Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, June 13, 1919, Page 1

TTONWOOD CHRONICLE be VOLUME 27. NUMBER 24. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1919. $2,00 PER YEAR . $90,000 BONDS - SOLD MONDAY Bonds Sell For Biggest Price BAND IS RE-ORGANIZED. Cottonwood will again have a band, this being a definite con- clusion when about fifteen young men gathered Monday) evening at the Firemen’s hall and re-organized and weekly practices will again be in pro- gress every Monday evening un- ernor of Utah. The trip is in the interests of the Evergreen highway and we are gathering data for maps and general pub- licity material to encourage tourist travel to select this route. completely signed from Salt Lake to Vancouver, B. C., and The highway will be! grammer grades. SCHOOL CLOSES MONDAY/|ODD FELLOWS MEETING. St. Joseph school will close} The Idaho county meeting of Monday, June 16th. On Monday | the Odd Fellows which was held afternoon an appropriate pro-|in Cottonwood Wednesday was gram will be given by the eighth | attended by a large delegation grade pupils who finish the|from various sections of the Those who| county as well as one of the will receive eighth grade state| largest number of state officers diplomas are: ‘Louise Hattrup,| of the order to be assembled at a NEWS AROUND THE STATE Items of Interest From Various Ever Recorded in the North | der the direction of Jack Runn-| the publicity will be distributed| Johanna Ko ij i ’ ~ c pezynski, Agnes|county meeting. At the ban-| Sections Reproduced for Ben- Part of the State. ing, leader of the Cowboy band) hy the auto clubs and by other | Seubert, Winifred Gaul, Emilia| quet given at the I. O. O. F, hall hao : at Grangeville. Mr. Running! agencies to yeach the man who|Bruegeman, Bernard | Engel,| Wednesday evening some eighty efit of Our Readers, The Commissioners of the Cot- tonwood highway district on Monday sold bonds in the amount of $90,000 to the Lum- bermen’s' Trust company of Portland, the bonds being sold on a five and one-half percent interest basis and a premium of stated that Cottonwood has some very promising material to develop an excellent band. It is the intention of the organiza- tion to meet one a week for the present and after harvest they expect to have rehearsals twice a week if conditions so permit. Mr. Running will be in Cotton- drivez his machine across the country. “Tourist travel is to be’ en- couraged by making it easy for drivers to find their way.,Camp sites for those who will camp out and illustrated matter will be complied which will set forth the historic spots arid advan- Raymond Tacke, Joseph Lauer, and Lawrence Kaufman. Class motto: Thru difficul- ties to the stars. Class flower: Class colors: persons were present to pertake of the splendid repast given by the local lodge. Grangeville was selected as the next meeting place for the county’ convention. Hampton gray. : Taylor of Grangeville was e’ect- The following program will be} ed president of the organization, rendered in honor of the gra-| Among the state officers of Pink rose. have Old rose and Fifteen of the leading cherry growers of Lewiston Orchards © united for and have fixed . a minimum price of 10 cents a pound for Lamberts and Bings. D.S. Wallace, deputy commis- sioner of agriculture, has issu- ia Hades : wood every Monday and during | tages of:the particular localities. | duates: the lodge present were the fol-!ed a statement setting forth _ Boga oe wie Cn the day expects to give private} “The movement to exploit the| Class song: Graduates. lowing: that infected fruit must not ke ij Tdako teoumiry. There wert: slat lessons to those wishing the| Ryergreen highway was inau-| Class history: | Winnifred| John P. Isaac, Grand Master. | shipped into Idaho and must not : bidders for the distrie’s offer- | S@me,2nd in the evening will di-| eurated two. years apo, but ow- | Gaul. Presley F. Horn, Grand Sec-| be sold within the state. % diilie and ‘several were claserto a. bal pode le hele ie ine to the war conditions was| Class prophecy: Raymond Be ih Threshing prices for the fall : the high figure quoted by the| munity f 29 ss pray Att Biel allowed to lag until such a time] Tacke. . Reese