Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1903-11-19

given by the Vile club.
F. w. Stephens, one of the large
stockholders in the Cracker Jack
mine, is in town from Spokane.
Everybody will attend the Thanks
giving ball given by the Vile club
next Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. Taylor, Of
Pullman, are visiting relatives in
this county. They are now a,
Salmon river.
Union Thanksgiving services
will be held in this city next
Thursday at 1880 p. m. in the
Methodist church. Rev. Wicker
will deliver the sermon.
Trinity church Sunday school
10 a. m, services II a. IN. Lee
ture Friday evening at 1870 p. m.
Buy your Christmas presents at
the sale of St. Agnes Guild in Odd
Fellows hall, Friday, December IL.
Rev. Willard Roots will hold SER
vices at Kooskia tonight.
E. I. Hewes, Of Roseberg, Or,
is spending few days in Grange
vile visiting Prof. and Mrs. P. M.
Glanville. Mr.. Hewes is just re-
turning from a trip to his old home
in Michigan, where he has been
consulting his associates in regards
to their lumber interests in Oregon.
A. II. Tillson will leave in day
or two to join the surveying party
for the electric railroad between
Grangeville and Lewiston. They
will work in the vicinity Of Craig's
mountain and try and complete
that portion of the survey before
the heavy snowfall.
Women of Woodcraft, take no.
tice: On next Friday, November
Gath, will be our next meeting
night. There is important bust
ness and all Neighbors will please
be present. BY order Of guardian
neighbor. Mrs. l. M. Cawley,
clerk.
The Odd Fellows are already ar
ranging for their big annual Christ
mas ball. The dance is always
feature of the social season, and
this year the members of the order
are starting out to make it eclipse
all previous efforts.
For SALE-Eight or ten full
blooded Hereford bulls, last
springs calvas, also registered and
unregistered full,blood large Eng
fish Berkshire hogs. Address or
call on John Callad, Grangeville,
Idaho. Dec. 10.
Joe Brockman, formerly of the
firm of Brockman Bros, of White
Bird, was married on October 81
at Hamilton, Texas, to Miss Angie
Baker. The young couple will re-
turn to White Bird, where they
will permanently reside. The
FREE PRESS extends hearty con-
CALCULATIONS.
Strayed-One yearling heifer,
white with light-red spots-mark
ed with three under bits in right
ear, split in the left ear. When
last seen was near Cash Days
place on Three Mile. Liberal re-
ward will be paid for information
leading to recovery. B. G. Looney,
Grangevllle, Ida. d-19-p
A movement is on foot at Lew
iston to replace the Snake river
boat, which was recently wrecked
on the rocks in that stream. The
owners of the lost boat have sig
nified their willingness to invest
more money in the enterprise. and
the business men of Lewiston have
already subscribed a large amount
of stock. Ample business is in
sured for boat, aud if Snake river
can be navigated without accident
there is no question but the invest
ment would prove profitable.
Cutting Uncle Sans timber and
violating the game law are two Of
the gravest crimes one can commit
in Idaho just now. Horse stealing
is snap in comparison. The
game law violator should be pun
ished, but for cutting a few sticks
Of timber on Uncle Sans land
when he has SO goldarn much OF
ia poor fellow should not be
squeezed too hard. This is not di.
rected at the forest reserve alone
And the worst of it is the reaI
thieves so unpublished, while the
honest hemesteader-who intends
to carve out home for himself in
the wilderness-often gets the
worst of it.-Kooskia Mountaineer
Major John c. Harris died a,
the residence of his niece, Mrs. f.
b. White, near Tolo, on Monday
last, November 16, and was inter
red in the Denver cemetery yester
day. Major Harris was a veteran
of the Mexican war, born in New
York, came to the Pacific coast in
1852, and has been a resident O
Idaho county since 1868, having
arrived here from California to en-