Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, February 23, 1923, Page 1

Se ee aE eee Re er he ee ae ORE re et ae a ee RT na ae | COTTONWOOD _CHRONICLI =e COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1923. poe $2.00 PER YEAR TELLS ABOUT HIS | RECENT TRIP TO COAST. NEWS AROUND e Times Are Very Good On Ccast T E —Diversification of Industries Given as The Reason, F. S. Wimer, former editor of ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM the Chronicle, who returned VARIOUS PARTS OF early last week from the coast | with a shipment of dair: sotin| THE STATE VOLUME 31. NO. 9 such prices and on such terms as it may deem best for the public | Bi GUARANTEE welfare. To cover any cost to the corporation of the handling, | transportation, insurance, stor- age, and other charges with res- pect to the wheat, the corpora- | ‘ : = tion is authorized to retain from | TESTIMONY BEFORE AGRI- the guaranteed price 5 cents on| CULTURE COMMITTEE — bushel ef wheat purchased | | 4 “0 0 y At. IS ALSO GIVEN. | "An embargo upon wheat and wheat flour is declared, which shall be effective until July 1, With one dissenting vote, that | 1926. Exceptions to the embargo of Attorney E. A. Cox of Lewis-| are (1) wheat to he used for ton, who too was the only speak-| seed purposes, (2) in-transit}- er of opposition, the mass meet-| shipments of wheat or wheat ing of inland empire farmers} flour, and (3) wheat imported in who gathered at the Lewis-| compliance with the tariff dct of |; Clark hotel Tuesday afternoon! 1922 for use in manufacturing : to the number of three hundred, | flour, which is in turn to be re- i passed a_ resolution supporting | exported. f the Gooding wheat guarantee} The bill provides for the disso- bill which would provide a price| lution of the corporation, us for Idaho, Nez Perce and Asotin counties, was in town Saturday ! i and gave the Chronicle some! A cash deal for $12,000 was interesting data regarding his completed by George I. Lynn, © trip and conditions as he found Nezperce real estate dealer, them on the coast. While away | when the 160 acre ranch of he spent about a week at Seattle, Henry Becker, four miles north going from there to the San | of Nezperce was sold to O. M. Juan islands and then to Belling- | Fraff of Spirit Lake, Idaho. ham and other points in What-| More than $19,000,000 has com county. Mr. Wimer said, been expended on roads in Idaho he found times every prosperous | during the past four years and all along the ‘coast and did not! it is probable that $5,000,000 hear an expression about hard | will be spent on road construc- times while away. He lays this | tion in the state during the pre- of $1.75 at terminal markets for| soon as possible after July 1, | 4 H the 1923 crop, this resolution be-| 1926: Upon the dissolution of | i ing later forwarded to the Wash-| the corporation, all assets and) i Re tan eel SE eee OO ey ee tied | COM MORA Te SUE ‘| NEW ORGANIZATION. colar culversificalloge tear: ie tedions Krakau and ington, D. 1. ne the Lewiston! to the Treasury of the United | AND 20TH ANNIVERSARY | _ Mrs. Ida Hamblen of Portland, | dustries there, which results in Miss Jessie Keeler, teachers, and ina SS tats aa tiniacelnnabdar recerhta, ea Oregon, state supervisor of Ore-|more employment for the resi-| Hattie Wick, 8 years old, a pupil The. resolution as adopted! At different times numerous | K. of P. Have Big Time—Splen. | 897 and Idaho tor the Royal|dents of the country and more jin the Clearwater school, 10 ON YouR FIRST LONG PANTS SUIT, fi 4 : f reads: witnesses have appeared before! did Program Rendered Tues- The following resolution was| the committee and testified as to | adopted by the delegation ot| the condition of agriculture, and | over 300 business men andj while there seems to be some wheat growers of the eight) improvement in some products counties of Idaho and Washing-| of the farm, it was clearly shown ton, consisting of Asotin, Gar-| that the condition of the wheat | field, and Whitman in Wash-| grower is ington, and Nez Perce, Lewis,| harder, and that he has Idaho, Clearwater and Latah! producing wheat below the cost) counties in Idaho, called toge-| of production for the last thee ther by the Lewiston Commer-| years, and unless something is cial club, beg leave to offer the! done to stabilize the following resolution: ate of the: United States, andj the passage of this bill at the present session. other piece of legislation offered | this measure. A. A. Seaborg, Sec. bill was published in its entirety report reads as follows: price of wheat in this country there is) Resolved, that we endorse| grave danger of that branch of senate bill No. 4478 introduced| agriculture breaking down and by Senator Gooding in the sen-| becoming demoralized. | One of the saddest stories re- unanimously passed on by the} lated to the Agricultural Com- agricultural committee, and! mittee was by Mr. John F. Sin- that we ask our representatives | clair, who gave his business as | in congress to use every means| banking and investment, and his at their command to bring about | residence as Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. Sinclair stated that in the last 12 months