Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-07-23
Hay harvest is progressing.

Hay harvest is progressing.
Our merchants have done q big
Indian trade this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wells are in
Florence to spend the summer.
Miss Mae Clark, who has been
visiting Miss Georgia Reed, left for
her home in Spokane Monday.
The new wheat crop is selling in
Pendleton at 55 cents per bushel.
Chewing and smoking tobaccoes
of the best quality; also the most
popular brands of cigars at the
Bon Bon.
Don Carlos Boyd writes US from
Spokane that he will be in Grange
vile on Monday with q newspaper
plant for Warren.
John Waite and G. M. Grupe, of
Dayton, WASH, are looking over
the timber belt around Elk City
for . sawmill site.
Henry Wax has received the bill
of lading for the stamp mill machi-
merry for the Idah0-C -COmstOck Co.'S
mines at Dixie and it is to BE- ship
ped in and erected forthwith.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Bryan will
be guests of ex-senator Dubois at
BlackfoOt ON July %, and we ac-
knowledge receipt Of an Invitation
to attend the reception to be given
them,
The big fortunes of Idaho are
yet to be made. On every hand
there are openings and opportu-
mites for people Of thrift or capital.
The future Of Idaho citizens is now
close at hand.
Ezra Baird is back from trip
to the Pittsburg mines and reports
work on the Ollie shaft progressing
nicely and the ledge assuming a
more perpendicular position ~
they 60 down.
w. H. Bennett, late of Kamiah,
is establishing store in Elk City
and will start tomorrow to open
up his large stock Of general mer-
chapdise, He 10 good business
man and has selected good point.
Jesus Urquide, an old-time
packer in southern Idaho, has
brought his pack train of 20 mules
to this country and is now en- route
, with 1000 pounds of merchandise
for Henry Grosteiu's store In War.
J rem.
Frank Kettenbach and Christ
Weigerber of Lewiston were in
! town Tuesday en- route to Warm
. Springs for a summers outing. Mr.
Wcisgerber has not been On CANA.
. prairie since 1872, and the change.
surprised and delighted him.
J. The petition to make Grange
= vile an independent school distric
4 is before the board of commission
!. ers today. There is no record O
: the boundaries between districts
2 and 3 to be found, at the cour
house, and the matter may hav,
: to be deferred to q later session.
e A. & F. are busy people thes,
y days, but they have found time t,
i write q new ad this week to whicl
d we call public attention. Thei
big store is crowded with merchau
n disc which they must dispose of t,
q g make room for their new stock q
II fall and winter goods which ar
- now arriving daily.
o The through stage and telephon
o service from Kendrick, throug
y Nezperce to Grangeville and event
ually to Florence and Warrens,
r now a fixed fact, and before tn
T. ides of November the "HellU" g
q instantaneous intercourse betwee
a these points will be heard all alon
o this line.-Kendrick Gazette.
= New subscribers to the FRE
'' PREss this week are; Sylveste
Scott, Florence, Idaho; G. N
9 Chamberlin, White Bird, Idaho
o w. II. v. Richards, Harpstel
0 Idaho; A. Walker, Florence, Idaho
o Henry Forsman, Keuterville, Ids
o no; Mrs. Carrie M. Potter, kvr
o terville, idaho; Ellis Church, Wa
o rem, Idaho.
= Ellis Church, of Lewiston, arri,
N ed here Monday with q four-hors
n team loaded with wines, liquor
re and cigars, with the intention
" establishing q saloon in the boon
0, ing camp of Warren. We hav
is known him for nearly 20 years an
ID commend him to the boys in cam
ct as an honorable citizen and uprigl
business man.
), Every week brings some rep0
D. that outside capital has made SON
0, mining investments in the Clea
of water or Salmon river basins.
'e has long been known that prou
Ut ising properties are located
o, these sections but tho difficult
q. had been to get the matter 30 q