Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-08-14
Wood aa"' subscription.
W. +. Warden is up from Moscow.
Quartz location notices at this Office,
The county officers have the new laws.
Call on Aram & Sons for the Jackson
Ia Rake.

Call on Aram < Sons for the Jackson
Ha Rake.
Aram x Sons sell the celebrated Dick
ey Farm Fan for S35.
DIED.-In Lake district, August l2
1891. Ida F.. wife of Elmer Remington.
Fairview Farmers Alliance hold q
special meeting on Saturday. August 30
at m.
Miss Helen H. Newman arrived from
Weiser on Wednesday to spend the
summer with her sister. Mrs.A F Parker.
G. A. Rogers passed through here
Wednesday on his way from Asotin to
Elk. where he goes to look after his
mining interests.
Fred Hanson is twenty-one years old
and has resided here for fifteen years,
and visited Cottonwood for the first
time last week. Fred is a good boy and
prefers staying home to gadding.
j. E. Byron, accompanied by his sis
ter, Mrs. E. A. Eddy, arrived from Ore.
gon Friday and will remain some time.
Mrs. Eddy is an old-timer here and
Is having a pleasant visit with her
mauy old friends.
| w. Q. Pearson is back from Manitoba
and informed us that he succeeded in
disposing of his horses at an average of
500 per head. He says that country
only needs our climate to make as good
| country as this.
Capt. w. ]. Wilson was up from SAL
mon river Saturday on pension business.
he has an application pending for $1,000
for services rendered in the Mexican
war. The old veteran is as much alive
as he ever was. and kept his end up in
great style during his stay.
The services at Farview and Sunny
side are postponed from next Sunday
until one week from next Sunday-Au-
| gust 23. The change is made because
OF the quarterly meeting at Grangeville
next Sunday. Will preach on the 23rd
at Fairview at IL m, at Sunnyside at
SPIN. A. MAxEy.
The Arab peddlers arrested last week
finally paid their fines and struck out
over the Nez Perce trail for Montana.
At Elk City the boys discouraged them
from going further, as they had neither
blankets nor grub to take over the d.
vide; and so these poor footballs of
fortune are now on the back track to
the lower country.
Mr.. j. F. Ailshie, graduate of Will.
lanette university and member ofthe
oregon bar has arrived here to practice
law and has hung out his shingle at the
office of w. A. Hall. For some time
past be has been practicing at Pendle.
ton, Oregon, but has concluded to settle
permanently at Grangeville, where he
is now ready for business.
Mr.. S. w. Smith is out from Elk to
await the arrival of a concentrator that
he is going to use in combination with
his Kendall battery on ore from the
Buster mine. This will be the first
attempt to concentrate the ores of this
camp at home and the experiment will
be watched with much interest. Mr..
Smith shows bis faith in the camp bv
his works.
Joe Alexander was up from Lewiston
last Saturday and Sunday and spoke
very enthusiastically of the railroad
prospects and of the future of the old
capital OF Idaho. Joe takes life about
as easily as any man we know of. and
in consequence he never seems to grow
any older. He believes in the "Live,
and let live" policy, and it has gained
him hosts of friends everywhere.
A project is on foot for the establish
ment of new postoffice at Union cross
roads. with E. A. Chase as postmaster.
Mr.. Felix Warren will examine the
route, and if sufficiently practicable, in
his estimation, an effort will be made to
abandon the old route, around everybo.
dy's farm, for the more direct one from
Cottonwood, by the Elk City road to
Union, thence to Grangeville and Mt.
Idaho.
Mrs. B. F. Morris, who has been with
her afflicted mother at Dayton. Wash.
for the past three weeks, returned last
wednesday, and we regret to say that
her aged mother passed away on july
%, after a long and painful sickness.
Mrs. Graham celebrated her golden
wedding last April, when she and
her husband, VIM. Graham, were
enjoying excellent health, and with
their offspring of several generations
gathered around them bid fair to enioy
for many more years the blessing of
good health, but it was not to be. as in
May she was taken with a chill, follow.
ed by complication of various diseases
from which she never recovered. She
was constantly attended by the best
medical skill but her extreme old age
was beyond their power to overcome.
and with her large family gathered a.
round her she passed from the cares of
earth to better world. She was nearly
70 years old, being born in Pennsyl-
vania in 1919, and with her husband.
who survives her, came to Oregon in
1852, and moved to their present home
near Dayton in 1874. Mrs. Graham was
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