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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13
Received Monster Grain Check

Without doubt the largest check
ever received for the sale of grain
in this locality was handed over
to Barney Luchtefeld Wednesday
when he disposed of 1900 bushels
of wheat and 1000 bushels of oats
to the Vollmer-Clearwater COM
pany. The wheat was the surplus
of three years crops and consist
ed of 5000 bushels of White Ore
gon and 1900 bushels of Sonora
Club. The wheat was all of excel
lent milling quality and brought
$1.62 a bushel, bulk, and will be
shipped to the big milling plant
of the Lewiston Milling company
at Lewiston, while the oats will
be sent to Salt Lake City. The
price, paid for the oats was $500
per hundred. While Mr.. Luchte-
field did not tell us the exact a.
mount of the check it will figure
right close to S13, 900. or the price
of a mighty good farm, and goes
to show that Camas prairie farm
ers can realize big returns from
, crop sales as we'll as some of the
wheat kings of the lower
country. If anyone here has sold
grain to a larger valuation than
the above we would like to hear
the details.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13
Buying More Purebred Stock

Rev. Philip Ruggle, prior of st.
Michael's monastery west of
town, received a fine purebred
Holstein COW and bull Tuesday
from the E. D. Parr herd at
Kamiah, the animals being driv-
en- across the prairie from that
place to their new home. The
monastery farm has been breed
ing Holsteins for the past several
years and the animals just pur-
chased will be a valuable addition
to their herd and also form the
nucleus for a purebred herd to
be started. The bull formerly
used there has been sold to the
convent farm southwest of town.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13
WHEAT GOES SKYWARD

Grain markets are going wild
today and according to reports
just received the Chicago market
opened this morning with wheat
at $2.2O a bushel, dropped off
two cents, and then came back
strong to the opening quotation.
This gives local quotation of
$3.50 for Forty-fold wheat and the
same quotation is being made
throughout the PalOuse country.
Just where the market will stop is
impossible to predict.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13
Bankers Advocate More Crops

The agricultural commission of
the American Bankers Associa-
ton has issued the following let
ter to the bankers of Utah, Ida
no, Oregon, Nevada, Montana,
Wyoming and Washington, and
it is 30 timely that it will bear
careful consideration by every
farmer of the states named:
War is upon us with a general
food shortage so well known that
repetition is useless. The time
to speed up production is now.
So far as 1917 is concerned, this
can most effectively be done by
seed selection and acreage in
crease.
AS far as possible, let every
community become self sustain
ing and have a big surplus for
export. An army lives on its
stomach. 1t must be fed if it
fights. Speed up production and
you may do your country as great
service as though you went to
the front. Both are absolutely
essential. All of the patriots will
not be found on the firing line.
Organize Increase Produc-
ton Clubs to augment the acre
age and assist in bringing under
cultivation every vacant town lot
that is tillable and productive.
Help secure the acreage and, if
necessary, the seed. The use
of thousands of lots can be had
for the asking. In Lewiston, for
instance, acres and acres of town
lots are already plowed and ready
for planting by school boys and
girls under the direction of their
club adviser. The city furnishes
them water for irrigation at a
nominal charge. The grown-ups
are no less regarded. The man.
less-land and the landless-man
are being brought together as
never before. The farmers are
preparing for a stronger pull and
thousands of acres of summer
fallow, which would normally lie
Idle, will this year be planted to
beans and peas and corn.
No man so well knows the lay
of the land as the local banker.
In this branch of the service, few
are better equipped to lead.
Sincerely yours,
= F. N. SHEPHERD"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13

Joseph Mcdonald, residing east
of this place, recently added some
more valuable purebred stock to
the Idaho county list when he re-
ceived three fine Poland China
sows from Iowa. The animals
are of the large type and cost
him $100 each in the east. They
are some of the best to be had
and will do much to boost the
purebred stock industry on the
prairie in time to come.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13

DR.. E. A. Schilling came up the
first of the week from Orofno
and has secured a permanent To-
cation in the Butler jewelry store
where he will in future be found
by all wishing glasses fitted or
their eyes treated. After about
three weeks he will again return
to the river on a short business
trip, after which time he will be
here for good. DIR. Schilling is a
bright, energetic young man and
one we are glad to welcome to
our city.
Chas. Olson writes US that he
arrived in Terry, Mont, on April
End, with everything in good
shape but has been unable to get
out to his place on account of
high water in the streams. He
says they are having good wea-
ther there but the grass has not
yet started. People are pouring
in from all directions and there
is not a vacant house in the town.
Mat Petersen was side tracked
at a town down the line and he
had not seen him for some time.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13

