Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-29
LOCAL POINTS.

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Vote for competent men.
Chicken hunters are happy,
The leaves are leaving the trees.
John HALEY will stick like glue.
Turn out and vote next Tuesday.
Now is good time to plant trees.
Wheat is slowly coming into market
Quartz location notices for sale here
Iron-clad note books for sale at thi,
office.
Time to transplant your strawberry
vines.
Mountain trayel is about over for this
year.
You can only vote for one commits.
sioner.
Dubois speaks at the Grange hall thi,
afternoon.
Thanksgiving ball at Mt. Idaho
Nov. 25th.
The candidates ball elected large
attendance.
Bro. Leland, of the Teller, is solid
for John HALEY.
This lovely weather is a sweet dream
OF SUNNI Time.
Fatten up your turkeys for the Thanks
giving festivities.
Don't forget in the fall rush to SUBJ
scribe for the PRESS.
More rain fell Friday night, and the
new grass is growing right up.
Wild ducks are plentiful on the lake
and down on the rivers.
The boys are coming in from the
mountains to spend the winter.
County warrants received at full face
value on subscription to the PRESS.
Idaho county will have genuine
mining boom before many moons.
This issue lets us out of politics for
two more years. Praise the Lord
John Doumacq was up from White
Bird last week taking a run with the
boys.
Taxes become delinquent Nov. Sth,
and if not then paid Is per cent. will be
added.
Business in Lewiston is said to be
very good. The old town is the boss,
after all.
Dubois has put in practice all the
trickeries of small politics to ensure his
election.
Young man, agree with the girls
father in politics and with the mother
in religion.
John Dorman and Ben Morris are
the most persistent duck-hunters on
the prairie.
Pearson & Noyes have just received
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their business.
A gang of U. S. Indian inspectors are
expected to happen along this way
before snowfall
This item is set up in the new nonpariel type
purchased by the editor while in Portland for
legal advertisements.
VIM. Hawley shot twenty-seven
chickens and two ducks on forenoon
hunt last Monday.
What a gigantic drop Dubois will taxi
next Tuesday Happily, he will never
know what hit him.
Bailey Cham berlain was out from
Warrens last week gathering up herd
OF hogs to drive in.
If the election returns can be got up
in time the FREE PRESS will publish
extras Iree OF charge.
Chief Justice Hays has declared the
test-oath law constitutional, but is none
the less rank injustice.
e. B.. True, we'll known in these
parts, is candidate for eurveyor On the
democratic ticket of Alturas county.
Dubois and Willis Sweet are announ.
ced to speak at Grangeville this after
noon, and at Cottonwood this evening.
A national bank would be a paving
enterprise in this county. The Press
editor will take 81 900 worth of stock in
such an institution.
Since personalities and black guard
ism appear to be inseparable from poll
ties, we are nightly glad that the cruel
campaign is over.
Taxes are being paid in at such a
lively rate that there is money enough
in the treasury to redeem all current
expense fund warrants issued in 1885.
Every ticket used as a ballot MUST
BE FOLDED FOUR TIMES FROM
THE CEN Err, so as to make the
ballot three quarters of an inch in size.
Dubois will find out next Tuesday
that swelled heads are dangerous
thing to pack around and that they
generally land a man on his uppers.
Mr.. Dueber is having a substantial
crosswalk built across Main street from
the store to the hotel. and is also having
the street filed up with gravel to an
even grade.
r. M. G. Bradley, formerly black
smith in these parts, is now following
his trade at Bellevue and sent
sent up So by Chas. Cone for the PRESS
to be sent him.
Now that the campaign is over we will
give you good local paper. Politics
are nuisance and only makes enemies
for newspaper, no matter how honest
the editor may be.
Mr.. Wild. of the U. s. assay Office al
Boise city, visited Mt. Idaho last week
to gather information about the gold
production of our county. In his last
report he omitted Idaho county
altogether, and the FREE PRESS very
naturally kicked at this remarkable
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