Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, January 26, 1923, Page 1

VOLUME.31. NO. 5 COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1923 550 TAKE IN MINSTREL SHOW LOCAL BIG SUCCESS—HOUSE IN CONTINOUS UPROAR. Cottonwood’s minstrel rendered. with orchestra and chime companyment. The Orpheum Theatre was un- able to seat all those seeking ad- and by 8 o’clock more than sixty persons were turned | mission away, For a home talent play it took the entire audience off of their was discovered | that was never dreamed of. The | songs were especially well receiv- ed and the jokes, which were all! original were indeed clever. The| makeup of | every one of the 40 actors was as) in the} Few people were | the | east, who daily mingled among! us and some of them even our) feet and talent costumes and the good as one would see large cities. able to recognize many in next door neighbors. To name each one in the cast! * would require more space and) time than the editor or even the reader would care to see but we} are going to mention a few at} least. To kegin with Mr. and Mrs cess. self and the ability Mrs. liams possesses as a director. The fun makers of the Pea Kp iW tenne ing were Kioyd Baker, Hussman, W. W. Flint, Mrs. J D. Shinnick and Mrs. J. G. Fa is Who on by their logue, “Who Prairie” and house time after feet. The cake walk, ladies in bri TALENT PLAY A} show staged under the auspices of the Commercial club was the most} successful home talent play ever | staged in Cottonwood and from | a standpoint of attendance there | has never been anything like it | class will please confer-with her. in the history of the city. Close | to 600 people for more than two | construction class will be held | | hours and a half were kept in aj in Fenn. continuous uproar by jokes and! class are in the hands of Mrs. comedy skits and the choruses! Hdwin Nelson the project leader, under the able direction of Miss | Jones were exceptionally well| and the ladies taking part in the The feature song of | work are urged to attend each the chorus was Bells of Marie | ac- J. H. Williams in active charge) of the entire affair, deserve a great deal of praise for their un- | tiring efforts, Mr. Williams ke-} ing the gentleman who first sug- | gested a home talent minstrel) show and Mrs. Williams under | whose able direction the affair ; was made such a splendid suc-| Litherland, Bart Simon, George The show speaks for its | Poler jr., J. D. Shinnick, Wil-| Turner, Herman Funke, r- ris who took part in the mono- | the | y : ater! and Riley Rice. jokes, all original and deciphered | by Mrs. Shinnick, brought the) time to its | ie UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SPECIALISTS COMING. ' | a | Will Be in’ Cottonwoed For Three Days at the Red Cross Rooms—February 1, 2, 3. The definate schedule for the} | millinery and garment construc- | tion classes to be held by Miss | Zudreele, clothing specialist of the University Extension and Miss Cowgill has been arranged. February 1st to 8rd a millin-! ery class will be held in the Red Cross rooms in Cottonwood. Mrs. W. C. Frick, the project leader is in charge of the work in this community and any one desiring information about the February 5th to 7th a garment The details of this These are three day classes day. The meetings will start promptly at 9 o’clock. The specialists prefer that, not more than twelve ladies take active part in the work, as they are not able to individually assist more than this number, however all are invited to attend the classes to gain what they may from the instruction. It is the aim of the instructors holding these classes to train these twelve ladies in this work so that they may hold meetings themselves to assist the other women of the communities, as it is impossible for the specialists to assist each lady desiring this work during the limited time alloted to each county. ATTRACTIVE PARTY. Mrs. John E. Reilly was host- ess Wednesday afternoon at a delightful 500 party, which was enjoyed by thirty guests. Mrs. H. C. Matthiesen and Mrs. T. C, Keith were the prize winners. The refreshment tables were attractive with green and white decorations, including cricket favors and nut baskets. Lovely spring flowers decorated the rooms. The following ladies were present: Mesdames H. C. Matthiesen, Frank Simon, C. H, Greve, Fred Simon, Geo. Medved, T. C. Keith, A. J. Barth, N. A. Lloyd Edgar |Wortman, R. A. Nims, Verne Dye, Fred McKinney, W. F. Orr, Helen Eckert, M. A, | Pierce, Barney Tacke, John | Hoene, H. T. Agnew, Wm. Kel- sey, C. A. Johnston, C. 0. Per- renoud, Lora Hale, W. C. Frick BUYS BARBER SHOP. Ben Terhaar closed a deal with J. A. Ferguson, Wednesday | whereby he becomes the owner | TWO RUNAWAYS. John B. Useless, Esq. A team belonging to John Funke, hitched to a wagon, be- came frightened while they were standing in the Vollmer- Clearwater drive way and ran away. The runaways going at