Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, September 12, 1919, Page 1

Dt a a ee ee ee et ee "NUMBER 37. VOLUME 2 FLIES OVER THE PRAIRIE LIEUT. KELSO HAS HONOR OF BEING FIRST MAN TO FLY OVER PRAIRIE A = RD i Be se se a ph eee ated KELSO WILL FLY HERE $' SUNDAY Lieut. Kelso, army avi- ator and his big Curtiss air- ship will be in Cottonwood Sunday Sept. 14th. Tom Belknap, one of the managers of the Spokane Aviation Company was in the city Thursday and cal- led the business men in re- gard to having the big air- ‘ ship stop in Cottonwood for aday. W.W. Flint, of the First National Bank, was so well impressed with the idea of giving the public in this Community an op- portunity of seeing a genu- ine government airship, that he introduced Mr. Bel- knap to all of the business men of the city. The ex- pense of having the airship was subscribed by the mer- chants, which will be en- tirely free to the public. Lieut. Kelso and his bride of a few weeks, will fly into the city Sunday about 11 o’clock, they will go to the Cottonwood Hotel for din- ner. During the afternoon, several flights will be made over the city and surround- ing country, at 4 p. m. and 7p. m. he will give a stunt exhibition, showing all the trick flying that was done by the army aviators dur- ing the war. A limited number of pas- sengers will be carried, several citizens have ex- pressed a desire to fly, which is one of the greatest experiences of a life time. Straigt flying only, will be done with passengers. All are invited to come out and look the big airship over and ask any information. The flying party of four, will remain over night and fly north from here Mon- day morning. Sebedetetedntete gregnbernaenee ie “s SS RP a ee Bs a IS Dh hs aR eh a Setestentedlodteete i ts te So % Sef soatostoetort pee 5 Se soe getter LLOLLLOIEAA Seateeteetoateeteoteat * See = Seees ae eteetetectentetectnteteotentectendetecentetecentedeeteteceet | Lieutenant Floyd Kelso, form- | er U.S. aviator, accompanied by | his wife passed over Camas Prai-| rie from Ilo to Grangeville in his plane Wednesday morning ‘en- | routed to Grangeville where he will give exhibitions at the Grangeville Border Day celebra- tion. The machine passed over Cot- toiwood at 11:30 and the flight over the city was witnessed by many of the town folks and country people alike. The lieu- tenant, with his plane, was fly- ing at about a height of 500 feet when he passed over the city. He made no attempt to land here or to give an exhibition but steered his machine direct for Grangeville. When the plane passed over the city many of the residents of Cottonwood were unaware of its coming, so many failed to see the machine pass over. Lieut. Kelso, while enrouted from Lewiston to Ilo, where he gave a short exhibition and after attempting & o make a_ landing broke the®propellor of -his machine and tore off one wheel, the accident being due to a ditch in the stubble field where he brought his machine to the} ground. Lieut. Kelso’s flight over the prairie, accompanied by his wife | gives him the honor of being the first aviator ever attempting a feat of this kind and was a suc- cess from start to finish with the exception of the slight. acci- | dent at Ilo which is likely to hap- pen to the best of them when | not familiar with their landing | grounds. | sale this ,well-known stockman | the latter company, the Ameri- | | can Falls Development company, | GREENCRREEK MAN SELLS. Nick Schaefer, of Greencreek last Saturday closed a deal whereby he disposed of his, 320 acre ranch located 5 miles north- ;east of Cottonwood or | miles southwest of Greencreek |to Alois Wemhoff for $23,000. The land owned by Mr. Shaefer contains considerable pasture land. The purchase made by Mr. Wembhoff, a _ prosperous rancher of that section now makes his holdings over acres. Mr. Schaefer has been a resi- | |dent of the Greencreek section | for the past 22 years, much to build up his section o7 | county. Mr. Schaefer with -his | wife expect to leave shortly for | their future home. On Thurs- | day, September 25th he will hold | a public sale at which time he | will dispose of his farm machin- | ery, horses and ete. | DEAL IN SHEEP FOR $102,750 C. J. HALL DISPOSES OF HIS | SHEEP HOLDINGS IN THE COUNTY i The largest sale of sheep in- | terests by an individual in the | history of the industry in the | state was announced Saturday | when C. J. Hall parted with his | Idaho county interests on the} upper Snake river. With the retires to establish his home in | Lewiston, having purchased the | fine residence of Mrs. Chris| Weisgerber on Normal Hill. C. J. Hall, prominent Idaho stockman, has sold his Idaho county