Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-01-26
news AROUND
THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

The clerk of courts in Nez
Perce county reports that 35
divorces were granted in that
county during the past year.
The chamber of commerce of
Moscow has decided to petition
the state legislature to memo
rialize congress to place a guar
anteed minimum price of $1.25
a bushel on wheat.
More than six times as many
people were married in 1922 over
the number of people divorced,
according to a report from the
office of Harry A. Thatcher,
Latah county recorder and audi
tor.
Boise and Pocatello, the two
cities of the first class in Idaho,
may have city courts if mea-
sure now being contemplated by
lawmakers is passed by the 18th
session of the legislature now in
session.
Bert Decker the well known
packer of Kooslsia and Orofino
who recently underwent a seri-
Gus operation at the st. Joseph
hospital in Lewiston for ruptur-
ed appendix with hernia, is re-
ported to be doing nicely and his
complete recovery is expected.
Eric A. Anderson, University
of Idaho, senior in electrical en-
gineering, will leave in a few
days for Schenectady, N. Y,
where he will enter the testing
department Of the General Elec-
trio company, having recently
received a graduate appointment
from that company.
County Treasurer Edna Eek
ersley Of Lewis county gives out
the information that the war
rant call dated January 11th
takes up all outstanding war
rants against Lewis county, with
the possible exception of a few
warrants against some Of the
highway districts.
: The sale of block Of state
timber in Clearwater county, to
: be held in March, will be the lar
gest single offering of timber
: ever made by the state, reaching
) more than 10000 acres. The
appraised value, according to re-
) port, will be more than $500, 900
The land is retained by the state
l At a meeting of the stockhold-
: ers of the Nezperce & Idaho
: railroad company, held in Nez-
I perce, ]. G.. Magenheimer, of
!, Chicago, representing the prin-
$ cipal holders of the bonds of the
d road, was elected president, and
;, Attorney P. w. Mitchell, of that
: city, secretary and manager of
c the company, with these two
n gentlemen and w. F. Johnson, c.
y w. Booth and F. R. Roe as the
y board of directors.
I, Ray Bair, superintendent Of
p the local construction unit Of the
n Triangle Construction company
n which has the Kamiah hill con-
o tract, arrived in Kamiah, Mon.
!, day. 1t is understood that work
It on the highway will start at
d once, the survey of which wa
/" completed about two weeks ago
a The road construction camp ant
s equipment has been on The
n ground for some time.
L The ownership and manage
y ment of the J. Alexander com
n pany, Lewiston, passed into tn,
10 hands of Stanley Talbot, P. F
re Speaker and Herman Wegner
t, these gentlemen acquiring tn,
a entire holdings of Theron S
se Ward, who retired from the firm
A. Immediately upon consummatiol
a of the deal, which was Saturday
3 The amount paid Mr.. Ward TO
IN his holdings amounted to $100,
le 900.
I'd Sixteen year old Floyd Sun
ut dusky is in Jail at Pocatellc
charged with the murder of hi
n father, Charles Sandusky, VIII
IN was shot and killed abroad a
east bound railroad train at Nc
Cannon, Idaho last Thursda
night. The shooting is attribut
Ir- ed to desire on the part of tn
he youth to protect his mother an
E. brother and sisters. Sandusk
all was paroled from the Idaho stat
in penitentiary at Boise on Janr
lie. ary 10, where he was serving
[r. sentence of from seven to l
er years for an alleged attack upo
Sc his wife with knife following
family quarrel.