Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-31
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

The Lewis county stock show
and fair will be held at Nez-
perce October a, 5 and 6.
The Nez Prece Sheep COM
pany doing business in Idaho
county has filed two chattel
mortgages in favor of the Port
land Cattle Loan company, aQ-
gregating $287, ,090, the security
being 1887 sheep, 3 mules and
AZ horses.
The equalized valuation of
lands in Idaho on which the
farmer pays taxes is at least
S6,0O0,000 less than it was in
1922. 1t is announced by Idaho's
state board of equalization.
which closed two weeks ses-
sion Saturday.
Approximately one-fifth as
many divorces were granted in
the state of Idaho for the calen-
dar year 1922 as there were
marriages, this being shown in a
preliminary report of marriages
and divorces for Idaho Just is
sued by the United States de-
partment of commerce.
September 27 is the date Sc
lected for the second annual re-
union and convention of the
North Idaho Pioneer society to
be held in Lewiston. The date
conforms to the first anniver-
sary OF the opening of the Lewis
and Clark hotel and that hos
telry will be the scene of the
gathering.
Four thousand tons of silver
lead ore will be received at the
Bunker Hill smelter from the
Mayo district Of the Yukon ter
/ itory this season, the first
trainload Of which arrived at the
smelter this week. 1t will take
four entire freight trains to
move the ore from the docks at
, Seattle to the smelter at Kellogg,
according to Frank M. Smith,
Bunker Hill smelter director,
who is handling the shipments,
says the Wardner-Kellogg News.
, After having been divorced
for little more than month,
Floyd B. Crooks, well known
young farmer Of the Cove dis
! trict, in northern Latah county,
and Ruth Neff of Seattle, were
) remarked Saturday afternoon.
The decree of divorce was grant
ed in the district court at Mos
COW July 6 of this year, and Mrs.
, Crooks granted her former
name. 1t did not take the
: young people, who have one at
tractive child about 8 months
: old, to decide that they would be
happier together, and Satur-
: days wedding was the result of
5 this decision. Mr.. Crooks is 26
r years old and his bride "a
Mary E. Armstrong, 72, of
Lenville, died Thursday after
noon at the old homestead where
! she and her husband had started
4 home over fifty years ago. The
e funeral was held from the Gene
: see Catholic church Saturday
e afternoon. Mrs. Armstrong was
: the mother of sixteen children,
Y fourteen of whom, ten sons and
i four daughters, are now living.
g She is also survived by twenty
six grandchildren and ten great
: grandchildren. Her ten sons all
y visited their mother at the old
homestead about three weeks
i ago. There is a difference of
thirty years in the age of the
oldest and the youngest sons.
Mrs. Armstrong; husband died
g several years ago.
/ Idaho's state department of
4 public works will begin the i'm
= mediate improvement of the 23
!, miles of "bad road" on the north
. and south highway north of
: Round valley, according to an
: nouncement by w. J. Hall, CON-
= missioner. The state has allot-
= ted $4,000 for this work and
: hopes to receive financial aid
5 from Idaho county in the amount
5 of $4,000. The money will be
q spent building sight to sight
/ turnouts, blasting or otherwise
/ removing "high centers," and
s eliminating steep and slippery
grades. Mr.. Hall says +" it is de-
sired to call attention to the fact
l. that the road which it is propos-
J. ed to improve was built by hard