Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-09-23
GLEANINGS.

Lyons is very sick.
Rev. w, N. Knox will preach
here next Sunday morning.
A. r. Rookie, wife and son are
stopping in town for the present.
Harvesting is being rushed
through by the farmers, They fear
q storm,
Mrs. j. E, Coombers has been
very sick for some time but is now
lnuch better.
J. w. Gaines arrived from Lew
5ston on Wednesday with goods for
Wax & Brown,
Cy. Leitch, Allie Vincent and
y c. Burge attended the conven-
lions at Denver.
pr. Truitt is building an addi-
zion to his drug store. A. L. Evans
Is doing the carpenter work,
The steam and horse power
threshing machines are knocking
put the grain at a lively rate.
A.. B. Moss, Republican candi-
date for governor, will speak at
Grangeville October ard and at
cottonwood, October 4th,
Idaho county needs renoyating
needs it very much. The ticket
placed in nomination at Denver
will prove a good renovator.
Our schools are progressing finely
under the excellent management of
qur efficient principal, Mr.. Phil
lips,
R. F. Douglas of Clearwater
passed through town Wednesday
last on his ways to the Genesee
country.
A new postoffice known as Lowe
has been established on the mail
route running from Cottonwood to
Kamiah.
Report going the rounds that H.
M. Glidden had bonded the Hob
sons Choice, in Florence district,
proves untrue,
Geo. w. Goode, an attorney of
Moscow, passed through town on
Sunday morning on his way home
from Granoavi1la
Mrs. j. Wilkinson of Grange
vile, and Mrs. J, J. Pulse of Den
yer, left Monday for a visit among
eastern friends and relatives.
Miss Leslie Shannon of Grange
vile left Lewiston Tuesday morn
ing for Walla Walla, where she
will attend Whitman college, says
the Lewiston Tribune.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. |
W. P. Nichols is very low and not
expected to live. Everything has
been done that could be for the
little one, but seemingly in vain.
Twelve or fourteen four-horse
teams passed through town Tues
day en- route to Spalding, where
they will load the remainder of a
consignment of $4,000 pounds of
machinery for mining purposes
about the vicinity of Florence.
Mine host of the Code hotel, Den
yer, had a very large patronage
from the two conventions. Every
one was we'll pleased with the fare
and pronounced the menu as very
fine, the tables literally groaning
Under the loads of good things that
appealed irresistably to the palate.
In arranging the correspondence
for last weeks issue an item which
should have been placed to the
credit Of Tahoe was made to appear
as from Greencreek, which ran as
follows: Mail to this point has
failed to arrive twice a week, as
ordered, lack of a mail carrier being
the reason" B. Stubbers, post
master at Greencreek desires to cor
rect this, and states that the mail,
which is due at that point three
times a week, has never missed
connection since that office was
established.
The inevitable has again claimed
its own, and when at 1882 Sunday
afternoon California Dick" waved
a parting salute and disappeared
up the gulch in search of pastures
new and fields that are greener,
Cottonwood lost an unique and
interesting character, the youth and
canine friend, and politicians a
guiding star. Born of a restless
nature, and doomed to almost GER
tain fretful existence for MANY
moons to come by reason of trans
piring events at the late Denver
convention, are reasons surmised
for present opportunity to strew
posies oyer the editorial grave
OF one whose persistent sacrifice