Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-07-23
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Mrs. Sarah Myers Coffin died
at a hospital in Boise Friday.
aged lOl years. She was born
at Salem, Va, July, 1919, and
had lived in Boise since 1888.
Three hundred tons of cherries
have been handled this season by
the cannery Of the Oregon Pack
ing company, in Lewiston. While
the great volume of fruit has al
ready been received, small
amounts are still coming in.
One of the largest Shorthorn
deals in the history of better live
stock breeding in the northwest
was consumated when Day &
Rothrock sold to the United
States government 16 purebred
Shorthorn heifers and one pure
bred Shorthorn bull.
Normal Coryell of Nezperce.
was quite seriously hurt Monday
when his auto truck skidded and
overturned on the road between
Nezperce and Craigmont. He
was cut about the face and head
and 25 stitches were taken by
DR.. Dunlap, of Craigmont, in
closing the wounds.
Petition was filed before the
public utilities commission of
Idaho by the American Railway
Express company for authority
to increase its express rates. On
March IL, 1920, petition was
made to the u. S. commerce
commission to increase express
rates and charges.
During the camp meeting at
Mason Butte the Indians receiv-
ed notice from the Department
at Washington that the section
OF timber. on which is located the
camp grounds, had been set aside
by the government as a perma-
nent location for the camp meet
ings.
Between 1913 and 1920 the
Idaho department of public
works has expended $9,704,298
in constructing 1909 miles of inn
proved highways, bridges and
culverts within the Gem state,
60 bridges have been constructed
and, in the face of increased
prices, work is being continued
on the majority of road con-
tracts.
Osteopaths cannot prescribe
medicine and perform surgical
operations the same as regularly
licensed physicians and surgeons
according to an opinion announc-
ed Saturday from the state at
torney generals office, in an
swer to an inquiry from the bu-
reau of license, department of
law enforcement.
Robert N. Bell, state mine in
spector, announces that he will
not be candidate for reelection
He intends to withdraw from the
office at the close of his present
term, rounding out 16 years of
service. This is believed to give
Mr.. Bell the distinction of being
the senior state official and also
the senior mine inspector in the
mining states in point of service.
Lewiston came to the rescue
of Charleston in its water famine
Saturday when the City Water
Superintendent engineered the
laying of 1000 feet of pipe
across the lewiston Charleston
bridge. The work started at /
o'clock and was finished at 6
o'clock. The Charleston water
system was put out of commits
sion by the recent storms in that
section.
While spraying in the field at
her home Friday near Genesee,
Mrs. Jess Bower accidently shot
some of the spray into her eyes.
She was temporarily blinded,
and had to have her little girl
escort her to the house. The
inflammation caused by the spray
ing fluid was removed, and she
was soon able to see once more,
though it was feared for a time
that she might have lost her eye
sight permanently.
The outstanding features of
the July report of the Idaho
Crop Reporting Service indicate
for the state prospective wheat
crop of over four million bushels
more than grown last year; larg-
er crops than in 1919 of corn,
oats, barley and rye; a potato
crop close to a billion bushels