Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-11-19
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft Of Our Readers.

mic proportions in all parts of
the state, according to DR.. +. w.
Almond, medical advisor to the
public welfare department.
A movement has been started
in Latah county and extends
throughout North Idaho to
bring about the election of Re-
preventative c. j. Hugo of Mos
COW as speaker of the next low
er house of the Idaho legislature.
Judge William w. Woods,
aged 70, judge of the Shoshone
district court since 1906, died
last week after over a years ill
ness. He was a veteran of the
Civil war, enlisting as a private
ard rising to the rank of Lieut.
enant-colonel.
Vida Olson, age Is, was mar
ried Tuesday evening in Lewis
ton TO Willie Fong, age %, a
Chinese cook at the Empress
cafe. The ceremony took place
in the office of Justice |. G. Hat
tahaugh and was witnessed by
Mrs. Elizabeth Matherson.
Before a crowd of 1000 frenzi-
cd football fans, Coach Thomas
Kelley's University of Idaho
football team demonstrated
marked superiority over the Uni
versity of Utah eleven by VIM
ming last Thursday afternoons
game on the fair grounds field,
10 to 0.
The schools of Lewis county
cost $l02,581.95 last year. This
sum was for maintenance, not
including cost of any building.
The total enrolment of the
schools was l,737. OF this num-
Ter 24l were enrolled in high
school. Our children are expen-
sive, but they are worth the cost.
Gov. d. w. Davis received an
inquiry from a state official of
California which contains the
suggestion that a definite pro-
gram of anti-alien legislation,
both of state and national scope,
will soon be undertaken by Pac-
itic coast states and that Idaho
will Ice called in conference.
Two carloads of Bonner coun-
ty seed potatoes were sold Mon
day at 100 per cent above the
quotations on the local consum-
ers' market. The spuds were
made up of half carload of Net
ted Gems ard the remainer of
Idaho Rurals. and were purchas-
ed by l.. L. Newcomb of Me'ba,
Idaho.
The extremely cold weather,
says a dispatch to the Lewiston
Tribune from Nezperce, has prac
tically destroyed the potato crop
in this section. The crop al
ready dug has heen frost bitten
in the sack and the remaining
has been frozen in the ground
This means a total loss to the
growers in the section.
Stock in q powered milk fact
ory, to be established at Medi-
dian, is being sold to farmers in
Ada county communities. The
factory, it is announced, is to be
cooperative, non-profit enter
prise. The proposed cost is
about $4,000. Interest of eight
per cent is guaranteed on all
stock issued. Excess profits will
be used to increase the price
payed for milk.
Idaho may have member in
the cabinet of President-elect
Harding. according to kilograms
received Tuesday, saying that
friends of Governor Davis are
seeking Endorsement for the gov
ernor's candidacy for secretary
of the interior. kilograms and
letters from as far away as Ter
as and California have been re-
ceived asking if Governor Davis
was in the field for the cabinet
berth.
; Andrew Fogarty a well-known
, half-breed Indian farmer of the
. Lapwai country, is at the White
hospital in Lewiston, suffering
| broken neck, two broken ribs
, and other injuries, the result Of
an auto wreck occurring Monday
evening on a crossroad four
J miles from Genesee, when !. the
( steering gear failed and the car
/, was turned over. A companion
, who was driving the car q
injury.