Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, April 13, 1923, Page 1

7 COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE VOLUME 31. NO. 16 COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1928 MASS MEETING Refuse to Open law concerning the handling of OH MAt! poisons will be the practice of the state department of law en- NAMES TICKET) | Agent Question MASS MEETING WAS WELL | ATTENDED TUESDAY EVENING. Some 50 citizens and taxpay- ers took part in the mass meet-| ing held in the Firemen’s hall, Tuesday evening, for the pur- pose of selecting five candidates for the position of city council- men. The meeting was called to or- | der and M. M. Belknap was elect- ed chariman and W. W. Flint, secretary. After the meeting was organized the following son, and W. W. Flint. The result of the secret bal- | lot was as follows: W. W. Flint William Buettner .. W. T. Simon John Funke .-. F..S. Simon .. Jacob Lorentz -: W. W. Blackburn . oa George McPherson ne The five highest were declared as the candidates for city coun- cilmen on the ticket to be known as the Citizen’s Ticket. An executive committee of seven was then nominated and | elected by acclamation. The duty of this committee will be to | fill any vacancy on the ticket | should any of those nominated | Tuesday evening refuse to ac-| cept the nomination. Those named on the committee were: G. F. Simon, C. A. Johnston, P. H. Dye, J. V. Baker, V. A. Dye, Dr. J. E. Reilly and Geo. Medved. | The meeting then adjourned. | En | 24 20 | bs) TO SHARE IN ESTATE. James Moses, a_ prominent farmer of the Nez Perce Indian tribe, residing east. of Cotton- wood was called to Lapwai, Mon- day, by the Indian agent, and 24 | 23 county agent. | TWO MORE BIG ONES. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS JANUARY ACTION WAS FINAL, The board of county commis- sioners in session at Grangeville yesterday refused to re-open the} ' county agent question and voted unanimously to stand on their action taken at their January meeting last, by failing to make | an appropriation for the county agent and thereby automatically dismissing him. Since the January meeting much speculation has been -go- ing on as to what action the position to the commissioners. The county agent’s salary last County Farm Bureau. Lewis County Follows Suit, The Commissioners of Lewis county, Wednesday also voted | | TITLE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL against the re-employment of a RELIEF WORKER HERE. E. C. Newberry, field secreta- ry for Near East Relief in east Washington and northern Ida- ho, was in Cottonwood last Fri- | day. Mr. Newberry stated that | his organization was taking care of 115,000 orphan children in Armenia and Syria, besides con- ducting a hospital and rescue, home work. | Many people in Idaho county ; have contributed to this cause in the past and they are asked to} eontinue their support. Each church and lodge has been asked | for the sum of $5.00 per month ! for one year, sixty dollars being necessary to support each child. Contributions should be given to W. W. Flint of the First Nation- al Bank. Joseph McDonald sold to Jolin | Baer, Monday, two hogs of the! Poland China variety weighing | named gentlemen were nominat-| board would take when the ad-| ed as candidates: W. T. Simon, | vocates in favor of the county William Buettner, John Funke, |agent again submitted the pro- | Jacob Lorentz, F. S. Simon, W. | W. Blackburn, George McPher- | jmonth was paid by the Idaho} COME AERE Quick LOOK'T WHATS OUT], | THIS MORNIN’ te “AND HOME CAME TED” PLAY TO BE STAGED APRIL 21ST. “And Home Came Ted” is the title of the Senior class school play to be staged in the Or- pheum theatre on the evening of Saturday, April 21st under the direction of Miss Farrel. Re- | hearsals are now being held and great progress has been made by the cast for the short psriod they have had in which to learn their parts. The synopsis of the plal is: “And Home Came Ted” is a cleverly written mystery comedy replete with a series of dramatic situations which are interesting and convincing. The scenes are laid in the Cat- skill mountains and the plot deals with the struggle for sup- remecy in a furniture factory between the rightful heir and an unscrupulous adventurer. }|F. A, Jeter, commissioner. SCHOOL HEADS RE-EMPLOYED ssc situinzocement as MOLL AND WESTOVER AC- The remarkable mud _ storm CEPT POSITIONS FOR COMING TERM. Geo. F. Moll, superintendent | peak in California, which had ‘of the Cottonwood public schools | been in eruption a few days be- has accepted the \next year as offered to him by | litt, a mining engineer, who was the school board and this weck|in the mountains near Dixie, signed a contract for the coming | Idaho, at the time. He says the Clayton Westover, principal of |of scoriaceous