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Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-11-16
Red Cross DOings.
Contributed

"a Christmas packages were
sent from the local branch last
week. The donations for this
purpose amounted to almost $50
cash, besides several gifts of ar
ticles to go into the packets, from
some of the merchants. The
Red Cross workers are truly
grateful for this generous re-
spouse to their appeal.
Each packet contained the fol-
lowing articles: White handker-
chief, bandanna handkerchief,
playing cards, pipe, pipe clean
ers, tobacco, cigarettes, cigarette
papers, tablet, pencil, envelopes,
sox, shoestrings, soap, cookies,
Hersheys chocolates and nut bar,
fig bar, fruit cake, chocolate
and fig cookies, raisins, peanuts,
butter scotch, gum, sweet choco-
late.
Word has been received from
general headquarters that we are
to be known hereafter as Cotton
wood Branch A. R. c., not aux
iliary.
We are now making comfort
kits. These are very simple and
if you wish to help a good cause,
come in and take home material
enough to make several.
To those who wish to knit, we
have a few balls of cotton left
for surgical sponges or wash
rags. We hope to receive WOO
soon for more sweaters, helmets
and other articles. Old sheets
pillow slips and other soft white
rags are desired.
Again we urge all who can tt
plan to put in every hour pos
sible when our knitting materials
and new patterns come. Every
thing we can make is desperatel!
needed. Chapters have beef
urged to increase their worl
fourfold. While we are hamper
ed somewhat now by lack of ma
terial we hope to soon be in a pc
sition to keep every voluntee
busy. Remember your worl
does just as much good, beinI
} done in a small place like Cotton
, wood, as it would were you work
ing in New York. We are not i
} this work for glory or popularity
we are doing this work becaus
some boys lives may depend O.
the things we make. And HOY
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-11-16
Auto Owners, Attention.

Freezing weather is about here
and we would suggest, to prevent
possible damage to your car, that
you drain off the water and re-
place with good anti-freeze So
luton.
Your storage battery needs
more attention in winter than in
summer. Keep the jars filled
regularly.
We have just installed motor
generator set and are now pre-
pared to take care of any and all
makes of storage batteries at
reasonable charge per month.
We have also just received an
oxy-acetylene Welding and cult
ing machine, so we can handle
any kind or size of work. We
weld any metal that melts.
Cottonwood HdW. & Imp. Co.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-11-16

gladly we should do everything
we can to back up" our boys.
Don't forget there are American
boys now who have wounds to be
bandaged and weak bodies that
need warm hospital garments.
Arrangements have been made
with the local picture show house
to put on a nine-reel picture
Twenty Thousand Leagues I'm
der the Sea" Dec. 5-thes pro-
ceeds to go to the Red Cross.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-11-16
Wood for Sale

l have % cords Of good yellow pine
16-inch wood for sale. Price in woods
2 miles from Keuterville, 81 and de-
livered SO cord.
e49 Geo. Scott.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-11-16
AND VICINITY


