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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-08-22
LETHA

Mrs. Bott and children and her sis
ter. Miss Reynolds, spent Friday af
ternoon with Mrs. Battan.
Boise Riggs. Sr., and family with
Mrs. John Jackson of Emmett visited
at the II. C. Riggs home Thursday
evening.
w. c. T. IT, will meet next Wednes-
day at Baptist church. The election
of officers for the next six months
viii take place. A full attendance is
desired. If there is any Red Cross
sewing to be had from Emmett. it will
be there also, so come prepared to
work
W. w. Wilton and family motored
down from Emmett and were in Letha
= short time Sunday evening.
r. l.. Battan has been entertaining
couple Of Jobs comforters for a
week. He declares he doesn't believe
the old saw to the effect they are
worth So apiece.
Mr.. and Mrs. Battan went TO New
Plymouth Tuesday morning, where
they attended the marriage of the
latter's sister Miss Nellie Hinchliff to
Mr.. NJ. s. Hoover of Twin Falls. The
happy couple will spent two weeks
at Payette Lakes before going TO
housekeeping in their beautifully APP
pointed home at Twin Falls, where
Mr.. Hoover is president of the Bust
ness College.
Sunday there viii be Layman's
convention of Baptists at Boise at 2,S0
in the afternoon Rev Lanman, Mr.
Pomeroy and Mr. Battan expect to go
from here.
Mr. Battan will be registrar for the
new draft for this precinct. More de-
finite news will be given later
HrS. Cummings came in Monday
with load Of household goods. She
will occupy the Taylor house. Her sis
ter will keep house for her while she
teaches our school.
We have received word from Diyis-
ion Headquarters Of Red Cross that
the First Red Cross War Fund had
been merged with the second All
those who made pledges through Kes-
gard and Battzn last year are asked
70 cali al the office and pay 70 Mr.
Ezttan.
Nr. Kiser and Mrs Stowe Of Mis-
soul, Mont, were quietly married
5ast Friday ar Emmett Their quiet
time didn't Last long, as chzrlyari
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-08-22
SOUTH SLOPE
BY Mrs. c. w. Cook

Bert Wright and wife spent Sunday
on the butte at the Oscar Ivie home.
Orchard men are getting ready tc
pick their peaches next week.
Some orchardists are having their
prunes picked.
Mrs. May Sharp expects to move to
Portland soon.
August 30, the Crescent Club la
dies will be entertained by Mrs. An
thony Peterson.
C. p Hall and wife and viii Hall
of Fruitland spent Sunday with the
c. w. Cook family.
Mrs. Stinson returned from her
Fruitland visit Sunday.
Threshing is the order of the day
at the w. d. Mcfarland ranch.
Mr. Steinberg and another gentle
man from Caldwell loaded their auto
with fruit Wednesday preparatory to
hunting trip around Cascade.
Henry Hardt, on the old Heath
place, has been taking several truck
loads of melons to Boise.
Grace Cook had her tonsils removed
Monday, and is getting along as well
as could be expected.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-08-22
NEWS OF GEM COUNTY
BY The Index's Correspondents

party visited them in the evening
and made merry for some time, re-
naming until Mr.. Kiser took all to
the store for treats.
The Mormon people had social
dance last evening.
Mr.. Youtsler's brother from Sweet
has been visiting him for a week.
Mrs. Paul Jones leaves today for
her home at Irrigon, Ore. She will
visit at Vale and Ontario enroute.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-08-22

Miss Cecilia Kreizenbeck visited
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. C. B.
Morris.
Mrs. Claude Barnes spent Wednes-
day afternoon with Mrs. Jay Sanders.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-08-22
Card of Thanks

We wish to express our heartfelt
appreciation of the kindness and SYM
pathy shown US in the recent bereave-
ment of our baby son.
Mrs. and Mrs. F. V. Spence.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-08-22

/ am candidate for the Democra-
tic nomination for Sheriff Of Gem
county. My duties as sheriff and as
member of the Local Draft Board,
are such that | will be unable to spend
any time in making a campaign.
feel that the voters of Gem county
know me and are in way familiar
with the manner in which the office
has been conducted during my term
in the office, and can decide whether
or not they desire my services longer,
without further campaign on my part.
DAVE NICHOLS
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-08-22
Little Iron Men Versus Labor

Little IRON Men versus Labor
Take your lazy dollars out of UNI
profitable idleness and put them to
work.
Transformed into Certificates of
Deposit issued by this bank they will
earn per cent interest on annual. or
semi-annual deposits.
Your money will grow and earn If
deposited in this form.
These certificates represent abso-
lutte safety, assured profit and are
readily convertible in time of need.
Consult the officers of The First
National Bank for complete details.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-06-14
Col. zuVCr Goes Over The Top
Of the Hill.

