Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-08-29
news AROUND
The STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

city clerk before the price is
raised from $40 to 500.
Alfred F. Stone, assistant at
torney general, has resigned ais
position and his resignation has
been accepted by Attorney Gen
al Black. He retires to engage
in private law practice.
Potato growers in Canyon
county have squeezed out the
buyers and hereafter they will
place orders for their own refrl-
gerator cars with view of IN
ST. ng prompt delivery.
Robert Post, 19, son of w. M.
Post of Genesee is in a critical
condition from having jumped
from a load of hay onto a pitch
fork which was stuck in the
ground, the handle entering the
anatomy last Saturday.
A portion of the city park at
Wallace, Idaho, has been set
aside for touring motorists.
Facilities have beer provided
and the camping ground is des-
cribed as one of the most invit-
ing natural spots on the route to
the Yellowstone Trail.
The state capital has been in
somewhat of an uproar the past
week over the charge made and
given some circulation that state
faxes are to be trebled for 1920
and 1921. Flat denial is made
to the allegation by the adminis-
tration, of which Governor DIV.
DAVIS is the head.
All necessary papers for the
construction of the state hign-
way through Latah county has
been filed with the state high
way commission at Boise. AS
soon as accepted the preliminary
work for construction will begin,
but it is not thought the work
can be begun before spring.
Six thousand 6 hundred acres
of state land in Latah county
was sold at Moscow Monday by
State Land Commissioner J. H.
Nash. The land sold was most
ly cut over timber land and
amounted to about $4,000.
Another large sale was held by
Commissioned Nash at Orofino
Wednesday of this week.
A series of stalls have been
completed on the farm market
grounds at Standpoint, idaho.
They are built and conveniently
equipped for the display and sale
of farm products by the farmers.
The building is erected at city
expense which will be refunded
by the farmers in the monthly
rental plan.
Frank A. Mix, aged 80 years
a highly respected pioneer of
Latah county died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. J. J. Day of
Moscow Sunday. Mr.. Mix has
Feen resident of the Palouse
, country for the past 40 years
and was highly respected and
) honored by all those who knew
lin.
. The barn on the o. A. Grove
farm near Genesee burned to the
, ground last week with six hors-
es, a calf, a lot of harness, chop,
hay and other property. The
origin of the first was a mys-
terry. The barn was insured for
, $500 and the horses for the same
amount. He had sold one of the
. horses and it was to be delivered
the next day.
= The university of Idaho has
received a pen of pure bred Suf-
l folk sheep, three ewes and a ram
from the Suffolk sheep associa.
ton of Great Britain. The amin.
q, ais were presented to the univer.
sity by the parent breeders or.
e ganiZation in the world of this
n variety, and the incident is pro,
baby without parellel in the an
t nails of the pure bred sheep in
dustry.
t Damages in the amount o.
n S190.42 were awarded Chas
tain's, Incorporated, a drug stor'
in Lewiston in the action insti
It tuted against A. E. Carssow
proprietor of similar establish
], ment in that city, to prevent fur
ther use of the trade name "Tht
l., Owl Drug Store" and to collec
the damages suffered as a resul
l., of the use of the trade name
= from April II to June ID OF thI'