Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-07-16
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

-ioseoW, iuailo, mas con-
tfacted for concrete storage
and warehouse plant there with
capacity OF 100000 bushels.
Over four million bushels moro
wheat will be grown in Idaho
during 1920 than i'm 1919, ac-
cordlng to the estimate of Julius
II. Jacobson, agricultural statis-
tician for Idaho.
Ten convicts were granted
pardons by action of the pardon
board Thursday at Boise. Thurs
days meeting was continue
ton OF the session held on We'd
nesday when five pardons were
granted, making Is altogether.
Mrs. Edith Steel, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Jennings
OF ORC Fino, ended her life last
Friday in Spokane by jumping
INTO the river. Her body was
recovered and taken to Orc Fino
for interment.
Articles of Incorporation of
the Howard Pulp & Paper comp
any, a corporation with capital
lzation of twenty-five million
dollars, with its principal place
of business at Idaho Falls were
filed Wednesday with the secre-
tary of states office.
Barns are being filled with al
falfa hay in the Moscow, Idaho,
district, the first crop of which
has been harvested. The price
ranges from $40 in the field to
SIG for baled alfalfa delivered in
Moscow, and it is being sold as
rapidly as offered.
Declaring that their salaries
were insufficient in the face of
the present high cost of living,
Lewiston policemen and firemen
appeared before the city council
of that city with petition for an
increase of $40 a month.
. Idaho's public utilities COM
mission in an order issued We'd
nesday, has granted the Clear
: water telephone lines, Samson
Snyder, proprietor, an increase
in the rates of telephone charges
in Clearwater, Lewis and NeZ-
Perce counties, where the Clear
water lines are in operation.
What is considered the high
water mark for deposits in Wal
: lace banks is reported by the
: First National and Wallace Bank
: and Trust company at the close
: of business June 80. Aggre-
gate deposits were $7,344,4
e and loans and discounts 1885,
I 086. Cash on hand was $2,852,-
806.
The Pocatello Milling & Elev-
ator Co. at Pocatello, Idaho, with
, a capacity of 500 barrels day,
: started operations July L. Steel
: and concrete and brick have
! been used in the completion of
one of the most thoroughly
S equipped milling and elevator
e plants in the northwest. The
e company is capitalized at $175,-
4 600.
e Arthur M. Garvin, son of Mr..
: and Mrs. J. w. Garvin of Nez-
;. perce, died last Friday morning
4 at the White hospital i'm Lewis
: ton from meningitis. He has
t been failing for some time and
S was taken to the hospital about
t ten days ago. He was about %
v years of age and saw service in
S France.
North Idaho republicans will
be interested in the announce
men that Miles Cannon, state
e commissioner of agriculture, has
2 entered the race for the republi-
II can nomination of United States
It senator and will go before the
IS state convention at Pocatello or
= the platform involving the prin-
IS ciples for which he has fought
e in the administration of his pre-.
e sent duties.
v An unusual scene occurred in
If the juvenile court at Boise Mon
day, when a go year-old father
appeared in court with week.
old babe and said he wished tC
Is give it away. His excuse was
lie that he might die any time, ant
" his wife was not able to support
,f it. Close questioning revealed
l. the fact that the father was
making 500 a month at the
f. present time, and that the moth
er wished the babe. The court
told the father that he would
have to care for the child just as
long as he was able TO work.