Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 12, 1920, Page 1

, COTTONWOOD_CHRONICLE — VOLUME 28. NO. 11 COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1920. 2.00 PER YEAR DEATH TAKES JOHN ROMAIN FOURTH MEMBER _OF IM- MEDIATE FAMILY TO PASS AWAY. John Romain, who was known to practically every man, woman and child in Cottonwood passed away in his home at Keuterville Sunday evening at 5-15 p. m., being the fourth member of his immediate family to have an- swerer the call within the last three weeks. John, as he was better known to his many friends, contracted a severe case of influenza some three weeks ago and during the time he was bedfast witnessed the death of his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Winkler, who were raising his children, and_ his thirteen year old son, Arthur. Mr. Romain had been up and around for about a week when he was again taken down, the last sickness causing his death Sunday evening. John Romain had been em- ployed by the Hoene Hardware for the past seven years, as their head mechanic, and when it came to machinery he stood second to none. ’ The deceased two daughters, Beatrice, age 14, survived by Laura age 12 two brothers, Is Dominic Romain of Keuterville and Fred Romain of Marias, Mont., a sister, Miss Anna Ro- main, of Maris, Mont and an aged father, Frank Romain. He was born at Livelygrove, fl., in 1878, where his mother died when he was a youne boy. His wife died at Keuterville some 12 years ago at the time his young- est daughter was born. Mr. Romain was a member of the Cottonwood Council No. 1389 Knights of Columbus. The funeral services were con- ducted from the Catholic church at Kuterville Tuesday morning in charge of Rev. Fr. Martin, and was attended by a_ large number of friends and clearly shows the esteem in which he was held by his fellowmen. The remains were laid to rest in the Kuterville cemetry. The two young daughters of Mr. Romain, Laura and Beatrice, have the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community, in the loss of their father, which now leaves them to grow up alone in the world without the care and sym- pathy that only a father mother can give. Resolution of Condolence. Whereas it has pleased the Almighty to call into a better eternity, our dear and beloved brother, John Romain, who was a good citizen and a_ beloved member of Cottonwood Council No. 1389, Knights of Columbus, Cottonwood, Idaho, therefore, Be it resolved, that we extend to his bereaved family, relatives and friends, our sympathy and consolation. Be it further resolved that our charter be draped in his memory for thirty days, that one copy of these minutes be spread upon tht minutes of the Council, one copy be sent to the bereaved family and anther copy be pub- lished in the Cottonwood Chron- icle. JOUN HOENF, BEN KRIGER, AUGUST SEUBERT, Committee. EXPECT MANY STUDENTS. Definitely planned for six weeks from June 14 to July 23, the University of Idaho 1920 summer session is expected to draw students from all parts of the state, according to Dr. J. G Eldridge, dean of the university of faculty, who will serve as summer session director. Dr. Orr returned Saturday evening from Spokane where he consulted Dr. Hopkins a noted aye, nose and ear specialist. and , ONE TEAM BRINGS. $500. John Long and Henry Downer, of Winchester Saturday pur- chasel four spans of horses for which they paid an average of $412 aspan. The highest price received for one team was paid to Ed Jessup, who sold two geld- ings, weighing 1700 pounds each for $500. Triplett Bros. receiv- ed $400 a span for two. spans William Wortman was paid $350 for two head. The eight head were taken to Winchester by the above named gentlemen, where they will be used in the logging camps of the Craig Mountain Lumber company for which con- cern the animas were purchased. Horses, appear to have taken a sudden raise in value. One of the ahove teams. was purchased last fall at a vubie sale near Cot- tonwood for $200 CONVICT SANDEEN AT GRANGEVILLE JURY OUT ONLY 30° MIN- UTES—RECOMMEND CLEMENCY. Within thirty minutes afte the case had been submitted to the jury Saturday evening, the jury in the case of Gus Sandeen, charged with violation of the state syndicalism law, returned a verdict of guilty. The verdict asked that the mercy of the court be extended in any penalty given. The statute provides a minimum penalty of five years in state prison. Sandeen and Gus Haroldson were arrested several months ago on the charge of being I. W. W.’s. At that time literature of this organization and a card of membership were found among Sandeen’s personal effects. Later he signed a renunciation of his membership in the order and tore up the membership card and was released. However, he was again taken in custody as was also Haroldson. Pending the meeting of the district court here they were held in the coun- ty jail at Lewiston. Gust Haroldson, who was charged with criminal