Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, August 17, 1923, Page 1

cca _ COTTONWOOD CHRONI VOL. 31. NO. 34, COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1928 GASOLINE NOW 28 CENTS ‘PER’ GASOLINE FIGHT IN EAST MAY HAVE HAD ITS EFFECT HERE. The price ofgasoline at both the retailing and wholesale sta- tions in Cottonwood dropped 2 cents a gallon yesterday morn- ing and gasoline is now selling at 28 cents a gallon at the local filling stations,’ 7 cents a gallon cheaper then it was selling for early in the season and within three cents of the lowest price that gasoline ever sold for in Cottonwood. The price reduction, which was made by the wholesalers is believed to have come about by a war declared on the large cor- porations by Gov. W. H. Me- Master of South Dakota who forced them to make big reduc- tions in the price of gasoline by operating state owned gasoline | stations. The fight was carried to other states and as a result of the South Dakota governor’s efforts it has spread throughout the entire northwest. Gasoline, at one time sold in Cottonwood by retailers for 25 cents a gallon and during the war the price was boosted to 45 cents a gallon. At the opening of the automobile season this} spring it was selling for 35 cents | a gallon. How long the present price will be in vogue it hard to say and whether the price will go even lower or higher remains to! be seen. Regardless of who is to blame for the reduction it pleases the motorist greatly to buy cheaper | fuel for his car. | FREAKISH RUNAWAY. A team of horses belonging} to Frank Kowalski, residing in the Keuterville vicinity were the principals in a freakish runaway yesterday afternoon. The ants} mals ran through Main Street three times and through the alley back of Main street twice before they were stopped. On the third run through Main | street they ran into the sd \ pole. The team ran away from Mr. Kowalski at the Hussman water | trough. The horses became} frightened after he had taken! the bridle from one of them and} knocked him down, the wagon passing over his left shoulder dislocating the same. A bruise was found on his right shoulder | and a cut on his face. Dr. Shin-} nick dressed the injuries. He} was taken home in a car by Seymore Hazen. and Frank Albers. Ben Albers drove the} team home. Mr. Kowalski is well: thought of in this community and as he has hay now ready for cutting and being unable to do the work | his neighbors will do it for him. It took only an hour for his neighbors to organize a crew to do this work after they learned of Mr. Kowalski’s misfortune. HARDING WAS WEALTHY. Close friends of the late Presi- dent Harding estimated that his estate probably was worth be- tween $700,000 and $800,000. Before he assumed tthe presi- dency, Mr. Harding was recogni- zed as wealthy, having amassed a fortune of some dimensions from the Marion Star ,the news- paper which he» owned since 1884, until it was sold recently. The controlling interest, held by Mr. Harding, was said to have brought more than a half million dollars. At one time or other Mr. Harding had been a stockholder in practically every enterprise in HIGHWAY I$ COMPLETED MOVE MACHINERY TO FER- DINAND DISTRICT TO COMPLETE THE JOB. The last load of gravel on the North and South highway lead- ing out of Cottonwood towards Ferdinand was dumped Sunday and Monday morning the task of dismantling the crusher and bins was commenced and the same will be moved to the Ferdinand section where the only remain- ing gap of unsurfaced road be- tween Cottonwood and Lewiston will be surfaced as quickly as possible, thus giving the prairie country a hard surfaced read JACKIE DRAWS BIG CROWD. Jackie Coogan, in Pecks Bad Boy, at the Orpheum theatre, Wednesday evening drew a} capacity house and at the end of the first show standing room| was at apremium. Children! were especially conspicious | throughout the large crowd and | they greatly enjoyed seeing) Jackie playing the part of the| bad boy which consisted princi- pally of playing his pranks on! his parents and ete. The crowd was one of the) largest to take in a picture show in Cottonwood in many days. By | actual count there were sixty- five cars parked on Main Street | and practically every one con-| tained patrons of ‘the shoy for that evening. SUMMER SESSION OVER. The summer session of the Lewiston state normal — schoot! closing Friday marked the end of the most. successful year in} the history of. the institution. Total enrollment for the regular | and summer sessions was 1160. | Last year the enrollment was} 1115. During the year 128 diplo- | mas and 388 teaching certift-| cates were issued. Among. those from this sec-| tion . attending the summer| Normal and who have returned | home for the remainder of the | summer are: Vera Moughmer, | May Asker, Louise Hattrup, Stella