sheep interest to Dobbin | & Huffman and a subsidiary of the deal representing the largest sheep sale ever made by an in- dividual in the state. In the | sale 3,800 head of ewes, 1,250 acres of deeded land and _ the equiptment of the Hall sheep | camps are involved. The con- | sideration was $102,750 and the) holdings were entirely free from | anyincumbrance, Mr. Hall re-| tains the 1919 wool clip and this | | year’s crop of lambs. With this sale, Mr. Hall parts | entirely with his Idaho county | interests, having decided to re-| tire permanently from active business, but will devote some | attention to oil lands he owns in the Breckenridge district of Texas. His home will be main- tained in Lewiston, just purchased the fine on Normal Hill, located near the Lewistop, high ‘school, for a con-| sideration of $9, 000, and the} family will occupy the residence after October, Mrs. Hall and the children having arrived yester- | day from the upper-Snake river the livestock business in Idaho) county for twenty years. tire holdings purchasing sheep. His head- he acquired a range on the eral separate tracts, Mr. Hail} maintaining his principal river | |camp at Big Bar, above Pitts- burg Landing, and about 90 miles from Lewiston. When he} entered the sheep business he | acquired a band ef the common run of range sheep which he| developed, by using cross-blood | |Rambounllet and pure-bred | | Hampshire Down bucks , into! | one of the finest bands in all the west. Few individual sheep | ) owners have ever developed such | a fine band of ewes in such num- ber. His career has been one of marked suecess; he has _been| | among Idaho county’s most en-| Come to Cottonwood and see} terprising and respected citizens | the government ane reig and. he. retires o! only because he was ~ Rie ‘feels he has carried the respon- three | having | come to this country when farm- | ing was a hardship and has done ; Oregon where they will make | i 1] | | he having| would think Boise resi- | dai dence of Mrs. Chris Weisgerber|as far as exhibits at the seed where they spent the summer. | agent at Grangeville or notify Mr. Hall has been engaged in , him. For} six years he handled a cattle | ranch, then disposing of his en-| in that line and} quarters have been at Lucile ana | Snake river slopes in the forks | of the Snake and Salmon. The} land holdings sold embrace sev- | | Has Strong Endorsements for Receiver of - S. Land Office. HON. E. L. PARKER OF COTTONWOOD. Blair E. Hoar, who has been receiver of the Lewiston U. S. Land | Office since March 15, 1915, has resigned his position and former Lieutenant Governor Parker, who until a few weeks ago was a resident of this city is to be named by Senator John F. Nugent to fill the vacancy. It was learned here the first of the week that Senator Nugent will recommend the appointment of Hon. E. L. position made ‘vacant by Mr. Hoar’s resignation. Mr. Parker, who has served as lieutenant-governor of the state, and has | occupied numerous positions of public trust, is one of the best- | known men in the state. His appointment will prove popular with the public. Mr. Parker has not been aseeker for the position, having retired from business here that he might secure a needed rest and recuperate from ill-health, but his friends in all the counties of the north have urged him to allow his name to be presented for the appointment. Parker to the | sibilities of an exacting occupa- tion long enough. PIONEER DIES. Mrs. Mary Foresman, a highly | respected pioneer, of the Keuter- | ville section died at Lewiston | Tuesday morning at an early hour from Bitoni neuphritis, | fvom which she has been a suf- ferer for some time. She was} taken to a Lewiston hospital about a week ago where every- thing possible was done known to medical science. At the time of her death she was about 46 years of age. Mrs. Mary Foresman has been a resident of the Keuter- ville section for the past 20 years. She is survived by six broth- ers, three sisters, three daugh- ters and two sons. The funeral was held at Keuterville Wednes- day morning, being conducted from the Catholic church of that place. The services were largely attended by friends. The re- mains were laid to rest in the Keuterville cemetery. A. H. Nau of this city had charge of the funeral arrangements. WANT SHOW | IN NORTH. John Finley, county agent, ac- companied by Paul Wenger, of the extension department, of the University of Idaho were visit- ors in Cottonwood last Friday in the interest of collecting seed, to be sent to the State Seed Show, which is to be held in Pocatello some time in January. These gentlemen, wish to get as large a variety of seed as possible, to