syndical- ism on the grounds that he car- ried a mempership card in the I. W. W. and also literature of that organization, pleaded guilty to the charge Monday. Sandeen and Haroldson came to Idaho county from Spokane and were engaged at work on the state highway construction in this county when arrested. County Attorney Auger con- ducted the Sandeen case for the state, while E. M. Griffith was the attorney for the defense. The above cases have caused state wide attention, from the fact that when these men were released state officials critized Idaho county officials for so do- ing, but not until several tele- grams were exchanged between the Idaho county officials and officials at Boise. Public opinion at that time was very strong against the I. W. W.’s and in order to quiet this opinion state officials cen- sured the Idaho county officials for releasing them from custody, when the blame, it is stated should have been borne by the state officials upon whose advice they were released. Sandeen, who was convicted by the jury and Haroldson who pleaded guilty wére both given an intermediate sentence of one to ten years in the state peni- tentiary at Boise by Judge Wallace N. Scales. They were al- so given credit for three months spent in the county jail by the court, which reduces the mini- mum sentence to nine months. WILL DO VULCANIZING, Teo P. Simon, who at the pre- sent time is conducting a varave in the northern nart of the citv has placed an order for a vulean- izire outfit. which he exnects to srrive shortlv. After the mach- inerv is installed he will do vul- eanizing as well »s caseing work én connection with his garage. | PUBLISHED 20 Y EARS AGO. KILL ‘THE SPARROWS. Summer weather. 1. C. Hattabaugh came in this morning from Moscow. Anton Nuxoll has purchased J. B. Foresman’s threshing out- fit. Dr. Truitt is having improve- ments made on his country resi- dence. Every farmer is up to his eyes in work taking advantage of the warm sunny days. Miss Addie Moberg is very sick with the pneumonia, fever, and mumps, Dr. Truitt is attend- ing her. S. T. Sanders family moved back to the Johnson ranch, Wed- nesday. A. P. Tefft has gone to Lap- wai to receive his saw mill outfit. “The Northern Pacific” will not build) a branch to Grange- ville, “says president Mellen. J.B. York is moving to his ranch on the Clearwater and will make that his future home. I. L. Alford, one of the edi- tors and owners of the brightest and latest news giving dailies, the Lewiston Tribune, was in town on Tuesday evening, on his way home. st RP: RISE MRS. GEO. SIMON. A farewell surprise party was given by Mrs. Bart Simon, at her home Wednesday afternoon, in honor of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Geo. Simon. Eight pio- neer friends of Mrs. Simon were present at the occasion and spent a most pleasant afternoon with their guest of honor. The after- noon was spent in bringing back to memory many of the pleasant events of years gone by. Dainty refreshments were served. The ladies departed wishing Mrs. Simon health and happiness in her new home and stated that her departure from the city would only serve to bind their friendship stronger. BIRTHDAY LUNCHEON. Miss Lenora Nims, celebrated her 12th birthday on Wednesday March 10th by entertaining eight of her classmates at a 5 o'clock luncheon. The color scheme of the decorations were green and yellow. The table being beautifully decorated with yellow jonquils and green fern, the candles were green and yel- low with shades of the same color. After the luncheon the re- mainder of the evening was spent in games and music. Each guest presented the hostess with’ an appropriate gift. SPELLING CONTEST. The Idaho County Spelling Contest will be held at the Court house on the afternoon of Sat- urday, March 20th, at 2 o'clock. Every school in the county has a right to send two representa- tives to this contest, one to rep- resent grades three to five, the other, grades six to eight. War savings stamps and __ thrift stamps will be awarded the win- ners. It is expected the majority of the eighty-seven districts of the county will be represented. Visitors will be weleome. SIZE YOUR TOWN U P. For the various expenses of its government New York City spends almost $500,000,000 a year—more than the Japanese Empire: It has 1000 theatres, 1500 hotels and 1600 churches. It turns out one tenth of all the manufactured goods of the coun- try, one fourth of all the printed matter and one half of all the clothing. The annual output of its 38,000 factories is worth more than $3,000,000,000. WANT CAVALRY HORSES. The war department has just telegraphed the adjutant gen- eral of Idaho authority to pur- chase horses locally through ‘Idaho for the regiment of cav- alry now being organized in this state. Colonel Patch is now get- ting in touch with horse dealers and owners to secure desirable mounts of the cavalry type. The Cottonwood Hardware is, today unloading a carload