Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 30, 1923, Page 1

-COTTONWOOD_CHRONICL » \ing to experienced road men the 1 Ae ORNL ee oreo. NET Cnidabndiestaaamanecaamnetieaten VOLUME 31. NO. 14 COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1923 $2.00 PER YEAR BIDS AT ONCE $30,500.00 HAS BEEN TURN. | ED OVER TO THE STATE | TREASURER. | Bids will be advertised for) within the next two weeks by) the state highway department | for the macademizing of the North and South highway from | Cottonwood to Lawyers canyon, | approximately 12 miles. In regard to this matter, Ed| Jessup, secretary of the Cotton- wood Highway District received | the following letter from P. E. Oxley, district engineer with | headquarters in Lewiston. The letter reads as follows: “In accordance with the new | regulations of the Bureau of} Public Roads, loca! funds must be in absolute control of the various state highway depart- ments; and for that reason on} all projects to be let hereafter, these funds must be deposited in the state treasury for use on this project before contract can be entered into, and, in the case of a new project, before project statement can be forwarded to the Bureau of Public Roads. “In this connection your at- tention is called to Federal Aid \old buss, but this tendency will) jing the speed limits during the weather, it is the natural tend- ency of most auto drivers to want to cut open their cars and see how much life is left in the | have to be curtailed if we are to take the word of Cottonwood’s marshal, Motorist have been disregard- past year to a great extent, un- til it is now felt that the speed with which some drivers are wont to go through the city is| exceedingly dangerous to them- selves, and pedestrians alike. Violators of “the traffic ordi- | nance in Cottonwood 99 times | out of a 100 are residents of this | community and these very same | people when going to outside: | points are sure that they obey all traffie ordinances to the let- ter. | Cottonwood’s traffie ordinance | should be enforced by all means. | The city has one exceptionally bad intersection where someone | INGRAM WANTS is going to be badly hurt if not} killed if motorists are allowed | WITH TAX PAYERS ASSIST- ANCE IT CAN BE to drive as reckless as they have | DONE. been in the past. Our sugges- | tion is make no exceptions and if a doctor, banker, merchant, | farmer or any one else violates the traffic rules “pinch” him and give him the limit. It’s just as easy to obey this | ordinance as to violate it. | DEMONSTRATE RADIO. b ; ‘William Ingram, county asses- A radio demonstration (A Good Sree Tone Miwere I ASSOCIATION MET HERE SATURDAY. Meeting Was Well Attended— Organization Has Five Directors, At a general meeting of the members of the county bull as- sociation held in Cottonwood, Saturday, March 24 a constitu- tion and by-laws were adopted for that organization. The most important points from the breeders standpoint are those pertaining to the standard set for bulls admitted to the association and the re- quirements for breeding to these animals. No bull will be taken into the association and placed in the cireut of blocks unless he has a butterfat production record back of him of 600 pounds fat or more based on mature produc- tion. Nor one will be allowed the service of the bulls unless he is a member of the association, which membership may be ob- tained by a payment of $10 to the secretary of the block which he wishes to join, but not unti: he has been accepted as a mem- | ber by the directors of the block, This $10 membership fee en- | titles the member to ten years breeding or as long as the bulls in the association are servicible, which may be more than ten years. A sinking fund will be created with the proceeds re- The last legislature passed one} sulting from the new members NEW LAW FAVORS SMALL CREDITORS SMALL CREDITORS GIVEN CHANCE TO COLLECT HIS ACCOUNT, Project No. 68 in your districts, 65 given in Cottonwood Saturday for the surfacing of the North evening at the Hoene Hardware and South Highway from Cot-|when Homer Smith represent- tonwood to Lawyer’s Canyon,|/ing the Washington Electric and which project was approved by the Secretary of Agriculture on December Ist 1922, and which we could advertise at an early date, providing Cotton- wood Highway District and Ferdinand Highway district would immediately remit to us their pledged funds of $12,500.00 and $18,000.00 respectively. “In order that we may comply with the above ruling, we would be pleased if you ~would place these funds in the hands of the ted a radio. not to the liking of the operator in the early part of the evening but as the night advanced it be- came much better. About 10:39 the music from the air came in |very plain and distinet. Sunday evening another demonstration Westinghouse electric the very start. Saturday even- ing appears to have been an off night for radio receiving sta- State Treasurer, by draft as|tions