Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, August 22, 1919, Page 1

~ COTTONW es OOD C VOLUME 27. NUMBER 34. FREE eeprom ce COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1919. ARMY FOODS NOW ON SALE ORDERS CAN BE PLACED AS LONG AS QUOTA IS NOT ALL TAKEN Postmaster Nash received ad- vices from Washington the first of the week as to the amount of army surplus foodstuffs avail-| able for sale in Cottonwood and is now prepared to take order's | for parcel post delivery. The postoffice, since the announce-| ment was made by the govern- | ment a few weeks ago that the | surplus supplies would be sola | through the postoffices of the | country, has been receiving! many inquiries indicating large | orders will be placed here. When | the order is made, the purchaser | deposits the purchase price and the postage. Up to the time of this writing Postmaster Nash | has received no instructions re- garding postal rates.as given out by the newspapers in regard ! to zone rates. Some contend that the rate charge from San Francisco, the supply station, to | Cottonwood will be on the basis | of the 1st zone parcel post rates, if such be the case no informa- tion of this kind has reached the | local post office. Cottonwood comes within what is termed the San Fran- cisco zone embracing California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Nevada. | The statement received by| Postmaster Nash as to quanti- | ties allotted to the principal | cities and the first, second and | third class offices, shows the fol- | lowing quantities and varieties | of foods available for purchase | through the Cottonwood office, Cottonwood’ being a third-class | office. | Beans, baked—168 1-lb. cans; | 12 2-lb. cans ; 264 3-Ib. cans; 4, 6, | and 9 cents per can. © | Beans, _ stringless—-86 2-IL | cans. Beef, corned—240 1 lb. cans; | 288 2-lb. cans; 30 6-lb. cans; 29c, 55c and $1.75 per can. Beef, roast—182 1-lb cans;| 216 2-lb.cans; 18 6-lb. cans;) 29¢e, 63¢ and $1.90 per cen. Cherries--12 — 2!..-Ih. Z1c per can. Corn—348 2-lb. cans; 9c a can. | Hash, corned beef—144 1-lb| cans; 144 2 lb. cans; 22c and 37c per can. Peas—432+2 lb. cans. Beans, issue 800 lbs.; gross) weight bag, 101 lbs., $6.49. Flour, issue 192 pounds; bags, | 101 pounds, $6. Rice—100 pounds; bags, $6.74. Jam, assorted 88 cans, 214 | pounds. | Pepper—18 one-fourth pound cans; 9c can. Soap, toilet—100 cakes. Pineapple—24 small cans. Tomatoes—24 10 lb. cans ;338¢ per can. . Bacon—93 Y can. The allotment made to second- class offices is about one-fourth | that of the first-class, and that | to the third-class about one- thirtieth of that allotted to first- | class offices. The letter of instructions to Postmaster Nash says in part: “All requisition on the zone! surplus property officers must) be accompanied with cash, eith- | er money order, bank draft or the postmaster’s personal check. | “Postmasters may accept ord- | ers and cash from one individual representing a group of consum- ers. In such cases, however, the foodstuffs will be delivered to the individual who orders and pays for them. | The sale of these foodstuffs is | not a postal function and the re- ceipts from the sale are not to be | accounted for as postal business. “Fourth -class postmasters must not order more of any item than the amount allotted to third-class offices. “Each postmaster may for- ward requisitions to the zone surplus property officer so long as the amount of each item ap- | pearing on that list allotted to | cans; | 101 Ib. 12 Ib. cans; $4.15 | his office is not exhausted om | pected to follow this one. | up his allotment. | do not appear in this list must {not be ordered from the zone _surplus property officer, even though they may appear on the ‘requisition form and price list, | as the quantities on hand are in- | sufficient for general distribu- | tion. | api | CITY CRUSHING ROCK. | The city started up the rock \erusher Wednesday, and the! | rock being crushed will be used on concrete culverts to be put in by the city in the north part of the town. Any improvements now being made*by the city, where possible is being put in a most substantial way so that these improvements will not have to be done every few years. The best is the cheapest by far in the long run is a motto the city fathers have adopted and is a good one. SHIPPED 42 CARLOADS STOCK VALUED AT $150,000 SHIPMENTS EARLIER THAN USUAL The largest shipment of live- | stock taken from the prairie this year was shipped down the high line Tuesday morning. tle sheep and hogs shipped from Cottonwood, Fenn and ,Grange- ville and other points on top of the hill were valued in the neigh- borhood of $150,000 and requir- ed two trains to move them, the two trains numbering something like 42 carloads. The shipment consisted of some 750 head of cattle, 2000 sheep and 285 head of hogs and were routed to various points on the coast and Spokane markets. Out of the shipments, 14 car- loads were shipped from Cotton- wood and 26 carloads from Fenn | and Grangeville. Several more | cars were picked up all along the line making the stock before it reached Lewiston aggregate in value near the $150,000 mark. Within the next