Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, November 25, 1921, Page 1

BAER SUES — FOR $31,000 FILED SUIT FOR DAMAGES AND REFORMATION OF MORTGAGE. Asking $15,00 damages from C. W. Brockman, oil stock pro- moter, and reformation of a $16,000 mortgage on lands in Idaho county, John Baer, live- stock dealer, of Lewiston, has filed in the district court of Idaho county suit against Asa Jones, Margaret M. Jones, Lewis R. Jones, Walter H. Lempns, Alice E. Lemons, C. W. Brock- man and A. F. Duncan, says the Idaho County Free Press. Baer, through his attorneys, James F. Ailshie, of Coeur d’- Alene,*and Miles S. Johnson, Lewiston, alleges he was the owner of a promissory note for $15,900, given him by Asa Jones, Walter H. Lemons and Lewis R. Jones, and that as security for the $15,000, representing money borrowed from Baer, he held a mortgage on certain lands in Idaho county. Baer claims he was informed the Texas & Northwestern Oil company, which Brockman re- presented, owned valuable oil lands and leases in Texas, and that he was “deceived and mis- led” into purchasing stock in the company. fe claims he was induced to secure a new mort- gage from the mortgagors dir- ectly to C. W. Brockman. Nei- ther the principal nor interest has ever been paid, Beer alleges. The new mortgage, representing principal and interest on the loan originally made to .mortgagors by Baer, amounting to $16,000. Baer claims that Brockman gave him in exchange for the mortgage 113 shares of oil stock and $4076 in cash. He further claims that, in the sale of the oil stock, Brockman did not comply with the Idaho law. He asserts he tendered Brockman the cil stock and $4076 in cash for the mortgage, but Brockman has re- fused to accept the offer. 3aer further claims that in December, 1920, Brockman “‘ex- ecuted a pretended assignment” of the mortgage to A. F. Duncan, for “no consideration.” He alleges he has been damag- ed in the sum of $15,000, which amount, together with costs he seeks to recover, and further- more he asks that the mortgage in question be reformed but substituting the name of John Baer in place of C. W. Brockman. GENTRY-SAGER. Miss Mayme Allen Sager, eld- est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Sager, and Joseph M. Gen- try, sonof Mrs. Celia Gentry, daughter and son of two well known and highly respected families of Cottonwood, were married Saturday evening at Grangeville. The wedding took place in the parlors of the Impe- rial Hotel, W. N. Knox, officiat-| ing. Mrs. Gentry, the bride, for some time past has been in the employ of the Nezperce Tele- phone Company and through her courteous and _ accomodating ways has made a wide circle of friends with patrons of the tele- phone company as well as with the public in general. Mr. Gentry has been associated with his brother in crushing rock, under a contract, for the new road which was built in Cottonwood this fall. The couple will make their home at the Hussman sawmill where the groom will be in charge of logging operations for the Hussman Lumber Co. The Chronicle wishes to he numbered with their many well wishing friends. FIELD DEPUTY HERE. W. E. Fuller, of Council. Idaho district deputy for the Modern Woodmen for the Northern sec- tion of Idaho is in Cottonwood this week organizing a class of candidates which they will init- iate into that order on December 21st. Mr. Fuller hopes to have some 30 condidates by the 20th * of the coming month. | invited to attend the meeting. RONICLE COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1921 COUNTY OUT OF DEBT. | Idaho county has no outstand- ing bonded debt, but political subdivisions of the county have | a debt totaling almost $400,000, according to a report received | Thursday at the bureau of public! accounts from a field examiner | who is making a survey of all| the counties for bonded indebt- | edness. The exact amount of the indebtedness is $393,722.45, and more than half, or $238,000 | is against the highway districts of the county. The current expense levy of the county for 1921 is 50 cents on the $100 of valuation. Indebtedness in the county is as follows: | Cities and villages ....$ 27,822.45 | Highway districts 238,000.00 Ind. school districts 84,000.00 Com. school districts 48,900.00 Total $393,722.45 2625 ENROLLED — IN THE SCHOOLS 124 TEACHERS IN COUNTY— AVERAGE MONTHY SALARY $133.20 Total enrollment in the public schools of Idaho county is 2625, and of the eighty-seven school districts in the county, school is in session in eighty-two, accord- ing to a report just issued by Leonard Case, county superin- tendent of public instruction. There are 3608 children of school age in the county. Statistics on the public schools for the current year follow: Schoo! districts ..... 