Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-04-27
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

who Monday reached the age of
SO years, was celebrated at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. w.
l.. Ruddell, of Culdesac, with
whom he makes his home.
Highway Improvements in
north Idaho totaling 100000
were approved last week at
conference Of officials of the fed
eral bureau and public roads,
the forest service, and the Ida
no state road officials.
Governor C. C. Moore refused
Friday to permit his name to be
signed to letter addressed to
President Harding, asking re-
lease of So so called federal
political prisoners" serving sem
tences for violation of the espi-
onage act during the war.
Pocatello is not to be outclas-
sed by Chicago, Cleveland or any
other eastern city when it comes
to keeping right up to date with
the fads Of the time and on Mon
day evening an endurance dane
ing contest will start at the Co.
lumbia hall.
The senior sneak day of the
Winchester high school came to
an abrupt end Tuesday morning
when the car in which the party
were travelling overturned two
miles north of Winchester, Miss
Clara Nichols suffering from
bruises and shock. None Of the
others were injured.
Four residents of Kooskia
have been examined. by w. T
!, Williams, service examiner at
} Grangeville, for the postmaster
ship of Kooskia. The candidates
! are J. M. Shaw, E. N. Judd,
, Edward Gilroy and Mrs. Edith
/ Pringle. Mr.. Shaw is acting
postmaster at Kooskia.
State warrants totaling more
than $37, 900 in amounts are in
the office of Harry Fisher, state
: director of license, ready for
e distribution to tobacco dealers
, of the state who paid the 1923
! tobacco license fee Of $50. The
warrants are to refund the deal
ers their fees because the legis-
lature repealed the act and took
: the license fee from the statute
+ books.
Settlement of the Eugene r.
: Day will case, involving between
, $2,500,000 and $4,000, 900, share
q in which was denied the wife of
the prominent Coeur d'Alene
J. mining man, is expected within
! the coming week as the result of
negotiations which have been in
progress for the last month be-
tween Mrs. Agnes Loretta Day
and relatives of her husband
named as the sole beneficiaries
in the will.
= The Idaho National Guard in
;, fantrymen this year will go to
;. Camp Lewis, Washington, for
:, their annual encampment from
;, June 16 to 80. Word that the
41st division 186th infantry will
, also make camp there in June
= was received at the state adju-
= tant generals office Monday
> from the war department. The
division is made up of guard
= units in Washington, Oregon,
~ Idaho and Montana.
: Approximately one million
d pounds of butterfat will be man
Il ufactured in Caldwell yearly
! utilizing cream from dairy re-
@ sources tributary to Caldwell in
J. stead of shipping cream away tG
e be manufactured. This an.
d nouncement comes from H. w
,s Coppish, who has recently pur-
10 chased the Hazelwood Creamery
II company there and is at work OF
,e plans for extensive alteration.
t. and the installation Of a large
,e amount Of new equipment.
James McMahen, Latah coun
ty farmer, died at the age of Ion
years seven months and fiv'
n, days, last Friday night. HI
V. would have been 101 years O.
a age on August Is, having beel
es born in Ireland, August Is, 1922
It, Up until a year ago Mr.. Nc
,2 Mahen had enjoyed good health
L. and was in possession of all hi!
ne faculties. 1t was his ambition
ay to live 100 years and after n
an had completed a century mari
n. in active life he began to fai
H. noticeably and his death was ex
/. pected at any time.