Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, October 26, 1923, Page 2

SPECIALS ll Mi. Women’s Shoes at $2.98 This is a lot of military heels and fine leathers of high grade, made to sell for twice the amount but what is left of them will go at $2,98. These are good servi- cable shoes and will make your shoe bills less. Nearly all sizes. A special lot of men’s shoes and we have copeiaieh ed from the stock and have made the price only... $2.98 These are mostly work shoes in heavy leathers and very durable. Mixing Bowl This is something every housekeeper will want, a set of mixing bowls. Five sizes in glass, the largest is eight inches and graduate-down. We just have 12 si | road had receipts of $298,000,000 lower than the city stores. ey ‘ enjoy it. of these and you must have one. Only $1.25 FOR THE WHOLE NEST OF FIVE Men’s Underwear ALL WOOL AND VERY NICE White only and just the weight for the coo] days that are ahead. Get them now $4.98 per shit. Rich skirtings for your fall skirt in the new de- signs direct from the market centers and priced as low as can be possible for this grade of merchandise. as low as $2.98 and up to $5.00. Our store is full to overflowing with rich new mer- chandise bought for the fall. vogue now. A new line of the famous Formfit Braziers, Several new numbers in corsets. Phoned orders given prompt at- tention by this store ~~ Leggett Merc. THE BIG BUSY STORE. We have for an extra special two leather coats for men lined with doe skin and the leather of the best. They were bought to sell for $29.50 but for an extra special we have priced them at only $19.00. See them. We will have women’s coats and dresses again, Watch for our announcement regarding them. We are fortunate in being able to secure a line that wiit surprise you in their elegance and the price is far Some Beautiful trimmings in Shop with us and EAT KAMIAH WATER MELONS Our melons can be bought at the following stores ex- clusively: Cottonwood Mercantile, Winona and Cotton- wood; Shoemaker’s, Nezperce; Moore’s Mercantile, Craig- mont; Reubens Supply Co., Kooskia. Reubens; Gilroy Mercantile, Our melons are grown under nature’s own formula. The melons are of fine texture and are strictly non-irri- gated. Melons are guaranteed to be ripe or another one is given free to replace it. “NOTHING BUT THE BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH” —GROWN BY—— Paul F. Corbett KAMIAH, IDAHO HAD FAITH IN PRAIRIE (Continued from page 1) but it may not be adequate 20 years from now. To make it ade- quate, some one must put in money. On 1922, we collected from the public $100,550,000 for transportation. We paid an average of $1,690 to each man employed, or a total of $49,000,- 000. _ Our fuel bill was $24,411,- 000, and we paid taxes of $8,- 430,000. The great bulk of all this was paid back into the same territory. Interest on the in- debtedness was. $15,000,000, making a total of $96,775,000. We had remaining a balance of $3,775,000, with earnings on in- vestments of $15,000,000 and paid a dividend of five percent. Three roads last year, with an aggregate of 40,041 miles of After their taxes were paid they had left less than seven cents on the dollar. “We want to tell you of our troubles only so far as it may have a bearing on the future development of this country. It is human nature to want to get everything as cheaply as possi- ble. Idaho is getting relatively less increase in rates than any other state. Our expenses have been greater. We have got to pull together. It is a question of ultimate service and ultimate development. The people who have put money in are persons = of small means. We have 88,000 | == stockholders with an average of |” $9,000 of stock. Nearly 14,000 of these are women. This road is not owned by a few rich men, but by 71,000 people who have to earn their bread and butter. “How can we get railroad ser- vice? One way is by keeping the rate down, and balancing this . by increased taxes for bonuses. Another way is straight; out government ownership. In- dividually, speaking for myself, I fear it. It is a bad thing for the country and for the develop- ment of this region. The roads would have 2,500,000 more em- ployes. A third way is to give the railroads starvation wages. The best way is to say that we must have the railroads and that they must be managed in an