Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, November 23, 1923, Page 1

COTTONWOOD CHRO VOL. 31. NO. 48 COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1923 WISENER HAS TRAGIC DEATH STRICKEN WHILE IN THE| STREETS, DIED AMONG STRANGERS. Lloyd A. Wisener, 40 years old, former editor and publisher of the Idaho County Free Press, and for six years-postmaster in Grangeville, died last Friday morning at 6 in a hospital in Sacramento, Cal. Mr. Wisener was enroute from his home at Yakima, Wn., to Yuma, Ariz., for benefit of his health, when he was stricken, while in the streets of Sacra- mento, on November 6, and was unable to give information con- cerning himself. His identity Re ‘was established by membership | card in the Lewiston Elks lodge, and other papers found:in his pockets. He was taken to a hospital, by direction of the Sacramento Elks, The follow- ing day, he lapsed into unconsci- ousness, and was continuously unconsicious up to. the time of his passing. Death was attri- buted to tuberculosis at the base of the brain. Mr. Wisener, who was one of | the best known men in Idaho county, was born at Tipton, Ia., on May 380, 1888. He was educa- L. A. Wisener, former editor of | the Idaho County Free Press and postmaster of Grangeville. —Courtesy of Free Press. | nom ted in the public schools at Tip- | tin, and when scarcely more than a boy learned the printing | trade in the office of the Tipton Conservative, where he was em- ployed until 1908, when, with his brother, William Wisener, he purchased the Conservative, which the brothers operated un- til 1907, when Mr. Wisener sold his interest in the newspaper to his brother, and came west. In that year, Mr. Wisener pur- chased the Idaho County Free Press from E. McBroom, and ably edited the newspaper until | October 2, 1917, when he dispos- ed of the business to J. C. Safley, the present owner. During his newspaper career, both in Iowa and in Idaho. Mr. Wisener was actively indentified with the Democratic party, and as a reward for his sevices in be- half of the party, he was ap-~ pointed postmaster in Grange- ville by President Woodrow Wil- son. He assumed charge of the postoffice on July 1, 1913 and served a 4-year term. He was reappointed postmaster, and fil- Jed the office until October 25, 1919, when he resigned and with his family,, removed from Grangeville. Several months were spent traveling, and then | Mr. Wisener located at Lewiston, and later at Yakima. For several years, he was traveling repre- |KELSCH DIES IN EAST REMAINS BROUGHT HOME. Passed Away in Kentucky, Fr- day. Funeral Held at Green- Creek, Thursday. Joseph Kelsch, aged 72 years, died at Covington, Kentucky last Friday evening, death hav- ing been caused by a strangulat- ed hernia. Mr. Kelsch was born in Kansas and came to Idaho stead in the Greencreek section, which he still owned at the time of his death. For the past two years he has been making his home with two sons, Joseph and John, in the east. The deceased was well known to the old timers of this section, who held him in the highest esteem. Funeral services were held from the Catholic church at Greencreek, Thursday with the v. Fr. Baerlocher in charge. The remains were laid to rest in the Greencreek cemetery. Tie by friends who took this op- portunity to pay their last re- spect to a departed friend. wife and six sons, Joseph and Anthony, Ben and Louis Kelsch, of Greencreek. The remains were accompani- ed from Kentucky by Jossph H. Kelsch, N. D., D. C. ease. Tahe Wat NR. ee * RESIGNS MANAGERSHIP. Mike Jacobs, manager of the Madison Lumber company of this city for the past six years, Jacob’s duties. LARGE FUNERAL. WHITEBIRD LADY DIES. Monday. mistyess at Crescent, Idaho. | and two brothers. KILLS MAD DOG. count of the loss of sight. sentative for a Yakima produce | WILL SELL OUT. growers’ association, and his work took him to.the principal cities of ithe United States, where he sold produce in car- load lots. Mr. 