Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, September 26, 1919, Page 1

> COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE VOLUME 27. NUMBER 39. :OTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919. $2:00 PER YER WILL GIVE $500 TO SAL. ARMY CAN WITHDRAW CONTRI- BUTION IF SO DESIRED. Out of the total of $924.00 re- maining in the war chest fund, which is approximately 27 per cent of the money collected by a | committee for the fund, $500 will be given to the Salvation | Army as Cottonwood’s quota for the Salvation army drive and | the remainder will be used to de- fray the expenses of the Sol- diers and Sailors Banquet. This | conclusion was reached by the | committee at a meeting held | this week. | The qnoney which is on hand, | was raised for the various | quota’s that were assigned to | Cottonwood during the war for | Red Cross Drives, K. of C. drives | Y. M. C. A. and other war ac- tivities, as the community was | called upon to do so. This sum, | was raised in one drive in order | to eliminate the necessity of | making a drive every time a call | came and having the money on hand it was simply paid over or as much as was assigned as Cot- tonwood quota. It was also decided, that should anyone wish to withdraw his contributions (the remaining percentage) which were made during the war, he is at liberty to do so. This is done in order | to avoid any criticism in the | committee’s action of disposing | of the money which was raised for the above purposes. The action taken at this time by the committee in disposing of this money is very commendable, and will go for a good cause. The Executive Committee of the War Chest Fund also issued the following statement: There remains $924.00 in the Cottonwood War Chest, approx- imately 27 per cent of the total amount collected by this com- | mittee for the various war work | drives.The Executive Committee | desire to wind up the affairs of this organization, and held a! meeting for that purpose Tues- | day evening. At which time | the matter of disposing of the | funds on hand was discussed and | the following plan of action was | decided upon: First: All Contributors of the war chest who have paid in more than four and one-half months dues will be entitled to claim a_ refund of all in excess of 414 | months dues which they have | paid in, provided that they ap- ply for the refund before Oct. 12 | at the bank to which they paid their dues. | Second: Of that portion which | remains in the War Chest after | Oct. 12th. Five Hundred Dollars | shall be paid to the Salvation Army to meet the quota of this | community in the present drive |- which that organization is mak- | ing for funds to conduct their | home welfare work. They helped our boys over there. Let’s help them over here. Thirdly: If there still remains any funds in the war chest after the above mentioned provisions have been met, same shall be | turned over to the committee handling the Soldiers and Sailors Banquet to be expended by them | as they see fit, on condition that should, any of the funds remain after the banquet the remaining | portion shall be turned into the Treasury of the local branch of the Red Cross. With this plain statement of the proposal the committee feel that they are discharging their duty to those who have intrust- ed them with the management of the war chest. Orders of The Executive Committee. | TO BUY JONES CATTLE. Mons Hanson, buyer for Hag- en & Cushing, left today for Grangeville to buy 100 head of beef cattle from Asa Jones, a well known stockman of that section. The cattle are said to be a fine lot and will be driven. to Moscow to be killed at the big | packing plant. —Moscow Mirror. { SUCCESS. !|WILL BE SHOWN HERE. The After Harvest dance! P. A. Gaul, manager of the which was given at the Orpheum: Orpheum theatre, this week Theatre last Friday evening was | booked “Told In The Hills” for attended by a large crowd of | a one night’s showing some time young folks from various see- | in October, the exact date hav- tions of the county. A large | ing not been set. number of dancers were present, ‘Told In The Hills” is the fa- from Grangeville, Ferdinand, mous picture put out by the | Winona and Fenn. After the | Paramount people which was |dance, when several gentlemen} made at Kamiah early this |5 or 6 in all called for their hats, | spring and was shown at the |which had been checked they , Rialto, one of New York’s lead- | Were not to be found anywhere. | ing picture theatres last week,, | These hats, were either taken by |as the great feature for “Por- mistake or stolen, or as was pre- | sching week. sumed by some a mere joke, but | The outdoor settings for = as the hats have failed to show | in the Hills’ were made in April up at all it is believed they were | and May by the Paramount- stolen. | Arteraft producers and one of | their best directors, George H. | Melford, was sent to Kamiah | with one of the strongest com- panies that could be assembled | from the great aggregation of | Paramount - Arteraft players. | The company was headed by | Robert Warwick and included |in his support are such well | known stars as Ann Little, Tom | Forman, Wanda Hawley, Chas. ;Ogle, Monte Blue, Margaret | Loomis, Eileen Perey, Hart | Hoxie, Jack Herbert and Guy Oliver. The Nezperce Indians cowboys’ of the