Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-03-11
Fine spring weather.
Local news is scarce.
Grass growing rapidly.
Mrs. Mapee is onita sirl


P. H. Ready is at San Francisco.
Betting and lace leather at Bunnell's.
The town COW is off on the range
hunting new grass.
Old papers for sale, so cents per hun
dred, at this Office.
Business is above the general average
for this season of the year.
The ground Is full of moisture and
another big crop is looked for.
Mrs. Rice, Mrs. Hovev and Miss Jes sic
Clarke started for Lew iston Yesterday.
DR.. Bibby has sold out his drug store
business to Pearson Bonebrake.
The Grangevile flour mill started up
Monday with full head of water.
There il talk of incorporating this
town at the next commissioner meet
ing.
Frank Wyatt was in town this week
and reports good grass on the range
across Salmon river.
BoRN.-In Grsngeville precinct, M'ch.
s, 1892, to the wife of Louis Soften, a
son, weight ten pounds.
John Hadorn was in town this week
and reports everything in the Deer
creek neighborhood lovely.
Hopping cough is epidemic among
our infant population. Mrs. Nickel's
baby is very low withe the complaint.
John B. Cook has formed a partner
ship with Ben Harmon and together
they will run a frst-class blacksmith
shop on the corner below the brewery.
For RENT.-Sixty acres plow land,
with privilege of renting twenty acres
timothy meadow. For particulars en-
quire of L. Smith, one mile north of
Grangeville. Il
j. II. Robinson is having his lot on
the corner above the -four mill graded.
preparatory to building residence
thereon as soon as the roads are dry
enough to haul lumber.
Pfeufer Bros. have bought of John
b. Cock the blacksmith shop and the
lot on which it stands, for $500, and will
soon fix it up for use as store. Their
growing business demands increased
accommodation.
Mr.. Frank Straney has sold his ranch
to Mr.. Fred Markham. Consideration
$4,000. Mr.. Straney contemplates mov-
ing to the Salmon river country to raise
stock, there being more opportunity and
ange.-Genesee Recorder.
Evan Evans has bought a fraction
in George Schmadeka's second addition,
and also an acre and half tract of Mrs.
| Crooks. which gives him the most COM
modious residence property in the town
limits. He will build on it this spring.
The Rapid River Mining Company
has opened Offices in the Hyde block.
They yesterday sent several hundred
dollars'worth of mining tools to their
mines on Rapid river. on which they
intend to push development work as
soon as the weather will permit of it.
Spokane Review.
VIM. Won Berge is busy making the
seats for the Episcopal church. The
carpenters, G.. w. Stewart and Joe B.
Cook are also at work finishing up the
interior of the building so as to have it
ready for dedication and occupancy
when Bishop Talbot arrives with the
new rector in May.
Mr.. A. T. Spottswood returned from
Camas prairie Monday evening. He re-
ports the prairie as being very lively,
and with bright prospects the coming
season. While there he purchased
2700 acres of land for a wealthy and in.
fiuential syndicate, who will lay out a
townsite thereon, the coming summer.
Moscow Star.
The people of Camas prairie worked
hard to secure the location of one OF
Idaho's agricultural experiment stations
in that section, and were rewarded by
the establishment of one at Grangeville.
No better site could be chosen for such
an institution than the fertile region OF
which Grangeville is the center.-Spo-
kane Review.
W. H. Earl arrived from W Watertown,
New York. on Tuesdays stage to look
after his landed interests here. He is
more than pleased at the progress made
by Camas prairie since his absence. and
the growth of this town made him open
his eyes in amazement. He says it has
outgrown his recognition. but the sight
of so many familiar faces soon reconcil-
ed him to the change.
The democracy of Idaho will hold two
conventions. one at Pocatello, April %
for the purpose of selecting delegates to
the national democratic convention al
Chicago; the other in Boise City, Au-
gust "a, to nominate state officers. The
number of delegates at each state con.
vention was fixed at 81, and the appor.
tionment made to each county on q
basis of one delegate for each 100 votes
polled for Wilson for governor in 1890
Idaho county thus gets four delegates
in both state conventions.
Notice to Farmers.
Those intending to fence should cal
at Vollmer & Scott's for the genuins