Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-09-13
OUR WEEKLY ROUND UP.

LOVti NEWS Is SCaTCe.
We print bill and letter heads.
There is no more railroad news.
Bring us firewood on subscription.
Iron-clad note books for sale here.
|Eggs retail at twenty cents dozen.
Old papers for sale at this Office, 81
cents per 100.
Sikc Reynolds was up from Slate
creek during the week.
For letter heads. bill heads, envelope.
and stationary call at this office.
A flock of drummers were here las,
week with dead-loads ofsample goods.
We want potatoes, onions and other
garden truck on subscription to the pa
per.
Call on r. F. Fulton at the FREE
PRESS Office when you want any notari-
al work done.
The drill bored Ga feet on Havernick' 5
place northeast of town. and found him
about forty feet of water.
~ Mr.. Gardner has purchased Sike Rev.
nolds' house east ofthe blacksmith shop
and will make his residence there.
/ will sell beef cheaper than anv
shop in Idaho county, for cash.
w. +. SCHaADEKA.
Ernest Smith and family left Tuesday
for a two months trip to La Porte, Ind.
lana; he ordered the F. P. to follow him.
Mr.. Sherwood was out from Elk on
Monday and reports the camp excited
over the prospect Of quartz development
next summer.
present for the editor, which ought
to have arrived here last Chriatmas.
came to hand Monday Of this week.
Better late than never
Rev. ]. w. Nelson, Presbyterian min
lister at Mt. Idsho, Gill preach in the
Grange hall on Sunday afternoon ne,t,
September i5. at 2 80 p. m.
Hopkins and Wyatt contracted last
spring to deliver 500 beeves and Gariss
the week they turned them oyer to the
purchasers from Ceur d'Alene.
An editor always has a warm corner
in his heart for prompt paying subscri-
bers, and when such men run for office
they find good friend in the editor.
E. w. Bell returned laet Saturday from
a trip to his old stamping ground in Eli
city, where he mined twenty-five years
ago. He reports the camp dull and dry.
The directors of this school district
should select and purchase at once q
site for the new public school building,
and contrrct for the erection Of the
building as quickly as possible.
The steamboats, on Snake river have
positively quit running until further
notice. on account of low water, and our
merchants have ordered their winter
goods shipped by way of Uniontown.
DIR. Montgomery is rapidly building
up successful practice. There arc now
four physicians Oh the prairie, Messrs.
Bibby, Nickel and Montgomery, OF
Grangevile, and J. w. Turner, Of Cot
tonwood.
Edmond Fitzgerald sold thirty-eight
steers at S2S, and seven cows at S2ape
head to the buyers who were here from
Ceur d'Alene. and he gave us three big
dollars out of it on his subscription to
the county paper.
Mr.. Evans, of Salmon city, a profas-
sional painter and paper-hanger, has
located permanently at GrangeyilIe, and
has already done some artistic work in
his line which gives complete satisfac-
ton to his employers.
The cattle buyers from the north who
were here last week got all the beef
cattle they wanted, but other buyers
will be along soon and there will be no
necessity for our stockm to carry
superf1uous hoof through the winter.
John Berger is burning a good quality
of brick at his brickyard one mile south
Of Keuterville. and sells them at ten
dollars per thousand at the yard. They
are the best brick ever made on the
prairie and he is kept quite busy in
making them to supply the demand.
Arthur Harris and wife leave for New
York state on Monday next to visit his
parents, whom he has not seen for 27
years, all of which time he has resided
in Idaho county and knows everybody
in it. They will remain all winter and
may prolong their visit indefinitely.
A letter from Warrens says that there
was ripple of excitement in camp over
the alleged discovery of new pacers at
Loon lake. and that several men had
pulled out for the new diggings. Loon
lake doesn't look like placer country. .
at it is mainly bare granite. but we have
always had a notion that the Miller's
camp gold came from that direction.
A party of Cnur d'Alene miners who
went to the scene Of the Mcleod placer
mining excitement this summer, return
ed last week and report it a gilt-edged
fraud. There are some, however. who
still have faith that there are placers in
that country. and fervently do we pray
that 1t may be so, for a rich new placer
camp would help out this neck of the
woods amazingly.
Keuterville is a growing little town