87 Holding-school, 1921 82 Town and city schools - 8 Rural schools - 74 School buildings One room - w 3) Two rooms 6 Three rooms 2 Pour wome .-..1--... 1 More than four rooms 4 School teaching high school 9 One-year high schools 2 Two-year high schools - 2 Three-year high schools - 1 Four-year high schools ...... 4 Teachers employed ..... 124 Men teachers 14 Women teachers 110 Rural teachers ea | Town and city teachers -. 50 Teachers with no experience 16 With one years’ experience 16 With two years’ experience 10 With three years’ experience 6 With more than three years’ experience 74 Total yearly salary, $133,859. Average yearly salary, 1,079.- 50. Total monthly salary, 16,525,- 80. Average monthly salary, 183.-, 20. Average monthly ral teachers) 117.36. Average monthly salary (town and city teachers) 144.70. School children, boys, 1890 School children, girls, 1718. Total number of school child-| ren, 3608. Enrollment (rural) salary (ru- noe) 678 Girls ; 626 (Town and City) ee See ee 653 Girls ... 668 Total number enrolled, 2625. Average number of months of school, 8.1. Average number of pupils each teacher Town and city ae Assessed valuation, 1920, $14.431,655.93. Valve of school property 1920, $273,388.00. Amount of school expendi-, tures, 1920, $197,633.56. Number of new buildings con-_ structel in 1921, 3. j EXPERT COMING. F. Benz, agricultural agent for the Northern Pacific railroad, and expert potatoe grower, will speak in Cottonwood, Tuesday December 6th, at 11 a. m., it is announced by C. E. Arney, west- ern immigration agent for the N. P. Farmer, who are inter- ested in potatoes are especially mnond Company appears. | young farmers |made to remove | aminer, Dr. J. N. Bowman, voca- | tional counsellor, V. O. Lee, com-| can home. OPEN 26 YEARS. The great Indian reservation which includes all of what is now Lewis county except a small por- tion near Mason butte, two- thirds of Nez Perce county, and jparts of Idaho and Clearwater counties, was thrown open to settlement twenty-six years ago last Friday and the great influx of pioneering settlers began. The proclamation opening the reservation was dated November (18,1895. For this land the sum of $1,626,000 was paid to Indians. The first payment to the In- dians was made on August 15, 1895, when $308.93 was given to every man, woman and_ child }among the Indians. These pay- ments continued at intervals un- | til February, 1899, by that time the total payments to each In- }dian (man, woman and child) amounting to $938.46. Freeman Hammond’s “‘Second Childhood” Declared to Be Classic of Modern Lyceum Distinguished Young American Artist, Head Freeman Hammond Com | pany, to Appear in Local Lyceum Series in Near Future. COUNTIES SEND ~SANETO ASYLU WELFARE COMMISSIONER SUSPECTS PLAN TO “UN- LOAD ON STATE. Mr. Freeman Hammond, one of the most promi iz the past | nd Childhood. nations ever offered | when the Freewan Ham itation for himself ¢ his intensely hi » little of the finest and most artistic impe It will be given here in the near future platform, has mude a most enviable re two seusons, through It is said to be one by any one. Mr. Hammond's He w every one of his character with an ease and naturalness that is indicative of rful art. Wit Mr. Hammond appear two clever assisting artists fn dramatic and musical nun bers. First number of Lyceum course to be given Tuesday, Nov. 29th BOARD GOES TO LEWISTON. | PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES, characterizations ar splendidly done in his every effort Ss in costumes and grease py t amd does | The first gun of what may re- {sult in the finish fight between |the state and the various coun- ities was fired Saturday when | David Burrell, state commission- er of public welfare, addressed a All three members of the} (By Supt. Swanger) lletter to all judges of the state | Cottonwood Highway District.) ‘The schools closed Wednesday | having power to commit persons J. F. Jenny, August Schreeder,| for the Thanksgiving vacation) to the insane asylums asking and Ed Jessup and Secretary M.