top speed across. the railroad crossing at the depot upset the wagon and as a result left the bed and a portion of the rear end of the wagon there, The team then ran into a telephone pole near the Cottonwocd milling company. The wagon was a complete wreck and the harness was badly torn. The team be- came frightened when snow ¢lid from the top of the warehouse roof, Of course, N. A. Litherland, the Vollmer agent had his side of the story and says what made the horses run away was that barley John had keen feeding his team which he purchased from the Vollmer-Clearwater. The team of John Jungert ran} away Wednesday morning near | the depot with Mrs. Jungert as j the only occupant of the buggy when the bridle of one of the horses. came off of the animal, and had it not been for the quick work of John Schaefer of Green creek, who was on his way to the depot, and who managed to stop the frightened horses, it might have resulted more seriously. Mrs. Jungert was in a very nervous condition after the run- away but soon regained her com- posure. DIES IN N.C, Neal McGuire received word Wednesday of the death of his father, R. G. McGuire, a former resident of this section who died at the home of his daughter at Lodd, N. C. January 14th at the age of 76 years. Mr. McGuire about five years ago left the Keuterville section where he was engaged in farm- |George Altman, Frank Groom, COMMISSIONERS NAME JURY LIST FOR THE COMING TWO YEARS WHO WILL HEAR TRIALS, Among the final business | transacted by the board of county commissioners was the} selection of a jury list for the, coming two years. The follow- ing were named: Big Butte—George Killmar, | Martin J. Browning, Fred Pfan- nebecker. Border—R, J, McConnell. Clearwater—Harry Baker, R. H. Farris, Cottonwood—George J. Ter- haar, J. F. Jenny, Henry A, Brugeman, Mathias Duclos, Frank Hanley, August Seubert, W. W. Blackburn, John Funke, Herman Seubert, W. H. Fortin, | A. C. Gentry, Mell Pierce. Deer Creek—-Fred M. Poe, C. M. Cone. Denver—A, B. Clayton. Dewey—A. A. Kincaid. Elk City—R. McGregor, G. L. L. Baskett. Fairview—J. L. Earp. Fenn—H. A. Sprute, Henry Meyer, Ferdinand — Herman Uhlen- kott, Albert Zodrow, C. E. Hay- den, Edward Tautfest. Forks—J. F. Callison. Glover—W. A. Hollingshead. Grangeville No, 1—A. C. Lan- ningham, Fet Rhoades, C. C. Call John Basinger. Grangeville No. 2—F. W. Cole, | H. W. Haynes, C. B. Knorr, M. H. Baulch, John Kabat, C. B. Jeffries. John Johnson, Yellow Pine—Wilbur Box. WANT TO RETAIN AGENT’S SERVICE. Farmers Now Active Circulating Petitions Throughout the Entire County. The position of county agent, which it was thought was settled for some time at least, when the board of county commissioners last week failed to make an ap- propriation for the coming year, basing their judgment on the two petitions filed with that honorable body, has taken new life and those in favor of the movement have sent out peti- tions to every nook and corner of the county with the hopes that they will have the signa- tures of hundreds of citizens and a list so large that the county fathers will change their minds and make the necessary appro- priations. Unless the commis- sioners call a special meeting this matter will not come up again until the regular meeting in April and the county agents services cease February 15th. . Opinion, throughout the coun- ty, regarding the position of county agent pro and con ap- pears to differ greatly . Those who were in favor of the retention of the agent and | were a little inactive at first have taken great interest in the second movement end are in many cases personally circulat- ing the petitions. Officers and members of the Idaho County. Farm bureau, who 'favor the retention of County Agent Carl Grayson have been | working the past week in com- munities all over the county, get- ting petitions started to present to the county commissioners asking for his retention as covn- ty agent. : From Ferdinand comes the re- port that farmers there feel that they and other farmers, who ap- preciate and approve of the work of the agent, should have a chance to voice their opinion. Fermers who have f: vored his retention did not feel that there wes much danger of his being dismissed and as a result they did not work for his retention, and feel that a minority pressure caused his dismissal. The Kamiah Progress also be- lieves that the agent should be retained and in its last issue had the following to say in regards to the matter: “The Progress is quite certain that the Idaho county commis- sioners have shown poor judg- ment and a lack of foresight for the best interests of the county in this action, Mr. Grayson has | already done the county a world of good in promoting the dairy, poultry and general farm inter- $2.00 PER YEAR NEWS AROUND THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE The clerk of courts in Nez Perce county reports that 85 divorces were granted in that county