Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, January 24, 1919, Page 1

Re ee 7 NT ST VOLUME 27, NUMBER 4. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1919. AUG. SCHROEDER ON COMMITTES Nate Petiibone Recognized as One of the Most Able Legislators. e Representative August S chroe- der of Idaho county received the assignment to two important com- mittees in the house of represen- tatives at Boise last week. He was made a member of the com- mittee which handles legislation relating to educational institutions and alsoa member of the live- stock and state affairs committees. Seth D. Jones was made chair- man of the Military and Indian affairs committee; he is a mem- ber of the following committees: road bridges, and ferries; schools and public lands; warehouse, grain grading and dealing. Senator Nate Pettibone is rec= ogonized as one of the most able among the Democratic legislators ! at the state capitol, and _ this is shown by the fact that the demo- cratic: members have chosen Nate “as leader of the Democratic min- ority in the Senate. Senator Pettibone is thoroughly convers- ant with legislative affairs and is an energetic worker. Idaho coun- ty is ably bh edie ne this year. $10, 000 Fire Fire at Grangeville Sunday Grangeville sustained a $10,000 fire loss Sunday afternoon when flames started in the frame wood sheds at the rear of the Alexander- Freidenrich company block. A terrific wind was blowing and only by hard work of the volunteer fire department were more serious losses in the business district pre- vented. W. H. Badger of the Fair store was the heaviest loser, the dam- age to his goods by fire, smoke and water being estimated at $6000, covered by insurance. Oth- er losses in amounts not yet de- termined were: Bank of Camas Prairie and Alexander Freiden- rich company, Red Cross, Inland Abstract company, Grangeville cigar factory, H. Taylor, attorney, and A. F. Parker, real estate. The origin of the fire, first discovered at 3 o’clock, is unknown. poy ee The followin g couples obtained glory tickets at the county clerk’s office in Grangeville Monday. Floyd Manning and Eva Chase, Grangeville; Tammany Vincent, Whitebird, and Miss Lillian Wool- man, eer Prosperous Farmer Enlarges Holdings Henry Schmidt a young and| prosperous farmer of the Green- | creek country today bought the fine farm of Bert Oliver near the This is one of the best ‘farms on the reservation, is well improved and has an abundance of the fin- est kind of water. Almost all plow land and a fine house. The price paid is around the $100 per acre with some for the seeded ground, Mr. Schmidt also owns a fine! farm near Greencreek, and also farms quite a lot of Indian land and the above purchase is an ad- dition to his farming opporations, as he intends to farm it himself. Mr. Oliver the seller lives in Clarkston, and the deal was made by Herman H. Nuxoll Real Es- tate Dealer. Leo. Robertson returned Satur- day night from Camp Lewis and left Wednesday for his home at Nezperce accompanied by his wife and daughter who have been staying in Cottonwood during his absence, New Firm Starts Here The new firm of Balback and Lake which started the first of the Schiller building is daily adding good for them to build up a good wood. Mr. Lake, who has person- stranger in this vicinity having been engaged in business in Grangeville. lig nahin Red Cross Notice At the meeting of the local chapterof Red Cross, Saturday 18th, Mr. Geo. Robertson was Mrs. Geo. McKinney resigned. Vice-chairman. Tuesday and Friday afternoons the work. room will be opened andall members are urged to come out and do their “bit’’ to- ward finishing up the work on hand. C. MeMahan See. pial seine . . Grain Doing Well Farmers who have been in Cot- tonwood trading this week state and making a fine growth. "T is very little frozen grain and the weather has been ideal so far, ex- snow would have been welcome The rain during the past week has benefitted crops while a great amount of snow has fallen in the mountains. Serve You Better Is Our Constant Aim a With this in view we have recently stalled a ledger post to-date statement sy let us explain it to you. in- ing machine and up-, stem. Drop in and 5 alin THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK COTTONWOOD, IDAHO ~ Reinstatement Service For Soltiers| Indian church on Meadow Creek. | ; civil establishment to take part year and has its quarters in the! to its stock of Men’s Clothing fur- | nishings‘and the prospects are| business in their line in Cotton- | al charge of the business: is no | elected as chairman to succeed | Mrs. Hale was also elected as 2nd/| | building was erected since he left. | | He said the town had changed a | great deal. §. P. Shutt Has Close | that winter wheat is doing well | here cepting the complaint that more} = | leaking can or something of that | in Civil C Anticipating the time when men who left the Federal classi- fied civil service to take up arms in defense of the country would be mustered out and, therefore, seeking employment, the United States Civil Service Commission recommended to the Presidnte that provision be made. for the reinstatement in the @ivil service orsuch men. Accordingly, the | President issued the following