Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, June 9, 1922, Page 1

. jumping up by inches at a time. VOLUME 30. NO. 24 COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1922 - COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE 1. | DEATH CALLS A MOTHER. V DA iS | Eulalia R. Cremer, wife of | Casper Cremer, died at her home | west of Cottonwood Saturday | morning at 9:10 o'clock from } complications following child birth Mrs. Cremer, at the time of her death was 28 years 2 months and 1 day old. She was a daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brue- geman, pioneer citizens of this section. The young mother was born and raised in Idaho county and is survived by three children two daughters, 2 and 4 years old, a little son, two weeks old, her husband, Casper Cremer, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bruegeman, four sisters and four brothers, all residents of Cottonwood, they are: Mrs. Wil- liam Kelsey, Anna, Celia and Amelia, Antone, Fred, Benedict and Henry Bruegeman. The funeral services were held from the Catholic church Wed- nesday morning with Rev. Fr. Willibrord in charge and the re- mains were laid to rest in the | Catholic cemetery. The services at the church were attended by a large number of friends of the deceased and clearly showed the high esteem in which she was held in the community. In the procession to her final resting place were more than 60 automobiles and it was one of the largest funerals ever held in Cottonwood. To the bereaved husband and the little ones and to her parents and other relatives the commun- ity as a whole extends its con- dolence. The funeral was in charge of Undertaker A. H. Nau. SAYS NOT ALL OF THE. ROAD MONEY GOES FOR SURVEYING. Gov. D. W. Davis, of Idaho, spent more than an hour in Cot- tonwood Tuesday morning while enrouted from Boise to Moscow over the north and south high- way. The governor was ac- companied by F. A. Jeter, pur- chasing agent, and they made the trip in a Cadalie car | While in the city the governor met as many of the business men as was possible and he congrat- ulated Cottonwood on its street improvements. The governor was enrouted for Moscow where he will attend the graduating ‘exercises of the state university and make a short address. In Lewiston he gave out the following inter- view regarding the north and south highway: | “We should get as many peo- ple as possible to go over the north and south highway this year. Idahois one state. The idea of sectionalizing Idaho is a mistake. North Idaho has been remarkably well treated Some interesting figures are presented when we consider the work on the north and south highway. On the section from Weiser to Council, the sum of $412,854 has been expended. Between Coun- cil and Grangeville, there has al- ready been spent $1,971,200. North of Grangeville to the Janadia ine P nt ex- y 13 ee pe a eer Rev. Father Vincent Chiappa is $4,500,000 already spent on paige a Al J. omic the north and south highway. | and } fiss — ven Ure crea nae bond — — relatives and intimate friends of right to be proud of the results — gear egy Rss eee Be son obtained for the money expend- ain: oar gn poeta saaanor wut hee oot 4 ae ean to the groom acted as best man. 7A maieniborad aati places Immediately after the ceremony where it formerly took four! the weddng_ party motored v0 horses to pull an empty wagon, U niontown for a peer break- a good load can now be rapidly — - ro gay - moved. It is expensive construc- — i ts M: aM be ee * tion, but where finished it can be Fille, ey ares ve Wat “4 traveled at the rate of from 30) ¢/ SD ialaipeat ac eh a baat 4 to 35 miles an hour. Traffic over’ iy ie roe : = Hees it should be encouraged. Much vind ae a Es of the money which built it came 20 1 (arr Sa A from outside of the part where graduate of the Cottonwood high the construction is made. We! School and finished | business are standing for the whole state college her red and for Sone time of Tahoe. past she has been a valued em- “When a man says that 50 per — — a ig cent of the highway funds are? 5 sacle! On a: AG sats i spent for engineering we will a gl ag Mrs. George + ¢ araly % 9 ’ oc if ge — pe Uniontown. For several years —. hae ine government haa he was connected with the Hoene paid it. The department must ae erie pdhog — meet some specified conditions eamaita austen ta. oi aocuiiinaw, We have a great son, Bolick & Kavanaugh. Both responsibility as citizens. If — om pddtit ate eee well we meet this responsibility we, Paces: mage gst can continue to grow and pros- ne oe ber ane ae: < ee per, as we should when we do