Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, December 14, 1923, Page 1

COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE see Pe i Nt ca a VOL. 31. NO. 51 COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1923. : GERMAN CITIZEN GETS | IN ONE DAY A WEEK. Letter Received by Mr. Nuxoll Contained 80 Million Marks in German Stamps, AUTOS MUST BE REGISTERED NEW RULING BY SECRETA- RY OF STATE ISSUED TO F. G. Nuxoll of Greencreek, | Monday of this week received {a letter from Franz Nuxoll, a relative of his, residing at Dink- } RELLO BILL, YOU HAVING TROUBLE ? (Aton tte Concrete TL] $2.00 PER YEAR NEWS AROUND THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF WRAP YOUR CHRISTMAS PACKAGES SECURELY, Many Gifts Go Estray In Mail Due To Careless Wrapping And Addressing. At this season our minds naturally turn to the sending of Christmas gifts to absent . sea friends. We all send Christmas COUNTY ASSESSORS, lage, In Oldenburg, Germany. | packages but according to Uncle} THE STATS Eight stamps, each representing | Sam’s report it seems that very : : 10 million marks or worth ap-| few take the time or make the All motor vehicles in the| proximately $20,000,000 before| H| | effort to wrap them securely.’ ,, Walser| S. Greathouse of state must be registered by Jan-/the war, were necessary to! I}| Old bits of string and torn Boise, whose appointment as uary 1, according toa bulletin} transport the letter to the! issued last week by F. A. Jeter, secretary of state and commis- sioner of the department of law enforcement. In former years it has been a custom to seta dead-line in February or March for the licensing of cars. “But” says Mr. Jeter’s bulletin, “I find United States. The present value of these enormous number | of marks are about 5 cents, Be-| fore the war a mark was worth} | 24 cents in American money. | In the letter, Mr. Nuxoll told | of conditions in his country, | which, he said, are getting worse | nothing in the law to authorize) every day. For some time he an extension of time beyond) has only been able to get in one January 1st. Section 1601 of; day a week working, and from Idaho Compiled Statutes re-| this he has to support his family quires that registration shall be! of seven children. He also re renewed annually, ‘‘to take ef-| marked that the Germans were fect: on the first day of January) very grateful to the frechearted- of each year.” ness of the Americans, which One of the reasons given out) has kept many a family from for a strict observance of the} actual starvation law is the fact that county asses-| try. sors are required to make an as- Mr. Nuxoll stated that _ the sessment as personal property of | letter contained many pitiful all motor vehicles which are not| stories and to him it seemed al- registered, and the placing of| most impossible to believe that dead line at January 1 will give| a country could come to such a assessors an opportunity to com-| State in so comparatively short ply with this provision of the| time. in that coun- | | | c HIGHWAY 1S NOW WANTED HOLD CONFERENCE ON COT- TONWOOD-GRANGE- VILLE LINK, “Plans whereby the Grange- scraps of wrapping paper are too often brought into use. The Rhodes scholar from Idaho was announced Sunday, is the thir- paper is not of sufficient teenth University of Idaho stu- strength or quality,—the string dent to receive this honor. breaks when the parcel is drop-| James M. Shaw, formerly en- ped into the mail bag and ‘we! gaged in the newspaper busi- wonder why our friend never! ness, was appointed postmaster acknowledged its receipt. All| of Kooskia by President Coolidge parcels should be securely wrap-| the appointment having gone to ped with new string and new the senate for approval on Dec- balay ge es ah ‘ acod airong| ember 10th, grade of each—and a sufficient quantity to make sure that the teal’ teait eta parcel will survive the rough) for the return to Idaho of Wil- handling of the mail. A frag-| jay4 Case, first man to be con- ile article should be packed, so! victed under Tdaho'’s “lazy hus- that it will not jostle about, in a| band” law, inated % the 1928 mood wooden box that can not) legislature. When heard be broken in transit. from Case was in Mississippl, Gifts that never reached their) f.9m where he wrote a latent destination on account of impro-| ¢,)..4 reasti per and insecure wrapping ac- peas. Brel tically to the Idaho cumulate in the various post of- aE fices and are finally sold at auc-| , School was dismissed Tuesday Last Christmas one post| ®t Craigmont when the water PATENT ON FLU TOP. Lewis Bowman, of Fenn, was issued a patent on July 31, 1928 by the United States government for a self adjustable rotary flu ton. The contrivance as patent~ ed looks very practical and ac- cording to its inventor does away with all of the flu trouble usu- aly caused on old time flues. The flu