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. COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE ~ VOL, 31. NO, 35. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1928 $2,00 PER YEAR | i i { | * i _KELSCH BABY DIES. | WHAT FLINT THINKS OF SHIP STOCK i | THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE. | VALUE $26 000 | Says Only One Plan Considered, ’ | Matters Were Cut and Dried Before Hand, LAST OF FLYNN ESTATE| To The Chronicle: The Mos- A ‘ | cow wheat price conference was | CATTLE SHIPPED TO what a prominent farmer called | THE COAST jit, “another fizzle.” The writer was there as a dele- gate from Camas prairie, one of Twenty-one carloads of cattle,| the great wheat growing sec- = = = = ie aan gaa NTE TOR SCHOOL PROSPECTS. What's Your Gurry? What’s your hurry, anyhow, Racing down the street? Driving like a lunatic, Searing folks you meet, = = believe there is and will be no —— = Faith in the future promises well for results, Mr. Moll, Mrs. West- over, Mrs. Schroeder and Miss ;Cameron, need: no introduction. | By nature and temperament, we call, of school or community wel- fare, to which they will not en- thusiastically and whole heant- edly respond, There is every reason to be- lieve that their loyalty and con- NEWS AROUND THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE : ; ; ; cern for the general welfare,| J.M. Thompson, member of valued at approximately $26,000 | pa Fogg ie Pe Porth Wear __ Like You will get there some day, | will be supplemented by equal|the Idaho public utilities com-, were shipped from the prairie | this ‘tal oe ay interested in| If you take your time, |unselfishness on the part of| mission has been elected pres) this week by John Baer to coast | 4s vital problem, I left my | markets. Four of the 21 car-| Work to journcy to Moscow in| loads were shipped from Grange | i one that something might ville and the remaining 17 ear-| P¢ accomplished and an organiz- | loads being shipped from Cot-|°4 movement started to .get| yete alate solidly behind some one measure | In the shipment were 280 head} which will tide the wheat grow- | of cattle, the property of the) lS over the present emergency, Flynn estate which were ship-|S°™e¢ measure fair to all parties | ped to Seattle and Toppenish, | concerned and one logical enough | Washmetan. | to secure the support which any | Among the shipper from Cot-| ™easure of relief must secire | tonwood were: | before it can be put into opera- Flynn estate _...... _9g9) tion. This I understood was John Morarity 54| the purpose of the Moscow con- | W. W. Blackburn gq9| ference. But insead of sitting | =] = Better be a little late Than commit a crime. Where’d you get the idea That you owned the town, Speeding like a maniac, Knocking people down? Are things so important In the world you live That you have to take away Life you cannot give? Don’t you suppose to other folks Life is dear and sweet And like you, they’ve got a right | each of the new teachers to be. That undefinable something we call a great soul, is always and every where the worlds surest and promptest conqueror. The | Superintendent at least, who is |the ony one so far, to have a | basis on which to form an esti- | mate, has no hesitancy in saying {that each of the new teachers | has a personality of that high ====| type which it is always a pleas- ; ure to know. Sincerity, unself- |ishness, the ideal of service and == === the approach of grown up pro- = dent of that body. He suéceeds E. M. Sweeley, whose resigna- tion was tendered and accepted 4 Governor C. C. Moore, August Fifty-five fires were reported in the Coeur d’Alene and St. Joe national forests as a result of lightning during the storm Sat- urday night. Rain that accom- panied the electrical storm ex- tinguished the fires with no ser- ious loss to timber. Harry Baker, clerk of the Clearwater highway district, has 2 aoa \blems i row" Ary Neal MeGuire 96 | the proposed plans of relief and | == To be upon the street? =| Recattod phage lime meres the Ht pees w- At ar rip Tony Jansen 3| a pane oat to | == Better drive a little slow | correspondence of each. We are phat ee a . to the| s| best and most practical plan of | ;|Velief, there was but one meas: 5| Ure considered, the matter was 3, cut and dried and the resolutions g| Prepared before the delegates arrived in the city, save for a >| small amendment which was of- 2| fered from the floor. 2| If the wheat farmer is to re- August Seubert 2)|ceive relief from the present Joe Blackburn ..................... 