Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, July 25, 1919, Page 5

i \ { boy Vat The board of cotnty- commis- : sioners met in regular July ses-! sion in the *couithouse in Grangeville Monday. Bills Were! allowed and routine busifiess! transacted. On Thursday the. board began consideration of the’ vemodeling of the old school! building, purchased by the eounty last April, for a court-| house. The school building, several years ago abandoned by the! school board for school purposes | and later used as an armory, and! subsequently as a hospital, was! purchased by the board of county commissioners last April for $5000. At that time the board took no action on the mat- ter of remodeling the building. Last April, however, it was esti- mated by the board that, with the expenditure of a few thous- and dollars additional, the build- ing rould be made suitable as a seat of county government for| years to come. The memorial to Idaho county soldiers and sailors slain in the great war will be erected on the grounds lately acquired by the county. Whether the memor ial | will be in the form of a wing to | the courthouse, or a monument to be erected in front of the building, has not been decided. Plans for arrangement of county offices in the old school building have been prepared, and | will be laid before the commis- sioners. Plans call for offices on the main floor, on either side of the corridor, and for offices and a court room and chambers on the second floor. A room for witnesses also will be provided, according to the plans as pre- pared. The courthouse will ke provided with all modern con- veniences. The interior will be generally rearranged, and fire proof vaults for preservation of county records will ke installed. What disposition will be made of the present courthouse, has not been determined. The build- ing, erected in 1904 by the city of Grangeville, is occupied under 99-year lease by the county offi- ces. The annual rental is $1 a year, but county records do not disclose that this rental has been |; paid in recent years. Under the terms of the lease, the county still has an 84-year lease on the building, but it is likely that, when the remodeling of the school building is complet- ed, and the county offices have been removed to that structure, the county will permit the lease | to lapse, and the present court-| house will be on the hands of the city. It has been suggested that the court room be refloored and used as a dance hall and for other public purposes.—F ree Press. HOW TO Live LONG AND BE PPY Recipe for the Smile That Won’t Come.Off In the Trigngle play “The Habit of Happiness,” Geaslan Fairbanks had\to handl¢ a flock of gangsters \warmi up a stairway in a manner that made the blood tingle, and/ in “The Good Bad Man,’\ anéther Tri- angle success, he ed to have more scraps and adtién on horse- back than he ever Kad before in all his life. As the son of Ph teus Prindle, he of the twenty/seyen varieties. in “His Picture’in ithe Papers,” Fairbanks hago o through a really dangergus aptomobile ac- cident, box Mith gq professional puglist who had béen instructed to put plefty of ‘fpep” into his work, m¢ss up round dozen husky négro.porfers at Atlantic City, be throwfl twice from a moving train,” jump from an ocean liner and swin ashore, and dé a variety of other similar Stunts. Will ke shown at the Orpheun, Saturday night, July 26th. See Rose Bro welbtrill- ing. “.« 28-6m Mrs. Joslyn of Asotin, former- ly a resident of this place ar- rived Thursday evening and will visit with friends a few days. Pete Moso of the Moscow Electrical Co., is this week in- stalling a new switchboard ana rewireing the Cottonwood Mill- ing Co.’s telephone system. Mrs. S. J. Manseau of Spokane arrived in the city Monday eve- ing to be with her husband who is the mill-wright installing the new machinery at the Cotton- wood Milling Co. Dr. Arner was in Cottonwood delivering an order of his fam- ous soap compound to the Cot- oe Mercantile Co. Do not ail to try it, it’s something grand . = ets Be “aE QUO House Owner: {had this paint Painter: It doesn’t take long for a. no paint expert. days—just ordinary intelligence. that there is a Company of paint e: | have taught them is [the best. Williams Company and the pain Concrete walks are al not rot or become muddy i walks from the house to t Easy and cheap to build; U Find a Moth Exterminator. Experiments of the bureau of ento- mology, United States department of agriculture, have demonstrated that naphthalene ts uniformly effective In protecting woolens from clothes moth infection’ and in killing all stages of the insect. A red cedar chest readily killed all adult moths and showed con- siderable killing effect upon young larvae, It did not prevent the hatch- ing of eggs, but killed all the result- ing larvae almost immediately. Red cedar chips and shavings, while not en- tirely effective in keeping the adult moths from laying eggs on the flannel treated, appeared to protect it from appreciable damage when used lib- erally.