Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 2, 1923, Page 1

retire from busines snow. | COTTONWOOD CH RONICL pee iar VOLUME 31. NO. 10. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1923. MOVE T0 D B ND LAW SUITS FILED. | Two law suits were filed by : |the Idaho Wheat Growers Asso- WHEAT GROWERS siz: with headquarters in | Spokane at Grangeville -last Pri- | day, one against Frank Fores- |man and the other against A. E. \Terhaar both of Cottonwood. Similar actions were filed other counties in the state. PETITION CIRCULATED TO GET SENTIMENT OF in e, The history of the cases are MEMBERE ‘|as follows: Both Mr, Foresman jand Mr. Terhaar joined the PID aD ORD | wheat growers association and wheat farmer in the Palouse | a member of the Washington | Wheat Growers’ association, has | started the circulation of a peti- tion to be presented to the board of directors 6f the association, | asking that a referendum vcte of | members, which number up into the thousands in the three north | west states of Washington, Ore- gon, and Idaho, be taken by mail to deside whether the associa- tion shall carry on for another three years, to the termination of the period for which the farmer members signed, or shall money on their crops and when the final settlement was: made they were overpaid, according to suits filed. | At the time the defendants turned over their wheat tickets to the association the price of | wheat was very high but the |bulk of the grain held by the | organization was sold for much less in price than when Mr. Fors- man pnd Mr. Terhaar turned pale over their tickets. __ Mr, Olson states that a major-) “Both cases are being watched ity of the members in his dis- with great interest, not only in trict express themselves as dis-| this state but in Washington and satisfied with the result of! Montana as well marketing through the organiza-| "7 Foresman was over paid tion and he believes that it! approximately $1400 and Mr would be well to determine 'posnaar $2000. ae, 2 future action through a referen- | The Sait sail probably be bo Aig eda sR Nasree ae heard at the spring term of the bers received’ 8114 cents per'| district court in Grangeville. bushel for their 1922 crop and | sah ah RRMIL SY OIRGS that he is of the opinion that a! DEFEAT NORMAL BOY S. The Cottonwood high school majority of members will ex-| c press themselves in favor of dis- | basketball team took the huskie organizing. The association got| Lewiston Normal boys _ into its first black eye in the fall of | camp last night, defeating them 1920, the first year it was extensive | jn 1921 when they delivered | fe picatlran x their wheat tickets to the asso-' district, in Whitman county, and ciation they were advanced | | officials of the association, and | this is the money they are now | attempting to regain by the law} in| by.a score of 80 to 23. The Cot- | operation, when many member farmers had their wheat ready | é | last night and the team perform- | for market before the sensation- al break in the market which characterized that memorable | tonwood boys played their best ard fastest game of the season ed like clock work. The local | boys, the smallest by odds play- * ing in the K. C. doings at Lewis- fall. The farmers, unable to sell, | ed rings around their heavier naturally felt- dissatisfied and | opponents. ‘ expressed their dissatisfaction, | The contest was witnessed by when they saw the price drop |@ large and enthusiastic crowd from day to day and were unable | and to them a certain amount of to sell. Since then there has credit must be given for the vic- been spasmodic outbreaks of dis-| tory. At times it seemed as if satisfaction. j the roof would be taken from There are many farmers in| the big gym by their yelling and Idaho county members of the|no doubt this had much to do association, many of them resid-| with the Cottonwood boys ex- | ing in this immediate vicinity. | erting every ounce of energy From the general talk of farm:| Within them for victory. : ers, members of the* organiza-| Homar was the high point tion, it is more than likely that | man for the evening, making 18 those residing in this section| points, Nims 7, Tacke 6 and will be for disolving the organi-| Shinnick 4. For Lewiston H. zation. Members as well as|Jones made 11 of his team’s farmers generally, will S, with interest the developments | and Tain 2. of the move to disband the as-| The Cottonwood band render- sociation. Unless the corporation| ed a few selections between can be dissolved, they will be| halves at the game. held for three years yet. In a preliminary contest the Freshmen again K. C. HAVE BIG TIME. th More than three hundred | of 7 to 6. members of the Knights of Col-| i SSD ERENT: umbus gathered in Lewiston; DIED IN MISSOULA. Sunday for the initiation of 85} Mrs. R. A. .Nims_ returned candidates and members partak- | Wednesday evening from Mis- ing of holy communion in a body, } soula, Montana where she was and closing with a banquet dur-/ called February 9th, by the ing the evening at_the Lewis-| death of her mother, Mrs. J. D. Clark hotel with 250 present. | Poisson. Funeral _ services of The entire afternoon was) Mrs. Poisson, who died at Mis- taken up with the exemplifica-|soula after an illness of only 24 tion of work at the Knights of | hours due to congestion of the Columbus hall. The work was|}jungs caused by the flu, were put on by a team from Spokane | held Monday morning, February composed of M. J. Luby, past| 12th, from the Catholic church state deputy; John Egan, P. McLaughlin, Arthur Proulx, | Harrington officiating. Frances J. Rooner, Michael) Mrs. Poisson, who was 51 Pecaravich, Joseph Lugler, F. V.