STORY OF HIS RECENT TRIP DISTANCE OF 1967 MILES WAS TRAVELED BY THE PARTY. A At our suggestion, Mr. John | A | and Hfoene has consented to give us : |ried four large suitcases, con-| a description of the country he | traveled over on his recent trip | to the Yellowstone Nationa: | Park. The trip made by Mr. | Hoene was taken in his Buick, | | without the slightest trouble of jany kind. We would also be | glad to publish similar stories | |from anyone who has recently | made a trip of this kind, hoping | that it will be of interest to | many of our readers. The de- scription of the trip made by Mr. | Hoene and his family is as fol- lows: j | As I promised, a week before | ' last, that I would furnish the | readers of the Chronicle a des-| cription of our automobile trip | | to the Yellowstone so I wil! try \ jand be as brief as possible, still | | stating the main incidents. | As Thad promised my family, | | to make an automobile tour and | camping out trip this summer, | so we concluded to make a tour} of Yellowstone Park going via| Washington and Montana and! coming back via south Idaho. As we were aware that such a trip would require some time, | and wishing to get the benefit} of camping out and sleeping out} doors we equipped our car with 3 | extra boxes (two on the front} fenders and one lage one on the| rear) carrying our cooking uten- | sils, provisions and our bedding! on the running board. We car- taining our clothes and our tent) which was 9x15, leaving plenty | of room for the comfort of the| family in the car. | I wish to add here that this is | very important when touring, to have plenty of room for the pas- | sengers on a long trip. | We departed from Cottonwood | on August 7th for Lewiston, where we stopped at Clarkston, taking in the circus (as people say for the benefit of the chil-| dren.) You know grown people) don’t care for such a thing. From here we went to Spokane | attending the Buick convention. From Lewiston to Spokane the roads were in fine shape, being hard surfaced with the excep- tion of a few miles. From Spo-| kane our party went to Chewe- lah, Wash. (a distance of 55 miles and very rough roads) visiting with the Dreps and Put- hoff families for three days and taking in a fishing trip to Waits Lake. This is a place where everyone can catch fish, even the women and children can ¢atch them as fast as they can throw in the hook and take them off. Every member of our party caught from 10 to 40 perch, about 7 to 8 inches long and in all had about 50 pounds of fish. There are many fine lakes in this territory, most noted among them being, Loon Lake, which is very beautiful. At Chewelah there is a mag- nesizing factory, where some of the best magnese iron in the world is produced. This is very interesting, as there are only a few places in the United States where magnese is made—Cali- surrounding country of Kamiah also took an active part in the production of this wonderful picture. The scenery in this picture is de- scribed by moving picture critics to be wonderful, having prac- | tically all been taken near our neighboring city of Kamiah. ATTEND ENJOYABLE DAY. A most pleasant gathering took place at the home of Aug- ust Von Bargen on Sunday last where about fifty relatives and friends spent the day . Mr. and Mrs. Von Bargen are intending to give up hard work and go to some town where they can take life easy and where they can have good school ad- vantages for the three younger children, they will turn their large farm over to their two sons Fred and Clyde. Mr. Von Bargen has not decided just where he will locate but will leave in a few days to hunt for a location. Last Sunday will long be re- membered by them as well as all their friends as a most pleasant day. At one o’clock a fine din- | ner was served and during the afternoon Ice Cream was served to all while Mr. Von Bargen kept the men busy with cigars. The following with their fami- lies were present: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Webber and 2 children, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Crea and 3 children, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bowman and child, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Jones and child, Mr and Mrs. John Wassem_ and child, Mr. and Mrs. Will Fortine and child, Mr and Mrs. L. S. Fortine, Mr and Mrs. Chet Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Parker, Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, Mrs. Albert Rogers and daughter, Mrs. Love- Ince, Mrs. Giezentaner, the Misses McDonald, Butler Love- lace and Blackburn, J. B. McDon- ald, Will and Ray Rogers. WILL MOVE TO TOWN. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Rhoades, last week leased their farm of 220 acres located near Cotton- wood to Bert Schroeder and will | remove to their town property, | which has been occupied by Wm. | Kelsey and. family. Mr. and | Mrs. Rhoades will take a muen needed rest. Their son, Art, | expects to leave with a number | of horses overland for Elk Sum-| mit, near the Idaho-Montana line where he expects to do pack- ing for the government into the mountains, the government hav- ing a large crew of men at work at this point. PAINTER BUYS HOME. Wm. Kelsey, the well known | painter purchased the R, H. Butler home in the north part of city. Mr. Kelsey does not be- lieve in moving therefore he bought, as he intends to make | Cottonwood his home. The property purchased consists of 3 lots, a 5 room house, barn and several outbuildines. The con- sidreation was $1600. Mr. Butler intends to stay in | Cottonwood for the present at Jieast. CASUALTIES ARE 291,839 The last American casualty has been accounted for. This wonderful record has been an- nounced by the war depart- ment Of more than 4,000,000 wounded or missing” has been fully accounted for and_ his whereabouts, or the loucation of his grave, have become de-| finitely known. Another remarkable record is that 85 per cent of the wounded recovered and were returned. As| compared with the record of the| Civil war this is wonderful. In the great world war the United States has 34,568 killed in battle and 13,957 died of wounds. In the civil war many more died of | hace than were killed in bat- | tle. Following are the total ecasu- | alties from all causes, announc- ed by the war department as| the final report for the great world war: a Killed in action (includ- ing 382 at sea) Died of wounds ............ Died of disease ............ Died from accident and | other causes ........... 5,281 | Wounded in action (85 | per cent returned) 241,378} Missing in action (not including prisoners released and returned 34,568 | 13,957 | 23,653 | 2 Total to date 291,839 Fate of but Two Men Private Gilbert E. Brown of Bozeman, Montana, and William Z. Taylor of Elijah, North Caro- lina, are the only American soldiers, of the more than 2,000,- 000 sent to France, the War Department has been unable to account. They are Classed as “Missing in action.” Whether they were killed in bat- tle, or died of disease in some obscure place or in prison, or whether they are still in Europe or other foreign country, or have returned to the United States, the War Department has been unable to determine. The War Department’s suc- ucess in ascertaining the fate of every one of the Expeditionary Force in France is regarded as remarkable. In the Civil War, fought in a relatively small sec- tion of this country, the “un- known dead” were counted by the thousands. Hardly a na- tional cemetery but has hun- dreds of giaves holding the re- fied. Relatives of men who fell in France have at least the consola- tion of knowing the way in died, and where they are buried. Their bodies are resting in cem- eteries that are practically American soil and that are to be permanent and beautiful memo- rials of the men who lie in them. ZUVER GETS $300 MORE. The W. R. Rogers sale, which was held in Cottonwood last Sat- urday afternoon was attended by a large crowd, and everything sold brought good prices. Rogers stated that if anyone would have offered him $700 for his household goods before the sale he would have sold the same. After everything was sold, the proceeds ran near the $1000 mark, or $300 more then Mr. Rogers expected from the sale. Much of the credit in securing the extra $800 is given to Auctioneer Zuver of Grange- ville who conducted the sale for Mr. Rogers. After the sale the Rogers family departed for Lewiston in an automobile where they will make their future home. Thelr }many friends here wish them success in their new home. OUTFIT TO LEWISTON. J. B. McCully, the road con- | tractor, who has been working roads here all summer, and the last three weeks has been engag- ed by the city, removed his out- ‘it to Lewiston Monday. Mr. McCully moved his horses and |e dip*ment to Lewiston with the ; hopes of being able to work al! winter on road work which per- | haps could not have been done jhere. It was his intention to again return Lere in the spr.vz and resume road work. men enlisted, every man “killed, | GRAIN GRAD- TURE GOULD NOTAGREES WEWS AROUND THE STATE | State of Idaho vs. Rufus Walker, | items of Interest From Various | charged with an assult with a deadly weapon upon the person Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers, of John Nuttman, was discharg- ed at Grangeville last Thursday at midnight after being out eight hours. The jury reported that it was so divided there was no hope of securing a verdict. The case has its orign in the Keuterville section where the defendant and the complaining) witness are neighbors. The! men had trouble over a dividing | fence and the defendant is) charged with having resorted to | a gun to give emphasis to his contentions. A hunting party from Okla- homa arrived at Stites last Sat- urday evening composed of H. C, Jerome, Tulsa, W. C. Brown and C. A. MeMelin, of McAllister, O. E. Butler, R. L. Huggins and Wm. Sheldon, of Grove, Okla. The Lewiston Commercial club has launched a campaign which seeks to overcome the serious situation of inadequate housing facilities in Lewiston. The: or- ganization of a building and loan association is proposed. , After a miner’s strike, which has now been in effect for more than a month at Wallace there is a strong sentiment that if the mining companies would an- |nounce the reopening of their mines, that practically all of the | idle miners in this district would welcome the opportunity to re- ING MEETINGS FARMERS, MILLERS, DEAL- ERS AND ELEVATOR MEN ARE INVITED. Under the auspices of the Ida- ho County Farm Bureau, Mr. |B. F. Sheehan, State Seed Com- | missioner and Agronomy Spe- | cialist for the University Exten- | port