Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-02-23
Some Ancient
History.


q Hogan, local real estate dealers,
and carried advertisements for Wax
u Goldstone, merchants; Bank of
Camas Prairie; Cottonwood House, C.
B. Wood, proprietor; Keuterville
Shingle Mill, R. NJ. Powell, proprie-
tor; City Drug Store, Jorgens q Mar
TIN, props; Nuxoll & Stubbers, gener-
al merchants; Felix Warren's stage
line; Davis d Sweet saw mill; the Jer-
sey house; DR.. j. w. Turner; H. M.
McDermid, dentist; H. NJ. Bridge
farmer, sign painter.
Besills general write-up of Cam
as prairie, the paper touched on lead
ing topics Of the day, and also spoke
of proposed new road from Doumecq
plains to Cottonwood and of visit of
three government commissioners who
went on to Kamiah to try to reach an
agreement with the Indians for the
opening Of the reservation, but were
unsuccessful.
Following are some of the local
news items contained in the issue:
Cottonwood is soon to be connected
with thu outside world by telephone.
AS we go to press about four inches
Of snow covers the ground and it is
still showing.
}. H. Wann, county assessor, is in
Pomeroy this week and is expected to
return in few days.
Mrs. Henry Wax and son are over
from Grangeville visiting her sister,
Mrs. Samuel Goldstone.
Several bands of cattle have been
driven thraugh Cottonwood this week
for the Spokane market.
Jorgens & Martin a short time
since started the City Drug Store in
our midst and have an excellent stock
of goods.
Auditor c. w. Case and Jos.
Rhoades of Mount Idaho were in the
city the first of the week, and paid
the Report pleasant call.
Ex-Deputy Sheriff darlington was
over from Mount Idaho the first Of
Il e week and soon expects to make
Cottonwood his future home.
Word wasareceived as we 90 to
press that Lewiston has been given the
State Normal School; the bill having
passed both houses.
Twenty-one new buildings will be
erected in Cottonwood in the spring.
Lots have already been secured for
this number and more to follow.
The diamond fields recently discov-
cred in southern Idaho are proving
more valuable for gold and silver
than for the stones first discovered.
NuxoR & Stubbers have just deco
rated their store front with a new
sign and the Report with new ad.
E. S, Sweet has purchased an in
terest in the Davis Bros. saw mill
near Cottonwood and expects to turn
out lumber by the wholesale, as soon
as spring opens.
Felix Warren, the genial proprietor
of the Lewiston and Cottonwood
stage line, and also of all the stage
lines running out of Lewiston, was in
our city Wednesday and paid the Re-
port pleasant call.
Elmer Waldrip. formerly editor of
the Asotin Sentinel, arrived in Cot.
tonwood last Friday and has taken
position on the Report staff. Mr..
Waldrip expects to move his family
to Cottonwood in the spring.
The engagement of Mr.. E. Druse
of Uniontown, Wash, to Miss Clara
Sonnen Of Keuterville, and Mr.. Louis
Koeltzer to Miss Mary Keuther, both
Of Genesee, has been announced, and
a double wedding is expected TO take
place at Keuterville in the near
future.
To Robert Nugent belongs the ban
ner for obtaining subscribers to the
Report, he having obtained Sc names;
whiIa Michael HaD1ay oop,oS IN saooD5