Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, February 7, 1919, Page 1

ee ray OTTON Mrs. Kate Fitzgerald VOLUME 27. NUMBER 6. JOHN BAUER RETURNS HOME First Idaho County Soldier to Re- turn Who Has Gone Over the Top—21 Days At the Front John Bauer, of the 305th Infan- try, and the first Idaho county soldier who has gone over the top to receive an honorable discharge arrived home last week and was met by representatives of the Cot- tonwood commercial club and friends and given a hearty wel- comning on his return home from the first line trenches. Private Bauer joined Uncle Sam’s forces at Camp Lewis May 24, and on August 7 left Philadel- phia for France. After arriving in France he had twenty days of trainmg and was sent to the trenches September 26. On the 27th day of September, a day John says he will always remem- ber he went over the top. After this date he was in the front line trenches for twenty-one days in the Argonne forest. When asked bya representative of the Chronicle of his experience, he spoke always of the deeds of his fellow comrades. Some Of the interesting facts, however, he re- lated to us are as follows: “After we. arrived in London were we spent two hours sight- seeing, we entrained for France. In France we were in training for twenty days and on September 26 weresent to the front line trench- es. On the 27th I went. over the top with my company in the Ar- gonne forest and was in the tren- ches for twenty-one days, Dur- ing some of this time we were in the rear trenches resting up. “Many people ask ‘how does it feel to go over the top.’ Now as for myself, it never entered my mind and the dangers that con- front a soldier at this time are little thought of. “The Argonne forest is thickly timbered and as we went over the first time we walked single file and at times crawled on our hands and knees. We received no resis- tence until about dusk on Sep- tember 27. During this scrim- mage, and after we returned to our trenches my company had lost three men killed by sharpnels. “Farmers who cultivate the soil along the front line are never found without their gas masks and I; have seen them plowing with thei:‘ gas masks on.” When asked if he was glad to get back home he said: “I am not sorry for the experience I have received and the things I have seen in the foreign land, but I hope to never have to go through the same experience again.” While in France he was a mem- ber of the same division of the de- ceased, hero, Julius Holthaus, who died in action, but was not in- formed of the sad news of his friend’s death until he reached Camp Lewis. John has nothing but praise to offer for the splendid work done at the front by the Red Cross, Salvation Army and the Knights of Columbus who were always in evidence on the battle field. When the armistice was signed he was in a hospital at Bordeaux with an attack of influenza and was sent home with the casualty boys. After arriving home and spend- ing a few days relating experien- ces of a soldier’s life in the tren- ches to friends and relatives, he is now engaged by the Cottonwood auilling Co. of this city. Ss ll Art Wiley, manager of the Vol- lmer Clearwater Co., at Grange- villeand T. E. Quinlan former} deputy sheriff of Idaho county} Will Entertain Soldier Boys The Cottonwood Commer- cial Club will give a dance and reception Friday Febru- ary 14 in honor of all return- ing soldiers and sailors on the above date. The re- ception will be at the I. O. LICENSE FEE-ON | | License Ranges All the Way From $15 to $40 Owing to the Weight of Car. « apply for and have their license Prominent Couple Married ready by the time the roads are in | shape for traffic—which means at Lloyd Turner, who returned once. Sunday evening from Camp Fre-| No motor vehicle, exeept those mont, Cal. where he received an belonging to the government, O. F. hall and the dance at | the Orpheum Theatre. | License fee on all automobiles Modi gta b come ante | in Idaho is due and payable on ie | atid a good time, ete: the Ist of January of 2a SR a rt a ha ‘©! All automobile owners should | AUTO PAST DUE} honorable discharge surprised his many friends in Cottonwood by taking Miss Edith Humphrey. to Grangeville and their were united state, county or city, shall-be op- erated upon the public highways until such motor vehicle is provid- ‘ed with the distinctive number | plate issued by the secretary of in the holy bonds of matrimony, | ote highway commission. Tuesday afternoon, at the home} The owner of a motor vehicle of the groom’s uncle and aunt, may, after purchasing same from Mr. and Mrs. Day, the Rev. W.! deal it thé oubs N. Knox, of Grangeville perform- 8 dealGry Operas aamet trcie lic highway,. using the., dealer’s ing the ceremony. number plate fora