Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, June 27, 1919, Page 1

VOLUME 27.. NUMBER 26. TO RETURN NEXT YEAR Contract Already Signed For Coming Year by Forty Business Men, Cottonwood’s second and suc- cessful chautauqua season clos- ed Monday, June. 23_ un- der the direction of the Ellison- White system and before the director of the system, John H. Hoppes left the city a contract was signed by 40 of Cotton- wood’s most prominent business men to have them show here again next ‘year which without a doubt is welcoming news to the many chautauqua boosters who signified their willingness to have them return. The program put on this year was even Lcttc: than last year according to many who attend- ed both sessions. The atten- dance if anything was also much larger than last year and they promise to give us equally as good a show next year if not bet- ter. Saturday evening’s program drew the largest crowd of the entire week’s program, the au- dience being estimated by many between 800 and 1000 pesons to hear the celebrated Castellucci band which more than lived up to its reputation. Among the lecturers, Judge Geo. D. Alden seems to have been the favorite with the peo- ple who heard each and every number of the program. How- ever, each of the other lectur- ers were far above the average and were well worth any persons time to listen to. Among the musical numbers which were staged from night to night by the different musical organizations it would be hard to pick a favorite as they were all excellent organizations and re- ceived hearty encores after each mumker rendered by them throughout their program. The last evening of the chau- tauqua was also given over part- ly to the children of Cottonwood who under the direction of Miss Alvira Kolsrud, Junior Supervi- sor, presented “Joy Night”’— Pageant “Uncle Sam’s Experi- ment” by Junior chautauquans and was exceptionally well ren- dered. : The singing of little Burdette Randall was especially well received. The young lad has a sweet voice and for his age we have never heai anyone his equal. He received a tremen- dous applause after his song. Cottonwood is indeed fortu- nate to have progressive busi- ness men who can see much good come from these entertainments and it also brings to the com- munity men and women who stand high in ‘the arts they re- present and could not be expect- ed only through an organization of this kind or one similar as the cost of bringing these people in under private management would be prohibitive. BAND HERE SATURDAY. The Grangeville Cowboy Band accompanied by a large number of citizens of Grangeville attend- ed the chautauqua program here Saturday evening. As Saturday was band day in Cottonwood the Grangeville band made it much more a realization by their pres- ence. The organization render- ed severl numbers on the streets before the main concert at the chautauqua’ tent after which they marched in a body to the big tent«where they listened to the Castellucci’e band. The spirit shown by the county seat band was appreciated by the citi- zens of Cottonwood and the music rendered by them was also enjoyed by a large crowd of hearers. ROCK CRUSHER STARTED. The city rock crusher was again set in motion Monday morning, the rock being crush- ed will be used by the Sisters of St. Gertrude’s convent in the er- ection of their new convent building. The time required to crush the necessary amount of rocks will take several days. The rocks, as fast as crushed are be- ing hauled fination by G. M. C. trucks. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1919. PUMPS SET IN MOTION. The pumps of the Cottonwood Water company were set in mo- tion the first of the week by Felix Martzen, superintendent of the water company. The pres- ent supply of water held in the reservoir on the mountain near the monastery is estimated at 1,000,000 gallons and the action taken by the company in work- ing the pumps in the city is a safety measure. The water sup- ply is ample to meet all require- ments that may turn up and no shortage is expected as the com- pany has taken every precau- tionary measure to guard against such. TAKE OVER ROAD FIRM New Concern Will Push Con- struction of North and South Highway According to the Idaho County Free Press, published at Grangeville yesterday the finan- cial difficulties which for some time have hampered operations of J. A. Hoskins & Co., contrac- tors for th $300,000 link of the tween Grangeville and White- bird have ended. Highway con- struction will be pushed rapidly, and the contractors believe they will be able to complete the high- way late this fall. It also has the following to say: Hoskins & Co. Dissolved. The partnership of J. A. Hos- kins & Co., original contractors for the highway, has been dis- solved, and the new concern, known as Oxman & Co., of which a Mr. Oxman, of Baker, Ore., is director, has taken over the business of the old concern. J. A. Hoskins of