Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-10-22
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft Of Our Readers.

Barley averaged 28 bushels
per acre on 10S,000 acres in Ida
no this year, totaling a 4,104, 900
bushel crop.
The first annual gathering of
the Idaho War Mothers associa-
ton met in Idaho Falls on Octo-
ber 8 and 8.
1t has been learned that the
total receipts of the recent state
fair were $35, ,458.73 as compar-
ed with $23. 3.120.64, taken in last
year.
Earnest Erickson, woods
man, was killed by a rolling log
near Wallace. The accident
happened at the junction of Ced-
ar Creek with the North Fork.
Idaho's apple crop improved
somewhat from last month.
The total crop is estimated at
1851 900 bushels. Last years
crop was 4,350,000 bushels.
Quality and color generally ex-
cellent.
The oats crop of Idaho totals
1850, 900 bushels. 1t was har-
vested from 209, 900 acres with
an average yield of 40 bushels
per acre. Last years crop to-
tailed 7,700, 900 bushels, the aver
age yield per acre being 35 bu-
shells.
The State bank at Plummer
was robbed of $4,000 in currency
and two women were locked in
the vault. They are Miss Myrtle
Winn, acting as cashier, ard
Miss Eva Usura, a depositor.
They were the only occupants of
the bank. The robbers escaped
in an automobile.
Idaho, according to estimates
of the department of agricul-
ture, will produce $50 per cent
more sugar beets this year than
last. This years crop is esti-
mated to be five hundred one
thousand tons against two hun
dred three thousand tons in 1919
The condition of Idaho beets
October l was 81, or four points
above the 10 year average.
On the construction of the
Clearwater highway from Arrow
Junction, a steam shovel has un-
covered the bones of a dinosaur
embedded in the river bank.
Many of the bones were shatter-
ed by the shovel. Three or four
gigantic bones were seen pro-
truding from the dirt and rock,
and these were saved. One was
five feet in length.
Idaho has just finished har-
vesting Is, ,456, 900 bushel crop
of spring wheat, the largest she
ever produced. Combined with
the 5,908,000 bushels winter
wheat crop, Idaho's total wheat
productions for 1920 is placed at
q 1854 900 bushels, as compared
with 18,705,000 bushels last
year.
The shipment of grain by
steamer from Lewiston and
Snake river points is to COM
mence at once. Nearly every
warehouse from Riparia to
Couse creek above Asotin is
overflowing and large quantities
of grain are piled in the open.
1t is believed $4,000 tons of
wheat will be moved by steamer
this year, which is considerably
more than in 1919.
The Utah-Idaho Sugar comp
any and eight directors, C. w.
Nibley. Merrill Nibley, Thomas
r. Cutler, w. S. Mccormick,
David A. Smith, James c. Muir
dock, w. II. Watts and S. II.
Love were indicted by the feder-
al grand jury at Pocatello on the
charge of sale of necessary food
, products at unjust and unlawful
prices in violation of the Lever
act. Thirteen counts were
found against the company and
, the individual directors.
The State Board of Education
has just issued a Manual and
Course of Study for the high
: schools of Idaho. This is the
: first time in the history of the
: state that such a manual has
) been issued and it has been look
, ed forward to with very much
: interest by all the schools of the
state. The Department secur-
: ed the cooperation of about
fifty leading high school men
and women of the state in the