of Mitchell automobiles. | A young lady in Cottonwood yesterday observed a man de- | liberately kill a small bird and was heard to remark: The mean dirty thing.” Probably the re- | Mark was intended for the man, but the man passed it on, with a smile, and applied it to the bird, | which was an English sparrow. The young lady was all right and the man admired her stand. However, probably she has not observed the sparrow attack a mother bluebird, pull her from hér little nest and then kill the little famliy, or, as in an instance last year, begin to build their nest on top of the little live blue- birds, after dragging the mother out of her nest and tearing her back and wing so that she died. And the young lady, perhaps has not read the bulletin issued by the United States govern- ment, asking the cooperation of the public in trying to extermin- ate the sparrow as a pest. The sparrow destroys many of the smaller song birds and eats and wastes thousands of dollars’ worth of grain from the farmer each year. : The government will send free for the asking, this bulletin, which is numbered 493 and which describes the damage done by this bird and the various methods of killing the sparrow. The bluebirds are now nesting and it is now time to protect them from the ravages of the sparrow. The Boy Scouts might do good work in this line under the supervision of the instructor as the sparrow builds its nest in the awnings and crevices of brick buildings. By watching the birds after the eggs are laid the awnings can be dropped and the nest destroyed before the eggs are hatched. In sending for bulletin, ask for Farmers’ Bulletin 493. Address |U. S. Department of Agricul- | ture, Washington, D.C. SCHOOL NOTES. (By Wm. A. Lustie) In the spelling contest held last Friday, Ray Reid in group 1 and James Nash in group 2 won first honors and will re- present Cottonwood at the Coun- ty Contest to be held March 20. Glen Farthing, group 1 and Bernice Simon group 2 won sec- ond places. Loyal Oseau has been promot- ed tothe 3d grade and Garth Reid to the 4th grade. Mr. Hannon, principal of the Hieh School, has been on the sick list for the past few days. Basket Ball. Last Thursday the Freshman got their revenge on the Sopho- mores and Juniors by defeating them 23 to 20. The Grade girls defeated the High School girls in a score 8 to 4. “Of the 110,000,000 citizens of this country 45,000,000 are physically imperfect, 15,000,000 die annually; 3,000,000 are in bed all the time; 1,000,000 have tuberculosis; 2,500,000 contract venereal diseases each year; from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 are cases of hookworm and malaria. Only 37,500,000 are fairly healthy and 19,500,000 in full vigor.” Dr. W. S. Rankin presi- dent of the American Public Health Association. “There are more persons in the insane asylums in this coun- try than in all the colleges and universities and it costs more to maintain them (the asylums).’ Dr. Rankin. CONCERT COMING. Cottonwood Post No.40 of the American Legion signed a con- tract with the Hallowell Concert company, which some few years ago put ona very creditable concert in Cottonwood. Besides the concert a dance will also be given by the company: The Hallowell Concert Company con- sists of 10 people. The affair will be staged Wednesday, April 7th. Wheat Growers! A meeting has been called for March 16th at I. O.G .F. hall at 1, p. m. in Cottonwood. All wheat growers invited to attend. A. Jensen, Secretary, F. E. & C. U. of A. TO COST $2,375 5,000. During 1920 eight counties in the Inland Empire will build approximately 380 miles of per-)| manent highway at an expendi- ture of $2,375,000. Five of the counties are in Washington and three in Idaho. Those in Wash- ington are: Whitman, 40 miles, $300,000; Adams, 70 miles, $1,000,000; Douglas, 20 miles, $750,000; Spokane, 60 miles, $450,000; Lincoln, 60 miles, $250,000. Counties in Idaho are: Bonner, 40 miles, $175,000; Boundary, 50 miles, $200,000; Kootenai, 40 miles, $150,000. Corporations will be granted an extension of two months in filing their income tax returns according to Lewis Williams, in- ternal revenue collector. WHEAT GROWERS WILL MEET HERE MEETING WILL BE HELD TUESDAY ATL. O. O. F. HALL, The first wheat growers meet- ings of the Idaho Wheat Grow- ers’ Association are being held this week at Moscow, Kendrick, and Lewiston. Next week the wheat growers will meet at Cot- tonwood, Ilo, Reubens, Gifford, and Genesee, to discuss the Washington plan. Aaron Sap- iro, chief counsel for the associa- tion, will attend some of these meetings. Other speakers will include president A. A. Elmore of the Farmers’ Union, and J. Q. Adams of the northern Idaho division of the Farmers’ Union. The meeting in Cottonwood is scheduled for Tuesday afternoor at 1 p. m. at the I. O. O. F. hall, to which meeting all grain grow- | ers are invited. “Washington wheat growers are responding to the general! plan of organization