Mrs. Paul Clagstone will be in
the city next Wednesday evening
from Lewiston for the purpose of
forming local Red Cross asso-
citation and all ladies wishing to
assist in the work are asked to
meet with her at the Phoenix
hotel that evening.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13
Community Dairying

What can be accomplished in
dairy districts by community ac-
tion is indicated in an article in
the 1916 Yearbook of the United
States Department of Agricult-
ure. In this article the results of
five years work in an Iowa COM
munity are discussed in detail.
During that period, it is said, the
net profits to the patrons of a
small creamery were increased
from $1,000 in 1911 to $9,643 in
1915. For the five-year period
the total net profits were increas-
ed $32, 1863. Against this increase
there is to be charged only the
salary and expenses of the gov
ernment field man, amounting to
$11, 1876. AS result, therefore,
of the development of the work
the community received in the
course of five years $2O,973 more
than it otherwise would have
done.
These increased profits were
obtained by the elimination of
improbable cows, the introduc-
tion of better bulls, more i'm
proved feeding methods, and
placing on the market products
of better quality. The growing
of such seeds as clover, alfalfa
and silage corn reduced the cost
of milk production, and the herds
received more adequate shelter
and a better water supply in the
winter, thus being enabled to
give satisfactory yields of milk
through a larger portion of the
year.
Progress in these directions is
to be attributed chiefly to the in
fuence of the field man among
the farmers. It was under his
direction that the farmers began
to give serious attention to the
problem of feeding for large and
economical milk production. He
also introduced the practice OF
keeping production records for
each COW and of eliminating all
animals that reacted to the tu-
berculin test. The expense of
raising calves was reduced by
shifting them earlier from whole
milk to skim milk. The milking
was done under more sanitary
conditions and the milk and cream
treated with greater care. Ir
this way the quality of the butter
was improved and the better prod.
uct brought better prices. With
these better prices the farmers
had more money with which tt
improve their business. In this
connection it is noteworthy tha
during the 5-year period covered
by the article mentioned, thu
number of silos in the communit!
was increased from Z to Al.
In conclusion, the article point
out that, while the financial gair
from the work is the easiest t,
measure, it was by no means tn,
only, or even the most important
part of the total results from thi
experiment in community devel
opment in dairying. The i'm
provement in the social condition
and in the living conditions in tn
farm houses is not to be ignored
although it is very difficult t
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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13
Notice

Notice is hereby given that a
mass meeting of the citizens of
Cottonwood will be held in the
Creelman hall on Saturday evenz
ing, April IA, 1917, at 800 p. m.
for the purpose of nominating a
ticket of five candidates for viii
lage trustees, to be voted upon
at the village election on April
24th.
JOHN HOENE,
Chairman Board of Trustees.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13

There will be a meeting of the
fire committees tonight at 7:30.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items From Various Places
Reproduced for the Benefit
of our Readers--StOries Re-
hashed from Exchanges.