ee ot pity ‘ ‘e3 aper Bu our duty.” Spo cane and nearby lake resorts, Governor Davis will go back, ang Mg oo i a to Boise via the north and south Weibine, Ave Pearman faneeniy a host of friends in Cottonwood 2 who wish them happiness and prosperity as they journey through life. REMODELING HALL. The lower floor of the I. O. O. F. hall is being remodeled this HERBOTH—ELLER. At eight o’clock Saturday morning at St. Stanislaus church INTEREST RATE CUT. Federal Land Appraiser Mun-} son, of Moscow, spent Monday in and about Cottonwood making land appraisments for federal loans for the local farm loan as-) week. The stage in the rear of sociation. The Federal Loan the building is being torn out Bank of Spokane, headquarters) and the space occupied by the for this district, recently an-) stage will be made into the main nounced a reduction in the inter-| part of the building, thus mak- est rate for federal loans, the re- duction being made from 6 to 5) dimensions. and one-half per cent. The one- half per cent reduction will save the farmers served by this bank, torn out and a new entrane more than $320,000 in ‘interest constructed on the west side of yearly. the building. The work is be- Total outstanding loans of the ing done by members of the Spokane bank are approximately lodge. $64,000,000 and new loans are, being made at the rate of $2,-) 000,000 monthly. The steps which extend partly onto the cement Mrs. Llovd Turner accompani- ed by her little sister, Evelyn ———_—_——— Humphrey, left Thursday morn- That million dollar rain has! ing for Lewiston where they will put a smile on everyone even the | meet Mrs. H. W. Funke.and little horses, cows, chickens and hogs | son of Cheyenne, Wyo., who are are wearing it and the grain is| coming here for a visit with re- | latives and a 7 | : ee Y ai | ELECTRICAL STORM. | The electrical storm Sunday | § AROUND about eight o'clock. Lightning | hit the company’s main line and | |of the station and went into the | | air about twenty-five feet above | efit of Our Readers. | evening put the local sub-station | |of the Grangeville Electric Light | company out of commission at E |ran into the local sub-station | | burning to a crisp one of the! Items of Interest From Various main switches. Fire shot out Sections Reproduced for Ben- | the building. Owing to the dark-| | ness little could be done Sunday | | evening to put the plant in opera- | It may be news to some of the _ tion and at first it wsa thought | younger Idaho citizens to learn OTTONWOOD IN INDIAN FIGHT THE LEAD AGAIN; ON THE BUTTE DEFEATED FERDINAND) FOSTER KILLED 45 YEARS SUNDAY—GRANGE- AGO JULY 4TH BY VILLE LOST. INDIANS. Cottonwood, won the classiest ball game so far played on the local diamond this year, Sunday, July 4th, 1922 marks the 45th anniversary of the Nezperce Indian war in which conflict from the Ferdinand team by a ' score of 5 to 6, before a crowd oi some 500 baseball fans and by defeating the Ferdinand team have again placed themselves at William Foster lost his life and whose grave is plainly marked on Cottonwood Butte. Most everyone in this section has seen and heard about Foster’s grave great damage _had been done.| that Montana and Nevada were egg 8 ei 3 vee on the job|once included within the con- by daylig’ onday morning | 4; i and soon had the plant counting | NS ta ae annual after mending the damage done | roundup and celebration on June by the lightning. 22, 23 and 24, and promises her NEXT CONVENTION HERE, | £0080 one of the greatest cow. The annual Idaho county as-| upper country * sociation meeting of the Odd) Thirty-eight f Fellows and Rebekahs which was | owned y ie Somebl shew {held in Grangeville Tuesday was | field, O Mgtitesdnes a Stan | attended by a large number from | day at the OW. L ei Tose, | 2 _ of the yn and Cot- | pond in Seten: The sheen il nwood was well represented at | the meeting. More. than 150) nee og “ = ba ‘ai eo partook of the splendid banquet | The shee a fi Tou soe 4 served in Grangeville Tuesday Wash # Cast li aggaag evening by the association. [ Waah., aad Caste, Unaers, The next meeting of the as-| Robert Whelan, 10-year-old | sociation will be held in Cotton-| son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. | Wood some time in June, 1928.