Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-20
LEWISTON NOTES.

Oreenburg sells peaches at Sl.o5
per box.
Twenty thousand dollars in dust went
down from the prairie on last Mondays
| treasure box.
We regret to hear of the loss sus-
tanned by Mr.. and Mrs. Fountain Of the
Spring ranch. in the death of their child,
The crop of fall sown wheat in the
Lewiston neighborhood will average
| fifteen bushels to the acre. good wheat
| at that.
Fifty pound water-melons are retailing
| mere for four bits-luscious beauties.
out containing enough dreadful
| possibilities of cholera morbus to scare
| the stomach of horse.
1t is my private opinion, based on a
study of the worlds wheat markets. that
wheat will be worth 65 or 20 cents in
Lewiston by December 1st, but don't let
'nvvbody 60 off and speculate on my
say-so.
The atmosphere Is dense with real
estate and smoke, and the sun blazes
It's way through the haze with q sutri-
ness that reminds us of the brewing of
IN equinoctial gale in the tropics.
Willow creek has gone SO dry that it
hasn't moisture enough to keep it's bed
lamp. All the other streams on the
mountain are running mighty slim
mead. and Sweetwater, the Indians say,
never was SO low.
Two of Lewiston's charming dauohtars
ire about to quit the territory of single
blessedness for the state of matrimony.
Both are ex-school mains, and can be
counted on to raise their rownyouppsters
IN the way they should 60 in the good
time coming.
Sad is the news of John A. Post's
death at Boise city, through the acci-
dental death of shotgun In his own
nands. Many oldtimers will recall the
manners of this quiet and inc ffensiye
citizen with regret at his untimely end.
A year ago there we're more mother
Hubbard costumes to be seen on the
streets of Lewiston than you could
shake stick at. The dictates of fashion
however, have banished them from the
streets, and yet. they were the most
becoming, the most comfortable-and
The most uggestive-costume ever
invented. if somebody would invent
similar for us fellows, there
would be fewer grey hairs in the world.
plastic hand of the professional wire-
puller. moulding into form for fall use
The chaotic elements which eventually
are organized into primaries and con-
ventions. The territorial campaign will
Oe too one-sided for any fun, as there ia
split in the republican ranks which
will never be healed until the last of
the dictatorial gang of Federal carpet.
baggers are strangled and ousted from
The party they have dishonered and
disgraced.
The roads between Lewiston and
sweetwater need what they never get
they eye of yigilant supervisor. They
are cut up in such manner that they
present more the appearance of
miniature canyons than the only roads
10y which you can reach the Clearwater
metropolis without paying toll. A
supervisor on Camas prairie who
neglected his duties as much as the boss
of this district would be promptly
bounced. But there isn't energy enough
in Lewiston these hot days to bounce
a bed-bug.
The doctors all unite in saying that
there is more sickness in Lewiston now
than they have ever known before.
There is diarrhea epidemic prevailing
which spares neither age nor sex. They
say it is the water. but it must certainly
be the climate, for l abstained from
water and fruit, fearing the evil effects
of the combination and yet the deadly
climate hit me below the belt before l
had been in town six hours and | am
now enjoying (?) the unusual distinc-
tion OF being an invalid.