Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-11-12
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE.
items OF Interest From Vaiiou.
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft of Our Readers.

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llaetta postoffice is advanced to
third class with a salary of
81 800 per year.
A Caldwell resident has launch
ed a scheme for a free laundry,
wher poor families can do their
laundry work with all modern
onveniences.
A movement is on foot to per-
tect a Prairie basket ball league
to include the towns of Craig
mont, Nezperce, Winchester and
Cottonwood. Three games will
be played in each town.
The accidental discharge of
ms shotgun, as he was climbing
into a machine, three miles west
OF Meridian, caused the death of
virgil Trout, who with two
friends was hunting pheasants.
A loss of 10 per cent i'm the DO
tato crop is estimated as the re-
suit OF last weeks storm in the
rupert section. In regard to
hay, it is thought that the loss
will not be more than 6 per cent.
Figures compiled by the rural
department of Lewiston normal
school show that there are 1439
schools in Idaho which 1874 have
been classified as to town or rur-
al. OF this number 1868, or SO
per cent are rural schools.
'Sportsmen of Gem county
have filed a petition with the
state game warden asking that
the season on pheasants be cut
down to two weeks instead of
the full month. They ask that
this be done to prevent the game
from being annihilated.
William ]. Hall, commissioner
of public works, Saturday denied
charges of alleged graft on the
Idaho central highway made
during the campaign. He de-
clared that the facts were a mat
ter of public record in the office
of the department of public
works.
One of the interesting issues
that will go before the next leg
lslature is the question of the re-
moval of the county seat of
Boise county from Idaho City TO
Horseshoe Bend. If this is done
practically the oldest city in the
state will virtually be abandon
ed.
Idaho county has 1867 farms.
This is revealed by the 1920 GEN.
sus reports Idaho county in
1910 contained 1884 farms,
or seventeen more than in 1920.
Some farms were included in
that section of Idaho county
which was annexed to Valley
county since 1910.
A new record for land prices
was established at Moscow by
the sale of a small farm near
that city for $400 an acre. r. C.
West sold 80 acres, just south of
the city limits, to A. E. Meinig
of Palouse, WASH, for $4,000.
The place is well improved, with
good buildings, and has Ia acres
of alfalfa, which yielded $50 an
acre in 1919 and more than S10O
an acre this year.
Howard Shriver, farmer
near Moscow, Idaho, has sold 145
spring lambs at 1915. The in
teresting feature of the transac-
tion is that Shriver claims the
amount received i'm payment is
practically velvet as the lambs
lived on the summer fallow and
kept the weeds down. The in
stance is quoted in support of
the argument that every farmer
should run a few sheep.
"The Big Baked Potato" is to
make its bow again on Northern
Pacific dining cars. This is one
of the specialties dropped during
government control. The rail-
road is now induiring for pota-
toes to reintroduce the feature.
Specimens weighing about a
pound are desired. A large
quantity will be required annual
ly.
An effort to grapple with the
housing question is to be made
at Lewiston. A building and
loan association has been launch
ed having this idea in mind.
More than half a million has
heen expended in building oper-
ations in Lewiston this year but
construction of houses has not
kent mace with other building
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