Ontario, Ore., general supervisor of the high-| way construction work in the old company, has resigned, and is in no way connected with the management of the new concern. J. A. Brown, superintendent un- | der Hoskin & Co., also has re- signed and has removed from the city. C. A. Bicknell has transferred his interest to the new company, and will remain in Grangeville. F. M. Sturgill of Baker, Ore., has been placed in entire charge of construction and is located in Grangeville. Mr. Sturgill also is interested in the new firm. Mr. Hoskins, who has a $25,- 000 contract for macadamizing from four to five miles of high- way between Jacques Spur and Fort Lapwai, in Nezperce county, continues with that work. It is said, however that} the firm of Oxman & Co. may | also take over this work. Hoskins’ Interest. J. A. Hoskins, it is said, was originally interested in the Grangeville-Whitebird contract only to the extent of owning cer- tain of the construction machin- ery, a part of which has been purchased by Oxman & Co., and all of which is being used by the} new company at the present} time. The firm of J. A. Hoskins & | Co. began operations on the new, highway in February, last, and at the time the firm was taken | over by Oxman & Co. approxi-| mately 10 per cent of the work| had been completed. Mr. Hos-) gins’ equity in this company, the | and he will be paid proportion- ately, after the entire project is| completed. Oxman & Co. now are employ- ing 125 men on the work, distri- | buted at five camps. Two steam) shovels are in operation, and two more will be installed within two | weeks.. | Sergeant Jess Robertson ar- rived in Cottonwood last Friday | evening from overseas were he has been for the past 11 months | in the service of Uncle Sam. He} spent a few days visiting with) his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.) Robertson and Saturday visited | to their place of des-/ left with friends at toe pa He} Tuesday morning Spo- kane were he went on business. North and South highway be- h new firm says, will be protected, | H SEUBER1-SCHURMANN. The marriage of Miss Amalia Seubert and mr. Paul H; Schur- mann of Lewiston was solemniz- ed at the Catholic church here Tuesday morning by the Rev. Father Willibrora. Miss Rena Seubert, sister of the bride and Mr. Waiter Schur- mann, brother of the groom act- ed as bridesmaid and best man. After the wedding ceremonies at the church the happy couple departed for the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Jenny were an elegant wedding dinner was served to relatives and a few in- timate friends. The bride is the eldest daught- er of Mrs. J. F. Jenny and the late George Seubert, is a most charming and popular young lady and enjoys a wide friend- ship throughout this section were she has made her home for years. The groom has’ resided in Clarkston for several years, is a young man of fine character and well worthy of the young lady he has chosen for his wife. He is employed by the Lewiston Grocery of Lewiston. His mother, Miss Angeline Schur- mann is a resident of Clarkston. The young couple were pre- sented with many beautiful and useful gifts by relatives and friends. After the wedding dinner Mr. and Mrs. Schurmann departed by automobile for Lewiston were they will make their future ome. Among the out of town visi- tors were the following: Mrs. Schurmann, mother of the groom, Marie, Matilda, Threasa Schurmann, sisters and Henry and Walter, brothers of Clarks- ton, Wn., Mr. and Mrs. Tuschoff and son Joe of Uniontown, Wn., Mrs. Laufer, of Clarkston and Mr. and Mrs. Mat Kess of Wis- consin. The Chronicle wishes to be numbered with their many sin- cere well wishing friends in hop- ing that their married life will be one joy of happiness and prosperity. WHO WILL CELEBRATE? Independence day will not be celebrated in Cottonwood this year and owing to there being no |celebration at home many Cot- tonwood people are making ar- rangements to spend the day at various others towns in our im- mediate vicinity were extensive preparations have been made to entertain visitors who are ex- pected to attend. In Idaho county three town’s have made plans to entertain people on this day—-Winona, Stites and Riggins. Many of Cottonwoods citizens will no doubt take in the program at Winona and it is stated from good authority that an excellent program has been arranged by citizens of that town and no stone has been left unturned to show everyone a welcome. Other towns that are making | strong appeals to have you at- tend their celebrations are the following: Vollmer, Lapwai, Moscow and Kamiah. Moscow plans to have one of the largest celebrations to be held in the state. At Vollmer and Kamiah the chief ,attraction are areo- plane flights. Lapwai’s chief attractions are bucking contests and horse. racing. WILL VISIT IDAHO. A number of officials of the Democratic National Committee are making a tour of the West- ern States and will be in Coeur d’Alene