there were 956 We further express a view|farm mortgages foreclosed in that this bill will do more to| Minnesota, 2,456 in North Dako- bring about the general pros-| ta, 969 in South Dakota, and 955 perity of the country than any} in Montana. The question “Can the farm- in the past, and as an emergency | ers work themselves out of their | exists, we offer every assistance} present fincancial difficul ies?” at Se ee to help in bring-| was por inh ye Mr. oo, to ing about the speedy passage of | a number of banks in Minnescta, vp Neg eKinle: North and. South Dakota, and| Piano Solo—Neal McKinley. Signed. Chas. Jansen, Pres.' Montana, and 291 answers were| All, with the excep- Digest of Provisions of the Bill} tion of five, stated that it was The following report of Sena-| impossible for the farmers to tor Gooding, from the Commit-| work out of their present finan- | tee on Agriculture and Forestry, | cial difficulty with the high cost | submitted the following report| of production unless something to accompany Senate bill No. | was done to stabilize the price of 4478 to the United Senate. The| wheat by the government. The saddest story told by Mr. in the Chronicle last week. The | Sinclair was of the suicides that have taken place upon the farm, The bill provides for the or-|in which he stated that last year ganization of a corporation, with| there were 34 suicides on the a capital stock of $300,000,000 | farm in Minnesota, 87 in North all of which shall be subscribed | Dakota, 32 in South Dakota, and held, and paid for by the United |15 in Montana, making 168 sui- received. day Evening. The Knights. of Pythias "of Cottonwood, fittingly celebrat- ed the 59th year of the founding of their order and the 20th an- growing harder and | niversay of the Cottonwood or- been | ganization, by entertaining members of their order, their families and friends in the J: O, 10. F. Hall, Tuesday evening. |The first part of the evening was spent in listening to a well arranged and rendered pro- gram consisting of songs, read- ings and ete. At the conclusion of the program a splendid lun- cheon was served to all present, prepared by the Pythian Sisters. 185 were seated at the banquet table. The following program was rendered : Address of Welcome—Ray- mond Matthiesen. The Foundation of Pythianism —Steve Farthing. Vocal Solo—Mrs. Keith. Piano Duet—Miss Jones and Miss Neal McKinley. Vocal Solo—Elza Matthiesen. Song—Glee Club. Piano Solo—Miss Jones. Instrumental Duet—Mr. Moll and Mr. Westover. Vocal Solo—Jack Blount. Song—Glee Club, girls. Song—Glee Club, boys. DIED IN GRANGEVILLE. Andrew J. Beckelheimer, a pioneer of the west, died in Grangeville, February the 14th, at the age of 68 years. Death was due to pneumonia. He was born in Missouri, in 1854 and re- moved to Walla Walla, Wn., in the early 70s. He came to Idaho county in 1905. The fdlowing States. The management of the | cides in those 4 states in the last) WaS_,written by, a friend of corporation is vested in a board} 12 months. Mr. R. W. Frazier appeared Secretary of Agriculture, who} before the»committee and testi- of directors consisting of the Andy’s who lives in the Salmon river section. “Andy ‘the packer’ has passed shall be chairman of the board, | fied as to the condition of the | @W4y- Everyone in the Salmon and of two other persons to be appointed by the President, by farmers in North Dakota. exhibited news- river country remembers Andy, who was a friend to all, a kind and with the advice and consent | papers showing that in some of word and a pleasant smile for of the senate. at certain guaranteed prices | yes i the counties in North Dakota The corporation is authorized | more than 75 per cent of all the and directed to purchase at the/| farms were advertised by the principal markets and for cash | county for delinquent taxes. n ¢ , Mr. Frazier testified that in wheat which is of a grade fixed | Divide County, N. Dak., by the United States official | year there were 18 suicides. grain standards and which is| stated that they were all farm- ae snow was deep, then it was that everyone he knew. In the years past when it was almost impos- sible for the people in the Sal- mon river country to hear from the outside world, no phones, no roads, in the winter when the Andy ‘the mail carrier’ came produced in the United States|ers, with the exception of one| ‘trough the storms, ever at his during the years 1928, 1924, and | coal miner. 