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COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918.
. $2.00 PER YEAR.
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AEROPLANE LUM
BER FROM COT
TONWOOD
Hussman Lbr. Co. to Ship
Logs for Wing Beams
to Government Mill
Cottonwood is to help win the
watfand participate in.actual war
woik, is the report of W. Ô. Huss
iimal, who returned from Spokane
Wednesday evening, where he
had gone to meet Mr. Kenneth
Ross of the Spruce Division rep
resenting the government and at
the head of that division for the
Inland Empire, to see about fur
nishing logs or lumber for aero
plane construction.
The Aeroplane department has
recently made , experiments with
Idaho White Pine> and Western
Pine with the result that both of
these woods have been found
highly satisfactory and ,the de
partment is now anxious to, secure
vast quantities of this lumber,
and just as soon as pössihfe. ,
Mr. Hussman made . arrange
ments to. supply logs to be loaded
and shipped to either Potlatch or
Coeur D'Alene and in any amount
that he may be able to get out up
to a million feet. However, the
distance these logs must be hauled,
and that on motor trucks and the
lateness of the season will limit
his output to perhaps one fourth
of that amount or less, since we
cannot under the mo t favorable
weather conditions hope to have
good roads for more than a few
months. : •
Rut the department is ypry
anxious to secure even the small
est amount and at the very ear
liest date so that laboratory tests
may be made of the grain, texture
and strength of lumber from this
particular district and if found
superior to that from oihér dis
tricts; as Mr. Hussman feels con
fident that it is, we may look for
vast quantities of logs to be
shipped from the Craig Mountain
section. To secure the quality
of logs wanted requires selective
logging, since they- must be
straight grained, ftf&e . Train pitch
knots or other defects gnd,24 feet
long.
One would think that it would
be more economical to saw the
logs into lumber here and thus
save a great deal of heavy haul
ing and freight-on the logs which,
so Mr. Hussman tells us, will not
saw out more than 20 per cent of
aeroplane lumber. But this is
not possible, because thé lumber
cannot be air seasoned and re
quires specially constructed kilns,
hence the government has made
arrangements with the Potlatch
and Coeur D'Alene mills to saw
Good Roads in Banking
V
Have you ever driven over one of the new "good
roads?" If so you know what the Federal Reserve
Banking System is doing for its member banks and
their depositors.
No more ruts and sandy spots, guiiies and steep
hills, but a smooth surface and even grades for the fi
nancing of business and farming to travel over.
You can get on this good road by be
coming one of our depositors. Drop
in and talk with us about it.
/ : -,
^ MEMBER ^
FEDERAL RESERVE
*»., SYSTEM
THE
FIRST NATIONAL
COTTONWOOD, IDAHO
change it to "Hellandgone."
the logs and build the necessary
dry kilns. It is a. big undertak
ing, but our Uncle Sam is stopping '
at nothing to bring early victory !
over the Huns, and the aeroplane -
promises to play the final and de- 1
cisive factor to bring this about.
We are glad that Cottonwood
will thus be able to actively par- 1
ticipate in actual war work and j
sincerely hope that the operations
will assume such proportions as to
bring to our community an op
portunity of contributing towards
winning the war, besides buying
Liberty Bonds and contributing
to war charities.
Mr. Hussman has already put
three men into the timber cruis
ing and selecting suitable trees;
is building a loading platform at
the siding here to load logs onto
the cars, engaging; outside motor
trucks, teams, loggers, cutters,
etc., and will be ready to corn
shipping within a few
mence
weeks.
While the labor situation is bad
at this time owing to the harvest
being in full .blast, he has instruc
tions to prdpeed withoufc'Tlelay;
that this matter just now is of
just as much importance as har
vesting, and that if sufficient men
cannot be secured locally the de
partment will furnish them, per
haps taking some of the enlisted
men into this service.
Let the good work go on, and
may the weather man favor the
undertaking by giving us another
two months of dry weather and
good roads.