July 6 and 7 for the pur- pose of conferring with the dem- ocrats of North Idaho. The fol- lowing persons are in the party: omer S. Cummings, chairman; J. Bruce Kremer, vice-chairman; Mrs. George Bass, chairman of |the Women’s Bureau; W. R. | Hollister, treasurer; W. D. Jamieson, director of finance; W. B. Cochrane, publicity agent, and Chas. F. McGuire, private secretary to Mr. Cummings. Arrangements have been made for a public address by Mr. Cummings on the League of Na- tions, following the band concert at the city park on Sunday after- noon, July 6. The League of Nations question is not a politi- cal issue, and it is expected that an immense crowd will take ad- vantage of the opportunity to) hear this important question dis- cussed by a man of national re- putation. | POSTMASTER SELLS FARM L. A. Wisener, postmaster of Grangeville sold his fine farm of 320 acres in the Greencreek sec- tion Wednesday of this week to Kelsch Bros. of the same section. The farm bought by the Kelsch brothers is better known as the Huffman ranch and is highly im- proved and one of the best half sections in that part of the county. While the price paid is not given out it is said to have been near the $40,000 mark in- cluding the crop. The deal was made by Felix Martzen. Other sales reported in the last ten days and made through the agency of Feiix Martzen are the following: ; , R. J. Carlson to Joseph Uhlen- kott, 155 acres, for $16,000 locat- ed three miles south of Cotton- wood, This land has no improve- ments. Sidney M. Brown to Felix Martzen 185 acres including crop for $115 an acre. This land is located 3 miles north of Cotton- wood and is known as the Frank Puthoff farm. Bernard Von Tersch to Felix Martzen 160 acres located 114 miles from Cottonwood for $110 an acre. This farm is known as the Otto Aichmalyr ranch. GOING TO WYOMING. Grangeville’s celebrated cow- boy band passed through Cot- tonwood Tuesday morning for Thermopolis, Wyo., fill a three days celebration engage- ment, the dates of the celebra- tion being June 27, 28, and 29. The Thermopolis celebration is known as the ..“Treat ’Em Rough” stampede, and is the oc- casion for the gathering of the cowboys from all sections of Wyoming. The Grangeville band will furnish the music for the celebration and will have charge of the ’49 dance at night. The band sent to Wyoming will consist of 18 musicians and the regular rope twirler and rid- er of the organization. The band is scheduled to arrive in Wyom- ing on Wednesday evening and will have charge of the final pre- parations of the dance pavilion. the railroad expenses incident to taking the band on this trip are in excess of $1280. The band will return to Mos- cow on July 8 for the big cele- bration to be staged there. Among the various members making up the party were Harold Simon and _ Norville Johnston of Cottonwood who joined the party here Tues- day morning. Jack Running, leader of the Cowboy band and also leader of the Cottonwood band will have charge of the musicians. He was very persis- tent in his demand that young Johnston and Simon accompany the band and stated to the writ- er that Norville and Harold were very able musicians and would greatly increase the efficiency of the organization. TO HAVE GOOD PROGRAM. Plans for the big “Set "Em Straight” Round-up, one of the events of the Vollmer fourth of July celebration, are rapidly nearing completion. Work has been in progress on the arena for the affair for the past two weeks, constructing the neces- sary fences, etc. Manager Guy Landis announces that about fifteen riders have already en¢ tered the contest, and accommo- dations have been secured for fifteen wild horses, which have been obtained for the round up. The program for the two days includes bucking contests, a wild horse race, steer riding, and a hippadrome race each day. In addition there will be a number of novel events such as a cow- boy tug of war, cigarette race, quick change race, and pie eat- ing contest on horseback. Arrangements have been made to have the_cowboys ap- pear in the big parade which will start the two days celebration on the morning of July 4th. The committee on parade has receiv- ed many notices from people who will have their cars decorat- ed for the parade, and to en- courage everyone to decorate their cars for the celebration is offering a prize of $10 for the best decorated car in the parade, Another prize of a sack of flour} POSTAGE 2 CENTS JULY 1. On and after July 1, acco: to official information recei' by Postmaster J. V. Nash the three cent postage will become a matter of history as on this date letters will require only 2 cents, that is were the letter’s destina- tion is out of Cottonwood or on a rural route. Letters, howev- er, addressed for local distribu- tion or within Cottonwood wil! require only one cent. Postage on newspapers has been increas- ed slightly, this raise hardly ‘be- ing noticeable by small country