35 ‘ make an accurate tax report, besides you should { one e Toss epor or Vee. Liberty bonds owned........... 00.00.00. ccceceue 10,000.00 have this information for your own benefit. Huxoll-Kiehwer. Reosies U. S] Treasury certificates 15,000.00 P * Z i Bal. on hand 6110.78 Banking house, furniture and fixtures... 6,660.57 ; Let us Help You With Your _Married, Tuesday morning at Thieme: CASH AND DUE FROM BANKG........ 69,131.82 ; Bookkeeping Problems eight a. m. at Greencreek, Mr. A gD pcos ABCA hy Sty na 0) SEs eh Oe a Re RL a ed Bi A I if ‘ Jobn F. Nuxoll and Caroline Kieh-, Supplies for Emergency Hospit- $33,853.64 is For the farmer and stockraiser we have a farm ner of Mt. Angel, Oregon, Fathers! __ og LIABILITIES * record book that is simple and easily kept, yet Barlocher, Phillips, and Father, Light, water and telephone 31.02; Deposits subject to check. .........cccec0002 $215,840.57 ; is accurate and up-to-date. One of these books Notker of Mt. Angel performing Salaries for Nurses 376.41 Ti riifieatog fis em 79,519.46 A is yours for the asking. i Remitted to Lewiston ime certifica 519. q : the ceremony. The wedding was Cashier chock....0.2iccc.05,dchisdcctsam 5,199.42 THE ,attended by only the immediate, Chapter 2000.00) Total deposits "$301,859.45 a relatives of the contracting par: | piss | . ’ oR a ; : 2659.34 Capital stock tate 25,000.00 FIRST NATIONAL BANK eee well known | Bal. on hand 3451.44 Surplus and undivided profits.............. 7,294.19 COTTONWOOD, IDAHO | q | ee aie a 7 Coming, the Original Strollers, 6110.78 at the Orpheum, January 15. C. McMahan. Sec.