Col. Zuver of Grangeville, the
celebrated auctioneer, was seeing
the elephant in Cottonwood Mon
day. Last Sunday he and his
wife, the two Vansise girls and
Miss Florence Dryer of Kooskia,
were on the way to Winona to see
the ball game, but they never
reached there.
On the hill at the Huffman farm
their Ford car bucked over the
hill and upset on the entire crowd,
but luckily all escaped without a
scratch, except the Colonel,
who lost enough skin off one ear
to almost half-sole his rubber
boots. While the entire weight
of the car was resting on the
colonel's ear, it is reported that he
said a few things" that acted like
an explosion, and which turned
the car over on its feet again.
The car was not damaged, except
the top which looked like it had
been through the war.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-06-14
Prizes by HusSman Lumber Co

Miss Margaret Sweet, County
School Supt., sends us the follow
ing for publication:
The prizes donated by the Huss-
man Lumber Company in the
Thrift and War Savings Stamp
contest were awarded as follows:
First prize-Denver school, Miss
Edna Mcdonald, teacher. Ed
Weber, clerk of district. Receiv-
ed SIS in Thrift and War Savings
Stamps. Purchased $454. rs worth
of stamps and averaged $27.37 per
pupil.
Second prize-$3.OO in Thrift
stamps was won by Greencreek
school Sister M. Dominica teach
er, John Jentges clerk. This
school purchased $470 worth of
stamps averaging $3.50 per pupil.
Third prize-$2 in Thrift stamps
was awarded to Icicle Flat school
with Miss Lennis Pullen as teach
er and L. |. Patterson clerk. This
school purchased $92 worth of
stamps, averaging SAIL per pupil
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-06-14
GERMAN WOMEN
MUST REGISTER
Over ID Years Between
June IL and 26.

Commencing at 6 o'clock Mon
day morning, June 18th, and last
ing until 8 p. m. on June 18th, all
German alien females in the
United States over the age of ID
years, MUST register, as per order
of the Attorney General of the
United States. Postmaster Nash
has been appointed registrar for
the Cottonwood district.
For the information of those af-
fected by the registration restric-
ton, the edict from Washington
says:
All natives, citizens, denizens
or subjects of the German empire
or of the imperial German govern
ment, being females of the age of
IA years and upwards, who are
within the United States and not
actually naturalized as American
citizens are required to register.
Each woman or girl required to
register must furnish four un-
mounted photographs of herself,
not larger than 3x3 inches in size,
on thin paper, with a light back
ground. The photographs must
be of the shoulders and full face,
without hat or other head cover
ing, and these must be brought
by the registrants to Identification
bureau.
This registration is to be con-
Quoted in accordance with Presi-
dent Wilson's proclamation OF
April 10, 1918, and any German
alien female required to register
who fails to complete her registra-
ton or violates the regulations in
any way is liable to restraint, i'm
prisonment and detention for the
duration of the war.
The registration of the women
is to be done by the same officials
and in the same manner as that
of the mae German aliens sever
al weeks ago.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-06-14
STREETS TO BE
MACADAMIzED
LOng-delaYed Work to Be-
gin Soon.

Since couple of miles on each
of the several main roads leading
into town are to be macadamized
AS per call for bids in this paper
our enterprising citizens very
properly figure that it would be a
disgrace to the town if our main
streets are left in worse shape than
the country roads.
Therefore, it is the intention to
arrange to macadamize several of
our principal streets to connect
with the similar work on the coun-
ty roads at the city limits.
With this end in view, a peti-
tion is being circulated which
should and no doubt will be sign
ed by every citizen and property
owner in town, asking our mayor
and city council to order this
work done.
The expense will not be great,
and property owners will find that
it will be the best investment they
ever made, as it will increase the
value of their property much more
than the cost of macadamizing
will amount to. Besides, it will
put our town on the map along
with every other progressive town
in the country. Cottonwood ap-
pears to be the only town of this
size (1OOO people, in the United
States with no street improve
ments of this kind-and surely
our people do not wish to lag be-
hind the procession any longer in
these matters.
A bunch of our boosters made
an auto trip Sunday to Waha hill
between here and Lewiston to in
spect that road, which is made of
the same material that is contem-
plated for our streets and roads.
The party was composed of High
way Engineer A. j. Warren, Au-
gust Schroeder, J. F. Jenny, Geo.
M. Robertson, M. M. Belknap, J.
V. Baker and Fred Simon. These
gentlemen feel satisfied that the
material used on the Waha hill is
the best and cheapest to be had,
and it is more than likely that the
same kind will be used on our
roads and streets.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-06-14
Odd Fellows and RebekahS Hold
Convention.

