Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 17, 1922, Page 1

VOLUME 30. NO. 12 ROAD WORK TO START SOON HIGHWAY WILL BE FINISH- ED BETWEEN LUCILE AND GRANGEVILLE 8 wa (Free Press) North and South highway will be completed from Grangeville to Lucile as rapidly as possible, and the highway also will be finish- ed from New Meadows to a point a mile below Round Valley as soon as the work can be done. This was definitely learned by the Free Press Wednesday, fol- lowing a trip of inspection to the Salmon river canyon by E. E Kidder, engineer for the U. & bureau of public roads, Ogden, Utah; William Osborn, district highway engineer, of Lewiston, and J, J. McCreedy, resident en- gineer. The engineers went over the ground between the mouth of Whitebird creek and Lucile pre- paratory to the call for bids for highway construction. It was announced in January that bids would be called about February 15. A slight delay has occured in advertising for bids on the job, but it is believed they will be called in about theirty days. At any rate, actual con- struction work on the two pro- jects will be under way this spring. This is positively stated. Three hundred thousand dol- lars will be expended between the mouth of Whitebird creek and Lucile. Ten miles of new road will be built in this territory, thus connecting Whitebird and Lucile by standard highway. The distance is about twenty- three miles, but approximately thirteen miles of new highway have been built in this territory during the last few years by Grant Smith & Co. Two hundred thousand dollars will be expended on a 12-mile job between New Meadows and a — a mile north of Round Val- ley. BANKS IN GOOD CONDITION The condensed reports of the two Cottonwood banks at the close of business on March 10, 1922, show healthy banking con- ditions. With the opening up of spring conditions will naturally improve and estimates have been made that 20 per cent of the 1921 wheat crop of this section is still in the hands of the farmers. As This remaining 20 per cent of the wheat crop will be sold be- tween now and harvest time the deposits of the Cottonwood banks will thereby will no doubt | be increased. The total deposits of the two local banks at the close of busi- ness on March 10, 1922, was $424,653.82. At the close of business on December 31, 1921, > total deposits were $428,571,- SECOND TWIN BABY DEAD. Marcella, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Zimmerman, passed away yesterday morning at St. Joseph’s hospital. Mar- cella was a twin born Feb. 19th; the other infant, Marcia, passed away on Feb. 27th. Marcella has heen kept in the baby incu- bator since that time in an effort to save her life. ¢ The funeral will be held at 9 o'clock this morning at the Vas- sar chapel.—Tuesday’s Lewiston Tribunt. The Zimmermans, about a year and a half ago resided here for some time during which time Mr. Zimmerman held down the position of depot agent. His family resided in a house near the Dr. Orr residence. WILL HOLD AUCTION SALE. Emil Schott will hold a public sale on his place eight miles northeast of Cottonwood on Tuesday, March 21st at which time he will dispose of his per- sonal property and livestock. Mr. Schott, after the sale plans on moving to the Yakima coun- try where he will farm in the future. He recently traded farm for Yakima property. ~ |animals were in the pens they} ne) Buenos wal m ECKERT SELLS FINE STOCK. Goff Eckert, yesterday deliver- .d two carloads of cattle to A. V. McCarty who shipped them out the same morning. The two car- loads consisted of 25 head of 3- year-old steers that averaged 1180 pounds each ard 19 head ot cows that averaged 1260 pounds. ; \In the shipment was a bull that! weighed 1965 pounds. The shipment is said to have) been the finest lot of cattle to have been shipped from this sec-| tion in many days and Mr. Eck-| ert was fortunate to receive the highest price so far offered this | year for cattle. Mr. McCarty paid | |Mr. Eckert $6.75 a hundred for | | the steers. Mr. Eckert placed these cattle in the fattening pens 87 days ago |and they were feed straw and | |grain. During the 87 days the, | | put on an average of 225 pounds | | each. Mr. McCarty also purchased a | carload of hogs from the Farm- | }ers Union Warehoue for which | | he paid $10.50 a hundred weight. | We understand that the bid- ding for the hogs and cattle was | very keen. DREPS BUYS 120 ACRES. Frank Dreps closed a deal last week with Casper Wensman for 120 acres of land one mile north of Cottonwood for $12,000 or $100 an acre. The land bought by Mr. Dreps has been farmed by Herman Funke. The deal was made through our hustling real estate agent Felix Martzen. | Mr. Dreps returned to Cotton- | wood with his family last fall from Chewelah, Wash, where they resided for some time, hav- ing moved to Washington from this section. After residing there for a few years Mr. Dreps was convinced that