Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, February 3, 1922, Page 1

VOLUME 30. NO.6 — INCOME TAX LIST SMALLER FEW FARMERS NAMES AP- PEAR ON 1920 INCOME | TAX LIST REPORT. | | A party of a few relatives and friends gathered at the home of | Mr. and Mrs. Andy Rustemeyer | Sunday evening and royally en-| joyed themselves at cards and other games until a late hour when some good old substantial | refreshments were served by the hostess consisting of sandwiches | salad, cake and coffee. After) lunch a few more games were | played before the guests left for | their homes feeling they had had The names of those filing in- come tax returns who_ receive their mail in Cottonwood for the year 1920 has just been made public by the office of Internal Revenue, with headquarters in Boise. The Cottonwood list is growing smaller year by year, and the 1920 report contains) fewer names than any report so far sent out by the revenue of- ficials since the famous income) tax law was put in operation. | One very noticeable feature of | the 1920 report is the absence’ of farmer’s names, which clearly | a real evenings entertainment. | Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Bunker Eller and family, Mr. and Mrs. Geo Rustemeyer | and family, Grace Robbins, Gale | Thomas, Katie, Joe, Herman and | Frank Baune. BAD WEATHER DELAYS WORK (armen “COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE — = — AV in 1049 EGGS IN JANUARY. After keeping a record of a flock of chickens from November shows that very little money was, COMMISSIONERS SELECT jst, 1921, to February Ist, 1922, made by the farmers in 1920. This is atributed to the high cost of operating expenses about the farm in 1920 and the low price received for everything the} farmer had to sell. Those whose names appear on the 1920 in- come tax jist and who receive mail in Cottonwood are as fol- lows: Agnew, H. T. | Agnew Brothers. Baker, J. V. | Belknap, M. M. Brown, Sidney M. Brutzman, H. L. ABERCROMBIE FORE- | MAN, UNDER BONDS. | The county commissioners in regular session at the county, George Rustemeyer finds the following results: The flock ate 2414 bushels of wheat during the three months jand $8.20 worth of other feed, such as bran, oyster shell, bone, grit, etc. During November FINE IMPROVEMENTS. Mr. and Mrs. Francis G. Nuxoll returned iast Thursday evening from a week’s visit with friends at Mt. Angel, Oregon. They were accompanied home by their son, Leonard, who has been at- tending college at Mt. Angel. Leonard will not return to school for the remainder of the year, owing to ill health it was | WAGES LOWER. Wages for farm labor in Idaho in 1921 were about 40 per cen jlower than in 1920 and about |half way between those paid in | 1916 and 1917, according to a |tabulation just completed by | Julius H. Jacobson, agricultural | | the Idaho Statesman. statistician of the Idaho crop re- | | porting service and published in| we NEWS AROUND THE STATE | Items of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben. | efit of Our Readers, The average wage, with board, | in a ee year was $47 a) month, and in 1920 the farm) |hand received $78 and his board}, SUM of $2,186,550 federal for a month’s work. In 1921 funds has been made available the farm hand who boarded him- | fF building roads in national self was paid an average of $67 | forests in Idaho in 1922. a month in Idaho, while in the, Cecil Lamb recently reached previous year he received $105, | 8 agreement with the Loyalty } pate Rd eS | Cooperative Creamery company of Stites and announces that he D0 YOU WANT | will start the creamery about | | February first. | Latah county bankers, at a A DAIRY COW? meeting with representatives *| from every bank excepting Gene- see, posted ‘=. — for | any person, dead or alive, who IF SO ATTEND THE COM- may hold up any bank in the MUNITY MEETING FEB, | COURtY. : | Roy W. Walters, manager of 7TH, I. 0. O. F. HALL, \the Consolidated Commercial moe ;company, at Nezperce, since it | Was organized, will go to Grand- The second monthly meeting! view, Wash., to take charge of a of the Community Farm Club, store for that company. A. M. which will be held in the lodge Bartlett of Lewiston will succeed seat last week appointed W. F. | $13.20 worth of poultry was Abercrombie, of Joseph, as fore-| sold and $4.60 worth of eggs. man on behalf of Idaho county | In December $6.50 worth of poul for the construction of the Grave | try was sold and $16.90 worth of thought advisable for him to take a complete rest. Mr. Nvxoll was greatly im- pressed with the Mt. room of the I. O. O. F. hall next Tuesday, February 7th, at 10! o'clock A. M., promises to be a! Mr. Walters. According to the Star-Mirror, one