period of fif- Dan Cupid, in the uniform of a | teen days from the date of taking captain, accompanied by Mr. and possession, provided that applica- Mrs. Humphrey, mother and fath- tion shall have been made for er of the bride, drove them to the license before such motor vehicle county metropolis. ‘is used on the public highway. Miss Humphey had just return-| The license feeson motor vehi- ed recently from a visit with Dr.’ cles are based upon the factory and Mrs. J. W. Turner, of Grange- | weights as follows: ~ ville, Cal., mother and father of | On motor vehicles weighing 2000 Mr. Turner. | pounds or less, $15. The marriage of this young, On those weighing more than couple unites two of the most pro- | 2000 pounds and not more than minent young people in the city. 3000 pounds, $20. Miss Humphrey, is a charming) Qn those weighing more than young lady with many womanly |3000 pounds and not more than traits and is very popular with the’ 4000 pounds, $30. younger set of the city. | On those weighing more than Mr. Turner, who has grown to 4000 pounds, $40, manhood here is’ a young) . After a motor vehicle has. been man of sterling qualities and for owned or used for a period of five the past few years has been mana- years the license shall. be two- gerof the Turner Drug store. He thirds of the regular rate. has many friends in Cottonwood If applicant shall take posses- DATA ON GREEN: CREEK CUT-OFF Facts and Figures Prepared by. Former State Reptesentative W. B. Hussman When our people voted the $50,- 000.00 road bonds we thought that | this would be sufficient to com- plete the projects under considera- tion, the Greencreek Cut-Off and the change through Schnider’s just, east of town and yet leave us enough to build the North and southstate highway which for a dis- tance of about four miles follows the above route, thus leaving only about three miles of State High- way, to build outside of the dis- tanee covered in the above named projects. That we have been dis. appointed is not due to misappro- priation or lavish . expenditure of the money at hand but in tne fact that we have placed the cost of road building far below what experience everywhere has proven the same to be. The State High- way Commission through their Engineer E, M. Booth placed the cost of building the State High- way: through our district at from $25,000.00 to $30,000.00 his esti- mate being based on an average cost of $4,000.00 per mile for grad- ing dirt roads and exclusive of right-of-way and culverts, Nothing is revealed in the Commissioners report published in last week’s Chronicle to show that the origi- nal estimate by the state engineer their report shows. that dirt. was moved even below his. estimate. But his estimate was figured on} digt grading with a small, per cent, of loose rock, nothing extra: was, | allowed should solid roek be en-| ‘countered the cost of excavating} was not nearly correct, in fact), | tended by both Odd Fellows and| us, yet we have received full value for our money and the work done isof a charater that. will in future years reflect to the credit of the men _ under who’s_ direction it was, accom- plished. We offer this explan- ation, neither in defense criticism of any action of the commission- ers but merely to correct an er- roneous impression of the cost of'| road building. If we cared too we could go into details of compari-| sion in cost of road building—our} experience as against that of our} State Highway Commission—that would make us more than pleased: with what our commissioners ac- complished with the money at! hand. 'W. B. Hussman. aaa ran New Passenger Rates in Effect: Passengers. now. contemplating, on going to outside points and traveling on the Camas Prairie railroad will have to pay. more car fare in some instances and less. in others. The new. sche- dule went into effect. February. 1., It is as follows: ’ Ferdinand 35c, formerly 80c. Grangeville 63c, formealy 60c. Fenn 34c, formerly 35c, Vollmer 66¢, formerly 65c, Craig Junction 89¢, formerly 900; Reubens $1.08, formerly $1.05, Culdesac $1.78, formerly $1.80. These prices do not include war tax and are from the local depot! The fare to Lewiston remains the the same,- OSD HRI. Encampment Gives Banquet One of the most: social events of the season Was the banquet given Saturday evening by the I, 0, 0. F, Encampment at the local 1..Q,.0. 