Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-07-08
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

5 cents an hour will apply in all
logging camps and sawmills in
northern Idaho and eastern
Washinton of members of the
Four LIS.
The postoffice department at
Washington, d. c. has asked the
civil service commission to hold
an examination to fill the post
mastership at Moscow.
According to the Bonners
Ferry Herald, grasshoppers are
appearing in Bonner county, and
f. V. Jones who did such effec-
tive work in this county last year
has taken charge of the situation
in the northern county.
Eighteen counties will he
visited the next month by potato
experts of the University of Ida
no i'm a program of field work
with farmers by the university
extension division, in cooperation
with the county farm bureau.
Volara Romanza Nelson, the
first woman TO obtain a plots
certificate from the Aero club of
America, met death Saturday in
an automobile accident at North
Platte. Neb. Mrs. Nelson was
an Idaho woman, having lived in
Boise and Rupert.
Fifteen carloads of picric acid,
amounting to 800 tons, will be
requisitioned from the govern
ment by Idaho farmers for land
clearing, according to an esti-
mate made today by l.. j. Id
dings, dean of the agricultural
college of the university.
Three purebred, registered
Shorthorn cattle. direct from
Scotland. the first ever imported
into northern Idaho, arrived at
Moscow last week for N. Will
hanson. The cattle We're ship
ped 5000 miles, but cane
through in fine condition.
w. ii. Bennett, one of the Dris-
coll ridge farmers, near Kamiah
is trying an interesting expert
ment this season in storing
green hay. To each load he is
adding small amount of lime,
about a pint TO the load and he
claims that this mixture will do
away with all heating and keep
the hay in the same condition as
i'm a silo.
A claim of S12O9.22. the cost of
bringing Mrs! LYDIA Southard TO
Twin Falls from Honolulu, was
approved by the state board of
examiners Thursday morning.
This expends more than one-half
of the state biennium appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the return of
/ fugitives from justice. With
other expenditures there is but
$3.50 left i'm the fund according
to records of the state auditors
office.
Senators Borah and Gooding
have jointly recommended the
appointment of Col. Elias Mar
sters of Meridian as federal pro-
hibition director for Idaho. Col.
Marsters was the choice of Sena-
tor Borah under the plan by
which the senators are distribut-
ing patronage. and Senator
Gooding Joined in the indorse-
ment. The office pay $4,000.
During the severe storm last
Thursday says the Nezperce
Herald, lightning struck the
home of Attorney G. c. Pennell
in that city and did considerable
damage to the electric range and
the resultant fire burned the
paper from the kitchen wall near
the range, tefore it was extin-
euished. A tree in front of the
E. Wienss residence was also
struck by lightning and broken
down about the same time.
In his annual report to the
: directors of Lewiston Indepen-
: dent School District Clerk E. w.
Wing. of Lewiston shows that
the expenditures for the year
ended June 80 amounted to
S109,363 and receipts were
$110.203. There are Sal 400 in
: outstanding warrants and $10,-
683 that are not provided for.
: Direct charges for educational
e purposes amounted to $95, ,140.
e Enrolment for year was 1902
: making the average cost per pu-