Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, November 9, 1923, Page 1

a pes aN . COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE ~ VOL. 31. ‘NO. 46 COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1923 $2.00 PER YEAR NEWS AROUND THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF HIGHWAY ELEC: TIONS SURPRISES KEUTERVILLE, GREEN- CREEK AND COTTONWOOD Cottonwood State Bank Robbed in Broad Day Light---Gags Vice President Belkna ° ————— ° ROBBER ENTERS BANK AT 12:30 (TODAY) HANDS BANK- | fees vary from $80 for a ton or AHLERS-GEHRING. A pretty wedding took place é ER A NOTE AND DEMANDS MONEY. GETS AWAY less capacity truck to $140. for CAST HEAVY VOTE at the Holy Cross Catholic WITH $450. TIES BELKNAP AND GAGS HIM. one whose capacity does not ex- THE STATE church in Keuterville, Tuesday ceed five tons. morning when the Rev: Fr. Mar- m1 tin united in marriage Miss Lena| Man That Did the Robbing Has Been in Cottonwood for Two Days. Garigg fe Bhar ha dint ga Made His Escape in a Ford Car. Sheriff Force on Scene. Teunseigtely ate PLE pode Town All Excited. Posse on His: Trail. ding services the party went to the Gehring home where a wed- ding breakfast was served. Mr. Ahlers.is a son of Mrs. Trucks of more than two tons capacity may not operate on steel or increased rate if the trailer has two or more solid rubber tires. The limitation on trucks equipped with steel or other hard tires applies to trail- ers, Apparently little interest was taken in the election of highway commissioners in the Cotton- wood highway district until the morning of the election, Tues- day, and by evening 193 ballots had been cast. The old highway board mem- bers were re-elected for a term| Catherine Ahlers of the Green- of four years. The votes cast) creek section and is an industri- for the various candidates were} ous young man and well thought as follows: _ | of in his home community. John J. Schneider - ...182 Mrs, Ahlers is a popular young J. F. Jenny . 151 lady of Keuterville where she Ed Jessup : -.108| grew to womanhood. Her father Alois Wemhoff ..-101| and mother are deceased and she Frank Schwartz 1| has been making her home with MyA. Pierce ....3..., - lja brother. Big Vote at Keuterville. The popular young couple As predicted, the Keuterville| will make their home on the district held a very lively elec-| groom’s ranch in the Green- tion, 52 votes having been cast.| creek country where he has a Judging from the returns of the| home nicely furnished for his election the voters themselves] bride. y cast their ballots in a rather Wednesday evening the groom peculiar manner and evidentally| gave a free wedding dance in . each man had his own choice for| Cottonwood that was attended highway commissioner. The| by an exceptionally large crowd, electors did not stay with any|in fact so large that at times one candidate and as a result| dancing was almost impossible. six candidates received a good| The Chronicle wishes to be vote. ;numbered among the newly The membership of the Keu-| wedded people’s many friends terville board will be made up of! who are extending congratula- an entirely new personal, tions. The Keuterville vote resulted | ———$—— as follows: | TWO AUTOS COLLIDE. Jos. Klapprich ...... 24) The Cadilac car, owned by J. Domnie Romain . - 22|F. Jenny, and driven by George Andrew Sprvte - . 21| Seubert, and a Ford car, driven Charles Mader -19\by a man from Winchester John Jungert - -. 17| whose name we were unable to Joseph Hoene .- 16] learn, collided on the Baune hill, Henry Hattiup -.. -. 13) Tuesday afternoon. This is the Casper Sprute - 10\ second accident to occur on this Ben Gehring ..... 4 hill within the last two months, Joseph Enneking -. 4| Louis Reidhaar and a traveling , Henry Boeckman .. 2|man having an accident on the 4 = Heriry Forsman .. 1}same curve. The rear end of Dick Reiman -- 1|the Ford was badly wrecked but Greencreek Re-Elect Old Board.| the Cadilac came out with only The voter of the Greencreek | a bent fender and a broken head- highway district re-elected mem-| light. Mr. Seubert was coming & bers of the old board. In this} up the hill and the Winchester district a large vote was also re-| car was going down. corded, 72 votes having been cast Fortunately no one was injur- Three deaths have resulted from the diphtheria epidemic which invaded Mackay, Idaho, | according to Dr. F. W. Almond, state medical director, who re- turned from the Custer county town Friday. There were 17 cases, the doctor said. Idaho has 2947 miles of rail- road, or a mile to every 148 in- habitants, according to fi prepared by the Chicago & Northwestern railroad on mile- age in the various states. This is one mile of railroad to every 27 square miles of the state’s area, _ Mrs. Nelson Story, wife of