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‘ COTTONWOOD CHRONIC! VOLUME 381. NO. 17 COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, “1928 $2.00 PER YEAR VOTERS TO SETTLE °°" ix tee erst. AGENT QUESTION "ior nwesity, “Apea Twenty-fourth, —— | Cottonwood has “only one ticket in the field for village trustees and according to the law, governing municipal elec- tions, no second ticket will be | filed as the ten days prior to the In order to determine the will| election on which date all tickets of the people on the matter of | must be filed with the village ‘Idaho county employing a farm | clerk has passed. agent, the board of county com- There will be one change on missioners, in session in Grange-| the Citizens’ ticket that was ville Saturday, agreed with rep-| nominated last week, F. S. Simon resentatives of the Idaho County | having declined to accept the Farm bureau to submit the| nomination and the executive WILL VOTE BY MAIL—AC- TION OF VOTERS WILL BE FINAL, question to a referendum vote of | committee has named George J. ' | | Terhaar to fill the vacancy. i: the voters of Idaho county. to > Chairman N. B. Pettibone, of| The Citizens’ ticket now con-| the county board, outlined be-| tains the following names: W. | fore a farm bureau committee| W. Flint, W. T. Simon, William | the following proposal of: the| Buettner, John Funke and Geo. | board, to which the committee | J. Terhaar. ? unanimously agreed. | Very little interest has been! “The board of county commis- taken in the election so far and | sioners will submit by postal; the registration has been very | card with prepaid return card) light, less than 50 having regis- attached, a ballot on the ques-| tered up to the present time. | tion, and the board in its action EGA LAT DAR will be guided by a majority) WILL PLANT 100 ACRES. vote. The result of the vote will| Ed. Nelson of the Denver sec- be final until December 31, 1924.) tion will plant 100 acres of corn The commissioners reserve the; this spring on summer fallow right to discharge the agent if} ground from which he expects to he proves unstatisfactory. | receive fodder and corn that will “Salary and expenses of the} more than pay him for his time agent, as paid by Idaho county,| and trouble. Mr. Nelson will ‘JURORS MUST (—-——__-= You COME RIGHT BAK) SS for the big type Poland Chinas [][__Biz vents inthe Lives of Litie Men |] "Wa? TNS ner NEWS AROUND LNT v, TO THE WOOD-SHED WITH ME, YOUNG MAR, AN! iu, TEACH YOU THE DAY You WENT DOWN To THE RAIL | ROAD YARDS TO SEE THE CIRCUS UNLOAD [coortene 9 nC i ry REPORT MONDAY COTTONWOOD CITIZENS ON| VALUATION DROPS ONE- THE JURY—BRUEGEMAN DUCLOS AND GENTRY. MILLION DOLLARS IN ONE YEAR. Twenty names were drawn at AUDITOR TELCHER M AKES REPORT h way of | number will be placed in a zoolo- getting correct glasses—by hav-| gical garden and others will be ing the exact needs of the eye| used by the Dutch government than ever now. The bred gilt of royal breeding which he ‘bought from John Funke of | Cottonwood last winter recently | gave birth to a litter of thirteen |pigs, twelve of which are still {on the top of the earth and get- | ting bigger and better every day, according to their owner. The pigs were sired by Idaho Bob, one of the best of the Funke boars, and Bill is pretty happy | these parts. them all registered. the litter lines up five males and | gress. RELIEF FROM EYESTRAIN, There and all its troublesome effects— will give clear strain. There is only one vision scientifically determined. There is only one way of and experience. Dr. Salsberg is now for a very short period. at the| board of pardons. Cottonwood Hotel, will remain! succeeds himself as warden of — THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE Governor C. C. Moore has ac- that he has so many of them,|cePted the invitation of A. H, since their pedigree is about as| Upham, president, to attend the good as anything there is in| Commencement exercises of the He intends to have| University of Idaho at Moscow As to sex| June 11, One-third of the rock work on |seven females.—Kamiah Pro-| the Kamiah hill highway is now completed according to reports from officials in charge of the works, who stated that the work is only one way of is progressing very satisfactcr- obtaining relief from eyestrain ily. Robert Limpert, Boise taxi- by getting correct glasses that|dermist, is preparing 47 Idaho ~ without | rattlesnakes for shipment to Amsterdam, Holland, where a in experimental work. The naming of William lL. scientifically determining—con-| Cuddy as warden of the peniten- sult a specialist of known ability | tiary for the next two years was done Thursday by the state Mr. Cuddy the state prison, having served The annual financial report of The annual finane po: four years under former Gover- nor D. W. Davis. 