Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, December 2, 1921, Page 2

CHRISTMAS Gifts For FE verybody YOUR NEEDS IN CHRISTMAS GIFTS CAN BE WELL SUPPLIED FROM OUR SPLENDID ASSORT- MENT OF HOLIDAY GOODS “CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR EVERYBODY” IS OUR SLOGAN—AND WE HAVE THEM TOO—FOR THE W TOT TO THE GROWN UPS OUR ASSORTMENT IS OVERFLOWING WITH DESIRABLE AND APPROPRIATE GOODS FOR GIFT MAKIN DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EARLY .AND MAKE THIS A PRACTICAL CHRISTMAS. Special This Week Men’s Shirts at Co rTM TEU MIE MAMA La $1.75 EACH J. V. BAKER & SON “WHERE QUALITY AND PRICES MEET” Tir H. G. WELLS Undaywoed & % ag $8 f | Herbert G. Wells, famous English historian and novelist, who is in Wash- ington to report the conference on limitation of armaments. | U, S, VESSELS LEAD IN PANAMA TONNAGE RN | Washington, D. C—Ships of four nations carried 89 per cent of the approy ely 11,600,000 tons of cargo which moved through the Panama canal during the fiseal year ended == | June 30. American vessels led all others with 3,000 tons, establishing a record by sing the total tonnage of the previous high year by 615,885. Brit ish ships were second, with a total of 3,738,25 surp. ng their high | | inere 50 tons, mark of 1917. Japan and Norway took third fourth places with 758,600 and 6 tons, Japan her last high mark by 32,279 tons Of the nations which shared in mov ing the remaining 11 per cent of ton nage, the most important were Den mark, Holland, Spain, Sweden, France and Peru | LLETURERETT LAER and 880 eded respectively exce GUERRA TAMALES ESAT aa BRIEF GENERAL NEWS | The anti-medical beer bill passed by congress was signed by President | Harding. | | Football claimed ten victims during | the 1921 season, which closed with | Thanksgiving day games, according to | reports A famine in logs has hit the saw | mill industry of British Columbia and there are only 97,000,000 feet of all | kinds of logs in the water, the lowest figure for many years at this season. Crown Prince Hirohito has been des ignated regent of Japan. A bulletin issued stated that the emperor’s men- his further attention to state duties. Anti-French demonstrations took place in Italy, following newspaper ; accounts alleging harsh words were | |} used by Premier Briand of France to | delegation at Washington. Approximately 500,000 bushels of wheat were sold in Pendleton, Or., | | last week at an average price of 88 | |cents net. Most of the wheat sold was club, but the milling whe: big demand is for hard Illinois ex-Treasurers Are Sued. Springfield, | ing against five ex-state treasurers, al }leging shortages of approximately 500,000 were started by Attorney-C A SUUGUOTHEUEOOATUAAOANE UGE AEUAGUOUUNG GRUP EEG OT n- i ou tal condition was such as to preclude | f Senator Schanzer, head of the Italian | | I—Suits for account: | ; ROMANCE OF RIVER LIGHTS Flashlight Messages Fly Between Gobs on the Hudson and Girls Ashore in New York. Sitting in Geir apartment windows warn umer nights trying to get cool, GYeny girls along Riverside dri Me themselves by “blinking” mess on the Hudson. s by flashlight to the sailors navy craft anchored in the the New York Sun states. “Oh, I wish I had something to read. I wish T had something to read,” was the message which some quarter- muster was blinking away aimlessly the other night when: “What do you Hke—romance, love, mystery, sea adventure or detective stories came the barely discernible twinkle from the eleventh floor win- dow of a big apartment house in the Bs “Romance,” flashed back the gob. “ul stuff.” And then the first chapter of a won- derful romance was blinked off and the second chapter was being enjoyed when the mist and fog descended on the river, “Sorry, but can’t read any longer tor ,” blinked the gob, who al- ready had met the young womaa of the blinker romance, which {s taking f@ sericus turn, “You wait and see,” ‘predicts one young lady who ts intercepting the Messages each night. “Those messages are en ring and, oh, well, what girl wouldn't enjoy being courted so ro- | mantically?” EASY WAY TO GET MONEY Indianapolis Youngster Preferred Good Time at Lawn Fete to Pos session of Two Teeth. This young man of eight years has been suffering the loss of his first | teeth, and his mother has bad him in the dentist. chair several times. As the teeth show an inclination to part company with the boy, the dentist's bill is running up. Until last week the boy positively refused to permit his mother to pull his teeth. She told him finally that he could pull them and she would give him 50 cents for each one. He thought it over and de- cided to pull two loose ones himself. It was easy and he got $1. A lawn fete was to be given in the neighborhood the other night, and the boy wished to go. The day before the affair was scheduled he brought four teeth to his mother and demanded $2. His mother was shocked, examined the teeth and found they were sound und would have lasted a long time The youngster said he needed the money, as he expected to attend the lawn fete. He got (t.—Indianapolis News, Mud Pie Census. Doctor Russell, who tells us that in | a spoonful of good arable land there are more tiving organisms than there are people in the United Kingslorn, nas propably not wasted his making an accurate count, but ther is no doubt he is well within the mark, x» people keep a change of horses where the incoming and observes the London Chronicle. outgoing coaches spend noon A French bacterlologist recently | avery day. _ Horses are changed caught his little son playing with wy and all the travelers get mud pie, and, borrowing a small per tion of the mixture, carefully enulyzed it in his laboratory He found It teeming with microbes, but only took a census of the harmful vari He found when he had fint labor that the little bit of the he dealt with contained the following Diphtheria, 1,800,000 refreshments before making the ten mile mountain climb to reach the ton. It is a place that is ssenti for the comfort and conve ce of all who travel in- to the interior of these moun- t: ous parties have been ession for the past 25 ‘ple” germs: 2,450,000; smallpox, 900,000 