sand over the the school, also signed a contract | snow, and he made a note of the for the coming school year, No other ‘teachers have been |day following he received his selected but it is the intention of the hoard to employe the re- {mainder of the teaching staff in| ascribed the formation over the How many, 1f | snow to that cause. The distance any of the present teachers ill} is about 450 miles, and the pre- be re-employed for next year is | vailing winds in this district are inot known at this time but as|from the southwest. the school has been entirely sat-| _The “mud storm” struck this isfactory to the majority of | vicinity in the afternoon and it those sending children there it is | besame almost dark. A gray presumed that ~ most of the|substance like sshes covered teachers, if not all, will be of-|clothing thet wis out in the the near future. forcement, it was announced by Particularly will this be true! in the handling of such poison as} formaldehyde, which is used by farmers for ~ removing .smut from wheat. It is unlawful for merchants to handle formaldehyde in bulk, | the commissioner says, and sell ‘it in ‘small quantities, even though the bottles or other con- tainers are marked “poison.” Merchants may, however, buy this poison in original containers from the drug or chemical com- pany and sell it that way, but they are not permitted tmder the| state law to buy it in kegs, drums, or barrels and sell it out | in small quantities. Violations of this particular part of the state law have been brought to the attention of state officials, and it was to call at- tention of all merchants to the |CAUSE OF MUD STORM. which struck this section March 16, and has been heretofore un- explained, was caused by a heavy rain falling through a cloud of fine ashes and cinders, blown northeast from, Lassen fore, according to Henry S, Haz- next morning there was a crust phenomena in his journal. The first news of the eruption at Lassen peak, and immediately THE STATE. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE _ Persons thinking of investing in cattle to start in the dairy business were Friday urged by Mark Means, state commissioner - of agriculture, to buy carefully and see that they are getting healthy stock. Of an estimated total of 30,- 742 mule deer in Idaho, 1727 were killed by hunters and 3065 were killed by predatory animals according to the “Game Census for 1922,” issued by the United States forestry office. Kooskia’s new high school building is completed at a saving of over $2,000 to the district under what it would have cost if built by contract, the directors erecting the building by force account. The cost of the building was $16,800. James R, Lydon, for 50: years a resident of Lewiston and among its best known and most highly respected citizens, passed from this life Thursday morning at 8:30 o’clock at the family residence, death ensuing from cancer of the liver. O. Y. Mason, sheriff of Can- yon county, was fined $200 by Judge F. 8, Dietrich Monday morning, following a hearing on a citation issued against the sheriff involving contempt of court for allowing a federal prisoner certain privileges not permitted by law. An advance of 12 1-2 percent for hail insurance on fruit in the Lewiston country is announced by the hail insurance companies. This is an advance from 7 per- cent paid last year, and 5 per- cent paid the year before, and 83 1-2 percent previous to that time. The $20,000 bond election in Kendrick highway district car- Lane ; Complications are numerous |fered their positions again for | storm and showed after it dried.| ried 306 to 87. This assures com- there he was informed that he} 1540 pounds. The largest animal) jn the first two acts and rise |next year. pletion of a trunk road throu: was related to Mr. and Mrs. Joe| weighed 940 pounds and Mr. Mc- | from one climax to another until! - Owing to the fact that both} REPAIRING ROAD. the district to connect with the Ken Tuck, also members of the! Donald stated that he could have 2 mel a t dl the denouncement in the third;Mr. Moll and Mr. Westover} A limited amount of money is| highway to Lewiston. The con- same trike who died in March | easily placed this hog in the} act, were offered positions that paid | available for maintenance of the| tract has been let to Campbell & within four days of each other} 1000 pound class.. Camas Prai-| ‘The cast in order of appear-|a salary much larger than they |north and south highway be-| Barr. The highway covered in and that being a relative of the |rie is becoming famous for its| ance is as follows: received here last year the board |tween Grangeville and White|the intended improvement is Ken Tucks he was entitled to | large hogs, last week John Seger Skeet Kelly Burdette Belknap | allowed an increase in salary to| Bird, and-a crew is dragging and| about four miles long and joins half-of their estate which con-| sold one in Cottonwood weighing | Diana Garwood..Vera Moughmer | both Mr. Moll and Mr. West-| grading om the White Bird side| the new improvement in Ken- sists of personal Laeger br unas pr Fyn! —— Miss Loanberry ..