Nezperce is forming a company
to start a brick yard at that place
and it is planned to have the
plant in operation within forty
days. The company will be cap
italized at $4,000.
The high school at Malad was
closed last week after the sixteen
students enrolled had offered
themselves for enlistment in the
Idaho national guard and four
teen were accepted.
Since January l, $55, 900 worth
of hay and corn has been shipped
into Malad, Oneida county. This
is the first time in its history that
feed of any kind has been ship
ped in. Heretofore the ranchers
had a surplus for market.
AS an echo of the famous Hye
murder trial in this county, Mrs.
Sarah E. Litchfield, mother of
Mrs. Hye, this week filed a petit
ton with the county commission
ers asking aid in meeting the cost
of the prosecution of the case.
On Monday the business houses
and banks at Lewiston set their
clocks ahead an hour and will
maintain them so for the summer
in following out a saving day.
light" plan. 1t is expected other
towns will join the movement.
Owing to the late spring de.
laying the work of finishing the
new state highway up the Union
town hill north of Lewiston, il
has been decided to postpone the
celebration of the completion Of
the road until July 4th when a
big celebration of the event will
be held.
The residents of the Clearwater
highway district voted yesterday
on a bond issue of $115, 900 to be
used in constructing a state high.
way from the south boundary OF
the district near Peck to the
north side of the district neal
Spalding and to construct &
branch road to the Latah county
line and other laterals.
, The million dollar bean crop ot
the Potlatch country last year de
veloped some record yields but i
remained for J. H. Forrest. o.
: Bear ridge, to carry off the hon
ors for the largest yield. From
: a tract of fifteen acres he took
, off an average yield of 1901
! pounds per acre and was recent!
offered 10 cents a pound for the
crop, dirt and all, which woulC
bring him $3.50 an acre.
John S. Salisbury, living L
miles south of Nampa, in th'
spring of 1916 planted three
:, fourths of an acre of potatoes
From this piece of ground he ha
sold 1885 pounds of potatoe
for $759.40. He still has 400
pounds, which he is holding fo
seed, but if sold at current price
: would bring 5000, which adde,
to the sum already received woul'
!, give him 1859. 40 for the produc
of three-fourths of an acre o
! ground.
The trip of the University 0
Idaho glee club was brought to
: tragic close at Boise Sunday b
e the death of Vernon Henry
D student manager of the organize
Y ton. After a concert there Sal
a urday evening the students wer
e taken for an auto ride and tn
o car containing Henry was ovel
t turned, the young man bein
thrown through the wind shiel
/ and an artery in his leg bein
8 severed. He was rushed to tn
= hospital and his wound dresse
but he died at II o'clock the me-
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20
HELP SOUND THE TOCSIN OF LIBERTY
AROUND THE WORLDI

committee held meeting and desig'
mated the following solicitors to be-
gin work Tuesday morning and work
three days, or until 1903, 900 is sub.
scribed:
w. B. Anderson, H. H. Alternately,
Rev. George C. Abbitt, Rev. A. S.
Anderson, DR., T. W.. Blakey, Oscar
Bass, c. E. Blakey, Douglas Bell
Morgan Boyd, George w. Crenshawi
WsR Cfawiey. ]. E. Cooper, S. L
, Cowherd, X. o. Cayce, L. B. Cor
nette, D.. d. Cayce, Claude r. Clark,
6. L. Campbell, j. o. Cook, R. j.
Carothers, w. D. Cooper, D. C. Cary,
w. T. Cooper, F. w. Cunningham,
George D. Dalton, w. R. Doris,
Ode Davis, Moses Elb, A. H. Eckles,
J. F. Ellis, w. d. Ennis, M. C..
Forbes, Will Forbes, j. M. Forbes,
Malcolm Frankel, Sam Frankel, R. M.
Fairleigh, T. B. Fairleigh, Holland
Garnett, Vitus Gates, Ed C. Gray,
George q. Gary, H. H. Golay, w. R.
Hammonds, w. H. Hammonds, r. H.
Holland, DIR. j. w. Harmed, j. d.
Higgins, E. H. Higgins, w. S. Harm
ed, Douglas Hancock, Wallace Han
cock, B. d. Hill, Fred Jackson, j C.
Johnson, H. A. Reach. j. Walter
Knight, w. A. Long, George E. Lack
ey, Richard Leavell, H. w. Linton,
M. A. Mason, T. L. Metcalfe, w. d.
Moore, Chas. M. Meachsm, j. j.
Metcalfe, T. j. McReynolds, B. O..
McReynolds, j. D. MCGOWAN, Edgar
Mcpherson, A. D. Noe, Mack Neb-
lett, E. G. Peterson, Irwin Rosebor-
ough, E. C.. Radford, Will Summers,
E. w, Stegar, DR.. j. E. Stone, John
Sites, Gus Stevens, Will Stowe, Ira
L. Smith, S. Sacks, F. D. Trice,
Howell Tandy, S. Y. Triinble, j. d.
Thompson, DR.. A. II. Turks, T. c.
Underwood, DR.. r. L. Woodland, A.
w. Wood, w. R. Wheeler, James
West, Hugh West, c. E. Woodruff,
j. t. Wall, Ed Weathers, H. D. Wal
lace, Hunter Wood, L. X. Wood, w.
P. Winfree, w. A. Wilson, F. X.
Yost.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20
. d b n h d
FOLLOWING THE FLAG.

