Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-12-24
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for BEN
eft Of Our Readers.

Warren d. Robbins, one of the
founders of Moscow, died at
Boise Monday. He was an i'm
mate of the soldiers home there.
Charles p. Seymour, general
manager of the Van Hoesen &
Seymour packing house at Mesa,
Idaho was burned to death Sum
day in a fire that destroyed the
packing plant. $4,000 boxes
were stored in the building and
burned. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
Some of the poultry-keepers
IN the Lewiston Orchard district
are interested in the plan advo-
Gated elsewhere of lenQthening
the working and laying day of
the hen by the use of electric
light. A Minnesota poultryman
reports that he has increased
egg production about so percent
by turning on the electric lights.
One of the most imposing fea-
lures of the Idaho house warm
ing which will take place Janu-
airy 3, when the completed capi-
tol will be thrown open to the
public for inspection will be q
review of the Boise company of
the Idaho cavalry and the r. O.
t. c., in front of the capitol
building by Governor Davis.
Three hundred seventy-eight
Thousand acres have been seeded
in winter wheat by Idaho farm
ers, it was announced at the of
flee of the Idaho Crop Reporting
service Saturday morning. This
amount is compared with four
hundred forty thousand acres
seeded year ago.
On the decision of the u. 8.
supreme court in the pending
case, United States VS. Northern
Pacific Railway company, de-
pends the title TO $500, 900 acres
of national forest land in Mont
ana. Idaho and Washington,
worth $50.000,000. Part of this
land is in Idaho county.
Idaho's four presidential cleo
tors have received official noti-
fication that Senator Warren G.
Harding will be officially elected
president of the United States
when on January 10, 1921, men,
ers of the electorate college of
each state will meet at the seat
# government for that state and
cast their official vote for the
president.
The Union Pacific railroad
aystem has announced a reduc-
tion in freight rates on hay from
Idaho to Missouri river points,
from $3.50 to SO per ton. This
will mean the shipment of a vast
amount of hay from southern
Idaho to Kansas City and other
points in that section. After
paying expense of baling and
loading and the freight rate it
is estimated growers will get So
per ton for their hay.
ldaho's 1920 population is
431 1866, according to revised
figures received Friday from the
United States census bureau,
which show an increase over the
population of 1910 (325,594) of
1926 per cent. Since 1900, when
census figures showed 161, ,722
inhabitants, the population has
nearly tripled.
The editor of the Juliaetta Re-
cord was made richer last week
by S1.62 which was discovered
to his credit in the Idaho Trust
Co., at Lewiston by Carl Porter
who is employed in that institu-
ton. 1t was i'm the form of a
time deposit of S1.00 placed by
us in the Idaho Trust Co., about
16 years ago and long ago for
gotten about. The 62 cents was
the interest on the $1.00 for the
length of time it had been ON
deposit,
In a group of 20 average"
University of Idaho freshmen
girls recently queried by the de-
lartment of home economies to
ascertain the proper wardrobe
for a college girl, it was found
that the co-eds average six
aprons to every pair of dancing
slippers. that they show a strong
inclination toward sweaters and
IN equally strong disinclination
TO the use of raincoats and rub
bers. Only two girls in every
five nxuv.a a1 a x..s~. - A. -