4 3 Charges of extreme mental The dance given Friday even-| and physical cruelty and adul- shall not exceed $2000 a year.| plant the Yellow Dent variety,| Grangeville, Tuesday, from the;County Auditor Henry Telcher Phone for appointments. The salary of the agent is to| and a seed that has been grown | jury list of 150 names, and|which was submitted to the 1 Qt commence on the first Monday cn Camas Prairie by Dave Yates | these citizens must report at|board of county commissioners DANCE SUCCEAR. after the canvas of the vote is|/of the Winona section. Mr. | Grangeville, Monday at 10/at their April meeting contains | made, provided a majority of | Nelson will plant 900 pounds of | o’¢lock to report for jury duty. {many interesting items. ing last, by. the Cottonwood tery are made in a complaint for votes favors retaining the agent. | seed on the 100 acres. This no} They are: . fe The assessed valuation of band The a big success in every) divorce filed in the district ‘Ballots are to be mailed to doubt will be the largest single | Idaho county in 1922 was $14,- way. The proceeds of the dance} court in Ada county by Thaona A. A. Kincaid, Grangeville. enriched the treasury of that or-|M. J A wt ‘arpster. | 251,296.09 compared with $14,- ath y | M, Jones against Otto M. Jones, Dovthord once, Cronpeville, | 726,221.69 in 1921 or a decrease| S2nization by several dollars former state game warden. Mr, OR: Rhore Grangeville. “lof $573,925.60. —~ and everyone present reported| and Mrs. and Mrs. Jones were ell voters whose name appear on! crop of corn planted in one body the poll books who voted at the | in the history of the county. last general election. Persons} Mr. Nelson also has 100 acres} who did not vote at the last elec- | of alfalfa and will plant 100) tion, but who are qualified vot-| acres of field peas. Ed is a be-| ers of the county, may vote on} liever in diversified farming, in! be Se ee ee a | ink ag Fein ag and at the same | submit an affidavit. wi eir| time building it up. bollot setting forth that they are oo qualified electors. However, no} ABERCROMBIES LEAVE. ballots will be mailed to persons) Ww. F, Abercrombie and famil by bg eh song who voted at| apept of the Joseph section hat re ‘ | of Idaho county for 14 years left | ee ule | Beep Bis ta| this morning overland with their retuned tot later tha Satur: | i ng A wi, tpt ree core te: ‘ an Satur, |for Yakima, Wash., where they day, May 12th, when the board) wilt reside in the future on @ peiea kane “;|ranch near that city. lt osm oe ih It son my about ‘eh days | I tesla he aged Bn ARa’ DE | to make the. trp, r. Aber-| fan will not ke Laer eg All crombie stated that he is leaving | rae cgi ey he aieied fig the | tee section on eg of illness, | ideptelld Hesebie tae . jhe being a sufferer with rheu- voter, or they will not be count-| matism and he believes that the ed. Yakima climate will relieve him of this suffering. The Aber- crombies have the best wishes of the community in their new location. | THE BEST EVER. | FIGURES DON’T LIE. Cottonwood, for some time} has had the reputation on the| outside as being the best off financially of any town in this} section of the state and to prove | Ste Sit gk in gil Mag ele that this assertion is true we Everything is ready for the . ‘ pte high school play ‘And Home only have to take the figures of | C: Ted” Bis: shcoed ane the various banks in this district | 5° °° a4 py arapes i ace to conclusively show that the re-| Orp! seum eatr eRe aturday putation we have on the outside | CVeMns- The cast have their is not merely talk, but facts as | parts well learned and the re- well: hearsals the last few days have Below we give the deposits of | greatly improved the acting of the various banks according to| the various students taking part. their recent call statement: | We are informed that the play Ferdinand State Bank, $66,-| Will be the best ever. 921.21. The advance sale of tickets Bank of Ferdinand, $42,386.-| Clearly shows that a crowded 42 | house will greet the cast and Bank, Nez-| that it will be a financial suc- cess. Tickets are on Rexall Drug Store. Farmers State perce, $126,884.13. Clearwater Valley Bank, | Kamiah, $96,503.30. ween State Bank, $124, | EXAMINED BY 5 DOCTORS. | Bank of Orofino, $298,574.70.