Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-05-30
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.


school will open June 16, con-
tinuing for six weeks. Pros
pective students who have to
take entrance examinations
must register Friday. June 13,
The faculty will include num-
ber of those engaged last year
and several news ones. The
school offers all of the courses
which are required of it.
The government has finished
finished planting 100000 yellow
pine trees on a 500 acre tract
near Standpoint. In the fall 500
more acres in the same locality
will be planted to white pine.
This springs planting took 80
men five weeks. A large acre
age in the Pend Oreille forests
will he leased this summer for
sheep pasture, accommodating
$4,000 head.
Miss Josephine Hearing, age
80, an employee of the Enter
prise laundry at Kellogg, was
found in her room at a lodging
house with bullet wound in her
forehead and lodged in the
brain. She is conscious, but
physicians doubt if she can live.
In the room was a 22-caliber
rifle, with which she is presum-
ed to have shot herself in a fit
of dependency, alleged to have
been caused by family troubles.
Franklin D. Roosevelt assist
ant secretary of the navy, mas
presented to the batleship Idaho
recently launched, the $500
silver service set purchased by
this state some time ago. Act
my on the suggestion of Gov
ernor Davis, the assistant secre-
tary located the service set
which was being held on behalf
of the state at Washington and
saw to it that the presentation
was made to the proper officers
in charge of this new great
fighting machine.
The number of boys and girls
at the state industrial school at
st. Anthony is increasing, ac-
cording to Superintendent Will
liams. A few months ago there
were 1876 intimates at the insti-
tuition, while today there are
1876. Mr.. Williams says he it at
loss to account for the increase.
Two years ago 211 boys and
girls were confined in the indus
trial school, but the number
4,gradually lessened until about
the first of the year when only
125 delinquents were held. Since
then, however, the number of
arrivals has been on the in
crease.
When the wool pool of the
Boise Valley Woolgrowers' as
sociation is closed, approxima-
tely 250,000 pounds of wool will
have been collected, according to
a prediction made last Thursday
by w. B. Tucker, Ada county
agricultural agent. Present in
dications are that all the wool
thus pooled will bring So to 81
cents a pound, according to Mr..
Tucker, and that this will be
materially a higher price than
the small growers could obtain
by dealing with. the buyers indi-
vidually. The first year of the
operation of the pool, he said,
growers saved about Z cents a
pound, and last year about 8
cents.
M. H. HouserI of Portland, one
of the biggest grain exporters in
the northwest and a member of
the Federated Grain corporation
was in Lewiston recently. Mr..
| Houser has maintained an office
here for several years, but this
was his first visit to the city
since assuming his government
position. He predicts that grain
prices will hold up during 1920
after the government relin-
quishes control. I have thought
that the price of grain would
drop as soon as the government
, removed the guarantee, but |
now believe that the standard
of living throughout the world
has been so firmly established
, that the demand for white flour
will increase" said Mr.. Houser.
81 do not believe that Europe
? will return to the use Of rye and
barley flour"