the heutenant tag of Montana, was killed Friday afternoon and Lieutenant Governor Nelson Story seriously injured as the result of the overturning of their automobile on the state highway near McCammon, Ida., Friday afternoon . The Breier building, Lewis- ton’s first five-story business block, equipped with elevator, bg the nego Deny, evening of a social gathering, arranged by the commercial club, in ap- preciation of the public enter- prise of C. J. Breier in providing such a structure, The Lewiston telephone ex- change now serves 3,058 sub- seribers. This is the largest number in the history of the city. The announcement has just been made by Manager A. R. Johnson of The Pacific Tele- phone and Telegraph company following the check which shows a net increase during the month of October of 25. At 12:30 p.m. (today) a young man about 22 years of age, un- masked walked into the Cottonwood State Bank handed Vice- President M. M. Belknap a note through the cashier’s window bear- ing these words: ‘You are looking into a gun.” The robber had his hand heavily bandaged and it is in this bandage that it is supposed he had a gun hidden. Mr. Belknap answered the note by asking: “What do you want?” “All your $1000 bills.” “We have no $1000 bills,” was his reply. “What have you?” “$20 bills is all we have.” “Fork them over.” Mr. Belknap then began giving out the money amounting to approximately $450, in denominations as follows: Four $20.00 bills; eleven $10.00 bills; forty-six $5.00 bills and about $20 in silver. After receiving the money he forced Mr. Belknap into the bank’s telephone booth where he tied his hands behind his back, his feet and placed a flour sack into his mouth. He immediately left the bank and as he was leaving the institution he met Cashier Mat- thiesen, who was returning from lunch, at the door. Not knowing that the bank had been robbed Mr. Matthiesen paid no particular attention tohim. He is supposed to have gotten away in a Ford car which he had parked near the R. A.Nim»residence. Mr. Belknap soon extracted himself and called for help. In less than ten minutes a large crowd gathered in front of the bank and excitement ran very high. The Sheriff's office at Grangeville was at once notified, posse were soon formed and they are at this writing scouring the country for the robber. He was seen by several parties, east of Cotton- wood, and was evidently heading for Rocky canyon. Had it not been for Mr. Belknap’s coolness the bank might have been robbed of several thousand dollars instead of $450. The rob- ber also demanded of Mr. Belknap that he give him what money there was in the vault but after being informed that the cashier had gone to lunch and the vault locked he was apparently satisfied. Judging from all of the work of the young thief this was his first experience in bank robbing. AUTO LAW IN IDAHO WINS FROM GONZAGA) EFFECT JAN. 1 IDAHO HAS BEST TEAM IN YEARS, GONZAGA FIGHTS | GINS DECEMBER 1. RATES TO THE LAST. ARE CHANGED WILL BE SHOWN HERE BY AMERICAN LEGION. Picture is Said to Be a Screen Classic That Will Live Through the Ages. Arrangements have just been completed by Cottonwood Post of the American Legion for bringing to Cottonwood the American Legion’s film classic, “The Man Without a Country.” This unusual film feature will be shown at the Orpheum theater Saturday afternoon and evening, November 17th. “The Man Without a Country” is said to be one of the most re- markable photoplays ever pro- duced. When the picture had its world premier at Washington, D. C., the top admission price was $10. The picture has had along runin New York City, where the most critical review- ers described it as “a picture that will stir the blood of every American.” The picture is based upon Dr. Edward Everett Hale’s master- piece, Arnold Daly plays the leading role of Philip Nolan, the “Man Without a Country,” who was banished after he had dam- ned his country while on_ trial for complicity with Aaron Burr’s treason plot. Patriotism and love are the keynotes of the produc- tion which are worked out to a surprising conclusion. Bert Schroeder, commander of the Cottonwood Post an- nounces that proceeds derived from the showing of the picture will be used by the Legion in carrying on its program of act- ivities. M. E. CHURCH SERVICES, Sunday, November 11th. Bible school at 10 a. m.; sermon at 11 a. m., by Mrs. Thompson, sub- ject, “Remember.” Armistice . Day address; special music. At 12 noon the bell will ring The University of Idaho foot- as follows: George Killmar -.. Joseph Riener -. B. A. Baerlocher F. G. Nuxoll -.. 21 T. P. Mitchell .. 16 Joe Eller .......... 