Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-08-13
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft Of Our Readers.

uate of the University Of Miss
ouri, has been appointed dean
OF women at the Lewiston state
normal school.
Nearly 1000 persons, in more
than 300 cars, have been guests
of Lewiston in its tourist park
since the opening about ten
weeks ago.
Boost the pure seed industry
of Idaho" is the slogan adopted
by the Idaho seed growers as
sociation, which is offering
81 500 in premiums at the Seed
show to be held in Nampa in
January.
Population of Moscow is 1856
an increase of 7.8 percent over
1910, the census bureau at Wash
ington announces. Moscow's 1920
population is the first of north
Idaho towns to be announced.
Leona Willis, the nine-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F.
Willis of Kamiah was accident
ally drowned i'm the Clearwater
last Monday afternoon at about
5 o'clock in the afternoon.
With temporary trackage i,>
service at several points the
trains on the Lewiston-Riparia
branch of the Camas Prairie
Railway company are now run
ming to schedule.
The promise of magnificent
huckleberTy crops will take
many campers to the mountains
this month and the national for
est officials request all berry,
pickers and other campers to be
especially careful with fire.
Six acres of cherry trees on
the farm of John Imphurn, near
Juliaetta, produced this year q
total crop of 27,000 pounds
which was sold for $4,000, or
more than $500 an acre. The
varieties were Bings and LAM
berts.
The Lewiston State Normal
school summer session closed
last week. Enrolment during
this session reached 632. the
largest in the history of the in
stitution. The 1920-21 term of
the school will open September
Is.
Civil service examination viii
be held at Kooskia on August 18
for candidates for the office of
postmaster at Sites, to fill va
cancy caused by the resignation
of M. p. Strecker. The office
pays $1,000 a year. Fl. c. Oliver
is acting postmaster at Sites.
Captain Harry Gulecke reach
ed Lewiston recently after an ex-
citing $50 mile trip with party
down the Salmon and Snake riv-
ers in an especially constructed
bateau. Two thousand feet of
moving pictures were taken by
p. G. Anderson and a second trip
is planned in the near future.
State officials assert the pre-
sent condition of the Idaho pota-
to crop is 95 per cent of normal,
forecasting total crop of 6, 1885,
400 bushels. A year ago the
condition was only rs per cent
of normal and the final outturn
amounted to 100000 bushels.
The 1920 potato acreage is
35, 900, gain of 1000 acres over
last year.
Idaho has received from the
war department through the
bureau of public roads of the de-
partment of agriculture, more
than a million dollars worth OF
war material for use in the state
building program, and addition
al material is being received
which will make the total value
reach more than a million and a
half dollars.
The remains of Clarence Bill
lips of Hope, Idaho, the first of
Bonner county's dead in Europe
to be brought home arrived in
Hope Wednesday and were laid
to rest in the Hope cemetery.
Billups crossed to France with
Battery C of the 146th field art
illery but was separated from his
unit by illness shortly after land
ing. After serving on the front
with other outfits he rejoined
Battery C in Germany, with the
army of occupation. He con-
tracted influenza and was sent
to the base hospital at Coblenz
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