as complaint was also soon as possible, that the De-|heard from other sections. The partment may advertise for bids | broadcasting station at Los on this surfacing at an early| Angeles’ announced Saturday date.” ! evening and was heard in Cot- The money referred to in the tonwood that. a telegram had above letter in both the Ferdin-| been received Saturday evening and and Cottonwood highway |from Lewiston, Idaho stating districts has been turned over} that a receiving station in that to the state treasurer. Bids will| city was unable to pick up the now be called for and work com- | “air waves.” menced within the next six| A large crowd gathered at the weeks it is presumed if weather | Hoene Hardware to conditions will permit. Accord-| demonstration. STAGES RUNNING. The yrangeville - Lewiston stage resumed its run_ into Grangeville from Lewiston Wed- nesday after having been com- pelled to give up their operations this winter on account of bad roads. Two stages are now | operating between the two above work should be completed in about 60 to 75 days. The cost of surfacing this pro- ject will be approximately $60,- 000 and will be paid for on the 50-50 basis, half by the highway districts and the other half by the federal government. According to reports there will be numerous contractors bid for} mentioned cities, one leaving this work. Lewiston and one _ leaving Grangeville daily. The down BEAUTIFYING PARK. jstage passes through Cotton- Cottonwood’s automobile park, | wood at 8 o’clock in the morning established last year under the|and returns in the afternoon at direction of the Cottonwood | about 4 o’clock. The stage com- Commercial club, and used quite |ing up from Lewiston passes extensively by tourists will be| through Cottonwood at 11 a. m. greatly improved this spring. }and on the return trip at 1:30, Last fall the ground was leveled | As soon as the roads are in bet- and within a few days some 20| ter condition two large inter- trees will be planted about the | national busses will be placed on grounds A week ago the ground | this run. was seeded to clover and blue grass. WEDDING DANCE TUESDAY, A wedding dance will be given Tuesday evening, April 3rd, in the Keuterville hall by H. G. Beckman of Greencreek, to which everyone is invited. This property he already owns there. | invitation is especially extended Mr. Poler purchased the second | to all the friends of H. G. and home in Clarkston as an invest-| his wife-to-be, Miss Mary Mader, ment. Two years ago when he! of Keuterville. Mr. Beckman made his initial purchase there | and Miss Mader will be married was only one house in that block | at Keuterville, Tuesday morning now he says there are seven. His! in the Catholic church by the property is located near the H. | Rev, Fr. Martin. H. Nuxoll residence. BUYS ANOTHER HOME. George Poler last week pur- chased another 7-room modern home in Clarkston, adjoining the AB ra de hh mie SED, | RE-ELECT TEACHERS. STAGE TO CHANGE TIME. | Superintendent Moll and Prin- The Cottonwood-Winona stage | cipal Westover were re-elected to will change to its summer sche-| their position at a meeting cf dule April 1. The stage will| the Cottonwood school board re- leave Cottonwood at 8:30 o’clock| cently. To date they have not every morning instead of 7:00| accepted. The salary of Mr. o’clock and on the return trip! Moll is $2000 and Mr. Westover will leave Winona at 11:00 in-| $1575 for the nine months. No company of Spokane demonstra- | The demonstration was | was made which was good from | hear the | was | sor, spent last Friday afternoon |in Cottonwood on business pre- taining to his office. Whie here Mr. Ingram, selected A. H. Nau as deputy assessor of Cot- tonwood, who at once commen- }eed his assessment work . It is Mr. Ingram’s intention to do the assessment work at the least possible cost, and farmers can be of material assistance if they only will, and thereby cu to some extent at least, the taxes. When farmers are in town they are requested to call at the A. H. Nau Furniture store and give in their property. If the deputy assessor has to make !a special trip to assess you, the jnatural consequences will be higher costs in making the as- {sessment. If every farmer in | this community will step into the ‘office of the deputy assessor, )when in town, and give his as- jsessment in, it safe to say |that it would save at least ‘$1 on each assessment. Not ;much for one but it amounts to /a snug little sum when these ac- counts are all put together. Another item that Mr. Ingram }spoke of was the automobile ilicense fee that were due Janu- jary 1st. All persons haying automobiles must have their | 1928 license or their official re- |ceipt before they run their care on the highways. This law, | said Mr. Ingram, y ll be enfore- ed by all peace officers in the | county. | EASTER SERVICES. | You are invited to attend the | Easter services at the Methodist church, Easter morning at the |regular