have the north well represented |so that the show next year may be brought north. Mr. Finley stated that he has attended sey- eral of these shows, while he was a resident of the southern part of the state and that one was the | northern boundary of the state, show were concerned. These gentlemen were scouring the | country to obtain samples of | seed and anyone having any that may be sent to a show will cer- {tainly help the cause along if they will send it to the county TO ORGANIZE POST. LaVerne R. Collins, state secretary, of the American Le- gion and Thomas A. Feeney, commander of the Lewis-Clark post at Lewiston were in Cotton- | wood Tuesday evening, and! while in the city held a meeting | with the soldier boys of this city and immediate vicinity for the purpose of establishing a branch of the American Legion. The post to be established here The purchasers of the Hall holdings, Dobbin & Huffman, maintain their headquarters offices in Lewiston. They are jone of the largest sheep opera- tors in the west and range large numbers of sheep on the upper | Snake river on the Oregon side. | This firm in now handling twen- ty bands of sheep. —Lewiston Tribune. MARRIED IN SPOKANE. At the close of the final ses- | sion of the Columbia river con- ference, at Spokane, which he | has been attending, the Rev. Marion W. Sligar, pastor of the |* Community church at this place $2.00 PER NEWS AROUND THE STATE was married to Miss Jennie Cass, | Items of Interest From Various a teacher, of Angela, Mont. The | Rev. Charles MacCaughey, su-| perintendent of the Moscow, | Idaho district was the officating minister. A number of the, | ministers at the conference wit- | nessed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Sligar are expected in Cot-| tonwood next week, where they | will make their home. Rev. Sligar took charge of the Com-| munity church here several months ago and has made a large number of friends who will welcome him and his bride when they arrive. The Chronicle wishes to be numbered with his | many friends in wishing them a! happy wedded life. YIELD |S BETTER THEN EXPECTED HARVESTING IS NOW PRA- | ‘TICALLY FINISHED; SOME GOOD YIELDS The present week has witnes- sed the finishing of the major part of the harvesting and threshing operations in this sec- tion. The present season has been abnormal in many respects and although the acreage m | crop was considerable above the average, the amount of grain harvested will be about 10 per cent less than last year, and about 50 per cent of the average for the last eight years. In m two localities in the Cumas prairie country were conditions the same during the growing season. Some localities were others suffered great loss from grasshoppers which*had passed material damage. The present season has de- monstated more than any other the wonderful drouth-resisting | qualities of the soil of this vici- nity. Although no rain fell from May 12 until the crop h: matured and was harvested, still many yields of 35 to 40 bushels per acre were reported by re- liable authority; and in many places, where the owner did not expect to get his seed back, fair yields were secured. On the level country the spring crop as a whole turned out better than the fall sown crop, whereas in the foothills and on the higher parts of the prairie the reverse was true and fall rain returned almost an average yield and the | spring crop fel! short. The above statement does not apply to all individual cases but to an average of general con- ditions in the different localities only. T he season was freakish in many ways and results widely varied in the same localities. One instance of Marquis wheat, forexample: Of two’adjoining fields on the same farm, both spring sown and of the same va- riety, receiving the same care, one field yields three bushels per acre and the other seventeen | bushels per acre. In some cases the variation is easily accounted | for by frost, grasshoppers, seed- ing conditions or other common causes, but in other instances the seemingly unaccountable | variation of yields is puzzling badly damaged by late frosts |b PUT ROAD IN SHAPE. The street from the Camas Prairie railroad bridge to the old brewery has been put in fine shape by Contractor McCully, having completed the work | Tuesday evening. This road has been. in need of repair for some | time as considerable heavy haul- ing goes over this stretch, being the one that leads to the Farm- ers Union Warehouse and the Hussman Lumber Co. Before work on this project was com- menced it was somewhat of a will be known as the Cottonwood | even to the scientific observer Post. Temporary officers were} of agricultural