Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-03-01
LOCAL NEWS
OF INTEREST
Condensed for the Benefit
of Chronicle Readers.

P. A. Gaul was looking after
his business interests at Keuter-
vile yesterday.
Mrs. John Gibson of Lewiston
is here for a short visit with her
father, Pete Bies.
Tony Nau hunted in Grange
vile one day this week. Ask him
what he was hunting.
Charley johnson, our popular
section foreman, made brief
business trip to Spokane this week.
Geo. Mead left today for the
Salmon River country, and will
work for John Platt, the sheep
man.
Alois Holthaus has bought the
Andrew Popp farm of 100 acres, 5
miles southeast of town, for $100
an acre.
J. V. Baker receives word daily
from his wife that their son Floyd
who is sick with typhoid fever in
Spokane is improving.
Miss Anna Peterson enjoyed a
couple of days visit this week
with her friend Miss Margaret
Kaline at Winchester.
Mrs. Fred Lange, who had
been on the sick list for several
days, is able to be out again, and
expects to leave next Monday for
her new home near Prineville,
Oregon.
The usual Coml Club luncheon
held at the hotel every End and
4th Mondays was not held last
Monday, but will be held on the
next regular meeting day March
11th.
Fat Hamlin is looking-with a
stocking of mush-for the fellow
who entered his house one night
this week (when the family was
absent) and painted out the word
German" on his stove.
Anton Reidhaar left Wednesday
for Camp Lewis to begin his SER
vice in the army. His father and
Sheriff Yates accompanied him as
far as Lewiston and another off
Ger accompanied him from there.
John Jorgensen this week sold
to Joseph w. Arnzen 100 acres of
unimproved land, A miles from
Greencreek, for $100 an acre. The
Improvements consist of fencing
and a small cabin. H. H. Nuxoll
acted as agent for this deal.
Grandma Jackson of Joseph
Plains spent several days here
this week visiting with her old
friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Dad Rookie,
and left for home Wednesday.
She has just returned from Peck,
where she spent the winter with
relatives.
Auctioneer Zuver informs us
that the Kunze sale near Grange
vile Monday was one of the best
and liveliest ever seen in this por-
tion of the country. Everything
sold remarkably well-hay selling
at $3.50 per ton, wheat $3.50 a
bushel and everything else accord
ingly. A Red Cross horse sold
for $65, at 81 each bid, and a pen
of chickens brought $40. The to-
tai sales amounted to about Sc, 900.
Ira H. Gentry, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. C. Gentry, who had been
a law student in Stanford univer-
sity until recently, spent a week
with his relatives here, leaving
Tuesday to enter the U. S. avia-
tion school at Berkeley, Cal. Ira
recently took the examination for
admittance to the signal officers
reserve corps and was successful,
having just been notified toreport
for training.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Minis yes
terday sold to Mrs. J. L. Kincaid
their residence property in the
west end of town near the rail-
road trestle, possession to be given
about the middle of March. The
consideration was $1,000. Mr..
Minis and family will occupy one
of their buildings opposite the
Rookie hotel, east of the Chronicle
Office, which will be fitted up in
elegant StVle