Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 25, 1921, Page 1

VOLUME 29. NO. 13 COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1921 COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE $2.00 PER YEAR PASS NEW CITY ELECTION LAW PROVIDES FOR NOMINA- TION OF ALL MUNICIPAL OFFICERS The last day of the session the Idaho legislature passed aa bill providing for elections in cities , of the first and second classes in villages. The bill was drawn up| by Attorney General Black who has issued the following inform- ation concerning city and village elections : 1. Date of election—Fourth Tuesday in April, which is April | ecicalb pst chenisciae side | NEWS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. 26, 1921. 2. Notice of election—-Notice of election shall be given by clerk or board of trustees not less than | 20 days preceding election. It shall contain places of registra- tion and names of deputy regis- trars. 3. Registration — Clerk or deputy registrar shall register all qualified electors, beginning with the date the notice is given and continuing till 6 o’clock p. m. of the Saturday preceding the election. Following are the provisions | of the new law governing city and village elections: 1. Candidates: How nominat- ed—Candidates may be nominat- ed either by convention or by petition. 2. Conventions: Requirements —To hold a convention requires 40 qualified electors in cities of the first class and second class and 10 qualified electors in vil- lages. The conventions may be called in any manner desired. Nominations shall be made by a majority of the qualified elect- ors participating therein. 8. Nominations by conven- tion—The convention shall nom- inate at one meeting all the can- didates it desires, and run them under its party name or the principles it represents. Each convention shall have but one cretificate of nomination, to be prepared and signed by the pres- iding officer and secretary of the convention and to cover the nomination of all candidates nominated. As many conven- tions may. be held as_ there are qualified voters sufficient to hold them. 4. Nominations by Petition— As many petitions may be sub- mitted for each office as desired, if the necessary number of sig- natures of qualified voters be obtained. offices cannot certificate. an office at large in cities of the first or second class must be signed by 40 qualified electors, and in villages, by 10 qualifiel electors. If for an office re- presenting a ward or subdivision of a municipality, such as council man, then such petition must be signed by at least six qualified electors of the ward or subdivi- sion. 5. Certificates: how filed—All nomination for elective munici- pal offices, whether made by convention or by petition, shall be filed with the clerk of the municipality not more than 30 nor less than 12 days preceding the day of the election, excluding the day of election. 6. Executive committee—A covention shall elect an executive committee of seven qualified electors. One of its duties pres- cribed by law is to fill vacancies in offices where the nominees of the convention resign or other- wise become unable to run. 7. Vacancies: How created and filled—-A nominee may re- sign within 10 days before the election. If a convention nom- inee resigns the executive com- mittee of the convention has the power to make the substitute nomination. If the original nomination was made by petition then two-thirds of the signers of the original petition may make a substitute nomination. Sub- stitute nominations in all cases must be filed with the clerk at least eight days before the elec- tion. 8. Duties of clerks—The clerk shall compile the certifi- he made in one When and certificates of Nominations for two § A certificate for ‘ | cates in ballot form and cause | this to be published at least once hin the week immediately - noo the election in at least one newspaper of general circulation, \the municipality; otherwise it) | shall be the duty of the clerk to! post such form in three public) places, one of which shall be at | the city hall or place of meeting {of the city council or board of trustees. Such notice must be | posted at least one week immed- iately preceding the day of elec- tion, excluding the day of elec- tion. Not more than five days prior to the election the clerk shall prepare the ballot, being! governed by the provisions of section 9 of senate bill No. 330 and as far as practicable by the provisions of sections 578 of the Compiled Statutes. Miss Bertha Ries has returned | to Cottonwood to attend school. Mat Butsch, who came here a couple weeks ago from Mt Angel, Oregon showed his faith in Camas prairie real estate this week by purchasing from Frank Goeckner a 160-acre farm two miles south of Keuterville pay- ing $4000 for it. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Lange and daughter, Miss Minnie Lange, who have been stopping at Kam- | lah for several days past came up Tuesday to make their future home here. Sam Goldstone expects to leave Monday for Lewiston where he will remain for a few days and then being joined by his son and the Misses Binnard the party will leave for San Francisco where they will visit for a couple months. Frank Wright made a business trip to Nezperce Tuesday. Johnnie Maxey came out from accross Salmon river to attend the dance Friday night. informs us that with the building of the railroad he will in all probability make some material changes in his big store here. VISITS COUNTY SCHOOLS. Leonard Case, the county su- perintendent, visited in this sec- tion of the county last Friday. Mr. Case, before accepting the position of county superinten- dent was superintendent of the Ferdinand public school. Dur- ing the campaign Mr. Case had no opposition and consequently did not visit this part of the county but when introduced to him we learned to our great sur- prise that it was the same Case who we played football against during our school days. If Mr. Case “hits the line as hard and re” as he did in his younger in his capacity as county rintendent we predict that Idaho county will have no re- grets to make for electing him to this important position. That he will live up to his former reputation is a foregone conclu- sion. NEW MANAGER FOR MERC. L. R. Atkinson, of Seattle, Wash., arrived in Cottonwood last week to accept the manager- ship of the Cottonwood Mercan- tile Co. and has already taken active charge of the concern. Mr. Atkinson, who is a married man, with five children, expects to remove his family to Cotton- wood at the close of the present school term in his former home. Mr. Atkinson comes highly re- commended to the Cottonwood Mercantile Co. by his former employers and we extend a hearty welcome to the new com- er and wish him success and happiness while a resident of our little city. MANY FILE RETURNS. The total number of income tax returns filed this year will exceed that of last year, accord- ing to estimates made by the revenue office. - Although it was expected that the tax de- rived would be considerably less this year than last, the officers now estimate that there will be little difference. The increased number of re- turns is due to the ruling that separate returns should be made by husband and wife, where community property is held. The last Married Folks dance | will be given on April Foo! Day. if there be one, in| ‘. eT) | TAKE iT ALL OFF | a LEAVE A LITTLE ON FOR EASTER, THE Mi5SUS WANTS no =e NEW HAT material and medical stores. “The suffering and the help- RAISE UNDS FOR less in Ireland seek aid from the | American people, who have nev- }er yet refused an appeal from the suffering and helpless. To relieve the bitter need of the Irish people the undersigned | there fore confidently appeal for aid to the humanity of America., MONEY TO BE RAISED TO) FEED SUFFERING WOMEN AND CHILDREN. place in the world where the | destruction of resources has ; | been continuous. Today industry An appeal is being made} j, paralyzed in Ireland and the throughout the United States | seater part of the able bodied for funds to relieve the starving | male population women and children of Ireland. | hunted and A nationwide organization) ]f present conditions continue known as the American com-} unrelieved the Irish race in Ire- mittee for relief in Ireland has} jand faces virtual annihilation. been formed and this organiza-| We are confident that Ameri. tion has branches in every com-| cans of every class and creed munity in the land. The state) will respond promptly to avert of Idaho has been asked for) the terrible fate menacing a peo- $10,000 as its quota and com-| ple to whom they are so closely mittees are now at work solicit-| jound by ties of kinship and of a ing these funds. vies common heritage. i Donald A. Callahan of Wal- lace is state chairman and H. T. Agnew is chairman of Idaho county. The drive started on March 17 and will continue until the quota for the state is raised. Up to the present time Mr. Agnew assisted by John Morar- ity have sed in the neighbor- hood of $225. This amount does | is leading a fugitive existence. SIDNEY BROW N BUYS. Sidney Brown yesterday clos- ed a deal with Joseph Kaufman, sr., whereby he becomes the owner of the Kaufman ranch 1 mile south of Cottonwood, con- sisting of 300 acres, at a report- ed consideration of $134 an acre a - | including the crop. In the deal, not include funds collected in} 1. Brown turns over a ranch in other sections of the county. | the Lewiston country. Mr. 3rown will take immediate pos- session of the will not remove his family here will till the land himself. The Kaufman farm is considered a The statement issued follows: The American Committee for Relief in Ireland was organized at a meeting in New York, Dec- ember 29, 1920, attended by re- presentative Americans of Trish} fine piece of land is highly im- blood from all parts of the coun-| proved. try. The following appeal was| Myr. and issued: family will retire from active “In Ireland today thousands) work, but while undecided as to of women and children have been | where they will locate in all pro- driven to the pitiful refuge of | | bability will remove to some the fields and open country. Bal-| milder climate. briggan, Granard, Tralee, Tem- | plemore, Trim, Tobercurry, Lis-| burn, Thurles, and numerous | other towns and villages have} the city council chambers last been burned and are in ruins.