Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-05-29
Sheriff Wood is in Warrens.
Tomorrow is memorial day.

OneflH WOOu rs In Warrens.
Tomorrow is memorial day.
Betting and lace leather at Bunnell's.
P. II. Ready is at Norwood, North Ds-
kota.
Wallace Scott and family returned
from Lewiston yesterday,
There were six passengers on the
stage Wednesday evening.
School election in every district in the
county on Monday, June /.
The crickets have not yet visited the
Cottonwood side of the prairie.
John Coram has returned from Spo-
kane, where he has been with beef cat
tie.
A fine rain Wednesday evening cool
ed the atmosphere and refreshed vege-
tation.
For house painting and paper hang
ing call on SooTT RorHwELL, Grange
vile, Idaho. A
An immense amount of freight has
arrived for the different stores in the
past week.
The Dramatic company are practising
another play" Above the Clouds, (which
they expect to present about July 4.
Mr.. Miller is now running the Mt.
Idaho mills. Farmers having wheat in
the mills can be supplied with flour.
You can subscribe for the Twice-a-
week st. Louis Republic through the
F. P. agency. Only one dollar year.
Ex-sheriff X. w. White has been a
severe sufferer from the grippe and
shows its effect in his emaciated form.
Services at GrangevilIe M. E. church
Sabbath at II a. m. and at Mt. Idaho at
p. m. A. MAxRY. T..
Out in the middle of the prairie the
crickets have taken the bunch grass
heads and run the cattle off the range.
The sheriff's Office has been newly pa.
pered in elegant style and is now az
bright as a new dollar. F. L. Evans did
the work. -f
WANTED.-To trade twenty head of
American horses, half of them broke,
for ranch on Camas Prairie.
81 SAMUEL r. CHURCH.
MIR. Chambers lease of the Cotton
wood house expires Monday and then
MIR. CARRIER takes charge, and promises
to run it as a first class hotel
q. V. Remington writes US from Nc
Minville. Oregon, saying that he cannot
get along without the FREE PRESS, and
wants it sent to him regularly.
Elsewhere in these columns is an ad-
vertisement of the grand ball to be Civ
en- at Cottonwood on the evening of Ju-
ly 3. by Mr.. and Mrs. CARRIER.
Frank w. Pearson has returned from
John Day creek, where he has been
teaching during the winter. He ex-
poets to commence to teach in the But
ler neighborhood, in week or two.
If the citizens of Grangeville intend
celebrating the 4th of July it is time
that the ball should be set rolling. Let
meeting be called to appoint the nee
essary COMMITTEES. There is no time to
be lost in the matter.
The citizens of Fairyiew will observe
Decoration Day. They will meet at
Fairview school house at 10 O'Clock a. m.
Everybody is cordially invited to attend.
There will be basket dinner.
A three-year-old boy of Frank Mark
hams fell off the porch Sunday and
broke his arm. DR.. Nickel was called
and reduced the fracture. The little
fellow is getting along as we'll as could
be expected.
G. ID. Calvin, accompanied by three
other gentlemen, arrived on Wednes-
days stage and have gone on into Elk.
They are interested in the Red river
bedrock fume enterprise and will at
once push the enterprise.
An Indian came to Cottonwood Tues
day and reported that cow belonging
to an Indian had been shot to death,
and also steer belonging to a white
man had been shot in the eye near the
line of the reservation north of Cotton
wood.
The latest novelty is the new Charter
Oak stoves at c. G. Bunnells. They
have the celebrated GAUzE door for ovens.
Have you seen them? Call and examine.
No more burnt pie crust. No more
underdone biscuits. Everything baked
to turn by carefully distributed heat.
Miss Rosa Nickel has the editors
thanks for magnificent boquet. The
flowers were grown in the front window
of DIR. Nickel's drug store, and all spring
the beautiful geraniums have attracted
the admiring glances Of passers by.
Miss Rosa has taken great care Of her
plants and they have rewarded her by
blooming in the greatest profusion.
Fitzgerald has run $50 feet of tunnel
on the Ozark mine in Florence, and
will cut the ledge at the bottom of the
old shaft in about twenty feet more.
This is the mine in which JEFF Rhoads
is interested, and from which some Of
the richest rock ever found in the Flor
ence basin was taken. The tunnel will
tap the ledge at distance of about 100