Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-12-06
OUR WEEKLY ROUND-U UP.

i"e hS" S'ass IL growing fapluly.
A Chinaman was naturalized in Lew
iston last week.
Joel Shearer had another horse die
on his hands Thanksgiving day.
Two marriages here last Sunday is an
indication that winter is coming.
Several nights without frost this week
speaks volumes for our climate.
Jas. Surridge left last week with a
bunch of fine beef cattle for w Walla.
We stop the press to whisper in your
ear that there are no nes on Grange
vile.
AT ils present rate of growth Grange.
vile will have IL population Of 100 in
three years more.
Miss EdA Clark finished a successful
three months term of school across the
Clearwater last Saturday.
Mr.. N Markham killed an owl las,
Sunday whose onts;retched wings mea-
snred five feet from tip to tip.
We take county scrip and jurors Ger.
tifeates RI par in payment Tor adver,i-
sing and subscription account.
There is said to be more snow in the
mountains already than fell all last win.
ter. hich is indeed good news.
a meeting Of everybody interested in
having Il Christmas tree is called for
Monday evening Grange hall, Z N.
The supreme court o; Idaho territory
will meet in Boise city on January l3
$500, and remain in session for three
months.
JOHN Clark has opened saloon in
his bnildng at the corner Of Main and
Meadow streets, and is having a fair
run OF business.
Elder Chase was on tie streets last
Thursday for the first time in long
while and looking all the worse for his
long seiee of sick mess.
Even now, in the month of December,
1t Is diilicn.t TO find a carpenter here
who is not engaged and has his hands
full of work for weeks ahead.
Rev. Maxey has had well dug on
his residence property and found plenty
Of water at twelve feet. lie is also i'm
proving the building in various ways.
Mizpah lodge, d. of r, meets at the
Grange hall this, Friday, evening, at
seven o'clock, for the transaction of i'm
portant husiness. \ full attendance
is requested.
In the Spokane Falls newspapers
lime is advertised at Sl.25 a barrel. On
Camas prairie it ,ells without advetti-
sing for seven dollars a barrel. Fact is
stranger than fiction.
Owing to the change to the winter
schedule this community had to 90
without receiving any mail from below
Saturday night until Tuesday morning,
and il the world had come to an end we
would have heard nothing of it. .
Those Moose horns, of which men,
ton WIS made last week, we're brought
from Elk city by our good friend, Brig
ham Young. as donaliou to our Cab
net of Curiosities. They are old-timers,
and graced the very first building ever
erected in the camp.
The Rlles and regulations for the
government of the Idaho Guards have
arrived, and u meeting of all who have
signed the roll, and desire to become
members. is set for Tuesday evening
at seven o'clock, at Grange hall, to or.
ganise the company at this place.
With three saloons and a brewery in
our little town, aud all doing a fair bus
lness, 1t seems TO a man MP tree that
times can't DO go distressingly hard,
after all. Maybe we are more fright
ened than hurt by the droutb, or maybe
if a few more saloons were to start up
times would be still more lively.
The general conclusion is that the
winter schedule is an Internal nuisance.
Fifteen years ago, when the population
of this prairie was only hundreds where
it is now thousands, the mails were car
ried to and froin Lewiston in a day.
Maybe in another fifteen years our
mail facilities will be Increased" until
we are blessed with a lri-weekly SER
vice-~here they leave one week, and
"try " TO get in the next.
The dance given in Grange hall on
Thanksgiving evening by the brass
orchestra was hugely enjoyed by the
thir;y-four couple who were present.
The boys did credit to themselves and
furnished excellent mu ic, which kept
the dancers feet going as though they
were working for dollar and half a
minute. The supper was furnished by
JAS. Edwards, of the Jersey House, and
YVES all that the most fastidious taste
could desire.
The Oregon Railroad & Navigation
company's system of railroads will here
after be known as the Pacific division
o the Union Pacific. The traffic man.
agement of the Union Pacific lines
main, branch and leased-will all be
under one head, and the entire system
will be operated from Omaha All the
cars. depot and other property of the