'Wisener. is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mabel F. Wise- ner, and one son, Robert, both of Yakima, Wn., by his aged par- ents, Mr. end Mrs. Aaron Wise- ner. of Tinton, Ia.; three sisters, advertisement in this {Coriinned on -page 6) jissue. county in 1900 taking up a home- MADENO CHARGE SAYS BORAR BELIEVE FARMERS SHOULD | tion. Gentlemen: Ben Engel, BE GIVEN CONSIDERA- TION AT THIS TIME. RED CROSS DRIVE IS ON SLOGAN IS “NO HOME WITH- OUT A RED CROSS FLAG THANKSGIVING,” services were largely ‘attendec Mr. Kelsch is survived by his | John of Cincinnati, Ohio; Peter The Chronicle, this week is in bf receipt of a letter coming from| FIFTEEN SETS OF TWINS. Senator William E, Borah, facsi- mile to the one sent to President O’Shea of the Federal Bank, of Spokane, Wash., which is self explanatory, and no doubt will be of great interest to farm-| port was issued Monday. Thousands For the first time in many The Seventh annual Red Cross roll call for members is now in progress, and is to be completed by Thanksgiving Day. The three counties of Nez Perce, Lewis and Idaho, are in the territory of tie Lewiston chapter, American Red Cross, and the campaign work has been organized, Bollinger, of Lewiston as general chairman, E. C. Dick being city chairman in Lewiston. The Lewiston chapter has car- ried on public health service, a large amount of relief work, both for civilians and ex-service men resigned his position with the| company last week, the resigna- | tion taking effect Wednesday oi | this week when Roy Hogan, of Grangeville, was sent here by the company to take over Mr. ers in this section. of dollars have been borrowed 1n this section through the Cotton-| approximates the number of wood National Farm Loan As- sociation, the money in every|ference in favor of the boys. instance coming from the Spok- ane ‘agaies of the Federal Land|358. The sex of one was not During the time Mike was} connected with the Madison people in Cottonwood he has made hundreds of friends who are glad to learn that’ he’ will} continue to reside here in the} future. - He has not fully made up his mind as_ to his future pursuits, bait we undgrstand may take up the vocation of farming. | The letter is dated November 12, to D. G.’ O’Sh Federal Land Bank, Spokane,|647 were born in the United Washington and reads as fol- My dear Mr. O’Shea: I have before me the Spokes-| 261. All were white persons an man Review under date of Nov- ember 4th, and find an extended statement from you under the|ho. The greatest mortality, oc- head “Land Bank Head Refutes| curred in babies less than one Borah’s Foreclosure Charges.” T have made no charges what-| Were reported in this class. ever, except such charges as would result from the presenta-| A NERVY MAN. tion to the authorities here of the letters from your department to the farmers throughout the State of Idaho| Winchester. The other even- who have made loans with your mk. These letters, either the originals or copies, I have in my files and I needed no other state- ment to the department here than the letters themselves to iustify my contention. is privileged to see these letters|both cars. It takes a lot of or have copies of them who de- sires them, although I deem it is | Genesee News. not necessary to send them to you as they are direct from your One of these letters reads as follows: “Your payment due on Sep- tember 11th in the amount of blank has not work, both with the life-saving corps of Lewiston, and at severai of the fall fairs; social welfare work and Junior Red Cross work. The slogan for the campaign is: “No Home without a Red Cross Window Flag on Thanksgiving ea, president, The ordinary. membership is one dollar, and there is a contri- buting membership at $5; a sus- taining membership, at $10; and a supporting membership, at $25 The last sad rites over the re- mains of Mrs. Frank Sonnen| were held at Ferdinand, Satur-| day from the Catholic church of | that city with’ the Rev. Fr./ Michaels in charge. The funeral | was largely attended by friends | of the deceased from this im-| mediate vicinity and is said to| have been one of the largest} funeral processions ever witnes- sed in Ferdinand. The remains were laid to rest in the Ferdin-| and cemetery. The funeral ar- rangements were in charge of | Undertaker Nau of Cottonwood. | From each membership, whether one dollar or more, only 50 cents is sent to the national organiza- During the past year, the chap- ter received back from the na- organization $600, which $300 was on account of the fire at Culdesac. $300 was received for expense of public health nursing which is now suspended for lack of funds. Red Cross membership caras have been placed in many of the business houses this week and advertising literature distribut- ed by John Funke. That Cottonwood will share towards the Red Cross goes without saying. This com- munity has always gone over the top and will do so again. Anyone Mrs. Clark McCoy, of White- bird, Idaho, died