Camas Prairie after all was the most desirable place to live and to prove his faith in this sec- tion last week made the above land purchase. He has already moved his family to his new home. MAKING REPAIRS. | The rock crusher, the property of the Cottonwood highway dis- trict which was used last fall in crushing rocks for the main streets of Cdttonwood was taken from the gravel pit last Saturday and will be given an {overhauling at the South and Frick garage after which it will again be placed in _ position, | awaiting favorable weather con- | ditions when it will again be placed in motion by Felix Mart- zen who has the contract for graveling the streets in Cotton- | woed, | The Gentry boys who were in| | charge of the gravel pit last fall | have already commenced work | nd are now busy making the necessary arrangements to start | work as soon as weather condi- | | tions will permit. THE SICK ARE BETTER. | All those who were reported | seriously ill last week with influ- /enza are now out of danger and daily convalescing. M. M. Belknap and J. N. Bled- soe who were reported last week to be suffering with pneumonia are both out of danger and doing nicely. Albert McGuire, _pro- prietor of the Cottonwood-Wino- jna stage line who was critically ‘ill the first of the week suffer- ing with pneumonia and whose life was at one time hanging by a thread took a turn for the bet- ter yesterday morning and is re- ported to be doing as well as could be expected. Others who are reported to be very sick with the flu are: Dr. Shinnick, Joe Nuxo]l, Mrs. Mike Schwartz and Joe Weber. MOVE TO CLARKSTON. George Poler, station agent here, shipped his household ef- fects to Clarkston Wednesday, 'where he recently purchased a modern residence. Mrs. Poler departed that morning for her new home. She will be joined next week by her daughter, Mrs. | Bart Simon and daughter, who | will spend an indefinite period |with her mother in Clarkston. ;Mrs. Poler is experiencing ill i WINS OUT IN RACE. Mrs. J. D, Shinnick who was called here last Friday evening by the illness of her husband, Dr. J. D. Shinnick who was taken down that day with influenza had a novel experience in reach- ing Cottonwood Friday evening, ! having been forced to use three conveyances of vastly different types in reaching the bedside of her sick husband. In leaving Lewiston she missed the train by a few minutes and as she was deter- mined to reach the city that evening chartered an automobile driven by Cecil Humphrey in which they hoped to overtake the train at Culdesac. At Cul- desac they again missed the train by a few minutes and from this point she induced the sec- tion foreman of Culdesac to at- tempt to overtake the train in a gasoline speeder on the famous Culdesac hill. In this, her third attempt she proved successful, overtaking the train while it was | winding up the hill and just be- fore entering one of the large tunnels, catching the train on the run. It is stated that the most sur- prised ‘man on the train was Conductor Harry Morris who had failed to see Mrs. Shinnick on the train upon leaving Lewis- ton and as they came out of the tunnel her presence was imme- diately noticed by the conductor, much to his surprise. The ques- tion than was how did she manage to get on the moving a half way up the Culdesac ill. IN COUNTY SINCE 1862. Joseph Vicory, a pioneer of Idaho county since the early mining days of 1862, died Sun- day night in his home near Mt. Idaho. Mr. Vicory was in his 88th year. Mr. Vicory was born in Spring- field, O., on June 29, 1834. His parents died. when he was a young man. 1860, he crossed the plains by ox team, and located at Fort Creek, Cal. In 1861, he removed to Oregon, where he was married, in 1873, to Lydia Margaret Kinder, who died about twelve years ago. Mr. Vicory was in the early gold rush to Idaho county. He came here in 1862 and practical- | ly continuously made this county his home. He worked in the various mining camps of the county, and finally settled on the place near Mount Idaho, where jhe resided at the time of his \death. Free Press. | WANT NEW MAIL ROUTE. A petition was sent to the |Fourth Assistant Postmaster }General at Washington, D. ©. asking that the mail for the Joseph and Boles country be re- routed by the way of Cottonwood instead of the present route which is by way of Grangeville and Whitebird. The petition also asked that a new mail route be established out of Cottonwood via the above named places. The petition was signed by practical- ly every resident of that section of the country to be effected by the proposed change. There were approximately 100 names on the petitions. Should the new route be gran’ the highway to be used will be the new hoped the change location will prove beneficial. Grave Creek road and the Joseph highway constructed last year. | tonwood Tailors. $2.00 PER YEAR WAS A PIONEER CITIZEN. A. M. Wardrobe, father of Mrs. | Frank