1{ distressing situation we must A large number of cattle have | quit playing politics. Commercial been shipped the past two weeks | Clubs, chambers of commerce, but the peak of the shipments | farm organizations, office hold- Henry Schmidt Henry Forsman . Newt Williams Reese Graham .. Conrad Bosse .... William Entrup ... Herman Uhlenkott - Ben Cooper ...... C. Davis .......... J. B. Luchtefeld . are still to be made, and these | ¢rs and individuals must cease | cattle will come principally from | to see in conferences a chance to the Salmon river section, with | advertise and keep hemselves be- Cottonwood as their loading sta-| fore the public. tion. We must forget self, get down According to which we obtained from a well| let.the country known railroad man, he inform-| that all we ask is ed us upon being questioned that | Without regard as a whole know a square deal to what the more livestock is shipped from| Measure might be called. The | Cottonwood than all of the other | delegates left the Moscow con- stations combined on the Camas! ference with no more definite prairie system. | when they left home, The remains of the infant! back up and push through any baby of Mr. and Mrs. Peter N.|measure of relief, with no Kelsch, of Greencreek, arrived | scheme to get their neighbors az in Cottonwood, Saturday even-| home united on this great ques-| ing from Spokane, Washington. | tion, only a resolution and an The baby died in the Sacred|able oratorial review of candi- Heart hospital there, Friday,| tions which we where it was taken about two/tco well, to exist. months ago for medical treat-| Will some Moses arrange a Though it isn’t fun, Than to worry later sure that each of them adopted | Cottonwood when she signed a information | to brass tacks, work and unite to | }plan of action formulated than | with no} | start toward an organization to! already know, } 4 Le AVOID SMUT EXPLOSION SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PRE- VENTION OF SMUT EX- PLOSIN IN SEPARATORS 1 (By Hoarae Sykes, Fire Pre- vention Engineer, with North- | western Mutual Fire Assn.) Safeguarding a grain separa- or from smut or dust explosion s one of the most important ; things necessary to be done in the protection of our grain j}erops, both standing grain, and ; grain in the sack if near the separator, because it frequently jhappens that a_ separator fire | communicates to the grain caus- ing a loss many times greater {than that of the separator. | It will be well to first under- For the harm you’ve done. contract to come here, and we e a poor prophet if Cottonwood |does not adopt each of them a cu ET * moma | we hardly know, if we coulk throw off a couple score of years, whether we would elect to be a boy of 15 taking English AGE HITS and Spanish under Miss Flora 2 | Meyer, a girl of 15 taking domes- ’ | tie science. under Miss Mary L. Greenwood, a seventh or eighth grader working under Mrs. EMPIRE NATIONAL OF LEW.| &!e0na Stewart or a first or sec- ond grader doing primary under ISTON NOW OWNED BY ye Frances Allen. Breathing eeply of enthusiasm, LEWISTON MEN, these new coming teachers looks (Lavin estonia) tion of a million dollars. The circumstances of July 26/)a school better at every each of| ing car owned by Fran ceed with the sale of the $85,000 worth of bonds. now available. The state will advertise for bids for construction of the Clear- water highway within 30 days, Commissioner Hall stated. Twirling invincible ball, “Leftty” Brandt carried the Kel- logg team to al to 0 victory! over the Lewiston club Sunday in one of the best exhibitions of baseball ever seen on the Lewis- ton diamond. After eight in- nings of scoreless ball and with two out in the first half of the _ ninth, the visitors pushed over the only run of the game with a single and a triple. A ‘practically new Dodge tour- ‘ingree, of Lewiston, was left standing in to us like the human incarna-| front of ‘the owner’s home Fri- day morning without the brakes All in all we expect to conduct, being thrown on, started of its level| own accord and found its way last, centering in the disappear- | than that of last year, and twice|over the embankment at the ance of George Baskett, book-!as good'in music, because we will| west end of Eighteenth avenue keeper at the Empire National have 5 teachers instead of three,| and plunged to the flat land be- bank, and the recovery of his| qualified to help. body from the Snake river five We courteously ask that the| feet. low, a distance of more than 200 The car, luckily, was not days later, after the manipula-| community cooperate with us to| seriously damaged, one axle and tion of his accounts at the bank! realize this hope. had_ been discovered, were The honor of California will be brought toa virtual termina-| upheld by Miss Meyer. tion last night with the an-!of Colorada, by Miss Greenwood, nouncement that the deficit | That of Oregon by Mrs. Stewart. totaled $27,186.97, and that the| That of Missouri by Miss Allen. bank had not only provided the| Mr, Westover, Mrs. Schroeder sum out of new funds but had|and Miss Cameron will defend the top suffering most, Ellis Land, aged 21, a resident That| of Kooskia, was drowned Sun- day nine miles above Kooskia on the Middle Fork of the Clear- water when he fell backward from a log in a jam which he and “ c ne 7 ‘ ‘ * Mii fp +) oF others of the crew were trying ; ments. The remains, and me