Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-01-02
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft Of Our Readers.

1t is estimated that the special
session of the Idaho legislature
next month will cost $500.
Idaho corporation approxi-
matly $50 in number, forfeited
their state charters December /
for failure to pay their licenses
during 1919.
Idaho's Republican state GEN.
trail committee viii be convened
in Boise on or about February
IL, 1920, to complete plans and
select date for a special state
convention to select delegates to
the national convention of the
Republican party.
Lieutenant Donald Bressler of
Genesee, who has been attached
to the American forces in Siber-
ia for the last 18 months, re-
turned home Saturday to spend
Christmas with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. F. K. Bressler, the
former being pioneer banker of
that place.
Mrs. Lucy Mullinax, who a
week ago killed her three child
rem, at Coeur d. Alene, by throw
ing them into a spring and made
, a violent attack on her mother
in-law, was adjudged insane and
J an order was made committing
her to the hospital for the In
/ sane.
The county assessor of Lewis
! county reports the issuing of 705
applications under the new mot
or vehicle license law, during the
year 1919, divided as follows:
! Touring cars, $50; roadsters, "a;
! trucks, Al; motorcycles, 3; deal
, !, ers' licenses, Is; chauffeurs' lie
! enses, 20; transfers, IL. Total
|. amount collected $11,811.23.
Sergeant Harold Munck, was
:, among the first men to go to the
!. world war from Clearwater
|, county, and returns home with
= more evidence of his experience
f in the front line than any one
). who went from this section OF
|, Idaho, having lost his left leg
e and arm in the battle of Ar
+ gonne forest.
y K. G. Boone, of Moscow, state
commander of the American
y Legion for Idaho, is apparently
IS assured the appointment of fed
u eral prohibition director for
N Idaho over State Senator Joseph
Tyler, of Gem county, his closest
is contender, according to advices
IL received in Boise from Washing
AZ ton Saturday. Boom is well
known among former service
men. He saw real action in
U France and as a result left leg
there.
There is still an acute short.
age of teachers in north Idaho
ed according to the urgent request.
that come to Lewiston norma
s. school for assistance in filling
vacancies. Many rural schools
on in the northern counties hav'
!. closed because of lack of teach
IS ers and school boards in severa
,ss towns are searching vainly TO
men and women to take position
ed Unexpectedly vacated.
ad Members of the Elks' lodge a
rd Lewiston are going to enjoy
luncheon some day soon, whe
lie elk meat will be prominent o
Use the bill of fare. This is the +,
las suit of the lodge purchasing 5
pounds of such meat at 81
led pound. The elk supplying I'll
os- meat had no common career, fl
ihe he cost the man who killed hi
SITS, while the state realize
of from the elk $274.
the Arrest of Idaho housewiv
is who persist in misusing mi
ill. bottles was Tuesday ordered
md ]. X. White. state public welfa
up commissioner. Inspectors
of the welfare department were
asst structed to investigate col
But plants of misuse filed with II
the state by dairymen and othe
of and to make a general sears
ge! for evidence showing that sor
age Idaho women have been usil
be- public milk bottles as containe
ing for kerosene. vinegar and 9th
the liquids equally unpleasant VIII