Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-09-03
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

The forty-seventh annual ses-
sion of the Columbia River Con-
ference of the Methodist Episco-
pal church opened at Moscow
Wednesday.
Boise, the state capitol of Ida
no has a population of 81 ,339, an
increase of 400 during the past
ten years. The above figures
were given out by tide u. s. GEN.
sus department Friday.
The Misses Lillian and Olive
Harbke, two of Nezperce prai-
RES popular school teachers, left
last Friday for Honolulu where
they will teach the coming sea-
son.
Approximately AGO acres of
state land lying within Clear
water county will be sold at pub
lie auction on September 10th
from the front door of the court
house in Orofino. There are l19
quarters, the majority of which
are cut-over lands.
Three million bushels of wheat
must be held in Twin Falls dis
trict because cars are not avail
able to haul it to market, accord
ing to a message dispatched TO
Representative Addison T.
Smith to the interstate COM
merce commission.
Thomas Harris, age 20. was
run over by truck Saturday at
Oroflno, sustaining injuries
which caused his death. The old
gentleman attempted to pick up
his pet dog and while reaching
for him fell from the moving
truck passing over his stomach.
That the present socaIled pri-
mary law of Idaho is unsatisfac-
tory TO the voters of the state,
who want to return to the old
primary system, is the state
ment of Judge James F. Ailshie,
former member of the supreme
court, and at one time a resident
of Idaho county.
AL Bardwell who for more than
20 years conducted a barber shop
at Nezperce died at his home
near Spangle, Wash. where he
has been residing for the past
two years since retiring from the
barber business at Nezperce.
! Death followed an operation for
appendicitis.
The record yield of wheat i'm
Latah county is reported from
the farm of Benscoter Bros. near
Kendrick who thrashed 81 acres
that averaged 50 bushels to the
acre. They sold the wheat for
$2.35 bushel, receiving a pre-
MUM of 25 cents a bushel. The
wheat was bought for seed pur-
poses.
Under construction at the Ida
no state penitentiary is a model
stone dairy barn which will be
capable of housing 38 milk cows
besides large quantities of hay
and feed. This same stone is in
Idaho's state capitol. TRUSTEES
are doing the work. The barn,
if built by private parties would
cost in the neighborhood of $751;
900 but is only costing the state
$4,000.
Another contract has been
awarded for link i'm the great
Lewis and Clark highway. The
contract applies to what is
known as federal aid project No.
33, and extending from a point
about one mile up the river from
Spalding to a point one-fourth
of a mile east of Arrow Junction.
The Hauser construction COM
pany of Portland, Ore, was the
successful bidder.
Five carloads of sugar, a total
of 2,200 sacks or 220 900 pounds,
says the Lewiston Tribune, are
now on the way to Lewiston.
having left the Hawaiian Islands
early this week on the steam
ships "Rose City" and Queen
City" The ships will be eight
or nine days on the way, and
several days will be needed to
get the sugar from the coast to
Lewiston.
Pat Perrine of Nezperce, Uni
: versity of Idaho athlete who. os
: a member of the American
? Olympic team, competed in the
!, pehtathlon events recentlv stag
/ ed in the Olympic stadium at
} Antwai-t. sailed for the United
: States August II on the liner
: Matoika. This was the informa-
!. tion received by Gov. Davis from
1 Custavus Il. Kirby. president of