care a that | stand Bob cbhimeor chatdtane of degre ned ee i position the fame of Idaho, and the) to break. His step-father, Mr. ; sorrowing parents, were met at | ie igi sidiaaa la dust explosion, because to |Y adding other funds to its re-| “Major” will still “rah’ feebly for | Pinker, who made a valiant ef- ; the depot by a number of friends | matter of, wheat Price + ‘many it seems’ an incredible |S¢™Ves as well as a strong line of | Kansas, for which he doesn’t| fort to rescue the dead man, was ; is spending his ti here, mova ‘ 2 pt hare abventitig tie bum-| give a cooked food sale at the! the machine is to stop feeding, more prosperous footing. ) Leggett Mercantile tomorrow. | Yours for action, W. W. FLINT. and relatives and taken to Green- creek by Mike Willenborg. The | funeral was held Monday at} Pena AACE SL eR Greencreek with the Rev. Fr.) VISITS BROTHER. Baerlocher in charge of the Emma A. Jensen, of Washing- services. ton, D. C., a sister of Jacob Jen- The bereaved parents have the | sen, who arrived in Cottonwood sympathy of the entire commun-| last week to visit with her bro- ity. ther whom she had not seen for | — 20 years, left this morning for AUTO HITS BRIDGE. her home. Miss Jensen arrived While returning Tuesday} here unbeknown to her brother evening from Uniontown, Wash.,| and when she arrived at his where he had gone to get August | home he did not recognize her. Wensman to assist him in har-| She is a teacher in the Central vest, Barney Westhoff ran into| High school of Washington, D. a bridge five miles west of Craig-|C., one of the finest and most mont, damaging his car to some} modern high schools in the na- extent. Mr. Westhoff, who was/|tion. The lady came here from dviving was also,sheken up, so}San Franeisco-Oakland where much so that Dr. Shinnick was/| she attended the convention of ealled to Craigmont, where the! the National Education Associa- party was taken after the acci-| tion, she having represented the dent. Defective lights were the| High School Teachers’ Associa- cause of the accident. The place} tion of Washington, D. C. where the car collided with the} Miss Jensen also visited other bridge is considered dangerous| points of interest while in the thing. Smut, wheat, straw, and chaff, ar eall combustible sub- stances. That is they will burn readily, just as a piece of paper, or block of wood. In large pro- | portions they burn slowly, but ja chip will burn quicker than a block, and a shaving quicker than a chip, and a fine particle of wood quicker than a shaving. And so the finer the particle the | quicker it is consumed by fire. A particle of combustible mater- \ial so fine that it will float sus- pended in the air will burn in- | stantaneously. Thus when the jair is charged with dust, or in | other words sufficiently filled so |that the flame from one dust \particle can communicate to \and ignite its neighboring parti- \eles, the flame can_ spread |rapidly through the entire dust }area, The rapidity of the flame, or violence of the explosion will depend upon the fineness of the | particles of dust and their proper new stockholders who havejcare much, and lustily for thus manifested their confi-| Princeton, which he will ever- dence in the affairs of the bank | more revere. and its management. An assess-| For the high school, ment ‘of $50 per share on the|so far as possible, should report stockholders of the bank brings| and enrol at the school on the in an excess over the deficit of | afternoons of the 7th and 8th of $25,000 and increases its free | September. working capital to $145,000,| Pupils of the grades, on the while the stock held by Charles | afternoon of the 8th. Hours from H. Chace of Stanton, Neb., has|1 to 4 p. m. been sold by him to local busi- Geo. F. Moll, Supt. ness men whose names give ad- A SR DIPSARC NEAT eB. ok ded prestige to the instution. E. M. Ehrhardt, president of | Saturday evening while John the Empire National bank an-|Morarity was running his horse nounced the new developments} to quickly arrive at the spot as follows: where a tree was burning rapidly Statement by the Bank. ag ap greg lenny = a “The shortage in the accounts | 0 tire on his ranch near Ves of the bank’s » selheoth bookkeeper | lake, the horse stumbled at the Jeorge Baskett, as ascertained | bottom of a cluvert throwing by our examining committee | Mr. Morarity to the ground with after a careful audit which has|@ hard force which badly shook HORSE STUMBLES. | now been checked and rechecked | him up and disfigured his face, amounts to $27,186.97. This| Mr. Morarity fell on his neck and pupils | under water for ten minutes, but was taken from the river by others who plunged into the deep water, and was revived, Dr. George O. Keck, agency physcian in charge of the tuber- culosis sanitarium, for Indians at Lapwai, reported that the an- nual summer camp of 46 Indian patients near Winchester had been closed. There are about 100 patients at the sanitorium, but -during