Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-12-03
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TOYS and Christmas Notions.
Ed Brooks arrived out from Warren
last week to spend the winter.
brick fiue has been built on t,
, Aram's livery stable this week.
County warrants taken at full face
value on subscription TO the Press.
The many friends of Joe Peasly will
be glad to hear that he is recovering.
Time brings around different seasons
and adds wrinkles to the human face.
Several Indians are regular attendants
at the religious services held here every
Sunday.
Water and feed stock regularly, give
them good shelter and they will pull
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Winter is here, but recollect that all
earthly things are transient, and that
spring will be here by and by.
q. e. Beeson, Junior editor of the Nez
Perce Necs was married Nov. %, to Miss
Elizabeth NJ. Lindsay, of Lewiston.
There is no better time than right
now to invest in a cheap building lot in
Grangeville. Call and see our town plat.
A correspondent in every precinct of
this county can make few dollars by
sending in a budget of items to the
FREE Pass.
There are two big dollars in our Office
cash-box for the first man or woman
who brings us four dozen fresh eggs on
December 20.
{. III. Adams, of the Nez Perez Neacs,
together with his wife and child, came
up to celebrate Thanksgiving day on the
prairie, and returned home last Monday.
Mr.. Hawley spread magnificent
dinner at the Jersey house Thanksgiv-
ing day, which is said to be the "nifti-
est" lay out ever set at public table
on Cimas prairie.
Rawlins, Mt. T., Journal. .-Wm. Haw-
ley, former resident of this city and at
one time sheriff of this county, has
purchased the Jersey house at Grange
vile. Idaho.
The liberty pole on Main street which
has so long stood the zephyrs was cut
down last Friday as it was feared that it
might fall and kill somebody during the
high wind.
Miss Maggie McGregor took her de-
parture last Saturday for Lewiston
where she will spend the winter. The
young lady has many friends up here
who will gladly welcome her back.
There is possibility t hat Washington
territory will be admitted as a state this
winter with these northern counties of
Idaho included. If it fails to pass at
this session annexation is dead duck
For "the latest" in ladies hats, flowers
feathers and millinery in general, call
and inspect the stock just received by
Mrs. j. Ii. Wilson, who possesses excel
lent taste pertaining to ladies costumes.
Three hair-pins and an embroidered
pocket handkerchief somehow got in the
editors pocket on the night of the
Thanksgiving ball, and the owner is
requested to come and prove property
and take 1t away.
1t is a significant thing that the very
men who won't subscribe for the FREE
PREss because they don't like the ed-
tor" are the very first men to hunt up
the paper when they come to town to
see what it has to say.
There is something wrong in the So
cial system when man sets out five
dollars worth of trees to improve his
property and then finds out that he has
to build fifty dollars worth of fencing to
keep fifteen dollars worth of cow from
eating up said trees.
A lady back east the other day was 80
shocked at receiving an offer of marriage
that she fell dead. But we advise the
boys to pay no attention to this little
episode, as it was only one case out of
ten thousand, and there is no danger of
it becoming epidemic.
Ernest Smiths team felt of their oats
last Monday while working on the ranch
and gave Mr.. Smith an opportunity to
show his agility by jun ping for his life.
The team capsized the wagon, broke the
tongue and ruined the harness, but as
the boss escaped without a scratch he
isn't kicking at the wreck.
The delinquent tax list of Nez Perce
county shows total of 6S5 names out of
about 1900 or very nearly thirty per
cent. Up here in Idaho county there
were only seventy-fve names out of
total of about 700 on the assessment roll
or about ten per cent. Nez Perce is an
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