of the largest stills ever Creek road. At the same time} the commissioners appointed Jack Wood of Grangeville as were placed day. Both men eggs. In january 80c worth of {poultry was sold and $35.75 | worth of eggs. By this time the | timekeeper at a salary of $4 a| flock consisted of 15 White Leg- horn hens 11% years old and 54 Buettner, William. | under bonds, Mr. Abercrombie’s | pullets, One Plymouth Rock hen Burns, Ernest R. bond being fixed at $5000 and jand 18 pullets. These last Cottonwood Battery & Weld-! yy. Wood’s bond $1000, for faith | pullets were very late maturing ing Shop. Cottonwood Hardware & Im- plement Company. Cottonwood Mercantile Co. Cottonwood State Bank. Cottonwood Water &Light Co. Jabor and it is provided that the | laid 1049 eggs. Dye, P. H. Ellan, Nicholas. Farmers Union Warehouse Co. First National Bank. Hoene, John. Kedzierski, Mike. Lange, Minnie. Leggett Merc. Co. | Lies, Markus. Lies Bros. Lorentz, Jacob. McKinney, G. F. Matthiesen, H. C. | Medved, George M. } Nash, J. V. Nau, A. H. Netzel, H. C. Orr, Dr. Wesley F. | Oesau, Rinehart. Ovel, Bernhard. Poler, George A. | Rehder, Helen. Reiland, John Rhett, Viola. | Sarhacher, Joseph RFD No. 1. Seubert, J. B. | Shinnick, J. D. Simon, F. S. Simon, G. F. Simon Brothers. Simon, W. T. Sonnen, Ed. Tombleson, R. M. Turner Drug Co. Turner, J. L. Uhlenkott, Joseph. ROUTE A POPULAR ONE. The new mail route established | by the post office department from the Greencreek postoffice, which was placed in operation! the 17th of January is proving a very beneficial and popular one, according to farmers now served | by this route. The service main- tained is three times a week, Tuesdays, Thursday and Satur- days. Joe Sattler is the mail carrier in charge. The route is 17 miles long and it requires about 4 and a half hours to make the trip. If enough patrons can be secured a daily service may latter be put in operation. SPECIAL MEETING. | There will be a special meeting at the M. E. church on Sunday night, Monday night and on Tuesday night at 7:30. Rev Green of Lewiston, Rev. Carrick of Asotin and Rev. Mark Pike of Nezperce will address the people of Cottonwood on the issues of how the church of Jesus Christ, can be made to function. Every- body cordially invited to attend these services don’t miss them. | F. M. Cass, Pastor. | ful performance of their work. A revolving fund of $3000 was created by the board for Mr. Abercrombie which will be used Foreman Abercrombie has mence until the frost is out of the ground. It was the plan of delayed matters. When the work is commenced some 45 men will be put on the job and the until the frost is out of the ground. SET WAGE SCALE. ’ The board of county commis- | sioners in session at Grangeville |as also were some of the White ‘Leghorn pullets. In fact, some jof them have not commenced laying at this writing. Never- |for the payment of supplies and \theless during January the flock On Januay 17, total for such items shall in no'18 and 19, the coldest days of lease exceed the sum of $19,000.| this winter, the hens made an }average of 39 eggs a day for the ‘been busy all week establishing | three days, and on the 20th they his camps, but actual construc- | laid 44 eggs, the largest amount |tion on the road will not com-|for one day during the entire ; month. While the housing for the | those in charge of the work to hens is not the modern type and | began operation the first of Feb-|some of their combs were nipped /ruary but the cold weather has | by the cold, the record shows that they have still made a little money for their owner at the | lowest price eggs have been for a | work will be rushed as fast as'long time at this time of the | possible. No work will be done year. jaccording to Mr. Abercrombie, It must be admitted the hens require care but it is time well spent. The above item relates the {actual experience of Mr. Ruste- |meyer with his flock of chickens and his statements are well sup- |ported by actual figures. The Angel country and especially did the fine homes and large barns ap- peal tohim. Farming there, he said is done on small acerages ind the crops consists chiefly of berries, onions and the like, Onions are raised most profit- ably on what is known as beaver land and as much as $1600 worth is sold from a single acre. Beaver land is made up in a pe- culiar manner, being the work of beavers who years ago dammed rivers and creeks with their marvelous building ingenuity and thus the sediment deposited year by year has made the rich- est of land which produces pro- fusely. Mr. Nuxoll stated that he saw one truck load of onion seeds, seed enough he thought for both Camas and Niezperce prairies. Mr. Nuxoll is also of the