Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-06-24
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben.
eft Of Our Readers.

Wheat harvest is on i'm the
Lewiston-Clarkston country and
binders are busy on the hills
south of Lewiston and on Clarks-
ton heights. The yie,d is said
to be greater than for five years.
w. ID. Stratton, well-known
ball player and citizen of Craig
mont lies near deaths door in
Lewiston as the result of having
been hit by a pitched ball that
fractured his head in Lewiston
Sunday.
For the first time in the his
tory of the Catholic church in
Boise full military requiem
mass was celebrated Sunday
when the funeral services for
Lieut.. John M. Regan were held
at st. Johns cathedral.
George V. Carlisle, deputy
game warden for Lewis county.
who resides in Lawyers canyon
above kamiah, and Miss Harriet
Worth, a popular teacher in the
kalmah schools the past three
terms, were married in Spokane
last Thursday.
With warmer weather prevail
ing, sheep shearing began last
week at the big camps in the Sal
mon and Snake river regions.
At least $4,000 head will be
shorn during the next few days
and sheep men state that the clip
will be one of the heaviest in sew
eral years.
A daily wage of SO and board
was agreed upon as just wages
at meeting of the board of
directors of the Canyon County
Farm Bureau at Caldwell Satur-
day. This will probably be the
prevailing wage paid to hay
hands throughout the Boise val
ley.
Mrs. LYDIA Southland. of Twin
Falls, Idaho. charged with the
murder of Edward NJ. Meyer, her
fourth husband, Tuesday was
bound over for trial in the dis
trict court at Twin Falls at the
conclusion of the second day of
preliminary examination in her
case.
James Southwick, 13-year old.
son of County Commissioner l..
j. Southwick, of Nez Perce
county, died Wednesday in Spo-
kane hospital, to which place he
was taken for treatment after
being thrown from a horse and
severely injured while riding
through the timber few miles
from his fathers ranch near
Southwick.
The school board at Standpoint
Monday evening rejected the
only bid submitted for the pur-
chases of the $140, 900 bond issue
voted last year for the construc-
tion of a new high school build
ing. The lone offer was sent by
mail from the Denver bond
house of Antonides & Company,
and offered the equivalent of
9O12 per cent for the bonds, q
figure too low to permit of
consideration by the board.
Certificates of incorporation
of the United States Grain Grow
ers, non-stock, non-profit cor
poration organized under the
laws of the state of Delaware,
were filed Monday in the secre-
tary of states office. Nez Perce
county has been designated as
the principal place of business
for Idaho. w. S. Shearer of
Lewiston, president of the Idaho
Farm Bureau federation, has
been made the authorized agent
of the corporation for Idaho.
A woman giving her name as
Stella England, arrested at Ken
drick Saturday night, was SEN
fenced to serve 60 days in the
county Jail at Moscow. George
Palmer, arrested with her, was
given sentence of 80 days. The
couple were arrested at Ken
drick Saturday night by Sheriff
Summerfiend, of Latah county in
a house where they had been liv-
ing for about two months. A
copper still and so gallons of
mash were found in the house,
which bore a smallpox quaran-
tine sign, but no smallpox was