Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-07-25
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
= Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.


dAlene were raised Saturday to
the war scale of $5.25 day. All
the companies have agreed to
the new schedule, which will
take effect from July 16, the
last pay day.
A. D. Gross, a proTninet farm
er in the Mohler section near Ilo-
Vollmer states fall wheat in that
locality will yield about 80 bush
els to the acre. Mr.. Gross has
been a resident of the Mohler
section for the past 20 years.
Mrs. Richard Daxon, of Wal
lace was struck in the face,
knocked down and rendered un-
conscious, gagged and locked in
closet, and the books of the Tar
box Mining company stolen Fri
day night, at her home by an un-
identified man.
While trying to untangle some
of the phone wires which had
become interviewer with the
light wires in Ilo last Monday,
r. j. Pugh the local electrician,
came near being electrocuted by
receiving the greater portion Of
2200 volts.
An important business deal
was consummated at Nezperce
last week when Lee Thomas, of
Lewiston, purchased the inter-
est of John w. Jamison in
Thomas & Jamison. This con-
Germ is one of the largest irnple-
ment dealers at Nezperce.
An amusing incident happen
ed at Sanders beach at Coeur d.
Alene last week. A woman lost
a set of false teeth. Tom Ron
inson, who learned to dive with
the water rats in the Spokane
river, went down three times in
10 feet of water before he re-
covered the lost molars.
Seventy acres of grain were
destroyed by fire at the farms
of w. N. Rogers and A. l..
Wooley, three miles southwest
of Culdesac, in the Mission dis
, trict, Sunday, July 20. Mr..
Wooley lost 20 acres in shock,
while Mr.. Rogers lost a similar
amont in shock and a 30-ac4e
stand.
Governor D. w. Davis last
Saturday named Mrs. j. G. Gra-
veley, prominent club woman of
Boise, a member of the state
board of education to succeed
William Healy. Mrs. Graveley
is the first woman to be oppoint-
ed as a member of the state
board of education.
David M. Hand, a Baptist
minister, convicted in Moscow
, five years ago on a charge of
,, statutory rape, was returned to
: the state penitentiary last
; Thursday by the board of par
: dons, after G. M. Rankin of
!, Caldwell had complained that
: the former pastor was forcing
his attentions upon the formers
daughter.
Federal Judge F. S. Dietrich
:, and his family were taken ill last
! Saturday afternoon at Boise
with some sort of poisoning,
Mrs. Dietrich and daughter,
Margaret and son Frank were
: sick all afternoon and the judge
was forced to leave the court
room in the afternoon before the
u case he was trying was finished
e Five persons were instantly
! killed and a sixth so badly in.
s. jured that his life is deSpaireC
of when an interurban electric
car ran into an automobile July
y 20 at a railroad crossing foul
q miles north of Nampa on the
n Boise-Nampa electric line. TIL,
dead are Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. u
l. lery Of Nampa and their daugh
n ters, Line, aged 16, and May
y aged IL, and Mrs. Charles D
y Shellaberger of Nampa.
: When Dan L. Boise sent hi
i linen to the laundry last week a
n Lewiston he failed to remove
: from the front of a shirt a $50(
.e diamond stud. The shirt wen
e through the complete process o.
lie laundering and was returned
i neatly ironed and folded, n1inu
ii the stud. Mr.. Boise inaugural
ed a search which continued fol
ID several days, and just as tn,
ir hunt was about to be given VI
as the missing stone was discover
d, ed by the laundry fireman in /
III barrel of rubbish which he wa
about to empty into the furnaces