Blackburn of this city, "NEWS AROUND who died at his home near Gene- | |see last oie on an ate THE STATE | pioneer of that city. Relative to tiems of Interest From Various his death the Genesee News con- tained the following article: | Sections Reproduced for Ben- | efit of Our Readers, Move [] 78 A. M. Wardrobe, one of Gene- see’s most highly respected p.o- jneer citizens, passed away Sun- | day evening, March 6, at’ his |home in Genesee, at the ripe old |age of 84 years, five months and! ;two days. Flu complications |were the direct cause of his |death, but he had been in declin- | ing health for a year or more. Andrew Mark Wardrobe was _B. B. Scott, merchant of Elk City has been awarded the mail —_ bowen Stites and Elk | City for the coming four years, } the bid being $15,666 per anum, |of hardy Scotch ancestry, hay-| The Bonners Ferry city coun- ing been born in Glasgow, Scot-/¢il has gone on record favoring land, on August 3, 1887. He em-| immediate construction of a city grated with his parents to Ame-| hall, for which bonds of $15,000 rica in 1844, at the age of seven| Were voted about a year ago. years, and they seltled at St.| Consideration of adoption of , Louis. From there the family | new arithmetics and spellers for + —, 7m, Utah in 1848 and | og F egress schools in the state t : | went to California in 1868, where | 0 © has been deferred for ane Ye on eagoenae te | they joined the gold seekers, | two years by the state board of and the wife of Dr U demain, ti tage a gg oy oa | a y ahahe Ga te mers, |time later he was for a time) Boise valley hay netted the cone sate coe ity V se — ‘ ~ocragtng Carson City, Nevada, | growers $16 a ton this past year altar ak tp on. oe tee where e was connected with a|svhen converted into cheese, ac- ath roothier’s ilove for her an | ae express. ; _ |cording to Thomas McDermott, born baby. rom Utah he came with his | president of the Boise Valley Co- Mrs. Sommers was about to ward tp Walle Sails to 1677. Cneeeieve sey. give birth to a baby and as a re-| aon i “se ti ea = . According to a report just re- sult of her pelvis being de-| diay < Wile be uring the In-' ceived from the interior depart. formed she submitted to an} “aye = if | one ee ment by the Lewiston land of- operation in order to save the} pre “ i “4 peer took up & home-) fice Idaho has 8,606,301 acres of life of her baby boy when the|° hi 4 tee censor, ade wae | land unappropriated and subject chances of yecovering herself |tine oe hi. he aiff owned a the /ty entry, classified mostly as were 100 to 1 against her. The “me of his death. | He retired | mountainous and grazing land. operation, which is known to the page — _— er * ria Request that sheep be elimi- medical profession as cesarear | 28° salons na emaaaiahenal nated from the game preserves section was performed by Dr. | “in - ae ; _| in Idaho, made to Henry C. Wal- Orr assisted by Dr. Stockton of | _Mr. Warbrobe 16 survived by | lace, secretary of agriculture, by Grangeville Tuesday. As a re-| oe wiles, ae wal bs Y| Otto M. Jones, state game war- sult of the ordeal the baby boy mourn the loss of _vilngg den, has provoked considerable is doing nicely. In conjunction} agg ndlnage gh 2 To them discussion throughout the state. with the above cause her death | Vere born 18 children, all of/ The valuation of Twin was also helped along by a severe | whom, except his son, John, who, county inereased 91% per cent in ease of brights disease. passed away September 24, 1920 1921, and the total taxes levied Mrs, Sommers was born’ in|* Spokane, survive him. | ag a 221% we cent, soe Fen aoa cae | ea ae . | ing e annual financial report old. She was married in San| yx agg neste gd a is E. office of B. E. Hyatt, director of Francisco about four years ago Karr, brother-in-law of Mr. and) the bureau of public accounts. to C. Sommers and removed with | as eel Contes ee See her husband to Cottonwood soon | wood who died at Butte, Mont.,| ces that on April 15 he will re- after the wedding. She is ‘oo held in Butte sume auto mail and passenger vived by a loving hushend and | 2%, oem Ss service over the Grangeville-New a baby boy only one day old at | The Butte Miner for Saturday | Meadows route. After July 1, the time of her death. She knew| #"°2 this account of the eon ae will onabii paint Aaah es id leW | vices : t _ .. | service, enabling passengers eo a died _ “Funeral services for Lewis K. make the through trip from Funeral services will be held | Kat were held yesterday after.) Grangeville to Boise in one day. froma the Cathslie churth torsoe- | Ste sem, the Sherman & Reed) J. N. Bievier and J. B. Braden, row morning at & o'clock with |CHaPel at 2 o'clock, the Rev. B.! officers of the Lewiston-Clarks- Rev. Fr. Willibrord officieting at |; Lingenfelter _ officiating. | ton Oil company which has main- requim ‘mass. The remains will Many beautiful floral vicar | tained office in Lewiston, whe he laid to