Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, August 13, 1920, Page 1

» VOLUME 28. NO. 33 PE dO ae * COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1920 $2.00 PER YEAR Si en hci ARON tM ING SUCCESSFUL has made no plans for the selling of the wool up to date. |men on the Salmon river, could not be prevailed upon to accept the nomination before the prim-, der No. 711, announced Friday, | granted grain and warehouse’ companies of the state increases | what costly lesson has been learned by some potato growers of this locality. Early in the Livestock: Idaho County) aries and was voted on in Stuart on rates for the handling of spring they bought a supply oi Shorthorn Breeders Association’ and Grangeville precincts. He grain, seed, wool, beans, and fine looking tubers for seed in- ESTIMATED VALUE OF CROP organized. Twelve breeders! received 40 votes. peas. New storage rates are ef-| tending to provide against at came to the meeting, represent- It has been suggested that in fective on hay. New rates be- least one part of the high cost bill. | was awarded 28 votes. | MAY INCREASE RATES. | STUNG. a Wool pool: A wool pool was| TT. C. Lyda, one of the best| Public utilities commission or-| An instructive though some- organized. The selling committee THE STATE Items of Interest From Various , SAVED PLACED AT ing 187 registered shorthorn. changing the primary law a come effective on one day’s of living late on in the year 1920.{ Sections Reproduced for Ben- piles Ed Nelson, Pres. clause should be inserted that notice. Application was made “The best laid plans o’ mice and ' $205,320. Joe McDonald, Vice Pres. persons starting a boom for any to the commission by 22 compan-| men gang aft aglee.” efit of Our Readers, te = Ralph M. Pavey, Sec. Treas. | candidate who has not expressed ies and all warehouse companies| The seed potatoes were pro- Board of directors: H J. How-| a willingness to become a can-| Will be governed by the new) duced on irrigated jiand and . A report sent oul by the Idaho ser, Miss Ada Sweet, Wilbur didate over his own signature, as Pates. : : | when planted in non-irrigated,} Miss Elnora Winfrey, a - County Farm Bureau for June Bryant. is the case in filing at the pre. ‘Twenty-five cent increases per relatively dry soil found them-| uate of the University of Miss- and July, which has been pre- pared by County Agent Ralph Pavey placed the value of the crops saved from grasshoppers at $205,320, and squarrel poison- ing saved the farmers the neat little sum of $14,687.50. The figures as given out are consid ered to be very conservative and are most valuable information to every citizen in Idaho county and NOTICE TO THRESHERS. All threshing men are request- ed to attend a meeting in Cotton- wood on Saturday, August 14. The meeting will be held in the evening and the object of the same is to set a uniform price for threshing as well as a wage scale. All those who are inter- ested are cordially invited to at- | they qualify sent time should pay into the county treasurer the fee requir- ed by law. The persons selected are all good timber but it is doubtful if for the offices.— Grangeville Globe. H UNIONTOWN GIRL KILLED. Geraldine Herboth, a sister of A! Herboth, of this city, died at ton over the old rate schedule of July 29, 1918, weve granted for handling grain, sacking bulk erain, the handling of seed, the handling of peas and beans, while increases of 50 cents per ton were granted for the handl- ing of wool, and a new storage vate of 15 cents per ton per month on hay, and an extra charge of 10 cents a ton went in- selves in a stanme environment which quite discouraged their ef- forts at growth. The yields from the tracts planted with this seed will be almost negligible. The potatoes as a crop are a fail- ure. This experience should be a warning to our farmers gener- ally to be careful in selecting seed potatoes as well as seed grain.—Kooskia Mountaineer. ouri, has been appointed dean of women at the Lewiston state normal school. Nearly 1,000 persons, in more than 300 cars, have been guests of Lewiston in its tourist park since the opening about ten weeks ago. “Boost the pure seed industry of Idaho” is the slogan adopted aoe righ 3 ’ : inpiees | by the Idaho seed wer” s what. effective tend this gathering. 