hour. In addition to |the sermon by Rev. Poindexter, | the choir has prepared a musical | program of unusual merit, as | follows: | Voluntary ..Ethelbert Nevin |'Hymn “Rise Gloridus Conauer- Lf ape ee a aa | Solo “Hold Thou My Hand Dear 1,° Bord’ _.Mrs. Keith ; Anthem “The King of Love My | Shepherd Is” ..............Choir |Easter Sermon by the Pastor. | Anthem “Christ the Lord is Risen Today”.......... Choir | Musical director Miss Ione Jones | Organist, Mrs. Hilpert. |BOARD MEETS APRIL 9TH. The board of county commis- sioners of Idaho county will meet in Grangeville, Monday, | April 9th in regular quarterly jsession. Besides handling the ‘regular routine business the most important matter coming |before the board no doubt will jbe the question of retaining the county agent. At their session, jin January, the board voted to | dispense with the services of the lagent and at the present time jhe is being paid by the Idaho |County Farm Bureau. What bill, which, when it takes effect, will prove a busy time for the justice courts. It is known as the small claims department of the justice court, says the Ferdinand | Enterprise, which has jurisdic- | tion for the recovery of money where the amount claimed does | not exceed $50, and where the defendant resides within the pre- cinct of such justice court. Action shall be deemed com- menced by the plaintiff appear- ing before the justice and veri- | fying a claim. Upon filing saidclaim, the jus- tice shall appoint a time for the} hearing of said matter and shall | cause to be issued a notice of the | claim, which shall be served up- on the defendant. Said justice of the peace shail | collect in advance upon __ each} claim the sum of $1, and this to | be the only fee the justice shall) charge against the plaintiff in} such action during the pendency or disposition of such claim; pro- vided however, that when any} such small claim department} shall be created and organized in any justice’s district, in which | the justice is not paid a salary, he may be paid from the county treasury of his county such sal- ary as the county commissioners | deem just and proper. | The officer serving such no-| tice shall receive fifty cents for such service, which sum, with| the $1 fee of the justice shall be | added to any judgment given the | plaintiff. | All claims must be verified by | the real claimant and not by any | assignee. | The defendants shall be notifi- | ed to appear personally in court | not less than five or more than | ten days from service, and non- | appearance will result in judg-| ment against the defendant. | No attorney at law or any oth- | ex person than the plaintiff and | defendant can concern himself | in any manner with the prosecu- | tion or defense. If witnesses are summoned by either side the | justice may hear their testimony | as in other cases. | If judgment shall be against | defendant, he shal] pay the same | forthwith, or execution may en-| sue as in other cases. | If defendant be dissatisfied | with the decision of the justice, | he may, within ten days from | the entry of judgment appeal to \the district court; and if final {nis Howard, Robert Lee, which will provide funds to re- place the bulls. The strick re- gulations governing the accept- ance of new members is for the protection of the association and the health of the bulls. After the maximum of sixty cows has been signed up ina block members may be allowed to breed additional cows above | those subscribed by payment of $8.00 per cow for each years service, but in no event shall the number of cows bred in a block exceed 75 per year. The association is a business proposition with a substancial investment and the interests of the members will be safeguarded at all times that the best pos- sible se-vice mav be secured from the high cluss animals in use. The Grangeville block was re- presented at the meeting by C. 0. Vineent and Ed Tuttle; the Greencreek block was represent- ed by Bert Schroeder, George Terhaar and Pete Kelsch. Cot- tonwood was represented by Frank Wimer, John F, Knov and John Funke; the Ferdinand block sent word that they could /not attend on account of bad roads. A new director was_ elected for the association, John Funke being chosen as a fifth director, The other four directors are: Sid King of Grangeville, Bert Schroeder of Greencreek, J. M. Bieker of Ferdinand, and John F. Knop of Cottonwood. M. W. A. INITIATE. Wednesday evening the Mod- ern Woodmen of America initi- ated into the mysteries of their order Frank Densow, bookkeeper at the First National Bank. After the initiatory work a ban- quet was served. Those in a position to know tell us that Mr. Densow took to the work like a duck does to water. D, H. MeGrath of Fenn occupied the chair for the local order during the greater portion of the evening. Other lodge brothers of the M. W. A. of Fenn who took in the doings were: Carl Meyer, Franz Meyer, W. H. Spencer, Charles Selfors, Cail Reuter, Charles