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Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-02-17
Communication

I4Di4Uif ~ st,sl1f'I TT ~ YOU fviit;'
/ itlcorrespondence from all parts
.af the county On all subjects Of
Interest, ! would like to give vent
TIA Thought that has been weigh,
ing heavily upon my mind for
some time. You have been loud
in your praises of your little
city which of course is your duty
that's what you are paid for,
We do not always ''see ourselves
as others see u.s." SO ! will try
to show you where you stand in
the sight of an intending settler,
There is no question but that
Cottonwood is we'll located and
as you have said, occupies the
Golden Gate" to the Prairie, but
great and mighty stumbling,
block to her progress exists in
that her people are possessed with
a spirit of local jealousy, which,
if not wiped out ere it is too late,
will terminate in her death and
the future that so naturally
should be hers will be blended in
the bud to the exceeding Joy of
young Denver, her most conceit-
ed but least noticed oontem-
porary,
Mount Idaho has lost her grip
and abandoned the idea of eyer
being more than what she now
is--a quiet little seat of county
government. Grangeyille is COM
posed of moss backs and croak-
ers and has certainly very nearly
attained the topmost round OF
her ladder. Young Denver, the
city of wind and portable wells,
is controlled by nonresident
boomers, whose sole purpose
seems to be to delude suckers,
Nor is Cottonwood without
fault. True, she holds a decided
advantage over her adversaries,
owing to what Nature has done
for her in the way Of location,
and there seems to be no lack OF
energy. The fault lies in the
bitter opposition which exists be,
tween the old town and Brownie
addition.
A short time ago ! visited your
city with a view to locating, but
when my intention was know te
your people, there arose a mighty
stir. Your real estate agents
We're very courteous and impair
tial; but before buying thought
it advisable to look about a BIZ
and get the opinions of the PEG.
pie. Now was when the disgust
ing part of the program presented
itself. Some said the only fiji
place for the town was in the
gulch near the Catholic church
and that if | bought on or south
of Main street | would rue it, as
the old town people would work
against me. | met others who
said the addition was taking the
lead and that it would be the
height of foolishness to put a
business house in the old town.
Now what will an unposted
stranger do under such circum-
stances? Simply move on and
locate among the deluders, the
moss backs or the dead, or else
leave the Prairie entirely. OF
course I did not buy in Cotton
wood, and though well knowing
that it ought to be the metropolis
of the great Camas Prairie / took
up temporary abode elsewhere
/ have my eye on you and as
soon as l know that the disgust,
ing jealousy among youis a thing
of the past, I will join your ranks
put my shoulder to the wheel o.
progress and assist in making
Cottonwood what Nature intend,
ed her to be, THE city of Idaho
county, P. d. @.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-02-17
Notice. A. F. & A. M.

All members of the A. f. d A.
M. who will affiliate and assist
in organizing lodge in Cotton
wood, will confer favor by leav-
ing their names at the office of
Tannatt & Hogan, Cottonwood.
E. T. TANNATT.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-02-17
200 Men wanted

To buy business and residence
lots in the town of Cottonwood,
the future Town of the great
Camas Prairie. Consult,
j. S. RHoADs,
Mount Idaho, Idaho.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-02-17

PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE,
M, Jorgens, our druggist, went
to Moscow this week.
w. B. Patterson started to
Portland Wednesday,
e. Nj. King and A. Morse re-
turned to Spokane Wednesday.
Messers Frost and Vincent of
Denver passed through Cotton
wood last Friday.
If in need of underwear or any
kind of shirts, Nuxoll & Stub
bers' is the place to buy.
The REPORT now has a weekly
market report, which will be
changed weekly and will be re-
liable.
Several communications were
crowded out of this weeks issue
for lack of space and will appear
next week.
Do you want a good pocket
knife, clock or looking glass ?
Nuxoll & Stubbers sell them
very cheap,
Several petitions are out for
road supervisor for the next term
in this district-we learn that
three are being circulated.
Paul Buckmeyer president of
the Washington Farmers Insur-
ance Company has been in Cot
tonwood for the past week.
Postmaster Orberson and wife,
Druggist Pulse and wife of Den
yer were in Cottonwood Saturday
and paid the REPORT pleasant
call,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam'l Goldstone
accompanied by Mrs. II. Wax
and son, went to Lewiston this
week to visit friends and rela-
tives.
Parties who subscribed wood
for the paper will confer a favor
by delivering same now, as there
Is no time we will better appre-
ciate it.
Several of the young gents of
Denver, Grangeville and Mount
Idaho were in Cottonwood on the
18th and paid the REPORT a
pleasant call.
A. w, Kroutinger, cashier of
the First National Bank of Lew
iston, was called to the Prairie
this week to attend the bedside
of his sick father.
Cottonwood is now certain OF
a sash and door factory as about
all arrangements are completed,
and the machinery will be on
the ground by spring.
w. j. Smith is the recipient OF
New Year present consisting OF
four beautiful silk handkerchief
from China Jim who used to be
in Mr.. Smiths employ in the
hotel.
Attorney Ailshie ofGrangeville
passed through Cottonwood
Thursday enroute to Moscow, to
attend a meeting of the board OF
regents of the state university, OF
which he is a member.
Our friend Goldstone this sum-
mer had a nonfreezing, automatic,
go-as-you-please force pump in
his store. Monday he was forced
to acknowledge the corn and
now simply has it automatic, go
as you please.
J. HI. Wann returned FROM Pa
taha City Wednesday accompa-
MED by James Ross of Asotin.
Mr.. Ross has rented Mr.. Wann's
farm and will soon be permantly
among us. Mr.. Wann reports
several parties soon coming to
Cottonwood to locate.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-02-17
Chicago Market Report,
Notice for Homestead Proof.

Anton Hendricks, H, f, No, 1888.
LAND OFFICE AT LEWISTON, IDA,
Feb, IL, 1893,
Notice Is hereby given that the fol-
lowing-named settler has filed notice
of his intention to make final proof
in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before Clerk of
Dist, Court, at Mt, Idaho, Idaho, on
March %, 1893, viz:
Anton Hendricks,
for the wiz neA NE se14 sec 10 tip 81
r1W, B, M,
He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence up
ON and cultivation of, said land viz:
Albert P. Tefft, Barney Luchtefeld,
Joseph Hoffman, and Henry Kuther,
all Of Keuterville, Idaho,
G, M, DAY,
Register,
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-02-17
Odd Fellows, Attention!

All Odd Fellows in and near
Cottonwood, who are in good
standing in the order will please
call on, or send their names to,
ELMER WALDRIP,
At REPORT Office.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-02-17
LOCAL BREVITIES,
Small Items Picked Up in
City and Vicinity,

PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE,
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-02-17
i 7. AILsHIE,

ATT0RAEYsAT.I4AW,
Practices IN the State and Fed
eral Courts of Idaho, Office
work given careful attention and
Collections promptly made,
GR4NGEEELLE4MaRNTIpAHO
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-29
hORTICULTU NOTES.

The soil that is worked thoroughly
before potatoes are planted is the soil
that will produce the best possible crop
that such soil can produce.
APPLY the wood ashes to the potato
crop after planting. sowing broadcast
at the rate of 600 pounds per acre. All
root crops are benefited by ashes.
VARIETIES of mangel wurtzel that
have large number of fine roots are
not as good as those that are free of
such roots. They do not keep as well.
The orange globe is good variety.
ONE pound of paris green to 500
pounds of water, with about Is pounds
of soft soap, is good for spraying for the
cooling moth. 1t should be used sew
eral times about fifteen days apart
THE Oregon agricultural experiment
station advises wrapping trees with
burlap as we'll spraying them for the
cooling moth. Every five or six days
the wrapping is removed and the larvae
fonnt, beneath killed.-Farmcrs' Voice.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-29
DELICATE CHILDREN.
Outdoor Exercise More Beneficial Than
Medicine.