auction sale took place at the
Popp ranch east of town a few
days ago, have moved to Grange
vile for the winter.
Mrs. L. S. Punchas, an expert
enced American cook from Spo-
kane, is the new cook at the
Phoenix hotel, taking the place
of China Jim, who had held down
the job for a long time.
Geo. Reilly, a mining man from
Ruby, Alaska, and Charlie Reil-
ly, a prominent farmer of the
Moscow country, visited several
days here this week with their
brother, DIR. Reilly, the dentist.
Louis Tackle of Ashmoor, Mon
tana, in renewing his subscrip-
ton to the Chronicle this week,
ends his letter as follows: "All
of the Cottonwood people here
are getting along fine and are
busy turning the sod and all ex-
pect a bumper crop next year. +"
Tony Nau's long-delayed ship
ment of furniture which he had
been expecting for the last
month, at last arrived Wednes-
day. He asks all who need any,
thing in his line to call at once
and look over the new stock.
Mrs. Campbell, wife of M. D.
Campbell, the new miller with
the Cottonwood Milling Co., ar
rived here a few days ago from
Chelan, Wash. Mr.. and Mrs.
Campbell have rented the DIR.
Shinnick furnished house for the
winter.
Among the several sets of har-
ness sold this week by G. w.
Phillips was one set to Fred Car
penter, a Grangeville farmer. It
proves that Georges harness anC
prices are all right when he gets
business from other and larger
towns.
Don't forget that it require!
/ only &c for letter sent to any
address on a local rural mai
route just the same as a drol
letter in your home postoffice
Those residing on the route arr
entitled to the same &c rate il
mailing to the home postofice.
Mrs. H. A. Hurley died Satur
day at her home on upper Salmon
river at Freedom. She is surviv
ed by a husband and two chill
dren besides two sisters, Mrs
Geo. Gibson and Miss Irene Nor
H ris, both of Freedom, and
brother, Roy Morris, in Montana
The funeral was held at Denve
Tuesday.
Mrs. Asa Jones of Joseph i
here this week visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Rookie at thei
hotel. Two of her neighbor CIR
friends, Misses Mary and Saral
Swain, came to town with he
for a brief visit. Tomorrow Mrs
Jones and son Lewis expect t,
leave for San Francisco to visi
/ her son Julian Jones, who il
training in the navy there.
A slight error occurred in ou
item last week in the mention O
]. B. Krieger having sold hi
sawmill plant at Keuterville
Mr.. Krieger informs US that h
sold the lumber yard only, ant
that he still owns the mill. Johl
Reiland, the carpenter, has tn,
contract for building Mr.. Krie
gers new dwelling house in Cot
tonwood.
Marriage announcements ar,
out for the wedding of Mr.. Will
Kelsey and Miss Antonio Breug
eman, both of Cottonwood, tt
take place on Nov. 18th, and Mr.
Joseph Schaeffer of Ferdinan'
and Miss Anna Gehring of Ken
terville, to take place Nov. 10th
Mr.. Schaeffer will give a fire.
H dance at Keuterville on the even
iii T,,0e
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-11-16
TIP TOP FLOUR

The flower of fours-the household
flour-the pure-food -four. There is
none quite like it; pure and perfect;
highly nutritious -four. Light bread
and light work; makes one-ffth more
bread than other -four. Costs less
than other -four not half as good.
Makes more and better bread; always
uniform and dependable. Is bought
by good dealers and perfect bakers.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-11-16
EStraYed

From Jake Jenny's ranch one
mile north of town, a red and
white-spotted calf, age 5 months,
branded figure 2 on left hip.
Notify Eugene Barnett and re-
ceive suitable reward. Alb
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-11-16
At the Sc and 1Oc Store

Next door to the meat market
you can get the greatest bargains
you ever saw, in nearly every
thing you need. Special bar
gains on Saturdays. Drop in
and see for yourselves.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-11-16

HOTEL FOR SALE.
The only hotel in Ferdinand,
furnished and doing a good bust
ness. Inquire of Mrs. M. Meak-
in at Ferdinand hotel. b42
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-11-16
Residence Property for Sale.

Almost new Broom house, neatly
finished, with all necessary outbuild-
ings and an acre of ground in the
town of Cottonwood. Apply to Ben
Crunch or G. w. NuXoll.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-11-16
Winter Goods

A full line of mems underwear,
work shoes, overshoes, sox, gloves,
mits, etc. j. Y. Baker q Son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30
GET ALLEGED BLACKMAIIER.
Kansas City Police Arrest Man q
Leader in 81. 600 900 Extortions.

