Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-08-15
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Sheriff J. H. Scott was releas-
ed from the county lall Tuesday
after serving the 2.f-hour sem
tence imposed by judge II. Z.
Weniger for contempt of court.
The cost of milk a quart was
raised from 10 cents to 13 cents
or two quarts for 25 cents in
Caldwell by local dairymen, the
raise in prices going into effect
the middle of the week.
The Clearwater highway dist
rict, of Nez Perce county, and
the North Fork highway dist
rict of Clearwater county, will
build a hard-surface highway
from Arrow Junction to Ahsah-
ka.
Thomas ]. Mullen, who prac-
ticed law in Lewiston for nearly
twenty years, died recently at
the State soldiers home at Ort-
ing, Wash. He was IA years old
and is survived by a widow and
two children.
A church building to cost APP
proximately $4,000 is to be
completed by st. Edwards Cath
olic parish at Twin Falls early
in the coming spring as weather
and working conditions VIII
permit.
Nineteen passengers went up
in the Idaho Airplane & Motor
company plane at Boise and
came down flying enthusiasts
Saturday Four flights were
made in the morning, IL in the
afternoon and four in the even
ing.
Associated press dispatches
of last Wednesday carried the
names of James Blaine Benedict
of Standpoint and Edward F,
Goddard of Mountain Home as7
census supervisors to direct the
taking of the 1920 census in Ida
no.
About 25 prominent horticult-
urists from all parts of the
northwest are expected to visit
Lewiston on Wednesday to in
spect the orchard districts. They
will come here from Moscow,
headed by Professor G. G. Vim
cent, horticulturist at the state
university.
Members of the governors
cabinet Tuesday afternoon un-
animously passed a resolution
presented by Robert o. Jones
secretary of state, and address
ed to President Wilson and con-
gress asking that congress take
steps at once to curb the in
creasing cost Of living.
Five prisoners escaped within
one week at the state peniten-
tiary during July, according to
the monthly report Of w. L.
Cuddy, warden, to Robert o.
Jones, commissioner of law en-
forcement. August there were
218 prisoners in the institution,
nine of whom were received dur
ing July.
Permission to use the army
trucks loaned by the govern
ment to the state for transpor-
tation of potatoes from farms IN
the Wilder section to the main
line at Caldwell during the con-
gestion expected on the Cald-
we'll Traction company's lines
when the crop begins to move,
was granted Saturday by the
war department.
Lieut.. Col. Theodore Roose-
velt, jr., one of the leading or
ganizers of the American Le-
gion, the national soldier organ
ization, will speak at Coeur d.
Alene September 20 and at Po-
! catello September %, according
to a letter received by Governor
Davis Wednesday. His timer
airy for Idaho has been arranged
by the speaking committee OF
. the American Legion.
| Lloyd D. Marker, wounded
overseas in action, completed
his thirty-day furlough with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. S.
: Marker, now residents of Clark
' ston but former pioneers OF
t Nez Perce prairie, and returned
Y to the Letterman hospital, San
$ Francisco. Lloyd Marker was
|. reported in much better condi.
: ton. During the last operation
+ piece of his overcoat was re
+ moved which had been blown in.
e to his shoulder by q shaTpnel