Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-07-14
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items Of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Ben
eft of Our Readers.

WORK Dy the Gfant Smltn
company on the North and South
highway on the Culdesac hill is
progressing rapidly. Two steam
shovels have just arrived and
are being used on the grade.
Seventy-five members of the
Idaho state medical association,
together with a number of ma
tionally known specialists as
sembled at Wallace Monday for
the opening session of the associ-
atoms annual convention.
The Craig Mountain Lumber
company announces that it will
on August |, increase its opera
tions TO a two-shift basis. The
company is at present employ
ing approximately 800 men, and
this will he raised at least 100 to
enable the production TO $50. 900
feet per day.
Representatives Addison 7.
Smith and Burton l.. French left
Washington Friday for their
homes in Idaho. Representative
Smith will stop off in Nebraska
as a member of the house COM
mittee named to attend the funer
al of the late Representative
Moses p. kinkaid.
Thirteen prisoners at the Ida
no penitentiary Friday were
granted pardons at the second
quarterly meeting of the state
board of pardons. The board
consists of Governor ID. w. Davis
Robert o. Jones, secretary of
state, and Roy l.. Black, attorney
general.
LYDIA Hutchison of Idaho Falls
girl driver in the Ashton dog
races, who won considerable
fame through being the only.
woman TO enter the Washing
toms birthday dog classic, has
been offered a leading part in IL
motion picture to be filmed in
Rainier national park. The offer
carries a salary of 5000 per
week and calls for expenses for
her helpers and dog teams.
Automobile registrations for
the first six months of 1922 are
more than 1000 ahead of the
registrations for the same period
of 1921, it was announced We'd
nesday by Robert o. Jones, COM
missioner of law enforcement.
The total registrations July l
this year of passenger cars and
trucks was 1904, while a year
ago but $4,000 cars and trucks
had been given license numbers.
Mining men all over Idaho are
much interested in the recent
election of Harry l.. Day, well
known mining man of Wallace. to
the board of directors of the
American Smelling and Refining
company. The election occurred
in New York, June 81, and since
the news reached Idaho has
caused much comment in mining
circles. Mr.. Day heing one of the
best known men in Idaho.
Miss Letitia Frizzell was
found unconscious i'm a room NJ
the Bollinger hotel at Lewiston
Monday afternoon, suffering
from complications resulting
from an overdose of medicine
taken to relieve stomach trouble.
She entered the hotel about 10
o'clock Sunday evening and was
not seen until friends called at
her room in the afternoon of the
following day and discovered her
unconscious.
Mrs. Tillson of Winchester
and Miss Catherine Green and
Harold Boyer of Cudesac were
pinned under a car driven by
Mrs. Tillison when it overturned
on the Winchester grade Satur-
day afternoon. Rodmen and
surveyors working nearby rush
ed to their aid and lifted the ca-
so that all crawled from under it.
with slight injuries. Those of
Miss Green were most severe in
the nature of a bruised ankle and
leg. The accident occurred when
Mrs. Tillison attempted to
change gears on a steep and
rough pitch. When the gears
failed to mesh. the car started
backward, and when Mrs. Tillsin
found that the brakes did not
hold. she steered into the hank
with the result noted.