Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 4, 1921, Page 1

VOLUME 29. NO. 10 - COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, March 4, 1921 $2.00 PER YEAR COURT UPHOLDS — FARM LOAN ACT PRACTICALLY UNANIMOUS DECISION—FUNDS WITH- IN 30 DAYS. Washington, Feb. 28 —The farm loan act, designated to help agricultural development by! providing readily accessible cred- | its to farmers through federal | land banks, was declared valid today by the supreme court. In an opinion which Commis- sioner C. E. Lobdell, of the farm} loan board, declared removed) every shadow of question as to) legality of the banks or their | bonds, the court held congress had authority to establish the) land banks and to exempt the| bonds: from state taxation. | He announced there would be issuance of farm loan bonds to) finance the hunderds of millions | of dollars in loans approved by the board. “It will be at least 30 days be- fore funds are available,” he said, “but distribution will be be- gun as soon as possible. The| farm loan board is hopeful that} the market may absorb bonds equal to the borrowing demands of the farms.” | The case was an appeal from | lower court decrees refusing a injunction sought by C. W to restrain that institution from investing funds in land bank se- curities. The contention was made that the farm loan act was invalid as congress had neither the authority to establish banks or to exempt their i from state taxation, } The court, in a practically un-| jess than $100 or more than $300 or imprisonment in the county _government. | jai] not to exceed six months for The power to designate fiscal | the second offense. animous upheld the authority opinion, of the agencies has been conceded con-'| gress since the days of Chief Justice Marshall, the opinion cigarettes was apparently clear S | but several expressed the opini- Smith, a stockholder in the Kan-| 9" that the sure carried a sas City Title & Trust company ed the sale of pipe tobacco. possession for sale either whole- sale or retail giving away is a misdemeanor and upon conviction is punish- 7 able by a fine of not less than securities | $59 nor more than $100 for the care until able to travel further, | when they will be brought by the authorities to Grangeville. Bul-| lard, with a pack on his back, hit the trail across the hills toward | Snake river. According to Deputy Arnold,| [ | neighbors of the family were of | | the opinion Bullard might lay, plans to dispose of his wife and! children. Besides the new born | babe, they have one other child. Bullard was in jail in Grange-| ville in October, 1918, for failure | to support his family. The famil | has resided in Grangeville, Ferd-| inand, Craigmont and Clarkston | during the last three years. In| Clarkston, a year ago, Bullard, | it is said, dug a hole in the yard) and filled the hole with water so | that the children might play in| the water. One of their child- ren was drowned in the pool. ANTI-CIGARETTE ACT. Passage of the Harding anti-| cigarette bill in the house of re- presentatives of the state legis-| lature Friday has aroused much speculation as to just what ef- fect the law will have on the dealers of the state. Petitions are pouring into the governor’s office asking him to veto the} measure. Several merchants were of the opinion that the law would not only prohibit the sale of cigar- ettes but would also prohibit the sale of pipe tobacco. The clause prohibiting the im- portation and keeping for sale of Under the terms of the law or possession for first offense and a fine of not Several different interpreta- tions were placed on the law but no state official would give an held, and the tax exemption opinion. Roy L Black, attorney provision was a necessary pro tection. Justices McReynolds and Homes, dissenting, explained they took exception to the court’s assumption of jurisdic- tion, rather than to the findings | The case was within the scope of Missouri laws and the state courts, they said. | Justice Day, who delivered the court’s opinion, said: “Congress declared it neces- sary to create these fiscal agen- cies and to make them authoriz- ed depositories of publis monies. | Its power to do so is no longer open to question.” AGAIN IN TROUBLE. In the days just before she gave birth to a child sour dough pancakes cooked in hot tallow| smoking. constituted the only diet of Mrs. Bullard, blind, who resides on the Doumecg plains. This is the story brought to Grangeville the first of the week, says the Idaho County Free Press, by Deputy Sheriff Chester Arnold, who was called to the plains by irate citiz- ens to investigate conditions in the Bullard household. Mrs. Bullard has been blind for years. Bullard, who has a reputation throughout Idaho county of not supporting his family, kept his wife, who was about to become a mother, in a hovel, which the deputy sheriff found practically devoid of furniture. Bullard, knowing his wife was soon to give birth to a child, refused to employ either a physician or a nurse, it is said, made no pre- parations for arrival of the in- fant, and had nothing in the house to eat, save material from which the sourdough pancakes were made. Two women went to tiie hovel and attended Mrs. Bullard dur- ing childbirth. After the baby was born, the women were order- ed by Bullard to leave. Neigh- bors, hearing of conditions, gath ered, determined a change should be made in the Bullard domestic affairs, and notified the sheriff's office. When Deputy Arnold arrived, he took the women and her new- born babe to the home of a and stimulated their pupils to| atightoer, whens thay wit mngaive | yoctinigate in 4.