top is made of tin in a sort of half circle and is so attached that it shifts with the wind so that at no time wind can blow direct into the chimney. _ It also} tion. ; office alone, sold these parcels | Pipes were found to be frozen, i ; i F ; for over $30,000 which was only, hindering the operation of the law. Mr. Jeter contends that}, Mr. Nuxoll has forwarded to | R onttageide gia ne of the | gives the chimney a much better| a small pagar of their real! heating plant in the new school “inasmuch as practically all) his relative in Germany a sum | Nort ser Fete LIST a). Sey. | dratt; value. Ten minutes additional building. Men worked all day motor vehicles will be registered| Of money that will at least buy | be constructed the coming year, sooner or later, there is no rea—| Several wagon loads of German were inaugurated by the Grange- The invention of the flu top| time spent in wrapping a pack-|thawing out the pipes. The ies ss ne” | came about in a peculiar manner, | age will insure its safe delivery.| suddenness of the recent cold son why owners of cars should} Marks. pare tig ere eer eva Mr. Bowman had been constin-| providing, of course, that the| Snap caught the janitor unpre- not register them early.” | Re gespeonges Nota Thtnadas’ Ths ian dis. | Ually troubled with his chimney|name and address is plainly | pared ye sufficient precaution _ The bulletin especially cau-| “Whe panty commisioners. in | cussed and finally decided upon re “ farm home and vy ee sa 4 aipiinees Rie adage printed, psa neering WAS not Camem tions assessors to get the factory) The county commisioners in| V 4° for the club to send invita. |2@ began experimenting, So| in large letters in the proper| Yields per acre of all combin- and motor numbers from the car| Session at Grangeville, Saturday | successfully did the contrivance to be licensed and not from form-| 7@-approved the bonds of the er applications. In explaining| Various banks in Idaho county in the harm of taking motor num-| Which county money is deposit- bers from former applications,|¢d- . The amount of the bonds Mr. Jeter’s bulletin says: “We| carried by the different banks | found in this office fourteen| in the county and approved are: Chevrolet car's which were regis-| _ First National, Grangeville, tered under the same motor} $40,000 ‘ a number. Upon inquiry as te the} Bank of Camas Prairie 35,000. system of motor numbers used! First’ National, Cottonwood, by the Chevrolet manufacturers, | $12,500. I learned that every one of bed fourteen owners in question ha 2 1 given the pattern number and| Bank of Ferdinand _ 5,000. not the motor number of his car,| ,_Citizen’s State Bank, Kooskia, and in some cases these had| $5,000. been copied from former appli | cations. The motor numbers of some makes of cars run in series and appear thus: K-78962 or| 4-8762. Every owner of a car, therefore, should know where to} find the numbers of his car, and be directed to see that they are Ferdinand State Bank 5,000. MISS HILDA FUNKE WEDS. Miss Hilda Funke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Funke, of this city, was married Novem~ ber 30th in Portland, Oregon, to Fred Mohr. The news of the wedding came as a great surprise Cottonwood State Bank, 5,000. | tions to all the residents, and to the highway boards served by the road, to meet in Grangeville soon after the holidays for a dis- |cussion of the situation. It is hoped to at this meeting to {arouse such an interest in the matter that there will be an in- sistent demand for the comple. tion at the earliest possible moment. The Cottonwood - Grangeville link is one of the few unfinished {sections of the highway at the ;present time. Passing through |rich grain country and serving the entire east and south part of Idaho county, the highway is of | vital importance to the entire re- gion. Local people feel there is no valid reason why the road | should not be finished next year. Grangeville, Fenn, Whitebira, and the entire country back of ‘manufacture them on the royal-| place on thé package. Attention given-to the careful! wrapping and addressing of par- eels will enable Santa Claus to avoid disappointing those to whom you would have him bring | Christmas cheer. ed Idaho crops in 1928 are 108.6 per cent above the average of re- cent years, according to an in. formation bulletin recently is- sued by the United States de- partment of agriculture. Copies of the bulletin have been receiv- ed by M. L. Dean, Idaho director of plant industry. The average of the entire country by states is | 96.1 per cent. Seven petitions, with names of 788 residents of Burke, re- questing resumption of passen- ger train service before Decem- ber 15 between Wallace and work that he decided to have it! patented. Mr. Boman will place one of the flu tops on a chimney of the Catholic church, which has been giving more or