Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, December 23, 1921, Page 1

« VOLUME 29. NO. 52 COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1921 PAYS TAXES IN FULL, | COMMUNITY MEETING AT 10 O'CLOCK A. M. IN THE ODD FELLOWS HALL COTTONWOOD. N. P. Pays 1921. Taxes in One Vast Sum. Checks for $47,057.11, paying! |in full taxes of the Northern | Pacific railroad in Idaho county, | Wednesday at the office of Mrs.) Otie L. Cone, county treasurer and tax collector. For the first time since payment of one-half of the taxes was permissible in December and the other half in June, the Northern Pacific has paid all its taxes in one sum. | Another. peculiarity in the! railroad’s action, in payng the entire tax bill at this time, is pointed out by county officials. |Last year the Northern Pacific, ears its taxes in Idaho mae | one and a large attendance is! Under protest. ‘vitory| Officials at the courthouse are’ looked for from all the territory) © wi within twenty five miles of Cot Talk catia @ ana tonwood. It is not the inten- |: ‘ Nid ’ tion to have any flowery orators | ™ ful at _ time, — | or long speeches at this meeting | 595.08 to.the er pre Me . aa but just plain talk and discussion | =’ poet ee se Hey Bre of methods which will better ex-| "¢duimed In agen i t. the | isting conditions in a farming | Prevailing rate 10 pum tal has been proven that much good ‘ailrosd would have ‘saved development has resulted from 1126.40 in interest, had it with- community meetings and it is hoped that every farmer, stock- man, businessman and _ banker who is interested in the prosper- ity and progress of this commun- ity, and its people, will attend this meeting. While it is known that dairy cows will be one of the subjects discussed there will be a number of others, as it is the intention to formulate a com- munity spirit that will get be- hind and push any movement that will restore agriculture to a normal and prosperous _ basis. Arrangements have been made to have a 35c hot lunch served at the hall so that the meeting can continue into the afternoon until all business is disposed of. Come and bring with you a spirit of friendly cooperation and a de- termination to help start some- thing that will result in better times, more cash income and fewer debts and drive the de- pression blues into the woods. There will be a_ meeting, Tueday, December 27th, at ten| o'clock A. M. in the I. O. O. F. Hall, upstairs, in Cottonwood, for the purpose of discussing methods and formulating some action for bettering agricultural conditions now existing. his is a subject should interest every months, or until the fourth Mon- day in June, when it is due. | County warrants, not paid for) | want of funds, bear interest at) jthe rate of 7 percent a year.) Thousands of dollars in county warrants are now outstanding. | Applying the $22,528.06 pag-) ment made by the railroed be- fore the money is due to redemp- ton of county warrants, or war- rants of subdivisions in the county, the taxpayers save 788.48 interest in the six |months’ time. Payment of the first half of the 1921 taxes on real property and personal property which is a |lien on real estate is slow, ac- |cording to Mrs. Cone. Taxes in the sum of $224,369.49 are due, and become delinquent Saturday. | Of this amount, only approxi- mately $87,000 had been paid up to Tuesday night. When taxes for the first half became delinquent last year, payments laggregated $265,000, or consid- erablv more than half the total for 1920. Collections Wednesday were $58,181,29, which brings the total receipts up to in excess of '$141,000.—Free Press. | XMAS PROGRAM. The following program will be rendered at the Methodist} Episcopal church, Christmas eve Saturday, December 24th at, 7:30 p. m: Welcome address, Donald Bel- knap. Song, “Star of the Evening,” Girls of 5th and 6th grade. | Recitation, “Santa’s Mistake,” | Jean Frick. | The Day After Chrstmas, Merle, Will and Lavern. Recitation, ‘“Annil’s and Wil- lie’s Prayer,” Fern McPherson. | WILL REACH QUOTA. Song, “Hang the Holly Gar- The sale of Christmas seals in lands.” Idaho county, for the benefit of Recitation, “Waiting tuberculosis sufferers in Idaho, Santa,” Lulu Frick. is progressing satisfactorily and | “The Stocking’s Christmas,” with the increase of sales totals | Fred Bledsoe. which may legitimately be anti-| Song, “Glory to God in the! cipated in the closing days of the | Highest.” campaign it is reasonably safe to, Recitation, “The Children’s predict that the county’s quota Vote of Thanks,” Harold Netzel. of $450 will be met. This will; Recitation, Malvan McPherson doubtless be accomplished if all| Song, “Silent Night,” Girls. communities keep up the pace Recitation “To Santa