Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1921-10-14
news AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft Of Our Readers.


per acre is the preliminary esti-
mated yield of spring wheat in
Idaho this year.
The largest business ever
transacted within one quarter i'm
the history of the Lewiston post
office was that for the period
ending with September 80 last,
the receipts for the three
months following after June 80
heing $13, 3,646.06.
Through the cooperation of
the kamiah Commercial Club.
the kamiah school is to have a
splendid new gym. The school
board had $500 to put into the
new project and the Commercial
Club raised 81 900. Besides the
cash much work will be donated.
One of the largest funerals in
the history of Standpoint was
held there Monday for Jack
Hughes, age %, of Detroit,
Mich, ex-sailor and human fly"
killed in a fall week ago. He
was buried in Lakeview GENET
cry by the American legion post.
Head lettuce from Lewiston
Orchards is being shipped in
car lots to large market centers.
The heaviest shippers are Fall
well Brothers and w. S. Shear
er. The product this fall is said
to be excellent, as it has been
grown under ideal conditions
and the growers are receiving
the top prices.
Ten thousand, two hundred
seventy acres of Indian lands,
the total appraised value of
which is $455,245 are being ad-
vertised for sale by the Nez
, Perce Indian agency at Lapwai.
There are 120 tracts in the lot,
of which 106 are agriculture and
Ia grazing. The sale will take
place November 80.
The half mile of dirt road at
the top of the Lewiston Hill
highway, connecting with the
! Genesoe highway. will be i'm
mediately improved so as to put
it in passable condition for the
coming winter and in the early
; spring of 1922 a permanent
highway will be built by Whit
, man county to connect with the
Genesee highway. This was de-
l cided by joint meeting of the
commissioners of Whitman
/. county with the commissioners
D of Lewiston highway district.
/, Washington and Northern
Idaho have been allotted $40, ,000,-
900 by the war finance corpora
tion for loans to farmers, more
particularly livestock growers,
= according to an announcement
;, given out today by r. L. Rutter,
n chairman of the agricultural
G loan agency of Washington and
e Northern Idaho for the war fin
:. ance corporation. The money
n will be made available at once
0 and will be separate from a simi-
G lar amount apportioned to. the
n northwest wheat growers.
q One thousand dollars is the
price paid for travelling expenses
by p. ID. Sharma of India who
arrived at the University of Ida
no last week for post graduate
-'ork in the school of forestry.
= Mr.. Sharma graduated from an
y English colony in India at the
> age of 16 years and has been do
- ing active work in the forests OF
:. = his native land for many years
I" He belongs to high cast OF
Brahmans and holds the distinc
tion of being one of the three
native Indians to become Ma
sons.
IN "If arsenic had been distribut
n ed throughout Meyers body il
n the same proportion as in tn,
ye organic samples ] have tested
TX his body would have contained
ed 9.8 grains. From a half graii
m up is killing dose. Such wa!
ne the testimony of Edward F. Rho
he denbaugh of Boise, state chem
o. ist, at the closing hour of th'
trial at Twin Falls Friday o
Mrs. LYDIA Southland, charged
e. with the murder of her fourtl
a spouse, Edward F. Meyer, for
& mer foreman at the Blue Lake