8. hall... It.was largely at Rebekahs from Ferdinand and Cottonwood. After the regular same being four times that of| meeting of the lodge anda short loose earth. who are congratulating him on the choice of his bride and wish Mr. and Mrs. Turner happiness and prosperity in their wedded life. They will make their home sion of a motor vehicle between January 1 and August 1, he shall} pay the annual license fee. If he| shall take possession between Au-| gust 1 and November 1, he shall | in Cottonwood. |pay one-half the annual license Wednesday evening the young’ fee. | people charivaried the married; When any motor vehicle which | couple and were treated royally has been licensed, is transferred by them. from one individual to another, | —o——_ |within the state the license tag] To Give Series of Card Parties ™¥St remain with it, as it belongs) |to that particular motor vehicle. | ‘ | It is unlawful to use a license tag The Cottonwood Council of the on any motor vehicle unless it has Knights of Columbus have arran-' been issued for that particular ged a series of card parties to be one. The person taking posses-| given for its members and friends. | Rann otal fine. Venislot nines The first entertainment atcards J ithin ten days thereof make ap-| will be Wednesday evening, Feb- plication to the county a: | ruary 5, the second, February 12 ¢5. 4 transfer of ownership upon and the last one, Monday, Feb-'the records of: the county and ruary 24. They will all take! state, The fee for a transfer is place in the council’s club room. 1: The knights intend to make|" No person under the age of 16 these parties as enjoyable as pos-| years shall be permitted, as chauf- sible, and urges all members to be | ter. to operate any motor vehicle present and bring their friends. upon the public highway for pro- Note—The card party for the fit, and no person shall be ba 12th was postponed to some other mitted, as chauffer, to operate any future date. {motor vehicle upon the public | highway without first having ob- Buys Thoroughbred Swine | tained a license therefor. | Three-fourths of all money col- ‘lected from the licensing of mo- |tor vehicles shall accrue to the Sacer aieaaniee Howard McKinley left Tuesday morning for Caldwell, Idaho, bred:Poland China hogs and ex- 'and one-fourth of all such money pects to bring some back with Collected shall go to the state him. Mr. McKinley last week highway fund, received two thoroughbred female hogs, one from Billings, Mont., Class Entertains School Board and the other from Hermiston, ; se Ore., for which he paid fancy; The cooking class of the Do- prices. |mestic Science department enter- It is the intention of Mr. Mc-| tained the school board and their Kinley to build up one of the fin- Wives to a dinner last Friday est Poland China herds in I?aho ¢vening. Members of the school county. . | board state that the repast would j have been a credit to any chef d ks ptionall 1] f : and speaks exceptionally well for Dr. W. F. Orr reports the ar- the girls and their tee: rival of a bouncing baby girl at! eee were business visitors in €ctton- wood Tuesday. the home of Mr.and Mrs. God-| Mrs. A. B. Rhoades is visiting hag Halter. Mother and babe! at Grangeville with relatives ont are doing nicely. friends this week. Nor did he make} allowance for right-of-way and! fencing or concrete culverts. We} understand that our commission- ers paid out for right-of-way and fencing alone on the work so, far done, over $8,000.00 and their re-| port shows an expenditure of | nearly $7,000.00 for concrete cul-! verts. Another item of interest in the report is the saying made by the commissioners in the cost of eén- struction as haudléd by them! through their personal supervision and that of the engineer in charge} as compared by the lowest bid re-| ceived from contractors to do this work. These figures can not be} disputed, in fact are very easily substantiated by comparison pri- ces being paid on road work else- where. In the Lewiston Tribune of Jan. 16th is a report of the! County Commissioners of Nez-| perce county awarding a contract! |foer building approaches to the | Clearwater and Big canyon creek | bridges at Peck to Albert G. Kes-| | ter on the following bid: Exca-| vation, loose earth 70c, loose rock | 70c and solid rock $1.80 per yard. | And this contract was let just re-| | cently and should be considerably | |lower than pre war contracts, or| | than those prevailing last summer) where he will attend a sale of pure|County in which it is collected | while work in our district was go- | Berger who has skillfully held the | ing on. | operations during the winter while jour work can only be done during, |the summer. For work done in| our district, the commissioners re- | | port shows that it cost them 36c! | to move loose earth, 57c for loose lrock and $2.05 for solid rock. | | While the cost for excavating solid | | rock was higher than the bid on ‘the Peck bridge improvement, | | yet it was 20c per yard lower than jany bid received by our board to} do the work. So taken as a whole} | we cannot complain of not getting | | value received for the money