Van Sicklin is in
the Race to St?y
Enemies of E. A- Van Sicklin,
démocratie candid« . **' .overn- .
or; are circulating Tâï^porte to !
the effect that he has withdrawn !
from the race. The Chronicle 1
has just received the following
dispatch from Mr. Van Sicklin :
"The report that I contemplate '
withdrawing from the race for
Governor is false and without ;
foundation, and of course is done
for the purpose of injuring my
candidacy. I will
race to the end, and feel confi
dent that I will win at the pri
mary election next Tuesday."
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u . , T J u r J
Monday and lUCSday, noildays
Next Monday is Labor Day
and Tuesday is election day—
making three days, with Sunday,
that the banks Mil be closed,
For this reason our banks will re
main open for business a couple
of hours longer on Saturday after
noon than usual. Don't forget
this. L
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Germany's strongest fortified
island is named Helligoland. The
British navy is preparing to,
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^ ri8 ° ners Admit There is
No Chance for Them.
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Today's dispatches from France
contain the glorious news that
along a front of 75 miles the Ger
mans are suffering the most crush
ing defeat of the war and that
many thousands of the butchers
are being killed and taken prison-1
er daily, besides millions of dol- ;
lars' worth of guns and war ma- :
terial captured.
Within the last few days the
Germans have lost a dozen or
more of their greatest strongholds
such as Montdidier, Albert, Arras,
Monchy, Bullecourt, Bapaume, !
Bray, Chaulnes, Noyon, Roye and !
numerous others—and the good
work still goes on.
Many letters taken from pris
oners and dead Germans indicate !
that hopeless despair is beginning |
to prevail on the German side of
the line. A letter written home
by a German who was stationed
in a town which has now been
captured, said:
"The war has been lost for some
.. . ,, ... ...
time, only those high up are fail
ri -t -f " K
1Q mu° T* 1 ' j , A , ■
The letter added: "Oh, poor ;
Germany, only the dead at the 1
front have forgotten this swindle."
Another letter said:
"This cannot last much long
er," while still another German
wrcWfc
"Our losses greatly exceed all
the drafts. Germany is sure to
lose very soon."
Manv letters taken from nr is
Many letters „taJfen tram pns-,
° nei *' whether written or rece * ved
them - are m the same vein.;
0ne German in Berl,n chided his
brother at the front a1 ^ ut ma ^
ra P ld pW*» to the rear - He
then Predicted the war was surely.
coming to an end and with the
alhes „ then making an economic
wai
end and with the
.„„king an economic
r, Germany would be ruined.
Many of these were written be
fore the British began their drive.
German soldiers believe that
Germany is not planning any
more offensives because of the
man power shortage, according to
one of a party of seven of a Cer
many patrol captured by the
Americans Sunday a t Fismes.
The prisoner said the German sol
diers no longer had any enthu
siasm for war and were thorough
ly worn-out and whipped.
Most of those w-jth whom he
came in contact believed the war
would end soon.
L The prisoner had been fighting
three years and declared he was
thoroughly tired of it. He said
the soldiers understood that the
allied offensive were so frightful
as to be beyond belief. These re-1
ports were credited by the soldiers
and were having a demoralizing
effect. He said he knew of one
j division of 15,000 which *had been
reduced to lees than 1,000.
Plenty of Germans, he added
; would desert and surrender, if giv
en the opportunity, and were do
ing so by the thousands. Many
of them are constantly watching
for a chance to give themselves up.
i Trouble has been threatened in
; the German munitions plants and
I the army leaders were tightening
conditions there.
Germany, he said, has plenty
' of ammunition but the man pow
! er question and the actual entry
I of American troops into the fight
j ing are worrying the military
i leaders.
An indication to the lengths to
I which Germans Kre going for war
materials is cchjtamed in a letter
; taken from a dead soldier. It
! w^s written by his wife and in
i fcrnwkhjm that' the great bronze
i statue r Ettperor William had
j been torn aoWp and sent to the
their air service and more espec
ially to the inexperience and lack
of stamina of the latest recruits,
vrho are most inadequately drilled
and trained and who are physi
foundry to be converted into ord
nance, as had also the roofs of
churches.