—-Des Moines Register. Eye Drill for Flyers. The royal air force of England has instituted an eye drill that has made many splendid pilots out of men who would otherwise have been useless, It was discovered that a large percentage of men only use one eye at a time, and in the early days pilots were not test- ed for eye balance. Many men were then passed into the air service who could never land correctly. When these deficiencies were discovered a school was formed and under an eye special- ist twice a day airmen undergoing the cure were paraded for eye drill and taught how to use both their eyes at the same time. The result was that 95 per cent of the men who would have been bad pilots became good ones in a little while. owe Spoiled Sarah’s Great Scene. During a performance of “Hamlet,” in which Sarah Bernhardt was tmper- sonating the melancholy Dane, the graveyard scene was entirely ruined by the unfortunate appearance on the stage of a cat, which walked In from the wings and began to wash its face. The Divine Sarah, somewhat disconcerted, stamped her foot, and the cat, taking fright, Jumped—into the open grave, the resting place of “poor Yorick!” Madame withdrew and the curtain descended. A cat ean look at a king, but not at a queen —of the drama! the use of castor beans for making oll increased very rapidly in 1918. Great Britain impeeted from India from 8,500 to 4,000 tons per month. They were used in making a motor lubricat- ing of]. An effort waa made last year to plant large areas of the beans in the southern part of the United States and in the West Indies and Brazil. So far most of the beans have been raised’ {n India from which some 1,723,000 gallons of oil were exported fn 1916-17. This bean is a form of our common garden castor bean used as an ornaniental. e best, “Tip Top” and 23-tf He should have used SWP; House Owner: But how was I to know it was poor paint? I’m The painter is right, as we can prove by scores of house owners in this town. your house to stay painted get SWP from n ye put on last year and look at it now. | the weather to show up poor paint. Painter: It doesn’t take a paint expert to get reliable paint these For instance, you ought te know xperts that have been making house paint for nearly fifty years; making it from accurate formulas, mixing and grinding it with powerful machinery; manufacturing every im- portant ingredient; putting in just what all these years of experience That Company is the Sherwin- tt is known to us painters as S WP. / Wouldn’t you be safe in trusting such a paint? If ou want ways dry and clean, they can-, in wet weather. Build concrete he road, the barn and the out- houses, and keep the mud and wet out of the kitchen, lasting and satisfactory. It's a good plan to have several sacks of Lehigh Cement always on hand for use about the pla Merely Trying to Tell Marriage License Clerk Her Name. C. M. Kennedy, who issues mar- riage licenses in Seattle, Wash., is an exceedingly polite and withal a proper young man. When a prospective bride and groom approached his desk re- cently here’s what happened that shocked Kennedy: “Name, please?” the him. “Helmaheart Hurts,” pected reply. “Er—I'm sorry,” said Kennedy with a frown. Turning to the prospective groom, Kennedy asked his name, think- ing to give the coming bride an oppor- tunity to recover from her evident at- tack of heart trouble. “George T. Halliday,” said the man. “And now your name?” said Ken- nedy to the apparently recovered bride- to-be. “Helmaheart Hurts,” she repeated. “Young lady,” said Kennedy severe- ly, “I am a married man and a father, and it grieves me to hear such lan- guage from ua girl getting a marriage license. If your heart hurts I'm sorry, but” profanity is wholly unnecessary.” “What the future Mrs. Halliday Is trying to tell you,” said the young man, “is that her name js H-e-l-qn-a H-a-rt H-u-r-t-z.” Kennedy apologiged.—Cin- cinnatl Inquirer. said Kennedy to sweet-faced young thing before came the unex- Wireless vs. Wire. Will all the telegraph and telephone poles, wires and instruments connect- ed with these methods of communica- tion be simply so much “scrap” in a year or so? Representative Steener- son of Minnesota, ranking Republican {ember of the house post office com- mittee, predicted “Yes,” if the progress now being made in wireless communt- cation continues. Mr. Steenerson, as quoted in The Wireless Age, says: “Radio communication is the coming thing. It is making such rapid strides that before the end of the year the average American will not be bother- ing much about the transmission of an ordinary message over an ordinary telegraph or telephone wire or as to whether the ordinary telephone or tel- egraph wire is owned or controlled by government or private interests.” Rhetorical Spendthrifts. “How's politics coming out your way?” “It isn’t what it used to be. Every time anybody would think up a good husky epithet he'd use it on the Hohea- zollerns instead of-saving it up for the local campaign.” Tip Jet ie, of flours. 