| with programs in all rooms be-| their co-operation in keeping the A. Pierce, plan on leaving Satur-| jow high school. Many parents | asylums free of those people who day morning for Lewiston where! were present to see the children | do not rightfully belong there. they will hold an important con-| act out their important parts. | ‘The institutons are becoming ference with State Highway) The program in the primary|so crowded,” said Mr. Burrell, Engineer Osborne, relative to| grades, first, second, third and| “that I have found it necessary the cost of constructing the) fourth was as follows: ito start an investigation to find North and South highway thro! America School | out the cause of the increase in the Cottonwood district via what | Spelling Fred Farthing | commitments to the asylums.” is known as_ the “High Line” | Thanksgiving turkey Sane Incarcerated, He Finds. by the Adhm, Knopp and Bieren Mary Belle Swanger | In his letter the commissioner ranches and via the Eckert The Cat’s Soliloquy Wanda Keith | states that he has found many ranch, known as the Li wer | The Squirrel’s Thank-You art i tee eateas Road”. The “high line,” it is e § : Ist and 2nd grades Little Paul’s First Thanksgiv- ing Wayne Jessup) stated, is favored by the com- ee missioners es well as by many age, but not insane. “The surprising thing,” others. It is also reported to pj Thanks on the i i ety. ee ; < bai > | says, “is that practically all of be considered the cheapest route m id 4th grade| these old Be ong have come tion prticingyer _ Jon aig be ain Advice to Dolly Hazel Downer | county poor farms, contrary to r: y WE 1” a rts oa eb > Glrls' Idaho Compiled Statutes. his ane vveecd v— aoe | he Thanksgiving Spirit | section aoe that ‘no case of A Geiiile wedging took piace Weldon Flint) idiocy or imbecility, or simple at St. Joseph, Minn., Tuesday | Weather Donts’ “Imer Cosand| feebleness of mind, must be morning in which two Cotton-| Revenge Jean Frick wood boys figured quite promin- | Song, Thaiksgiving Time | éntly. Florin Holthaus, son of | 8rd and 4th grade. Mr. and Mrs. Alois Holthaus, Misses Tiffany and Myers the was united in marriage to Miss teachers "iandiiio parents were Marie Fieddler and Mat Duclos, | well pleased with the rendition. son of Mr. and Mrs. Mat Duclos | Miss Coolidge’s room of fifth! sr., was united in marriage to) on4q sixth gredes gave a program Miss Rose Fieddler. The brides | by the organized earn gociabir are sisters. Mr. Duclos _ and The program went off like clock Mr. Holthaus are prominent | work, with the president and sec- | retary presiding and the obser- of this section a are bered among our]. 4 nd are numbered ¢ OU cs iat anliaiendany deenrian {and order. This was the pro- best citizens and they havea | gram of exercises: toined at the asylums.” As soon.as the receiving hos- pitals at the Orofino and Black- Mr. Burrell intends calling a clinic of physicians to examine all patients at the institutions. Such patients as are not classed |as insane and dangerous to life and property will be returned to the counties from where they re committed. The commis- sioner expects the hospitals to be ready about the first week in December and as soon after that host of friends here who are anxiously awaiting for their re- m whe > newly arried | Song School} date as possible he will conduct cpa yn Pind — | Reading Merle McPherson) the clinic and weed out the ception.’ After a short honey | Reading James Sager| patients. : moon they will return to Cotton- Reading Lavern Jessup “IT have been looking through wood to reside. Song School some of the commitment papers sath usiaape iesackiael | Reading Dorothy Barth of those recently sent to Black- CLOSE STORE AT WINONA. Reading Margaretta Johnston foot,” Mr. Burrell said Saturday, | The Dissmore Mercantile com- Reading Roland Buettner “and the grounds on which those | | pany will close its general mer- | Song School! people have been sent to an asylum for the insane could just as well be applied to almost any person in Idaho. “It looks to me as if some of these county farms have just been unloading on the state all their old and infirm charges simply because they didn’t want to take care of them.” Records of the Blackfoot inst- chandise store at Winona, ar-| The seventh and eighth grade rangements having already been| Program consisted of the play the stock of | “Thanksgiving in the Past and goods to its home store at Kam-|the Present” in costume and iah. The Dissmore Mercantile, Some improvised scenery not- company at Winona has been| withstanding the lack of such conducted for some years by the} things in the school equiptment. Dissmore interests, with head-} All of the pupils of these two quarters at Kamiah. This leaves! greades took parts and_ the re- Winona without a mercantile) presentation of historical stages establishment, the only store! and observance of thanksgiving tiow being conducted there is aj as indicated by the program was hardware store, owned by John| very suggestive. Hoene of Cottonwood. Play—-“Thanksgiving ease | Past and Present.” CLEAN-UP SQUAD HERE. | Song, “Times” by