six weeks other heavy shipments are ex- The year is shipping season this | much earlier than usual, contrt- buted to the forest fire which has forced many of the stock- men to get their stock from the ‘yanges in the Forest Reserve. | The stock and especially the sheep shipped this week are in | good shape and will no doubt de- when they | mand fancy prices reach their destination. Among the best cattle shipped | from Cottonwood this week were two cars owned by John Crea which he shipped to Portland and was all A No. 1 stuff. Mr. Crea has made cattle raising a study and each year ships sev- eral hundred head that always demand a good price. KEITH RESIGNS. T. C. Keith who has been em- ployed by the Cottonwood Mev- | cantile Co. for the past two years resigned his position the first of the week and will re. move his family to Whitebird where he has accepted a position with the Salmon River Stores. |The family expect to remove to Whitebird Sunday with their household goods. The Keith family who have been residents of this vicinity for the past four years have many friends here who regret to see them leave and wish them success in their new home. Mrs. Keith while a resident of Cottonwood has been an ardent community and church worker and has taken more than ordin- ary interest in any movement of the uplifting nature. Mrs. Keith was also head of the Cotton- wood Red Cross and was a mem- her of the Cottonwood Glee Club being an exceptionally gifted singer. The position vacated by Mr. Keith has not yet been filled. BEYOND CONTROL. Forest fires in the Selway National forests are renorted to be beyond control. The fire is may relieve orders from consum-| burning over a front of 35 miles. | ers until he has enough to take | Items which | The cat- | “HOW DRY WE ARE.” ‘~The old song “I Dry I Am” | should be changed to read ““How Dry We Are” so that everyone— man and beast might be able to join in the chorus as it sure can be sung by all without any ex- aggeration. This vicinity, which has had no rain of any conse- quence since early spring is be- | ginning to seriously feel the ef- | fects of the same in more ways than one. Early in the summer we wanted rain to help make a bumper crop and at the present time the water supply is begin- ning to be a serious problem for many farmers. Many of the ponds are comple- tely dried up and farmers have been forced to either haul water or drive their stock to it, for the past several weeks. Water for household use has also, been very short and several wells anc springs have failed to supply enough for domestic use. A spring a few miles south of Cot- tonwood, and which is consider- ed to be one of the best in this part of the country has refused to bubble forth for the first time in the memory of old_ timers. This case proves true in many other instances. The city water supply has been exceptionally good so far /and no shortage is contemplated as the two wells in the city will provide all the water that is re- quired for domestic use. MACHINE BURNS. The threshing machine ownea by Hunt and Smith of the Wino- na section burned to the ground last Saturday. The separator caught fire by sparks from the engine. All of the = grain threshed was saved by the crew as well as the engine. The straw pile also caught on fire and and went up in smoke. The machine which had been out but a short time was at first run by a gas engine but was later run by the engine bought of Frank Terhaar. They had only been using the engine three days when the accident occured. REMOVE TO LEWISTON. The household goods of Mr. ;and Mrs. E. L. Parker and fam- ily was shipped to Lewiston last Saturday. Mr. Parker depart- /ed for his new home Saturday his family leaving Sunday morn- ing in their car driven by “Fat” Hamlin. They were accompani- ed by Mrs. Tom Parker who will help the family get settled in their new home. It is the ardent wish of their friends here’ that the change of climate will prove beneficial to Mr. Parker’s health, which was one of the main reason why the family left Cottonwood. FOR “BORDER DAYS” The Grangeville Border Days celebration which was inaugur- ated some six or seven year's ago mostly through the efforts of H. G. Denny better known as “Doc” and which held several good celebrations-years ago will agam he revived at Grangeville on a bigger scale than ever. A sub- scription of $1500 was made by Grangeville citizens to finance the celebration and the dates chosen were Sepetmber 10, 11 and 12. George Behean, one of the best known stockmen in Idaho, was chosen president of the or- ganization and Tim Quinlan, former deputy sheriff was elect- ed secretary. “Red” Harris was name publicity manager and without a doubt “Border Days” will receive its share of publicity, as Mr. Harris has mighty few equals along this line of work and if our opinion is to be taken we consider him one of the best in the entire northwest. Already the management 1s busy securing attractions. Wild west stunts will be featured but there will be many other lines of entertainment as well, including | airplane flights. One day will be designated as Elks Day when a special invitation will he ex- tended to the Lewiston