| years 9 months and 11 days old, Brown, Robert Langdon, , these | was born in Calumet, Mich., and being in charge of District Dep-| was married there to J. D. Pois- uty T. T. Grant. 2 ~|son in 1887. The family resid- At the banquet, presided over} eq for many years on a ranch by Toastmaster Leo McCarty, | near Nezperce, Idaho, removing impromptu talks were made by | to Missoula five years ago. Mrs. Father Conrad Brusten, pastor | Poisson was a member of the of St. Stanislaus’ church, Lewis-| Catholic church, St. John the ton; Prof. Dahm of the Univer-| Babtist Society and St. Ann Soc- sity of Idaho; Louis Cherrier, | jety of Missoula. Lewiston; T. T. Grant, district) Surviving her are her hus- deputy, Spokane; E. R. Flickin- | hand, two daughters, Mrs. R. A. ger, district deputy, Lewiston. Nims, Cottonwood, and Mrs. The address of the evening: was | Joe Kauffman, Maras, Mont, and made by M. J. Luby, past state | one son, Arlie, Missoula. deputy of soar ee Music was furnishe uring | the banquet by Edwards’ orches- MARRIED IN LEWISTON. tra, and solos were offered by; Robert Howard and Miss Prof. W. G. Allen, Whitman Bar- | Margaret Griffith were married ton, Wm. Cherrier and Joe Bal-| Wednesday afternoon in Lewis- deck. —Tribune. ton by Rev. Mark Pike of the Those from Cottonwcod tak-| Methodist church at the home of the groom’s moter, Mrs. Min- ton, Sunday were: Al Wagner,|nie Howard. The_ bride Barney Seubert, William Huss- | daughter of Mr, and Mrs. E. M. man, Ben Hussman, John Wag- | Griffith of Grangeville and a ner, Henry Schurman, Carl popular young lady at the coun- Schurra, Roy Speck, J. B. Mc-|ty seat. The young couple will Donald. J.|in Missoula with the Rev. Fr. | make their home in Grangeville. | residing on his ranch at Waha | watch | Scores, Florence 6, T. Jones 4, | defeated the | 7th and 8th graders by a score is a} |FRY SAYS ROAD WILL BE GRAVELED | From Lawyer Canyon to Cot-| tonwood Work Will Be Let In One Contract. | Edgar Fry, Tuesday evening, returned from Boise and brings back with him the good news that the highway between the eanyon via Ferdinand and to Cottonwood will he graveled in the spring according to the | best information he was able to obtain at Boise. Mr. Fry is a member of the Ferdinand high- way board and he is vitally inter- ested in the work and made) every effort to find out ‘the stand the highway department would take regarding this work. | Mr. Fry, who was in Cotton- wood, Wednesday, stated that the Federal money was available right now for this work and that the districts have already set aside their share and in_ his opinion it is only a matter of a few weeks until bids will be advertised. Since the disorganization of the highway department, by Gov. Moore, and with the legis- lature still in session Goy. Moore has been unable to properly re- organize this unit owing to oth- |er pressing business but as soon as permanent engineers are se- lected the work will proceed at | once. Mr. Fry also stated that the | work in both the Ferdinand and | Cottonwood districts would be let as one project thereby mak- ing a job of considerable size and a much better bid can be ex- | pected from the contractors. The cost of graveling this stretch | will be in the neighborhood of $60,000. FAVOR GOODING BILL. At-a mass meeting held in Cottonwood, Saturday afternoon | which was attended by some 75 farmers and business men the Gooding wheat guarantee bill | was discussed and approved and | copies of the resolutions sent to Senator Gooding, Senator Borah Smith and | 1 {and Congressman French. |. While 95 per cent of those |present at the meeting, Satur- | day were in favor of the propos- |ed legislation there were some, however, who did not favor the |movement. Farmers taking in | the meeting represented the com | munities of Cottonwood, Keuter- ville, Greencreek and Winona. {WALLACE RHETT MARRIED. Wallace Rhett, formerly of \this city was married in Spok- jane, Wash., last Saturday to Miss Myrtle Keffer. Wallace is |the youngest sen of ‘Mrs. Viola | Rhett who was employed by the Cottonwood Mercantile Co., here and removed to Spokane with her two sons last fall. Mr. Rhett ‘is at the present time employed |by Armour and company of Spokane, being .one of their traveling representatives. Wal- jlace has many friends here who | wish him happiness and prosper- '|ity in his new state of life. | BUYS MORE LAND. | ©. M. Collins president of the | First National Bank of Cotton- | wood, who recently purchased the “Twenty-one” ranch near Waha., acquired an additional quarter