16 Barney Stubbers - 5 Tony Wass SOME POTATOE. T. P. Mitchell brought to the Chronicle office last week a po- tatoe weighing just 5 pounds. The potatoe is of the Blue Victor variety. Mr. Mitchell stated that he had 40 potatoes of the same variety that just filled a sack brim full. : The monster potatoe is now on display at the Chronicle of-| fice and has been admired by many tuber growers in this vicinity. ? Just how we are going to manage to do away with the po- tatoe is a serious question. To attempt to eat it at one meal would be ridiculous and we pre- fer variety and would not care to eat warmed over potatoe for a week. The only solution we can suggest is to invite enough of our fricnds to assist in doing away with it in one meal. SELLS LAND. William Carnes, recently sold his ranch three and one-haif }ed in either car. The Ford con- | tained a hunting party return- ing from the mountains and Mr. {Seubert had with him the John Duclos family. | NEW SECTION FOREMAN. J. H. Pitts, of Reubens, Idaho jhas been given the position of | section foreman to take the place of Ed Hennessey, who resigned last week to accept a_ similar position at Riparia, Wash. Mr. | Pitts will move his family here to reside when his apointment is }made permanent which pected at any time. Mr. Pitts for five years has | been track walker from Reu- bens to the bottom of the Culde- sac hill. Each day just before the passenger train made its |way down the hill it was Mr. | Pitt’s duty to walk over the \track and thru the tunnels to isee that nothing was on the | track that would derail the train or otherwise injure the passen- gers or the equipment. | SHOOTING CONTEST. On Saturday, November 24th, la shooting contest will take | place at the C. H. Chicane ranch |and the prizes to be offered will be fifty birds consisting of tur- keys, ducks and geese. This contest is already beginning to ibe the talk of the country and | someone is going to have a cheap is ex- ball team defeated the famous Gonzaga team at Moscow last Friday afternoon before a crowd of 7000 people by a score of 13 to 0. The game was fiercely fought from start to finish and while Idaho had the edge of the game after the first ten minutes of playing, at no time in the con- test did the fighting Irishmen from Gonzaga give up. From ¢a_ specttator’s stand- point, and especially to one that for the first time witnessed a college game it was indeed a rare treat and to him no doubt the immense crowd and the yelling of the university students under their yell leaders will be remem- bered for some time. One thousand students from the uni- versity of Idaho yelled them- selves hoarse and their enthusi- asm put “pep” into the whole crowd. Cottonwood was well repre- sented at the game. Most of the Cottonwood fans also took in the game at Pullman the following day between Oregon and_ the Washington State college. Wash- ington won this game by a score of 18 to 7. Among the Cottonwood fans who took in the game at Mos- cow were: Dr. J. E. Smith, Dr. J. D. Shinnick, Rosemary, Joan, and Tom Shinnick, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Simon, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Issuance of 1924 automobile and truck registration plates will begin promptly on Decem- ber 1, it was announced Satur- day by F. A. Jeter, secretary of state. The plates have already been shipped and will be ready for distribution at that time, he said, There will be no “deadline” before which motor vehicles must be registered, Mr. Jeier said in a statement to the Idaho Statesman. “We have no discre- tion,” he said. “The law says all motor vehicles must be regis- tered before January 1.” Passenger cars, trucks and trailers will be registered on a new basis next year, and the fees are different, in accord- ance with the provisions of a new law, passed by the 1923 legislature. The 1924 plates have black letters and figures on a lemon colored background. The first 50,000 will be for passen- iger vehicles, and the state has an option on an _ additional 10,000 plates forthis class. Truck registration plates begin with 60,001 and continue consecu- tively to 65,000. Truck plates will be designated with a “T” in weighing more than 400 pounds must be registered and these plates will be marked with a Following is a list of fees for addition to the number. Trailers | The price of admission will be 35 and 50 cents. James J. Reidhaar, L. Campbell. port. Rock school, cessful young farmers section, congratulations. ROBBED IN SPOKANE. While visiting Sunday, with friends, Beatrice Calhoun, al belongings. the home of Mrs. MARRIED IN GRANGEVILLE. a well known and prominent young farmer of Greencreek, was mar- ried last Thursday evening in Grangeville to Miss Berniece EMERALD BERRY Helmark by Probate Judge W.