1925. The guaranteed price for | No. 1 Northern spring wheat of | the crop of 1928 is fixed by the! bill at $1.75 per bushel; but the guaranteed price for No. 1 Nor-}| thern spring wheat of the crops of 1924 and 1925 and the guar- | anteed prices of wheat of the other grades for the crops of 1928, 1924, and 1925 shall be| fixed by the corporation. | comes the story of the hardships and privations upon the farm. Everywhere the story is told of | the young men leaving the farm. | one county in young men were leaving the farms last year. The story is told of children in some parts of the country be- In Idaho 1,500 post, and always as happy and | cheerful as tho it were a summer day. May he rest in peace.” MAKES A FINE ARTICLE, Most people imagine that cheese can only be made by \large cheese factories such as are usually found in dairy coun- tries. This, however, does not | prove to be the case in eyery in- | stance. Joseph Lemacher, of the ~The bill requires warehouse or | 28 forced to go barefooted and | Keuterville section, who has elevators receiving or storing} wheat purchased by or intended for sale to the corporation to be licensed. The corporation is au- denied the benefits of schools be- | jeen making cheese for years cause there was so little left | manufactures as fine an article from the harvest after freight | ,. any one would care to eat. and expenses were paid that in| phe quality of his cheese has thorized to fix just and reason- | 80m? Gases charity had to be ex-| pained such a reputation locally able storage charges, commis-| tended to some of the farmers in| that for some time he has been sions, profits, or practices, and may revoke the license of. any licensee who knowlingly fails or refuses to discontinue any un-| just or unreasonable storage charge, commission, profit, or) practice, in aceordance with an order of the corporation. States where the soil was rich | and the harvest abundant. This condition, it was shown, existed | to some extent in practically all of the Northwestern and West- ern states. It was shown very cléarly to| members in behalf of one of the | the-committee that the farmers| members, Mrs. Frick, who is |unable to supply the demand. The Pythian Sisters met in re- | gular session last night. After |lodge a social gathering and re- | freshments: were enjoyed by the Wheat. purchased by the cor-| Were in no way to blame for the |Jeaving for Lewiston where she poration may be resold by it at (Continued on page 2) will make her future home. Neighbors of America and Mrs. Ida Whitcomb, district deputy, are in Cottonwood in the inter- est of that society and will com- plete the organization of a local camp this week. This society is the auxiliary of the Modern Woodmen of America. Has a membership of half a million members and is counted among fraternalists as the largest and} strongest social, beneficial woman’s’ society in existance, The first meeting of the new organization was held on Thurs- day afternoon in the 1, O. O, F. hall with a large number pre- sent. The following will com-} pose the corps of officers for the | year: Oracle, Rose Johann; Vice | Oracle, Margaret Keith; Chan- cellor, Kate Barth; Recorder, Harriett Greve; Receiver, Alma Buettner; Marshall, Ruth Sager; | Assistant Marshall, Katherine Nacke; Inner Sentinel, Carolyn Nau; Outer Sentinel, Clara Wort man; Managers, Margaret Sch- roeder, Rose Cosand and Dollye Kendall; Musician, Beatrice Cal- houn. SURPRISE MR. KEITH. Some twenty friends and neighbors walked into the Keith home Monday evening to assist Mr. Keith in celebrating his birthday. Of course T. C. was aware of the coming party for when the merry makers took possession of their home they} found Mrs. Keith dresed in her | house dress and Mr, Keith in| bed. It took only a few minutes | for Mr. Keith to dress up in his Sunday best and before another 15 minutes passed the crowd was busily engaged in playing 500. At the conclusion of the card games a luncheon was serv- ed. All departed wishing Mr. | Keith many happy returns of | the day and were surprised to learn that he retired so early in the evening. FARMERS MEETING. There will be a mass meeting of farmers and business men in Cottonwood Saturday afternoon at two o’clock, February 24th, for the purpose of discussing the | wheat price guarantee bill now before congress. The delegates who attended the Lewiston meeting will present a report of that meeting and the matter will | be thoroughly prezented from all | sides. Everyone interested in| wheat prices is urged to attend. The meeting will take place in| the Goldstone building across | the street from the Chronicle office. TWO MORE. GAMES. Two more games of basget-| ball are scheduled for ~Cotton- wood this week, one with Craig- mont and the other with Win-| chester. Tonight the Cotton- wood high school team will com- bat with the Craigmont . high scool team and tomorrow even- ing the Cottonwood town team | and the Winchester town team} will battle for the honors. Cc. N. MéLaughlin and family | expect to leave about March Ist} for Richland, Wash., where they | will reside in the future. Mr.| McLaughlin this week lessed his | livery stable to Edgar Wortman | who will use the same for his dray barn. The McLaughlins} own an acreage property at} Richland. i money in circulation. In Whatcom county, which} has the largest mileage of paved roads of any county in Wash- ington, the leading industries are about equally divided be. tween lumbering, shipping and} fishing, dairying and poultry. The Whatcom County Dairy- men’s Association, composed of j some 1800 members, did a gross business last year in excess of | one and one-half millions of | dollars, while the poultry <¢s- sociation did almost as well. In} the first case the farmers’ as-| sociation does not control ll the milk in the county either as the Carnation people, of Seattle, have one or two large condens- ories operating there. It is no uncommon thing there to visit