Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-09-06
Academy opens Monday.
There is no butter In town.

Bring us frewood on subscription.
Go down and see w. A. Halls new
pavement.
Old papers for sale at this Office. 90
cents per 100.
The new public school building should
be built this fall.
Mizpah lodge D. OF R,, inesis this
friday evening.
A brother of Ed. Heitonan has ar.
rived from Missouri.
w. N. Gaddy has enrolled cs o roga.
lar reader of the F. P.
I AJohn B. Crea is at Lapwai taking
ch arge of the agency mill.
A refreshing rain fell here for several
hours last Saturday evening.
The band boys talk of getting dout.
le ended, back action iron safe.
s. w. Smith. of Elk City, retcrned
from Butte on Tuesdays stage.
Buck Bates was over from Cotton
wood Monday trying to buy seed wheat.
Amos Carver came up from the river
Saturday and brought the refreshing
rain.
Every election demonstrates athe fact
that this school distric. has neither
head, tail nor body.
The plum trust is busted up. Rch:o.
500 is selling at two and tao end one
bali cents per pound.
On. Wilson donated the printers laat
week box of fine peaches fem his Or
cnard on John Day creek.
Bishop Talbot baptized two of Frank
Ehissler's youngest children on his way
to Lewiston last Saturday.
John B. Cook has ordered The Fa1z
Pres sent to his sister,, Mrs. Amanda
Farris, Crystal Falls, Texas.
At the election Monday W. @. Pear
Goa end c. II Schmadeka were elected
trustees of this school district.
F. Shissler is sinking well end res
ervoir at the Rustic sawmill and has
struck water at depth Of twenty. eight
feet.
Jas. Carnes started to Lewiston Tues
day morning for seed wheat and awears
he never will be pinched this way
again.
Mie1 Ella III. Breoa end her guest,
Miss k.acAlvaney, LEFT Cottonwood last
Thursday for their nome at Hope,
Idaho.
Since the rains the streams on Cot.
tonwood butte have started running
an3 both sssmi.is will PROBABLY start
cutting Monday.
Rev. a. Ma1ey will preach at tho
Dixon school house on Craig's noun
tan on Wednesday evening next, Sep
tember llth st 100 p. IA.
Bishop Talbot. Rev. J. D. McConkey
ard tie aditor d.ned with Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Sch29Ode4e last Friday and were
treated to superb 6iDnor.
i The Indians on tho Neadow crosk
settlement on Crsie's nouatain have
ra:sed 800 to bald church house and
will probably erect It this fall.
About sixty people turned CIT 20 hear
Bishop Talbot at Cottonwood last Fri
day, and the ooileotio was the bost ev-
er taken Up in tGct precinct.
The welcome rain has cleared tho at
mosDhere of ali tho smoke, and many G
mind Of the blues which have been too
conu among us all of late.
Tho drill bored to a depth Of sixty
sevea feet on Geo. Schmadeka's place
below town and as there were no signs
of water he discontinued operations.
The editor took hasty horseback
tide over to Cottonwood, Rustic and
Kcuterville last Sunday and Monday.
but didn't do anything In the way of
business.
For two or three days last week the
smoke was so dense as to be absolutely
painful to the eyes. 1t has since clear
ed up some but there is much room for
Improvement.
Some cattle buyers from Genesee
were at Cottonwood last week and
bought sixty head from the Rhoads
boys and others. Jo. Ingram is report
ed to have sold them some fYe-year-
old steers at $2S per head.
G. E. Holt has lumber on the ground
to build fine barn, 30x60 feet, with
sheds, on his Cottonwood ranch. The
springs which furnish his water have
been running full head all summer,
with no dimnution of the supply dur
ing the drou;h.
Rev. Bro. Bowser and wife, returned
missionaries from India, were in the
city on Sunday on their way to take
charge of the Academy at Grangeville,
Idaho, and the Bro. preached fine SER
mon in the NJ. +. church. We COM
mend them to the friends in Grange
ville.-Pomeroy (W. IT, independents
A letter from VIII. Oglesby at Rock y
Bar, Elmore county, says that the Ophir
company, of which his brother is SUI
pefintendent, are going to build TWEEN
ty stamp mill and hosting works on the
mine this fall. A hundred tons of ore
from the Ophir has been worked and
| nattad Sl00 NOR ton and tuaIva man a ra