Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, November 21, 1919, Page 5

—_ COUNTY SEAT NEWS ITEM Lawrence Cone, son of County | Treasurer Otie L. Cone, has ar-| rived home, after more than two! years’ service in the U. S. navy. He will remain here until Janua- ry 1, when he expects to enlist in! the merchant marine. Charles Branscomb, linotype operator on the Spokesman-Re- view, at Spokane, and a former Grangeville boy, arrived here this week for a visit with friends He had been in the U.S. army, and spent many months in ser- ice in France. F. S. Rice was in Grangeville this week from Florence, on his way to Lewiston. Mr. Rice is! operating the Waverly mining property at Florence, and has a crew of ten men at work. He plans on returning to Florence in about six weeks. J. A. Zuver has sold his 160- acre ranch, four miles southwest | of Grangeville, to Les Twilegar, and will soon remove to town. Price was $35 an acre. Mr. Zuver owned the ranch for twenty years. Fenn Batty is now at Phoenix, | Arizona and is feeling quite a lot improved in health, the warm climate of that place seemingly agreeing with him. Mrs. Batty| will not go south until later in| the season. J. B. Running, director of the Grangeville Cowboy band since last February, has resigned and, with Mrs. Running, will leave early next week for Lewiston, where Mr. Running has accept- ed the position of director of the Moose band. L. M. Harris has removed his real estate offices from the rooms in the basement of the Lyric theatre to the Grabski building, which has _ been re- modeled. Mr. Harris will main-|§ tain in the building an office, automobile salesroom and living quarters. J. O. Rhoades of Pollock is in the city today, and in company with his former partner, Chas. Holt, is closing up matters in} eonnection with the recent sale of their extensive land and stock holdings in the Salmon river country. Mr. Rhoades expects to join his family in California | in the near future. R. O. Wilson on Monday pur- chased from W. A. Robinson his half interest in the Central Gar- age. Mr. Wilson now is sole owner of the garage. Several months ago he acquired by pur- chase half interest owned by Fred Lyda in the garage. Mr. Robinson, who has resided in Grangeville for four years, has not decided on a new location. He will spend a week or more hunting big game, and then, in company with Mrs. Robinson, will depart for the coast, in’ search of a location. Selonteteontes Seet sSoeterionss ontogeny % So ateete “Tip Top” makes more loaves of better bread than other flour on the market. 24-tf POINTED PARAGRAPHS. A woman seldom means all the mean things she says. A pretty girl is usually more ornamental than useful. A woman never thinks that a man thinks she talks too much. The motto of some men is, “Give me liberty, or give me debt.” Most woman would rather patch upaquarrel than darn stockings. Many a. self-possessed girl would like to transfer her poss- ession to some man. Several :people have bumped up against disgrace while trying | to dodge poverty. A summer girl has many en- gagements, but the telephone girl gets the most rings. When a bachelor meets the right girl he is apt to discover | that he is the wrong man. Aman simply has to talk| sometimes; that is why so many married men talk in their sleep. | There is no good reason why aman should not marry and set- tle down if he has previously | settled up. FOR SALE. The following used cars in ex- cellent shape: E6-45 Buick. | Overland. Dodge. Maxwell. Jackson. HOENE HARDWARE. 42-tf in the market for poultry Saturdays and Mondays. Always T. Clarke, the junk man. 39tr | ONPPEEIEE EEE ION IEE PIONR DIM PIPE O TIPO ONO OIO PINION OND strength producer, Big Bills and Little Ones --there is a sense of satisfaction in knowing that one’s small purchases are appreciated just as much as his large ones. --be just as particular and “fussy” as you want to when you come here--whether you want a few odds and ends of lumber--some lath, shingles or what not. --estimates promptly furnished at THE YARD THAT SAVES & SATISFIES Hussman Lumber Company BS cote Seateatects “The Home Builders” Sregeetedeeteetentectecdonteetecgeatecgeateatectetoate Sectoet Spee a i a a ese Omen The 0 Scrap Book. MAY HAVE BEEN MISJUDGED History Has Only Word of Savants as to the Bad Temper of the Tyrannosaurus. No admirer in theory of the “good DO NOT WANT LICENSING BILLS Farmers, Stockmen and Mer- chants Oppose Packer Leg- islation at Washington. old times” would care to go so far back as the period of the dinosaur, whose bones were not long ago dis- covered in Canada, and the Tyran- nosaurus, whose skeleton is almost as recent a find In the Bad Lands of Montana. Both belonged to the gi- gantic land animals of prehistoric America, but if the dinosaur was bad enough to meet wandering over the landscape, the Tyrannosaurus was ‘vorse, According to the savants, he was the biggest animal, except the vegetarian and gentle-mannered an- cestor of the elephant, of his time, and had the worst temper. One wonders, however, if the savants are altogether fair to the Tyrannosaurus. Granting that he was uncommonly well pre- pared to make trouble, does it neces- sarily follow that he always went about looking for it? Unvexed, he may have been of a good-natured and even affectionate disposition, for, after all, the disposition of a prehistoric an- imal leaves no fossil remains.—Chris- tian Science Monitor, ALONG THE WAY. Tf you can’t shout hallelulla As you travel on the way, You can keep the quiet spirit And look thankful for the day, *" When the heart keeps time to song, As a feller goes along, He's gittin’ out the country Where the thorny troubles throng. If you can’t be on the hilltop In the big blaze of the light, You'll know that even the valley's Keeping heaven still in sight. It still keeps time to song As the shadows dream along And its paths lead from the country Where the thorny troubles throng —Atlanta Constitution. The Sentry Helps. The American army of occupation built a bridge at Coblenz, a pontoon bridge, wide enough for only one ve- hicle at a time. An official of the Red Cross was forced to walt at this bridge while a German peasant woman, draw- Ing a cart loaded with vegetables, came across. An American soldier doing sen- try duty on the bridge, walked along behind the cart ostensibly for the pur- pose of hastening the crossing. The Red Cross official observed, however, that the woman’s pace was expedited by more than verbal admonition; the muzzle of the soldier's gun found a resting place at the rear of the cart, and the soldier himself plodded cheer- fully along, pushing more than his share of the load. As is customary POSSESS HHH SoHS | when one of his class Is discovered In Calling Cee as Gitts The Chronicle is in position to fill your order for printed or engraved calling cards. Order yours now. 