Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-06-06
COUNTY SEAT NEWS ITEMS


E. S. Sweet will have a big
public auction at his place on
North state.street on June Both.
Included in the sale will be
horses, cattle and sheep. Also
all farming implements. Mr..
Sweet has quit farming and will
make a general cleanup at this
time.
Frank Edgington will close
his pool hall in Grangeville on
June 1, and will move his fix
lures to Ilo, where he has leas-
ed building and where he will
open a pool hall and cigar coun-
ter. Mr.. Ellington has resided
in this city for eight years. In
view of the fact that at the
present time lilo does not have
q pool hall, and also due to soil
citation on the part of business
men in lilo, Mr.. Ellington decid-
ed to make the change. His
family will remove to lilo about
June 1.
A municipal wood yard for
Grangeville during the coming
autumn and winter was discuss
ed at the regular meeting of the
Grangeville Commercial club,
last Monday. The matter was
brought to the attention of the
club by S. V. Fullaway, supervi-
soF Of the Nezperce National
forest, and committee was ap-
pointed to investigate the FEAST
bility of a wood yard, from
which all persons interest could
procure their winters fuel sup
ply at approximate cost of the
wood and labor involved in cut
ting it and transporting to
Grangeville.
In a letter to his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. HAMPTON Taylor of
this city, Hugh Taylor, who last
winter was appointed to a res
ponsible position in the high
school at Cincinnati, Iowa. gives
the pleasing information that he
has been elected to the chair of
English and American Litera-
tire, at the Military Academy,
at Lexington. Mo. During the
summer vacation he will attend
the Chicago university. The
election to this position is ? de-
cided promotion, of which Hugh
il entirely deserving. His many
friends here join in congratula-
tions.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Donaldson
and son were in Grangeville the
first Of the week, enroute from
Whitebird, their former home
to Yakima, Wn., where they will
reside. Mr., Donaldson was for
eight years cashier and mana
ger, of the Salmon River State
bank at Whitebird, during
which time he was instrumental
in trebling the business of the
bank. The Donaldsons have left
in Idaho county many friends
who regret their departure, but
!. who. nevertheless, are pleased
that Mr.. Donaldson is able to ex-
TEND, his activities to a wider
filed. Mr.. Donaldson retains
his financial interest in the
bank at Whitebird.
2 .F' -
BY vote of al to IA, people
of Mt. Idaho and territory ex-
tending southeastward from the
Grangeville Highway district to
a point beyond the power plant, |
on Monday voted to enter the |
Grangeville highway district.
The election, held for the pur-
poseof allowing the people of |
that part of the county to de- !
eide on annexation to the |
Grangeville district, will permit
OF calling a bond election in the |
enlarged Grangeville highway |
district. for construction, in CO.
operation with the department |
OF agriculture, or a road up the |
Clearwater river to Meadow
creek.
The department of agricul-
ture, thru the forest service
has made available the sum of |
$135,000 for the building of this
road, provided $4,000 in local
aid is provided. Of this $4,000
a part, it is believed, will be |
available from the state, and the |
remainder will be. raised locally, |
probably by bond issue.