Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-01
OUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP.

Bring us some spare-ribs.
Grangeville needs bank and
planning mill.
Brockman and his two big boys CAV
us call Monday.
Constitutional election Tuesday. Stat,
or Territory, which,?
5. Z. Hayes, formerly of Cottonwood
is at Winters. Yolo county, Cal.
The days are pleasant enough, bu
the nights suggest Santa Claus weather.
Call on R. F. Fulton at the FREr
Press Office when you want any notari.
al work done.
Six congressman have died since the
election last November, four democratic
and two republicans.
A heavy snow fell in the Atlantic
states Oct. %, and the mercury nearly
reached the zero mark.
Charley Horning arrived here last
week from the Willamette valley ON q
visit to his brother Frank, in Lake dis
trict.
Buy MUNDELL's SOLAR TIP SHOES for
children, for eale by Alexander a Yrsid-
enrich, sole agents. Every pair war
ranted.
Mrs. Walsh, of John Day creek, has
the thanks of the editor for nicely
tanned black bear skin, which makes an
excellent mat.
After the dust and alkali of the lower
country Camas p,airie seems Ike the
gardens of paradise in its new robe OF
fresh green grass.
Fred Cook and J.. Schubert, formerly
of Mt. Idaho and Lewiston. will shortly
20 TO Spokane Falls and engage in the
blacksmith business.
Onions, eggs, butter, chickens, bacon,
and in fact nearly all the necessaries of
life, are exceedingly scarce here. And
yet it should not be so.
Thanks TO S. w. Smith for Butte pa-
perc. Mr.. Smith has position there
AS riahtof-way agent for the Northern
Pacific, but will return to Elk in the
spring.
The ground is wet enough to plow
and large acreage of new ground ia
being broken at different points on the
prairie. A good deal of winter wheat
is already sowed.
Water at jefferson, Greene county.
Iowa, sells for fifty cents per barrel.
The drouth in portions of Iowa and
Minnesota is alarming and the scarcity
of water is distressing.
Editor Brown, of the Moscow Star.
was accused of eating seventeen plates
of beans at a recent social gathering.
but he says it is case of mistaken
identity. 1t was pie, not beans.
A heavy rain fell Sunday night, and
Monday morning the hill tops south of
town were white with snow. Much
rain has since fallen, but the thirsty
earth still cries for more.
Wednesdays stage was very late,
owing to heavy load of passengers,
mail and freight, and heavy roads. The
passengers were left at Cottonwood
overnight. and came through yesterday.
Mr.. Rohrer and wife, the lattor O.
whom is sister of Mrs. Geo. D. Smith.
of Mt. Idaho, arrived here les. Saturday
on a honeymoon trip, and will remain
the guests of their relatives for soma
time longer.
judge Logan, we regret to say, is q
very sick man, and it is doubtful il he
will be able to hold the term Of court
set for this county next December
1t took four hours to convey him from
Uniontown to Lewiston, where be now
is.
The Nez Perce agency is to be re-
moved from its present location in old
Fort Lapwai to its old headquarters al
the mouth of Lapwai creek, as soon Of
the buildings can be put in proper
shape. The buildings low occupied
will be used for school purposes.
Both the new road and the old one
are thronged with teams going to and
returning from Lewiston. Prodigious
quantities of freight are being imported
this fall and it seems as if one. half o.
our population were hauling goods fol-
the other half to live on during the
coming winter.
The taxes are being paid in 80 rap.
idly that they think around the cour
house the delinquent tax list will bs
shorter this year than usual. 1t seemi
that everybody has sold something Of
other this summer. either cattle, horses
hogs, land or produce, so that money
circulates comparatively easy after all.
The Shissler mill quit saving last Sat
urday for the season, unless parties wht
urgently need lumber make it wortf
while to start up again. The boys ar,
still planning, and all the lumber stack
ed up around the mill is spoken for
Mrs. Shissler and the young ladies ar
rived over Tuesday to reside in town fo
the winter.
Mr.. Brigham Young, of Elk city, ha
COW which gives four gallons of mill
every day in the summer, after suck