Claus,” maintained so far. Miss Ruth Weldon Flint. Pearson; county chairman, urges, Recitation, “Little Gottlieb’s all workers and the publie gener-| Christmas,” Mary Cass. ally to swell the sales totals at) Song. Third and Fourth grade. every opportunity during the Reading, “Constant Christ- balance of the campaign. mas,” Jeanette Greve. a Recitation, “Which Way,” James Bledsoe. Song, Mrs. Keith. \ Play, “Sallie Mullen’s Christ- mas.” A cordial invitation is extend- ed to the public in general to be present. F. M. Cass. NOTICE. Important to the party who by mistake or otherwise took a blue body gold scrolled folding mani- COTTONWOOD -FERDINAND. Tuesday evening, December 27 the Cottonwood basket ball team will have their opening game with a similar aggregation from Ferdinand. Thg boys have been practicing hard for several weeks and it is needless to say will put up the best there is in them. The local team is made up of the following boys: Frank Albers and Peter Peterson, for- wards; “Dad” Terhaar and Al Wagner, guards: Bossinger, cen- ter; Raymond Matthiesen and Rudolph Funke, subs. After the game Tuesday even- ing, which will take place in the high school gym the boys will give a dance at the I. O. O. F. hall for the benefit of the team. for is Your MARRIED DEC. 21. Announcements were received in Cottonwood by friends last evening from Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Edward, of Moscow, former residents of Cottonwood, stating that their daughter, Miss Ber-, nice Edwards, was married at Colville, Wash., to Mr. Fred H. Hayward, on December 21st. Mrs. Hayward has many friends poe oP Aig, Shen Mag id oo | eure set, value $12.00. Please call ‘ i | and gettle for the same. This) bo. Bed — er aes | mistake will be overlooked and | treated with confidence and f ay without exposure, if responce is The Pythian Sisters will give a made before prosecution is start- card party in the I. O. O. F. hall, | ed. ‘ Thursday December i 29. [a ROT] for the year 1921, was received, PLATES—ORANGE, BLACK. | Machinery for licensing the | more than 50 thousand automo- 'biles in the state for 1922 has been set up and applications for license will be received at the of- fices of the 44 county recorders ;Was announced Saturday by |Robert O. Jones, secretary of state. jon and after this date but. Mr. | Jones cautions all automobilists ‘against using the 1922 plates be- |fore January 1. To do so is ille | gal, he says. | Applicants for licenses are advised that.under an act of the 1921 legislature _ application blanks properly filled out togeth- M. W. INITATED 21 CANDIDATES | held the second payment for six 23 NEW MEMBERS ADDED! DISTRICTS NOW BUILD TO MAKES MEMBERSHIP NEAR 80 MARK. The Modern Woodmen of America of Cottonwood, are stronger by 21 members as the result of their work accomplish- ed Wednesday evening, when 21 candidates were initiated into the mysteries of that order. The initiatory work was com- menced early in the evening by a degree team from Culdesac, Idaho and required the greater part of the night. At about midnight a splendid lunch was served after which the work was again resumed and was kept up until 6 a. m. Thurs- day morning, until every man was properly introduced into the order. The work of organizing this splendid class has been going on for the past three weeks under the direction of W. E. Fuller, district deputy of northern Ida- ho, of Council, Idaho. Those who joined the order Wednesday evening are: Edgar Wortman. Wade Kincaid. Herman Weigand. Kenneth Miller. John Homar. Francis Homar, ames Nash. Delbert Hale. Walter Robbins. Andy Rustemeyer. Ned Schroeder. Albert McGuire. Edgar Brown. Art Rhoades. J. Bennale. VOTE MONEY 10 er with the receipt furnished by the county recorder, may be us- ed in lieu of license plates until the plates arrive. The applica- tion and the receipt must be pasted on windshield where they can be seen. Law’s Synopsis Printed Many violations of the auto- mobile registration law, Mr. CULDESAC GRADE irs: believes, are due to un- familiarity with the provisions i | of the law and for this reason he ‘ |has had printed on the back of the application blanks for 1922 a |short synopsis of certain feat- ures of the Idaho law. Regis- trants are advised by the secre- tary to thoroughly familiarize themselves with the law because ignorance is no excuse. CONNECT LEWISTON WITH HARD SURFACE, As one of the most significant | events in the whole history of | highway construction in north-| ern Idaho was the characteriza- | tion given yesterday to the ap-| portionment by the board of county commissioners of Nez! Perce county, Saturday $78,383 | to be used, along with funds from the state and federal gov-! jernments, in constructing that |part of the north and south highway extending from Cul- desac up what is known as the Culdesac hill to the Nez Perce | county line. | This is the,second important | ‘ step to be taken by the pase May Reach Million Matk sioners in carrying out the pro-| He estimates that if 1922 igram of road and bridge con-| Maintains the normal increase |struction made possible by the| Which took place from year to |recent sale of the $400,000 road | Year from 1914 to 1920, the re- and bridge bonds. The first/Ceipts from this registration was the apportionment of an/| Should approximate one million amount of the county funds | ollars. Fees collected by the which, with the aid furnished by Severalcounties of the state for the state and county, makes it the operation of automobiles is possible to construct the bridge across the Clearwater at Spald- ing at a cost of about $80,000. When the contemplated con- struction program is completed, approximately one million dol- lars in county, state and federal funds will have been expended. The strip of road on which the $73,333 will be used is about 11 miles in length, and touches that portion of the highway running through the Evergreen highway | district, bonds for road construc- tion in which were sold recently. plates is orange black background. Registration for 1921 reached figures on a mate receipts for all licenses sold are $840,621.45. The registra- tion in 1920 was 50,861 but the receipts were greater than for 1921. Mr. Jones believes this is due to the fact that a large |number of cars this year took the reduced rate because of age. 'In other words, he says, there were not so many new cars bought in 1921. ties and 25 per cent to the state. | Enforcement of the registra- |tion law during 1921, although only partially complete, shows 109 arrests and fines collected to the amount of $1104.10. This ,is an increase over 1920 when the total amount of fines collect- ed was $147.85. | FARM BUREAU MEETING. Charles G. Stonebraker, re- presentative of the American | farm bureau federation, will talk jon and after December 20, it} Plates will be sent out) The color scheme of the 1922) 51,811 Saturday and approxi-) divided 75 per cent to the coun-| ‘NEWS AROUND THE STATE Items of Interest From Various | Sections Reproduced for Ben. | efit of Our Readers. | William Carlock of Bonners Ferry was seriously injured Sun- |; day when the breech block of a rifle he was trying out blew off |and struck him below the eye, breaking the cheek bone. | | ‘Two suits of clothes, two over- , coats, shoes and other merchan- | dise to the aggregate value of | about $200, were taken when the | Sogard store at Culdesac was en- | tered some time Sunday night by a thief who gained entrance by prying open the front door. The Purity creamery of Mos- cow, Robert Woods and H. E. ; Hamer, owners, opened for busi- ness Friday. Men have been busy all fall constructing the | building and installing modern |machinery. It is estimated that the completed plant cost $40,000. Slashes in salaries of county employes and dismissal of sever- result in a saving to the taxpay- }ers of between $10,000 and $12,000 a year, were Thursday | ordered by the Twin Falls county board of commissioners. ductions were made effective January 1. | Senator Gooding Friday | commended to the president the appointment of Col. E. G, Davis | of Boise to be United States dist- | riet attorney for Idaho and un- | der the patronage agreement be- tween the Idaho senators. Senat- or Borah will endorse the recom- | mendation on his return to Wash | ington. | Official advices given out | State that $300,000 will be avail- able for road construction during 1922 on the neutral zone, cover- ing the Salmon river canyon from White Bird to the falls of | the little Salmon river, and a contract for completion of this work will probably be let and work inaugurate next February. It will take $18,080 to repay | damages which Dr. J. B. Buch- | anan, of Nezperce, alleges he sus- | tained in September, 1920, whén ihe claims to have begn struck |by an automobile driven by a 'man named Williams for the | Star Dray company of Lewiston, according to a suit started in the | district court of Nez Perce coun- | ty by him against the dray com- | pany. ‘ A coroner’s jury at an inquest jat Vassar’s undertaking rooms in-Lewiston over the body of Application has been made to the state highway department for state and federal aid in the work, No official estimate has . JC been made of the cost of the con- William Rogers. struction of the strip of road, Peter Cooper. but it is thought that the present After the initiation Edgar C.