Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, May 11, 1923, Page 1

Ke PORES: VOLUME 31. NO. 20. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1923. COTTONWOOD =e tiROM LE E $2.00 PER YEAR DESCRIBES OLD NEW YORK HUSSMAN SAYS HE IS NOT MARY HUGHES AS SOME THINK, Editor of The Chronicle, Cottonwood, Idaho. Dear Sir: The letter, or adver tisement of Mary Hughes, appearing in one} of your late issues, has, so I am informed, been thought by many to come from me and in justice to the lady, the firm, the man or ; whoever or whatever it may be, T hasten to inform you and your readers that I am not Mary} Hughes. Most emphatically not! Of course I don’t know whether there would be any money in} writing a series of letters like} that nor can I tell anyone any- thing about whether they would | Probably | sper | Nau to arrest all who anxious to make 80 or 40 miles! be worth the money. they would, that is if one were interested in reading about New York. That first one sounded breezy enough and if they are all like that they should be worth reading, if oe no other reason than to see the childish]. delight that some find in any- thing that is new to them. No, I can’t give you any light on those letters even tho I feel complimented by having been considered the writer of that advertisement. All I can say is that if I. were trying anything like that I should choose another field as there are many other communities in the west besides the-one I happened to come from and if there is any particular interest in this city it is probably as great in’ one place as_ in another. For my part, if the people of Cottonwood and Camas Prairie care to read anything I | SPEEDER GETS STIFF SENTENCE AND FINE. For Steping on Gas While Going | Through Main Street Sunday. The first arrest for violating Cottounwood’s speed ordinance was made Sunday by Marshal Nau when he placed under arrest a popular young man whose name we are going to withhold | for only one reason, by virtue of the fact that this was the first arrest under the traffic ordin- ance. In the future we give fair warning to all that their names shall appear in print. The young man was taken be- fore Justice of the Peace B. L. Hussman, Tuesday and fined $10 and costs and given a jail sen- tence of 80 days. The jail | sentence was suspended by the | paid. In warning to all, the matter | of speeding automobiles was dis- cussed by the new council at their meeting, Tuesday evening and they instructed Marshal are so or better through the streets of Cottonwood and that they would back him up against a_ stone wall, Speeding must stop. It’s go- ing to be stopped so.take the warning and be on the safe side. CANVASS VOTES SATURDAY The board of county commis- sioners will canvass the vote on the question of county agent at Grangeville, Saturday. The com- missioners mailed out 3500 bal- lots to voters of Idaho county on which was submitted the ques- tion: “Shall the commissioners of Idaho County make an appro- priation for the county agent? “Yes or No.” Of the 3500 ballots mailed, 2600 have been returned to Auditor Telcher, considered an exceptionally heavy vote and am able to write about this place) shows that the people are’ tak- or any other places where I have been I shall be glad to write ana send it to you and then the only cost will be what it takes you to print it. © Should it happen now that Mary Hughes is really a girl who came here to make a living and just happened to pick on the people of Cottonwood \to_ see whether it would pay to send out letters like that well, my heart isn’t made of stone. If she can show damage due to my competi~- tion I’ll not only make good on that end of it but will buy her a good dinner and take her out to a show afterwards. Could any- thing be fairer than that? However, it isn’t likely there would be any real competition. This is the city where bunk flourishes as tho it were under hothouse forcing but I take it for granted that Mary came- here just the way she says she did and that she really feels about these places the way she says she does. In that case she can write interestingly about these | places whereas I, well, years and years and years ago I found what is known as a philosopher's stone and before I really knew what I was doing had picked it up, Now, the peculiarity about such a stone is that once picked up it remains with one always. It can’t be given away, stolen or even lost and the person having it is always more interested in the people he finds in a place than in the place itself. That is in how they live, why they live, what they think and so on. Besides all that when I start out to write about anything I never| more than pleased with the re-|- know just what I am going to say so that even tho I am sup- posed to write about New York there will probably be as much in it of everything from raising | children to the best apples to eat in the fall as of the actual sub- ject. Still, as I am to write about our no mean city suppose we have some of that first. Well, New York is so