Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1906-03-15
AS OTHERS SEE US.

About the middle Of February a
request for assistance came to
spokane from the Grangeville, Ida.
Association, via the Oregon-Idaho
State Committee.
The Spokane Association is I'm.
der great obligations to that COM
mittee and its versatile State Sec
rotary, SO the only thing to do was
to pack tooth brush, pajamas and
a few other necessary articles into
grip aud hike for the metropolis
OF Camas Prairie.
Ever make the trip to Grange.
vile?
One needs more than q tooth
brush, ETC., to make that journey
comfortably, as the Northern
Pacific Railroad company ran out
of ties and nails at Sites, a burg
20 miles or SO this side of Grange.
vile, the balance of the trip is
made in regular stage coach OF
the type which fasteners make
eyes" at in Buffalo Bill's Wild
West.
This writer was a sure enough
tenderfoot as far as a knowledge
of conditions in the Camas Prairie
country was concerned; he knows
now that besides the ordinary
travelling paraphernalia one needs
an umbrella or two, arctics secur.
ely riveted to the feet (the gumbo
or 'dobe mud sticketh closer than
brother), an anchor to keep one
from being swept from his course
by the gentle zephyrs which kiss
the prairie Of the Camas-the sort
of zephyr Of which the late Eugene
F. Ware of Kansas wrote in the
following terms:
Once a Kansas zephyr staryed'
Where a brass-eyed bull pup played
And that foolish canine bayed
At that zephyr in a gay
Semi-idiotic way.
Then that zephyr in about
Half a jiffy took that pup,
Tipped him over, wrong side up!
Then it turned him wrong side out,
And it calmly journeyed thence,
With barn and string of fence.
MORAL.
When communities turn loose
Social forces that produce
The disorders OF gale,
Act upon a well known law,
Face the breeze, but close your jaw.
It's rule that will not fail.
If you bay it in gay,
Self-sufficient sort of way,
1t will land you without doubt,
Up side down and wrong side out.
The traveller in the Camas
Prairie country needs to take along
with him calm, philosophic frame
of mind also.
To breathe the air of Camas
Prairie; to meet the hustling,
breezy business men Of that town
of 2 800 souls; to catch something
of the spirit of optimism which
seems to characterize everybody
and every thing in Grangeville is
worth all the trouble and hardship
one is put to in getting to it.
wouldn't trade the experiences for
a Carnegie hero medal.
Grangeville has an Association.
They 60 Spokane one better
Grangeville has an Association
building. The desire to improve
the present property, add to the
facilities and strengthen their work
for young men prompted the Board
OF Directors to go out after s., 900
and in less than three days
SO, 200 of it was subscribed by only
forty or SO contributors. The bal
ance will easily be secured from
many who want to give but could
not be seen during the three days
campaign.
The Grangevile Association is
shut ont from enjoying many helps
which are the heritage of every
American Association; it ought to
be on the mailing list Of every city
Association in the country for
booklets, bulletins and other
things which Uncle Sam, who
knows nothing about roads with
mud two feet deep and "chuck
hOles' large enough to hold a
freight car, will deliver at slight
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