Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-01-10
Our first winter is over.
Taxes are now delinquent.

Snow all gone and mud soft and
deep.
Mike Green left for Florence
this morning.
The melting snow is all going
into the ground.
j. f. Mclean started up the
flour mill Tuesday.
House for rent or sale. En-
Guire of w. Steinheiser.
Don't forget the FREE Press in
making your annual settlements.
Capt. Hawley and son Rufus
were up frem White Bird last
Saturday trading.
The stage came in Wednesday
night in wagon, having left the
sleigh at Denver.
Snow is a good fertilizer and dis
infectant, and an abundance of it
ensures good crops.
Mizpah lodge No. ~, Daughters
of Re bekah, will give a japanese
ball on February 22.
The public school in district No.
3, will begin on April 6, 1896,
with ID. M. Story as teacher.
The chinook has had the floor
this week and the weather has
been as seft and balmy as May.
The Baptist congregation have
been holding revival meetings at
Grange hall every night this week.
j. II. Wann is contracting with
outside parties to put centrifugal
pump on American bar, on Sal
mon river.
Pribilsky has built a bathroom in
his barber shop and can now fur
nish his customers with hot and
cold baths.
f. d. Davidson has formed a
partnership with J. A. Randolph,
late of Garfield, Wash, and
together they will conduct the
work of the old Pioneer blacksmith
shop.
What Idaho needs is whip
ping post in every Jail yard for the
benefit of the hobos, thugs, thieves
and tramps who refuse to work
on the ground that the world
owes them a living.
Samuel Myers lost a horse while
bringing his team out from Elk tC
haul bacon for Jas. Witt. The
animal got away from camp in the
night and was tangled up in the
brush and snow drifts.
The production of precious met
ais in Idaho for 1895 is placed az
follows: Gold S2,25l 900; silver
81, ,S07 ,450. OF this amount Idaho
county is credited with SLIT ,O0(
in gold and S20,lOO in silver.
1t is expected that the S74 ,5OO
of money to redeem the old float
ing debt will be on hand mex
week, and that the commissioner
will be in session several days Il
sign the bonds and close up tha
business.
George Brown left for the ney
town of Stuart Tuesday to opcl
his mercantile establishment il
that future trade center. He lef
a big ad. of the store which read
ers will notice in our advertisin
columns.
Gen. Rollins left for Lewisto
las5 Saturday to await the retur
of his expert, J. G. Marx, fror
Florence. The general like
Grangeville and its people and wha
he has seen of the surroundin
, country, and will spend a goo
, part Of the coming summer her
From the earliest periods {
history gold and silver have bee
money metals, just as wheat an
corn are now food products; clio
. ing the mints against the fr(
coinage of silver depreciates i
value and enhances the value
: gold just as naturally as it woul
. decrease the price of corn and il
crease the price of wheat to clo
the mills against corn
u Mr.. Rambo received last wee
. from his parents in Virginia
= box of Christmas fare in splend
cond ition. Several varieties
: cake and pie, halfa turkey. apple
d fruits, preserves, hickory nut
!. chestnuts, sweet potatos, whiske
peach brandy and honey in Il
comb were a few of the iter
e which this cornucopia of go'
:. - things contained. Mr.. Rambc
parents are old-fashioned southel
: people who take life pleasant
May the breed never become c
tinct.
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