Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-05-27
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft Of Our Readers.

That 80 per cent of the 1920
wheat crop of Latah county is
still held by farmers is the esti-
mate of grain men who have
been making survey.
Eleven University of Idaho
seniors in the college of law are
preparing to take the Idaho bar
examinations to be held at Lew
iston during the regular session
of the federal court beginning
June 2.
Births in Idaho during April
exceeded deaths by 545, accord
ing to a report issued by the
state medical advisor. The total
number of births was Oil, while
deaths aggregated 366. OF the
911 births, 463 were girls. 446
boys, and two were not stated.
Seven pairs of twins are included
in the totals.
Culdesac is to have a three day
program of wild west stunts that
will introduce some of the most
noted cowboys of the west, in
Guiding Jackson Shutdown known
throughout the United States.
The dates selected for the pro-
gram are June 2, 3 and a. The
prizes to be given will total
81, 500. There will be an Indian
war dance every night, while also
ball open to the general public.
There will be about a so per
cent cut in the acreage planted
to corn in the ldesac-Lapwai
sections this year over former
years. While perhaps the acre
age in these two sections, which
adjoin, is normally 5000 acres,
it will not be much more than
1900 acres this year. This is
because farmers went out of the
hog business when grain was too
high price to be fed to hogs at
a profit. But farmers are now
stocking up again with hogs as
fast as their means will allow.
By a vote of four to one, the
supreme court Saturday recogni-
zed the right of the 1921 session
of the legislature to authorize
the employment of a fiscal agent
to procure a bidder for the Idaho
state highway bonds, fourth
issue, in the amount of $2,000,-
600, and also gave its approval
to the act of the 1919 session Of
the legislature, which submitted
to the vote of the people, at the
last November election, the ques-
tion of whether or not the bonds
should be sold in spite of the
fact that the state had reached
the limit of its indebtedness.
Justice Robert N. Dunn was the
author of the opinion.
United S tes government
Stacker lists" for several Idaho
counties have been received at
the office of the state headquar-
ters of the American Legion, it
was announced Wednesday by
Lester F. Albert, state adjutant.
AS soon as the list is complete
for every county steps will be
taken by the legion to publish
the names. Before the names
of men accused of evading the
draft are published broadcast,
however, it is the purpose of the
American Legion to make a COM
plete check of each man listed.
New potatoes being offered to
; Idaho consumers have been plac-
ed under ban by the state depart
ment of agriculture if they are
from California, Texas or Flor
ida or have been reshipped into
Idaho from Oregon, Washington
Montana, Utah and Colorado
points. The state department
of agriculture is determined to
keep out of Idaho potatoes from
the first three states because of
potato tuber moth that is now in
Testing the potato fields of those
states.
George P. Miller and John Mil
: Ter, of Moscow, are enjoying a
! visit from two sisters, whom
: they had not seen for many
years. 1t is Just so years since
George P. Miller and his sister,
Mrs. Patterson, of Kansas, had
{ met. And it was 20 years since
he met the other sister, Mrs.
Tanning, of Portland, Ore. Geo.
: P. Miller, who is a pioneer of the
! Palouse country, having located
I, on a homestead south of Cakes
e dale 40 years ago, lives a mile
south of Moscow. and John Mil
Ter in Moscow.