“ general, said that he had not studied the bill and would not make any comment at this time. Karl Plaine, Boise attorney, | when asked whether the law would prohibit the sale of tobac- | co in any form expressed his | opinion as follows: | “No one who sells or carries in| stock smoking tobacco for use in| a pipe could be convicted under this statute, unless he knew or | had reason to know that the tobacco was to be used as a com pound in the filling or makeup of | a cigarette. | “The bill adopts the language of the present statute in regard | to the clause ‘or the compounds | of tobacco used in the filling or | make up of cigarettes,’ except for the purpose of chewing or) The compounds of | tobacco to a man dealing in to-| bacco may have a special mean- | ing.” — | WINONA GIRL IS SECOND. | Miss Ethel Redfield, state su- | perintendent of public instruc- tion, has issued the following) announcement: | “The essay contest for grade| pupils announced by the state director of thrift education and conducted by the county direct- ors of fourteen counties on the subject ‘“‘Why I Should Save and | Buy War Savings Stamps” was | concluded on January 15. The county selected the three best essays in| their respective counties and the state director made the final! state. |This animal sale will enable th | before they go over the auction | the catalog. SHORTHORN SALE SET FOR MAY 7 SALE WILL BE HELD BY AS- SOCIATION—WILL BE IN IN CHARGE OF PAVEY The directors of the Idaho County Shorthorn Breeders As- sociation at the December meet- ing set the date of the first An- nual Shorthorn sale for May 7, 1. ; joker” and in reality prohibit- 192 The association intends to make the sale an annual affair for the disposing of their surplus stock. A sale held at this time of the year will furnish good bulls in the right condition to be turned out on the range or to be used for the head of the ranch herds. An annual sale of this kind will be a big benefit to the buyers of purebreed stock for at this sale there will be assembled together a large number of very excellant animals thus affording the prospective buyer an opport- unity to make his selection and }compare it with other animals both of the same age but of dif- ferent breeding. A buyer go- ing from ranch to ranch looking for breeding stock has to carry the impression of each individual animal in his mind. While at a sale of this kind he will have a chance to see the same animals standing side by side. When there are two animals standing side by side it is easy to decide upon which one is your choice | but going from ranch to ranch a |W buyer looses time and in many instances he makes a wrong buy simply on account of him not be- ing able to visuallize the animal | that he has last looked at or he cannot carry the type that he wishes to produce in his mind. buyer to see and compare just how the different animals differ block. At the present time there are twenty three animals listed for the sale and by the twentieth of March the entrys for the sale will go to the printer to make up The association is open to all breeders of Shorthorn cattle any breeder who isn’t already a mem ber of the association can be- come a member. All members ORGANIZE AUXILIARY. About nineteen members of the American Legion and wives and sisters of service men met at the legion room evening and organized an auxil- j}iary to the American Legion at Cottonwood. The condition of the roads prevented a number of the country folks from being present but the organization was made by the election of Mrs. Frank Albers, president; Mrs. Jess Robertson, vice president; Mrs. Lloyd Turner, secretary- treasurer. Another joint meeting will be — the second Tuesday in April and it is the intention to form a social organization by a combina-| Shoshone county commission- tion of the Legion and the Aux-|€"8. have comp! arrange- iliary. Meetings will be held| ments with the forestry service jon the second Tuesday of each | for, building a new wagon road, month. Separate business meet-| Under government supervision, |ings will be held at the same | {om the Montana Idaho summit | time after which a social gather- | at Lookout to Mullan. This road ling will finish up the evening. | Will connect with a similar pro All those eligible to member. renga bees ee ee ship will be welcome to attend | Bosse HARDING TAKES | the next meeting, and it is hoped | last fall to within a short = |to have a good crowd. By-at-| tance of the summit, and wil OFFICE, TODAY tending the meeting will not|form a new link in the Yellow- | obligate you to become a mem- | Stone trail. but the) Mrs. W. W. Hammell, age 80 |more members the better gath-| Years and wife of Col. Hammell, MANY INTERESTING FACTS erings will be held_by the Auxil-| 0" of the men who laid out the liary, and it is hoped that it will townsite of Nezperce, REGARDING NEW fever de tabli | away at her home in San ab he = pie os 4 establish 9) Cal recenty. The family until PRESIDENT. regular amount of dues. ene : , All legion and ex-service men | ® a Merete a on their and all eligible to membership "a4, poncecrgin dade ye B29 a Warren G. Harding, who takes | in the auxiliary are invited to) 94 begitning. ‘at sak NEWS AROUND THE STATE Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. Bonners Ferry, Idaho, claims to have the oldest house in Idaho The structure was near pod seed of the present city in |ber of the Auxiliary, office today as the twenty-ninth attend the next meeting at the president of the United States, is| the first president to be elected |. to that high office on his birth-| © day. He was 55 years old Novy- ember 2, 1920. U. S. senator elected to the pres- idency. . | President Harding is the seventh president contributed to Only Virginia, | eight presidents born within her borders, outranks regard. No president has been born west of Ohio. No president | none " inoi ated with a profit. ~ has resided west of Illinois. tame che ‘ak hen ted under | and Will T. Platt for $55,500. President Harding is the sev-| enth president paternal ancestry. Fifteen of our presidents, over the period lodge rooms on April 18th. a. dance immediately after the He is the first | Close of the lenten season . | TO HOLD MEETING. found a notice to the stockhold- | the country by the state of Ohio. | €r's of the Creamery company of . wi | a meeting to be held at the K. C. ; pee MN ioe Hane hall March 12th. The creamery | Cannon as commissioner of agri- Ohio in this| Was closed down last fall because | cream v that the plant could not be oper-| @cres in the southern Scotch-Irish | lease to an outside concern who} © ot Rash ate have used it as a cream shipping | lies along the breaks of canyons station but it seems that this has | !eading to Snake river. {February 28 has 140 cases. | There are four statutory cases |and one each for burglary, rob- bery and forgery. | Charging Miles Cannon, state commissioner of agriculture, | with misconduct in office, Lafe Boone, fruit man of Boise, by a formal petition to Governor D. W. Davis filed Saturday after | noon, seeks the removal of Mr. A committee from both organ- zations was appointed to put on Elsewhere in this issue will be | | culture. receipts were so light| G. W. Follett Sr. has 7 Since that| Latah eounty to John A. Platt The land is largely grazing and It was been unsatisfactory to the cream) bought for pasture for Platt of 133 years, have been of Eng- lish decent, three of Scotch, one of Welsh and two of Dutch The average age of our presi- dents at inauguration is 54 years approximately, while the approxi mate average at death has been | 66 years. . | President Harding exemplifies the rapid rise possible in Amer-| ican life better than any of his predecessors : He was not in- cluded in the 1914-15 “Who's Tho.” Like many of his predecessors also, his parents were not wealthy and he has risen to the highest office within the gift of the American people through frugality, industry and thrift, of | which he is a warm exponent, | producers and that now every-| Brothers’ herd of purebred, reg- one is anxious that the plant be! istrer Hereford cattle. started again. | years have been unusually hard| The contract was awarded for the dairy farmers as wages Friday by the state highway were*too high to permit of hir-| commission at Boise for the con- ing help and which sometimes | struction of two bridges on pro- was not to be had at any price ject No. 33 of the Lewis and as also short crops so reduced the cream production that it was found creamery. believed conditions have chang-| the Houser ed and since former patrons have | had an opportunity of comparing | test and treatment as between selling to their own shipping outside, they are anxi- ous to see their own plant start-! ed again as they have found it| Mrs. Borley slept for 14 days Part is The last two) tillable land. Clark highway, between Arrow and Spalding, to the Lord Con- necessary to close the struction company, for $19,600. Now however it is The next lowest bid was from Construction com- pany, for $20,800. The first case of sleeping sick- ness which has been dealt with successfully at Coeur d’Alene is that of Mrs. Walter Borley, who is now on the road to recovery. plant or much more satisfactory to sell! and all hope for her life had been TWO THIRDS OF CROP