big that} it is hard to describe it so that the reader will have any idea of what it is like. In the main tho| it looks just like the pictures on} the post cards. How true that is of every place! Of course tho I don’t expect ever to get to any} place that doesn’t. Only, of course, the cclors are not quite so brilliant. They never are. No, not even down in Washington. But for something of a descrip- tion. How 1 wish I hadn’t lost the {Continued on page 2) ing a great deal of interest in the question. In last Saturdays Tribune under a special date line from Grangeville, the Chronicle was credited with stating that the vote on this proposition would be 2 to 1 against in the county. The Chronicle, wishes to place itself right on this matter by correcting -the statement which was somewhat erroneous. The Chronicle did predict that the agent question would be de- feated in the county and the 2 to 1 vote applied only to Cotton-| wood, which we still believe will be the case, judging from all in- dications. PLAY MAKES BIG HIT. The Cottonwood high school play, “And Home Came Ted” made a decided hit at Winona last Friday evening when the same was staged there to a) crowded house and from reports | |coming from Winona they were more than pleased with the pro- duction. The cast was accompanied to Winona by the Cottonwood band and orchestra and scores of town folks. After the play a dance was given and the music was furnished by the Cottonwood orchestra. The proceeds of the play amounted to approximately $60 and when one considers that Winona has only a store and post office it was indeed a splendid | audience. The play drew people | into Winona for miles around. The management of the play was | sults. Next year Winona no doubt will again be visited by a} similar aggregation from the | Cottonwood high school. | DEPUTY COLLECTOR HERE. Deputy Internal Revenue Col- \lector Charles N. Brearley, was yesterday and while here called a number of our citizens on the carpet for technically violating one of the many internal revenue | laws. The law violated by the | | Cottonwood citizens was for the | | lack of revenue stamps on deeds, transferred from one owner to another. | ‘The law without a question of doubt was violated in ignorance. | | They were fined the minimum, $10 on each deed which was short of the necessary revenue stamps. One man was com- pelled to pay a $40 fine. Judge but the fine had ‘to be} Lewiston | . ss, : | |a business visitor in Cottonwood SUED FOR $27,500 AUTOMOBILE VICTIMS SUE FOR THAT AMOUNT FROM DISTRICT. Charles H. Strickfaden, a prominent farmer of the Ferdi- nand section and K. M. Bibb, cashier of the Bank of Ferai- nand, filed suits against the | Greencreek highway district at Grangeville, Wednesday in the amount of $27,500 for injuries received in an automobile acci- dent on June 29, 1922 when they ran into a culvert near the Sam Hamill ranch in the Green- creek district which they allege was due to the carelessness of the Greencreek Highway Dis- trict. The suit also brings into the case the highway commis- sioners of that district, B. A. Baerlocher, George Killmar and Edward Dasenbrock. Mr. Strickfaden is suing the Greencreek district for $20,000 and Mr. Bibb is suing for $7500. Mr. Strickfaden was driving his own car at the time of the acci- |dent accompanied by his wife and children and Mr. Bibb was his passenger. The plaintiffs have retained the services of A. S. Hardy of Grangeville and J. F. Ailshie of Coeur d’Alene as their lawyers. BAND CONCERT. The Cottonwood Band will give a concert in the Orpheum | Theatre, Tuesday evening, May !15th. They will have on their |program Mrs. George C, Camp- \bell and Mrs. Elza Peterson | Hughes. Mrs. Campbell has studied | voice with some of the best New York and European teachers and |is recognized as one of the lead- ing soloists in the northwest. Mrs. Hughes has _ studied |piano in both Minneapolis apd | Portland and has made an envi- | able reputation for herself as an accompanist. The following program will be | rendered : | Lullaby from “Jocelyn’”.. Godard | A Spirit Flower Campbell-Tipton |The Morning Wind Brandscombe Mrs. Campbell Ave Maria, ...............,-. Schubert Mrs. Campbell. Venitienne Barcarolle ....Godard Parise Americaine . Deu Mowrey Mrs. Hughes. Three Indian Songs: .... By the Waters of Minnetonka | The Land of Skyblue Water The Moon Drops Low Iw. Mrs. Campbell From the Carnival - Prelude ....Grieg Bargiel Mrs. Hughes. | Youth Comes Dancing O’er the |. Meadow ............Marion Bauer Marcheta navies A Banjo Song -Homer Keep on Hopin’ _. ~ Maxwell Mrs. Campbell. | STOCKMAN DIES. | Carl T. Flynn, for 25 years |engaged in the cattle business |on Salmon river and well known in this section died at his home in Lewiston, Tuesd»y afternoon, |after a lingering illness dating GREENCREEKERS | YOURE SPEEDING A@AIN- OH a ‘00 BE CAREFUL HERE COMES AN mh "> OW: WHAT'S TAAT NOISE JOHN ?] x GET OVER AND LET THAT CAR Pass uS- oH in O'MY! WAS THAT OUR TIRE 2 STOP, tf aN’ GET OUT JOAN THATS erie ae Ny