Williams, Opal Mitchell, | Beatrice Wimer, Sister Mary | James and Sister Mary Luti-| gard. } RESIGNS POSITION. past two years bookkeeper for | the Cottonwood State bank, has | resigned his position and where he will accept a position | with the Modesto Bank, one of the oldest and strongest banks | man’s condition. of that city with a population of | — 15,000 pecple. | PRIEST VISITS. Raymond, is the son of Mr. | and Mrs. H. C. Matthiesent of | Brownsvalley, Minn., visited in this city and one of the best | Loan and Savings company. | Donald, ‘evening for . ‘ | trouble brought on by the flu Raymond Matthiesen, for the | and has not made the necessary wil! | will find the relief sought. leave Sept. 1st for Modesto, Cal.,| to the time of this writing no | \from Cottonwood to Lewiston. The surfacing of the Cotton- wood end of the North and South highway was done in quick time considering the incle- ment weather with which the contractors, The General Con- struction company, of Spokane, had to contend with in the early part of the work. The road completed is declared by Engineer Hughes of the state highway department, to be one of the best in the state and speaks well for the company that Marion. Atthe time of his death he was a director in the Marion county bank the leading financial institution of the city, and of the Home Building and Mr. Harding’s last will, made just before he left Washington for Alaska, has not been probat- ERRONEOUS STATEMENT. After the meeting held by some 100 farmers and thresher- men in Cottonwood, August 4th, the report was sent to an out- side paper stating that a wage | seale had been adopted, which was true, but no wage scale was set for engineers, seperator Foreman Price in charge, who is regarded as one of ‘the best |crusher superintendents in the p or }northwest. Besides graveling men and etc., as stated ‘n this|the North and South highway article and reprinted in every |they also hard surfaced about a paper in the county. The only | mile of road towards Greencreek wage scale set was for common} which cost the Cottonwood dis- labor which was set at $4 a day | trigt approximately $2050. This ral EP = ny ee pea | mile of road, while not up to the Aika eb ene schedule | 4 inches of coarse gravel instead be a ey a pi Wal aan aaradead |of 5 and 2% inches of fine rock + “hilo tho Weree ee Skilled jeeren ot 314 inghee and + 15 bic A ea edithel ae ra | feet wide instead of 18 which is anita up to the hiring of | the size the state demands on Si : Stal rp EA ARDY jall state highways. The new nis ks Gani asi actnge ant AA district will be appreciated by the le or that shee the public in general and outside of the state highway is one of GO TO PORTLAND. the heaviest traveled roads lead- Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Belknap | ing into Cottonwood. ga: their The work on the Cottonwood anal ent ‘tien Monde jend is now practically completed Portland, Oregon with the exception of a few under the care of specialists in age of men at this atte ki thes Oty aa oe pe re Foreman Price ‘expects to months suffering with lung have the crusher going in about two weeks and hopes to complete the task in the Ferdinand dis- egos Aaeat A trict in about the same time that ee aed thet en adihanes ae | was spent in this district. UP | INSPECTS SCALES. J. E. Brown, of the state department of weights and measures was an official visitor in Cottonwood, Monday and while here inspected all public of |scales and tested them out for their accuracy. Mr. Brown test- jed all of the warehouse scales news has been heard from Port- land in regard to the young Rey. Fr. John B. Wilkes, | Cottonwood from Thursday of thought of young men in the city | last week to Tuesday morning of |and found them in good shape. He is steady and industrious and | this week. for him we predict a_ bright future in his new location. The position which he leaves vac>nt has not been filled at the present time. Father M. Baerlocher return- ed Saturday evening to his home in Greencreek after at- tending a conference at Boise. He is a relative of The big scales at the stock yards |the Terhaar boys of this section | were also tested and were found {and was on-his way home after|to be off only 3 pounds to the a tour of the west and Canada.