23-4£ The Comp! ‘ower Plant. Let Delco ghts work for you by and poyér for your home or J a dablé. a “By simply press a convenient button you can flood the home, barn or “other buildings with Delco Iight—mod- ern, brillant, afd clear. Delos” light operates a pressure water system giving you, ail the advantages of ‘fresh running water for your bhildings, protecting you from fire, enabling you to have a complete modern bath room. Delco light power will run the washing machine, elec- tric iron, clean separators, churn, electric fan and sewing machine or 2 hundred other things in fields, barns or homes. Delco light betters living conditions, increases ef- ficiency and soon pays for itself in time and labor saved. ON AUGUST 1ST THE $80.00. ORDER N' |Use Lekigh—the A National Cement °™14708. Hoene Hardware Cottonwood, Idaho SILVER IS KING IN ARIZONA Old and New Mines Are Being Opened After Peace Brought Slump in Copper. Silver Is king again In Arizona, says Cc. P. Reiniger, president of the As- sociation of Arizona Mining Men, ac- cording to the Philadelphia Ledger's Phoenix correspondent. With the cop- per market stagnant as a result of the cessation of war requirements, the de- mands for white metal are pouring tn from all quarters of the globe. Many of the producers are replacing their copper handling equipment with plants to turn out silver. “There is a big demand for silver in China and India,” says George D. Bethune of Globe. “The United States government ‘is filling it at $1 an ounce, the same price at which it 1s supplying 200,000,000 ounces of the metal to the British government on contract.” Years ago, when Tombstone was at the height of its fame, Arizona was a great silver producer, Then came the slump. Copper was discovered. Last year, according to the estimate of the United States geological survey, Ari- zona produced $192,000,000 worth of DID SEEM LIKE PROFANITY But Really, Prospective Bride Was copper. “Give us copper,” was the ery from the United States and the allies. With the armistice conditions changed overnight. One billion pounds of copper, more than a third of which was Arizona production, are estimated to be awalting sale. So copper is down and silver ts up. Surv of the state Indicate that In the Prescott and Tucson mines silver predominates over the other metals; in Bisbee, Jerome, Globe and Ajo its values as a by-product run heavily. From the neighborhood of Prescott come reports of the revival of old sil- ver mines. Battle Flat, scene of a sanguinary Indian fight In the seven- ties, is reported to have ylelded new discoveries of silver, and two fresh ecmps have been opened on this spur of the northern slope of the Brad shaws, . -_ Recent Spanish Inventions. Recent inventions reported by Cart Bailey Hurst, American consul gen- eral at Barcelona, include a straw compound as a substitute for coal for locomotives and agricultural tractors, as it develops sufficient heat in thirty minutes, and the ashes make an ex- cellent fertilizer. This Is invented by Joaquin Estevan, the engineer. An- other patent !s by Thowas Roca of Las Palmas, on a process for the use of banana fibre for textiles, yarns and cords as a substitute for hemp. fe Electric Light and YOU CAN SAVE THAT BY PLACING YOUR V AS WE ARE PREPARED TO MAKE IN- plying electric light It is safe and depen- PRICE WILL ADVANCE Cigars, Etc. d EEEEEEEEE EEE EEE EEE EEE TEESE J.B. Running Every Monday at Hotel Oottonwood EEEEEEEEEEEL EEE EEEEEEEEED COMMISSIONERS REPORT. Commissioner of Law En- forcement Jones reported that 400 cases of whisky and several automobiles used in conveying the contraband had been seized for violation of the prohibition laws. Many arrests were made and fear of conviction driven home to those engaged in the il- licit traffic. He is also head of the fish and game department and his report shows that more than $4000 in receipts have been taken in so far this year than during the corresponding period two years ago. The reports of Commissioner Gibson of the department of commerce shows that there are 188 state banks in Idaho and during the past six months he refused charters for banks to 34 applicants because the respec- tive fields in which it was pro- posed to locate them are now amply covered. Good prices for all livestock and farm implements were se- cured at the Verne Pennicard sale last Thursday. Horses sold as high as $300 per span, cows up $110, cows and calves $125, yearling steers and heif- ers $51, calves $32, stock hogy to $22 for 100 pounds and $8 for pigs. The sale was conduct- ed by Auctioneer Cranke of Nez- perce. Evolution of the Butterfly From Hide cus Worm to Beauty Matter of Only Short Time, The butterfly poetically lives on the nectar of flowers. Just as a person changes