TIRES - SOUND YOUR HORN: see | ‘THE. RoAp Wi waars aT? |Z son itis So SURE YOU PUT IN ENOUGH GAS?] DRIVING FROM THE BACK. SEAT he@ was stricken by a partial | paralytic stroke about a year ago. The deceased was born in Kirksville, Mo., August 28, 1877, | He is survived by his widow and | five children, Golda, Jessie, Nina Raymond and Eva Flynn. Funerel services were held in Lewiston, Wednesday from the! Vasser parlors. Mr. Flynn, for years and at the} time of his death, was engaged in the livestock business with John Morarity, of Cottonwood, and they specialized in the Pol-| led Angus breed. These two gentlemen also wned a large tract of irrigated iand in. the Yakima valley. POLICY ALREADY PAID. H. H. Bennett, of Ferdinand, who died in Spokane on May 1 carried $6000 life insurance in the Northern Life, and his bene- ficiery was his wife, Ida Belle Bennett. This insurance was! written by August Seubert and has already been paid by his} company. A check for the amount of the policies was mail- ed to the widow on the 7th of | Proof sufficient in May from the head. office in, mind to believe them Seattle. Mr. Bennett had carried $2500 | of this insurance for 11 years and on the remaining $3500 he had only paid two premiums. Mr. Seubert is also under the impression that Mr. Bennett car- | ried $2000 in fraternal insur- ance. McGRATH RESIGNS. D. H. McGrath resigned his position as station agent for the Camas Prairie railroad at Fenn, Idaho, Saturday and ex- pects to leave shortly with his | wife for California. He will be checked out next Tuesday. Mac, as he is better known among his | friends is known to practically every one in this section of the country and during his residence at Fenn has taken a great deal of interest in all community enterprises. He is a baseball fan from the word go and it was from the bleecher’s stand that he has made many friends by his ; jovial disposition and his witty remarks. The best wishes of the cornmunity go with the Me- Graths to their new home in California. CLOSE CALL, Cottonwood had another close | call from what might have been | a serious fire, Monday morning, at the Cottonwood post office. Postmaster Johnston, was burn- | { ing trash in his stove and in or-| der to assist the fire in annihila- .; ting it he used a wooden. poker | to stir it up and when he had completed the task placed the} poker in a wood box near by, He then stepped out of the rear door for a minute and when he} returned a fire was burning briskly up the side of the wall. Quick action saved the building from destruction. Some docu-| ments were badly charred and) others burned beyond recogni- tion. } TO CHANGE SCHEDULE. / There is talk among railroad | men of the schedule on the Lew- iston- Grangeville train being} changed and the new schedule is, | we understand to go into effect, May 20th. The train will leave Grangeville each morning 25 | minutes later thus arriving in Cottonwood at 8:15 instead of) 7:50. The return trip will be began to decline in health when | made as usual. fe for about a year. He first NEW COUNCIL IS SWORN IN. W. W. Flint Made Chairman Of The Town Board of Trustees. Cottonwood’s newly. elected board of trustees took office 4 | Tuesday and organized with W. W. Flint og chairman of the board. M. M. Belknap was re- elected clerk of the board and H. # | C. Matthiesen, treasurer. The members of the new board were sworn in by Clerk M. M. Belknap after the old council members had completed all un- finished business. After tak- ing the oath of office the new members of the board determin- ed by lot who should be the two }and four year term men on the council. This resulted in W. T. Simon, W. W. Flint and George J. Terhaar being selected for the four year term and Wm. Buet- ner and John Funke of the two year term. After the selection of a chair- man and treasurer the new council then took up the matter of a town marshal and reap- pointed A. H. Nau to the posi- tion. This position carrys a salary of $50 a month. The new council also decided to place in operation the rock crusher and to crush a large | quantity of fine rock which is to | be used on the streets from time | to time where most needed. ~ LOOKS LIKE POLITICS. From time to time the various departments of the state are ac- cused of playing politics in per- forming the business connected therewith and sometimes people | are reluctant to take much stock jin such accusations and among them has been the editor of 'the Chronicle. One department, that has been accused of mixing politics and business together, more fre quently than any of the others, is the state highway department and we have what we consider our own guilty, When the state celled for bids to ‘gravel the North and South |hithwey between Cottonwood and Lawyers canyon, situated in the Ferdinand and Cottonwood highway districts, the law com- peled them to advertise the same. One advertisement was carried in the Spokesman- Review and the other— well one would naturally suppose from a standpoint of common business sense to be in