Outdoor Exercise More Beneficial Than
Medicine.
n wise old physician once said, fra nix
ly: ''Much more depends upon the nurse
than the physician. We see the patient
but once a day, and poor nurse can
easily undo all the good our medicine
does" 1t is upon the continual care
and watchfulness that a good nurse
exercises that the mother must depend
in rearing a delicate child, rather than
upon doctors drugs and lotions. Sys-
tcmatic outdoor exercise, but never to
the point of fatigue, will do more to-
ward building up the strength than
all the tonicS. This does not mean that
the tonic is not also valuable, but the
individual who depends on tonics alone,
without proper hygicnic care in the
surrounding of the invalid is likely to
be disappointed in the result
The inability to sleep on the part of
some nervous sufferers is often due to
close air. When the sick one is too i'll
to go out in the open air. but can be
moved, it is best to have two rooms,
one for use at night and one during the
day. Both should be plcntifully sup
piled with fresh air, and the room
in use during the day should be
bright and sunny, with an open
fire burning on the hearth and
blooming flowers in the windows.
These matters may seem small, though
the open Fireplace is insisted upon by
the best English physicians, for the pur-
pose of keeping the air of the room
pure, as we'll as making the room sheer
frl. 1t is not enough for an invalid
that his table be supplied with whole
some. suitable food, and his room kept
warm. The food must look tempting.
The room must look cheerful. There
must be an atmosphere of rest about
the room that will be soothing to the
nerves. The light must be graduated
so that it is neither glaring nor gloomy.
The ornaments about the room must
be occasionally changed, SO that the
restless invalid may have something
new to take up his attention and di-
vert his thoughts from himself Still
it is foolish to make too many changes
or disturb the restful quiet of the room.
A nurse should be person of strong
nerve, but one sensible and intelligent
enough to appreciate and soothe the
abnorInally sensitive nerves of the con-
valescent. 1t is upon such care that
the success of nurses work depends as
we'll upon perfect system in the rou-
tine performance of their duties.-N.
Y. Tribune.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-29
uNLEARNED.

He 10 lovely just to look at,
With his thoughtful, dark brown eyeA
HE gentle face and shining curls-
But he isn't very wise.
Two birthdays he has counted,
Two dimples he can show:
Yet he's ignorant OF many things
That little babies know.
Though he talks in childish fashion,
He knows but pretty words,
And he says them in q voice as sweet
As the cooling OF the birds
He smiles at everybody,
But he hasn't learned to fret:
And angry looks and pouts-
He doesn't know them yet
Oh. everything contents him,
So hos never learned to tease:
And kicks and screams-he's unaware
There are such things these.
But he's lovely just to look at
And to cuddle and to pet,
For to wriggle out of loving arms,
He hasn't learned it yet.
Oh, as at first told you,
HIS isn't very wise:
Yet were We all as ignorant,
Earth might bic Paradise
Emma c. Dowd, in Youths Companion
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-29

THEY GREETED EACH OTHER COLDIY.
after some moments of hesitation, 81
| have come to ask IL favor of YOU.
"And have come to ask one of you. -
he said.
II want YOU to allow me to obtain a
legal separation from you.''
"Why, that is the very thing I was
going to ask of you. l am willing to
give you the necessary grounds, and
we can take the case to South Dakota.
Everything shall be done quietly as
possible"
eyed each other trifie suspiciously, as
if scouting the truth.
"Why do you wish a separation,
Edna?'' he finally asked. 81 trust you
are not contemplating another mar
riage as soon as this? l believe you
said once was enough for YOU"
She tossed her head defiantly.
II have no reason to conceal the
TRUTH she replied. Il am contem-
plating another marriage. 1 have
found an ideal man. and he will make
me his wife as soon as proper after the
separation
Blummer felt a twinge of panied sur
prise, and he fancied his wife had never
seemed quite SO handsome before.
II am also going to get married. he
acknowledged, finding pleasure in his
ability to say II am engaged to a
most charming Slrl VINO 1 am cOnhdcna
will make a model wife,
He had arisen, and she sprang to her
feet and confronted him. her chin quiv'
cring. For some moments they stood
looking into each others eyes, a strange
feeling creeping over them.
Henry Blulnmer!' she finally sobbed,
"you are a brute! IL did th-thin< you
would have more regard for me than
this. If you marry again I'll kill N.Y.
self!'
Deaf little soul! How Blummer
longed to take her in his arms andscon-
sole her!
"But you are going to get married, -
he protested.
.sNo, 1 am not!' she quickly asserted.
IT did think of it, but I've changed my
mind now. You don't love me a Bit
and am ready to die!'
He couldn't resist longer, So he caught
her close to his breast, and she sobbed
on his shoulder, making no attempt to
get away.
Edna" he murmured, his mustache
close to her shapely little ear; 1--WE
have been deceiving ourselves. We
care more for each other than for all
the rest of the world! We ought to
live happily together. Let's try it over
again, little wife,
s'I am willing, DEAR
She lifted her smiling, tear-stsinco
face, and he kissed her dainty NOV III,
WILLIAM G. PATH N.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-29
TWO BUTTERNAkERS.
why One Failed and How the Other Gre
Prosperous.