3,600,000 ; dysentery, 900,000; pneu. Years and it has aways beer m monia, 505,000; tuberculosis, 620,000. | maintained by private capital And the total of nearly 11 milion was and individual enterprse. It only a percentage of the orgauisins ip the delicacy happened to be located in the forest reserve. During all these years a huge pile of manure has eecumulated there and now a forester comes along and orders r William Cole, the present owner, to make the mountain of waste Havoc With Boiler. ot it Vacuum Play The w atmospheri self by some » force ally pressure unexpec lmnperceptit oft 1 reve and p tricks. One of the latest of Its p ks was to crumple the shell of a heavy | off of the reserve but does not steel boiler in use near Okmulgee, | furnish any place upon which to Okla, The steam within the boiler | move jt, It is five miles to the bad been allowed to cool, and th cool rearest settlement and it is the ing condensed. All of the boiler , custom of the western farmers ings were so tight that no air ¢ d P ry bet Into the bolle te take the place (not to enrich the land by fentil- get into the boiler to take the u of the steam, which was now very on. This leaves Mr. Cole in much reduce@ in volume, and ala 1 plight. He is ordered by vacuum was thus created in the shell The result was that the pressure of | the outside air crushed the boiler shell.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. MAILS TAX STATEMENTS. Approximately 7000 state- ments of personal and real estate taxes due in the sum of $448,720, were mailed this week from the office of Otie L. Cone, county treasurer and tax col- lector at Grangeville. Taxes} This indicates that we are con- are due and payable on Novem-| trolled by a dual government, ber 28, and become delinquent on} both with the power to tax the December 24. In cases where a} neople. Now, if that is true, taxpayer owns both real and| it is about time for the people of personal property, he need only| Idaho to emigrate, but we have pay one-half his taxes at this| learned not to be surprised at time. Where only personal) anything the foresters do. That property is owned, the entire| stopping place at Switchback amount is due. jis a real public necessity and I ——___—_ |deny that any sort of govern- ORDER UNREASONABLE. |ment has the right to exploit a In a well written letter to the} public necessity. I helieve that Lewiston Tribune, W. M.’Finley| Mr. Cole is within his rights of Elk City, takes the Forest| when he refuses to confirm to Service to task for an order re-|the mandate of a questionable cently issued by that department! authoritv. We never can tell to make an impractical removal. | what will come up next. During The mandate as issued is rather; my twenty years of experience amusing, and if true, surely} with the foresters the most that shows the inconsistency of the| they have done is to draw a bet- forest reserve department. The) ter salarv than anyone else could letter which was signed by Mr. command and raise the mischief Finley reads as follo serious people, who were a renresentative of the govern- ment to doa thing that seems imnossible. This propertv is held bv the state to be private property and is taxed accordirg- ly. Along comes the forester and claims the right to compel the owner to take out a permit and vay additional tax for the privilege of operating what the state considers private property. with Out on the Elk City road about! struggling to pay their salaries. 15 miles east of Stites, perched | Adios. upon the side of the mountain | is the station that is known as W. M. FINLEY Elk City, Idaho, Nov. 20, 1921. Our Service Insures More Earning Power And That’s What Makes an Implement Purchased a Real Bargain There’s only one way to save money when you buy an implement. % PSAQIAANUALAUMANINELUAALUAELAUUAGNURN4L048S4GE4EA0000000H001000EUGOLHELULEY Yes, the Llama Is Very Patient 4 This picture, from Folkstone, Engiand, substantiates the oft heard state ment that the Umma is one of the most patient of beasts. He is a Jong wa; m his home, which is in South America. eral Brundage. six terms preceding that of the present | treasurer, Edward ~. Miller, and are | directed against al’ state treasurers who held office between 1909 and 1921 | $2,505,000 Loaned For Farm Purpose: Washington, D. C.—Approval of advances for agricultural and _ live. stock purposes, agregating $2,505,000 announced by the corporation. They include $221,000, Montana $217,000, $540,000, South lowa $691,000 was N Colorado | Dakota $222,000 and ebraska Augusta Fire Does $1,000,000 Damage. Augusta, Ga—Nearly one-half of the | 700 block of Broad street and the entire eastern side of the 200 block of Jackson street, both in the heart of Augusta’s business section, stroyed by fire about $2,000,000, were de- with a total loss of Flax Plant Stock Sold to Growers. Salem, Or.— Approximately $20,000 worth of stock in the Willamette Val ley Flax and Hemp Growers’ Associa- | tion has been subscribed to by farm- ers of this section Minnesota Federal Judge ts Fined. Pasadena, Cal.—Judge Morris of the United States district court at Duluth, | Minn., Saturday paid a fine of $10 in police court here on a charge of traffic The suits cover the | { war finance |§ Buy it on the basis of its earning power. Buy it for its ability todo good work for you right from the start and year after year. Save money on its capacity for making money. When you buy at our store, you get the earning power that ia most profitable WE TAKE THBSE STEPS TO INSURE IT: 1. We buy implements especially adapted to this séction, from a firm that takes every care to maintain its reputation for making only highguality goods. 2. We show you the goods before you buy so that you can be sure they fit your requirements. 3. Weset the implements up exactly right before we turn them over to you. 4. Weare always ready to help you understand thoroughly all of the operating requirements. 5. We maintain a prompt repair service so that when parts become worn, you can renew them without loss of time. Be sure to consider these features when you get ready to buy. Drop in and see us whenever you are in town. Cottonwood Hwd. Imp. Co.