Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-12-22
Merry Christmas to all.

Merry Christmas 10 all.
Holiday goods at lowest prices
at the M. & M.
II you wish to sell your farm
call on Brown g. Clark.
One more week to pay taxes in
before they become delinquent.
Old papers for sale at FREE
PRESS Office, % cents per bundle.
Express Wagons, Dolls, Toys,
Fancy Dishes and Glassware at the
M. & M.
Miss Mabel Sweet is assisting in
the Bargain store during the
Christmas rush.
Best line of cigars, tobaccos, cam
dies and confectionery in the city
at the Bon Bon. Henly & Castle.
Northern Pacific agents are now
securing right-of-way for the Lolo
cutoff on the Montana side OF the
divide.
Rooms are being built in the NJ.
& M. store which will be occupied
as apartments by Mr.. and Mrs.
Magec.
f. A. Parisot returned from
Spokane Monday and left for the
Hump Tuesday for a two weeks
absence.
There is said to be seven feet of
snow in Buffalo Hump camp at
this time and about four feet in
Elk City basin.
Frank WYATT, the Salmon river
cattle man, has returned from u
long trip to Salt Lake city, st. An
thony and Spokane.
Guy Simpson, "A returned mem
Der of the Idaho volunteers, died
at Spokane last Saturday. He
served in the Philippine campaign
with the Lewiston company.
Gen. Lawton, commanding the
U. S. troopt in the Philippine is
lands was killed December 10, at
San Mateo, few miles from Ma
Mia, by an insurgent sharpshooter.
John r. Addison has complet-
ed the handsome new residence on
his fine farm near town and will
give house, warming as soon as
the small pox scare is over.
County Superintendent Elsen-
sohn leaves for Boise today to at
tend the state convention of
county superintendent, and also
the state teachers association. He
will be absent about two weeks
The Weiser Signal says: Full
trains, full car loads, gread piles
of loose freight, and Il surprising
number Of passengers are going up
on each train to Middle valley
daily, over the new p. & /. n.
railroad. The track will be laid
to Salubria in ten days more.
Capt. Levi Castle and Bert Hen.
ley have purchased the Bon Bon
candy store from John MulliniS
and invite their friends to call and
sample their stock of candies, ci-
CARS and tobaccos. The new
proprietors contemplate extensive
improvements in the premises and
largely increasing their stock.
DIR. Green will return from tn,
other side Of the prairie Dec. "a
and will be in his Grangeville Of
fee until after the holidays, wher
he, expects to make a trip into Elk
City. The DIR. says he intends t,
keep hustling on the outside un
til the republican congress restores
confidence in business in Grange
vile.
The local camp of Woodmen o
the World has received checl
for SO, 900 for the purpose of pay
ing the insurance on the life of til,
late Lew w. Williams, who dice
at Stuart early in November
This is prompt payment, and woult
have been settled earlier but fol
1 the fact that there were some err
rors in the ailidavits which re
quired correction, necessitating 1
return of the papers, which occu
pied the better part of two week.
of the time which has elapsed
since the death of the young man
The check is payable to his ageo
mother, and will prove a godsen,
to his parents in their old age.