Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-07-15
TOWN AND COUNTRY NEV,S

II. NJ. McDermid, resident dentist,
Betting and lace leather at Bunnell's
Grangeville people will bore for ar.
tesian water.
Old papers for sale, so cents per hun.
dred, at this Office.
Hay harvest is progressing and the
yield was never better.
A few Fourth of July decorations arc
still visible about town.
b. F. Morris has money to loan on
real estate at the lowest rate of inter.
est. 76
Ye editor invested in lots !, 2 and 3
block So, of the town of Denver last Sat.
urday.
With Zelma & Thorp's circus is An.
tonic Van Gofre, the world famous con-
tortionist.
Heavy showers fell here Monday and
the weather has been cool and pleasant
ever since.
Shissler and Baldwin will shortly
ship car load of horses and prospect
for market.
Iron clad notes. receipts, drafts, Quit
claim deeds, and mining deeds for sale
at FREE PRESS Office.
Uncle Griff Roberts, the veteran she'll
back OF Salmon river, spent few days
in town this week.
h. ID. Shearer. Grangeville, makes
boots and shoes to order, and repairing
of all kinds neatly done. 6-l5
The barn on Mrs. Lytle's town prop
erty has been taken down and will be
rebuilt on the ranch.
BoRN.-In Fairview precinct, Satur-
day. July 8, 1892, to the wife of Thos.
Surrldge, IL pound daughter.
The frame of Evan Evans's fine new
residence on Mob Hill looms up like
"Beachy Head in Channel fog"
Photographer Cum ming left here last
Friday for Keuterville and Mason. He
will pitch his tent in each place one
week.
Fishing parties are numerous and
many "tnger-longs" are brought to town
from White Bird meadows and else
where.
w. Y. Cirode, special agent of the
EQUITABLE life assurance society of the
U. s. has been visitor here for the
past week.
A large nu mber of emigrants passed
through town Monday morning with a
complete outfit. They we're hunting
government land.
VIM. Hill had serious runaway acci-
dent in the timber last week in which a
valuable horse was killed and the wagon
smashed all to pieces.
The strawberry crop on Camas Prairie
is not up to the average, either in size,
quantity or quality. 1t is evidently an
off year for straw berries.
Whitman county vigilantes are making
arrests by the wholesale and the Jail at
Colfax is full of prisoners suspected of
cattle and horse stealing.
Are you thinking of fencing? Ifs re-
member that C. c. BunnelI furnishes
the famous Glidden Barb wire. There
is none better. none cheaper.
VIM Won Berge has built a bowling
alley "a feet long at the brewery, and
those who delight in that sport will find
good accommodations there.
Vollmer & Scott have built q shed on
the north end Of their large new ware
house and are storing therein a large
display Of agricultural implements,
wagons, etc.
Hopkins and sons are gathering a
drove Of 300 head of cattle for shipment
to Chicago. They are in the market
buying yesrlings, two, three and four
year-olds right along.
A. F. Parker is having lumber hauled
for sidewalk in front of his residence.
and also for the erection of a building
west of the printing Office for rent for
business and Office purposes.
The Firemen's Fund is the Oldest in.
surance company on this Coast. 1t has
lately absorbed all the business of the
California company. A. F. Parker is
local agent of the Fireman's Fund. In
sure with it.
With railroad this fall Grangeville
would get there with both feet. speaking
fguratively. Crops never looked better
and all we want is that long talked. Of
railroad to market our surplus and give
us all money to fling at the birds.
W.F.Schmadeka, our rustling harness.
maker, is making some fine harness
these days and now has the largest and
best line of that class of goods we ever
saw in town Of this size. His trade is
remarkably good this summer and his
shop is still full of FIRST class goods.
Our farmers are jubilatlng with glori-
fication over the crop prospects and we'll
they may. The wet and backward
spring has evidently been a benefit to
the growing crop. and all we need is q
railroad and market to fill the pocke cts
OF our farmers with $40 pieces this fall.
The total population of the state OF
Idaho in 1890 according to the census
was S4,385. of whom 81 ,290 were males
and 33 095 were females. The native
born citisens numbered sc. 929, while II,
456 were foreign born. There were
1857 colored people in the state, of " HON
1892 we're foreign born.
Messrs. Spottswood, Veatch, Funk
Vinson and Morris were over from Den.
yer last Sabbath enjoying the quietness
Of this burg after the fatigue and hustle
Of Denyer. They are all live, enter.
prisinG and very agreeable gentlemen
and are going ahead with their new
town 10 a way calculated to astonish
the nativoa