opinion that the average boy raised on Camas Prairie would not be contented farming on such small acreage. TO RECEIVE TRAINING, toy Tefft, an oversea veteran, who was seriously injured dur- ing the late world war has been ordered to report at Pullman, Wash., Monday, and there final plans will be made for him to re- ceive vocational training at the expense of the most important one and it will captured in Latah county was government. | be well worth the time of every farmer of this locality to attend it. The meeting this month will be devoted to consideration of the dairy quesition and it is planned to proceed far enough with the work next Tuesday that future developments may be left in the hands of a dairy commit- tee for completion and thus leave future meetings of the club open for the consideration of other farm problems. Dean Iddings, of the State University at Moscow, will be a) guest of the club next Tuesday and will deliver an address on dairying that will be worth go- ing many miles to hear, as he knows what is being done in the south part of the state and’ in other western states along this line and is in position to give much valuable information to those contemplating engaging in the dairy business in this local- ity. After the address by Mr. Iad-| ings steps will be taken to deter- mine just what local people will | desire to do in the way of secur- ing dairy stock or improving their present herds, after which future work in this line will be left for a dairy committee or sub-organization to complete. The executive committee of last week ordered that the wage | Chronicle will gladly print simi- to be paid for the various depart- | jar experiences of any farmer in ments of the county where day Jqaho county whether it be labor is used is to be as follows: | chickens, hogs, cattle, dairying During the world war, Mr. Tefft,| the club has arranged to serve while in a battle was shot throu | another 25c luncheon in the hall the left leg which has left that | at the noon hour for the accom-| All special deputies and extra help used by any and all of the | offices as clerical assistance shall be paid at the rate of $3.50 per day for actual time employed. — All field deputies shall be paid at the rate of $8.00 per day for | | actual time. Services for horses shall be | paid for at the rate of $1.00 per day for actual time. Services for automobiles shall be paid for at the rate of 20 cents per mile traveled. In road districts numbered 5, 9, 10, 12, 18; 14; 17; 21; 22; 28; 28; the overseer and laborers shall be paid at the rate of $3.50 per day. Tcam of two horses shall be paid at the rate of $3.00 jor what not. Give your neighbor | the benefit of your experience. | SURPRISE PARENTS. | The children of Mr. and Mrs. | John Engel gave them a pleasant surprise Sunday evening when {they asked about 50 of their | friends in to help them celebrate | their 22nd wedding anniversary. |Mr. and Mrs. Engel were asked lout for the day and when they jarrived home in the evening the | house was full of guests who |greeted them with an old fash- ioned charivari. The evening | was spent in playing cards. The \first prizes were won by Mrs. Jacob Lorentz and Anthony Ru- | A BIG SUCCESS. per day. jae. age peed i Wee ~ per x0 |Kelsey an eo chaecher. 4, rey Lae ong eee ba | After the game a delicious lunch the overseers and laborers shall | W88 served by Miss a : = be paid at the rate of $8.00 per guests departed wishing Mr. an day. Teams of two horses shall | Mrs. Engel many more happy be paid at the rate of $2.00 per | wedding anniversaries. oF TO BRIDGE CANYON. Notices of the letting of the The Loggers’ Ball given at|contract for a 70-foot span steel Keuterville Tuesday evening was | bridge over Lawyer’s canyon a grand success. The Keuter-|separating Idaho and Lewis ville hall was taxed to its limit | counties, were sent out Friday and all those attending the dance | by the state bureau of highways. report having had a splendid |Sealed bids will be received at time. For decorations the log- | Boise until the afternoon of gers used log chains, cant hooks and other paraphernalia com-| will be let at the office of the monly used about a logging|state department of public camp. Approximately 75 tickets, works. The estimated cost of were sold. The music was fur-|the bridge, which will have con- nished by the Cottonwood or- crete abutments, is estimated at chestra. | $8500. February 11 when the contract | member in a weak condition. toy plans on taking a univer- sity course in forestry. Another boy, William Asker, who was gassed during the world war, is also receiving voca- tional training and at the present time is attending school in Seattle, taking subjects