Ex- ecutive Order dated July 18, 1918. “A person leaving the classified civil service to engage in the mili- tary of naval service of the Gov- ernment during the present war with Germany and who has been honorably discharged may be re- instated in the civil service at apy time within five years after his discharge, provided that at the’time of resentment he has the required fitness to perform the duties of the position to which re- instatement is sought.” It will be noted that under the terms of the Executive Order, a man who was separated from the in the war may be reinstated in a civil service position within five | years after his discharge from the | military or naval service. It will further be noted that there is no. ‘restriction that,the man must be reinstated in the particular posi- |tion from which he was separated. | Under the terms of the Executive | Order, he may be reinstated any- | where in the eivil service, provid- ed that at the time of reinstate- ment he has the required fitness |to perform the duties of the posi- |tion to which reinstatement is | sought. | A | Town Has Changed | Claud Robbins returned Mon- |: day from Denver, Colorado where he has been for four years and! will spend the winter here visit-| ing friends and relatives. The} | town has expanded a_ great deal since he left. The Nuxoll block has since been built and the Cot- jtonwood Milling & Elevator Also he reports plen- ty of winter in Colorado. ee | Call From Poisoaing A private eee “an received | from S. P. Shutt of Ashland con- cludes as follows: | “On the night of December 17| Late at a restaurant a bowl of | stewed oysters which were sup- | posed to be fresh, but which evi-! | dently were spoiled from age, | ‘sort. Within'a short time I be-| come violently sick, bloated te! twice my natural size and suffered pains enough to kill a regiment/| of soldiers. I was at once re-} moved to the hospital here, where} Country Life Best For This Gentleman » “Yes country life and especial- ly life in the small town is good enough for me” said one of Cot- tonwood’s business men to a Chronicle scribe yesterday. It is not necessary to mention his name. Although not burdened | with years thisman has seen much | of the world and has spent many years in cities like Chicago and San Francisco. He told of thead- vantages of country life and the advantages and disadvantages of | the large cities. “Tn the cities you have to be able to be more or less crooked, schrewd and able to turn ahy kind of a deal to get the money— any way so you can get the mon- ey he said. “There is no such thing as neighborly feeling toward | the fellow being; it is graft or be grafted. The money bags can see nothing only the almighty dollar, and is you happen to be in the way of one of these hogs he will trample on you as he can see nothing only the dollar.” | Many young men and also many young women would do themselves justice by taking heed of this man’s remarks. There is a certain lure about city lifeand many are misled to| believe that there is nothing to it | but pleasure and joy, but among) the poor and the toilers it is a life! of straggle and misery: Even! among the working class there is | a wide breach of communication and sociability and they do not hesitate to practice perfidy upon each other if it is found thata slight advantage may be gaihed thereby. They will go out of | their way to doa fetows worker al diviGvor, asthe “The only way to enjoy city | \life’ the gentleman continued ‘is to have barrels of money and) not be afraid to spend it. And} unless you enjoy plenty of hard | work and are accustomed to mis-! jery stay away from the city.” “The city people are high geared | jand the pace they set is too swift | for the country people.” The country people may be slow, | but they are the best people on | |earth and not only that, the city | people would starve if the farm- ,ers did not feed them. ——_—u— School Notes | {By Wim, A. Lustie] New students: Miss Lehmann’s }room, Margaret Johnson. The} |school attendance is much better , this week. 1st and 2nd grades about 75 per | cent; 8rd and 4th, 67 per cent; 5th and 6th, 90 percent; 7th and 8th, 91 percent; high school 89 percent. Some of the rooms have more| pupils than they had before the | “flu” owing to new students who | have just entered school. | Inthetwicea month “National School Service’ issued by the Bur- eau of, Education, Franklin K several doctors worked over me| Lane, secretary of the Interior | |for several days and finally decid- | | Says among other things in an ar-) ed that there was no hope for me, ‘ticle headed “The Need for Amer- except an operation, which surely | icanization,” would have resulted fatally. “There can be neither unity in | As a last resort my wife and I de- ideals nor in purpose unless there | \cided to put the case in the hands! is some common method of com- | of a Christianscience practitioner.| munication through which may | I) be conveyed the thought of the | Miraculous as it may appear; received almost immediate relief| nation. All Americans must be} and have been growing gradually | taught to read, write and gaits better un'der this most wonderful! in one lauguage.”’ treatment ever since, until lam| In the article the following sig- , now able to sit up most of the! nificant facts are mentioned: time, and will be at- my old self} again within a few days. “My wife and three sons are they are presumed to know. with me, Harold having been} wired to at Camp Lee, Va., and 000,000 men drafted could not arrived here on Dec. 30th ona 20-|read their orders or understand day furlough. “We wish to be remembered | letters sent them from home. thisdemocracy do not go to school. 10 percent of our adult popula- | tion can not read the laws which! 200,000 men out of the first 2,-| |them when delivered, or read the | 18) \kindly by our friends in Cotton-| percent of the coming citizens of | J} | wood and Idaho county.” One of the sovereign states of our reoublic spends a grand total of $6.00 per year per child for sus- taining its public school system? “What should be said of a dem- ocracy—which is compelled to reach many millions of its people through papers printed in some foreign language?” In the United States twice as much money is spent ina year|’° for chewing gum as for school books, and more for automobiles than for all elementry and high school education. ‘Stockholders of Bank Hold Annual Meeting The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cottonwood State Bank was held on Tuesday of this week, at which time all the old directors and officers were re- elected for the coming year. The annual report showed that satisfactory progress had been made during the year by the bank, deposits showing an increase of $43,000.00 over that of a year ago. To better provide for its growing business $2,000.00 was added to the surplus fund during the year. Directors for the coming year are: E. M. Ehrhardt, H C. Mat- thiesen, Herman H. Nuxoll, Bar- ney J. Stubbers, Herman Wessels, Herman Von Bargen, Francis G, Nuxoll, B. Luchtefeld and M. M. Belknap. Officers: E. M. Ehr- | hardt, President; M. M. Belknap, Vice President; and H.C. Mat- thiesen. hacencipscabie Odd Fellows Will Give ta - The Encampment lodge No. |39 Jurisdiction of Cottouwood and Ferdinand will serve a ban- Queer at “the TOPO F shall Cottonwood Saturday February 1. All Odd Fellows their wives and Rebekahs are invited to at- tend. cee aenenneny ‘Stock and Giain Shipments The following "grain and stock shipments were made Tuesday from Cottonwood: The Cottonwood Mill & Eleva- | tor Co. shipped 6 cars wheat, 1 of mill feed and 8 cars hogs to Seat- tle. The Farmer’s Union Warehouse Co. shipped 1 car hogsto Carstens jat Seattle. ‘To Whom it May Concern We the Cottonwood basket ball boys, extend to the girls the exclu- 'Sive privilege to. practice basket ball in the hall every practice night from 7 to 8 o’clock. Does \this satisfy our most “aspiring” citizens? Cottonwood Men Will) Serve as Jurymen (918 The new board of county com- missioners of Idaho County as a part of the duties at the beginning of their term, selected the names of 100 persons, who are electors thruout the country to serve as jurors for the year 1919. The following is a list of the jurots sel- ected from Cottonwood precinet and from tributary country around Cottonwood: Cottonwood—Geo. Simon, I. M. Julian, J.B. Seubert, H.C. Matthieson, Howard McKinley, Oscar Hart, Felix Martzen, Aug- ust VonBargen, W.W,. Black- burn, W. W. Flint, Ed Sonnen and Ernest L. Parker. Winona—Big Butte— Willis Turner, John Seager, W. J. Mill- er and James Browning. Denver—W. H. Zumwalt, Charley Myers, Joe McDonald and W. R. Ketron. Fenn—J. E. Withrow, W.H. Spencer, J. W. Crea and Henry Meyer. Ferdinand—H. C. Quigley, An- drew J. Oliver, Jonn Wagner, Hu, go Joe Hanses, and Charles E. Hayden, Greenereek-—Henry Jess, ‘Phioin- as J. Williams, J. M. Miller and William B. Watson, Keuterville—Henry Rompepd Domnic Romain. More Improvements Soon For: Cottonwood. and Its Streets n i- Another deal of ‘some tude was made Wednesday 4 N eatoluiay Simon Bros, meat mar- ket. The lot has 83 feet fronting on Main street and runs back 100 feet. ~It is Mr. Nuxoll’s intention to dismantel the present building in the near future and erect there- on either a cement or brick build- ingand alsoa cement sidewalk, Mr. Nuxoll states the deal was made onlyas an investment and it shows his faith in Cottonwood. ——o—_— Uses Truck to Market John Seger and Fred Pfanne- becker brought 21 porkers to mar- ket Monday which topped the market ata fancy price. A G. M. C. truck with Karl Kilmar at the steering wheel was used to get the live stock to market. Karl says this method of. bringing in the swine beats the old way of driving along the highway. The truck is coming into its own, to- gether with farm tractors among the farmers of Idaho county. COTTONWOOD STATE BANK Cottonwood, Idaho E. M. EHRHARDT, Pres. H. C, MATTHIESEN, Cashier M. M. BELKNAP, Vice-Pres. Condition, December 31, 1918 RESOURCES Loans and discounts Stocks, bonds and warrants Liberty bonds owned U.S. Treasury certificates Banking house, furniture and fixtures... ; CASH AND DUE FROM BANKS........ | LIABIL | Deposits subject to check... Time certificates | Cashier check.............. | TOTAL DEPOSITS. Capital stock............... 0.0. Surplus and undivided profits... $220,153.90 12,907.35 10,000.00 15,000.00 6,660.57 $69,131.82 $333,853.64 ITIES $215,840.57 79,519.46