and Mos- | yrday. The employes who walk- cow Elks to attend. WILL FIGHT FIRES. The Camas Prairie passenger train Tuesday evening carried an extra couch to accomodate the 65 fire fighters that were sent from Spokane to the Nezperce National Forest to fight fires. TAKES ACTIVE CHARGE. | H. C. Netzel, manager of the} Leggett Mercantile Co., which is | the owner of several stores in | Idaho, arrived in Cottonwood | Tuesday evening to take active! charge of the store here which @iey purchased some time ago) from Parker Bros. Mr. Netzei| has been attending . to somc| business matters at East Port, and Ilo where they also conduct | stores. He attended the buyers’ | meeting at Portland last week where he ordered large supplies of goods. Mr. Netzel stated that besides handling groceries the firm intended to add largely to the dry goods department I their store here. He expects to remove his fam- | ily from To next week and they | will make Cottonwood their) future home. They will occupy | the house vacated by E, L. Park- er, WELCOME HOME DAY, The Cottonwood branch of the Red Cross will give an all day | celebration some time early in| September to all soldiers and! sailors of Idaho county and their friends and neighbors. The day | is to be known as “Welcome | Home Day” and already ar- rangements are under way to} make the day one to be rem-| embered by all the boys who/| attend. <A big dinner will be; given at noon by the Red Cross. Other features to take place on) this date isa pavement dance, | Special music and a number of other amusements which are being worked out. Everything will be free to soldiers and sail- ors. More will be said about the event next week when more authentic information can be given out by the committee m charge of the affair. LOSES 1350 HEAD OF SHEEP. Out of a herd of some 1700 | head of sheep owned by Charles Dunham and which were on the range in the forest reserve near | Adams camp 1850 head were burned to death in the forest fires. Mr. Dunham who re-| turned from the hills last week after making a careful check of his herd and found only 250 sheep alive, out of these 25} were so badly burned that they are not expected to live. Mr. Dunham’s loss is estimated at $17,000. ELKS VISIT COTTONWOOD. A large number of Lewiston | Elks accompanied by the Lewis- | ton band arrived in Cottonwood | Tuesday about 11 o’clock. The band played a number of selec- tions on the street after which they lunched at the Cottonwood Hotel. The Elks left for Grangville about 2 o’clock where | they put on a program in the evening at the Dreamland hall. | After the program, a free dance | was given by the Grangeville Elks in honor of the visitors. A large number of Cottonwooa | people attended the doings at the county seat. OFFICE IN NUXOLL BLDG. “Fat” Hamlin, superintendent of the Cottonwood Water Co. and who is also the representa- tive for the Continental Oil Co. -/ here has opened up an office in the Nuxoll building near the Cottonwood State Bank and shares his office with H. hi., Nuxoll, his landlord. HOUSE OVERRIDES VETO. Repeal of the daylight saving law was passed ‘Lluesday of this week over President Wilson's veto by the house on a vote of 223 to 101, seven more than the necessary two-thirds. The re- peal now goes ta the senate, where its supporters claim victory. MEN RETURN TO WORK. The shopmen of the Camas Prairie railroad company em- ployed at Lewiston, who went out on a strike about a week ago returned to their work last Sat- ed out numbered | MAY PLAY UNIONTOWN. According to the Ilo Register a base ball game may be played in the near future between the FIRES CAN BE SEEN. | | Forest fires, which have been NEWS AROUND $2.00 PER YEAR raging fiercely in the Selway and Nezperce National forests | ean be clearly seen from almost any point on the prairie. In the day time, large volumes of, smoke can be seen rising to the | skies, at night the flames a ee of Interest From Various be seen shooting their light to-| Sections Reproduced for Ben- wards the heavens. The one, efit of Our Readers, most noticeable, the first of the} week, was the fire in the Selway | country, which is also one of the) Grasshoppers from Idaho largest fires raging “in North county have crossed the Lawyer Idaho at the present time. | canyon and invaded Nezperce Fires could also be seen very | plainly in the Joseph country. These fires have to be fought by | as the govern- | the homesteaders ment gives no assistance to land owned by homesteaders. At the present time, the only salvation to save the timber from ruin in the path of the fires seems to be | rain, WILL OPEN SEPTEMBER 8 HOPE TO HAVE A SUCCESS- FUL YEAR—TEACHERS HAVE SINGED UP The Cottonwood public schools will open their term for 1919- 1920 on September 8th. The school board, with the assistance of Superintendent Lustie have selected a very capable force of teachers, all positions having been filled but that of the third and fourth grade teacher. | Teachers have been very searce and hard to obtain and at one time every position was filled but when the contracts were sent to be filled in they have de- clined to accept the positions due perhaps to higher wages paid