32-2 to effect if the hay is weighed kocsis betbic ‘ growers as- tion, ‘The report given out by Uniontown Saturday morning, Rates were not changed for RILEY RICE FOR $1,500 in premiums at the Mr. Pavey reads as follows: Report for June and July Grasshopper project: Idaho County Farm Bureau put on a very extensive camgaign against the grasshoppers. During the months of June and July forty OFFICIAL VOTES GIVEN OUT | from the results of an automo- bile accident Friday afternoon. Al received a telegram from his parents Friday evening stating that his sister had been serious- ly injured in an auto wreck and left for Uniontown at 9:30 ac- the bulking of grein, chopping, cleaning bulk grain, the handling of hay, cleaning sacked grain, the cleaning of peas and beans) and timothy hay. Rates for the storage of grain, seed, wool, | beans and peas ‘were not chang- CONGRESSMAN NONPARTIZAN LEAGUE show to be held January. Population of Moscow is 3956 an increase of 7.8 percent over 1910, the census bureau at Wash ington announces. Moscow’s 1920 population is the first of north in Nampa in june Y COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Companied by Guss Maugg. They ed | Idaho towns to be announced. two school districts were organi- cou yeh ‘OM. IONER arrived one-half hour after his) Hearings were held on the) NAME FULL STATE TICK- Leona Willis, the nine-year-old zed to fight the pest. Twenty CANVASSING VOTE CAST | sister had passed away. The: petition before Commissioner E.| " % daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. seven grasshopper meetings AT RECENT ELECTION sad accident took place on the M, Sweeley at Weiser, July 23, ET AT NAMPA. Willis of Kamiah was accident- were held during the two months SUBNT E . road between Pullman andj and at Lewiston, July 27, before | ally drowned in the Clearwater Six hundred farmers were out Uniontown. George Herboth Commissioner A. L. Freehafer. | : 4 4 last Monday afternoon at about to these meetings. and two daughters and little Warehousemen showed an in-| , Cheering their nominees on} 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The object of the campaign was to poison the grasshopper on the hatching beds. Enough poison was mixed to cover 6250 acres. T'wo thousand and eighty- five acres were covered three times, completely exterminating Chairman John D. Long and Commissioner Dale Clark are sitting today as a board of can-' vassers on the primary election vote cast on August 3 for county officers. Commissioner E. S. Vincent being. unable to attend grandchild had motored to Pull- man Friday in order to take in 4 circus that was showing in that city and on their veturn trip, when within about six miles of home the accident occured. Mr. Herboth, who was driving, had crease of 20 per cent for labor, costs, and that the labor costs’! are 90 per cent of the expendi-| ture of warehouse operation. PETTIBONE IMPROVING. State Senator Nate Pettibone, | the shortest political party “postal card” platform ever pro- mulgated in the history of Idaho politics, 1,000 delegates in at- tendance at the state convention 'of the non-partizan league at Nampa on Wednesday August 4 With temporary trackage i» service at several points the trains on the Lewiston-Riparia branch of the Camas Prairie Railway company are now run- ning to schedule. the hopper on that area Using the session on account of his re-| been coasting down a slight in- of Idaho county, anda democrat. | nominated H. F. Samuels, of|, The promise of magnificent this area as a basis for calcula- Pane severe attack of typhoid cline and while he was reaching jc candidate for governor, who| Boundary county, for United huckleberry crops will take ever. | tion, the farm bureau saved the farmer $205,329.00 Method of calculation: 2085 acres of grasshoppers extermin- ated One acre of hoppers would destroy 10 acres of grain, hay or garden truck. Total area that these grasshoppers would have destroyed would be 20,850 acres. Placing a valuation of ten dol- lars on each of the acres destroy- On a persual of the abstract prepared by County Auditor Henry Telcher, we find that the Republicans of the county held elections in 23 precincts and the Democrats obtained on expres- sion from their adherents in