Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-06-29
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

MI. ana MIS-. n. II. OamrOSe OF
Craigmont while swinging in q
barn, Monday suffered broken
arm and severe bruises from a
fall caused by the swing break
ing and throwing her through an
opening to the lower floor.
The Standard Asphalt Paving
company of Spokane was recent
| ly awarded the contract to pave
approximately so blocks in the
business district of st, Maries,
Idaho, for 128,900. The compa-
ny was also given the contract to
install castiron sewers in the
paved area for $17,342
Edward Cheatham, a United
States marine, who during the
war was one of the famous
suicide squad" one of the four
bodyguards accompanying Presi-
dent Harding on his tour. is a
nephew of Mrs. w. B. McFar-
land and Mrs. Sam Carnahan Of
Occur d'Alene.
c. c. LYDIA, contractor on the
North and South highway near
Whitebird announced that the
, opening Of the road to travel
would occur within the next 10
days, and that while work would
continue, the contractors have
orders from the highway depart
, ment to keep the route open to
! tourists.
The sale of state treasury
e notes in the sum of $665 900 was
: successfully consumated Friday
e by State Treasurer D. F. Banks.
/. Seven bids were received, the ac-
: cepted one being that of Ralph
e SchneelOch and company OF
e Portland, who offered $139.66
n premium on the issue for notes
e bearing A 3-4 per cent interest.
The road program for the
northern part of Idaho contem-
plates ar expenditure of $3,OO0,-
900, according to an interview
given to the Spokesman Review
in Spokane Saturday, by VIM. ].
5 Hall, state commissioner of
public works, Boise. Much of the
work is proceeding and the re-
mainder is to be contracted for
soon.
w. w. Stabler, of Portland,
. Ore, an active wool buyer in the
), Inland Empire, said recently in
J, Lewiston, that actually all the
1923 clip of the Lewiston region
!, has been marketed. Mr.. Stabler
y purchased 100000 pounds that
. was shipping out through the
! Lewiston gateway, and about
:, 100000 pounds in the eastern
. Washington district.
a Edward Grunwold has been
l. given the contract for grading
g the half mile of road at Kamiah
g from the foot of the hill south of
: that city into town. His con-
n tract is at 18 cents a yard and is
Y. expected to amount to about
8 $1,000. The Kamiah city council
has made arrangements with the
q Triangle company by which that
# company will surface the road
e with crushed rock in return for
= the use of the city's rock crush
n er.
= One hundred and fifty blue
j. gowned girls and women opened
e the packing house Of the Oregon
le Packing company in Lewiston
le the first of this week and are
IS sorting and canning Royal Ann
cherries as fast as nimble fin
70 gers can move. Thirty days from
N now the cherry pack will be over
|v and the company will have dis.
,s tributed probably 100000, per.
in haps more, to growers of cher.
w ries and the employees Of the can
merry.
10 On motion of Prosecuting At.
- torney ]. L. Phillips of Nez
at Perce county, Saturday in dis
ID trict court, the case against F
+ l.. Wicks, former cashier of tht
n Bank of Clifford, charged with
embezzlement, was dismissed
r. Mr.. Phillips later announced that
o. he would move dismissal of the
r. charge against Wicks, allegins
es making false entries in the banl
books. The dismissal was made
x. on the ground that the facts al
,e- legged would be difficult of proof
nd at this time as to criminal intent
in and that further prosecution
ty would not be serving the aims o1
iusfice