Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-12-06
GRANGEvLLE IDAHO IDAHO FRIDAY DECEMBER g. 1885,


G. p. Richardson left for home
Monday.
Live fat turkeys retail for rs
cents each.
The town was full of Masons last
Saturday uight.
An epidemic of la grippe is rag
ing hereabouts.
For choice tobaccos call at Ma
gees postoflice store.
Wallace Scott and family will
spend the winter in California.
Larkin Kerlee, of Clearwater,
left for a trip to Lewiston Tuesday.
John Hadorn was in town this
week from his Deer creek stock
ranch.
Fine eastern candies for the Hol-
iday trade for sale at the City
Drug Store.
Cottonwood beer always on draft
at % cents per quart, at EXCHANGE
Saloon, Grangeville.
Mizpah lodge, Daughters of Re-
bekah, will give a masquerade ball
at l. o. o. +. hall ON Christmas
night.
Messrs. Hannaford and Orbison
were in town Monday and report
good business in the "Hub of the
Prairie"
The Ellwood Glidden barbed
wire "diamond E' trade mark, is
the cheapest and best. For sale by
G. G. Bunnell, Lewiston, Idaho.
William Redding had runaway
while descending the White Bird
grade Monday. The wagon was
smashed and his freight all spilled
out.
John Mathison returned from
the east last Friday where he had
been with several carloads of
horses. He sold them finally, but
at prices way down.
Dr. Bibby intends putting in a
sawmill on White Bird creek
shortly. j. f. Cowen and IL. A.
Palmer are making the shaft for
the water wheel this week.
Attorney Barbee killed fine
buck down in the Big Cove Mon
day. 1t weighed 165 pounds and
was greatly admired as it hung in
front of the Bentz & johnson meat
market.
We learn that Messrs. Cook
Turner and Brownell, who have
been running prospect tunnel on
Gold Hill, in Elk City, have reach
ed the old river channel wash and
found a big body of pay gravel in
the face of their drift.
The trustees have furnished an
other school room and employed
Miss Lorena Ackerman to teach
therein. This makes a staff OF
four teachers in the Grangeville
public schools. The new depart
ment opened Tuesday morning.
Ten thousand tons of whea,
were shipped from San Francisco
to Australian points during th,
month of November. The entire
Australian continent has suffered
from prolonged drouth, which ne
cessitates the importation of wheat
We have just received new prize
lists from Jas. Mcmillan & Co.
Inc, 2O0-212 First Ave. North
Minneapolis, Mimi, the larges
hide and fur dealers in the North
west, and they can be obtained a
this Office at any time. Their ad
vertisement appears regularly il
the FREE Press.
A dispatch from Kendrick to tn
, Review says "The completion G
the Camas Prairie-Kendrick wae
on road promises to give this plac
a stage line. Ramsey Walker wi
make arrangements to operate
stage line between this place an
Grangeville by the way of the tow
of Nez Perces early in the spring.
DR.. Bibby has purchased a ha
interest in the Toledo ledge
Florence from j. M. Briscoe.
ton of ore from this claim was mil
S ed which yielded s34 gold. TIL
: doctor has also located the Yves
l extension of the old Souther
States, or keystone ledge, ,on whic
a five-stamp mill was erected
the early days.
BORN IN ear lIra nauilla Idah IA.