| night for the purpose of talking In Cork alone, acres of business! over the prospects of having a buildings and homes have been) ball team in Cottonwood the wiped out by fire. and grim win-| coming summér. The sentiment ter has overtaken the homeless. lof the meeting was strong for a “Over forty creameries, the} ball team, providing strictly co-operative plants of great and | home teams were maintained by small communities, built by the) the other towns on the prairie. Irish farmers, have been razed! Cottonwood was the only town to the ground and the economic | in the Prairie League last year units they served have been| who maintained a strictly home paralyzed. team, some of the members of “Thousands of workers have} the leaeue employing from 2 to been thrown out of employment | 7 outside players. More defin- of the burning of factories and | ite plans are expected to develop creameries, and in consequence | from the meeting held last night of the generally disturbed condi- SS tion in Belfast alone, 30,000 ship; TO BUILD CHURCH. John Reiland, the contractor, yard workers and their, families returned from Whitebird Sun- are on the verge of starvation. “The transportation system | day evening where he spent sev- eral days outlining plans for the has broken down, so that it is difficult to distribute even such | construction of a Catholic church supplies as are available in Ire-| at that place. The building will | he 34x54, and is said will be one land. “To meet this appalling situa-|of the finest churcties in the state, considering the size. The tion and to cope with it before | it reaches a point where it may | building will cost approximately $5000. Work will be commenc- menace the very existence of the Irish people, the American Com-| ed on the church edifice within mittee for Relief in Ireland has| the next six weeks. From re- been formed. This committee | ports, the entire cost of the is a non-political and non-secta-| building of the church will be rian body, solely humanitarian | paid by two prominent White- in aim, whieh seeks the coopera- | bird families. tion of all those in whom human | —_— suffering evokes sympathy. | A successful three weeks’ re- “This American committee) vival at the Community church purposes to supply relief to the closed Sunday evening. Rev. J. women and children in Ireland. H. Carrick, the evangelist in | without regard to political or re- charge departed for his home at | ligious distinctions, through | | trained relief workers, distribut-| | panied by Rev. and Mrs, Marion ing foodstuffs, clothing, building | Sligar. Mrs. Kaufman and BASEBALL MEETING. About 50 baseball fans met in — ‘DID NOT SEND “TIPS” | Ferdinand Banker Writes About banker and financier in an arti- | | 24th, gives some very interesting | | facts and figures concerning the | locality and consequently we be-| {many of our readers. as follows: “Treland is virtually the only | farm but while he} | seven years, Present Financial Conditions F. M. Bieker, a Ferdinand jcle appearing in the Ferdinand ' Enterpri ise, under date of March present financial conditions. Mr. Bieker, is well known in this will lieve his article interest It reads In the interest of truth, and of fairness to all concerned, wish hereby to correct a state- ment made by a representative of the Wheat Growers Associa- tion in his talk at Ferdinand last week, namely that “Wall Street | had sent out tips last October to} all banks in the country, to col- | lect from the farmers, and quick | too.” While I have nothing, what ever, against the Association, | but wish them success, and | heartily endorse his plan for co-| operation between the farmers and businessmen, I will say that this bank has not received any such tip, nor similar tip, from | Wall Street or anybody else, at} any time. | When it became apparent that farmers, with few exceptions had concluded to hold their | wheat for better prices, and that | as a consequence we would be de- | prived of the large amounts of | deposits to which we had been | looking forward, and which we had received every other year at} that time, it was not hard to see that we were up against a real | tough proposition. 