| _ John Engel, who spent Satur- Citizens State Bank, Kooskia,|day in Grangeville conferring $149,185.33. with an agent of the state work- | COTTONWOOD STATE Bank} men’s compensation department $197,524.70. was ordered to Lewiston to be FIRST NATIONAL BANK/ examined by physicians. In Cottonwood, $175,214.00. | Lewiston he was examined by We publish these figures not five physicians who were all of to be boastful but to show some| the same opinion as to his in- sale at the of the pessimistic inclined which | juries and coincided with the we find in every community,|diagonsis made by the local that Cottonwood is not so bad) doctors. Mr. Engel now hopes off after all. | to receive his final settlement -- — | from the state as the result of TURNING OUT GOOD. injuries received when a pile of The baseball bug has hit Cot-| sacked grain fell upon him in- tonwood right, if we are to| juring his neck and back. judge from the interest taken} by the players turning out each| AFTER THE UNDERTAKER. |™ night for practice. Manager | While blasting rock Wednes- McKinney is on the ground at| day afternoon for the ‘hitching’ every practice to assist the boys| racks, some of the rocks were} in the try outs and already much | thrown high into the air and one | improvement can be seen. rock went thru a window in the The first practice game of the| Nau_ Furniture store. Henry season will be played Sunday be-| Neibhur and Norman Truitt, tween the town team and the|who were in charge of the high school, if weather condi-| work, say they were after the fions will permit. undertaker. j | during the first semester an ac- Ed. Snowman, Kamiah. 4 Henry A. Bruegeman, Cotton- , follows: wood. E. J. McConnell, Grangeville. J. F. Callison, Canfield. Mathias Duclos, Cottonwood. Wesley Packer, Stites. A. C. Gentry, Cottonwood. 810.38. Sink S. S. Galloway, White Bird. Value road _ district, Charles L. Bourland, -Grange- | 902.26; tax, 146.24. ville. Abstract expenses 1922: A. B.-Clayton, Fenn. Auditor, $7,685.87. W. A. Hollingshead, Kamiah.| Sheriff, $9,079.99. George Altman, Grangeville. Probate judge, $2,500.21. John P. Kee, Grangeville. Assessor, $6,015.20, Charles A. Goan, Grangeville. _. Preasurer and tax collecto Reuben McGregor, Elk City, | $5,160.97. Carrol T. Moore, Pardee. County attorney, $2,440.30 County commissioners, $4 159.90, Coroner, $341.90. School superintendent, $4 230.64. Health and 1278.61. Correction, $409.61. Elections, $4,538.32. District court, $2,049.75. Justice court, $118.15. Court house and jail, $4,771.2 County farm and $1,416.52. Fixed and general overhea property at SHIP IN DAIRY CATTLE. Harry C. Cranke, of Grange- ville and A, S. Wilson of Spok- ane, will bring to Idaho county 82 head of dairy cattle of the Guernsey, Holstein and Jersey breed which they will sell at private sale in Grangeville. The animals will be on display at the fair grounds in Grangeville after Saturday. Read their ad in this issue of the Chronicle for more particulars and ye - which same can be purchased. |... 0g @14 2 The terms under which these pp tgcea Mat dep gentlemen are disposing of these $2 ie 29 ss a cattle enables any one interested | "700°"? in dairy cows to procure one. sanitation, $3, ‘ f claims holding ’ SWANGER RE-EMPLOYED. [777 930 as poe Janne Prof. F. Swanger has been re- | $56,655.52. employed as superintendent of| Interest on warrants, $3,239 the Craigmont schools for the} 55 ensuing year. Although con- fronted with many drawbacks | $18,715.39. ters effective work has been done, and with Prof. Swanger at the helm next year we can|the county is 12,000. reasonably expect the next} school year to be a banner one 3,192. ’ for Craigmont. Con.-Ind. Dist- Number of votes rict No. 1 is to be congratulated | election, 3,192. upon getting his continued servi- ces.—Craigmont Register. Forest reserve, $4,596.99. justice of the notary publies. According to Auditor Telcher peace and 1 KAMIAH-LEWISTON STAGE. A stage service between Lew- | report the bonded indebtdness of | the Cottonwood highway district iston and Kamiah was started The valuations are made up as All land in the county is as- sessed at $11,083,278.00; Live- stock at $1,021,458.00; personal $706,731.71; rail- }roads and telephones at $1,564,- hospital, extension, Warrants issued during year, $74,504.69; less warrants in pay- Total with the disease. Oe arti j ay Claims holding Jan. 6, 1922, | Martin in charge. 1 County road fund expenses— | |count of the inconvenient quar-| total, $28,432.54. The estimated population of | School population, last census, | last | In the county there are nine | ing. turned out to hear the musicians; | twice veekly. RICE IN BOISE. ‘ of the week for party in Idaho. the entire nation party to place | name on the ballot for the candi- dacy of president. man Mr. Rice with other mem- bers of his party warned the Idaho supports against any hasty action. BABY GIRL DIES. The 16-months old baby girl 2 | d of the Keuterville section died at the home of her parents, Tuesday noon, of pneumonia the child being sick about a week Funeral serv- ices were held from the Catholic church at Keuterville Thursday morning with the Rey. Fr. The family has the sympathy of