Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-09-08
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items of Interest From Various
Sections Reproduced for Bep.
eft of Our Readers.

SC(uI Gu tttS CoiitidC AoI ouii0Ank
the new Reubens school house at
$4,000. A crew of men are now
doing excavating work until
material arrives. The addition
is 40x36 feet containing base
ment and three rooms one being
a large assembly room.
George II. Waterman, who
was sentenced on the 26th day
of May, this year, to serve in in
determinate term in the Idaho
state penitentiary, as the result
of being convicted of knowingly
making false bank statements,
has made application to the state
board of pardons for a full and
complete pardon at their next
meeting.
Opening exercises of the 1922
1923 academic year at the Uni
versity of Idaho will be held at
the university auditorium We'd
nesday, September 20, beginning
at 10 a. m. The ceremony will
be formal, and the faculty will
appear i'm full academic costume.
DR.. Enoch A. Bryan, commission
Ell Of education for Idaho, will
deliver the opening address.
A daylight robbery of $40 in
bank notes marked the sojouIn
of gypsy caravan in Moscow
Friday afternoon. The money
was recovered by police officers.
The robbery occurred at the
First Trust and Savings bank
late during the afternoon when
u gypsy woman, under the guise
of transacting business at the
teller window, palmed two bills
without immediate detection.
The estate of John Broadbent,
: pioneer, who died July 20, is
valued at S1,764, ,06S.11. accord
ing to the findings of the board
of appraisers, filed Wednesday in
the probate court. OF this
amount $1,529,500 consists of
Boise real estate, $67 ,504.63 in
Liberty bonds, $81. 900 in mort
cages, and $751; in stocks.
The remainder is made up of
personal property and balances
in banks.
Bidding S84, GOATS, the Tri-
angle Construction company of
Spokane has been granted the
contract OH the first new link in
. the Lewis and Clark (Lolo pass)
highway, known as federal aid
project No. so, and being the
: section Of 6.2 miles from Orofino
to Greer. This bid is exclusive
of the cost of drainage pipe, and
the 10 per cent added for engi-
neering contingencies. With
these items added, the section
: will cost sos, ,612.46.
William G.. McAdoo, former
secretary of the treasury, is ex-
pected in Rigby, Idaho, TO join a
rafting and fishing expedition
= down the south fork of the
Snake river. The journey down
the river is expected to take ten
days. The river trip is expected
TO be one of thrills as the stream
is about 300 feet wide in places
and very deep. There are rough
+ rapids to be negotiated by the
, raft, which will be Is feet wide
, and 100 feet long.
! A four-horse team owned by
, Lewis Edwards and driven by
i Denny Hack, a mile east of Webb
, on Mccormick ridge was caught
, by Wednesdays storm while
! passing through a narrow gulch
down which the flood waters
, rushed in such volume that the
o horses were swept from their
q feet and three of them were
. drowned before the driver could
untangle them and give them a
|, chance to escape,
The A. c. White Lumber COM
pany of Laclede, Idaho. has pur-
chased the plant and buildings of
the Dover Lumber company of
: Dover. Idaho. and will take i'm
d mediate possession of the plant.
d according to A. c. White, presi-
= dent and general manager of the
! company. The purchase price
d was announced as being $125, 900
The purchase of the Dover COM
pany's holdings at Dover comes
as result of the fire which
destroyed the plant of the A. c.