-.-.-.--+---------. | OVeY. of the hill. The macadam on| rick at each end of town. five allotments in the Gifford |believed would hold the record) Matilda Schroeder| ‘The board debated upon the|the Grangeville end is in good| Bp t section. An allotment consists of | for some time. Now comes Joe | Jy2 Stone Glen Rink | paige in salary for some rufa and | condition. son mys ee a a 80 acres. Mrs. Johnson Boyd, of | with one weighing 940 pounds. | Aunt Jubilee... Estella Williams | came to the conclusion that in| ‘The highway will be closed to] lett living in the Calvary district Meadow Creek, is the other heir.) Well we would not be surprised | Mr, Man . ‘Raymond Tacke| order to keep these men they | traffic at a point three miles| eight miles north of Craigmiont Mr. Moses while in Cotton-|to see one coming in some Mon-| Jim Ryker ............Andrew Dreps | must raise their salary or lose |Scouth of White Bird, and will| was severely wounded Friday 7 wood, Wednesday stated that he|;day morning weighing 32,000 | Mollie Macklin....Louise Hattrup | them both. Past experiences, remain closed for at least three} last week, when a shotran eae was unaware of the fact that a)ounces, |said every member of the board, | weeks, necessitated by con-| ried by his older brother was ac- blood relationship, existed be.) | | @ = -- Zenna Moughmer has taught us to sign up a man |struction, according to an an-|cidentally discharged while the tween himself and the deceased | CLOSE HIGHWAY. : iTed ..Francis Homer | who has been tried and tested in|nouncement by Dan Johnson,| latter was going through a fence Indians. No appraisement has| The north and south highway, | Elsie - .-Beatrice McDonald | preference to selecting a new | the contractor. The boy is now resting easy at been made of the estate but it is| the section which goes through | Senator M’Corkle...Cecil Wimer |man even if a salary increased peo munca cae, his home with 88 shots in his thought it will take five figures | the Evergreen Highway District | | 'The admission price will be 85) must be tendered to hold them, | SPRING PARTY. right hand, 12 in his’ left and to represent the value of the an “ng closed to big for |aud 50 cents. All seats “i p be The largest post-Easter event| about 30 over his heart and side same. | fifteen days, owing to the very| reserved. Seats will be placed ie eclen. 4 whe nt oe 7 withiosde ‘ a : ae ast Soe wet weather. This step was|on sale in the very near future. BUSINESS INCREASES. peer pen 65, pr Sheriff William Kirkpatrick KILLED BY LOGGING TRAIN. | taken through authority of a bill he aig According to the report of by Mrs: Pred -Simen,’ “Tuseday and Deputy Ralph Cecker of Leo C. Williams, son of A. D.| passed at the last session of the | MAKE SETTLEMENT. Postmaster C. A. Johnston, the| sftarnoon. The quests were re- Sandpoint made a rich haul early Jilliams ve m in the} legislature and was deemed nec- % ; quarter just closed from a stand- | *- ra zh Sunday morning when they Williams, and well known in the | leg The Maryland Casualty Co.,| >: d ceived at 2:30 and eight tables Keuterville district, was acci-| essary in order to save the road.| ith ie ‘ers in Spokane |Point of stamp sales has been| \ore arranged for 500, Pri stopped the Spokane-bound Spo- dentally killed at ; Enterprise, It was stated that if travel aise ‘ oF pork ns Ari aie | the largest in the history of the eape on ie Mrs. Bae Tacke kane International freight train Oregon on April 28 when aj was allowed to pass over the new By Fellx Martzen made a final |0cal office. During the last) og Mrs ‘AOH Nau The rooms | Bich daily runs between Cran- string of box cars which he pre-| road while it is in its present | > Wag quarter more than $1300 in harnpabia : brook and Spokane. They took sumed were standing still broke | condition, thousands of dollars PepucInEnY: With Steve Farthing, | stamps were sold by Postmaster | °r° decorated with potted | off between 60 and 70 cases of 1 d yer hin aa he| Gamage would be: ddne,warel scm enay. Gn his wee) 201 une oose an yan over as e | dame y "wed | 4 F ferns and baskets of daffodils. | «+, saws wo , \loss of his right thumb while VOTRE be Posie M oe. After the card game was over Sa yegpsons ge Pe my pl wi was miemipting 1a Bary Bd amin Report. employed by Simon Brothers. fice by $400, ; Whe tovioee oh \the guests enjoyed a luncheon. about $6500 at the going rates track ahead of them. r. Wil- —_—_—— ; = = ven e * ormer re- f eh ay : : é liams was the