NEW YORK, December 29.-Geors~
Irwin, alleged leader of blackmaiiing
band, said to have extorted moro than
s., 000, 900 from its victims while on
Grating here and in other cities OF the
country in 1916, has been arrested in
Kansas City. according to information
received here today by Assistant Unit
ed States Attorney John c. Knox.
irwin is under federal Indictment
here charged with Matchmaking ..
Philadelphia woman out of $500. and
Edward r. West. vice president OF the
c. D. Gregg Tea and Coffee Co. of this
city and Chicago, out of $4,000.
Members of the band extorted money
from victims after they had been lureA
into alleged violations of the Mann
white slave act by representing them-
selves as federal agents and PROMISING
to drop prosecution. All the members
Of the band except Irwin are serving
fail sentences. Irwin will - Ano19l
here for trial 1000. -.l-s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va. December 2s.-
Congregations OF the various Profess
tant churches of this city will hold
union services beginning Monday night.
Services will be held every night at
s o'clock. ending Friday night The
order OF services will be as follows:
Monday. NJ e. Church South. sermon
by Rev. w. J. Morton, rector of Christ
P. E. Church: Tuesday. First Baptist
Church, sermon by Rev. Dr. John Lee
Allison, pastor of the Second Presby-
terrain Church: Wednesday. Second
Presbyterian Church. sermon by Rev
Or. Il. V. REGISTER, pastor OF the VI. +.
Church South: Thursday. Methodist
Protestant Church. sermon by Rev. A.
p Speiiman, pastor Of the Trinity NJ.
f. Church: Friday, Christ J.. Z. Church,
sermon by Rev. DR. T. F. jackson,
pastor of the First Baptist Church.
New Year will be quietly observed
here Banks, city and government
offices will be closed all day. Many
business houses will suspend operations
at the noon hour. At several churches
the congregations Will gather to watch
the passing of the old year While
Alexandria. as usual. will give noisy
ringing of bells. blowing of horns and
whistles. Mayor Fisher has decreed
that the use of firearms and high ex-
p1osives powder crackers will be ia
boo.
Weather conditions during the past
twenty-four hours have caused consid-
cradle suffering among the poor of this
city Representatives of the various
charitable organizations in the city
have been kept busy looking after the
needs of INDECENT persons.
Patrick Cunningham Dies.
Patrick Cunningham a farmer, about
sixty years old, died this afternoon at
the Alexandria Hospital. The de-
ceased was unmarried and formerly
lived in Fairfax county. west of this
city. He is survived by a sister Fu-
neral services will he held at a:3o
o'clock Monday from st. Mary's Cath
| Ollie Church.
The campaign for the sale of war
savings stamps will be formally
launched in this city Monday. All citi-
zens will be enlisted in selling the
stamps.
1t is expected a large number of
persons will attend the dance which
Will be given Monday night in the
auditorium of the Elks' Home, under
the auspices of the refreshment corps
| of the Red Cross. Arrangements also
| have been made for a dance which
will be given Thursday night in the
auditorium of the Elks' Home under
the auspices of Fitzgerald Council, No.
4J9, knights of Columbus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30
This "Certificate of Guarant
1arantee" Is Real Home Insurance

The Hub realizes that many of the homemakers of Wash
ington have gone the 'front.' either with the Army the
Navy and that perhaps many will CO. and is further
appreciated that the vast majority Of civilians who doing
their bit home striving under conditions that tax their
earning power to the limit.
Read our Adj on the opposite Page! Then this B
wonderful Underselng Values which will usher in Janua
of the year USE YOUR CREDIT and get the CERTIFICAT
pens your family will be provided with comfortably furnish
The Hub Furniture Co. Has Been Apo
Department to Sell United Stat,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30
Law Committee to Meet.

Announcement is made that the gov
ernor's law enforcement committee will
meet at Quantico, January 3, Rev. J. T.
Mastin, chairman, presiding. Conditions
at the naval and marine camp at that
place are reported as excellent
w. II. Barnett, Theron Hayden and
George Allensworth, who have been
spending the Christmas holidays with
their parents in this city. departed this
afternoon for Camp McClellen at An
niston, Ala.
The nature of the celebration Lee
Camp, Confederate Veterans, will hold
January IS, in observance of Gen. Lees
birthday. will be determined at a spe-
cial meeting of that camp which will
be held Monday night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30
MONEY IN BANK, OWNS AUTO,
BUT MAN CANNOT BUY COAL
Morris Wolowitz, Wife and Five Children
Have to Go to Bed to Keep Warm.
Weather Near Zero.

automobile TO haul 1t, but the trouble
is we can't get any"
And the bitterest irony OF all, on the
coolest night of the year, was this:
The real estate man came yesterday
and fixed the iatrobe-in which the
family has no coal to burn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30
MUST TAKE MINES /
AND DRAFT LABOR
Government win Be Forced to
Such Step, Mr.. Snead j
Predicts.
SHOULD BURN LESS COAL