rest in the Catholic| Were banked around the casket, | wore arrested on the charge of eainatinn : j one in particular, the gift from operating a corporation in this Dr. Sommers has the sym-| th boys of the Reins mine, with state without conforming to the vathy of the entire community, | Yhom he had worked his last) blue sky laws entered # plea of in this, his hour of shrrow and as | Mt, W848 beautiful blarfket of | guilty, Monday they were fined Pak the another wills adhe want mee carnation and calia lilies with hy Judge Seales in Lewiston, Bie- confined to her home almost en-|e"%. During the services vier $100 and Braden $150. tirely and was known only to the. severa! beuntif i selections, bor The approximate cost to the neighbors persvnally, owing to| Last. Slop, It is 1, Be, Not government of the summer en- her deformed condition — this| Afraid, No Night There,” and campment of the Idaho national noble woman did what only a Jesus Lover of My Soul,” were | guard will be $35,000, it was an- mother can do—gave her life for vendened oe Mrs. Paul Bailor, | nounced at the office of the state hap aahoe accompanied by Mrs. John Ste-' adjutant. The exact dates for e Fn S00. | mons oon a was in Mount the camp have not been set, but . TS CONTR oriah cemetery. | it will be held at the Boise bar- — GETS ee a | “Mr. Karr died Tuesday morn- yacks for 15 days, some time in +d th . ee ia pacar ow ing at his home, 744 East Mer-| June, probably. aad the had sdesig Cc reo | H cury street, after an illness of| There is general gratification _ eM tee t Pasa about a_week. Mr. Karr was throughout the state over the Keuterville or a peri Ne oa born in Miraili, Mo., thirty-eight | fact that President Harding's years by bad U. jk ye depart-/ years ago and had made his | vetoeing house bill 77, a measure ment. it conti ag Sor co na home in Butte for seven years,| that had it become a law, it is ing the mail peer . ~ goog | where he followed his occupation | said, would have placed in the and W inone. has cen held up by as a miner, having been assis-) hands of a few men 260,000 acres the postoffice department owing tant foreman of the Leonard at/of valuable range land in the toa change in the — since | one time and_for the last four southren part of this state, on the new rural route hi s been e8-| years was shift boss of the Reins| which they would had a mono- tablished at Greencreek. |He was a well-known athlete, | poly, It is understood bed pest having played baseball with! Government and co-operative Jessup was the lowest - er Tor’| some of the larger leagues. He) hunters working in Idaho's for- the Winona-Cottonwood contract | is survived by his widow, Mrs. | ests and ranges killed two gray but as due to the change in route Minnie Karr; a brother, Adam | wolves, 253 coyotes and six bob- the department has called for | Karr of Dawes, Ore.; a sister, @| cats during the month of Febru- new bids. The new route will be | niece, Mrs. Ruby Delaney of Mis- ary, according to the monthly re- approximately 8 miles shorter. |soule, and _. Sam Stevenson | port of Luther Goldman, weer rn {of Butte, who is a cousin.” tory animal inspector for the TO PLAY IN GRANGEVILLE.| Mr. Karr was a son-in-law of Idaho district. Practically all The Cottonwood orchestra will| Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bowman, 'the animals taken during the leave this evening for Grange-| old pioneers of Idaho county who | month were poisoned, Mr. ville where they will furnish the until about four years ago re- man states. music for the St. Patrick’s dance | sided at Grangeville. His wife The will of Eugene R. Day of to be given in the I. O. O. F. hall. | was Miss Minnie Bowman at one | Wallace( late managing owenr of Members of the orchestra are: | time employed for some time in | the Hercules mine at Burke, who Frank Jenny, violin; Francis;the county auditor’s office un-| died at the Sacred Heart hospi- Hattrup, piano; Norville Johns-! der former county auditor, J. A. | tal at Spokane February 11, 1922 — wemons and a ab, | Bradbury. =e filed for probate ——. rich, ms. e mw ——————- e instrument, executed when orchestra, has through its dili-| J. J. Uhlenkott of the Keuter-| he was 35 years old, on June 28, gent practice made for itself a/ ville section last week received | 1910, leaves to his brothers and county wide reputation and their a very painful cut on his lips | sisters. Harry L. Day, Jerome J. services are always in demand. | when an ax with which he was | Day, Eleanor Bernice Boyce — working caught accidentally and Blanche Eloise Ellis, each a Knowing how to take a mea-| flew up, the blade striking him | fourth interest in all his separate on the lips with such a force so | real and personal property and as to cut both lips to the teeth.|an equal share i i Dr. Orr dressed the wound. munity property. sure for Fr suit. That’s what counts. Richarde and Son, Cot- in his com- 12-tf