dairy farms and see from fifty to a hundred head of fine dairy cattle in the barn at one time, ! half of the herd being producing animals. On the poultry farms also one can often see places with not more than five or ten acres of cleared land and yet heusing: from 800 to 1500 White Leghorn hens. Under the as- sociation management most of the eggs are shipped in carload lots by express to New York City, the cost of the shipment often amounting to $810 for a single car. The mild winters and abundant rainfall in summer along the coast makes that an ideal country for the poultry and dairy industries and every- one seems to ke prospering at the game. Much of the feed needed by the farmers is ship- ped in from east of the mount- ains, most of the alfalfa hay be- ing secured fom the Ellensburg and Yakima sections while the coast farmers use their land for providing summer pasture, growing of root crops and corn for, silage and native hay. Around Mount Vernon, south of Bellingham, a large part of the cabbage seed sold in the U. S. is produced and this industry re- turns a handsome profit. Farm- ers there also planted about 5500 acres to potatoes last year but have failed to make good with the crop, the price being so low Jast fall that a large part of the acresge was not harvested, Mr. Wimer stated. that Bell- ingham is a triving city of about 30,000 population and_ while there he met Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wright, former Cotton- wood citizens, who are in busi- ness there and doing well. He was quite favorably impressed with the coast country and pre- dicts that in time to come the San Juan islands will develop resorts of this country. NOTICE TO FARMERS. Owing to the absence of the chairman and secretary of the Community Farm Club the regular meeting and annual election of officers of the club was not held in January but this business will be up for consider- ation at the regular meeting on Tuesday, March 6th. The meet- ing will be held as formerly at the Odd Fellows hall and a large attendance is requested, as mat- ters of much importance to the eommunity are to be considered. Kindly arrange to be present, jand bring your neighbor. The |factory at the meeting will be called promptly at 1 o’clock P. M. By order of the President. miles from Sfites, were all badly injured, when a sleed which th were coasting on struck a di and threw them. “Grandpa” Isaac Mounce, Idaho’s oldest citizen, is looking forward complacently to the nearer approach of April 23, for with the dawn of that day he will enter upon the last 12- month period that will bring him to the distinction of a fully- qualified centenarian. Mike E. Mockler, a pioneer of Nezperce, died Monday of cancer. Mr, Mockler has been ill for a year with the disease, and has been bedfast for four months. Mr. Mockler was 69 years of age, and was a charter /members of the Nezperce I. O. O. F, lodge. With the published statement that ‘this’ bank is closed on ac- count of a lack of confidence of the community,” the Rupert National bank, the sole remain- ing bank in that city, closed its doors at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Rupert at one time had three banks, all of which closed their doors. C. T. Lewis, who is farming northeast of Kendrict, is plan- ning to manufacture sorghum next year on quite a large scale, at least enough to supply all local demands in the Potlatch country. He will plant twelve acres of sorghum cane which, judging by past yields, ought to make 600 gallons of molasses. First of the string of cheese factories to be established in southern Idaho by H. F. Laabs, throughout the co-operation of the Kraft interests, started in Rupert, Idaho, Thursday morn- ing. . There were 1964 lbs of milk delivered to the factory by farmers the first forenoon ean it is expected that over 2500 Ibs. | will be delivered regularly lates’. Two dogs purchased by Guy Graft and Jack Russel of Myers Cove, Idaho, recently, on the guarantee that they would catch cougars, have proven their met- tle, Graft and Russell took the hounds on a cougar hunt which resulted in the slaying of two of the animals. Cougars bring a bounty of $50 from the state of Idaho and thus Graft and Rus- sell collected $100 from the state and mede $33 from the sale of the two pelts. A work to receive the atten- tion of the Northern Pacific Railway company this spring will be installation of heavier rails on the Clearwater line from Arrow Junction to Greer, with | this improvement to be extended into one of the leading summer | to the terminal at Stites later. The improvement has been plan- ned for some time, but is now be- ing hastened because of new and increasing tonnage due to the opening of the Chearpater tim- ber region to milling . Contracts were signed Tues- day by members of the Idaho state prison boara and officials of an eastern shirt concern, which will provide a shirt fac- tory at the state penitentiary for the employment of convict labor. The completion of the contraet followed the signing by Governor Moore of a house bill appropriating $20,000 to build a nitentiary. Negotiations sta under Gow ernor Davis and their comple- tion was possible after legisla- tive action.