less trouble. He has received numerous let- | ters from concerns in the east} wishing to buy his patent or NEWS HARD TO GET. Editors in small towns face a hard problem each week of fill- ing their paper with newsy news items and some weeks it is al- mose impossible to do so: Some! folks are very good about telling! the editor any news item they | might know while others are a/| Burke, were filed with the public little backward. utilities commission by W. H. This week the Chronicle ran Hoover of the Hercules Mining up against a real one. About company. Service on this branch ten days ago Felix Martzen, one was discontinued last summer at of Cottonwood’s most distin- the request of the railroads be- guished citizens, while dehorn-' cause of decreased business ing cattle accidently cut a cord caused by the Burke fire in July. ty basis. BUY TUBERCULOSIS SEALS. | Werty Christmas 192 4 ve , ae Acsoiee Grangeville is shut off from the Fight Tuberculosis. in his left hand, thus making it $ ‘ right before an application is) Mg ae gra she gc lower country for four to five . Arabian _ | necessary to have the hand band.| Mike Dorney. negro ~ be he made for 1924. : lglg dbeition” with dh ale months each year because this| The penny Christmas Seal is|aged and rendering it useless! Was shot a the shoulder "4 ‘ers Fagg — Si the rib Bil eeman Powland. He recipe \link has not been constructed. |the only sole support of anti-| for the time being. This inci-| Mesday after he had sawed ou schedule for automobiles is tha and. 2 an ex-service man. Miss Funke, the fees for cars in the 4,000) prior to moving to Portland was 5,000 and 6,000 pound classes are raised from $40 to $45, $55 and $60. iston and in that city, home town, she was exceedingly | employed for some time in Lew- | like her) When the Fenn highway dis. trict voted down the highway bonds last year, the hope of building the road the past sum- mer was abandoned. Local peo- tuberculosos work in the state of | Idaho. They are sold once a} year, in December. The little} seals are now on sale at all the stores. Rev. Thompson is in dent, in our opinion, was a good |°f his cell in the cell house, news item for us but did we get | gained the liberty of the prison it?—No. Why not? Here is the Yard and failed to obey the com- reason. {mand of Prison Guard Larter, Mr. Martzen was at the Com-| Who fired the shot which stop- i i : if all interes ti arg e drive i - i yould-be fugitive’s es- License fees for trucks vary <2 is exceecing'y | ple feel, if all interested parties|charge of the drive in Cotton-| mercial Club luncheon, Tuesday Ped the wou according to the kind of tire| gn ig 1 Bike Bh rng ne can be brought together, and a|wood. Buy at least a few andj and it was there that we for the Cape over the wall at the state with which ney te ze they are equipped. | A higher rate schedule holds} where trucks are equipped with | two or more solid tires than that) py yoyABLE EVENING. which exists for trucks equipped Mic’ Ratt Simon Was hostess with pneumatic tires. |Tuesday evening at a “500” extended to the newlyweds from their friends in this community. thorough discussion of all pro. blems in the case be held, the | bonds can easily be voted. | WARNING. | It being my duty to the people assist the cause. penitentiary. The bullet broke first time noticed that his hand the Bone of the 16th. den uae had been injured. He told us how it had happened and_ said the shoulder and had not been “Don’t put it in the paper fer it} extracted at a late hour Tuesday is almost healed and the doctor|@fternoon. The wound is not today took out the stitches.” To | Severe. TURKEY SHOOT. A turkey and geese shooting contest will take place at Fenn on Thursday afternoon, Decem-| Des epted by assessors! .... an ode s |of this county and in accordance|ber 20th. ‘The affair will be this we replied, “Ihave not notic-| police Chief ‘Tom Baker of from nonresidents of their coun-| pd Se eetare wa. in| with my oath of | office, all|staged by Lewis Bowman and|ed it before, and since the in-| Nampa officated, so to speak, at ties are to be sent immediately | rie y ety parties found intoxicated ina honor of Mrs. Homer L. Brutz- upon recient to the assessor of | man, her house guest, who res the county in which the appli-| {public place shall be dealt with }in accordance with section 2622 William Crea. The boys are| planning on making the event one to be long remembered and} jury you have been in our sanc-!, family affair late Saturday tum at least a half dozen times.” | night, when he placed his son-in- He laughed and said ‘Every jaw, John McCarthy, under ar- i i turned to her home in Lewiston | of the compiled Statutes of the fr ibaa are to havc teen ot this morning. Mrs. Lloyd Turner | State of Idaho, all persons vio- low background with black let_| wen first prize, and Mrs. May | lating this section shall be deem- sabe Mikseiobile ulated | Brockway received. the consola-| eq quilty of a misdemeanor pun- are! 4: ; ‘s Br : | ; ae “« » -q|tion favor. Mrs. Brutzman was | jshable by a fine or jail sentence to be morked “Ida. X-24” and) presented a guest prize. A two! oy both, y J are to be numbered from 1 to) " he vas served 60,000. ‘Truck plates are to be| course luncheon ‘was served « bee a marked “T-24” and are to be) jIWFANT BABY DIES. Feed or oon te eoceei| ‘The infant son of Mr, and) FARTHING HEADS K, P. py OA and will n ar fawm | Mrs. Frank Riener born on Dec-| ‘The Knights of Pythias held Ro ene Oe ate |ember 2nd passed away in the) their semi-annual election Tues- oe | home of the parents last Friday.