why One Failed and How the Other Grew
Prosperous
What did YOU get for your butter to-
day?" asked one farmer of another.
81 got 30 cents a pound,'' replied the
other.
''What! so cents a pound"
THAT is what ] said.
''Why! l only got IS cents for mine.
How did you manage it3
II saw a mans name reported in IN
article descriptive of !. society event. I
got a friend in the city to look up his
address in the directory and then sent
him n pound Of my butter. At the same
time l wrote him giving him my refer
cnccS, describing my process of MAX
ing the butter and laying special stress
upon the clearly manner in which all
my dairying operations We're being con-
Quoted. and 1 expressed the hope that
if he and his family liked the butter l
should be pleased to forward him a
regular weekly supply guaranteed to be
equal to the sample. / did not have to
wait long before heard from him. He
wrote: Will take 30 pounds weekly till
further orders at so cents the year
round. Must be equal to sample
Since then other orders have come in
from his acquain tar eos, and l simply
can't meet the demand"
The farmer addressed was greatly
surprised, but in speaking of the Incl
dent to the writer short time ago the
progressive dairynan remarked that he
was we'll satisfied as if he bad never
explained the matter, that his casual
business at the old stand just the same
as he had been doing for years. Such
men arc inscnsiblc to either improve
ment or MISUNDERSTANDING World.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-29

ing such a system of taxation on the
farms to be benefited as will eventual
ly pay the bonds. Some such system
can he devised that will make the
bonds safe as an Investment. that can
be readily sold. and the money there
from can be used to construct roads
that will more than dou bic the value Of
the farms on or near which the rcai
passes.
The chief trouble in the way is tina
there is always a class Of Adventures
and spectators who will contract to
build the roads and expect to make
fortunes out of the job, but each com
munity or district must look out for
and protect itself. If anything goes
wrong on their road they arc the suf-
fercrs. and they should sec to it that
the roads are honestly and properly
made at little cost possible.
1t really is not right for the state or
county to be taxed for building roads
that benefit some farms perhaps a hun
dred per cent. or more. while hundreds
of other farms are not touched or ben
Gifted in the least. Those farms that
receive the benefit should pay therefor,
and only those, hence the Importance
of establishing road districts and hay
ing special taxation for them to build
their own roads. The advantages of
good roads arc obvious that no time
need be spent in dwelling upon this
part of the sub ect, but how to secure
them, how to raise the money to build
them, and put proper safeguards
around them so that the work shall be
honestly and properly done, are qucs-
tons that should receive the most pro-
found consideration of those interested
in Il better system of road mal<inG.-
Colman's Rural World.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-29
THEY HEARD A NOISE.

Tho Girls Thought q BurElas Had Come
and Prepared for a Valiant Defense.
They were brushing out their hair
before retiring and having a good talk
at the same time.
''What would you do if d burglar got
into your room at night?'' asked the
girl with the dreamy eyes.
'Why. scream, of course" responded
the matter-of-fact girl.
Order him to leave,' said the girl
with the naughty nose.
Call papa,' said the girl with the
dimple in her chin.
"Attack him at once remarked the
girl who belonged to an athletic club
But suppose nobody could hear you
scream. and he wouldn't go If you told
him. and papa wasn't anywhere near,
and there was nothing with which to
attack him?''
but 1 always keep a revolver by my
bedside interrupted the girl who be-
longed to an amateur athletic club.
20, Name, is it here? II won't
sleep with you if you have that hOrrid
thing in the ROOM
1T couldn't go off by itself. you
know put in the matter-of-fact girl.
If papa didn't come I'd give him all
my jewclry and then beg him to co.
observed the girl with the dimple in
her chin.
~ wouldn't; I always hide mine in
The soap dish. and
IL wrap mine in Il pair of stockings
and throw it under the bed
Il tie mine up in the bundle of old
letters where-'
Mine is always in the pocket of a
dress hanging up in the wardrobe; it's
SAFE
...Girls! Did you hear a noise?"
''Nonscnsc. it is only dear little lido
he always sleeps on the foot of my
bed, and-why, he isn't there! Girls, I
do hear Il noise!"
at is only the wind rising remarked
the matter-of-fact girl. ''Of course you
locked the door?'
90! / don't known"
''Where-where is my revolver"
asked the girl who belonged to the
athletic club.
''Don't-don't point it this way"
begged the girl with the naughty nose,
.'your hand shakes so that it points all
ways at once
''Who-who is there?'' quavercd the
girl with the dimp1c in her chin.
No reply.
20, girls, do you think it is really a
burglar? And Harry wants his ring
back, too; what if it should be stolen
Isis there "a poker in the room?'
queried the girl with the dreamy eyes,
in tremulous tones.
There it is again; y. T.
''Harl<! Listen! Why, it is dear
little Fido trying to get in. Come in
you little petsy. Did they think he
was burglary"
30, I thought I should die cried tho
girl with the dreamy eyes,
II didn't really think it was a
burglar, at ALL remarked the girl with
the naughty nose.
II was not frightened at ALL OBJ
served the girl who belonged to an
athletic club; II had my revolver, you
know. '-Chicago Tribune.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-29
FARM AND GARDEN.
THE ROAD QUESTION.