Captured officers say that Ger
many entered this war with en
thusiasm, but this has long since
disappeared and it is now a dread
ful and hopeless struggle with no
chance for victory, now that
America is entering the war on
such a gigantic scale. They also
admit that the submarine warfare
is à failure. !
These officers attribute re
cent defeats to the inefficiency of :
cally incapable of sustaining the
heavy strain of defensive warfare,
The mere presence of these new
recruits, they say, produces in a
company a demoralizing effect
upon the older men because it in- i
dicates to what straits Germany
must be reduced to employ such
poor material,
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700 InOrG InGII
yj Fr#m | dah#
Another call for 700 men to en
train Sept. 3rd to 6th for Camp
Lewis to join the national army
:. ,
has been apportioned to the coun
tjes of the state by the Adjutant
^ depart ^ ent .
Idaho county's quota this time
is 14 men, half a dozen or more
of them being from this vicinity.
We have been unable to get their
names £or this issue.
Several hundred ^jpple—most
of them from the Greencreek j
^untry—were at,the depot this|of
i^ orning to cheer, the 26 boys j
th j g county who left for [
Hoover Organization.
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Camp Lewis,
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Lcontributed] j
A preliminary meeting of the ■
of Cottonwood and chair
01011 of other organizations in
Idaho county was held at the Red ;
Cross rooms Saturday afternoon
and a P^ an ^ or a permanent Hoov
er « r Ptanization was formed.
This organization is for the pur
P ose of aidin 8 the Government in
^ ood prablems.
Miss Ta y lor of the University
of Idaho gave an interesting talk
on use substitutes and Miss
Margaret Sweet, school superin
The following
Mrs. Maude
tendent of this county, told of the
fhLs organization.
^ bere a county chairman be
sa ) es a local chairman and com
m irtee, the latter to solve local
f°°d problems
ö ffi° er s w'ere elected :
j Matthiesen, county chairman;
Mrs - U* Ham,i n, local chair
man, and Mrs. Will Ruhoff, Mrs.
Nims and Miss Theresa
Funke, local committee,
^ meeting was arranged for
Saturday, Sept. 7tlj, at which
time Miss Taylor, who is employ
ed by the government in this
work, will demonstrate the mak
ing of war bread. All • the ladies
are invited to be present.
A man named Terpstra and
his family, new-comers from the
East, have secured a lease on the
P. N, Huffman ranch east of town.
Here Isa h int to the govern
ment how to preserve paper:
Shut off the mails from the ship
ment every few months of the
millions of tons of catalogs from
; the big mail order, houses.
Roy McKinney, wife and daugh
ter of Boise, visited their relatives
here this week -Geo. M. and wife,
They left for home Wednesday,
accompanied by their two nieces—
Misses Margaret and Isabel Nash
of Boles, who will attend school
in Boise this winter." Mrs. G. M.
McKinney accompanied them as
far as Lewiston.'____
"Tarzan of the Apes" at the
^ Orpheum tonight. *
Victor Peterson, county food
adrr d n Orator and warehouse
mana £® r > sent the following in
! f° rma rton to the Spokesman-Re
v * ew an< l which was published in
: ^ a ^ ui da ^ s * S8ue that paper.
PRAIRIE CROPS
BREAK RECORD
Yield Heavy and Acreage
Largest Ever Sown Here
Mr. Peterson has been handling
grain here for many years and is
regarded as good authority on
grain statistics. He says:
While the-wheat yield may he
^S^tei than previous years figured
on a basis of the number of bush
els to the acre, the total is as
great, if not greater, than ever
J >e ^ ore - Many farmers planted
i * a rS er areas j than ever ii\ -wheat
^ ais y ear aa d to ^ this^ we owe the
larger total yield. The bat crop
is light and there is not a great
quantity of barley, but the wheat
crop all over the prairie is good.