|1000 pounds and these were at | Sunday morning Fr. Wilkes read | once adjusted so as to give the mass at St. Mary’s church and | proper weights. Scales of this also delivered a sermon that was | kind where they are exposed to | enjoyed by all present. the weather more or less are con- — sidered the same as_ accurate Our want ads bring big re-| when they hit the mark so close. sults. Read them. It pays. |The law allows them one pound. [Semaine did the work and especially for | jlision with such automobile and tandard specifications contains | ,One of the FREE MOTORIST OF DEATH BLAME PEDESTRIANS MUST USE CARE ON PUBLIC HIGH- WAYS SAYS COURT. Boise, Aug. 15—The Idaho supreme court today exonerated James McKissick in connection with the death of Wesley K. Carpenter, who was run over and killed by McKissick’s car in April, 1919, on the Lewiston- Orchards paved highway. Mckissick was driving along the highway behind another car. Carpenter was walking in the same direction, but on the op- posite side of the road. The driver of the first car was the son-in-law of Carpenter and when his car was opposite Car- penter, he stopped and called Carpenter over. Carpenter start- ed to cross to the standing car and was struck by the rear car which had pulled to the left to pass. Pedestrian and driver be- came confused about the other’s intentions, and Carpenter fell, McKissick’s car passing over him. Ped‘strians Must Be on Watch, The court said that ‘the driv- er of en automobile on a public highway is required to exercise reasonable care to avoid injuring a pedestrian who may be using such highway and such pedes- trian is required to exercise reasonable care to prevent a col- to avoid injury to himself.” State officials of the depart- ment of law enforcement con- sider the case of vital import- ance, as showing the relation be- tween driver and pedestrian. alleged errors brought out in the appeal is that the trial court refused to give the following instruction to the jury: “The driver is also required to give notice and warnifig of his approach by the sounding of a horn or the ringing of a bell or some other device sufficient to warn the pedestrian of his ap- proach.” State Laws at Fault. The supreme court held that, “in the absence of a statute cov- ering such warning, it would have been an error for the trial court io have instructed, as re- quested, that it was the absolute | duty of the respondent to sound his horn when approaching the | deceased.” At the time ofthe ac- | cident there was no law reguir- ing a warning to pedestrians on the highway. The suit was| brought by the administrator of Carpenter’s estate for the bene- | fit of seven adult heirs. The district court acquitted McKis- | sick and the case was appealed. The opnion was delivered by, Edgar C. Steele, district judge of the Second judicial distret, sit-| ting as a commissioner of the) supreme court. | Mrs. Leonard Smith and Mrs. | Agnes Pine, mother and sister of | Mrs. W. F. Orr, who visited at | the Orr home last week, left Fri-| day morning for Seattle. Mrs. Smith will visit with a daughter there while Mrs. Pine will con- ‘ COMMERCIAL CLUB PASSES TWQ RESOLUTIONS. Wants N.S. Highway Completed and Petitions Congress to Open World Markets, The Cottonwood Commercial club at its regular luncheon at the Cottonwood hotel, Tuesday passed two resolutions of great importance to this community, |one favoring a plan of stabiliz- ing the price of wheat and the other asking state officials to complete the North and Sout highway south of Whitebird. The resolutions as drafted by’ W. W. Flint, secretary of the club are as follows: “Whereas, the present world condition of the wheat market is not such as to insure a satisfac- tory profit to the wheat grower, and “Whereas, the principal in- dustry of this county is wheat growing, and a continued pros- perity of the community is de- pendent upon the prosperity of the wheat grower, it is the opin- ion of the Cottonwood Commer- cial club that some measure of relief for the present situation should be undertaken. “Whereas, there are a number of proposed measures now before the public, some of which are, in our opinion, impracticable and unworkable, and “Whereas, it will not be pos- sible to secure any measure of relief until public opinion is unt- ted on what action should be taken, and believing that all parties interested should unite upon one measure, which shall be deemed the one most fitted to secure the thing sought, and after a thorough and careful consideration of the various measures now advocated there- fore, be it “Resolved, that the congress of the United States should do all within its power to open the markets of Europe for the pro- ducts of the American farmer: that our government - should stabilize the price of wheat as a temporary measure until such time as world conditions are ad- justed to a normal basis, and that this shall be accomplished in such a manner as_ shall be deemer most wise by .our na- tional congress and president.”’