Saturday. fol- lowing childbirth: Funeral servi- ces were held in Grangeville, Mrs. McCoy was well known at Whitebird and Grangeville where she was Mg and raised. For many years she was post- ag a NOT THE MAN. W. H. Eller was wood, Saturday with a young man he picked up at Whitebird, and who was suspected of being thefone that robbed the Cotton- wood State Bank here on Friday, November 9th. According to re- ports, he made Whitebird that led the sheriff te believe that he might be guilty. Parties, who saw the robber on the two days he was in Cot- tonwood, could not identify the voung lad Sheriff Eller had here Saturday as being the one who committed the deed. given his freedom and we under- stand left in his Ford car for California, a happy man, perhaps a little wiser. “T now wish to notify you that unless payment is re- ceived on or before the close of business October ‘first, * foreclosure will menced without She is survived by her hus- band, Clark McCoy and four children, her parents, six sisters, A mad dog, blind and frothing | at the mouth, was shot and kil- led by Joseph Schaefer near his |place, one and one-half miles from Ferdinand, Monday. The} animal was running blindly and biting at everything in its path-| way when discovered by Mr. Schaefer. No reports have} come of anyone being bitten and it is believed that the animal was } unable to attack people on ac- I took these letters and went to see the Secretary of the Treas- ury and talked the matter over with him fully. the President in regard to the the same matter. K. C. OFFICIAL VISITS. Leo McCarty, state deputy of the Knights ot Columbus, visited the local coun- cil Wednesday evening in his of- ficial capacity. He made a very interesting address to members of the council that evening. Mr. S. L. Johnson will hold a public sale on his ranch nine miles northeast of Cottonwood | on Tuesday, November 27th at which time he will dispose of| his personal property. Mr. John- son expects to leave immediately after the sale for a warmer cli-| McCarty was accompanied mate, possibly California. For further particulars read his sale I went to see Mr. Bauman, a member of the Lewiston council. The gentle- men returned to their home the meeting in ity and who had to dea! with (Continued on page 2) SHOWER BRIDES-TO-BE. Te = sn oiarer eee ts5 NEWS AROUND THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Toennis, Sunday evening at which time friends presented the bride-to-be many useful and beautiful presents. About forty young folks enjoyed the evening in playing games .jand: cards. At cards Miss Bertha Holthaus was awarded first prize for the ladies, and Barney Tacke jr., for the men. The consolation prizes were won by Miss Katie Faune and Wil- liam Arnzen. “The home ‘was beautifully decorated for the oc- casion. ‘Shower Miss Lies. Wednesday evening the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lorentz, in Cottonwood, was the scene of another pretty shower when some forty friends gathered at the Lorentz home and showered Miss Josephine Lies with many beautiful and useful gifts. Mrs. Lorentz is a sister of Miss Lies, who is to be married Tuesday to Anthony Duclos. The evening was spent in play- ing cards the winners being: Ladies: Gertrude Goeckner, first;*Anna Morarity, consola- first; George Kopezynski, con- solation. Of course, at both occasions refreshments were no small part of the evening’s entertainment. Babies born in Idaho during the period October 10 to Novem- Land | ber 10 totaled 724, the monthly report of the Idaho bureau \ of vital statistics shows The re- months the number ot girl babies boys, there being but seven dit- Boys numbered 865 and girls stated. All the babies were white and 722 were legitimate. Parents of States. Fifteen sets of twins were born. Deaths in the month totaled 163 were males and 98 femaies. Ninety-one were natives of Ida- month old. Forty-three deaths About the nerviest man we have read about in a long time is a fellow who is said to reside at ing he was out taking a spin in his flivver and in the process of his exuberation at the extremely nice weathey, or something of that sort, he failed to see a big Cadillac 8 and had the nerve to collide with it, badly damaging nerve to do a trick like that.