An Agricultural Paper on the Financial
Aspect of the Movement.
The demand for better roads has
come to stay, but roads can't be built
without money. How to procure the
money is the main question. 1t must
be obtained in some way so that the
burden of building docs not fall at
once upon those whose farms arc to be
benefited. The farmers not BILE
to bear such Il burden in the beginning.
If in some proper way the expense OF
making the roads could fall on the
farms to be benefited in the next ten,
twenty, or thirty years, the farms
would be so increased in value that
that very increase would pay the ex-
pense many times over.
We can see no way of building such
roads as ought to be made, such roads
rs we have seen in England, France
and Germany, that have stood for Il
thousand years, and are as good as
when first made, except by forming in
some manner road districts and issuing
bonds by those road districts, and lay
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-29
BREEDING GOOD DOGS.
Stop the Propasa of MoDErels on tho
Farm Without Delay.

Stop the Propa ga ion of MODErels on tho
Farm without Delay.
Much is being said about high breed
ing, scientific breeding. the propriety
of breeding out the scrub and of thus
improving all domcsticatcd stock; and
this has been going on more or less for
more than a century and resulted in the
bloodcd horses, cattle, sheep, swine,
poultry. fruit trees and shrubs, garden
vegetables and flowers and field seeds
as we have them to-day; but in one re-
spcct little of anything has been done
to advantage. We refer to the matter
of improving the breeds of dogs and of
making scrub dogs odious by populariz-
ing the breeding, the scientific breed
ing. of good dogs. From the days away
back, the memory of which no man re-
calls. the mean, night proving wolfish
cur, INBRED, untaught and unfed, has
been denounced as the meancst thief
known to civilization. He was ever .
mongrcl. a mean, vile, vicious ungov-
ernablc brute, of little or no use to his
owner, and a source of annoyance and
destruction to the neighbors and his
property.
Can we not popularize the breeding
of good dogs and by so doing weed out
and measure bly, annihilate the mongrel?
good dog is thing of utility. some
thing to be proud of and of great value
to his owner for both offense and de-
fcnsc.-Colman's Rural World.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-29
The Effects of Lime.

The effects of lime in the soil are
then, first, to supply the demands OF
the crop: second, it has the effects by a
chemical action we'll known and under
stood, to dissolve other minerals in the
soil existing in an insoluble condition,
as potash and phosphoric acid, and thus
make these available IS plant food;
third, it exerts another effect on tho
organic matter in the soil by decompos-
ing it and developing the nitrogen in it
and forming compounds with this ele-
ment of plant food, and thus makes this
inert organic matter available for the
use of the crops; fourth, it has me
chanical effect in making the soil moro
open in texture when the land is clay
and inpervious to air and moisture and
more compact and less porous when
it is sandy and too pervious to mois-
ture.-Rural World.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-29

much at a load. But pair of old
wheels on an old axle can be run over
half of an old cider caslx, this can be
swung upon the axle by bale wire pass
ing under it and handy thingfs quick
lv fixed without cost This apparatus
will do a marvellous amount of work.
too. The pump can be hooked to a sta
pie in the bottom of the tub, or to a
platform screwed to its top or to the
handles. A disk made of boards
clcatcd, and fitting the top of the tub
loosely under the axle. will keep the
water from stopping badly if it is al
lowed to float in it. Held in place
above, the water will gather force while
being shaken up. and break loose and
spill at every open space.-Farm Jour-
nal.