ex- ‘pended. That the bond money did not go as far as we had hoped Also this work permits of for is ‘a disappointment to all of | 25th birthday. open session in the lodge room the assembly repaired to the banquet hall where they found two large tables loaded with every good thing to eat imaginable. It is needless to say they did justice to the bountiful repast. The tables were presided over by aclass from the domestic science department of the local high school, and they gave a practical demonstration of their ability and training in the cullinary art, which speaks vol- umes for their teacher. Geo. Robertson acted as toast- master and Riley: Rice, E. L, Par- ker and several others made short talks for the good of the. order. The visiting. members are unit- ed in their praise of the three-link- ers as being royal entertainers and hope that in the future they will be assembled together at} many more such gatherings. eihop ti taeasabistdy Leave For Seattle, Wash. Miss Beatrice Meyer, of Col- ton, Wash. was an_ arrival Wednesday night. She has ac- cepted a position as stenographer and assistant bookkeeper with the Cottonwood Milling & Ele vator Co., succeeding Miss Mari- an Berger who has accepted a position in Seattle. Miss Edith position of head bookkeeper since Frank Albers left for Camp Lew- is isalso leaving with her sisten for Seattle. Mr. Meyer isin re- ceipt of a message from Frank Albers to the effect that he would expect to be home in not to ex« ceed two weeks and take up his former position with the concern: A very social evening was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F, S. Wimer on January 29 by rela-|, tives and a few friends. The main THE STATE Sections Reproduced for Ben- _ efit: of Our Readers. Charles Cammack, who former- ~ ly resided on a ranch near Rig- gins, Idaho, died at. the,state hos-, _ pital at Orofino. Fred Lott, age 61 years, an In- dian. citizen. of Stites, Idaho, died , recently at his home'from: an at- tack of influenza, He was a gov- vernment scout during the Indian: war of 1870, One of the postoffices located at, , either Vollmer or Ilo 4s to: be dis- continued, it is said.’ This ‘is due _ perhaps, to the fact that the busi- ness does not justify the mainten- , ance of two offices at the twin ® cities. * Dewey Eastman, who: has‘ been © in the county jail at Lewiston, Idaho, for the past: month, await- ing trial in federal-court made his > escape last Tuesday when, he was. permitted to carry a. bucket: of - ashes out of the jail, ' At Deary, January. 24,’ Bert: Roderick, age 14, was instantly’ killed while coasting, It was, af-. ter-dark and Roderick, who was: alone on a sléd, was struck in the’ head and chest ‘by.a heavier, sled. going in: the opposite: direction, Snake river is practically, free. from. ice and: steamboats are, en-,. . or in 1 enema wheat from: upper Warehouses to Lewiston, tis,, estimated that, over ik bushets will be delivered to the» Thirteen thousand’ eight’ hun+’ dred and seventy. five soldiers, were. discharged’ last’: month | at Camp Lewis, One million’ ‘mien’ have been discharged. throughout, the various: camps in ‘the United States. 1,400,000’ are ‘lated’ for! early release. | The first, county division bill’ ¢reating the.42d: county in the: State to receive the approval of! the legislature was passed recent- ly. It is that of Clark, and the: we county; is formed: out of the! estern part of Fremont county, with Dubois as the county seat. | A mass meeting of over 200 vot- prs of the Central highway district tone at Ilo recently passed resolu- ions calling upon the commis-. sioners of said district to, call a, special election, to submit to the, voters the question of bonding the: district for $160,000 for highway construction, He “The scarcity of teachers for public school work has reached serious : proportions,’ says. presi+ dent O. M. Elliott of the Lewis- ton state normal school. “the in- dications are that. there must be concerted action 6f all authorities or we shall facea decided short- age for the school. year of 1919-20, The house of representatives passed the Morgan bill that pro- vides for the salvaging: of stock condemned by the state and gov+ ernment when found diseased with tuberculosis; and: reimbursement in part for their loss; This bill ‘is of unusal importance to the dairy- men and,the:dairy industry of the state-of Idaho. * The: house. of. representatives at Boise: went unanimously on re- cord, to pay tribute to’ those dead Idaho, heroes wha gaye their lives to their country during the:recent war, by passing!.a bill ‘providin, there. shall be Ghastad in pa ; , feature of the evening was tha good eats which was served at 11 o’clock. The gathering was in honor of Mrs. Geo. Rustemeyer’s cata tthe al of