only 15 of the 50 precincts. Follow- ing is the vote cast: Republican. for a key which had fallen out of the ingnition switch on the Ford car he was driving, the machine, in some manner left the road and wertt over an em- bankment throwing three of the occupants of the car clear and in! no way injuring them. From all indications the windshild cut the unfortunate girl’s juglar vein, which was almost severed two weeks ago was seriously in- | jured when he fell from a load! of hay on his ranch in the Col-| umbus district, is gradually im- proving according to word re-| ceived by friends in Cottonwood. Senator Pettibone was taken to} Lewiston Monday and there re- ceived a thorough examination which disclosed that no serious injuries were received from the States senator, and S. D. Fair- child, of Kuna, former state sen- ator from Ada county, as its gubernatorial candidate. Nominations for congressmen and for state officers were made as follows: Congressman first distriet— Riley Rice, of Cottonwood. Congressman second district— many campers to the mountains this month and the national for- est officials request all berry- pickers and other campers to be especially careful with fire. Six acres of cherry trees on the farm of John Imphurn, near Juliaetta, produced this year a total crop of 27,000 pounds which was sold for $3,200, or more than $500 an acre. e _ . : Daw H. Whiteacre, of Shoshone. iatien vane ‘Bi ed, would have damaged the State senator—Seth Jones, 333.| 29d she bleed to death. She al- fa}] but that muscles in the back Tinilibhiat “wekenick ior Me varieties were Bings and Lam- crops to the value of $208,500.00. Representative—Lloyd Fenn, 0 "eceived internal injuries. were torn loose, and this injury | ,, Lieutenant governor—O. G. | berts. : The cost of getting the bran! 979-&. C. Adkison, 88. Funeral services over her re-| has pained him considerably. Ac-| ‘'CUC* ales’ ; The Lewiston State Normal mash to the farmers who co-|” Gimmissioner-—John D. ane Gee ee held at Uniontown cording to his physician it will| . Secretary of state-—-Gerald| school summer session closed operated with the Farm Bureau 300; his opponent for the nom- Saturday morning. be some time before he has en-, Brayton of Jerome. last week. Enrollment during was $3121. This does not in-| + ston G. W. Tarbet, 78 Mr. Herboth and Mr. Mauge tirely recovered from the effects| Attorney general—Ross W.| this session reached 682, the clude the farmers time in mixing oh ee ‘Dal ~ Clark, 358 returned to Cottonwood Sunday. of the fall. | Bales, of Pocatello. largest in the history of the in- and distributing the poison. This) ~“O™ssione ie Ses i iy 3 SiGe SRE | Treasurer —H. G. Peckham, of | stitution. The 1920-21 term of campaign has lelt a profit in the “oC fk. S. Vincent, BOOSTS LEWISTON SHOW. | Wilder. - school will open September savings of the crops. to the, ??*": : Mrs. Elizabeth Renggli, aged Bert Savage, assistant secre-| Auditor—Ed Martin of Sand-| 1%- farmer amounting to the sum of Attorney B, Auger, 338. 69 years died at the home of her tary of the Lewiston Livestock $205,320.00 up to this time. Sheriff—J. G. Eimers, 363. Probate Judge—John Byrom, son Emil, in the Greencreek sec- tion Friday afternoon from Show was a visitor in Cotton-| point. The platform follows: Civil service examination will be held at Kooskia on August 18 Squirrel project: In sum- wood Monday in the interest of} ,, st 8 4 , |for candidates for the office of ‘isa up the squirrel campaign 311. betes apa dined 5 e ihaleen heart failure. the livestock show to be staged by 4 eo <o Lem postmaster at Stites, to fill va- carried on by the Idaho County an sssessor—Calv in Hazelbaker,| yrs, Renggli was born in? in Lewiston this fall. Mr. Sav- 1 = par i for = epi ©.) cancy caused by the resignation Farm Bureau, there has been & “Cv serintendent—Leonard Case, SWitzerland and came to this age. for years was connected St caanG a erat is tevor of M. P. Strecker. The office saving of $14,687.50 to the farm- gp4. a se “+ country at the age of 46 years to with the Lewiston Tribune and wate Suniel public Utilities to | P2Y8 $1200 a year. H. C. Oliver ers of the county. Method of calculation: 275 ounces of Stry- chnine Alkaloid were put out by the farmers This amount of poi- son