Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-05-31
OUR WEEKLY ROUND- UP.
w. B. Palmer is on the prairie.


mon river Sunday
Misses all cloth shoes only 81 pa
at Alexander & Freidenrch's
~ DIR Nickel is getting the material O
the ground for his new store building.
Come TO the Grangevile drug stor
for your Fourth of July goods. A ful
, , line.
l.. Stannus, of Lewiston, has been an
pointed deputy U. S. marshal for thi
district.
The G. & B. pack train passed through
town last Sunday morning on the return
trip from Warrens.
The practice game of ball Saturday
last resulted in score of SO to l6 in ia.
vor Of the first nine.
Pryor Neal, brother-in. law of J. II.
Wann, of Cottonwood. arrived on the
prairie last week from Missouri.
Last Saturday was busy dav in
town. the streets being crowded and our
merchants all reporting big business.
S. E. Bibby carries full line of sta
tionery. toilet articles and perfumery.
which he sells at prices that defy COM
petition.
Any improvements Tor oiherwise) in
this issue of the paper can be accounted
for by taking into consideration the alb
sence of the editor.
MIR. Geo. Schmadeka has the well au-
ger at work on his place and proposes to
90 down until he finds water or hears
the Cinnamon sonawk
Fl. II. Nuxoll. Jr., was over from Cot
tonwood Monday and had some sta
tionery printed for the f firm of II. II.
Nuxoll q Co., of that place.
party Of five or six men from Gem
esee passed through the west end of the
prairie last week. bound for Sllmon
Meadows, in search Of a stock range.
In boring the we'll on the Brockman
place the auger struck qnicksand at the |
depth OF seventy odd feet and work had |
to be suspended until casing can be OBJ |
tanned.
yesterday was memorial day, and all |
over our land the graves of our dead |
heroes were covered with earth's fairest
Howers by the hands of comrades and
Owed ones.
We are rather short of space this
week and much reading matter has been
lnavoldabIy left out. This difficulty
will be obviated after the enlargement
)f the paper in June.
I All ex-Union soldiers are requested to
meet at Grangeville, June 8th, between
The hours Of and p. m., for the pur-
'ose of making arrangements for or
,'nlzlng grand army post.
joint meeting of the republican and
democratic central committees is called
or Saturday, June lst at l p. M, at Mt.
daho, for the purpose of selecting dele
,ates to the territorial constitutional
Mr.. and Mrs. Spurlock, father and
nother-in-law of J. F.. Hartman, arriy-
q from Missouri one day this week to
pend the summer with their relatives. :
heir daughter. who is now in Califor
la, will also be here soon.
Let all appointed on committees +,
or making arrangements toward cele- i
rating the 9Th of July remember that h
here is to he meeting of all the COM o
,ittees at Grange hal Tomorrow Sat. j
rday) afternoon at 2 O'Clock. c
There will be a dance given at the +
ew school house in district No. 3 on +
le evening of June 18th, the proceeds
} be used in furnishing the buil1inp. i
lood music will be in attendance and a I
Dod supper served. All are invited to b
e present. q
As will be seen by the ad. in another "
olumn, ball will be given at Mt. Ida e
o on the evening of June 18th. Mt. ?
1aho is cele ebrated for the manner in u
hich their balls are conducted, and the
arties who have this affair in charge ?
re sufficient guarantee that it will be II
Il the most fastidious could desire. II
The indications all point to the con-
usion that we are to have railroad in =
lie near future. With the Spokane & +
alouse at work in the direction of l
earwater, we can rest assured that u
IT darkest hour will soon be past and "
on Camas prairie will be making gi- s.
1t strides towards prosperity and u
ealth. v
School district No. IL has under way il
construction new school house. Il
d. White generously donated an acre "
ground on one corner of his ranch II
~ VIZ p'hCi bChlLtIlS VI lut u1StTlct Al
material for the building ir
I'd labor for construction. The edifice q,
conveniently located at crossroads q,
I'd in the midst of growing commu- II
Iy of enterprising people. u
School district No. 3 has Just compile.
d the most commodious and conven-
mt district school house in the county. =; =;
1e school for that district. which has =,
zen. in progress for some time, taking :.
} its quarters in the new building on ~
onday. Nothing adds so much to aa11
immunity as good school house and q,
e erection of such building as in No. y y
speaks volumes for the enterprise and ~ ~
telligence of its citizens. ;s
A son of Jo. Cash was seriously in r
red last Saturday by getting his hand tn
nght in hobble rope and being drag hi
d by horse two or three hundred We
rds, badly bruising him about the b,
ad and body. Last week he went af
tn party from here on a hunting OF
d fishing trip across Clearwater, and hi