Hattabaugh, Grand/ of 1919 will be substantially the Lumbermen’s Trust company. ° ' The following are the bidders town the size of Cottonwood as conditions were favorable to renew activities in behalf of this senic route. Presentation of diplomas and| Warden. __ address: Rev. Father Willi-| A. E. Gipson, Past .Grand same as those which prevailed last season, This decision was should have the opportunity to brord. Master and editor of the Idaho On Tuesday a vig picnic will] Odd Fellow. be held by the school. Mrs. Lillian Lanktree, Assem- bly President. The movement h. . now been revived by energetic young men who have been and the amounts of their bids: y John E. Price & Co. of Seat- Dooeh ot, : : tle, represented by Felix Mart- reached at the annual meeting of the Southern Idaho Thresh- ers’ association held at Caldwell i zen of Cottonwood, for 6 percent caught by the ‘lure of the road’ eee ee S| a last week. 4 honds, bid & premium of $4001 ROAD BOOSTERS and who Yealize the financial) MARTIN SALE A GOOD ONE. Mas, ytiattic Fry, Assembly) ‘The summer session of the 14 y j possid1i1sies + ‘ . | A * : a and for 514 percent bonds bid a Pidew Tarice Of Ee veltor Thelen The sale conducted on the A. University of Idaho opens Mon. premium of $1195. to Gane O. Martin ranch northeast. of day, June 16, closing on July 25. National company of New York City, represénted by the the Empire National bank of Lewiston, bid a premium of $1053 for 6 percent bonds. Morris Bros. of Portland. Ore., represented by Leo R. Duffy, premium of $1288 for 514 per- a premium of $1170. HERE WEDNESDAY Evergreen Road Booster Passed Through Cottonwood Enroute to Salt Lake City. community and owing to their “Last year’s reports by the Auto club of southern Califor- nia show that the National Old Trail highway from Kansas City to Los Angeles, accomodated ,246 cars and this is only one of the many trails into Califor- Cottonwood yesterday by Auc- tioneer I. E. Zuver was attended by a large crowd and everything offered for sale brought ex- ceptionally ‘good prices. The proceeds of the sale amounted to approximately $6400. Mr. Mar- COTTONWOOD BOYS DEFEATED tin was pleased with ‘the result] 119 Volimer Defeats Cottonwood Dean J. G. Ellredge, will have a corps of 35 assistants, among these being the heads of several departments in the, university. series of lectures. _ Fire loss aggregating approx- imately $40,000 was sustained brought $185. A three year old cent bonds. nia. Four passengers to the] of the good prices received by last Sunday evening when the Spokane & Eastern Trust com- car, $5 per day for each passen-| Auctioneer Zuver and the sale| Sunday by a Score of 18 to 6 | sheds of the Lewiston Fuel com- : pany of Sppkane. represented by| Boosters for the Evergreen| 8°" “8S legitimate road sr sin brought several hundred dollars pany and the machinery sheds 3 C. D. McLean, premium of $891| National highway, the all-year| *Nd from 30 to 90 days in Call- | more than he contemplated. of the Tri-State Terminal com- : for 51 percent bonds. scenic route to the playgrounds le A ears aye ne Registered Shorthorn cattle Standing of Clubs. pany were destroyed. The loss i Ferris & Hardgrove, Spokane,| of the northwest, passed thru eehe 4 Sa aaa rom this auto] old for an average of $210 a Won Lost | is only partially covered by in- be represented by William Fix, for| Cottonwood Tuesday evening on ourist travel. m head, selling from $150 to $325] Kamiah .. ... Bel 1 | surance. : 5% percent bonds, a premium Of | their way to Salt Lake City over We expect to advertise the| per head; a brood sow sold for | Nezperce . 4 2 Three more highway districts i $677.” : the proposed North and South|!vergreen highway as the all 89 and ‘sucking pigs brought | Ilo-Vollmer 4 2 lin Latah county have voted iB Union Trust company, Spo-| highway. The party spent an| Year scenic route to the great/ $13 per head or better than 40 | Cottonwood .. 2 3 | $420,000 bonds for road build- D kane, represented by Jack M.| hour in the city meeting with Tein aan oon preg ae ip cents a pound. Yearling heifers) Ferdinand .. .. | 4 ling. The elections were held E Corbett, for 514 percent bonds, | the good road boosters of this neaneey pee i tivities Bs caer sold for $125 and yearling bulls | Grangeville .. 