The government VIII be forced to take
over the coal mines and to conscrfpt
labor to raeet the war crisis. according
to predictions made yesterday by L. A.
Snead. distributor for the fuel admin
on manufactures which Is investigating
the coal and sugar shortages.
The solution of the whole fuel prob
lem, he said. was adequate and efficient
transportation Priority orders for coal
shipments, he said, might AFFORD soma
temporary relief in many parts Of the
country.
Must Use Less Coal, he Says.
Mr.. snead gave warning that there
must be restriction in the use OF coal,
for In that way alone would IL be pos
mated shortage in production OF &c.
100000 tons for the year. He said he
saw no other way 10 make up this
shortage.
Mr.. Snead discussed at length the
coal situation in 5he District OF Co.
lum bia. declaring that there was suf-
ficient coal in Washington to meet the
normal needs of the people. and that
enough would be shipped here in the
future. lie admitted there had been
| shortage here not long ago He said
that it had been necessary for the fuel
administration about ten days ago to
divert arbitrarily coal to supply the
Capitol building and the once build
ings of the Senate and House. He said
that 1000 tons had been ordered yes
terday to dump for the benefit OF
private consumers. which had been con-
silned to the government. He criti-
cised residents of Washington for
boarding coal. and tho coal dealers for
| falling to cooperate with the fuel
administration.
Mr.. Snead said the 200 locomotives
first destined for Russia, but which
will be held in this country will be of
great benefit in relieving the general
coal situation. 1t will take about S.
900 to change the gauge of each one
and the work can be done In week
or ten days.
Roads Not Entirely Responsible.
The railroads are not entirely re-
sponsible for congestion due to cross
hauling" the witness said. The oper-
ators desire 1t in many cases, as it
often extends their distributing field"
|, lie denied, however, that railroads
generally co-operated with mine oper-
ators to extend fields by long hauling
while disregarding possible cross
hauling.
When Mr.. Snead had completed his
testimony the committee adjourned
until Wednesday morning to hear Food
Administrator Hoover The COMMITTEES
expects to clear up the sugar inquiry
within two days and get back to coal
Witnesses from several parts of the
country who are expected to throw
light on the coal situation have been
notified to be here Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30
COAL ECONOMY SEEN
IN DAYLIGHT SAVING
Gain of 500, 600 Tons a Year
Predicted by Advocates of /
Bill Before Congress. u

| Saving of more than 100000 tons Of
coal year If daylight saving of an
hour a day were adopted by act of
Congress in the United States would be
| effected. according to estimates made
| by the executive committee on daylight
saving for the Chamber of Commcrce
| of the United States, of which A, Lin
coin Filene of Boston is chairman.
| This is one of the strong arguments
to be made at the hearing in a week
or two before the House committee ON
interstate and foreign commerce ON
| the daylight saving bill. which recently
passed the Senate by unanimous vote.
| Shipbuilding Argument.
| scented is that at recent conferences
| of shipyard employment managers in
Washington under the auspices of the
| United States shipping board, resolu-
adoption of the daylight saving plan
as material aid in the shipbuilding
| program.
In explaining some of the coal
economy that may be effected through
the daylight saving plan. Mr.. Filene
| said last night:
| I'm the use of coal for domestic pur-
poses. daylight saving. II practiced during
omies, although there are such great d.
versities in this use that the saving of
coal cannot be estimated very accurately.
| The saving would occur during the cooler
! months when. in effect, morning hour
when relatively little heat is used in
residences would be substituted for an
evening hour when under present condi-
| lions the use of artificial heat in resi-
dences is at its maximum. That the saw
! ing would be considerable is apparent
from the fact that, according to the fig
| ures of the geological survey for 1915.
at least 100000 tons of bituminous coal
will be used this year for heating resi-
dences.
Saving on Electricity.
Daylight saving will have its effect,
too, upon some other problems regarding
coal. For example, it will make it easier
to persuade small electric stations
throughout the country to decrease their
| 'aIl-night' service, and save coal pro-
sentiment which would insist upon need
less lighting by municipalities being elirni-
mated. and would lead each private user
of electric light to reduce the amount or
light he uses to his actual requirements
thus reducing extravaganza in electric
energy. 4
1.-The public point of view created by
daylight saving will make easier adjust
ment of such questions as the legitimacy
under present conditions of advertising.
by electric signs and illumination Of
white ways"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Morris wolowits and
their Ave children went to bed last
night to keep warm, so cold was their
homo at s2s NJ street southwest
And thus another paragraph was
written in tho cold-weather story Of
Washington. the capital of the nation.
where a man with plenty of money in
his pocket and gasoline in his auto
| mobile is unable to buy enough coal to
keep his family warm.
Huddlcd around a latrobe. glowing
with a small fire made from coal do
| mated by a Kind neighbor. the Wolowitz
family smiled and froze last night the
coolest night OF the year. until every
| body decided to go to bed and call it a
night
Mr.. Wolowitz. who Is a paperhanger
and painter, declared that he has tried
every way to buy coal for the past
month and has not been able to get SO
much as hushel to heat his house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30
Appeal to Fuel Administration.