.. Want Road Completed. “Resolved, that the unfinish- ed portion of the North and South highway in that section squth of Whitebird--along the Salmon river be completed at the earliest possible date.” Copies of the resolution were sent to Senators Borah and Gooding, the bureau of public roads at Washington, D. C., and to the district engineer and the state highway department. The club will have signs plac- ed in the intersection of Main street one pointing the road to Grangeville and the other the road to Lewiston. This has been considered a necessity for some time. COME OVERLAND. Fred Funke, accompanied by his wife and family and Otto Ries of Egly, Montana arrived in Cottonwood, Monday evening with Mr. Funke’s horses and household goods via the over- land route. Conditions in Mon- tana made it impossible for Mr, Funke to continue his farming operations on account of the re- peated crop failures in that sec- tion. The time required to make the trip was 28 days. Mr. Funke is a son of Mr, and Mrs. Herman Funke of the Ferdinand country and Mrs. Funke’ is a daughter of Barney Tacke. They will reside here in the future. Mr. Ries plans on returning to Montana after the harvest season. FINISH CULDESAC HILL, Grant Smith & Co,. are col- lecting their road equipment preparatory to shipping it to Spokane. They have completed work on Culdesac-Winchester highway, which they started a year ago last June. The road is approximately ;nine miles long and cost about $175,000. The roadbed is 18 feet wide, with a continuous 5 per cent grade in a climb of a little more than 2200 feet. There are five switchbacks and as a scenic route it is considered by many a rival of the famous Lew- tinue her tour to Alaska. iston hill highway. {purchased the harvester plant {Short Line railroad has $2.00 PER YEAR NEWS AROUND THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE Ninety thousand brook trout were planted in Idaho county streams Tuesday under direc- tion of George Carlyle, deputy game warden, of jah, ‘Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia drew on Idaho for Potato supplies, ac cording to a check just complet- ed for the disposal of the 1922- 23 crop of 10,180 cars by Idaho agricultural officials. 1 Twenty-five million feet of sawed lumber is the estimated output of numerous small mills within a radius of twenty-five miles of Orofino. Of this amount about 19,000,000 feet is white pine and 6,000,000 is yellow pine, The largest in sale of the season in the Lewiston market has been made by H. T. Barnes, who farms just south of Lewis- ton. He sold 12,000 bushels of wheat to M, B. Mikkelson of the Prairie Mills company for 87 cents a bushel. What is said by shippers to be the Heaviest lambs ever ship- ped from the loading station at Ketchum, Idaho, have been ship- ped out by J. W. Newman, There were 1896 lambs in the shipment and the average weight was 98.- 27 pounds. They were pur- chased under contract last May at $10 per lamb, or $19,000 for the shipment. i . The University of Idaho has in Moscow from Jerome J. Day and will use it for a machine laboratory for the college of engineering. The plant is said to have originally cost the Idaho National Harvester Co, $100,000. It is understood that the price paid by the University was $45,000. Herbert Wright, former busi- ness man of Lapwai, now living upon a berry ranch near there, has returned from Detroit, Mich where, as manager of the Re nard Roller Gear Thresher Co., an Idaho concern, he says he sold to a lange auto wheel manu- facturer his company’s patents upon a new disc auto wheel for $200,000. The first installment upon the purchase price will be due October 1. W. J. Hall, state commissioner of public works, finished a two days’ conference with university authorities, Tuesday evening. The conference had to do largely with the plans for the construc- tion of the new science building, and Mr. Hall urged that work be started as soon as possible. A portion of the money for the construction of the building will bewavailable immediately after the state board of equalization makes the levy. Calling upon the people of the United States to give President Calvin Coolidge “a chance to make good,” Senator William E. Borah of Idaho declared Coolidge was a logical candidate for the republican nomination for the presidency in 1924. “Fate and circumstances have made Calvin Coolidge president,” Senator Borah said in an interview in Spokane Saturday. “He takes up a heavy task. There are some very difficult problems asking, or rather demanding, attention. Public utilities in Idaho will makeva strong demand before the state board of equalization Monday for a reduction in their assessed valuation. The a = special agents in Idaho in the past year making an exhaustive study of valuations in all coun- ties through which their lines run. It is said that they are prepared to introduce a hundred instruments dealing with pro- perty transfers, which show actual values. On the basis of these instruments they contend that it can be proved that the rallne bet me tee “ a ios nee on a valuation which if properly equalized would be rededea from 20 to 30 per cent in order to compare with other proper I ties in the same county.