Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-12-17
NE VS. AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Packing Co., closed its work for
the season last week, with a final
run of apples to the amount of
1,037 tons, the apple pack this
year being a trifle more than
that of last season.
The city of Kooskia, which is
very enterprising little city, last
week purchased five acres of
Indian land within its city limits
which will be used by the town
as fair ground and for other
public enterprises.
After having been married for
40 years, Mrs. Nancy j. Good
win of Kellogg, Idaho was grant
ed a divorce from her husband,
VIM. Goodwin. The grounds for
the divorce were cruelty it is al
legged.
Rev. FIR. w. A. Rompe, parish
priest of the Catholic church at
Nezperce for the past ten years,
owing to poor health resigned
md departed Monday morning
for California.
Charles A. Jensen, former
editor of the Ilo Register; and
well known newspaper man in
this section dropped dead at Kali
anna, Wash, at the court house
in that city after having made
his regular rounds for news
items.
George Long of Leland who
was lost for two days in the
mountains near Orofino was
found by searching party last
Friday afternoon in an exhaus-
ted cordition. Tracts in the
snow led the searching party to
his whereabouts.
A. R.. Trimble a resident of
Lewiston since 1861 passed away
Mt his home in that city last
Thursday. Mr.. Tremble for
many years was engaged in the
real estate and live stock busi-
ness. Death was due to a para
lytic storke which he sustained
several months ago.
.. Idaho can put 100000 jack
rabbit skins on the fur market
this year if there is a demand
: for them, says w. E. Crouch,
rodent control leader of the
University of Idaho extension
division, in a letter to Fl fur
! dealers, in which he asks what
5 prices they will rive ON skins in
i quantities of 1000, 5000, 10000
and $4,000.
e First cousins can marry in the
|. state of Idaho. This was the
: disclosure made by Roy l.. Black
9 attorney general, Tuesday when
i looking up the law at the request
q of c. G. Cromwell, county clerk
= of Benewah county. 81 was sur
+ prised," said the attorney gener-
n al, "when | discovered that the
law did not prohibit first cousins
: from marrying"
n In an opinion involving more
/ law than any recently written by
g member of the supreme bench,
y Judge Bulge Saturday held that
y married woman has absolute
"a power of disposition of her sep
d arate property, and may enter
/ into any contract with reference
q, to it in the same manner, to the
y same extent and with like effect
n as a married man may in rela-
+. tion to his real and personal pro-
Ie perty.
s. Jesse A. Edelfesen, convicted
ly March Is, 1920, by the United
States district court for embez
zling funds belonging to tn,
briggs postoffice, of which h,
ly was postmaster, was released
g. Wednesday after serving eigh
e, and half months of his one
&, year sentence in the Bannocl
ck county Jail. A telegram was re
a ceived Wednesday morning iron
he President Wilson committing tn
sentence.
of Unless relief is given by tn
dis railroads which have advance
,s- freight rates on hay to a prohib
rs. tive figure. many south Idah
e farmers will be financially criI
is pied and the biggest hay crop i
ig- the history of the state will b
held over for another year. Whs
with the quarantine again.
ito Idaho hay established by a nun
an ber of states. the mild wintt
ice which has reduced the local d.
We mand to feed Idaho stock and tf
ith increased freight rates, cond
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