Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-03-22
QUE WEEKLY ROUND UP.

"Gentle Annie, spring is here"
Capt. and Mrs. Hawley are in SAINT
Clara.
The prairie is green and as pretty q
picture.
Vollmer & Scott loan money and bu
county scrip.
A peck of March dust is worth
kings ransom,
]. II. Forney, Mt Idaho, has none,
to loan on real estate.
The old COWS smile out loud at tn,
rapid growth of new grass.
Weller & Wax will pay the highes
cash price for county warrants. If
Buy farm on Camas prairie and buy
it now. Delays are dangerous.
Lent is here all right enough, but
where are the Chinook salmonP
L. F. Sens has lumber on the ground
for his new residence on Mob hill.
Mrs. Mclean is down with the pre-.
vailing complaint-cough and cold.
Horse round up, in district No. COM
mences Monday, March %. Get there.
The great Anaconda reduction works
were totally destroyed by fire March Is.
Mrs. Wax has been prostrated with
symptoms Of intermittent fever for sew
eral days.
The President has nominated Col.
Geo. l.. Shoup, of Salmon City, to be
governor of Idaho.
G. A. Dueber returned to Portland
from his Alaska trip March 18th and
will be home in about a month.
Not single hoof of live stock died
during the winter, and feed will be
plentiful and cheap this summer.
If you have sold or leased your farm
your neighbors may read about it.
Miss frankie Dixon has fully recover
ed from her late sickness and is at home
with her parents on the mountain.
Riley Rice dropped three big dollars
in the treasure box the other day for a
years subscription to the S. S. paper.
I will sell beef cheaper than any shop
in Idaho county, for cash.
81 w. +. SCHMADEKA.
The Lewiston Seed Company issued a
fine catalogue this spring. Send and
get one, as they are good people to trade
with.
A man may lose his money or his
or his wife and still recover,
but when he loses his soul his name ia
Dennis.
The president has nominated Jeremi-
ah Sullivan, of Montana, to be collector
of customs for the district of Montana
and Idaho.
Thos. Reed, of Marion county, Ogn.,
who brought the Redmond place last
fall. arrived up on Tuesdays stage and
will stay "for keeps"
Not great deal of new ground will be
broken on the prairie this year, as it
seems that everybody is waiting for
that railroad to be built.
IF you are going to stand your horse
this season this is just the right time of
year to let your neighbors know it
through the county paper.
Delegate Dubois telegraphed the Ore
gonian during the week that Idaho
would surely be admitted as a state dur
ing the next session of congress.
There was hardly enough moisture in
the ground last week to make easy sod
blowing, but the last rains have put the
soil in good condition for breaking.
H. FL. Nuxoll has built an addition to
his furniture store at Cottonwood and is
going to import large stock of house
hold goods when the roads are open.
l have a three and three quarter inch
Schuttler wagon, nearly new, which
will sell or trade for lighter wagon.
WIN. Won BERG.
Why is it that everyone calls for the
A No. Cutter Whskey? Because it is
he best in the market, and is always
'or sale at the Pioneer Saloon at Cotton
wood.
Mr.. E. w. Bell is daily receiving new
invoices of furniture of all kinds, and
,an supply you with sets from $32 to
s75. His show rooms are worth in
pecting.
Mcbdueo SOlu MS une Fpan OF greyS,
he finest team on the prairie, to w. B.
cooper, the Lewiston contractor, for
$50 last week, and now he wants to sell
lis house and lot.
Presiding elder Strong preached
ogical and argumentative sermon to a |
air congregation at Grange hall last |
sunday, after which the sacrament of |
he Lords supper was observed.
Thousands and thousands of trees are |
being planted all over the prairie. and
n about four years more we shall be |
houting for fruit csnnery to put up
he surplus yield Of our orchards.
A man who uses brass knuckles in an
street fight,as is alleged to have
'een done here last Saturday, is bidding
Ugh and offering heavy odds for the
rivilege of dying sudden death.
Some Indian ponies have wintered on
'raig's mountain with nothing but
ange feed to sustain them, but thev
ooked in excellent condition as we saw
hem last week. sucRis our climate.