Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-07-09
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Inc ehfOilment at the summer
session of the Lewiston Normal
has now passed the $50 mark.
Grasshoppers have begun to
make their appearance i'm certain
portions of Latah county where
they were in large numbers last
year.
A new classification of salar-
les went into effect July l, which
affects the pay of sixteen regu-
lar employees in the Lewiston
post office. Under this class
ification, an advance i'm pay is
made ranging from 10 to 30 per
cent. The salary increases will
amount TO approximately $4,000
a month.
Crop conditions in the Palouse
section and Camas prairie coun-
try of the state look better than
they have in the last three
years." said julius III. jacobson,
of the Idaho crop reporting SER
vice Thursday upon his return to
Boise from a trip of inspection
through that part of the state.
Twenty-three carloads of cher
ries were sent out of Lewiston
last week via the American Rail-
way Express company, according
to information given out by
Agent II. Z. Haynes.
Held in the district court in
the sum of $1,000 bonds to answ-
er to a charge of violating the
blue sky" law, T. d Geizen-
tauer is the first man arrested
in the northern part of the state
under the statute, and the second
arrested in Idaho.
Miss Pearl Sullivan of Nez
perce was injured by a baseball
striking her nose in the game be-
tween Nezperce and Grangeville
Monday. Evidently an artery
was severed, as the young wom-
an suffered many hemorrhages.
At least 100 ex-service men
are expected to be enrolled dur
ing the fall semester in the voca-
tional courses of the university
of Idaho offered under the sup
ervision of the federal board for
vocational education.
Workmen, excavating under
the store of David & Sons at
Moscow, unearthed a keg-of old
style steel cut nails. The build
ing has stood for nearly thirty
years and it is supposed these
nails were buried when the
building was erected.
Idaho baseball fans will be
pleased to know that Walter
Johnson, former Weiser, Idaho,
star, has finally managed to
pitch himself a notch higher in
the hall of fame. In his IA
years service with the Washing
ton American league team john
son last Thursday pitched his
first no-hit, no-run game, defeat
ing Boston Red Sox by a 10
score.
More wool remains unsold in
the hands of Idaho growers at
the present time than has ever
been in their hands before at
this time of the year, says r. B.
Millin, sheep specialist of the
University of Idaho extension
division, in a statement concern
ing determining the value of
WOOL"
Last fall The Moscow Mirror
stated that within year farm
lands in Latah county would
bring 5000 per acre. The state
ment was taken with a grain of
salt" by many conservative per-
sons, but the record has been
made several times and it has
now been beaten by $25 per acre.
The Peasley farm of 225 acres,
one mile south of Moscow, has
lust been sold to J. w. Gehrke, of
Edwall, Wash. for 1925 per acre
without the crop.
Leon. Pat" Perrine of Nez-
perce, Idaho, who won a place in
the national Olympic tryouts for
the pontathlon held in New York
City Saturday, under the au-
spices of the American Amateur
Athletic union, is strictly a Uni
versity of Idaho product. When
he entered the University of Ida
no in the fall of 1915 he had
never kicged a football. shot a
basket or run a race. This year
he marked himself as one of the
greatest all-around athletes that
Idaho has ever had by winning
his 81" in football, basketball and
track.