in large | numbers. (says Elmore) With more than three and one-half | million bushels of wheat pledged by Washington farmers, pro- gress has far exceeded our ex- pectations and we expect to reach the minimum of fifteen million bushels long before July iat,” The plan which the Idaho wheat men are asked to endorse was recently adopted by the Oregon Fruit Growers, and on Saturday a mass meeting of Oregon Dairymen voted unan- imously to reorganize their league, which has nearly three thousand members, under almost identical plan in which the Washington wheat men have asked the Idaho growers to join. SHERIFF Ww AS Ww ITNESS. Charles Summerfield, deputy sheriff for Latah county, re- turned from Grangeville where he and Pat Malone were wit- nesses for the state against two I. W. W. charged with criminal syndicalism. Gus Sandeen was convicted by the jury after 20 minutes deliberation and later the other man charged with the same offense, Gus Haroldson, pleaded guilty to the charge. They will be sentenced later. Mrs. Summerfield, who accom- panied her husband as far as Cottonwood, where she_ visited relatives during the trial, return- ed with Mr. Summerfield Mon- day afternoon. —Moscow Mirror 16TH BIRTHD: AY. A jolly crowd of young folks gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Greve Wednesday evening to help celebrate the 16th birthday of their daughter Jeanette. The evening was spent in playing games, singing and music, after which dainty refreshments were served. Miss Jeanette received many beautiful presents from her friends who all wished her many | happy returns of the day. At last Camas Prairie weather'| has again returned. ux NEWS AROUND THE STATE Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. 92 20. Idaho has 23,000,000 aeres of forested land and 130,000,000,- 000 feet of merchantable timber says W. D. Humiston, secretary treasurer of the North Idaho Forestry association. William H. Emery, constable of Priest River precinct and prominent citizen of that village where he has a soft drink estab- lishment and barber shop, was arrested Saturday on the charge of bootlegging. The big new rock crusher for Moscow highway district has been installed on the Byrns farm south of Moscow and as soon as the power arrives will begin work crushing rock for the high- ways to be ‘built there. Forty inmates of the state in- sane asylum at Blackfoot, many of whom are believed by state officials never to have been in- sane, have been removed from that institution and placed in the state home for the feeble- minded at Nampa. Minors under 18 who smoke or use cigarettes, cigars or to- baceo in any form upon public highways or other public pro- perties may be declared “delin- quent” and committed to a re- formatory, according to a ruling made by Attorney General Black. As the result of raids made by Deputy Sheriff W. E. Dag- gett, Special U. S. Agent James Rice and J. Y. Haight. deputy in- ternal revenue collector at Lewiston, two 50-gallon barrels | of mash and a half gallon of dis- tilled spirits were seized ata cabin occupied by Frank Duroco, | While at the home of Jim Yeott, Chinese gardener, a quanity of corn mash was secured. The war department Friday issued a statement showing that 0f 105,337 Idaho men who reg- istered under the draft law at the outbreak of the war 1484 shirked their duty and are now carried as deserters or draft dodgers. Of this number 786 deserters have been apprehend- ed and their cases disposed of, while 698 are still at large, and their cases still pending. Thomas T. Kerl, a wealthy at- torney of Coeur d’Alene, at one time a candidate for congress- man from this state, was dis- barred from practicing law in the state of Idaho, by order of the state supreme court. Kerl was made a defendant some time ago in a sensational divorce trial at Coeur d’Alene. December 12, 1918, Kerl was convicted in the federal district court at Omaha on the charge of sedition and was fined $2,000. University of Idaho will en- deavor to have Neil Irving, one of the best all-around athletes in the west, entered in the Olym- pic games at Antwerp. Irving is regarded as the best javelin and weight man in the west, having a record of 170 feet with the javelin and 42 feet with the shot. He will be sent to Pacifie coast meets where he will con- test with the best men in these events on the coast and his friends have strong hopes he will win a place in the Olympic team. The democratic state commit- tee, which met at Moscow Fri- day at the call of State Chair- man Jerome J, Day selected Lewiston as the place for hold- ing the state delegate convention which will nominate delegates to the national convention. The date for the Lewiston conven- tion is June 15. Idaho Falls was given the state nominating convention which is set by law for Aug. 24. There will be seated in the Lewiston conven- | tion 318 delegates or three times the number that go to the Idaho | Falls convention, 106.