The Idaho County Association
of Odd Fellows met in regular an
nual convention at Ferdinand last
Wednesday, 18th, with a good at
tendance.
In the forenoon an open meet
ing was held when those not mem
bers were invited and a general
musical and speech-making pro-
gram was staged, with Grand
Marshal Reese Hattabaugh as the
main speaker. In the afternoon
both the Odd Fellows and Rebek-
abs met in secret session, chose
Cottonwood as the meeting place
for next year and elected officers.
At six o'clock a Hoover dinner
was served in the lodge hall, and
at the evening session the Rebek-
ah degree staff exemplified the
work in the degree to a class of
five.
The rain up there was much
heavier than here, and it forced a
number of Cottonwood people to
stay all night at Ferdinand-in
the dark, at that-as the light
ming struck a telephone pole in
town, putting their electric wires
out of business.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-06-14
Local BOYS in Draft.

Idaho county will send SO men
to Camp Lewis the latter part Of
this month. Following are those
to go from Cottonwood and vicin-
ity:
Geo. Seubert, Arthur Rhoades,
Clem Hussman, Frank Schober,
Carl Farthing, Ramon Triplett,
John Rookie, Andrew Drube, Ed
Won Oy, Anton Bruegeman, Clyde
Leonard, Bernard Hattrup, Roy
Triplett, Barnra Wensman, Julius
Holthaus, Lawrence Lustig, Leroy
Terwillegar, Geo. Arnzen, Henry
Jess, Otto Smith, Harry Twilegar,
Elvin Rookie, Harry Pfannebeck-
er, VIM. Mundt, Franc Bowman,
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-06-14
Old Sot Duly EcIipsed.

The eclipse of the sun Saturday
evening was "duly observed" here
through smoked glasses. It re-
quired about one hour for the
moon to pass in front of Old Sol
allowing that great and popular
lighting system to do business
again on the same old route.
Everybody seemed we'll pleased
with the unusual show, except the
chickens, which all went to bed"
and had to get out again in an
hour or so, looking sort of down
in the mouth.
This joke is told on Amos Rose,
the good-natured undertaken"
He had heard that in order to see
the eclipse to best advantage it
was necessary to smoke glass.
Someone found Amos behind a
woodpile with pipe-full of ground
glass, mixed with tobacco, smok-
ing and putting away till his eyes
stuck out like a bugs. By the
time he got his glass smoked prop
'erly the eclipse was over and Old
Sol peeped over the moon and
made faces at Amos.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-06-14
War Savings Day.

June 28th has been designated
by the President of the United
States as War Savings Day. Ex-
tensive preparations are being
made all over the country for the
campaign to obtain signed pledges
for the purchase of War savings
certificates during the balance of
the year. The quota expected to
be obtained is $40 per capita.
This makes the amount for Idaho
County approximately $260,O0O.
Sales up to the present time are
somewhat less than $4,000, leav-
ing 1920, 900 to be sold during the
balance of the year. To obtain
this amount it will be necessary
for many persons to purchase the
stamps in large quantities, as of
course there are many who can't
and others who will not purchase
any of the certificates.
These certificates are an ideal
way to invest small savings, from
week to week and from month to
month, besides our country needs
the money derived from the sales.
Idaho county has met every de-
mand in the past and it is hoped
that it will go over the top in the
matter of the purchase of war saw
ings certificates and thrift stamps.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-06-14

The Ellison-White Chautauqua
people have been writing us every
few days for the past six weeks
saying they would send us a lot
of attractive advertising dope in
plate-matter form, but nothing of
the kind has shown up yet. 1t
may be here in time for our next
issue.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-06-14

Grandma Howell went to Gif-
ford the fore part of this week to
visit her son Robie for awhile.
A big dance will be given at
Keuterville next Tuesday night
in honor of the drafted boys from
that vicinity who will leave on
the 23rd for Camp Lewis.
The Nezpercers defeated the
Fem Red Cross team at Ilo
Wednesday. But the game net
ted nice bunch of 5 for the Red
Cross-the main thing that counts.
The grand jury is still at work
investigating the Soards murder
case and expects to finish examin-
ing witnesses tomorrow. Already
about 80 witnesses from the White
bird section have been examined.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-06-14
LOCAL ITEMS
OF INTEREST
Condensed For the Benefit
of Chronicle Readers.