the summer many are al- lowed to go to their homes. Dr. Keck says that the sanitarium records showed that last year 65 per cent of the patients showed improvement and six were dis- charged as cured. The state bureau of highways has filed papers with the United States bureau of public roads at Ogden for another project on the North and South highway, it was announced Saturday morning. The project, which is , ; pest. Ben} wes m being the ‘ ust al shortage is covered in part by a| Shoulders and the accident re-| known as federal aid project No. Wonman. ae ot orenied ie | ateeeny ae seg Leland | Proportion with air. fidelityebond issued by the U, S. | sulted in leaving his neck ver¥| 74, is located in Latah county. Westhoff to Uniontown was also| Stanford. University.’ At Mt.| _ It is apparent therefore, that | Fidelity & Guaranty company of | stiff and sore. He was in Cot-| Tt will consist of the grading and in the car | tfamilton she had an opportuni-| the prevention of the dust ex-| Baltimore which is in process | tonwood, Monday and while here | surfacing of 5.91 miles of high- yuincaen eres ly to Jook at the skies thru a/Plosion is dependent upon one of | of collection and will be paid| received medical treatments. | way between Potlatch and Har- GETS INSURANCE, world famous telescoppe located | two things, either the removal of | within a few days, and the re-|Mr. Morarity belives he Was|yard. It is estimated the work A small fire broke out in «| at this point. | the dust ,or the removal of the | mainder has been restored to the | fortunate in escaping with no ‘will cost approximately $88,000. rain field belonging .to John me of theamusin incidents | spark, flame, or heat, that ig-| bank by a group of the principal | serious results. T. B. Hart of Culdesac was in- Tethoar, Duaeiay of last week | st hee trip was aoe bie baked | nites it. stockholders who have anticipat- | DADA AIRS AT BEINGS stantly killed Thursday when he and destroyed 6 shocks of grain.| potatoe she received on the N. | The removal of the dust can be | ed and paid their pro rata of an| MEN IN TROUBLE. ; ; was thrown from a logging The fire was caused from the| P, between Spokane and Seattle. | accomplished in two ways. By | assessment of $50 a share which! Two arrests, charging viola-|train while working for the sparks of a passing threshing} And coming to Cottonwood she the installation of a suction fan} has been laid on the stock, The}tion of the prohibition laws, | Craig Mountain Lumber com- machin» engine. Mr, Terhaar had| was_ greatly impressed by the| immediately back of the cylinder | total assessment, amounting to| were made by Special United| pany at Winchester. Mr. Hart his grain insured with the Gen-| Culdesac hill and the grain fields ere] Fire Imsurance Co., for| that one sees as soon as you which company the Farmers’| reach the summit. Mr. Jensen Union is local agent. Mr. Terhaar| and his wife have taken her reported his fire, and Monday of | over the entire prairie and to this week an adjuster for the} points of interest which she company allowed him $7.04 for} greatly enjoyed. his lost grain. William Schi'ler came np from} up her school work. his home in Lewiston, Tuesday | The Ladies’ Aid Society will per crop. |of the machine so the dust is drawn out mechanically. or it can be accomlished in a limited | way by leaving all possible holes, s, and openings in the sep- tor open while threshing. | | i do ara | thin enough to be non-iinflam- | |atle, Another practical method for the removal of the dust from (Continued on page 2) $50,000, not only covers the! States Officers shortage but provides the bank) and J. Marston after they had with approximately $25,000 ad-|taken a quantity of beer from ditional working capital which | the home of George Tervooren will be employed by the bank in| and moonshine whiskey from caring for its future growth, in| the home of Harvey Housh of Her visit was | This will permit some of the dust | rendering further assistance to} Lewiston on search warrants, it | cut short due to the fact that| to escape and possibly keep the | its customers and in meeting the | is alleged. | she must return in time to take| dust mixture in the machine / particular needs of agriculture | in this locality until such time|for preliminary trial before as financial conditions improve} United States Commissioner E. and general business gets onto a| Q’Neill Saturday and Housh In| provided $1000 bond for appear- (Continued on page 3) ance before the federal court. Frank Marier | Tervooren gave bond on $500) was working with a crew of about 20 men who were pushing the cars loaded with logs down an incline. When the cars were started the men jumped aboard to ride down _ but, according to the report, the brakes did not hold and the cars ran wild. All but Mr. Hart jumped and receiv- ed no injuries. He was thrown when the cars struck another car on the track. His neck was bro- ken and death was instantane- t ee