section recently, joining his present farm, from Herbert | Greer, who recently moved from |Canada. Mr. Collins has been (|__—Sarsiay ore Trere I) Mbit ‘ 1) yyy nny Ufginudiig, W ; in, ts i] i MILLING COMPANY IS RE-ORGANIZED Lease Flour Mill to S. E. Mikkel- son of Lewiston—Name New Officers The Cottonwood Milling & Elevator Co., sold about- two months ago to the bondholders of the old company have c>m- pletely reorganized that organi- zation and in the future the in- stitution will be known as the Cottonwood Elevator Co. The new officers of the organization are: John F. Nuxoll, president! V. G. Lustig, vice president; J. F. Jenny, secretary; Felix Mart- zen, treasurer; A. B. Ruhoff, manager. The board of direc- tors consists of the following: ! John F. Nuxoll, V. G. Lustig, J. F. Jenny, Felix Martzen and Joe Uhlenkott. It is the aim of the new com- pany to do only storage business, the flour mill having been leased to S. E. Mikkelson of Lewiston, who hopes to have-the plant in operation at an carly date. Workmen where today busily engaged in re-wiring the motor! room of the mill in order to har- ness the large motor that will be used to propell the mill ma- chinery. Mr. Mikkelson in company with S. G. Robertson, a grain dealer, were visitors in the city Tuesday on business matters. TOWN TEAM WINS. The Cottonwood town defeated the Winchester team in a one sided Saturday evening, by a score of 88 to 2. The Winchester boys team town did not arrive in Cottonwood un- til 10 o’clock, their tradiness be- ing due to the car in which they were making the trip having be- come stalled in the mud between the canyon and Ferdinand. When the Winchester boys did finally arrive the “moonshine” was too bright for them to see~ the basket and as a result they made only one field goal. The contest was very rough and at times it looked like it might end in a civil war. IN CHARGE OF 7 COUNTIES. W. W. Flint received a letter this week from J. V. Nash who is now employed by the govern- ment in the income tax unit at Omaha, Neb. Mr. Nash among other things stated that he had been selected as the man to have charge of seven counties in Iowa with Ft. Dodge as his head- quarters. Mr. Nash will have under his supervision some 20 employees. Since entering the government service Mr. Nash’s advancement has been very rapid. Mrs. Nash is at the present time visiting. with relatives in| Kansas City but they expect to make their future home at Ft. Dodge, Iowa after March 1: MOVE TO TOWN. Chester Thompson will hold a big public auction sale on _ his ranui>5 and one-half miles south east of Cottonwood on Tuesday, | March 6th at which time he will dispose of ll his personal pro-| perty and livestock. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson will remove to Cottonwood immediately follow- | ing the sale and have already lea8ed the William Nuxoll home where they will reside. After Mr. Thompson removes to Cot- tonwood he will have charge of the Hoene Hardware garage. contest, | | ADA SWERT DIES. Miss Ada Sweet, widely known Grangeville business woman, who had been critically ill for a number of days following two weeks of virulent pneumonia, died at the apartment of Mrs. George M. Reed at the Imperial hotel in Grangeville at 6:30 ‘o'clock, Wednesday morning. The death of Miss Sweet is a distinct shock to the community, where she was well known ard beloved by all. She was a woman of unusual business ability and had for a number of years been | associated with the George M. Reed company, with which she became an active partner three years ago. She was also asso- ciated with her sister, Margaret Sweet, in a cattle ranch near Grangeville. She has a host of business friends over the entire prairie country, who will grieve to hear of her death. . Miss Sweet was born at San- burn, Iowa, May 12, 1885, and came west with her mother in 1902. She had been a resident of Grangeville ever since. Her father, Hiram Sweet, and sister, Margaret, preceded them a year. She was a graduate of the Lin- coln, Iowa, high school and of the Huffly institute of New York, Miss Sweet is survived*by a sister, Benne, who is librarian at the University of Idaho; a sister, Margaret, rural supervi- sor of schools for north Idaho, residing at Lewiston, and her father, Hiram Sweet, of Lewis- ton. There also survive an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Sweet; Mrs. Margaret Hanna and Miss Emily Sweet, aunts, all of Grangeville. The funeral services will be in charge of Rev. D. J. W. Sommer- ville of Lewiston and will be held in the I. O. O. F. hall at Grange- ville, today. DEFEAT CRAIGMONT. The Cottonwood high school basketball team experienced no difficulty in defeating the Craig- mont team last Friday evening by a score of 41 to 19. The game was very slow and a one- sided »#ffair. For ‘the local boys, Nims was the } igh point mén with 21 points to his ercdit. The Craigmont boys were at loss playing in a building with a high ceiling. Gregory, the Craigmcnt center was by, far the fastest player on the visitor’s team. A preliminary game was play- ed between the Freshmen team and the 7th