Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-09-24
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft Of Our Readers.

buildings in Lewiston are being
improved this fall, ranging from
500 to $1,000 each.
The straw vote conducted by
the Rexall stores in Idaho on the
presidential candidates gave
Harding 932 votes and Cox 442.
'The Cowboy Blues" is the
name of a song just published,
the words andmusic written by
Earl Evans, a member of the
Grangeville Cowboy band.
Business buildings and mer-
chandise stocks valued at ap-
proXimately 100000 were de-
stroyed by fire at Filler, Idaho
Friday and for a time the blaze
threatened The entire town.
Walter Bighaw farmer in
the Kendrick section threshed
5000 bushels of grain from his
quarter section, the most of it
being spring crop which makes
the yield even more remarkable.
Twenty-six cars of sheep were
shipped Tuesday from Orofino,
all but three or four cars going
over the Northern Pacific to the
Omaha market. The sheep were
brought from Oregon and rang
ed in Clearwater county on the
national forest.
According to State Chemist
E. w. Rhodenbaugh, a number
of deaths of horses and cattle
have been reported throughout
the state, due apparently to
grazing where poisonous spray
has been used to eradicate
weeds.
Miss Olive M. Petrashek, nom-
inee of the democratic party in
Idaho for the office of state SUI
perintendent of public instruc-
tion. filed with Secretary of
State Robert o. Jones, a state
ment in which she declines the
nomination.
The Potlatch Lumber COMP
any bought between $4,000 and
$4,000 acres of cut-over land in
Clearwater county Saturday at
a sale held by State Land Conn.,
missioned |. Fl. Nash, the ap-
praised price being paid for each
40 acre tract. But few pieces
were appraised over $40 an acre.
A civil service examination
for the vacant pOstmastership
in Kamiah was held in the For
estry offices at Kooskia Wednes-
day, five candidates taking the
test. They were Frank Eggles-
ton, acting postmaster, c. A.
Baldwin, J. B. Carter, Felix G.
Asher and Ralph Prescott.
Orchardists at Lewiston are
again turning attention to peach
production. 1t is estimated
that in 1921 at least $50 acres
will be set out to peaches and
that this is only by way of a
start. On the Snake river
peaches are said to ripen two
weeks earlier than elsewhere in
the district.
Nez Perce national forest Of
ficials report that during 1920
there were SO forest fires, prac-
tically the same number as in
, 1919, but all were extinguished
! before serious damage was done.
Only three fires covered over
seven acres. A total of 450
acres was burned over in grass
: fires. Lightning caused many
fires.
, Idaho again takes second place
in the rank of wool producing
states, according to figures re-
ceived by julius II. Jacobson.
United States crop reporter,
from the national bureau in
Washington, D. c. Twenty-one
million seven hundred and two
thousand pounds of wool were
> produced by the Gem state in
! 1920, say the figures.
County Commissioner John F.
E Pomeroy is laid up in a hospital
at Colfax, Wn., with a broken
: leg and a dislocated knee cap.
and Attorney F. H. Rehberg, of
t Kamiah, is wearing bad cash
e over one of his eyes and is other
wise bruised, besides being the
owner of a badly wrecked Dodge
s car, as the result of a collision
a urith nnnthor car near Cnlfax