Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-09-10
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Inc DeCUlu ANNUAL Lewis
County Farm Bureau Fair will
be held at Nezperce on October
8 and 8.
0. II. Nordby of Genessee sold
to j. Nj. Schultz of Lewiston
three purebred Shorthorn milk
cows for 81 900.
The Grangeville public schools
opened Monday, September 9th
with an enrolment of 359, there
being ninety-two in the high
school and two hundred sixty
seven in the grades.
Charles G. Faunce. age S3, has
died ut Lewiston, Idaho. Mr..
Faunce came to Lewiston in 1860
from Massachusetts and sailed
around Cape Horn about 1850 to
the Pacific coast
In an attempt to win a wager
of $3.50 by walking from st. Paul
TO Seattle within three months,
George German stopped in Coeur
dAlene Saturday, having made
the journey so far on better than
schedule time.
Liquor valued at $4,000 was
taken from two Spokane parties
at Standpoint last Sunday by the
officials of Bonner county. The
liquor conviscated consisted of
24O quarts of excellent Cana
dian wiskey, which is selling, it
is said in Spokane at $15 a quart.
Southern Idaho prefers noun
tain to Pacific time, according to
evidence offered at the standard
time zone hearing before Henry
G. Hall, interstate commerce
commissioner, in the federal
court room at Boise Friday.
Prartically every industry of
southern Idaho was represented.
Practice for foot ball at the
University of Idaho will begin
Monday, Septerber 13, the first
day of the school year and will
be kept up continuously until the
team is made" according to
Coach Tom Kelly. who hopes to
win the northwest conference
championship this year.
The annual premium list of
the Northwest Livestock show
which will be held at Lewiston
November z TO II is being mail
ed to stock breeders and exhib-
itors. The live stock associa-
tion will distribute $4,000 i'm
premiums at the show, the larg-
er portion of which will go to
cattle and swine.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. M. Halsey
were both seriously injured
when their automobile left the
grade about one-half mile west
of Culdesac at Z o'clock Wednes-
day morning. Mr.. Halsey is
probably injured internally and
Mrs. Halsey has q broken shoul-
der and hip smashed. Mr.. Hal
sey is one of the propi'ietors of
the Culdesac Hardware and I'M
plement company, Asotin county.
Thomas Bros. for more than
18 yrs. engaged in the hardware
and automobile business at Nez-
perce, on Monday sold their es-
tablishment TO Roy Thompson,
l.. J. Rowe and E. l.. Schnell,
county autitor of Lewis county.
Mr. Schnell resigned his position
as auditor in order to devote all
his time to the business The
firm also purchased in the deal
the Ford agency for Lewis coun-
ty.
Frank Rothrock, wealthy
stockman, has purchased the in
terests of Harry l.. Day in the
Hercules stock farm at Sprague
and is now the sole proprietor of
the famous establishment, which
extends to $4,000 acres of which
1000 acres are irrigated. The
farm carries the largest herd of
pure bred stock barns in the
northwest ana loUO grade catlle.
Mr.. Rothrock also has extensive
{ sheep interests.
Ideal Perfection, o Hereford
bull from the Henry Thiessen
herd near Sweetwater, and sire
Y of many of the young bulls and
Y heifers now on the Thiessen
| farm, is given fifth place for
:. highest average score out of
p 1,137 entries in which POI bulls
!. were considered, the article be-
|. ing prepared by Laurence Nj.
I. Winters. of the Iowa State col
e lege, at Ames. Iowa, and appear
Y ing in the American Hereford
Journal of August.