| LODGE ENTERTAINS. by The wedding came as a great surprise to the friends of the | groom and for a time his closest | «599” ‘ friends would not believe the re- 500" card party: 2. the come The bride came here in Sep- tember from her home at St.) Maries, Idaho, to teach the Red Mr. Reidhaar is engaged with | his brother, Louis, in extensive | farming operations, and he is} considered one of the most suc- in this} The Chronicle joins| with their friends in extending| plonEER LADY DIES. in Spokan --’| grandmother, Mrs. Jane Pett sends, or at of Fresno, Calif, Mrs, Petty vil e, jthe Pacific Telephone company | . ‘ ; in Cottonwood, was robbed of her | 0d pioneers, having left this sec- hand bag containing her person- Miss Calhoun was visiting at Olie Rhett and for two minutes all are ask- ed to unite in silent prayer. At 7:30 p. m. a lecture “The Tenth American Negro” will be given with the stereoptican. Special songs by the children and America, the beautiful, will be illustrated. Rev. Thompson, Pastor. The Knights of Columbus en- tertained members of their council and their families at a chambers Wednesday evening. Seventy-six ladies and gentle men took part in playing cards. The winners of the evening were Ladies: Mrs .Mary Ross, first; Mrs. Ed, Terhaar, consolation. Gentlemen: Ben Albers, first; Theodore Primus, consolation. | At the conclusion of the even- ing’s entertainment light re- freshments were served. Mrs. A. J. Barth received a let- ter this week from Ed. Wrought announcing the death of his | be remembered by many of the tion about 18 years ago. Mr. Petty at one time was county commissioner of Idaho county. SALE A SUCCESS. when her hand bag was taken i Ni from an automobile parked In| The registered Poland China front of the apartment house| hog sale conducted by John Mrs. Rhett lives in. The robbery | Funke, Wednesday on his ranch, was at once reported to the! was a success. Considering Spokane police department but| times the animals brought very, to date she has heard nothing of | good prices. 4500 to 5000 pounds -45.00 | it. WILL GIVE CARD PARTY. 5000 to 6000 pounds ..55.00 ; All over 6000 pound: ..60.00 On Tuesday evening, Novem- ber 20th, the Pythian Sisters iles southeast of Cottonwood! Thanksgiving dinner. Other|McKinney, Henry Schurman, a L M. Asker, his father-in-law. | contests will also be staged. The | Raymond Nims, Lenore Nims, The price paid for the land was | birds are in the best of condition | Bernice Simon, Beatrice Calhoun not made public. |for the Thanksgiving dinner. |Thomas Kurdy, Glen Rink, Les- Mr. Carnes will hold a public | Everybody is invited. ter Fitzsimmons, Mr. and Mrs. auction sale on his place on} ———_—__—. Bart Simon, Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Wednesday, November 14th at) LADIES ENTERTAIN. : Reilly, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Med- which time he will dispose of his} | The ladies of the Royal Neigh- | ved, Frank Albers, R. H. Kendall. personal property. For particu-| bors gave a eard party in the I. lars see his ad in this week’s|O. O. F. hall Monday evening. various weights of passenger earrying vehicles: 2000 pounds or less ......$15.00 2000 to 3000 pounds .... 20.00 8000 to 4000 pounds ......30.00 4000 to 4500 pounds ........40.00 PAY FOR OWN GRAVEL. A number of the local business CRUSHER SHUT DOWN. Truck license fees are based i |The game of the evening was} The rock crusher, which has|on the manufacturer’s rated} houses had crushed rock placed | will give a card party to which ater the sale Mr. Carnes BS Fs oh nee 500. The players|been in operation for the past|capacity of the car and vary|in front of their business estab-| the public is invited. Come Pr pects to locate in Lewiston. |enjoyed themselves until late in|ten days crushing rock for the|from $22.50 for a truck of one|lishments which was paid for by| spend a social evening. | the evening. Light refreshments |city, under the supervision of| ton or less to $110 for a truck|them. Among them were: Cot- NOTICE READERS. were served. Felix Martzen, was shut down| whose capacity does not exceed tonwood State Bank, First Na-| NOTICE. ae A The Chronicle will reach some| The prize winners of the even-|Thursday evening. The city|five tons. These fees are for | tional Bank, R. H. Kendall, Until Sees notice e F “ae of its readers a few hours late|ing were: Ladies: Mrs. William |had all of the bad spots on the | vehicles equipped with pneumat-|Simon Brothers. The Catholic) ers’ Union will receive ic tires. church also had a strip of about For trucks equipped with two|8 foot wide macadamized the local stock yards every Mon- this week, the bank robbery and | Ruhoff, first; gentlemen: Wil-| streets mended with fine rock : [os M. Fellers. Manager. 46-1 brakedown on the press are the | liam Ruhoff, first. Consolation: | and a quantity was also crushed ” ptneceny Mrs. Sadie Hensley. one piled up for future needs. Sf om ties