"Harvesters report, fall wheat
yielding from 40 to 45 bushels
per acre. The average yield will
be between 25 and 30 bushels an
acre. Very little spring grain has
been harvested to datdP
"The dry weather of June and
July was a setback to the grain
on the prairie and had the rain
fall in those two months been
normal a record yield of wheat
and all kinds of small gram
would undoubtedly have been
harvested. Some farmers claim
that oats and other grain suffered
j to a small degree by the invasion
grasshoppers. ^This iq the first
j year that the insects have been at
[ alt d&ifiaging.
Business conditions are unusw
wheat assured and a high price
j guaranteed, the outlook is ex
■ fremely bright and farmers are
planning for à more successful
y ear in 191 »- Stockmen of the
; Salmon and Snake river sections
ally good. With a large yield Pf
report that the rains of the last
two weeks have been of great
benefit to the fall range and as
result cattle and sheep owners are
decidedly optimistic.
"In the towns good reports arc
heard also. Money is not tight
5hd all lfcies of business are pro
gressing,steadily. There has been
some f <#r of a shortage of harvest
help, but so far the labor situation
has been satisfactory with plenty
of work and enough help to take
care of it. Later, however, when
harvest is on full blast, a short
a ^% may be experienced.
"Bankers and business men
, ,
generally report steady progress
in all commercial lines with
bright outlook for this fall and
winter.
Pfister is coining. Bee page 2.
We Do a General Bank
ing Business
Courtesy Our Motto
COTTONWOOD STATE BANK
Cottonwood, Idaho
Wheat Yield Double
That et Lut You
There will be plenty of food for
the folks at home, with proper
economy, and instead of having
132.000. 000 bushels for the armies
abroad and the allies, this c&tm«;
try will have 375,000,000 bushels ,
for this use during* the coming
year, according to thé Continent
al and Commercial bank of
Chicago. " '• -
Estimated yields of wheat this
year in this country are 909,177,
000 bushels, compared with 650,-%
825,000 bushels last year. This
extraordinary increase far ofl^ets
slight decreases in corn and oats,: *
While barley and rye show a^fnb-'
atahtia! increase. Thëre is an es
timated decrease ip ; potatoes of.
40.000. 000 bushejs. T* '
Argentina will helR materially
next year, too, for it has dft in
crease of 120,000,000 bushels of
wheat, and Australia has a sur- '
plus accumulated from three crops
of 200,000,000 bushels.
Corn grown ipthe United States
this year is not tip to the quan
tity of last year, but its quality is
so high that it Jaoipe than pff&ets
the slight decrease, which was
caused by more land Jaeing put
into wheat. Oats are hot cpiite
as heavy a crop as 1$$ year, but
they are 100,000,000 bushels above 4 .
the average. *
Bod Auto Accident.
A fatal auto aoéident was nar-,
rawly averted-^uqday night when *
liforion. EpeFg Oodg#éar,lô*ded
öfji ÿoungpeop'lé frqm
the Greencreeg, couhtry were re
turning home from Ferdinand.
In making a* short, turn *tb» car
upset, and had it not been for the
top*which partially protected the
occupah ts,' thereT^-nh ' doubt that
several of them have been
a
a
killed. The most seriously in
jured was Miss Fay Powers, who
suffered a fracture of her breast
bone and two ribs; Miss Ina
Huffman had a leg broken and
Retl£ Öliver received several bad
flesh wounds. The injured peo
ple are being treated at the Fer
dinand hospital.
H is Now Gov
ernor E. L. Parker
Governor Alexander Wednes
day wired Lieut. Gov. Parker to
come to Boise at once and assume
the duties of governor for about
ten days, as he (Alexander) was
obliged to leave the state for that
length of time.
Under the laws of this state,
during the time the governor is
absent from the state, the duties
of governor automatically reverts
to the Lieut. Governor, who has
'full power to act in that capacity.
Gov. Parker left for Boise yes
terday.