the entire y | row. FINISHES SCHOOL TERM. Mrs. George 6 ,,|pired term. Her the first of the week, going by | $140,000.00; school district $20,- | Tesiding in ak Se way of Craigmont and Nezperce., | 0.00; the village of Cottonwood, | gpRICIALS VISIT CITY. It is being put on by the Tabor | $19,000.00. company and will make round Total bonded arriving at Kamiah at 5 o’clock. RETURNS HOME. ngeville Electric company, ae concert given at 7:30 on the same evening of the dance ; on Main street was greatly en-|tWo of the greatest dairy states joyed by all and a large number| i? the union, according to Pro- boys. fessor Robert Poultney of the Much improvement is noted in Idaho Technical institute, agri- 1.802 the class of music rendered by| Cultural d $1,802,-| Prof, Moll’s 4 ivver racide : indebtddnaant Pu C. Sivyer, president of the \trips dailv, leaving Kamiah 7:30 | county, citites, villages, school | power ja. m., arriving at Lewiston 11 a.}4istricts, independent and _com- | , returning at 1:10 o’clock and|™mon highways etc., $691,558.39. | having spent an enjoyable even-| married at Boise, July 2, 1911, the complaint sets forth. Idaho and Utah will become lepartment. The pro- under | duction of butter and cheese has whose leadership they ‘practice | @!Ways moved into the sections of cheap feeds, and these two states have the best and cheap- est milk producing feeds in the Riley Rice departed the first | ¥™0n. Boise, Idaha \ where he took in a meeting of | White’s hospital the leaders of the Progressive; Sunday, April 15, to Mr. and Idaho Progres-| Mrs. Huie Tui Ning, well known "| sives have received much publi-; members of Lewiston’s Chinese city the past week throughout) colony, A daughter was born at in Lewiston Mr. Huie Tui Ning is a as there was| Prominent gardener in the east- talk among the leaders of this| ern section of that city, Both Henry Ford’s , mother and child are doing nice- ly. This is the first Chinese child born in Lewiston for oe g According to the Boise States-| years, so far as can be learn Mildred Carruthers, 12-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Carruthers of Orofino had her eye removed Saturday morning at the St. Joseph hospital in Lewiston as the result of an ac- of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Winkler cident last Thursday in Orofino where she was shot in the eye by an airgun in the hands of a young lad of the town. The buckshot entered the eyeball and the sight was entirely lost. Pleading for the release of J. R. Annis by his aged mother featured the second quarterly meeting of the state board of pardons, held Wednesday in the community in their hour of sor-| Office of Governor C. C. Moore, in Boise. As regularly as the board meets every three months, Mrs. Mary Annis of Buhl ap- F. McKinney | Pears for the release of her son, will complete her school term in| who is held in the state peniten- school district No. 43, known as) tiary for holding up a man sev- the Turner school in the Winona) eral years ago. vicinity, Friday. Mrs. McKinney | 0? parole once, but had not been accepted the position of teacher ] in that district about three| another crime and was sent back months ago to fill out an unex-| to the state’s prison. work there S\has been most satisfactory ac-| and most important packing con- cording to reports from patrons | tracts taken in recent years in He was released out long when he committed Probably one of the largest the Northwest was closed last | week between Stonebreaker Bros. of Orofino and formerly of Ferdinand and the Rutledge Light &| Lumber company, operating on with head-| Marble creek in the St. Joe coun- quarters in Spokane, Wash. and| try. The deal L. M. Simpson manager of the| handling of all the supplies for includes the | same concern were business visi-| the company during the life of RETURN FROM CALIFORNIA ‘tors in Cottonwood Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Crea re-|The above named gentlemen) timber on that creek and all fire their mammouth operations in Bishop D. M. Gorman D. D.|turned Monday evening from an| were making a trip of inspee-| work. The work will last from returned to his home in Boise,| extended trip to scuthern Cal Thursday morning after spend-| fornia where they spent the Many perties. Bot! vent where he heard the vows|Mr. and Mrs. Crea are indeed | \of 17 novices, Wednesday morn-| pleased to be back home amon ing a day at St. Gertrude con-|ter with their daughter. ing. itheir children and friends. i-| tion over the Tickets for the high school = sale at the Rexall Drug Store. play, “And Home Came Ted” on company’s pro-| two to three vears as there is about 120 millions feet of fire killed timber to remove. Have you bought vour ticket |for the high school play?