Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-04-29
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

Announcement was made last
week by State Bank Commits
. sionner j. G. Fralick that O. M.
Holmberg of Orofino had been
appointed receiver of the Fidel-
ity State Bank of Orofino, one
OF the five institutions of the
Waterman group that suspended
a short time ago, and will assume
charge of its affairs at once.
The Moosejaw, Canada base
ball team defeated Lewiston
Saturday on the Lewiston
. grounds by score of 5 to and
the following day took the
Grangeville team into camp, the
score being 9 to /. AL Bonner
who at one time played ball ON
. the prairie was the pitcher who
did the twirling against the
. Grangeville boys.
: Damage done by the fire in the
basement of the Weisgerber
building Saturday night at Lew
. lston placed the loss at only a
few thousand dollars, but revi-
sion of the estimates has been
made following the examination
OF the premises after the water
was pumped out of the basement
and it is believed that the total
loss will run close to $4,000.
The Lewiston plant of the
Lewiston Milling company on
. Saturday night shut down for
an indefinite period due to the
absence of a demand for flour.
The plant has been running re-
Gently only about half capacity.
Except perhaps to accommodate
some local demand the plant will
not resume operations until the
new crop season. About Is to
20 employees are affected.
More than 100 births in Ida
no were recorded i'm the depart
ment of vital statistics during
the month of March, it was an
nounced Monday afternoon by
DR.. +. w. Almond, state medi-
cal advisor. This is the largest
number for any one month in
the history of the department:
the largest previous to this
March being about 900. The
exact total for March was 1127.
At the municipal election held
. at Mullan, Idaho Tuesday an all
women's ticket lost out to tick
ct on which all candidates were
men. The plurality for the men
was about 3 to d with upwards
of 400 votes cast. The women's
ticket was put into the field by
the women of Mullan who charg-
ed that the present government
of the men was inclined to be lax
in enforcing gambling and liquor
laws.
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan
company has posted notices ad-
vising all employees that effec-
tive May l, 1921, reduction of
Is cents per shift will be made
in the present bonus paid to
smelter employees and reduc-
tion OF so cents per shift made
in the bonus paid all other en-
ployes. This reduction will leave
a bonus remaining of 80 cents
per shift at the smelter and rs
cents per shift for all other en-
ployes.
The Idaho Department of the
American Legion will launch a
statewide membership campaign
early in May with a view to en-
rolling 10000 former service
men in the veterans organiza-
ton. it was announced this
week by Lester J. Alberts, State
Adjutant. The Legion now has
5000 members in Idaho, but in
keeping with the action of the
organization in other states it
will attempt to double the men,
bership.
With almost so per cent of the
people members of a church.
Moscow claims the highest per-
centage of church members in
its population of any town in the
northwest. A census just TAX
en- shows IL active church or
ganizations with total member
ship of 1850. Many of these
members live outside the city,
but as near as can be estimated
there are about 100 church
members living within the city
limits. which has n popuIatiou Of