during the past year. The chamber of commerce of Moscow has decided to petition the state legislature to memo- rialize congress to place a guar- anteed minimum price of $1.25 a bushel on wheat. More than six times as many people were married in 1922 over the number of people divorced, according to a report from the office of Harry A. Thatcher, ee county recorder and audi- r. Boise and Pocatello, the two cities of the first class in Idaho, may have city courts if a mea- sure now being contemplated by lawmakers is passed by the 17th session of the legislature now in session. Bert Decker the well known packer of Kooskia and Orofino who recently underwent a seri- ous operation at the St. Joseph hospital in Lewiston for ruptur- ed appendix with hernia, is re- ported to be doing nicely and his complete recovery is expected. Eric A. Anderson, University of Idaho, senior in electrical en- gineering, will leave in a few days for Schenectady, N. Y., where he will enter the testing department of the General Elec- tric company, having recently received a graduate appointment from that company. County Treasurer: Edna Eck- ersley of Lewis county gives.out the information that the war- rant call dated January 11th takes up all outstanding war- rants against Lewis county, with the possible exception of a few warrants against some of the highway districts, The sale of a block of state timber in Clearwater county, to be held in March, will be the lar- gest single offering of timber ever made by the state, reaching more than 10,000 acres. The appraised value, according to re- port, will be more than $600,000 The land is retained by the state At a meeting of the stockhold- ers of the Nezperce & Idaho railroad company, held in Nez- perce, J. G. Magenheimer, of Chicago, representing the prin- cipal holders of the bonds of the road, was elected president, and Attorney P. W. Mitchell, of that liant .evening costumes with|0f the barber shop operated by their gentlemen partners in full| Mr. Ferguson. While not a dress was another enjoyable] barber himself, Ben will employe feature, the dance was directed | Bert Day, a first class barber, city, secretary and manager of the company, with these two gentlemen and W. F. Johnson, C. W. Booth and F, R. Roe as the ing for more than 10 years and was well known and highly re- spected in this community. Death was due to old age. ests of the county. We venture the assertion that the increase in poultry profits alone, directly Grangeville No. 3—Geo. Manning, Edward A. _ Long,| Douthard Kerlee,- Charles L. W. by Mrs. Leo Hanses. feature of the evening. Many a = pronounced the cake walk the | chair in the Ferguson shop. Mr. | who last summer held down a | Ferguson will remain here until |March 1 after which he will Mr. McGuire is survived by five children, his wife having died while a resident here and is buried in the Cottonwood ceme- Bourland, Frank Howard, H. M. Sims. Grangeville No. 4—George B. | Briscoe, David Wocds, Benjam-| due to his efforts, would very nearly pay his salary for a year, while his work in building up dairying would in time result in board of directors. Ray Bair, superintendent of the local construction unit of the Triangle Construction company, which has the Kamiah hill con- tract, arrived in Kamiah, Mon- day. It is understood that work on the highway will start at once, the survey of which was completed about two weeks ago. The road construction camp and equipment has been on the ground for some time. The ownership and manage- ment of the J. Alexander com- pany, Lewiston, passed into the - jhands of Stanley Talbott, P. F. more taxpayers and we believe) Spekker and Herman Wegner, they used excellent judgment,|these gentlemen acquiring the and_ especially when it is a|éntire holdings of Theron S. known fact that two if not three | Ward, who retired from the firm of the Idaho county commission- | jmmediately upon consummation ers are personally in favor of a| of the deal, which was Saturday. county agent. “Majority rules” |The amount paid Mr. Ward for is a very good policy to follow on | his holdings amounted to $100,- public question at least. The! 900, |new movement will be watched Sixteen year old Floyd Sun- | with great interest throughout) dusky is in jail at Pocatello, Pleasant View—-Fd Snowman. | the county. | _ . |eharged with the murder of his Pollock—Oscar Rhoades. | What action the commission-| father, Charles Sandusky, who tiggins—James Murray, C. J. | vs will take on the new petition | was shot and killed abroad an Whiteside. | is not known at this time. east bound railroad train at Me- Rocky Butte—D. F. Van Pool. | RE les 3 rag rer gaits Cammon, Idaho last Thursday Slate Creek—Lawrence Tinton | BUYS HOME. night. The shooting is attribut- Stites—Phil Hartman, G. L. | Andrew Rustemeyer, Satur-|ed to a desire on the part of the Blewett, Wesley Packer. {day purchased through the) youth to protect his mother and Tahoo—A. E. Lycan. agency of Felix Martzen the E.