relative to a custom house official. These are the only two veterans from this section, receiving vocational training. BREEDERS WELL PLEASED. The McKinley and Funke purebred Poland China hog sale, which was held at the Bide-a-wee hog farm, three miles east of Cottonwood, yesterday, brought very good prices. The 25 bred sows offered for sale by these two gentlemen brought an aver- age of $45 a head, the highest price paid for any one sow was {$65 and was bought by a Nez- | perce buyer. Most of the hogs | were bought by Nezperce farm- ‘ers. Owing to the inclement | weather the sale was not well at- tended but the bidding was spir- ited at all times. Both Mr. Funke and Mr. McKinley are | well pleased with the outcome of the sale. | LET CONTRACT TOMORROW. The contract for the construc- tion of three miles of road in the! |Cottonwood highway district, |and what will be known as part |of the North and South highway will be let by the state of Idaho in Lewiston tomorrow. modation of those present and it, is hoped that as many as pos-| |sible will avail themselves of | this feature, as the price is made to cover the bare cost of the} lunch. | As the meeting Tuesday will) no doubt be the last one for some time at which the dairy question will be considered it is the desire | of the executive committee of the club that every farmer on) the west side of the prairie, whether a member of the club at this time or not, who is interest- ed in dairying or may desire to secure new dairy stock or other- wise improve his herd, be pre- sent at this meeting. Remember, if you are not pre- sent Tuesday it may be too late to get into the dairy club later on so come out, hear a fine address, eat a good meal with your neigh-| bors and do your part to help start this community on the road to more prosperiy on the farm. Your presence is earnestly re- quested. Executive Committee. | MASQUERADE BALL. There will be a masquerade! ball at Fenn, Idaho, Friday night February 17th. Prizes of $2.50 each will be awarded the two | best sustained characters and a! prize of $1.00 will be given the, best comic impersonation. All dancers must remain masked un-| til 10:30. Music will be furn- ished by the Cottonwood orches- tra, and lunch will be served by the Ladies’ club. found within the Moscow city limits. A complete 40-galion still, 16 gallons of moonshine liquor and seven barrels of corn mash were taken in the raid. Six members of the C. W. Tuttle family, at Cambridge, in Adams county, are dead as a re- sult of botulinus poisoning from eating preserved greens ata birthday dinner given at the home Sunday in honor of Harriet Tuttle, the youngest member of the family. Ten counties of the state re- ceived additional representation in the house for the 1923 session, Canyon county gained two mem- bers and all the other nine gain- ed one. Northern counties whose representation was increased are: Bonner, Idaho and Nez Perce. The other counties are: Ada, Bannock, Bingham, Bonne- ville, Cassia, Twin Falls and Can- yon. At a final meeting of deposit- ors of the defunct Union State bank at Nezperce Saturday the amount of stock required for opening a new bank was over- subscribed. The meeting was well attended and enthusiastic. The new bank will be organized with a capital and surplus of $55,000 and the stock is distri- buted among about 140 stock- holders representing the farming and business interests of the en- tire community. Joseph B. Hill, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hill, was shot and killed by his bro- thers, aged 10 and 11, at Gifford, Sunday. The _ brothers, Sher- man and Shelby, were preparing to go rabbit hunting and had entered the house to get the gun. Joseph was bending over a chair putting on his overshoes and in some manner the gun was ac- cidentally discharged, the shot hitting Joseph in the back and killing him instantly. Struck by a frightened horse while coasting Thursday, Rodney Huffman, 9-year-old son of F. H. | Huffman, manager of the Loyal- ty creamery at Stites, died Fri- day. The boy was coasting down the grade into town and D. M. Pennicas was riding a horse some distance farther down the hill. He drew his horse to the side of the grade to let the sled pass, but the horse became frightened and, swinging eae, kicked the boy in the ead. | ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS. Born—A baby daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Steve Trautman, yes- 'terday. Dr. W. F. Orr was the ‘attending physician. Mike Lauer, of the Ferdinand section is reported to be criti- cally ill with pneumonia. Dr. Orr operated upon the 9- year old daughter of Mr. and |Mrs. John Wemhoff last Friday |for appendicitis. The little lady