put out by the farmers ac- Coroner—A. J. Maugg,329. Democratic. Senator—A. J. Stuart, 135. Representative—J. B. Leeper, make her home with her son and family, who are residents of the Greencreek district, having removed there some eleven years ago from Kansas. is regarded as one of the best! pencil pushers in the state but} is now devoting all of his time to the livestock association. While here he made a visit to stop profiteering. Second, we favor restoration of the direct primary. Third, we favor a re- peal of the cabinet form of gov- is acting postmaster at Stites. Captain Harry Gulecke reach- ed Lewiston recently after an ex- citing 350 mile trip with a party down the Salmon and Snake riv- } : : ; 3 i Pi en ee a farms of several prominent | &™ment. Fourth, we favor) SOW! . cording to directions poisoned 106, J. J. Pulse, 60. Funeral services were con the Pet ts lent | onding the state for reclama-|¢rs in an especially constructed 187500 squirrel holes. There) Commissioner—P. J. Taylor, ducted from the Catholic church Stockmen in order to get a line-| “OCH 108 ane 0) equal-|bateau. Two thousand feet of has been an average of 250 squirrels killed to each ounce of poison put out. Placing a val- uation of 25 cents on the damage each squirrel would have done to the grain crops, this would make a saving of $14,687.50. (275 oz X 250 squirrels X $.25-$14, 87.- 50), Poultry project: The work in poultry in Idaho County during the last two months has created a great deal of interest for the improvement of the farm flocks. There have been 9 poultry de- monstrations given, three test- Commissioner—Hamill, 28. Commissioner—Lyda, 40. Attoreny—E. M. Griffith, 125. Sheriff—W. H. Eller, 139. Treasurer—Otie L. Cone, 154. Probate Judge — Wilbur L. Campbell, 157. Superintendent—Elva Verber- kmos, 238. The Democratic candidate for the offices of county commis- sioner and school superintendent were voted for as follows and in some instances without the con- sent of the people whose names were written on the tickets: at Greencreek Saturday, by the Rev. Fr. Baerlocher and the re- mains were laid to rest in the Greencreek cemetery. A. H. Nau of Cottonwood sup- plied the funeral furnishings. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many kind friends and neighbors who assisted us during the recent ill- ness and death of our beloved mother. Your words of con- dolence has greatly lightened our burden of grief. Emil Renggli and family. up on stock that will be entered | this year. He stated that the) show this year will be the best ever and that the premium list} will be a good one. Mr. savage from here went to Grangeville on a similar mission. WILL LOCATE HERE. Fred Mckinney a resident of Grangeville for many years and at one time a resident of Cotton- wood will again make his home here. Mr. McKinney has ac- cepted a position with the Cot tonwood Hardware Co. He ex- pects to remove his family from of organized labor. ization of taxes. Sixth, we fav- or labor laws to meet the needs Seventh, we favor a state-owned bank to en- able farmers and toilers to bor- row building and farm loans at cost. Eighth, we favor state ownership and water power. a workable initiative, referen- dum and recall. Tenth, we fav- or a soldier bonus bill like that of | we North Dakota. Eleventh, favor laws to foster and protect cooperation in the state. Twelfth we favor state guarantee to cov- development of | Ninth, we favor | moving pictures were taken by P. G. Anderson and a second trip is planned in the near future. State officials assert the pre- sent condition of the Idaho pota- to crop is 95 per cent of normal, forecasting a total crop of 6,186,- 400 bushels. A year ago the condition was only 75 per cent of normal and the final outturn amounted to 5,400,000 bushels. The 1920 potato acerage is 35,000, a gain of 1000 acres over last year. Idaho has received from the war department through the fog tor. T.°B. “in spoultry 228)" ee See ——————_—_____. Grangeville to Cottonwood some’ @! bank deposits. Thirteenth, we | bureau of public roads of the de- chickens were tested. 