1 5 |Saturday in Troy, Deary and f ‘Lumbermen’s Trust company of Portland, represented by E. T. Pratt, for 6 percent bonds a premium of $4635, and for 514 percent bonds, a premium. of $1450. ‘ The funds secured® from the bonds sold Monday will be used in completing the N. and S. state highway within the Cot- tonwood district and for lateral construction. A previous issue of $50,000 was used on the state highway and for laterals and it is estimated that $60,000 will be needed to complete the highway construction within the district, andMif state aid is given on the basis of $1 for $2 provided by the district a total of $37,000 of unexpected visit only 4 few had the opportunity to meet the good road boosters. They were accompanied from Lewiston to Cottonwood by State Represen- tative Seth Jones who joined the party in Lewiston and will ac- company them down the Salmon river country. They left the same evening for Grangeville were they snent the night and left early Wednesday morning for the Salmon river country. The members of the party are: F. H. Sweetland, presi- dent of the Evergreen National Highway association; C. A. Col- lins, field secretary; Ralph H. Shaffer, vice president of the American Automobile company state; the county seats, most imnortant towns, state capitals and serves the greatest number of people in each district. “The government is now en- couraging highway construction on very extensive scale and we expect to see the federal road commission handle much of the construction on this route. We are anxious that the Everereen highwav be firmly established so that it can be designated a national highway.” Mr. Collins and the rest of the party also expressed themseives as being highly surprised in the wonderful country that they encountered on their way from Lewiston to Cottonwood and lit- pull sold for $870. Results of Games Sunday CHAUTAUQUA OPENS WED. Cottonwood’s chautauqua will open Wednesday afternoon in the big tent near the public school for a session lasting six days under the direction of the Ellison-White system, consider- ed to be one of the best chau- tauqua systems operating in the west. These people have gath- ered together some of the best talent in their various lines to be procured in the country and aecording to information receiv- ed from visitors in the city who have seen their programs in other sections of the country de- clare that this year‘s program Tlo-Vollmer 18, Cottonwood 6. | Nezperce 4, Grangeville 0. Kamiah 9, Fertlinand 6. Games Next Sunday. Kamiah at Grangeville. Ferdinand at Nezperce. Cottonwood at Ilo-Vollmer. Cottonwood lost Sunday to the Ilo-Vollmer team in whai turned out to be a one-sided con- test and proved to be featurless. Owing to some costly errors} connected with heavy hitting by the Ilo Vollmer boys run the score very high and interest was lagging by hoth spectators and players — alike. Cottonwood mays a return game with the Tlo-Vollmer team on their home} 2714 made in seven days. lieved to be a new record. Ben Trutton, a farmer of the Gilbert - section near Orofino drove his auto to a garage at | Orofino to get a fresh supply of gasoline. He failed to stop the engine and within 10 minutes | Boville highway district. This makes a total of $1,125,000 vot- | ed for highway bonds in’ Latah county within the last 60 days. Almost four pounds of butter a day is the record made by Vio- let Peach Ohmsby, a purebred, registered Holstein cow belong- ing to the University of Idaho, in a test just finished, She gave 593 pounds of milk, from which pounds of butter were This is he- President Lindley will deliver a“ tle realized what was before ground next Sunday and it is|*fter onening the tank the in- bis . tate money will ke added to the|of Tacoma; Mrs. R. R was much better than any form- F terior of vi har : ‘ ‘ ‘ : : : : J the scor -e. | terior of the car was burned and a $140,000 voted by the district! Shaffer; John Frank, Tacoma on in this section of the coun-| . numbers put on by them in| — me hae biog a the hody damaged by reason of i‘ . pec de ge Rotary convention; W. | ry yeaa gone past. The peonrapis boys. of fire that started when the ie * PBs: SO|man state treasurer of Wash- ont to be put on here consist of a 4 | gasoline exploded. J make application for federal aid| ington and representative of the| Chautauque week, June 18-28. variety of different entertain-|Nezperce Shuts out Grangeville)” Taso ‘births reported in the ‘ on the basis of. post roads con-| highway association on the trip. WILDER-DYE NUPTIALS ments consisting of lectures.