| Whelan of Wallace is said to be | The new officers of the associa- | recovering rapidly from a bullet | tion are: C. H. Greve, chairman; | Wound received Sunday while W. W. Flint, secretary ; and Hay-| hunting with his uncle in Two- ward Shields, treasurer. The| Mile gulch. The bullet severed newly elected officers are all| the jugular vein, but the prompt from Cottonwood. action of the boy’s uncle, R. E. Seysler, saved him from serious loss of blood. The supreme court Thursday refused to stand with the state FIRE AT FERDINAND. Word was received in Cotton- wood last night to the effect that | the Mueller Drug Store at Fer- residents of | head of the percentage columu|but few know the exact details in the Idaho County National|concerning his death and_ his League. fight with the Indians on July The game was a contest from | 4th, 1877. The article which we start to finish and not until the! reproduce below was written in last half of the ninth inning did | 1887, by A. F. Parker, then edi- the Cottonwood boys have the} tor of the Idaho County Free game won. Press, published at Grangeville The ninth inning started with | and we believe it is worth re- the score even, 5 to 5, Albers got| publishing in full: to first on a hit. With Albers! The months of June and July, on second and the famous Ruste- | 1877, witnessed stirring times on meyer of by-gone days swinging | Camas Prairie, when, the hostile the willow stick the climax of the} Nez Perces under Chief Josepii game was at hand. Rusty true/ were in the flood tide of their to old form clotted the ball for | carnival of deviltry. The events a perfect single scoring Albers|of that period followed each who brought in the winning run.| other in quick succession from The team as a whole played 4) the memorable date of the out- much better game of baseball} break on June 13, down to the than the Sunday .previous when | second week in July. The cir- jrangeville defeated them. Foricunistances of which we now Cottonwood, Captain Schober,| speak occurred on July 4. On | Albers, J. Terhaar, Rustemeyer,| the morning of that day William and Hockersmith were the star | Foster and Charles Blewett citi- players. Albers made three of | zen scouts in the service of the the six scores made by Cotton-| government, were ordered to wood. Atkinson of Ferdinand | scout on Craig’s mountain, to did some very effective pitching | ascertain the whereabouts of the striking out 19 men. Indians. They had proceeded The score card gives the fol-| as far as Lawyer’s canyon when lowing details of the game: they ran into a bunch of the Cottonwood AB R_ H PO A E|hostiles who were ambushed Albers 1b 5 2 5 0 2\there. Blewett and Foster were Terhaar J. ef 5 0 9%|some distance apart when the R’meyer 3b .. 0 1) Indians opened fire, and as Ble- Schober 2b 2 1] wett seemed to be in the thickest H’smith lf 0 O)of the firing, Foster hailed him, Engel ss .. 2 0) saying: “Come on and get out of Speck p 2 9/ this.” Blewett replied: “I am go- Rhoades c¢ 0 O|line to have one shot first,” and Terhaar L. rf 0 1/dismounting fired at an Indian. South p 1] His horse, scared by the firing, —)]broke away and ran toward the Indians who were concealed in the brush. Foster tried to head off the animal, but the hostiles where shooting at him at such short range that he was compel- led to retreat. He then called to Blewett to take to the brush and he would try to help him. | Blewett had evidently been crip- pled by a shot in the leg, as the \last Foster saw of him he was —_— —-—-— |limping for the brush along the Totals 438 5 825 2 Tj\creek Foster had by this time Three base hits, Moody; two|headed for the prairie, and the base hits, Frank, Albers 2, Scho- | Indians chased him to the brow ber; hits off Speck, 4 in 4 innings | of Cottonwood hill. He, however, ou norrewwre ~] o | paar eoe 6 | Totals Ferdinand A Moody ss .... B’land 3b Pry ¢ .. Adkinson p Moffitt If Frank cf Bennett 1b Kerr rf Kinzer 2b uae men Se RHE al > on a =k 2) eee bases, | Where a company of troops un- 9 in 9 innings; stolen r command of Lieutenant Albers, Hockersmith 2, Moody; | der out by Adkinson 19, by Speck 8,|the circumstances, and made by South 4. such an ge appeal for _ Gra ‘ t. to assist him in returning Kooskia Berean Cosngeville | eseue young Blewett, that the on their home grounds Sunday entire company volunteered, but by a score of 8 to 4. as it was deemed inadvisable for | “Winona defeated Greencreek | the whole force to go, a volunteer on their home grounds Sunday |CO™Pany composed of Lieutenant by a score of 15 to 6 and thereby | Rains and eleven solders were cinched the championship of the| detailed to return with him and Idaho County American League. |@ttempt the rescue. Foster was | Winona to date has won every particular to impress upon the (Continued on page 2) dinand had burned to the ground with its entire contents. The fire broke out about 8 o'clock and for a time threatened other build- ings nearby. The fire was soon brought