conductor in|CLEAN UP DAYS. Paint he final settlemert) Yor |cord Was $900. If this rate of | Ail ‘able decovatfons were clet | of $9 per quart in Sandpoint. charge of the logging train when Tuesday, Wednesday and} ; f ‘ly carried out in daffodil | s fh ~..linerease should continue the |&Y William Miller, a farmer on the accident occurred. The box| Thursday of next week — have | the logs of Iris thusiip.to be Paid | Cottonwood office would eaonibe |Snenes amd solors. - Beveta h : |monthly at the rate of $16 4 ; ; |guests who did not play cards|the Ehlert ranch near Lapwai cars were standing on a side|been designated by the chair-| a Y eed hoentk barr 7 placed in second class instead of |e ied nk Tie lek neue A has lost 20 cattle within the last rer i i i athena anne zts &2)third in which it is now rated 10 d f ah when Mr. Williams a ees as clean up days. ‘ersons | g i he ti he Pat N BED. ( : cross the track but just as ne|are requested to have their rib» | Soon melded dhe deta oe apa TO HAVE BASE BALL TEAM.| Granville. David Pugh was| Boise-was summoned and his ex- did so the breaks gave away. |bish collected at suitable places | his medical advice and surgical BP yoga will have a base} foynd dead in his bed Wednes- prince determined that the Leo Williams was 26 years of! so that the dray may haul it to| work was also paid for by the | Pall team this year so it was de-/day morning at his home in| Stock was starving to death. age and practically raised in the|the city dump grounds. The|eompany. cided at a meeting held in Cot-| Grangeville. Mr. Pugh was an| The animals fed on straw _ all Keuterville section where his|charges for transferring the| My, Farthing is well pleased tonwood, Tuesday evening. Some | old pioneer of Idaho county and| Winter and, according to the father operated a saw mill. Roy} garbage to the city _dump|with the treatment received |50 baseball fans were present at | was 74 years, 2 months and 21| Veterinary, were so weak when Williams of Rice Creck is a) grounds must be paid for by the| from this company and for the the meeting. Fred McKinney | gays old. He is survived by they were turned out on green brother of the unfortunate man. | property owners themselves. | promptness in which they made | ¥@S elected manager of the team |two sons, David and Robert of| Pasture they were unable to peRU EDR, we ore rae ——— all of their settlements and Frank Albers, secretary. | Grengeville. Funeral services| 7ecuperate. GOLDEN WEDDING SOON. | BISHOP COMING. —___— The boys have commenced | wi}i be held in Grangeville today.| Despite the failure of practi- Mr. and Mrs. J. B, Forsmann,|__D. M. Gorman D. D., of Boise,| BOY DOES FINE WORK. practicing. Interment will be in the Prairie| cally every bank on the Minido- of Cottonwood are making plans| Idaho, bishop of the Catholic| There is on display in one of be View cemetery at that place. | ka project during the past tw> or to celebrate their 50th wedding | diocese of Idaho, will arrive in | the windows of the Hoene Hard- | PLANT TREES. ——_—_—. three years, including the three anniversary on Sunday, April| Cottonwood Tuesday evening| ware, a davenport, the handi-| Thirty trees were planted,|CARD PARTY. J at Burley, the financial outlook 29th. They plan on holding a; and on Wednesday morning will| work of Joseph Wagner, a stu-|Monday of this week by Henry| The Pythian Sisters will give|for the agrarian population in family reunion at their home in|hear the vows of seventeen|dent in the Cottonwood high| Niebhur in the auto park. The|a card party in the I. O. O. F.| the immediate vicinity of Burley Cottonwood at which time all of | novices at St. Gertrude convent. | school. The work has been|trees were of a poplar variety |hall on Tuesday evening, April| and in Cassia county is fast as- their children and other rela-|These young ledies _ will take |cdmired by many and _ shows/and were two and three years | 24th. The public is cordially in-|suming a tint of brilliance for tives are expected to be present.| their first vows. The bishop| great skill on the part of Joe in|old. The trees were donated | vited. the coming season, according to és Mr. and Mrs. Forsmann are | will be assisted in the ‘religious | this line of work. The davenport| to the commercial club by Chas. rs Steve Parke, new appointee of highly respected pioneer citizens | services by the Rev. Fr. James. | was built in the manuel training | Staal, he being paid for only his} “Polly of the Follies” at the| Governor Moore to the office of of this community. They were} The services. will commence at|department of the Cottonwood |time of digging them up and | Orpheum, Sunday with Contan-e| commissioner of public invest- gmarried in 1873. 8 o'clock. jrieh bringing them to Cottonwood. | Talmadge as leading actress. ments. 7