Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-03-26
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.


minent stock men of southern
Idaho, died at a Boise hospital
Sunday of pneumonia. He was
taken i'll at Buhl and brought to
Boise, his home, Saturday morn
ing.
st. Teresa's academy, the sue
cessor to the first girls school
in the territory, and itself one
of the oldest schools for girls at
Boise, is about to increase its
opportunities by making an
$4,000 addition, ground for
which will be broken Friday.
Grading has been resumed for
the extension of the Lewiston,
Nezperce & Southeastern rail-
way (the Johnson road) from
Tammany to Waha and plans
provide for the completion of it
in such time that the placing of
rails can be CARED out within
80 days.
The basketball team of Mos
COW high school won the state
championship Friday evening
by defeating Twin Falls high
school team by a score of 81 to
ID. At the end of the first half
the score was 16 to z in Mos
cows favor.
Farmers of the Lewiston
country to the number of IS at
tended a meeting at Lewiston
last week when the plan of the
Idaho Wheat Growers associa-
ton was explained by a Mr..
Goldsmith, of California, who is
identified with the cooperative
selling associations of California
With many reports still to
come in, Robert o. Jones sta;e
commissioner of law enforce
ment, estimated Saturday that
so automobile owners had been
arrested during the day in the
states first official drive
against license violators. The
deadline after which auto own
ers who failed to display 1920
license tags became subject to
arrest, was passed March II.
Everett Bennders, promi-
nent young farmer of the Nez-
perce section for the past fif-
teen years and engaged in farm
, ing south of that city, died
shortly before midnight Sunday
from complications resulting
, from an attack of the influenza.
Mr.. Bennders was about 28
years of age and is survived by a
wife, his parents, three brothers
and three sisters.
.. The result of Tuesdays bond
: election assures Occur dAlene
of the best aviation field in the
. Northwest and paves the way
: for the government to establish
a sub-base for forest patrol here
, in the near future. Out of 1O14
, registered votes, 736 were cast
Five hundred and thirty five
casting their vote in favor of the
purchase of the municipal avia-
ton held and POI registering
their vote against the bonds.
R. F. Bicknell, president OF
> the Overland National bank, has
u a $4,000 investment in a piece OF
radium not over a quarter OF al
inch in length and no thicker
!, than the heavy lead of a pencil
u The radium arrived in Boise
s Saturday morning and wa:
opened at the bank Saturday a
+ noon by DIR. James L. Stewart
e who has been designated b,
+ Lloyd Life Insurance company
= of England to handle the pre-
cious mineral in Idaho, the de
It signation being made at the re
X quest of the purchaser.
d District Engineer ]. M. Keen
of the federal bureau of publi
If roads, stationed at Missoula
u will begin the inspection of tn
" highway project between tn
l. top of Lewiston hill and Moscow
n, If the project is approved by tn
d, federal bureau construction ol
this link of the north-and-soutl
n- highway will probably be start
E. ed next month. Engineer Keen
IL will also make a trip of inspec
,e ton to the highway route be
It tween Ilo and the west line o