Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-28
OUR WEEKLY UND- UP.

Wish you a happy new year.
Buy farm on Camas prairie.
!, Our subscription list is growing.
: Call and see our New Years cards.
Vollmer & Scott loan money and bu,
, county scrip.
$ sAn eclipse of the sun is due here new
years day at 2 m.
j. III. Fornev. Mt. Idaho, has money
OF loan on real estate.
Pay your debts while you have the
money in your pockets.
Mr.. Fem went into the Bullion mine
last week on a brief trip.
Weller & Wax will pay the highest
cash price for county warrants. IF
Mrs Fountain is paying an all winter
visit to her sister. Mrs. Eastman.
Now is the time to advertise your
stock brands. Apply at this office for
rates.
The rotund form of Sam Melbourne,
Of Salmon river. graced our streets dur
| ing the week.
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Prof. Hughes with a handsome suit of
clothes at Xmas.
A dance was held at Grange hall We'd
nesday evening. The Lewiston band
furnished the music.
Peter Riebold is convalcscing, but
slowly and it will be a long time before
he will be out again.
Cleveland had 10000 majority over
Harrison on the popular vote. 1t wasn't
much of shower, after all
Capt. Woodward had d letter from his
son Gus last week, who is doing a good
business at Newport, Oregon.
A. d. McKinlay. formerly of Cotton
wood, is a deputy sheriff of Shoshone
county, with headquarters at Wallace.
will sell beef cheaper than any shop
in Idaho county, for cash.
81 w. +. SCHMADEKA.
Jacob Crooks eldest daughter has
been very sick with pneumonia for the
past five weeks but is now recovering.
Santa Claus came in on snow shoes,
and we were blessed with white
Christmas-a forerunner of good crops.
G.. w. White and J. s. Hartman, of
Grangeville, and Fred Cook, of Free
dom, have subscribed for the newsgiv-
err.
Henry Weir, Lewiston agent of Sta
yer q Walker, came up last week on a
collecting trip and will remain some
time.
There were fourteen marriages on this
prairie this summer and several more
are limited at during the present year of
grace.
Eighteen-eighty-eight was a very good
and prosperous year for Camas prairie.
The immigration was quite large and of
a very desirable class of our population.
Range cattle are in fair average con-
diiiou and our stock having plenty
of feed on hand are not losing much
sleep studying out the effects of hard
winter.
Mr.. E. w. Bell is daily receiving new
invoices of furniture of all kinds, and
can supply you with sets from $32 to
SO. His show rooms are worth in
specting.
Mr.. Cleary called to see us on his way
home last week and said to let the peo-
pie know that in his Judgment Idaho is
far better country than California. He
lett Miss Addie at an Oakland college.
Mr.. Dunham arrived here Sunday
with the last load of freight for the
season; he brought 200 pounds for A.
F., and an invoice of wedding sta
tionery and such truck for the F. Z. job
office.
Residence lots in Grangeville are get
ting to be quite an object and desirable
lots are becoming very scarce. Anoth-
er addition to the town will be in order
next spring, when the building boom
begins.
Down in the Weiser country lately a
minister stood Winchester rife against
the pulpit and opened the proceedings
with prayer. No disturbance marred
the solemnity of the services, but some
ungodly sneak stole the gun.
A team heavily laden with logs mired
down on Main street Saturday and had
to be dug out Of the mud. This may
look bad in print, but we console our
selves with the reflection that it takes
g BOD soil to make good mud.
All parties knowing themselves in
debted to VIM. Hawley are hereby no.
tilted to settle on or before January l,
1889, otherwise collections will be en-
forced and costs added.
WIN. HAwLEY.
Send your children to school on the
opening day, January 6, and give them
the benefit OF the full term. They will
never be younger than they now are,
and ought to be made to take the ad-
vantages of getting an education that
are now presented to them.
Hank Earl and Henry Rowe got lost
while on their way home in the snow
storm last Sunday afternoon, owing to
the dense fog which obscured every
thing on the prairie, and as it was get
ting toward dusk they retraced their
steps toward Grangeville and spent the
night here.
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