Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-08-12
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

The fall lettuce crop in the
Lewiston orchards is about all
planted and will amount to about
60 acres. Six paintings are
made, at intervals of from two
to three days. 1t is expected
that the Lewiston orchards crop
this fall season will be worth
between $4,000 and $4,000
At New Brighton, N. Y, a
suburb of New York city, special
Idaho baking 'spuds" were sold
during the winter season at
from 25 to 35 cents each by re-
tail grocerymen dealing in fancy
groceries. True it is that each
potato was elaborately wrapped
in the finest of tissue paper and
advertised as a special Idaho
baking potato.
Four prisoners in the Nez
Perce county Jail at Lewiston
made their escape Saturday
night by digging through a 12-
inch rock wall, tearing away a
one-eighth-inch steel floor and
digging through about three feet
of earth. There were three
other prisoners in the Jail, one
man and two women. and they
say they heard nothing of the
escape.
T. f. Blakemore, a dentist,
was arrested Friday afternoon
at Pocatello upon complaint of
Mrs. Jennie Burns charging him
with assault with attempt to
commit murder upon her daugh-
ter, Genevieve Burns, who was
found at noon Friday in a dental
office where she was employed,
in a critical condition. 1t is be-
i lieved Miss Burns took several
poison tablets but she is expect
ed to recover. Blakemore FORM
erly resided at Lewiston, Idaho.
One member of the Scott auto
caravan immigration party from
Brooklyn to Buhl met with mis-
hap in the way of highway rob-
berry, according to word received
Thursday by Frank w. Brown,
secretary to Governor Davis.
The robbery occurred i'm New
York state. The traveller was
relieved of $185. He had stop
ped to fix a puncture, and as a
result dropped behind the rest
of the party. When held up he
was without the assistance of
his fellow caravanes.
From one of the hilly school
districts of Ada county comes
the urgent call for school
teacher with two children. And
the two youngsters are the chief
qualifications. II seems that
this sparsely populated district
has only four children of school
age, the progeny of two families.
Inasmuch as no teacher can be
hired unless there are six chill
, dren for her TO instruct, the
parents of the infant knowledge
seekers are anxious TO uncover
q school marin with two of her
own to fill out the quota.
; Resolutions directing t h e
drafting of state compensa-
, ton bill for presentation at the
18th session of the Idaho legis-
lature with cash payment and
loan features were passed at the
q state convention of the Ameri-
!, can Legion at Kellogg Saturday.
The delegates went on record as
i, against all anti-cigaret legisla-
tion and Sunday closing. A
resolution was adopted urging
:. the state legislature to enact
;. laws prohibiting aliens from
. leasing or working on land until
9 they had taken out their first
citizenship papers.
S Shot through the head and
d with a sack of bricks tied about
g the neck by a rope, the body oi
e an unidentified man was founo
t Monday in Casco bay of Coeul
t d'Alene lake, where it had beer
e sunk in four feet of water just
s off the shore. The body ap
: peared to be that of a man abouI
so years of age dressed in a gra,
suit and in dress and appearance
: that of well to do tourist. Tn,
Il man was heavy set, five fee
/ seven and q half inches tall. ex