honest, economic way, with just returns, “National extravagance is a question affecting all. There has | been a great increase in debts of towns, cities and municipalities. The country is spending too much money in many ways. We have two million men employed. Suppose that each he five cents a day from his earn- ings. That would mean $30,000,- | ~ 000 in a year. That is just what we are trying to do. If we could save an hour a day loading each carload of freight, the total sav- ing would amount to 100,000 car- loads. It is necessary for every one of us to work and save. “Another thing is the tremen- dous amount of interference by the government. ‘It is a mistake to rely on legislative action, and believe that it takes the place of brain work and hand work. Good hard work will do more than to have the government do so much. As President Harding, said, “there should be more bus- Jjiness in government and less government in business.” How was this country built up? It was built up by hard work an long hours. I have no criticism to make on labor organizations, but they should work to be effi- cient and economical. When they seek to hinder industries, they become a menace and a| thindrance to development. Short hours make it more expensive for all of us. There is a necessity for more hands, This is the immigration problem. We need more people. We have a country capable of supporting ten times the present population. “These ifs must be taken care of if you have adequate trans- portation; if you cut out extra- vagance and save money; if you put your face against interfer- ence by government. If you have wise immigration laws, to per- mit labor to come. Each man in the United States can do something to help. Most busi- J/ness men are so busy that they do not pay much attention to making the rules. We are get- ting to the point where everyone of us must do his part in show- ing the lawmakers how to get back to first principles, and spend less money. All can doa part by disseminating good, wholesome doctrines. “Our development will go on, but we must have money enough to meet the requirements of our business. After 15 years of discussion congress adopted a new plan of regulating railroads, the transportation act of 1920. The aim of the bill was to try to restore to owners of “the rail- roads the energies by which they had built up the roads. It has worked every well in the eastern roads, but not so well out here. think it well ride for a while until it works | out more. You can suggest that you want the northwest rail- roads; that you want the lowes: rates that you can have but that you want the service. This year we have the largest volume of business that we have ever done. | Don’t let congress meddle with} the transportation situation. “When I reach New York on |my return in November, I will Save | more workers. | to let it | have traveled about 8,000 miles | 2! on my ap trip, 6,000 miles of this being on the Northern Pacific and its tributary roads. I got to Lewiston in 1898; to Culdesac in 1899; to the top of the plateau in 1906. We have! solved many problems. I believe| that we will get over railroad | troubles. We want to help you, and, in your own interest, you want to help us.” A woman, eighty-eight years old, has made application to the Department of the Interior to be permitted to. homestead a tract of public land in Colorado, ~ WANTS, FOUND AND FOR SALE FOR SALE—Six ied eaves: A.C. Gentry, _ 46-2 FOR SALE—A wood heater. Mrs. Lora Hale. 43-4" FOR SALE—A good strong cart. T. Clark, the junk man. -3* FOR SALE—Ford truck in good shape. Cottonwood Gar age. FOR. SALE—Registered Du- roc-Jersey boars, farrowed in March and April. Ed Nelson, Fenn, Idaho. 45-3 FOR SALE—Four room house, barn, woodshed, cellar and two lots. Inquire ‘of Otto Aichl- mayr Cottonwood, Idaho. 43-2 FOR SALE — Duroc-Jersey March pigs, either sex, extra good. Also one yearling boar. Priced right. C. V. McHone anda Sons, Kooskia, Idaho, 43-7* FOR SALE—Lawson tractor and three bottom P. & O. tractor plow. Can be bought at a bargain if taken at once. John Schnei- der, 43-3 ‘FOR ‘SALE—320 acres 38 ‘miles south of Cottonwood. About 10 acres in cultivation, balance grazing land. Will sell cheap if taken soon. Roy D. Williams, Keuterville, Idaho. 