newspapers, however. K. OF C. HAVE BIG TIMF HERE Forty-One Candidates Taken In- to the Order Sunday—Many Visitors Here. Cottonwood Council No. 1889 of the Knights of Columbus is stronger by 41 new members as the result of the work accom- plished last Sunday when this number was given three degrees by a team composed of Spokane and Lewiston members of th order. The initiation work was ¢om- menced at 1 o’clock and required almost eight hours to enroll the members into the council. After the work in their cotn cil chambers an elegant banquét was served in the Nuxoll build- ing to about 200 members of the order and friends and relatives. J. F. Jenny acted as toastmas- ter and called upon several per- sons for. speeches who are pro- minent members of the various councils throughout “the state. Among those making excellent speeches at the banquet are the Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers, _ Clarence O’Neill and Vermont Weeks, the yor men who con- fessed to co! itting burglary at the Baldeck store last. Decem- ber "y Lewlstat ant who wes ound also in possession goods stolen from a Moscow store, will serve one to five in the state prison at Boise. , George Shattuck, a barber, re- sumionell te Stpenr batted ee summon a ore ted States O'Neill on the intoxicating liquor in ‘ pera It is aroha a nigh of bay rum con’ a percentage of alcohol was found in an automobile, } A robbery committed at one of the Craig mountain lumber camps at Winchester this week, near Winchester, netted’ three holdup men nearly $1000. .Al- thougii there were 10 men at following: Rev. Father Willi- the brord, Rev. Father Phelan of! Grangeville; District Deputy Luby of Spokane; Dan Close of Spokane; N. B. Wernette, State Deputy of Coeur d’Alene and August Seubert, Grand Knight of the local council. Several musical numbers were also rendered and the singing of Clem Hussman in his Scotch dialect brought the diners to a heavy encore. Among the vari- ous towns represented at the ini- tiation work Sunday were the following: Coeur d’ Alene, Spo- kane, Uniontown, Genesee, Lew- iston, Clarkston, Ferdinand, Greencreek, Keuterville and Grangeville. Those being made members of Cottonwood Council 1389 are the following: Vincent M. Duman. Frank Winkler. Alois C. Dunman. John Wemhoff. Frank Albers. Francis J. Walser. Anton B. Ruhoff. George Medved. Alois A. Wemhoff. Henry Tacke. Wm. B. Hussman. William Ruhoff. John Knopp sr. Gottfried Halter. J. B, Luchtefeld. Andrew Dunman. Walter Kinzer. Gerald M. Scallon. Joseph Kaufman. Adolph M. Ahlers. Leo. P. Simon. Chas. A. Hermes. John.J. Kelsch. J. H. Sarbacher. Jospeh G. Enneking. Conrad Bosse. Louis Terhaar. Albine Sonnen. Edward E .Murphy. James F, Wren. Jerome E. McLaughlin. Jacob E. Richards. Merle J. Markham. Frank H. Arnzen. Jospeh W. Arnzen. Henry F. Nuxoll. Fdward Dasenbrock. John Arnzen. Alovs Wagner. Michael] Fushs. Jospeh Herzog. Mr, and Mrs. John Enneking of Melrose. Minn, departed for their home Wednesdav morning is offered for the biggest family ged that they can be checked very rapidly. The state has $8,210.- 868.18 invested in farm mort- . gages and $2,669,953.39 in school and other bonds. The remains of | Charles Bangledorf, a pioneer of the up- per Snake river country, were ound in his cabin on the Idaho side of the river above the mouth of Red Bird canyon Sat- urday. An ugly gunshot wound through hig head told the cause of the man’s death, but the mes- sage received by Sheriff Porter Shafer indicated there is doubt as to wheteher it is a case of murder or guicide. A coroner’s jury, however, brought in a ver- dict of suicide. Mrs, Eliza Spalding Warren, of Coeur d' Alene, age 82, who witnessed the Whitman massa- cre, and saw the site of the city of Portland when a log cabin was its only building was buried from the Presbyterian church at Coeur d’ Alene Monday. She was declared to have been the oldest living white person born west of the Rockies. She was born November 15, 1887, the daughter of the Rev. Henry Harmon Spalding and Elizabeth Hart Spalding, who, in company with Marcus Whitman and his wife came to the Oregon terri- tory in 1886. The total enrollment of stu- dents. in summer schools in Idaho this year will be larger than the enrollment last season, aécording to Dr. E. A, Bryan, state commissioner of education, because there are four separate schools operating in various parts of the state instead of three, as was the case last year, The total enrollment of teach- ers in 1918 was 825. The school at Albion now has an enrollment of 244, There ‘are 156 enrolled at Pocatello, 160 in Boise and 300 in Lewiston, according to the figures reported from the schools to Commissioner Bryan. AJl candidates for grade certifi- cates must attend the schools in has also reopened with an appearing in the parade in one| after snending some time visit-| dance of 68, which car, wagon, truck or other vehicle. ing at the home of their brother, Joseph Enneking.