Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08
MELVILLE IDAHO co. TERRITORY
OCR WEEKLY ROUND UP.

Taxes are delinquent December 9th.
Shipments of fruit trees are arriving.
Quartz and placer location blanks TO
sale here.
There is good opening for baker il
Grangeville.
Hay is forty dollars a ton at Clayton
Custer County.
Business of every kind is prospering,
but not booming.
Fred Moves has contracted to build A.
+. Parker's new house.
Rev. Nelson preached at Grange hall
Sunday morning last.
The president has denominated Nov.
% as Thanksgiving day.
Although this is November the build /.
ing boom still keeps going.
Clear days and frosty nights have pre-
vailed since our last issue.
Vow is as good time as any to get
the collectors autograph.
Frank Wyatt and Tom McGrane were
up from the river last week.
Grangeville polled more votes than
Lewiston on Tuesdays election.
Mrs. Bender. the Kansas murderess,
has been caught and will be tried
w. II. Short and John Doumecq
were up from Salmon river Tuesday.
Every day of open weather we get
now is SO much stolen from the winter.
F. l.. Evans has contracted to paint
the w. & W. new store at Cottonwood.
Well-diagers who want a cash job are
requested to call and see the editor right
away.
d. B. Drnham gives his team a rest
steadily since March.
Hog-killing time is here and sausage,
spare-ribs and head cheese are as COM
mon as falling leaves.
Frank White hauled $500 pounds OF
freight from Lewiston 70 r A. & F. this
week with eight mules.
w. A. and Mrs. Hall and their daugh-
ter. Miss Winnie, arrived home from
their Portland trip last Friday.
Nels Miller left for Warrens yester-
day with twenty head of hogs for Bal
ley Chamberlain's butcher shop.
The band boys are making arrange
ments to give grand Thanksgiving
ball. Full particulars next week.
Egbert w. Jones, editor of the Idaho
World, and Miss Margaret B. Irwin were
married at Idaho City October 3lst.
President Harrison admitted the twin
sisters, North and South Dakota, into
the Union by proclamation Nov. 2.
Prof. of.Zollikoffer exhibited his stereop-
t;can entertainment at Grange hall We'd
nesday night to an attentive audience.
A. Berg came out from his Salmon
river ranch Monday with bunch OF
l25 beef cattle, which he has disposed
of.
The mother of our Ben f. Morris is
sick unto death in old Missouri, and the
DIR. has started from Lewiston to see
her.
Buy MuNDELL's SOLAR TIP SHOES for
children, for sale by Alexander Freid-
enrich, sole agents. Every pair war
ranted.
Prof. w. Bowser will preach at Lari.
mer's school house next Sabbath at II
a. m. Go and hear him; Rev. Maxey
will not be there.
John higgins and w. F. schmadeki
returned from their visit to the Fai
last week. They went up the william
ette valley as far as Eugene.
Stoves! STOVES! STOVES! A larg
assortment of Heating and COOKING
stoves at prices that cannot he beat a
ALEXANDER & FRETDENRIcH's.
The names of II. +. Church, Horac
Brown, NJ. Cambridge, Mrs. Stantis
and r. NJ. Bibb have been added to ou
Grangeville list in the last few weeks.
The McCallie ranch near town can b'
bought for $500, half cash, balance o.
mortgage at ~ per cent. Title perfect
For sale by A.F. RKGR, Grangeville.
Next week we will publish an inter
esting letter about Chill and the Argen
tine Republic. written by d. c. Lester
formerly of this county, who is now i
Buenos Ayres.
Jerry Smith returned from Spokan
Falls last week, where he has bee
working at his trade of stone masor
He will leave again in "A short time {
resume work.
Fifteen head of horses were stole
from Jesse Drumheller's Birch cree
ranch, near Walla Walla, and tn
thieves are suspected TO be from tn
neigh borhood.
The acreage seeded to wheat on III
prairie this fall is very large. Instea
of losing herrt because of the sho
crop this year. our people are MOI
hopeful than ever.
A dispatch from Washington -sa,
Judge Logan is to be removed, an
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