his tastes as he becomes more refined so does that lovely creature of the air adopt a different menu when he dons his wings. Take, for in- stance, the mourning eloak butterfly, sometimes called the Camberwell Beauty ; in his original state he is hid- eous, even for a worm, black, covered with white spots and stiff tufts of hair. He ts an object to make women scream and to be avoided by every- body who does not know what he is going to be later on. In this condi- tion he crunches leaves greedily and {s a veritable glutton until the time comes for him to hang himself up by the tail and await developments. Then, behold, he comes out some fine morn- ing a creature of great splendor. Three inches does he measure from tip to tip of his: seal-brown velvet wings which re handsomely bordered with yellow and ornamented with pur ple spots edged with black, Newly born and innocent as he is nature al- ready has given him the instinct to protect himself, not by fighting but by strategy. He can feign death with the success of an opossum playing the same game, and this he does when fearing an attack from a bird, for he knows, somehow, that his foe cares only for Hving prey. So the butter- fly skims about through the air sip- ping the sweets of the flowers, kissing the rose and the carnation, no longer in danger of encounters with paris green and finding the world a paradise. “IRST TO MAKE STEEL PENS efore Samuel Slocum’s Invention These Articles Sold at $3 a Dozen Wholesale. The first machine for the manufac ture of pens was the invention of an American, Samuel Slocum, who was born 127 years ago. As a result of his invention steel pens, although made by hand long before, came into general use and soon displaced the quill, Be- fore Slocum’s machine began turning out pens in large quantities steel pens sold at wholesale for about $3 a dozen, but by 18380, thanks to the improved process of manufacture, the price was reduced to about 18 cents a dozen, an exehange states. The ancient Bgyp- tians used a brush or reed pen in writ- ing on the delicate membrane obtained by gnrolling the stem of the papyrus, a water plant oncé abundant along the Nile. The ancient Greeks and Romans also used a reed cut to a point sim- ‘lar to the modern pen. In the mid- dle ages a metal stylus was used to write on wood coated with wax. Quills were first used as pens in the fifth or sixth century and their use became general. “Iron pens” were made as early as 1685, but the quill held its vogue until the invention of machinery for pen making placed pens within the reach of all, Sugar From the Garden. Gardeners who cannot raise sugar cane may be interested in the follow- ing description, which appears ip Chambers’ Journal, of the process of extracting sugar from beets. The ama- teur must exercise great care in har- vesting the roots that the tender skin be not broken, The first operation is to remove all dirt by washing, after which the beets are boiled in water until the skin peels off easily, They. are next cut into thin slices, placed in a pan, just covered with water, brought to a boll once more and then left to simmer for ten hours. The re- sulting pulp is put into a muslin bag and squeezed until all the juice is ex- tracted. The juice is boiled down to a very thick sirup that makes a good substitute for commercial sugar. As the sirup will not keep for more than a few weeks, it is advisable to make only a small supply at a time. The roots, however, can be stored for a long period without deteriorating if they are kept dry and free from frost. —Youth’s Companion. What the Sun Does, Letting the sun shine for a given. time upon the blackened cover of a box filled with water or some other liquid, and noting the rise in temper ature, affords us a method of approxi- mating the amount of heat given off by the sun. By such a method it is estimated that the earth receives ev- ery second from the sun enough heat to raise 600,000,000 tons of ice water to the boiling point, or to melt 480,000,- 000 tons of ice without change in tem- perature. If this is the amount that the earth receives, think of the amount that myst be passing off into space and other planets. This amount has been computed to be 2,200,000,000 times as that which the earth receives. Scien- tists have shown that the amount of heat received by us from the sun may vary as much as five per cent In less than a week. “Marvelous Birds. “Speaking of hens,” said an Ameri- can traveler, “reminds me of an old hen my dad had on a farm in Dakota. She would hatch out anything from a tennis ball to a lemon. Why, one day she sat on a plece of ice and hatched out two quarts of hot water!” “That doesn’t come up to 4 club-footed hen my old mother once had,” sald one of his hearers. “They had been feeding her by mistake on sawdust Instead ot oatmeal. Well, she laid twelve eggs and sat on them, and when they were hatched eleven of the twelve were srovdpeckers.”