Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-03-16
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

sioner of agriculture, placed his
resignation in the hands of Gov.
G. G. Moore Saturday, effective
at once. 1t was accepted. No
reason is assigned for the resig-
nation.
Andrew ]. Spencer, age So,
the oldest resident in the Try
community, died Tuesday at the
home of his son, j. T. Spencer.
Mr.. Spencer was native of
Kentucky, where he spent the
greater part Of his life, coming
to Idaho about ID years ago to
live with his son.
A set of ancient Babylonian
tablets containing records of bus
mess transactions between 240O
and 2100 years before Christ
has been given to the university
museum by Major and Mrs. w.
w. Woods, old friends of the in
stitution. Major Woods is not
now living but his last wish was
that the tablets be presented to
the university. Mrs. Woods
resides at Wallace.
Whether Lewis county is
again to have the services of
county agriculture agent, is the
question upon which a special
! meeting of the county commits
sioners has been called by Chair
man of the Board l. II. Longe-
teig to be held at their office in
Nezperce on Tuesday March 20.
A telegram received in Lewis
ton Saturday by William Osborn
for the past two years district
engineer of the state bureau of
highways from W.. j. Hall, COM
missioner Of the bureau, with
headquarters at Boise, notified
Mr.. Osborn that his term would
expire with March Is, and that
Perry Oxley, engineer for district
No. 2, with headquarters at
Occur d. Alene, would arrive to
: take over the affairs of the
office.
While returning from digging
the grave Of another, in prepara-
tion for burial to take place at
l o'clock Saturday afternoon,
Elmer Sisson, SO, was killed and
Wilbur Ankeny, 21, and Roy
Dicus, 80, were badly injured
when the automobile in which
they were riding went over
grade on the Lewiston-W Waha
road at 8 o'clock Friday after
, noon, just at a point near the
Lafe Mounce ranch in Tammany
Otto Livengood, the fourth men,
I ber of the party, miraculously
e escaped injury.
The Potlatch Lumber COM
pany's big mill at Potlatch will
: resume operations Thursday, ac-
cording to the statement of A..
:. D. Decker, head of the COM
pany's land department. The
mill has been shut down since
early in the winter. The PLAN
ing mill, however, has been in
operation, employing consider
. able number of men, and other
: men have been kept busy on nee
;, essary repairs on the plant, so
,, y that practically all the men with
y families have had jobs during
= the winter.
y Governor c. C. Moore appoint
i ed Will H. Gibson of Mountain
: Home, a member of the Idaho
4 public utilities commission to
+ succeed George S. Erb of Lewis
o ton, whose term expires. The
g change takes place April 1. The
n appointment removes the only
o north Idaho member and demo-
crat from the board. George
h w. Suppinger Of Nezperce was
~ also appointed member of the
c industrial accident board to sue
4 ceed George Fisher of Bancroft
" Fisher is a democrat and Sup.
IS pinger a republican so that the
d last democrat is removed from
ie the board by the appointment.
Ie Crushed between top anc
is steering post of his overturned
4 automobile, Henry Wagner, 35
t. was drowned Wednesday in
,e feet Of water in an irrigation
lg ditch near Twin Falls. Wagner
le lost control of the car when hs
rs turned in his seat to help his dos
lie from the rear to the front seat
ID according to Frank Johnson who
was riding with Wagner ant
/ made his escape from the wreck
nnro of thu 90 =. IN tho uf,.oo1na