VlSlCOr the 1lrSC OF this week.
Mrs. Jack Back is visiting home
folks at Nezperce this week while
recovering from measles.
John Meyer and Geo. Seubert
made flying auto trip to Grange
vile Tuesday evening.
Bill Campbell has gone to Peck,
where he will have charge of a
warehouse this summer.
Riley Rice is visiting his sons
on their big stock ranch in Mon
tana, and next week will attend a
big Farmers Union convention in
Seattle.
Sam Tunnel and Miss Watson
of Winona, who have been grant
ed a marriage license, and who
are to be welded soon, were in
town Tuesday.
Mel Pierce made a trip to Mos
COW the first of this week to pur-
chase some thoroughbred stock
for his farm. His little son Wal
lace went with him.
Miss Anna Lies was taken to
Lewiston the first of this week by
DR.. Shinnick and was operated
upon for appendicitis. She is get
ting along nicely.
Colonel Sam Walker, the we'll
known life insurance agent has
returned to Cottonwood, after an
absence of several months in the
Genesee country.
One of the biggest auction sales
ever pulled off in this part of the
country will be the Albert Fray
sale, near Grangeville, next Tues
day, 18th. See ad in this issue.
Arthur H. Thoeke, a bright
young bank clerk and bookkeep-
er from Perham, Mimi, has ac-
cepted position with the Cot
tonwood State bank. He arrived
here Wednesday.
The Community Aid Society
ladies will serve sandwiches, cof-
fee, etc, at least one day during
Chatauqua week. See card in
Randalls store window telling
where these will be served.
The Red Cross ladies feel very
thankful to the public for the lib
eral patronage given them Satur-
day and Sunday when they served
ice cream at Joe Gaul's place.
Just $50 was netted for the Red
Cross.
Bill and Frank Simon spent a
day or two this week in Lewiston,
where Bill had his injured thumb
x-rayed and worked over. He
got the end of his right thumb
cut off recently while working on
an auto.
c. C. White, head carpenter on
the new elevator for the Cotton
wood Milling Co., received bad
scalp wound one day this week by
a board falling on him-putting
him out of business for several
hours.
A large crowd of people is in
town to hear Hon. T. A. Walters
patriotic address in Odd Fellows
hall at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Lieut.. Gov. Parker and Geo. M.
Robertson went to Nezperce this
morning and brought Mr.. Walters
to Cottonwood.
Fred Edwards and son Harry
who went to Peace River, Can
ada, a short time ago, expecting
to find a better country than
Camas Prairie, arrived home yes
terday, thoroughly convinced that
a better all-round country than
this can not be found out of doors
anywhere on earth.
A number of people from this
section have gone over to Fly
blow to attend the big Red Cross
celebration today and tomorrow.
1t appears like the Cowboy band
of Grangeville failed to keep their
agreement to furnish music for
the occasion, and yesterday Mr..
Jones telephoned over to see what
the chances were to get the Cot
tOnwood band to go over. But
The sun., 1918-12-29
By EDWARD N. A

TN 1873 Gov. Dix OF this State APP
l. pointed a retired hardware merchant
State Commissioner of Charities, and for
two dozen wears thereafter William Pryor
Letchworth devoted himself usefully 10 the
work os that important Office. His be-
ne6eent influence was felt in The asylums
for the insane and in the prisons where h2
constantly endeavored TO improve eondi-
lions of housing and treatment of inmates.
This merchant philanthropist interested
himself Ion the side" in American Indian
As early as 1859 he began 10
buy land at Portage Fails on the Grne-ee
River, and continued until he had de
veIopcd an estate Of about Loco acres.
which he called Glen Iris and 10 which he
removed such relics OF Indian past as he
was able 10 acquire. After hi death this
fine estate, now known as Letehworth
Park, became the property of the State OF
New York. and there stands today the
bronze statue he set up in memory of
Mary Jemison, the white woman of the
Genesee."
The sun., 1918-12-29