SOLD. | "ight here at home to them-| abandoned until she suddenly selves than to ship it out. It is estimated that two-thirds of the last year’s crop in the Lewiston section of Idaho and} the adjoining portion of the) Palouse country has been sold. Many farmers are holding for) higher prices next month. Ac-| cording to figures compiled by the largest buyers, the highest average price was paid growers of the Lapwai section who mark- | j, eted early, receiving over $2 for! their crops. At Kooskia and Genesee the prices paid averag- are entitled to put their stock in this sale subject to the following ruling by the board of directors, superintendent | “Each member is entitled to en- ter two males to each female that he puts into the sale.” The association feels sure that | selection of the three best in the| it will have the support of all The first prize of three | breeders of pure breed livestock, war saving stamps was awarded | for an exhibition of this kind of to Jerl E. Weber, a seventh grade pupil of Goldberg, Custer county. The second award of two war savings stamps was granted to Lucinda Matthews, Winona, Idaho county. ene Nielson of Cache, county, was the winner of the one war savings stamp which was given as third prize. Flor- | Teton | | pure breed animals will help all similar lines of pure breed ani- mals. Any one that wishes any in- formation regarding the enter- ing of animals or becoming a member address Ralph M. Pavey | Grangeville, Idaho. CORAM ILL. “The state director congratu-| lates these young people, and all others who wrote essays. I wish to thank the teachers who took an interest in the contest John Coram, a well known pio- ;neer of Idaho county, who is | spendjng the winter in California | with his wife is ill at his | home at Long Beach, Cal. Mr. jt Coram was formerly a resident Grangeville ed $1.93; Grangeville and Kam-| iah $1.81; Cottonwood $1.79;) Fenn, $1.78 and Culdesac $1.76. ROAD BILL POSTPONED. Bill appropriating $25,000 | state money for the Grave creek road, in the Fenn, Joseph and, Keuterville highway districts, in Idaho county, was killed by the finance committee of the state senate, last Thursday, by the in- definite postponement rou te. The bill was introduced in the house by Representative Fenn, | and was passed by that body. | According to word received from Boise there appears to be! other means in which to get an! appropriation for this road. | | Mrs. C. H. Greve was hostess Thursday afternoon at her home to a number of friends. The) afternoon was pleasantly spent | at. needlework. Delicious re- refreshments were served. | store Monday evening. [ome = nd the trance and im- concteinmicriatlirti mediate! n to improve. NEWS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. Berth. Satecuen ake was Born to the wife of Clem Frei, tried Tuesday before Justice I. C. a boy. | Hattabaugh of Lewiston on the The marriage of Miss Kate) charge of battery on the person Bauer, recently from Germany | of “Billy” Gruver, a two-year-old to Geo. Schwartz was solemnized | youth who had been placed in at the George Terhaar farm her care by the Children’s Home south of Greencreek Monday) society, decided to pay the fine morning, Rev. Campbell officat-| and costs imposed on her by the ing. | court Wednesday and not appeal Deputy Sheriffs Blackburn, the case as was her first inten- and Pearson were in town Tues-| tion. The fine and costs amount- day and left Wednesday morning ed to $89.05 for Grangeville having been un-| The executive committee of able to get any trace of the rob-| the American Legion post of bers who held up the Greencreek | Sandpoint wired Governor D. W. | Davis as follows: “We protest Fred Lange is building a brick | the anti-cigarette act becoming foundation under John Funkes a law with so little expression of house this week. | public sentiment in advance of M. F. Fuchs left Tuesday for | legislative action, and urgently Grangeville on business connect-| request your veto to this bill. ed with the extension of the! Men worthy of gifts of cigarettes Nezperce Co-operative telephone | as national defenders should not line from this place to the now be denied the privilege of county seat. | their use. If this state must |have such regulation go the CREAMERY MEETING. | limit—inelude all tobaccos and There will be a meeting of the| cigarettes.” stockholders of the Cottonwood! The Diamond and Ohio Match Creamery Co., March. 12th at| companies, both of which have 1:30 at the K. C. hall to consider| factory units in Spokane, have changing the by-laws and mak-| expended jointly over $2,500,000 ing an assessment on the capital! within the last year in Idaho stock to pay outstanding debts! white pine stumpage and have of the company. ll stock-| bought prosperity and industry holders are urgently requested | to Idaho forest people. Combined to be present. the two companies have payrolls JOHN HOENE, President.| in Idaho and Washington in ex- W. B. HUSSMAN, Sec. cess of 2500 men.