58 react- Msp Hy gga gal FIGHTERS GIVEN DRAW. time i the near future. RAE favor government ownership of | partment of agriculture, more ed to the test, making an aver-) jiother vote being given that, The Ketchell-Reager boxing tonwood welcomes these fine railroads. than a million dollars worth of age of 35 per cent in the farm flocks tested. Six culling de- monstrations were given for egg production. Of 358 hens cul- fed 180 paid their board and made a profit for their owner. 178 were society hens and ate the profit of the 180 producing hens Or this culling made a saving to the people who owned the flocks of $151.30. Method of calculation: Feed for hen for six months, $1.50. Market value of hen at Spokane, $.23 per pound. Average weight of hens, 3 pounds, 1-3 pound hen value, 65 cents. Feed bill $1.50 less $.65 equals 85 cents cost to feed the culls six months. 178 culls times $.85 equals $151.30. In other words, the farmers who took advantage of this cul- candidate in the other 14 prec- inects in which Democratic pri- maries were held. The filing fee for this office is $18.00, the sum paid by the Republican nom- inee, which with others is used to re-imburse the county for the expense of the election supplies ete. In the case of the three Commissioners, the county is on- ly loser the sum of $21.00, being $7.00 filing fee for each. P. J. Taylor, the candidate for commissioner from the first district, was voted on in Stites, Stuart and the Grangeville pre- cincts, 21 people signified he was their choice. S. W. Hamill, we have been in- formed. declined to accept the nomination before the filing pe- riod closed. and the fact that he contest held at Winchester Sat- urday evening drew a crowd of fighting fans estimated at 1000 The fight was called a draw at the end of the 12th round. Sever- al Cottonwood boxing fans wit- essed the bout and report it a good clean contest. Both box- ers are eager to meet again and it is expected the next fight will take place in Lewiston under the auspices of the American Legion of that city. | SPEAK AT GRANGEVILLE. United States Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, a prominent figure in national politics will de- liver an address in the I .O. O. F. hall at Grangeville Saturday evening commencing at 8 o'clock. ‘arms, people to our midst. RECEIVES WAR DIPLOMA. Cecil Humphrey is in receipt of adiplima from the war de- partment, such as are being sent out to all men who were wound- ed in action. The diploma, a steel engraving representing Columbia knight- ing a doughboy with a stroke of | the sword, while in the back- ground a detachment of soldiers | with the colors stands at present bears the following in- scription : ! “Columbia gives to her son the accolade of the new chivalry of humanity. “John C. Humphrey, private. company A, Second Engineers, | SMUT TREATMENT. Charles A. Hungerford of the| University Extension Division, will discuss wheat smut and the) treatment of wheat smut, Friday August 13th, 7 p. m. at Odd Fel- lows hall. Mr. Hungerford will discuss ball smut, stinking, smut, loose smut and the relations of mois- ture at the time of seeding to the smut. All farmers are cordially invited to attend this meeting. CARD OF THANKS. We take this means of thank- |ing our friends and neighbors who assisted us during the iong illness and death of our uncle, The topic on which Senator) served with honors in the world; John Sonnen, who passed away ling work by disposing of the was a candidate being known on-| Borah will speak is the League war and was wounded in action.| at our home on August 4. war material for use in the state building program, and addition- al material jis being received which will make the total value reach more than a million and a half dollars. The remains of Clarence Bil- lips of Hope, Idaho, the first of Bonner county’s dead in Europe to be brought home arrived in Hope Wednesday and were laid to rest in the Hope cemetery. Billups crossed to France with Battery C of the 146th field art- illery but was separated from his unit by illness shortly after land- ing. After serving on the front with other outfits he rejoined Battery C in Germany, with the army of occupation. He con- tracted influenza and was sent to the base hospital at Coblenz where he shortly afterward suc- culls saved themselves the feed|ly to Grangeville Democrats he| of Nations. | “WOODROW WILSON.” Frank Thyering and family. | cumbed to the disease. _ (TRS