Heartburg, Den- Pete Zehner, Rudolph Von Berge, Andy Griner and D. H. McGrath. OPERATE AGAIN. Steve Farthing was again jas other cases where a judgment | der. judgment is passed against him | compelled to submit to an opera- in district court he shall pay to| tion Saturday, when Dr. Orr am- the plaintiff $10 additional for | putated his thumb on his right attorney’s fee. { |hand at the second joint, The In case of appeal the case may | thumb, about six weeks ago was be handled practically the same | badly mangled in a sausage grin- About two weeks ago it | was amputated at the first joint. |To date the second operation CARD PARTY WEDNESDAY. | shows all signs of having been The iadies of the Royal Neigh- | successful. is sought. bor lodge are giving a card} Mr. Farthing was protected stead of 12:00. Ernest Jessup, | who operates the stage line, has | for the past week been making be regular trips in an automo-| |term, 1923-24. increase in salary was offered.| action the commissioners will At the next meeting of the board | take at their meeting remains to they plan on selecting the re-|be seen. There is much senti- maining teachers for the coming | ment pro and con on the county agent question. party at the I. O. O. F, hall| by his employers, Simon Bros.. Wednesday night. All are cordi-| against injury in the Maryland ally invited. Refreshments will| Casualty Co., of Baltimore, be served at 11 o’clock. Admis-| Maryland and is weekly receiv- sion 25 cents. ing his insurance money. NEWS AROUND THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE Idaho grows 70 per cent of the Grimm alfalfa seed of the United States and 65 per cent of -the seed peas, More than $19,000,000 has been expended on roads in Idaho during the past four years and it is probable that $5,000,000 will be spent on road construc- tion in the state during the pre- sent year. Gus Simmonds, formerly of Craigmont and now holding a contract on the Kamiah Hill highway for clearing right of way, had the misfortune while glance and strike his right foot, cuttting the tendons and half through the bones of three toes. Rock salt deposits have been discovered in this state. They are located in Caribou county, have a thickness of 175 feet and are 500 feet below the surface of the ground. The discovery was made by R. D. Kirkham, geologist with the state bureau of mines and geology of the Ida- ho school of mines at the Uni- versity of Idaho. With the naming Friday of Mark A. Means of Lewiston to be commissioner of agriculture, Governor C. C. Moore made his first commission appointment since the adjournment of the legislature and the second since beginning his administration, Mr. Means, a senator from Nez Perce county in the session just closed, will take office April 1, when Miles Cannon, incumbent for the past four years will re- sign. Governor C. C. Moore an- nounced Saturday the appoint- ment of R. E. Thomas of Kellogg Shoshone county, to the position replacing Otto M. Jones, whose resignation was requested by the governor Saturday, The governor requested Mr. Jones to resign his position, effective April 1, and Mr. Thomas’ ap- pointment is effective that date. Dates for the preliminary ex- amination for candidates for third grade teachers’ certificates were set Friday by Miss Eliza- beth Russum, state superinten- \dent of public instruction. June 7, 8 and 9 were named as the dates on which the tests will be held. These examinations will be held as entrance requirements to the various summer schools, and all candidates for third grade certificates who success+ fully complete the examination will be admitted to the summer schools. Within an hour after attend- ing church at Sandpoint, Philip Papa, 24, shot and killed his wife, Lena, 18; his mother-in- law, Mrs. George Ferraro, 52, then took his own life, at the Ferraro residence Sunday morn- ing. Domestic difficulties is said to be the cause of the tragedy. In Papa’s pocket was found this note: “No life for me any more because my wife, she not love me all; so I kill her first and— good bye— good bye— Philip Papa—good bye to all.” The families were natives of Italy. The order of the county com- missioners of Lincoln county, Shoshone, Idaho reducing the salaries of the deputy auditor from $125 to $90 and the deputy recorder from $125 to $100, was set aside by Judge H. F. Ensign of the district court last week, who ordered the old salaries paid the deputies. One of the first acts of the new county commis- sioners was to cut salaries and lop off deputies. In the office of assessor they eliminated a deputy and ordered the deputy recorder to do the work in the assessor’s office as well as the work of the deputy recorder. The judge also disapproved this and ordered the deputy recorder to cease work in the assessor’s office. |The commissioners, al- though served with personal summons did not make an ap- pearance in court. chopping a tree to have his axe ~ of state fish and game warden,}|