43-3 FOR SALE — Span _ draft horses, weight 2800 pounds; 1 chesnut brown, 1 bald-faced sor- rel. Both chunky, excellent work animals, free from blemishes. A real buy. J. Lee Gentry. 45-2 | FOR SALE—A few choice Poland China boars of service- able age for a limited time only. Parties desiring one should see | or notify me as soon os posible. | Priced for quick sale. Howard al McKinley. 43-2 FOUND—A fur pics in Cot. tonwood. Call at Chronicle, 42-2 FOUND—Crank for automo- | bile, apparently for Mitchell car. Call at @hronicle office. 44-2 LOST—October 21 in Cotton- wood, a heather colored scarf. Liberal reward will be paid for return of same to. the Chronicle office. 44-1 LOST—A sacker for Success fanning mill between Cotton- wood and Fred VonBargen ranch Finder please leave at the Chron icle office or notify Fred Von- Bargen. 45-1 FARM FOR RENT—1 mile southwest of Cottonwod. 240 acres. 100 acre mountain ranch, A. C. Gentry, Cottonwood. 45-2 WANTED — Fat poultry. roe J eecasai Phone Pacific 46F 11 45-tr WANTS — “ Nemperce Prairie Farm has for trade a dandy Wil- lamette Valley, 180-acre farm, 125 cultivated, balance tillable, 6 miles from Corvallis, a college town, 1 miles from electric sta- tion, good school and highway, mortgage $7,000, 6 per cent, nine room plastered house with bath, toilet,barn, silo, other buildings, woven wire fencing, price $26. |U 000. J. W. Wolfe, 801 wine Bldg., Lewiston, Idaho. 44-1* ESTRAYED—Came to the Frank Riener ranch one-half mile south of the Meadow Creek Indian church, one red spotted cow and red bull calf. Cow has leather strap around horns, branded JH connected on left hip; one yearling red steer, no brands visible. These cattle will be advertised and sold at con- stable sale if not claimed at once. Frank Arnzen, constable of Greencreek precinct. 45-1 Congress, gilt edge, playing cards for sale at the Chronicle office. 41-tf =|demie followed. ! ANSNSNananansniana nicer: BELIEVE IT OR NOT From the Dearborn Inde- pendent—Henry Ford’s Weekly Magazine. AVC VE EVEL EUEieVeUELen Widows of Presidents who die in office receive the salary which their husbands would have drawn for the remainder of the | salary year. Last spring a sick boy, near | Vicksburg, Mississippi, prayed | to get well so he could see Babe | Ruth smash out the ball in an) exhibition game in that city. He | was unable to attend, however. A neighbor of the boy told Ruth and the ball player drove seven | miles out into the country aid spent an hour with the sick lad, } whose prayer was answered past anything he had ever hoped. Missouri ranks first in the amount of cotton grown per acre, with an average of 325 pounds. The figure next near- est is an average of 264 pounds in North Carolina, Then comes California with an average of 258 pounds to the acre. More than 8,000 people moved Southeast Missouri last autumn SsSnenieanien fi Flerveanica as it is north of the boll weevil line. During June and July, 1920, there were about 150 cases of typhoid fever in Pittsburg, Cali- fornia. This was due to a lack of a stock of liquid chlorin. The water supply from the Cacva- |mento river was pumped into the mains for at least one day with- out being sterilized, and an epi- Eighteen ty- |phoid victims pooled their inter- ests and sued the city for dam- ages. They were awarded $32,- 821, the largest individual amount being $12,500, A locust cookbook has been is- sued by the Bureau of Agricul- \ture of the Philippine Islands. To prepare the locusts they are poured alive into boiling water and then spread out on shallow trays to dry. Wings, legs, and tip of body are trimmed off and they are then rinsed in water. Small locusts need not have legs removed, as they are tender. One receipt is as follows: Boil locusts for about ten minutes in sufficient vinegar, salt, and crushed garlic, and when the vinegar dries off fry in lard. We print butter wrappers. into |j from the South to raise cotton, | “Some fellows could swallow a spoon, and still be unable to stir” —hbut your ear will “stir up” the dust with a ven- geance, after we have taken a “shot” at it. We are equipped to ren- der a most efficient and economical Auto Repair Service —and we know you will be pleased and satisfied with the results of our work, Doesn’t make any dif- ference what kind of a car you have—if it is in need of repairs—bring it in—we guarantee to put it in tip-top shape. 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