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For two days he was out of school; the third day he came back, only to hear the teacher begin another talk on the dangers of the street. This time she used him as “the horrible example.” “Just think, children, if Johnny had been killed how much we would have hated it. He never could come to us and we would have,” she was going to say, “to do without his compan- fonship.” But the freckled little boy. finished it for her. “We would have to buy some flow- ers,” he yelled. PLUTOCRATS, They had some very expensive presents at the De Bosh wed- ding. Did they? What did her father give them? Two barrels of sugar and @ ton of coal. Might Do There. “This new clerk doesn't seem to know anything whatever about any- thing.” “Well, that won't do for silks or dress goods. Put him in the book de- | partment.” | pees Of Course Not. “Cost me $10 today just because } was honest.” “Oh, well, you don’t mind paying a small premium on a good policy.”— | Louisville Courier-Journal, Swinging the Ax. Uncle Joe Cannon was commenting on a certain governmental bureau. “It’s a mighty polite bureaw” he sald thoughtfully. “Why, they never fire a man in that department. They ask him to tender his resignation. And ten- dering, you know,” said Uncle Joe smiling, “tendering makes it less Representing a diversity of inter. ests and including farmers, feeders, re- tail butchers and produce dealers, ful- ly a thousand individuals have made their way to Washington to enter their protests against the packer licensing plan now in hearing before the senate agriculture committee. Far from solving in any measure the high cost of living, the proposed legis- lation if passed would be a dangerous experiment for everyone, is the con- sensus of opinion held by these wit- nesses. “We've had government control of railroads and telephones and tele graphs until we're plumb worn out, and we don’t want any more,” W. P. Carpenter, stock feeder of Tarkio, Mo., told the committee, “I’m in favor of the man who can produce the cheapest going ahead as far as he can. Thai's the way to cut down the cost of liv- ing.” That the packers dominated the stock markets was an idea scouted by testifying stock feeders, who said they found the stock yards places of keen competition. Taking away the packers’ refrigera- tor cars was as reasonable as taking away their butcher knives, was the conviction expressed by J. P. Lynch, another feeder from Tarkio, The concern of ‘stockmen and butch ers who fear that hampering the pack- ers will only result in disrupting the meat industry without benefit to any- one, was not the sole interest displayed at the hearing. Business men through: éut the country are strongly against the licensing feature which would es: tablish a precedent for bringing gov- ernment control and politics into the conduct of all manner of business. Many business organizations have expressed themselves formally, through resolutions, as against the principle of bringing business under government interference of the kind proposed in the Kenyon and Kendrick bills. In speaking for the chamber of com- merce of Moultrie, Ga., O. T. Caldwell sald: “We've got Swift & Co. down there, and they've helped more than anything else to get our farmers to diversify. The live stock business needs their national distribution.” THE PACKERS AND REFRIGERATOR CARS Whether refrigerator cars should be owned by the railroads or by the pack ers—a point to be determined by leg: islation now pending in Washington— may seem to be a question rather re mote from the interests of the average person. But, inasmuch as these “ice boxes on wheels,” as one of the pack: ers terms them, are the conveyances which bring our beefsteak to town, we may assume that we have a certain concern about them. If they have any: thing to do with the price of the beef: steak our concern 1s a deep one. It 1s maintained by some that these cars give the packers who now own them an unfair advantage over com: petitors. This is stoutly denied by the packers, who offer as proof the fact that they pay the same freight rates as any shipper; and they assert that the only advantage they enjoy is in being able to get enough cars for thelr needs by furnishing them themselves \nstead of depending upon the rail roads to do so, In this they are backed ap by a report of the Interstate Com merce Commission, made after an in vestigation of all privately owned tars, to the effect that there were na anfair practices and that a radical change would adversely affect both shippers and the public. While not opposing, in principle, railroad ownership of refrigeratot cara, the packers maintain that there are not enough of these cars to go around and that the legislation in question makes no provision for insur: ing that the raflroads shall furnish them in sufficient number. On the other hand, to pool their cars and take chances of getting what happened to be available, would seriously handi- cap the distribution of their perishable meat products. The stream of ship- ments from the packing plants would be blocked, which in turn would block the buying of live stock, and the in. dustry, which is founded on a basis of rapid distribution, would be badly muddled. In these contentions pro and con, there are three parties whose interests are at stake—the packers, their com- petitors and the public. Only one of ‘these parties could gain a possible ad- vantage if the packers’, cars were taken away from them, viz, the pack: ers’ competitors. The cars are now admittedly handled on an economic and efficient basis, and no change is Justified unless unfairness ts definitely and absolutely proved—which would be in absolute contradiction to the re- port that the Interstate Commerce Commission has already rendered on the subject. The public would pay the bill for inefficiency in the packing in- tough.” coe — “Idaho Gold” a health and dustry, and it bas no desire to pay this bil ty order to help a few of the pack- = ah