the Ferdinand or | Cottonwood paper or at least in the county seat paper—no the same was found published in the Kooskia Mountajneer. Think of it. We are not blaming Editor | | Fenn but we do blame the offici- als in charge for the act, which on the face of it appears to us as politics. The advertisement should also have been run in the Lewiston Tribune in preference to the Washington paper and we are quite positive would have reached just as many contrac- tors. That’s not all of it. When the state was ready to call for bids ‘they asked that some $30,- 000 be turned over to them which was the share of the Fer- dinand and Cottonwood districts. An effort was made to have this money remain on deposit in the |banks in the two highways dis- tricts until needed. Now here again it looks like politics. The same was turned over to the of- ficials and we suppose is now on deposit in some pet bank in southern Idaho. TO IMPROVE ROAD. The road leading from Winona to Kamiah, known as the seven mile road through Lawyers can- yon is to be improved within the very near future. The cost of this improvement will be paid for by the city of Kamiah and | the Winona highway district. | About $2500 will be spent on the | road. ANNUAL PLAY MAY 22, St. Joseph school will stage its | annual play at the Orpheum Theatre on Tuesday evening, May 22. The play will be put on under the supervision of the |Sisters of St. Joseph school. The complete program for the | evening’s entertainment as well as those taking part will be pub- _ in the Chronicle next NEWS AROUND. THE STATE VARIOUS PARTS OF - THE STATE her daughter, Mrs. Fred Melkers man, south of Kamiah, received the very sad news the past week of the death of her son, Dr. T. Donald Enfield, at Santa Rosa, Ecuador. His death occurred March 7. Burglars visited Kendrick ing the office of the Mad: Lumber compapny, also ; Perryman confectionery doe dimes and a quantity of cigar- ettes. Construction of a railway line from Homesetad to Lewiston cannot possible be justified, ace cording t6 a communication re- ceived by the public utilities commission from E, E, Calvin, vice-president of the Union Pac- ifie Railway company. Offers to make contracts on small quantities of the coming crop indicate that the opening prices of wheat will be between 95 cents and $1 a bushel. Offers to contract have been on the basis of $1.15. at Portland, Ore. With freight charges and handl- ing charges deducted, this would make the Lewiston price 95 to 96 cents. A. D. Hill, editor‘and publisher of the Lewis County Register at Craigmont during the past 19 months, last week turned over the management to Don Phillips, the new lessee. Mr. Phillips pub- lished the Culdesac Enterprise. up to a few months ago and has’ recently been employed in the office of the Free Press at Grangeville. Announcement that the Clear- water. Timber company has de- cided to locate its big mill in Lewiston is confidently expected before May 17, when the option the company holds on the Porter millsite will expire. to the Porter millsite. Lewiston has made available to the com- pany 60 acres adjoining, now used for fairgrounds. Postoffice Inspector Moser after making an accurate check of the stamps and cash _ stolen from the Orofino postoffice Fri- day night or Saturday morning, reported that stamps to’ the value of $615 had been taken and $50 in cash, A small sum of money kept in the office, aside from the government funds, was also taken, Is it illegal to perform labor on Sunday? This question is soon to be decided in court in Boundary county as the result of arrests made Monday morning when 18 men, employed by the water department of Bonners Ferry, were “pinched” on _ the charge of having “unlawfully performed labor on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday,” the offense having oc- curred, it is alleged, on April 22. District court will convene at Nezperce May 14. The only crim- inal case so far is that against George H. Waterman, former president of the defunct State Bank of Kamiah. Waterman was convicted in district court last May on a charge of making false reports to the state bank commissioner, and was serving sentence when the supreme court granted him a new trial and he was released under bond. The Lewiston clinic has made a contract for the purchase of radium to be used in the treat- ment and cure of cancer and kindred diseases. The first in- stallment will be 55 milligrams, representing an investment of approximately $4,500. This is the first physician’s office in northern Idaho or eastern Wash- ington outside of Spokane, ae possibly the first in Idaho, to put in radium. The supply will not be delivered until September 15 and in the meantime and a little later in the summer one of the members of the clinic will go east to receive the requisite in- | material for the use of ma’ ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM Mrs. Enfield, who resides with again Wednesday night, enter- taking about $35 in nickels and. In addition’ and Postmaster Robert Molloy, .