for work. | _ Nine new cream separators in- | cluding a Swedish machine as | well as the various types of sep- |arators manufactured | sion Service will hold two gram el cng | grading demonstrations. The | first will be held Monday, Sept- |ember 29th, at 2:00 P.M. in United States recently have been | veceived by the University of | Idaho dairy department for use |in the several courses in farm for whom | | Cottonwood. The other on Sept- fember 30th, at 2:00 P. M. at | Grangeville. The object of these meetings is to demonstate to the farmers, | dairy work to be offered in the course of the current college | year. ’ From 2500 to 8000 people | turned out Sunday Sept. 21 to | participate in the home-coming | the proper way of grading grain ; and to show how and why the erway ! | celebration at Orofino given in | different docks are made. honor of the Clearwater county | There is no doubt but what) young men who served in the | grain grading has come to stay. | world war. It was the greatest The days of penalizing a farmer | number of people that ever gath- | for raising good wheat are past,|ered in Orofino at one time, providing the grading is prop-| every part of the county being | erly done. Every farmer should | well represented. | be in a position to grade his own} The Orofino highway district grain as well as to know when will vote on Oct. 4 on the ques- lit is being properly graded.| tion of voting bonds in the sum mains of Federal or Confederate | soldiers who remain unidenti- | which these gallant Americans | Mr. | | Armed with this information | every farmer knows the market | value of his product, and will be |ahe to go on to the market and | intelligently sell to the highest | bidder and know whether he is getting a premium or its face | Value. Remember the dates Cotton- wood, September 29th, and Grangeville, September 30th. Cannon at Grangeville. On the evening of October 7th, | Miles Cannon, State Commis- sioner of Agricultural will be at Grangeville to explain the ob- ject, purpose and workings of his department. This department was created to safeguard, and promote the |agricultural interests of the | State. In order to do this, the men who are at the head of the department are desirious of meeting the farmers of every section and get first hand in- formation on the problems et- the State. You are urged to attend this meeting and learn what is be- ing done in the interest of agri- culture for North Idaho. IDAHO CAPITOL AWARD. The contract for construction of the two wings to the state capitol building was let by Commissioner of Public Works W. J. Hall, to James Stewart & Co., of Salt Lake, at a_ price ranging from $750,000 to $770,- 000. The exact figures were not announced as a number of alterations have to be made. This company bid $865,000. The legislature appropriated but $900,000. The furnishings will cost $50,000 while the founda- tions already installed represent an outlay of $50,000 reducing the amount available to $800,000 Eliminations were therefore made, wood to replace marble in many instances. Bidders were make proposals on six proposi- tions to finish the building in fecting the various sections of | of $300,000 for highway im- provements. The money will he used for the construction of the Greer-Pierce road and other construction in the district. About four miles of the Lewis and Clark highway will be locat- ed within the district. Because of the Caldwell Trac- | tion company’s alleged failure to | pay its power bill at Caldwell for August the Idaho Power compa- {ny Saturday morning at 7 o'clock shut off its supply of power, thus disrupting the car | schedule of the line the entire | morning until 1 o’clock Saturday | afternoon when the public utili- ties commission forced the pow- er company to turn on the cur- rent. | Dean E. J. Iddings, head of | the experiment station and agri- | cultural college of the University | of Idaho, announces that farm- |ers may send seed of any kind | directly to the university for ‘analysis. A branch of the state pure food laboratory has been | opened at the university. Miss | Claire Hobson of Boise, who has been seed analyst for the state | laboratory for two years, will | have charge of the work. | LeRoy Stellmon, a young | farmer residing northwest of Nezperce was seriously hurt | Saturday by being dragged by a jhorse. He was riding after stock and his horse stumbled and fell. His foot caught in the stirrup and he was dragged for a | considerable distance. He suf- | fered severe cuts about the head and face and his body was badly bruised. | He was unconscious for several hours but is reported | doing nicely. Moscow and Latah county are to have a seed growing commun- ity and make an effort to pro- | duce pure seed of many _ kinds | for the northwest. The work is to include grains as well as | other farm products, but special | attention will be given to produc- permitted to ing pure seed of peas, beans and | potatoes, which are to be made ja specialty. An expert will be fourteen and onehalf months to placed in charge of the work and be ready for the next legislature. will assist the farmers in secur- | The bids of Porter Bros., Dun-;ing pure seed and preparing it | Building Co., A. W. Quist and | A. S. Whiteway were rejected. for planting and also assist in | the raising of the crops.