Hazel Eller Dr. J. V. Green, medical, ex-| and Elza Matthiesen. Scene I--Room in an Ameri- partment of public welfare show that since June, 25 persons have been committed to that asylum from Ada county. In his letter to the judges Mr. Burrell points to some of the reasons for the increase in the number of patients at the asy- lums. One of these is the drug or narcotic act passed by the legisuature in 1913. He says: Drug Addicts Increasing. “T am advised by the superin- tendent at Blackfoot that he has handled more cases of drug and narcotic addicts in the past nine (Continued on page 2) in the pensation and insurance claim| Reading, examiner, Z. Taylor, Red Cross) Harold Netzel. liasion officer, A. W. Kraus, | Scene 1]—Church in Rome. retary and Dr. C. Roy Fleming, Reading, Jim Bledsoe, Donald advanie agent, all members of| Belknap. | the Clean-up Squad with head-| Scene [!J—Indian village. quarters in Seattle are in Cot-| Piana Solo, Neal McKinley. tonwood today. Seattle is the} Scene IV—A Puritan home on headquarters for the states of Idaho, Washington and Oregon. ~ (Continued on page 2) “Orphan Anne”, are feeble and infirm from old} he} foot institutions are completed | itution om file in the state de-| AROUND THE STATE Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. NEWS The University of Idaho de- feated Gonzaga university 6 to 0 at Spokane, November 19th in a hard fought football game. Idaho orchardists are becom- ing alarmed over the destruction of trees by field mice and many inquiries for information on how to combat this pest are being re- ceived at the state department of agriculture. Times may be hard in , some | places from a financial stand- point, but not so at Genesee, | where the ladies of the Catholic }church recently held a bazaar, | from which they realized $700 |says the Genesee News. | Males of Idaho outnumbered |females by 35,972, according to | the report of the federated cen- sus for 1920. The report, just made public, gives 238,919 as the male population of the state and 197,947 as the number of fe- males. L. N. Swift, president of the Farmers State Bank, at Nep- perce, for the past 18 years has resigned his position with that * institution and departed for | Berkley, California to make his {future home. C. W. Kettman, | cashier of the same __ institution has been appointed as Mr. | Swift’s successor. Fenn Batty, formerly of yrangeville but now making his |home at Los Angeles, California lost a purse containing two dia- mond rings, valued at $2000, traveler’s checks in the sum of $200 and some currency, in Lew- iston. He has offered a reward of $250 for the return of the purse. Commissioners of the Central highway district at Craigmont are asking for bids for the sale of $50,000 worth of highway bonds, the remaining portion of \the $150,000 issue authorized | March 1, 1921. They are offer- ed in denominations of $1000 {each and bear interest at 6 per jeent, payable semi-annually. | Bids will be opened December 10. | Announcement of the last | warrant call against thé high- |way fund was made Thi y | by D. F. Banks, state treasurer. The amount of the call is $712,- 554.38 and is set for November /28. On that day all warrants up to and including No. 32,495 will be paid at the office of the treasurer. From that date the highway fund will be on a cash basis. Damages of $4000 were awarded Chatterton & Sons, a Michigan corporation, against the Mark P. Miller Milling com- pany of Moscow by a jury in the federal court. Chatterton & Sons asked $4400 damages as the result of the Moscow compgny’s breach of contract in failing to provide a car of beans of the standard prescribed in the con- tract. A father’s search for his son after the pair, on a hunting trip, became separated in the wild region along Bear creek, north of | Colburn, Idaho, ended Saturday noon when the father, Charles Robinson, after tramping the region for more than three days without food, discovered the boy, |Francis, unconscious, a few | minutes before the latter died of hunger and exposure. The Nez Perce Trading com- |pany at Nezperce Friday made an assignment to its creditors, following a conference with per- sons holding the largest claims |at Lewiston. The action is the | result of alleged speculations of | Ernst Wienss, former cashier of the Union State bank, who made ;a spectacular escape recently at |Spokane from Sheriff AF i Smith of Lewis county. Wienss who organized the trading com- | pany and was manager for some time, is alleged to have used the eredit of the concern to obtain money for his private use. The assets are reported at $41,000 and liabilities at $44,000.