|, One of the best games of the month of May were more than two and one-fourth times as numerous as deaths registered in the same period, according to figures which have just been an- nounced bv the state depart- ment of public welfare. Exact- lv 754 native Idahonans drew their first hreaths in the course of the month, while only 338 re- sidents of the state were called struction, if federal aid is se- cured a total of over $350,000 will be avaibable for the im- 5 provement ®f the highways. in our district. The system planned | will provide permanent high- ways for the entire region tri- butary to Cottonwood. The commissioners were more than pleased with the result of the sale and the price received league was played at Grange- ville last Sunday when the Lewis county aggregation de- feated Grangeville by a score of 4 to 0. This game, according to a scorekeeper was one of the best games played on _ the; prairie for some time. Nez-| perce scored two runs in the first innning and duplicated the musical numbers and other numbers that will please almost any kind of a crowd. The party left Tacoma Friday morning and spent the first night at Vancouver. The second night was spent at Lyle, on the Columbia river, the party tra- veling the north bank route. The drive Sunday landed the narty at Walla Walla and Mon-| day the drive was made to Lew- iston. A very pretty wedding was solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Nims, Saturday, evening a Miss Delma Marian Wilder, for the past 7 ‘ ‘ three years a teacher of the pri-| inal nae ot Sharia mary grades of the Cottonwood | #8Ylums or the teeble-mince cekcolcuancunitedcinemariikas institute within this state who, is Vernd ING See Ree when committed have an estate, urge eae * | will have to pay the cost of their PAY OWN EXPENSE. Marion Sligar. for the bonds which is one of the best offers every received The tourists passed through Cottonwood about 6 o'clock The Nims home was beauti- performance in the second after own maintenance while in state} which it was air tight ball the| | institutions. This is the law and| to the great majority. A scale expert will commence remainder of ha game. There | was a question of the two runs | 3 in the second inning, the conten-| Merchants July 1, according to tion being that a foul was called | B. F. Lyons, director of the fair and let in two runs. | state farm markets bureau. Myers started the game for|, Lyons says failure to make Grangeville but was replaced by| tests in the past has resulted in Bittle in the second after which | the continued use .of faulty neither team scored. It was a|S¢les by merchants, and as a pitcher’s battle from this stage|Tesult the public has been get- of the game with honors evenly | #8 short weights in many in- divided between Hollen of Nez-|Stances. Under the terms of perce and Bittle of Grangeville. | the weight and measures act the Hollen without a doubt is one| Pryde rte are charged with the of the best pitchers in the prai-| bs of learning whether or not rie league, this being his second| “ egy = are giving correct shutout of the season: It was| Weight. Owners of bad scales errorless ball from start to fin-| ©" be fined under the law. ish. | teas rb | yan ‘3 eet : : | cows sold at the A. W. Bradric! Kamiah Defeats Ferdinand Gitate aald ab Osun iatetion ti: and intended to spend the night | fully decorated for the occassion | the attorney general’s depart-' in Grangeville. Wednesday even-| With roses and carnations. The} ment has so advised the state | ing the party expects to be at | bride wore a beautiful nridnight }oard of examiners. At a con- New Meadows. Thursday even-| Suit and picture hat. | fenrence with the heads of the’ ing will see the party in Boise,| Miss Wilder’s home is in Mit-| state institutions held with the Friday evening in Twin Falls, | chell, South Dakota and she has | board this week the former | Saturday in Pocatello and Sun-| just finish her third term as pri-| were instructed to enfore to law day in Salt Lake. pay Farr in the ev port a and eoke save the state the - They were accompanied to! Schools and was one 0 on-| cost of keeping inmates where - meas We -averans tipeed sn Grancevitts by Geo. McKinney, | wood’s most popular teachers. | they have seiate resources to , patie Pv nets” Pe M. M. Belpnap and Tom Parker. | ;: ar ene has — Cot-| meet this expense. , = Pigs iy 9\and John Hoene of this city.