conditions. elected Tuesday evening and a| ‘aking the Cottonwood coun- charter has been applied for| try asa whole, spring sown with fifteen charter members. | wheat has averaged about 12 It is hoped to have a live post at | | bushels per acre and fall wheat this place. | about 25 bushels per acre. A meeting will be held again! five or six of the largest Saturday, September 27th for | | threshing outfits finished their the purpose of electing perman-| +yn this week and those still. in ent officers and otherwise per- | the field will probably be fecting the organization. | through within the next week or Rie ee {ten days. This is fully a month MORE STORAGE ROOM. |earlier than threshing opera- The Hussman Lumber Co. re- | tions usually end in this vicinity, Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. Charles H. Garby, a resident lof the Lewiston country for the past. 86 years died at Lewiston last week. Clarence Hill of Caldwell has n named an assistant in the | attorney yeneral’s office to suc- ceed Alfred F. Stone, resigned. Unusual interest is attracted in statehouse circles here and , among party leaders to the charge made that the present | administration proposes to weed jout all democratic holdover ap- pointees and turn their positions over to republicans. W. A. Myers, former secretary }of the state dental board who was arrested on the charge of bribery. When taken into cus- tody by Sheriff Emitt Pfost and Albert White, of the state con- stabulary, Myers had a ticket to Chicago in his pocket. His bond was placed at $1500 which he furnished. Interest centers in the state in the filing of articles of incorpo- ration of the West Pearl Oil & Gas company of Pittsburg and the granting to that concern by the state land board of a lease to two sections of school land near Oakley where oil wells are to be sunk. Oil experts believe they can find oil in that field. With four entries in the Jer- sey cattle show at the interstate fair, Spokane, the University of Idaho took four prizes—two firsts and two seconds. The awards were made Wednesday and the university received the notice of its winnings Thursday. The University got first on best bull two years old and under tive and first on first senior LeRoy Jones, former state game warden, now United States marshal for Idaho, against | whom the state has filed a com- perpen to collect some $20,000 alleged to have been found short in the state game department, has served notice that he will make application on September 18, for a change of venue to Gooding county. The first case of its kind to be brought into the United States district court this year was set- a at Boise Friday when Judge F. 8. Dietrich, federal judge fin- ed W. A. Thomas $100 for neg- lecting to extinguish a camp fire in Bear valley, which, on Sep- tember 2, burned over a radtus of 40 feet of brush land” be- fore forest rangers found and brought it under control. The safe of the Cee Store Company at Gifford, Idaho was blown at an early hours Satur- day morning, the burglars se- curing cash, liberty bonds ana war savings stamps to the amount of several hundred dol- lars. Entrance to the post of- fice department.of.the store was effected by means of a pass key and the safe was’taken from the post office lobby to the store warehouse where the door was blown off. State taxes to be raised in Latah county for the year 1919 are almost 200 per cent higher than the taxes for 1918, the fig- ures being $161,398 for 1919, as compared with $55,836 for 1918. There is a serious shortage of hay in Idaho. The deficiency amounts to 735,000 tons. This is also-true of other northwest- ern states including Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Wash- ington and: Neyada. Heavy . rains .in .the Lapwai valley last week resulted in a washover.on the Grangeville line near Bundy siding and traffic was blockaded for a period of about. three: hours. :The-Grange- ville pessenger train had passed the point of the wash-over be- fore the storm byut.the Lewiston hound freight was held up until the track was.cleared. ‘The track hard pull for teams or trucks with a load, but now having been put on an easy grade will be who travel this route. a a — rs cently completed a large addi-| oe tion to their lumber sheds which; Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wright of was ese g for about 35 feet to depth of two and three feet, the gives them a great deal more of | Nezperce were visitors at the] wash-over being at a point about greatly appreciated by those|storage room for the immense} Frank Stevenson home Thurs-}2,000 feet below the-Bundy sid- stock they always have on hand. | day. lng weree reo ing.