Mills Campbell, a Hopkinsville boy
who has been living in Florida for the
last four years, has enlisted in the
army and has been made a corporal.
He is at the Columbia, S. C. camp.
Granville Cook, son of Judge T. q.
Cook, of this city, who is in the can
Torment at Chillicothe, Ohio, as vol
unteer before his name was drawn,
has been made sergeant major of the
Eleventh battalion.
Friends here.received cards few
days since from Guy H. Dority, Penn
broke's representative in Uncle Sam S
navy. The cards do not give very
much information, a printed form be-
ing used, and the writer merely
checks the statements he wishes to
make. They, however, indicated the
good health of the writer, made
known the fact that he wanted some
copies of the Pembroke
Journal, etc. Guy is aboard the U.
S. S. Pueblo, and his address now is
care Postmaster, New York, N. "
Pembroke Journal.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20
Spies at Work.

Pro-German agents in the United
States, according to reports to the
Treasury Department, have directed
their energies toward defeating the
Liberty Loan, and their organized
propaganda has borne fruit from Min
nesota to Texas, il is asserted, in
scattered localities, where weak eff
forts have been made. not openly, but
by indirect methods, to discourage
subscriptions.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20
COMING down
HOME STRETCH
With Noses Full OF Wind
And Plenty Of Dust
A-Flying.
TWO REAL H0SS RACES
In the Non-Partisan Primary
For City Officers
Today.
TWO REAL HOSS RACES

The non-partisan primary election
for nominating two candidates for
mayor and four for city commission
er, will be held at the seven city
voting places today, between 6 a. m.
and A p. m.
There are only two candidates for
mayor, Commissioner Frank II. Bas-
sett and DR.. w. E. Reynolds. Both
will of course be nominated and no
interest attaches to this race at this
time.
For commissioner there are 9 can
didates and 5 will be dropped. The
other 4, receiving the highest votes,
will run it out at the November cleo
ton and two will be elected. The
candidates are Commissioner VIM.
R. Wicks, City Clerk Chas. o.
Prowse, former Councilman Harry
L. Lebkuecher, former City Engineer
c. A. Cundiff, all of whom are Repub-
licans; also Mayor Robt. T. Stowe,
former Councilman j. X. Twyman,
former City Tax Collector John w.
Richards, Mr.. j. 7. Walker and Mr..
John W.-.Adams, all Of whom are
Democrats.
The primsry is non-partisan and
the arrangement Of the names on tina
ballots starts, alphabetically, but the
top name is moved to the bottom ev-
cry so ballots.
; In the primarya police Judge ywill
be nominated for a term Of twoa:y years,
from January. There are FIVE candf-
dates for this Office, viz; JudgeKun-
ter Wood, Lorenzo X. Wood JAS. S.
JOS. C. Slaughter and ]. T.
colored.
The keenest interest is felt in this
race, as the contest is regarded as
very doubtful, with no certainty as to
which two will will win a place on
the ballot.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20

No steps in the ministerial crisis
and no action on the resignation of
Admiral Won Capelle, the Minister Of
Marine, is expected by the German
newspapers until Emperor William
returns to Berlin from his Balkan
trip: DIR. Michaelis, the Imperial
Chancellor, meanwhile has left the
capital to study conditions in the oc
cupied districts of Russia, as if moth
ing was more remote from his mind
than the thought Of retirement. De-
mand for the dismissal Of Chancellor
Michaelis was the leading theme at
the opening session of the Socialist
convention at Wurzburg, Bavaria,
Sunday, at which Philip Scheide-
manp, the majority Socialist, leader
in the Reichstag was speaker. Fried
rich Ebert, a Socialist member of the
Reichstag, assailed those members of
the party who attempted to prolong'
the @ar. He declared also that the
adj ;ates of the so-called German
&c, were working in their own pc
k.ary interests and mol for the Fa-
yherland.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20
d h h AAA
Big Air Raid.

London. Oct. ia mighty Anglo
French air offensive has been launch
cd against the Germans along the
western front. The press advices
from the-front today stated that more
than thirty German aeroplanes have
been brought down since Monday and
not only have the German military
works been bombarded, but machines
have penetrated far over the German
territory.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20
IN BIG DRIVE
aperatic Candidates Shell
the Woods in Four Sec
; tors Today.

he county candidates have held
tinRsat several points this week,
4 .ng with much encouragement
4 where. They were at Kelly
N-day afternoon and at Gracey
night. Appointments for today
b:
cambridge, Saturday afternoon, at
% o'clock.
lafayette, Saturday afternoon, at
O'Clock.
nhettstown, Saturday night. at
%, ock.
Iseley School House, Saturday
at7:30 O'Clock.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20