Il went TO the fuel administration about
a week ago, he said, and they took my
application fer a ton of coal
Il never heard anything from them. so
went back today and asked them about
it, and they said We don't want to hear
about your other application. but If you
want to you can make out another appli-
cation.
Late yesterday afternoon he called the
District health office, but was unable to
get any help there.
They told me TO ask tho police" said
Mr.. Wolowitz.
las il we would ask the police" shifted
Mrs. WoloWitz cold but proud
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-30
Nobody Will Sell Him Coal.

The husband declared that he had tried
| various dealers of the southwest and
/ northwest sections of the city, all of whom
told him they hadn't even a bushel Of
coal to sell.
| The family has been burning wood in
| the Iatrobes, of which the house has
| two. since cold weather set in. but the
| heaters are not made for that sort of
| fuel, and good results in the heating
/ line were not obtainable.
The wife declared that the family had
| about one-fourth ton of coal left over
! from last year, and that she had been
/ conserving that until the cold weather
should come. so that the children. all
/ Of whom go to school except Baby
| Jeanette two and one-half years old.
might be kept warm 10 study their les
/ sons.
All this coal-"all this coai,"-was
| consumed during the recent cold spell.
Since that time the family has been
| virtually without heat.
Has Feet In Gas Oven.
! John Dubois. a roomer at the wolo-
witt home. i'll with a severe cold was
| found last night with his feet in the
oven of the gas stove in the kitchen.
| BY keeping the oven going the family
managed to heat the kitchen, but that
| was all.
| The children are Rosie, thirteen years
DID, who is in the low fourth" at the
Greenleaf School: Frances, ten years old,
| in the low third at the Bowen School;
4 William. nine years old. high third. Bowen
| School: Benny. seven years old. high
second at the Bowen School and BABY
| jeanette" two and half years old.
| The latter is sufferin-f with cold, her
parents said, brought about by the cold
house
Baby Jeanette seemed shy of greet
| ing strangers. but when told that The
Star reporter was not THE doctor" over
came her shyness enough to declare that
she was not cold
/ A sixth child, Ida, thirteen years old,
| was sent to Baltimore hospital sew
eral weeks ago She has been a suf-
fferer from hip disease since early child
hood, and owing to the cold condition
| of the home this fall, the mother de-
| cided to send her to the hospital, where
she can be warm.
Cash and Auto But No Coal.
I'VE have money enough to get coal"
| said Mr.. Wolowitz, and I've got the
New Britain herald., 1917-02-05
CHURCH NEWS
South Congregational Church.

There will be a meeting of the Boy Scouts this evening at 7:3O o'clock. All men interested in renovation and repair of the church property are asked to meet in the chapel this eve- ming at o'clock.
 All young people are invited to at tend the social of the Christian Ser vice league this evening at 7:45 o'clock. There will be an entertain ment after which refreshments will be served.
 The society's committee will hold an open conference tonight at 8 o'clock.
 The Women'sN Foreign Missionary society will take Africa" as its sub ject at the meeting Wednesday at 3 D. nl.
 Wednesday afternoon at 4:3O o'clock the Girl Scouts will. hold a cake and candy sale in the primary room.
 On Thursday afternoon at 3:3O there will be d meeting of those mem- bers of the Board of Ladies who were unable to come to the meeting last week.
 The postponed meeting of the standing committee will be held on Friday evening at the parsonage at 7:3O o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-05
CANCEL GERMAN CONCERT.
Third Imperial Sea Battalion Unable
 to Leave New York

Because of the diplomatic break be- tween this country and Germany and the impending crisis, the Third Inn perial Sea Battalion band of thirty eight pieces which was to have rem dered benefit concert at the Lyceum last evening, was unable to leave New York. The concert was called off and money for tickets purchased will be refunded on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at Hoffman's bakery on West Main street.
 The concert was originally arranged by Miss Frances Water of this city and Paul Morenzo of South Manchester.
 The Third Imperial Sea Battalion band is composed of enlisted mon in the German navy. They were in- termed in Japan but escaped to this country. Because of their status as