under control. A rum- ber of Cottonwood citizens were ready to give any assistance that our neighboring city wished, and at one time a call came from Ferdinand for assis tance but the order was soon counteriaanded. ELECTRICAL MEN VISIT. W. C. Sivyer, president and L. M. Simpson, general manager of the Grangeville Electric Light & | Power company, of Spokane, and their wives, and R. W. Turnbull, northwest representative of the | Edison Appliance company of | Chicago and Ontario, Calif., ar- rived in Cottonwood Saturday by automobile from Spokane. They | spent some time going over local affairs with J. G. Farris, the local manager of the company. They are part of a number of electrical representatives to the state meeting to be held in Boise. NEW CITIZENS. | Samuel Gamble Rankin, of Kamiah, a native of Ireland, and Joseph Altman, of Cottonwood, a native of Germany, were ad- mitted to U. S. citizenship Sat- | urday by Judge W. N. Scales. Petition of the Rev. Fr. Fridolin Baumgarten, of Cottonwood, a native of Germany, was dismis- sed without prejudice by the court, because his two witnesses, the Rev. Fr. Jerome Veth, and the Rev. Fr. Boniface Simon, had not known him continuously for the required period of five years. —Free Press. William McLaughlin, son of Mr and Mrs. C. N. McLaughlin of this city, was united in mar- riage at Walla Walla, Wash., Monday morning to Miss Alice Rhoades, a popular young gir] of the Washington city. They de- parted immediately after the wedding in the groom’s car for California where they will spend ing the main hall much larger in South, 4 in 5 innings; Atkinson, | escaped to the Cottonwood house | their honeymoon. The groom is well known in Cottonwood, for the past few) sidewalk at the entrance will be hit by pitched ball, Kerr; struck | Perry was camped, and narrated | years he has been makng_ his department of law enforcement in the revocation of the dental jlicense of Dr. A. M. Abrams, | Boise dentist, for alleged false advertising concerning the den- | tal profession The action was brought by Doctor Abrams to | Stop Robert O. Jones, commis- sioner of law enforcement from revoking his license. The date of the Lewiston Rose Show has been changed to Fri- day June 16. This action was taken at a meeting of the ex- ecutive committee when it. was | decided that the roses are going to be at their best before the twentieth, which was the date originally set. That date also conflicted with the date of the | Portland rose show which starts jon June 20. | . Under provisions of a stipula- | tion by attorneys filed Thursday in probate court at Twin Falls, |Mrs Lyda M. Southard will re- ceive from the Idaho State Life Insurance company $3,000 in settlement of her claims based ;on a $10,000 insurance policy | covering the life of Edward F. | Meyer, her fourth husband, for | whose murder she is serving a |term of imprisonment in the | state penitentiary. Slightly more than 14,000,000 | bushels of Washington, Oregon, | Idaho and Montana wheat, valu- ,ed at more than $20,000,000, | were sold through the offices of \the Northwest Wheat Growers, | Associated, during the fiscal | year ending Wednesday, Walter Robinson, manager of the Wash- |ington-Idaho Wheat Growers, | Associated, announced Thursday | Only a small part of the 1921 | wheat pool remains unsold. A party of big game hunters | will pass through Emmett on | Friday’s train, with Chamber- lain basin as their destination, | says the Emmett Index. Two freight cars will be required to carry the equipment, which in- cludes 50 bear hounds and sad- ‘dle and pack horses. The party is composed entirely of wealthy oil operators of the middle west. | They plan to spend the entire summer hunting. Charles F. Pilliard, Boise “Ponzi,” was sentenced to serve home in Walla Walla where he is seven months in the county jail engaged in the garage business. | and to pay a fine of $550 today The many friends of My.| by Judge Charles Reddoch upon McLaughlin wish him and_ his pleading guilty to conspiracy to | bride the best there is in life. | defraud Boise citizens of $109,- | wove | 562.02. Pilliard, who with A. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Jentges of R. R. Ground and Dewey O. | Greencreek returned last night | Pearce stands charged with hav- from a four weeks visit wth re-| ing obtained money under false latives and friends in the state| pretenses. will in reality, eount- of Illinois They spent a very | ing five days in every thirty for’ enjoyable visit but were glad to| good behavior, serve five months | county to their home in Idaho| and twenty-five days, says of- county.