Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-06-21
OUR WEEKLY ROUND UP

| In your pocket.
p. II. Ready is gone east with 9 fine
bunch of horses.
Pearline! Pcarline Pearline!! al
Grangeville drug store.
Our editor leaves for Elk city to-mor-
row on u brief business trip.
When you come to town call and tell
us your neighborhood news.
Come to Grangeville and celebrate
the Glorious Fourth of July.
Reports of dry weather are getting
"monotorous," as friend calls 1t.
NSeth Jones is herding about 1000
head of cattle on the Shumway ridge,
| Spring chickens are here and We will
take few on your subscription acct.
/, The mountains are more full of deer
and grouse this year than ever before.
Purchase your Fourth of July ball
tickets Of F.McGrane or w. Steinheiser.
Kill those flles.-Go to the Grange
death.
Frank Vansise weighed milch COW
the other day which tipped the scales at
1898 pounds.
Call on r. +. Fulton at the FREE
PRESS office when you want any notari-
al work done.
Judge Logan has resigned his position
as judge of the first judicial district, on
account OF i'll health.
Will Schmadeka has bought the T. J i.
Davis bunch of cattle, including the
thorobred Hereford bull.
The finance committee have met with
good success in soliciting funds for the
Fourth of July celebration.
~ Henry Wax and A. Talkngton took
hasty business trip to Lewiston last
Sunday and returned Tuesday.
Schmadeka's forty ton scales, made
by Jones, of Binghampton, are in posi-
tion in front of the meat market.
August Berg. of Salmon river. arrived
Friday, and proceeded home Monday.
The B enson pack train camped here
Sunday and pulled out the next day
with 900 TBS Of freight for Warrens.
Our Fourth of July celebration will
be hummer this year, in spite of the
bard times. Let everybody turn out.
Professors Freeborn and Crunk are
back from their prospecting trip with
out striking anything of consequence.
We will sell beef cheaper than any
shop in Idaho county. for cash.
81 SCHMADEKA & PEARSON.
Tom Aram came up from Skookum-
chuck last week to participate in the
Pioneer reunion. He is as fat as ever
The prevailing drouth has destroyed
the strawberry crop, but the cows still
continue to give cream and destroy t. Q IS
A thunder cloud passed oyer town
Sunday afternoon and shed few tears
at our drouthy condition. Forty drops
were counted.
We are prepared to do all kinds of
fine commercial printing in good sty lie
and at reasonable prices. See our sam.
Piles and prices.
Ex-deputy U. S. marshal, Allan d
Greene was over from Cottonwood last
Friday, and wants rain with the rest
Of US on the prairie.
Out on the Point and everywhere
near the timber line along the foothil
the crops look more favorable than they
do down this way.
E. w. Bell is constantly receiving
new goods and is now ready to fill any
and all orders for furniture at once and
at the lowest prices.
y That elegant eagle bird sign which
nra a nf n
loon was painted by the Heartburg
boys, of Cottonwood.
The Sherwin boys are taking time by
the scalp-lock and loading up the hay
loft of their livery stable with new hay
while the sun shines.
Washing made easy by the use of
Ryle's celebrated washing compound,
Pearline. For sale by s. f. Bibby OF
Grangevile drug store.
Hard times are with US every day In
the year, but the glorious Fourth of
July only comes once year, therefore
turn out and celebrate it.
Mr.. Terwilliger passed through on
the stage last Wednesday, on his way
to Elk city where he owns valuable and
extensive quartz interests.
- This prairie has been settled twenty
six years, but this is the dryest season
ever known. 1t is also its first expert
ence of a partial failure of crops.
Reports from the Plains country, a.
cross Salmon river, indicate that every
thing is dried out, and that there is not
even water enough for the stock.
Ed. Listcn will summer pasture his
cattle on the Wee-ipe camas grounds
on the other side of the middle fork of
Clearwater, in Shoshone county.
Henry Jenkins, a brother-in-law of
7. j. Yandell. arrived here recently
from Sedalia, Kentucky, and has pur-
chased land near the Yandell place.
Frank Wyatt has his family with him
now on the Deer creek ranch, where
they will remain few months and then
return to their home in Greeley, Col.
Messrs. Eckert, Coram and Surridge
are holding the majority of their cattle
| across Clearwater for the summer. Mr..
Holt has taken his across the Salmon.
You can pay your subscription to the
FREE Press in cordwood if the wood is
delivered by September !, by which
time those who won't pay will be made
to pay.
Mr.. Fletcher, formerly of the prairie.
IS at Pomeroy, and his daughter, Miss
Annie, has written to have the FREE
PREss forwarded, as they can't live
without IL.