| tonw is home for some) institutions’ superintendents are .-° Pe ie hating ary 138 The party was about 16 hours’ time, is a veteran of the Great | directed to apply to the judge of teams, and with only four more | behind their schedule when they | War, having enlisted with old| the probate court for guardians games scheduled before the clos-| Passed through Cottonwood, but! Company E and served the en-| and to secure an order directing ing of the Prairie League the| which they hoped to make up| tire length of the war in France, | such designated agents to meet pennant seems to be within the before reaching Salt Lake. | returning home _ in February. | the expense of the keep for the grasp of Ilo-Vollmer, Kamiah| “We are having a wonderful While in the service he was pro-| inmate. The action taken is and Nezperce. Nezperce has! trip and the people are giving | moted to the rank of sergeant. | considered a new policy as the two games scheduled with Kam-|us splendid receptions at all’ Mr. Dye is employed by the law has never been enforced. L 1 iah, without a question one of | points,” said Mr. Collins while | Cottonwood Hardware Co. as an) Pabepatoepminey mms 2 Kamiah defeated Ferdinad| tween Moscow and Palouse last the strongest team in thej|in the city. “This is my first automobile expert, which posi-- GRADUATION EXERCISES. | last Sunday by a score of 9 to6,+week and brought $19,135. league and if the Lewis county | trip over ‘the route and it per-| tion he held prior to the war and| ‘he graduation exercises of making the Indians the winners|There were 82 Shorthorns, boys are fortunate enough to| mits’ me to view this highway as | WaS held for him on his return.|the Cottonwood high school,|f five games and losing only) which sold for $9775, and aver- defeat the Indians they stand a_ it will appear to the tourists. I} The happy couple are spend-| which were held in the I. 0. O.| One So far. i lage of slightly more than $305 good chance of winning the pen-| Will encounter the same gaso-| ing their honeymoon in Spokane F. hall Friday evening were at-| Ilo-Vollmer Defeats Grangeville each. The herd bull, for which * nant. Should Kamiah however, | line trouble and the same driving after which they will return to tended by a large audience.| Tlo-Vollmer defeated Grange-| Mr. Bradrick paid $1100 in Feb- defeat Nezperce the honors| conditions as will confront the Cottonwood to make their Prof. Philip Soulen of the Uni-| ville Wednesday at the county) ruary just before his death was wonld without a doubt go to the| tourist. Jt will be my effort to| future home. | versity of Idaho delivered the| seat in a hotly contested game] sold for $500. Forty-two Hols- Indians. Tlo-Vollmer also is a| nresent this highway exactly as! The Chronicle wishes to be | the main address of the evening.| of 4 to 2. This was a post-| teins sold for $9360. or an aver- a very strong contender for the| it has impressed me. numbered with their friends in = poned game and was played in| age of $222.80 ner head. The honors and must not be figured} “We are hearing letters to the| wishing them a happy wedded| _ Bring the whole faimly to the] accordance with the regulations] Holstein bull, King Pontiaas Se- i governor of Idaho and the gov-| life. chautaugue, June 18-23. of the league. gis, of Brookside, sold for $1800. for bonds by any highway dis- trict in the north part of the state and clearly demonstrates that financial men consider this community very staple or no such a premium would have been offered. Every one of the bids offered opportunities far to test the scales used by Idaho Tide Lucian tee out of the running.