somewhere else. As one mem- ber of the board stated: “We have hired enough teacher run a school three times the size of Cottonwood.” The teachers who have signet contracts and who will be with us this year are the following: W. A. Lustie, superintendent, J. V. Hannon, New York, prin- cipal of the high school. Miss Ifelen Sully, Seattle, high school. Miss Harriet Hanson, Grange- ville, domestic science. Miss Lourena Rawson, Lewis- ton, 7th and 8th grades. Miss Jessie Wardrobe, Gene- see, 5th and 6th grades. Miss Daisy Hollan, South Da- kota, primary grades. It is the hope of the school board, as well as everyone else that the school year this term will not be interrupted as was | the case last year on account ot influenza during which time the school ‘was’ closed for several weeks. After the re-opening of the school after the flu epidemic school work had to be rushed by | | both the teachers and pupils and proved to be a great injustice to both. OFFICIALS TAKE BRIDES. Two of Idaho county’s offi- cials were married recently and so the rumors that were circuiat- ed in this part of the county proved to be true after all. Wilbur L. Campbell, probate | | judge was married at Portland, Oregon, August 13th, to Miss Bessie Eloise Eaton. B. Auger, prosecuting attor- ney was carried to Miss Clara Estella Bennett at Seattle, Wash., August 6. The Chronicle wishes to be number with these two popular county officials many friends tn wishing them happiness and prosperity. GETS 6 CENTS DAMAGES After being out 10 hours the jury in Henry Ford’s suit for $i- 000,000 damages from the Chicago Tribune for calling him an anarchist, gave Ford a ver- dict for six cents. Under the Michigan law Ford cannot collect more than $50 from the Tribune in addition to the six cents, asa verdict for to | swarms, causing havoe to gard- ens. Such a low stage of water has | been reached in the Snake river | that it has been necessary to make extensions of intake pipes on the fruit ranches along the | lower Snake. The Union Trust Co. of Spo- | kane was the successful bidder | last week for $500,000 of Canyon | county, Idaho, 5% per cent sold bonds of the Nampa highway district. Elmer Nichols is threshing 260 acres of peas which so far have averaged nine sacks of 140 to 150 pounds each to the acre, near Moscow. He wiii probably get more than $75 an acre for | his peas. Fall wheat in the Troy, Idaho, district is reported ranging from | 38 to 47 bushels per acre, wi‘h an average of 20 bushels for spring wheat. Baled str: w, formerly a waste product, is bringing $9 pev ton. The Idaho Power compai.y, which last year paid taxes on ; 1 assessed valuation of $6,500,00), Wednesday, through its tax »<- torney, E. C. Kiersted, asked t':e state board of equalization to f\x its assessment this year on i's gross earnings. An increase in pay was graii?- ed to all the city employes ct Lewiston at a special meeting of the city council. With a few exceptions a flat inerease cf $7.50 was granted. The city health officer was given a $!5 increase, and the police judye and the city attorney were given an additional $10. Martin Zacklich of Mullen, Idaho was seriously injured late Monday of this week when an auto he was driving was struc’ by the Northern Pacifie stub passenger train a short distance west of Mullan and his car dem- |olished. He was dragged, by the train for 200 feet, and two cars passed over him. On October 6 to 10, inclusive Lewiston will be the scene of one of the largest educational gath- erings ever held in the north- west. It is on those dates that the Central Idaho and South- | eastern Washington teachers tn- | stitute will be in session. More than 1000 educators are expect- ed to attend this institute. When the board of county commissioners of Nez Perce county meet Monday at Lewis- ton a petition was filed asking that the board call an election for authorizing the issuance or bonds in the sum of $400,000 | for the construction of bridges over the Clearwater river, these to be links in the great Lewis and Clark highway. The elec- tion was called for October 7. Prompt action on the part of the Nez Perce county farm bu- reau probably served to check what might have proven a seri- ous epidemic of influenza among the horses of that section of the country. The discovery of the incipient plague did not come about, however, until after two valuable horses belonging to F. Wicks of Gifford has succumbed and others belonging to the same owner were afflicted. It was the Wicks place that the malady was first found. Legal proceedings were insti- tuted late Wednesday by Sheriff J. TH. Scott of Shoshone county against Probate Judge R. E. Weniger, following the serving of a 24-hour jail sentence by the sheriff upon an alleged contempt charge. Sheriff Scott made ap- plication for a writ of review of the contempt proceedings to Judge Woods of the district court. It is reported that an at- , tachment was issued Thursday All-Stars and the Uniontown, nominal damages allows but $50| by Judge Weniger against the team, champions of eastern | Washington. | costs to be assessed against the losing party. sheriff’s bank account to compel | the payment of the fine.