Jemison, her heirs or successors $500 a
year forever"
The bodily infrmities Of old age grad
ually Increased in Mrs. Jemison," says old
Ebenezer Mix, land enervated her frame.
Yet she retained her reason and mental
faculties to an extent for a
person of her age, and her society was not
only endurable but rendered highly inter-
esting and desirable by her natural ex-
uberant flow of animal spirits and good
nature. In the summer of 1888 she in a
peaceable and friendly manner seeded
from the pagan party of her nation and
joined the Christian party. . D.. In the
autumn succeeding she was attacked by
disease for almost the first time in her
pr"trarted pilgrimage and dropped away
suddenly from the scenes of this life on
tse 10Th day Of September, 1888, at her
own dwelling on the Buffalo Greek reser-
Walton, aged about 81 years" She was so
when She told her story to DR.. Seaver.
Mary Jemlson was clearly a remarkable
The sun., 1918-12-29

by blood. This class fixed upon Americans
the tradition of Anglo-Saxon origin, which
was probably not true for the majority
Of the people after the middle of the
eighteenth century"
Mr.. Farrand's story is not that of de
velopment by a nation; it is the story of a
great people developing into a nation. 1t
Is As far beyond the dry as dust conveu-
tional history text book as it is short of
the sensational style that tries to make
olr ancestors real by making them i'm
possible.
Professor Lavell and Payne interpret"
the British Empire in Imperial England.
Here too IS a story of development from
the sort of imperial government that lost
England her colonies in this part of the
world TO the sort that made all her mod
ern domains stand stanchly by her
through the war in defence of civilization.
Australia. Canada, Ireland and India each
has a chapter. What the authors do is to
draw together familiar materials in such
a way as TO make clearer to our under
standing the nature of the great empire
that grappled with the wicked German
giant.
Professor Sehapiro's Modern and Con-
temporary European History has 756
good solid pages, plus appendices and in
dex: some book. 1t is written clearly
but not brilliantly. 1t is good workman
smp-competent and conscientious-but
certainly no.: genius. We'll: is genius a
fair requirement7D The arrangement is
skilfnlly logical; Europe is viewed, at in
%tervals, in the large, and individual nations
appear. give way 10 others and reappear
Just as they might have seemed to do in
The sun., 1918-12-29
Biography a Century Old.

A Life Of MARI JemtSoH was published
as C~anandaigua, y. y, in 1874. 1t is n
Of The best records We nave OF the life of
a white person captured and adopted by
Indians. DIR. James Everett Seaver
wrote the story down from Mary Jemi-
sons own telling of it. After going
through nineteen editions the book has
been once more revived and revised, tins
time by the American Scenic and Historic
Preservation Society, through a fund
given by Helen Hall Vail in remembrance
of "a long and beautiful friendship with
, the Letchworth family" Mr.. Letehworth
was one of the editors OF this persistent
book.
The present (twentiethl edition. arranged
by DR.. Charles Delamater Vail, professor
emeritus of English literature at Hobart
College, contains a literal, page for page
restoration of the first printing. with notes
and chapters added by successive editors,
Ebenezcr Mix, Lewis Henry Morgan,
William Clement Bryant and Mr.. Letch-
worth.
Verify This book has itself Il history not
much less remarkable than that which it
was originally devised to contain. DIR.
Seaver set the ball rolling with his vivid
proxy personal narration, and it is vivid,
for if the rhetoric of nifety-four years
ago WIS pompous it was not obscure, and
if in exposition or disquisition it went on
stilts in narration it moved more natu-
rally and with admirable speed and direct
ness.
Ir 1872 Ebenezer Mix gave the volume
his special impress of geographical ammo
~tation. in 1856 Morgan enriched it from
his abundant knowledge of the life, Gus
TONS and language of the Indians, and in
1877 Mr.. LetchwortiI ~reestablished the
work on IFS original ''human interest
basis.
The sun., 1918-12-29
AS to the White Woman of the GeneSee

good counsellor, refused to let him leave
their settlement, and Mary resolved to
stay With the Indians rather than leave
him. Also she had a large family of
Young children and she feared that ii she
should succeed in finding her own relatives
they would refuse to take them in with
her, and so she elected TO spend the re-
mainder Of her days with her Indian
friends.
Her two eldest sons, Thomas and John,
quarrelled and John killed Thomas. John
had, it seems, a rather unpleasant DISPOSE
ton and a habit of fratricide. Later in a
fit of jealousy he killed his other brother,
Jesse.
In 1917 Mary ,Jemi~on was naturalizrI
by aci OF the Legislature of the State Of
New York and confirmed III the ownership
of the land on which she had settled. In
1923 she disposed OF a part OF her reser.
%vation, retaining only a tract Two miles
long and one mile wide. The considera-
ton was an agreement 10 pay TO Mary