Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-07-13

Guy Chiesman returned to Lewis
ton Tuesday after spending couple
of weeks on the prairie writing life
insurance.
Miss Ethel Porter and Miss Grace
Foster, of Skidmore, No., arrived in
the city the first of the week for a
short visit with the formers's sister,
Miss Evelyn Porter.
Miss Kate Forsmann, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Forsmann and
formerly resident of this section, was
married last Thursday in Lewiston to
Victor Poogle.
Come in and look over our spring
styles for your spring suit. We rep
resent Strauss Bros, leading tailors Of
Chicago, and will guarantee satisfac-
ton. j. V. Baker & Son.
A couple of auto loads of Indians
from the Kamiah and Sites sections
we're in town Tuesday on their way
home from attending the big camp
meeting near Mason butte.
The ball game at Grangeville Sur
day afternoon did not materialize, the
Kamiah team gettirg side-tracked at
picnic while enroute and failing to
show up at the appointed hour.
The new section of cement sidewalk
completed last week in front of the
Minis property on Main street adds
much to that property and calls loud
ly for "a little more of the same" a.
long the entire block.
Dick Hale came up Saturday ever
ing from the Walla Walla 90 ntry
and is spending week or two here
visiting with relatives. He is just re-
covering from an operation for APP
pc dicitis and is consequently taking
life easy for time but intends return
ing to Garfield in time to take in part
of the harvest season.
A lot of machinery and cement is
being unloaded at the local railroad
yards this week by the local light and
power company, the same to be used
in. the construction of the dam being
built on the South Fork. Close to a
1000 tons of material and machinery
will have to be freighted from Grange
vile to the plant during the next sew
eral weeks.-Free Press.
Sid Brown motored down to Lewis
ton late last week with his family and
the R. M. Tombleson family and spent
a couple Of days visiting and taking
in the sights at the twin cities. He
states the warm weather has been
more than much of the grain on the
Lewiston fat could stand and many
of the farmers there were cutting
their grain for hay, Looping in this
way to make it yield some returns.
Richard Burke, who was recently
appointed land appraiser for the gov
eminent farm loan bank at Spokane,
arrived in the city Tuesday evening
from Moscow and has been busy tie
past few days inspecting lands in this
vicinity on which loans have been APP
piled for. Mr. Burke was formerly
in the life insurance business and has
spent many weeks on Camas prairie
and is thoroughly familiar with our
farm lands, which makes him particu-
larly valuable in his present position.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. RooFe cello
brated their golden wedding anniver-
sary Monday in a quiet way, their
daughter and her husband and one
son, James, being present for the oc-
casion. 1t is not often that couple
can live to pass the fttieth mile stone
of married life but Mr.. and Mrs.
Rookie are one that did so and, but
for the recent accident in which the
former was rather seriously injured,
the occasion would probably have
been celebrated little more elaborate
ly than it was. The writer Joins with
the many friends of Mr.. and Mrs
Rookie in hoping that they may jour
ney together past many more mile
stones on hfe's highway.
Market Report.