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

ANSAJ y NCpctA IIIlSllL VI GIIG OtlI-
versity of Idaho is expecting an
increased enrolment with the
opening of the school year next
month.
Eleven thousand acres of
state lands in the Gem irriga-
tion district, Owyhee county, are
land department and will be of
fered at public action September
23rd.
Clifford Marshall, Id year-old
son of M. A. Marshall, was in
stantly killed at Weippe Aug. a
by the accidental discharge of a
revolver in the hands of Lee
Crawford, 13 years old.
The 5 central Idaho counties
and Asotin county have Joined
in the plans for q teachers insti-
tute to be held in Lewiston Oc-
tobed Gil and it is estimated
from 800 to 1000 teachers will
be in attendance.
A difference of more than 35
per cent in bids for furnishing
granite for use in the statehouse
wings, as between local COM
pany and a Utah company, in
fluenced William J. Hall, coEl-
missioner of public works, To
give the work to the Utah con-
cern.
At Clarksfork, in the northern
part of the state, Sheriff Spoor
and deputy of Bonner county aD-
pretended two of a gang of des-
peradoes wanted at Missoula for
beating up Fred Mills, after they
had robbed him of 100 gallons of
whisky. The men made their
escape from Missoula in two
high power autos.
The Moscow Telephone & Tee
graph company acceded to the
demands of the employees and in
creased their wages and sala-
ries from $40 to SIS per month,
beginning August l. That is
the date on which the telephone
office would have been closed
had the concession not been
given.
The offices of the Red Cross
chapter at Lewiston are prepar-
ing to assist residents of MIN
ing camps and small towns IN
the timber regions, in case the
fires bring disaster to the set
tiers. The chapter branches in
Idaho, Lewis and Nez Perce
counties have been notified to
stand ready for an emergency.
Effort is again being made to
secure a mail route on the upper
Snake river from lewiston to
Pittsburg Landing and the post
office department has asked for
bids to be in the hands of the
second assistant postmaster at
Washington, D. c., not later
than 4:30 o'clock on August 10.
There is going to be a lot of
hay left over next spring, either
in Idaho or in the middle west,
according to E. F. Rinehart,
field animal husbandman of the
university extension, who
Thursday sent out a letter to
county agents, telling them that
there was a misunderstanding
current with regard to the hay
and feed situation in this state.
A yield of 35 bushels an acre
for volunteer barley is reported
by B. G. Parmenter of near Joel,
Idaho in Latah county. Mr..
Parmenter had the land in bar
ley last year and cut it with a
binder when it was quite ripe. 1t
shattered quite badly and the
ground was we'll seeded. He in
tended to plow the land and re-
SOW it last spring, but the stand
was so good he let it be and has
just finished cutting it with a
combine.
By the death of her father,
Patrick J. Lyons, a capitalist and
manufacturer of Minneapolis,
Mrs. H. R. Frost of Standpoint
becomes one of the legatees of
an estate valued at to exceed ST.
100000. 1t is said the Mime
sofa statues governing estates
takes precedence over the will,
, which Mr.. Lyons had made pre-
vious to his last marriage, and
the property will be divided, one
: third to the widow, and the bal
ance equally between the four
children, of whom Mrs. Frost is
, one. Mr.. Frost, husband of the
: heiress, is night operator at the
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