Ty Cobb again heads the American
League batting average championship
for 1917, with $50 points. He has held
il for 8 out of II years, being beaten
in 1893 by Criss, of ST. Louis, and last
year by Speaker, Of Cleveland. The
National League championship is held
by Roush, Of Cincinnati. with 343
points. a-'e''fs'i ~ : ~, ~
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20

More than one-half of the Kansas
City stock yards, the second largest in
J .he country, was destroyed by fire
last Tuesday. 1t was estimated after
the fire had been brought under con-
Itrol, after raging for two hours, that
several thousand head of cattle had
been destroyed. Some estimates ran
as high as 10000.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20

R. S. Rose, of Williamsburg, is the
republican nominee for Circuit Judge
in the Thirty-fourth judicial district.
The Court of Appeals affirmed the
judgment OF the Whitley Circuit
Court, awarding the nomination to
Rose in the contest of W. R. Lay, Of
Barbourville.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20

Sukupar Chatterie, a Hindu priest,
gays Germans plotted to have abunch
of Germans kill our own DR.. Frede-
rick A. Cook. of north pole, fame, and
his crew OF 10 explorers and assume
their names in order to go through
India as spies. DR.. Cook and his crew
were to make an expedition into the
Himalaya mountains.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20

Lucius Dcsha Stone, who disappear
ed from his home in Paris, KY, in
1887, has just died at Beaumont, Tex
as, inquiries following his death be-
ing the first knowledge of his even
having been alive for 80 years..
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20
Slava Sent to Bottom and 20
Republican Warcraft Flee
Into Moon Sound.
U-BOAT SAILORS REBEL
Refuse to Go Aboard Subma-
rine at 0stend and Throw
An Officer Into Ocean.

Apparently contingents Of the Rus
sian fleet-in all about twenty war
ships Of various classes-are bottled
up in Moon sound with Gordon of
German warcraft barring their egress
northward back into the gulf of Fin
land or the south into the gulf of Ri
ga. Brave but outclassed by reason
of superior gun range and heavier
tonnage, the Russians gave battle to
the Germans ana attempted to force
back the enemy armada off Oesel
island. Standing far outside the shell
zone of the Russians, however, the
guns of the German dreadnoughts
sank the battleship Slava "a relic of
the days of the Russo-Japanese war
and so badly damaged other units
that the Russian flotilla was forced to
(. seek refuge in Moon sound, lying be-
tween Moon island and the Esthonia
coast.
Already the Germans have attempt
ed to attack from the north into Moon
sound but the Russian guns have
held them back successfully. Among
the German warships attacking The
old line vessels Of the Russian feet
were at least two dreadnoughts Of the
Grosser Kurfuerst type-vessels dis
placing 22,900 tons as against 1895
for the Slava. A majority ofthe crew
Of the Slava was saved by Russian
torpedo boats when The vessel took
its final plunge.
With this advantage Of the German
naval forces over the Russians, how
ever, comes news Of fresh disaffection
in the German fleet, of a mutiny in
the Austrian fleet in the Adriatic, and
of bitter feeling between German and
Austrian seamen in the Adriatic.
German sailors at Ostend are re-
ported to have refused to go aboard
submarine for duty and to have
thrown overheard one of their Off
GERS.
In the Adriatic the Austrian Seamen
have mutined owing to ill-treatment
by their officers and the bad food
served to them. 3D..
The bitterness Of feeling between
the Germans and Austrians at Pola,
Austria's naval base in the Adriatic,
resulted in fight in which men on
both sides were killed.
The trouble was due to the over
bearing conduct Of the German sea-
men who were attached to the subma-
rine f1otilla and il was necessary as a
result of bad blood to change the Ger
man base in the Adriatic to a point
further south.
On the other fronts there have been
no battles of noteworthy importance.
In Belgium the British and French
guns are still hammering the German
positions but there has been no indi-
cation officially or unofiicially OF when
a renewed infantry attack may be ex-
pected. On the other fronts only re-
connOitering engagements and bon
bardments are progressing.
Intensive air fighting took place
Wednesday between the French and
Germans. Eleven German airplanes
were driven down by French avia-
tors, making total of SO destroyed
up to that time this week. The Ger
nan war Office asserts that 10 French
were sent to earth. Numer-
Ous air raids also have been carried
but by French aviators against Ger
nan positions behind the lines while
Nancy again has been bombed by the
Germans.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-10-20
Quite A Saving.

A new ruling issued by the Treas
ury Department that distillers will
not be required to give new bonds for
whisky in Government warehouses
will mean saving of $500, 900, 600 in
bonds TO distillers.