and 8th graders. This game was won by the form- er, 19 to 12. MANY ATTEND LUNCHEON. A large number of business men attended the regular lunch- eon of the Commercial club, | Tuesday noon at the Cottonwood Hotel. <A telegram was read from Senator Gooding stating that he expected to have a vote on the $1.75 wheat guarantee bill this week. also read from Senator Borah who stated that he would do everything in his power for the $1.75 wheat bill. Other routine matters were also taken up. Those present were: Chairman M. M. Belknap, Secretary W. W. | Flint, R. H. Kendall, J. V. Baker, C. A. Johnston, Geo. Medved, C. |H. Greve, Mayor Wilbur L. ; Campbell, of Grangeville, P. H. Dye, County Commissioner Sch- | roeder, Supt. Moll, C. O. Perren- joud, N, A. Litherland, William Simon, Floyd Baker, H. C. Mat- thiesen, J. E. Richards and Rev. Poindexter. | | COYOTES HEAD THE LIST. During the term from Janu- |ary 1, 1921, to December 31, | 1922, claims against the preda- | tory animal fund were filed to the amount of $136,100 and showed a total of 49,168 preda- tory animls_ killed. Idaho county’s record shows 1,889 coyotes, 179 wildcats, 75 lynx, 1 wolf, and 72 cougars. The county stands first in the num- | ber of cougars, third in the num- ber of lynx, fourth in the num- ber of wildeats and sixth in the number of coyotes reported kill- ed. Owyhee county heads the list with a coyote record of 7,- 056. NOTICE TO AUTO OWNERS. Motor licenses become due on January 1, 1923 and must be paid on or before March 10, 19238. WILLIAM INGRAM, 10-2 Assessor. A telegram was | $2.00 PER YEAR ‘NEWS AROUND ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM | VARIOUS PARTS OF \ THE STATE Meter patrons of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, municipal electric \light system will have_ their rates reduced, effective Feb. 1, | approximately 20 per cent, ac- | cording to action taken by the city council at a meeting held | Tuesday evening. Fifty-two years ago the white plague made its appearance among the Nez Perce Indians and since then hundreds of the tribe have died from this cause while other hundreds are afflict- ed with tuberculosis, either in dangerous stages or in its in- cipiency. An appeal to county sheriffs of Idaho to seek co-operation of other peace officers in rounding + violators of the statute prov- i ing for purchase of state auto- mobile licenses is made in a let- ter sent out Saturday by F. A, forcement. The Camas Prairie Railroad company was ordered by the public utility commission Satur- day to refund to the Craig Moun- tain Lumber company the sum of $3.46 overcharge on a car of lumber from Craig Junction, 18, 1922. Ground was broken Friday at the penitentiary in Boise for the new $20,000 building which was authorized by the legislature last week and which will be used’ for the manufacture of shirts by the Reliance Manufacturing company of Chicago under a contract with the state. During the late hours of last Monday night or early Tuesday morning, the general. store of Albert Sogard at Culdesac was entered and several hundred dol- lars worth of merchandise re- moved. This is the second time within one year that the Sogard stere has been burglarized. Early Monday, the second time in a year, the safe was blown at the government Indian office at Lapwai. When em- ployees arrived they found the office door jimmied and the vault doors blown down, Many valuable papers are missing, with $25 in cash, and $1000 in unregistered bonds. Alonzo Allman, aged 6 years, third youngest of ten children constituting the family of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Allman, of Lapwai was run over by a loaded coal wagon Tuesday and died from his injuries about three hours later. The sad accident oceur- red on the state highway near the mission, south of Lapwai high school building, and so far as known was not witnessed by anyone. Governor Moore of Idaho has vetoed the state-wide primary bill for the passage of which Senator William E. Borah made a spectacular campaign last fall. The bill was passed by a combi- nation of the democrats, pro- gressives and insurgent repub- licans who have held up neces- sary legislation, including the appropriation bills, for 46 days in order to enforce its passage and approval by the governor. There is said to be no possibility of passing it over the veto. In railroad circles early an- nouncement is expected by ex- ecutive heads of the Northern Pacific and O. W. R. & N. systems that these roads have reached an agreement whereby they will jointly build a road from Orofino into the white pine timber belt to serve mills now being installed there and to meet transportation needs ap- plying to other mills to be in- stalled in marketing this timber. The agreement also provides that the new road and the Clear- water Short line of the Northern Pacific shall come under the jurisdiction of the Camas Prairie Railway company, which oper- lates the Lewiston-Grangeville branch of the Northern Pacific and the Lewiston - Ripari branch of the O. W. R. &N. THE STATE Jeter, commissioner of law en-. Idaho, to Lewiston on February