| expenditures will run close to the Wortman was elected chief for-| $200,000 mark for this particu- ester. The membership of this|lar portion. order in Cottonwood is now near| The significance of the a the 80 mark. Arrangements} portionment for the Culdesac have already been made by the| grade is in that construction on members of the Modern Wood-| it will automatically start the men to give a big dance in Feb- | building of a chain of road strips ruary. Watch for future an-| which, probably within a year, nouncements. will make it possible for travel from Lewiston to the Fenn dist- jrict in Idaho county to run en- tirely over hard surfaced road. Highway districts in the high- er country above Culdesac have | for some time had monies avail- able for road building; many of them have been prepared to act for several years, and some have come into line only recently. Activities have been held up, |however, because the higher Peter Peterson. Oliver Jones. Orville Uhl. P. Johnson. PAVEY RESIGNS. Ralph M. Pavey, county agri- cultural agent, on Thursday re- signed his position, to take effect January 15. Mr. Pavey is serv- ing his second year as county agent. The resignation was handed to the executive board of the Idaho county farm bureau. A duplicate copy was filed with the county clerk. Mr. Pavey, in his resignation on file in the office of the County | Clerk Telcher,, gave no reason! was the outlet of their road for his action. 2 system, was in such poor condi- Petitions have been circulated tion. ‘With the Culdesac grade during the last few weeks, re-| perfected, all highway districts questing the board of county| beyond will feel in a position to commissioners to discontinue the | initiate their road programs at county’s appropriation for main- | once. tenance of the farm bureau. As soon as the state and fer- The petitions did not name Mr. | eral additions to the county fund Pavey, but merely asked the are forthcoming constructjon on county commissioners to discon ey will start.—Lewiston improvement of their roads while the Culdesac grade, which | districts did not see fit to start | on the workings of the federa-| Susie Williams, an Indian woman tion, and problems pertaining to| who died in a hospital Friday re- |farmers, at the following places | turned a verdict that Mrs. Wil- | and on these dates: | liams came to her death as a re- | Grangeville, December 27,/ sult of injuries suffered on or courthouse; Fenn, December 28, | about Demeber 10 at the hands | Odd Fellows’ hall; Cottonwood, | of her husband, Amos Williams, December 29, Odd Fellows’ hall; | at their home at Spaulding, Ida- Keuterville, December 30; Fer-| ho. The testimony showed that |dinand, December 31. | she was struck, choked, knocked All meetings will commence at | down and otherwise abused. 1 o’tlock in the afternoon. Sche-| Vincente Ramirez, convicted dule for the first week in Janu-| of murder in Madison county in ary will be completed later. | 1918, and who has had a number | —_———$—$—__— of respites while under sentence | BIRTHDAY PARTY. | of death, will not be hanged, but Sixteen little boys and girls will serve the remainder of his | helped little Miss Thelma Barth | days in the penitentiary. The |celebrate her 8th birthday at|/Idaho supreme court Tuesday | the home of her parents, Mr. and | handed down an opinion in which |Mrs, A. J. Barth, Wednesday | it held that it had power to re- afternoon from 4 p. m. to 7 p. m.; call the remittitur handed down |The young folks spent the time! in the case some time ago, and |playing games after which) also that it had power to modify dainty refreshments were served | the sentence from the death pen- 'by Mrs. Barth. Before leaving, alty to that of life imprisonment however, Santa Claus visited the | at hard labor. | children and presented each one; Announcement was made Sat- | with a bag of candy. The little} urday by the depositors’ com- folks all departed, after having mittee of the Union State bank spent an enjoyable fime and at Nezperce that practically all wishing Miss Thelma many more of the depositors had signed | happy birthdays such as the one! waivers giving up 50 percent of | they helped her celebrate. their deposits to absorb the bad ne paper of the bank. In order for HEARING JANUARY 19. 'the bank to become reorganized January 19 was set Tuesday | and again open its doors, the re- by the public utilities commis-| quirement was made that the de- sion for a hearing at Grange-| positors must waive the 50 per- ville on the application of the/ cent of their deposits. The next Grangeville Light and Power| step in connection with the bank, company for permission to put it is thought, will be the reorgan- in force a schedule of ihcreased| ization of the bank at an early rates for service. | date al department heads, expected to® re- -