Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-06-08

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DR.. Boyce and family left Tuesday
for Pullman and Moscow to attend
the American Veterinary Association
to be held at Pullman this week.
A. L. Creelman returned Sunday
evening from trip to Lewiston and
Portland. He accompanied Mrs.
Creelman to the latter place late last
week where she will spend several
weeks.
The village board closed lease this
week with A. L. Creelman for the use
of the latter's building on Broadway
for the fire company and band boys
for the coming year and the place will
be fitted up soon for their needs and
some athletic goods will be secured
for the benefit of the boys.
Arlie Gentry was in town Tuesday,
from his home in Rocky canyon and
stated that our information last week
about the amount Of damage done.
down that way by high water was
pretty badly overdrawn. He said the
water got pretty high but the damage
to the places mentioned was light and
not near SO serious as our informant
led us to believe.
The heavy storm last Friday after.
noon caused Cottonwood creek to rise
so rapidly that the stream overAowed
its banks in the west end of town and
water poured down Main street to the
depth Of more than a foot, giving the
town quite q flooded appearance.
However, the water subsidized after a
couple of hours and no damage was
done by the sudden rise r
!. George Rice returned Sunday even
ing from Spokane where he had been
attending business college for the past
several months. He completed the
course before leaving school and stop
ped off at Lewiston for a few days to
see his mother and other relatives be-
fore coming on home, getting here just
in time to get into the collar and help
out with spring work on the farm.
The sale held Saturday at the E.
d. Lamb farm north of town drew a
good crowd and all property sold at
good figures, the sale totaling slightly
over $4,000. Good milk COWS brought
an average of $40 a head and the
stock cattle went at around $40. One
brood SOW and seven small pigs
brought $50 and were purchased by
Johnnie Frank, a Nez Perce Indian
farmer.
Wilbur Bryant was in town Mon
day from his farm out on the prairie
and stated that farmers out that way
are still far behind with their spring
work and many of them have practic-
ally no seeding done while many have
from four to FIVE hundred acres to
plant. The result will be that much
land will have to be summerfallowed
that under ordinary conditions would
have been planted this spring.
Miss Cressie Lamb was united in
marriage last Sunday at Lewiston to
George Way, a rising young farmer
of the Vollmer country. and, after a
short wedding trip to Moscow and
other Palouse points, they will settle
down to married life on the groom 3
farm. The bride has lived here most of
her life and has many friends who wish
her a world of happiness in her new
home. She met the man of her choice
while teaching school in the Reubens
section last winter.
Registration day passed off very
quietly in Cottonwood and nothing
happened to cause ripple on the sur
face of the water. Citizens eligible to
register began coming in at an early
hour and by noon fifty had taken the
hurdles and gone on their way rejoic-
ing. At nine o'clock in the evening
when registration closed an even SO
had registered, which was almost twice
as many as had beeen expected to reg
lister at this point. 1t is not believed
any failed to register who were eli
gible.