— We might state for the bene- fit of our readers that the accr dent happened on the Baune hill near Cottonwood, the Ford was sold for junk and brought $50. The cost to repair the Cadillac was about $40. Home motorists acquainted with the Bune hill, where two ac- cidents have already occurred, are taking extraordinary precau- tions on this curve, judging from the tracks of the carson both right and left side of the road. The point is that this man’s| COURT ADJOURNS. default was on September 11th and he was required to meet the matter in less than twenty days| Grangeville, Friday after hear- or be subjected to the destruc- tive expenses of foreclosure. simply give this as an illustra- tion of the kind of letters which these farmers The October term of the Idaho county court came to a close at ing 81 civil and 14 criminal ac- tions. Judge W. F. McNaughton, after adjournment departed for his home ih Coeur d’Alene, but I ings na Bet d| will return for the Rina term ich were presented : me | which December 18. while I was in the State last) | > summer and others which have | $100 REWARD. been sent to me since my return The Fidelity & Deposit com- pany, of Maryland, has offered a reward of $100 for the arrest and conviction of the young man who robbed the Cottonwood State Bank here on November 9. It was in this company that the Within the! Cottonwood bank carried its next few days two members of | burglary insurance. the Board here came to my of- fice and we went over the sub- I presented the matter fully from the farmer’s stand- point to-all who were in author-|yiyer ranch. The ears are ten a in length, well filled ral The Chronicle has three ears of corn on display that were grown by Ben Luchtefeld on his matured. Idaho had a total of $2,665,- 426 in cash deposited in banks of the state at the close of busi- October ‘ice com) y r director of public fhe iy dens Who are the thtee girls in-the University when John Held j known pen and make his selection of Idaho’ three fairest Vandals. » A second mort; 269 in favor of the tle ney, er, in Washington It is subject to a first mo: of $48,856 in favor of the ° land company. Congress will be asked by U. S. Senator Frank R. who left for Washington, D. Saturday, for an appropriation sufficient for surveying and in- vestigating the Snake river from its mouth as far as Shoshone Falls, to determine the fi Ag its navigation to the Col- ur to an treasurer’s of- Bortinnd Cat given by the A most daring piece of work on the part of cracksmen occur- red at the Lewiston postoffice some time between 11:16 o'clock. Thursday night and 6:45 0’ Friday morning, time no clerk or employe was in thé building. Two large vaults were en! through the use of an torch but in neither of these was secured money or items of other value to the government, E-dah-ho, the University of Idaho's purebred Shorthorn jun- ior calf, grand champion all and ages at the © Pacific International Livestock exposition at Portland this fall, is being entered in the Ameri- can Royal Livestock show at Kansas City and the Internation- al Livestock exposition at Ohica- . E-dah-ho was conceded by judges and livestock authorities to be an easy winner at Portland despite the steer show being one . of the largest in years. . To be mistaken for the De- Autremont twins, Roy and Ray, the robbers who held up the Southern Pacific train No, 18 at Siskiyou, October 11, 1928, was the unique and decidedly un- pleasant experience of two Mos- cow boys, Vivian and Allon Call, ed ed ge ae Call. Ba apprehension for the purposes identification would have been considered a good joke on them- selves had it not been for the seriousness of the charges fac- ing the notorious DeAutremon Peter Feder pleaded quilty before United States Commis- sioner E. O’Neill to a charge of manufacturing liquor on: the school grounds at Lewiston Or- chards and was held to the fed- ral court at Moscow under 600 bond. Feder is janitor at the school and occupies a resi- dence on the grounds. federal officers today raided his place they found a still and quantities of moonshine and School boys had given the officers information and re- port had been made that Fed sold liquor to boys. Harry L. Powers, Lewiston real estate broker, was awerded a judgment of $7875 a: Security Savings and pany of Lewiston in an opinion of the state supreme court. Powers brought the suit to col- lect this amount of money, which he alleged was due him as com- mission for the sale of certain lands known as Le He claimed that the with which he had a written agreement giving him exclusive right to sell the violated the agreement when it went over his head sold the land, di commission. trust company,