| brother and sisters. Sandusky Ten Mile—A. S. Johnson. Dean residence near the ball| was paroled from the Idaho state Warren—Ed Roden. | park and will oceupy the same in| penitentiary at Boise on Janu- Westlake—Adolph Johnson. — | the very near future as a home. | ary 10, where he was serving a Whitebird—Marion Thompson | The consideretion was $525. Mr.| sentence of from seven to 14 H. L. Kirkham, 8S. S. Galloway, | Rustemeyer will make a number | years for an alleged attack upon Lloyd Leach. of improvements on the house | his wife with a knife following a Woodland — George Finney, | before moving into the same. family quarrel. The first part of the program, many times his cost. Kamiah farmers will be sorry indeed to have this service discontinued, for Mr. Grayson had made a host of friends over this way and had proved his value in many ways.” We believe the Progress was a in Wells, Charles A. Goan, Benj- | amin Shaw, John P. Kee. Greencreek—Joseph Sattler, | Adolph Hinkleman, Anthony | Wessels. Harpster—Floyd Ferguson. Harris Ridge—Thomas Fit-| |, I 3 S ting. | little hasty in expressing its John Day—M. FE. Sewell. | judgment in regard to the action Joseph—Platte Talbott, sr. | of the Idaho county commission- Kamiah—Wm. F. Hamilton. | ers. They were guided solely by Keuterville — Raymond _ F.| the two petitions, one of which Bartlett, Charles Mader. | contained the names of some 150 Kooskia—N. F. King, Guy F. | | Cleveland, O. P. Decker, George | W. Trenary, Dale Clark. Lake—H. F, Church, John A. | Bentley. | Lorena—George May. Lowell—A. N. Peterson. Mt. idaho—John A. Seay. Newsome—Georre R. Curtis. Orogrande—William Hogan. Pardee—Carl T. Moore. a song by Master Delmont and| locate on a ranch on Snake river. Billie Johann was well received. | Mrs. Ferguson and her daughter The little children were accom-| Dorothy will leave immediately panied by their mother, who was | ae their new home below Lewis- forced to substitute in the place) , h te of Wanda Keith who was taken | Ill health of Mrs. Rerguson ill the last minute. | caused Mr. Ferguson to sell his And last but not least was the business establishment and to jigging of little Dan Rustemeyer | ve ~ Pe iad hg as and Ed Malerich, Ed’s jigging aight pap oe ci ay: inept would make a professional go shoe shining parlors to his new some to place him in second location at once. hy cam ees class and his jigging received | running a first class shop. ie heartiest encore of the even-| nip WITHIN TWO WEEKS. The instrumental music of the Paget M. sere Ein ba evening accompanying all songs| the Sad message last Briday an- was splendidly rendered with | Nowncing the death . her ges Frank Jenny playing the violin, er, Mrs. hing oe Git bing Norville Johnston the trombone Urey, | iowa. shop peoestc: ate and Barney Malerich on the} died on January 19th at the age drums with Prof, Westover at of 85 years and her husband, the piano ‘ | Frank Gibbins only preceeded akc. | his wife in death by a few days, I a tiling oe bins thos | having died on January 7 at the n order to accommodate those |'a ce of 89 years. The remains cided to again re-stage the affair | ee grighinde ait extents Tuesday, January 80. New jokes! ....nathy —to Mrs. Belkna in will be substituted for the old) sYmPAty to Oe te anny rip | this her hour of double sorrow. ones and several other new fea- “i tures added. The main part will POISON KILLS CATTLE. Sidney Brown has lost five} ke the same. | After the program last Tues-| head of cattle this week and day evening the cast gave in| seven more are not expected to honor of Mr. and Mrs, Williems | live as the result of having eaten 2 surprise luncheon under the) prasshopper poison which was thrown out into a ditch. direction of Mrs. Nims and Mrs. | poison was two years old. tery. The children are: Mrs. W. G. Brust, Ashmoore, Mont.; Mrs. W. H. Snavely, Elgin, Nev.; Mrs. W. R. Graham, Wesilake, | Idaho; Mrs. Charles Trivett, Lodd, N. C. at whose home he died and Neal McGuire of Cot- tonwood, Idaho. His reamins were laid to rest at Lodd, N. C. January 15th. ENJOYABLE EVENING, The Knights of Columbus en-} tertained their members and friends Wednesday evening in their council chambers, the even- ing was spent in playing 500. | Seventeen tables were required | to accommodate the players. The | winners of the evening were: Mrs. Enoch Crosby, first; Mrs. Alois Wemhoff, second; Mrs. Ed Terhaar, consolation; Joseph Sudkamp, first; Mike Fuchs, sec- ond; John Gehring, consolation. |POISON WEEK. Don’t forget that next week) jis poison week for sparrows. |The county agent has left a sup- ply of terated wheat at the} Hoene Hardware Co., where it} may be secured at 15 cents a package. Urge your neighbor | | to get a sack and help extermin- ate this pest. Sprinkle a few} grains around on the rafters and The | places where the birds are in the | | habit of lighting. Keith.