1 did then, | on my own initiative, what I) thought was necessary to protect | our depositors and share-hold-| ers: (in other words, to keep up} our reserve), namely, stopped | loaning and started to collect in all I could, as notes came due. As we had used our outside cred- it rather free already thru the summer, it was not safe to de- pend on that source alone. | A bank's first duty is towards its depositors; and it must have} the right to collect in its loans | as they come due, if nece ry, otherwise it would be impossible to run a bank. Wall Steet banks are no different in this respect than any other bank. Some peo-| vle ask “Where is all the mon- ey?” It is loaned out, and loaned largely on what we call “frozen | credits.” Loans that are not said when due. We might also ask, where does all the money come from that is loaned by the banks? Bank loans amount to more than five times the amount of all the money in the country. Could it not be that loans have been over extended ? Money has been easy the last since the Reserve Board was put in operation, for that system created large am- ounts of credits. But these cred- its have all been taken up by loans now, and we cannot keep on going in debt deeper every year as we have been doing. Last October, of the twelve re- serve banks, eight found them- seves short of the required 40 per cent gold reserve, and in order not to shut down on mak- | ing loans altogether, they bor- rowed 277 million dollars from the other four banks which hap- pened to still have a surplus. This shows that the system was stretched about to its limit. So! we may look forward to tighter | money henceforth, as far as bank loans are concerned, not, only this year but for years to} come. ~ F. M. Bieker. | LEGION TO GIVE DANCE. Cottonwood Post No. 40, of the American Legion, has made) preliminary arrangements for a| dance tobe given Wednesday, April 6th. The boys intend to make this a grand affair and} have secured Mann Brothers and | for many years. Kelsey orchestra of Lewiston to} furnish the music for the even- ing. This orchestra is recognized | to be one of the best in the west. | More will be said about the dance | | Kendrick by Sheriff Wood. Al- next week. On Saturday afternoon Mrs. | G. F. Simon entertained at her | home. The hours were spent | at 500, with later delicous re- were awarded to Mrs. Bart) ' Simon and Mrs. John Johann. | which NEWS AROUND THE STATE Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. Highway up the South Fork of the Clearwater river, from Rocky point to the Castle creek ranger station, now is 99 percent complete. The job will be fin- ished by April 12, it s said. The Hercules and the Tama- rack and Custer, two of the big- gest silver-lead mines in the Ida- ho Coeur d’Alenes, closed down | Sunday, letting out about 700 men. Metal market conditions are said to be the cause of the action. Driggs high school won the basketball championship of the state 30 to 14 by defeating Boise high school players in the final game of the University of Idaho annual interscholastie basketball tournament Moscow. Matt Dowd was acquitted by a jury in district court at Lewis- ton Thursday on a statutory charge after less than an hour's deliberation. The courtroom was crowded with curious spec- tators. Dowd for many years was prominent in business there. W.H. Ball, 26, a Pauline farm- er residing near American Falls after shooting and _ slightly wounding F. Blant, another farmer, on the highway near Pauline, barricaded himself in his cabin and shot three other men of a posse which besieged |him. Governor Davis and Reclama- tion Commissioner Swendsen left Saturday for Washington to assist western senators and re- presentatives in drafting the new reclamation bill to be pre- sented at the special session of congress which opens on April Te Grangeville turned out en masse Friday evening to witness the basketball contest between the fat Elks and the lean Elks of Grangeville, the event having been arranged as a benefit for Friday night at |the high school basketball team fund. The “Fats” won the game by a score of 7 to 6, after thrilling play. A quarter of a million dollars, representing one-tenth of a fed- eral appropriation of two and one-half millions, has been ob- tained for the farmers in the drought stricken areas of Idaho, for the purchase of seed with to start another crop. The money will be available with in the next 10 days. Candidates for third grade teacher’s certificates in Idaho will not be permitted to teach in the fall of 1921 unless they pass the preliminary examinations to be held in all the counties on June 3and4. This informa- tion was contained in a state- ment made Saturday by Dr. E. A Bryan, state commissioner of education. P. L. Neil, commissioner of public welfare, was in Orofino two or three days the later part of the week from Boise taking a preliminary survey of the im- | provements to be made during the summer at the North Idaho sanitarium, the late legislature making an appropriation of | $105,000 for this purpose. An | additional ward is to be built, a | larger barn erected and the irri- | gation facilities extended to cov- er the land under cultivation on | the south side of the Clearwater river. Walter Kline, one of the few remaining prospectors of the jearly days of Idaho, has just been admitted to the county farm, a thing he has dreaded The old man, who had spent more than 50 | years “in the hills” seeking gold, aways optimistic, always certain that “this year I will strike it rich,” was taken to Moscow from most 80 years old, and nearly blind, he is unable to take care |of himself and for the last three years has made his home with |Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ivy, pro- Asotin Monday morning accom-|freshments served. The prizes} prietors of a hotel at Kendrick, who cared for him as if he were ‘a near relative. ~