|day evening. The following THREE CARS OF HOGS. | The infant was not strong from | officers were elected : | the hour of its birth but loving Steve Farthing, chancellor. Three carloads of hogs were} hands did everything to prolong shipped from Cottonwood, Tues-| the life of the baby. if you are a rifle fan take your gun along and make the other fellow pay for your Christmas} or New Year meat. Everybody | welcome. time I went in I put my injured rest, and later turned him over hand in my pocket or behind my to the sheriff. McCarthy, the my back.” _ chief said, was serving another So there is the reason why we’ man with liquor in a store. As did not chronicle the incident yy Raker entered, McCarthy, which we call real news, in the | according to the chief’s account, | Chronicle. .,.| poured the contents of the bot- Moral: Folks telephone, write) tje on the floor. Enough moon- or any other way inform your’ chine was retrieved with the aid editor of news items. _ We will) of a cloth to prove the nature of greatly appreciate it as this is/ ihe beverage, Mr. Baker declar- what makes a good country newspaper. Your friends and | neighbors want to know what you are doing. TREES IN BLOOM. Sheriff of |SIX MONTHS AND $100. vr Henry Neibhur and Otto Aich- Imayr, who were found guilty of violating the national liquor laws in the Federal court at Moscow last Wednesday, were sentenced to serve six months in jail and to pay a fine of $100 each by} Federal Judge Frank S. Deitrich. Neibhur will serve his sentence | The Northern Pacific Rail- way company Saturday filed an Edgar Wortman, vice-chancel- application with the Idaho public Funeral Jor. : > me) utilities commission for permis- day morning. The Farmers’) services were held Monday| Joseph South, prelate. in the Bonner county jail at| "Wallace Jarret, who lives on| sion to discontinue two trains Union received one carload,) morning from the Catholic} Hayard Shields, master of|S@mdpoint and Aichlmayr at) salmon river near Rice Creek | operating daily between Paradise which they sold to John Baer for| church at Greencreek with the | works. Grangeville. |eame out from his ranch Mon- Montana and Kootenai, Idaho. $6.65 a hundred weight. This! Rey. Fr. Baerlocher in charge. Okie Kincaid, master of arms. RURAL AA day after a load of provisions. Protests against favo ac- was an increase of 25 cents a| hcp pa tel H. C. Matthiesen, master of |BURIED AT COTTONWOOD. | He brought out with him a small tion by the commission on the hundred over the pricea week) Barney Seubert was able to be | finance. The infant daughter of Mr.| twig from an apple tree that had | company’s application have been ago. ‘at his desk in the Hoene Hard-| M. M. Belknap, master of ex-/and Mrs. Art S. Davies who died} blossoms on it, also a small twig/| filed by the Improvement club Another carload was shipped) ware, yesterday, for the first | chequer. last Wednesday night was! from a thorn bush with blossoms| of Clarks Fork ,a station on the by Karl Killmar, John Martzen,| time since his operation for ap-| Howard McKinley, keeper of and Fred Pfannebecker to Spo-| pendicitis. He returned to his| records and seal. kane. Mr. Killmar accompanied | home, early, however. | J. V. Baker, inner guard. who suffered quite a nervous | the shipment. —— Ed Jessup, outer guard. shock is gradually regaining her Raymond Crea and a number Mother deserves a Xmas pre- —_ former health and is able to be of other farmers in his section} sent. Give her a Monarch range. | Free guess on turkey. R. H.| up and about at short intervals. sold a carload to John Baer, Cottonwood Hardware. «51-2 | Kendall Confectionery, 50-3 !|—Ferdinand Enterprise. buried in the Cottonwood ceme- ne-| thereon. It is hard to believe) railroad, and patrons of the line tery last Thursday. Mrs. Davies such things no doubt but if see-| at Hope, Idaho. The company ing is believing we certainly are’ says it is losing 300 per cent on convinced. Mr. Jarrett said the operation alone of the trains, that he had never seen anything and the patrons say they will be like it since residing on the river, ; greatly inconvenienced if the >