Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1907-07-18
Items of Interest to
Grangeville and VII
cinity.
Money to loan. Geo. M. Reed.
entity.

Moucy " sV"n' ~'
The board Of county commits
sioners adjourned Yesterday morn
ing after a weeks session. A re-
port of their proceedings will ap-
pear in next weeks Free Press.
A picnic party consisting OF
Misses Huff, Gahagan, Cogan,
Hohaus and Wood and Messrs.
Kilen, White and Wood spent
Sunday last near Whitebird
station.
Mrs. G. A. Parsons and daugh
ters left the fret OF the week for
Newsome, where they will remain
for a month and a half with Mr..
Parsons. manager Of the Moose
Creek Placers.
Postmaster Ellis and wife OF
Sites, accompanied by Mrs. A. H.
Harris and son of Walla Walla
and Mrs. F. f. Ellis OF Wardner,
their guests, were Grangeville Wis
itors Sunday.
DR.. Pfister the most successful
eye specialist ia the Inland Empire,
who has over 500 patients on Cam
as Prairie, will again be at Hotel
Grangeville, July 10 to %. Ex-
animation free.
j. g. carp, who ranches near
town, was q caller the first Of the
week. He says his fall wheat
never looked better and this late
rains have helped out the spring
grain immensely.
A camping party composed of
the following young men is enjoy
ing q weeks outing on the banks
OF Moore's Lake: Curtis Crawford
Ralph Williams, Harold Harris,
Frank Wood and Carl Van Pool.
Wholesalers have received notice
Of an advance in the price of sugar
OF ten cents per hundred pounds.
Such are the beauties Of high
protective tariff on sugar for the
benefit Of the beet sugar manufac-
/ turer.
Fen Batty left for the Dalles
Oregon last week, and returned
home Tuesday. He reports croI
prospects in that country pretty
we'll up to the eastern Oregon aver
age, but not a marker on Cama
Prairie.
+. McBroom. formerly the edit
or of this paper, arrived in the cit,
the last OF the week and will re
main for a short time looking afte
business matters. He is associate
with the firm of Potter & Co.
of Portland, in the lumber bus
ness.
/ Col. Allan Miller, Commissions
of immigration, passed throug
this city early in the week !
company with a member of tn
state food commission who il o
a trip in this part of the state t
secure samples Of the foods bein
offered for sale by the retail trad
Harry Wallis returned Sunda
: from the south fork Of the Clea
water where he had gone to ser,
certain legal papers. He travelle
|, some 22S miles in making tt
|, trip and reports crops and veget
tion much more advanced in Il
Clearwater country than it is her
: There was a family gathering
the home Of Grandma Swarts
y Fairview last Sunday, the occasit
4 being the last gathering Of Il
family prior to the final departn
Of Grandma from farm home f
y permanent residence in Grang
|. Vile. In addition to the Gelba'
If and Long families, Mrs. A. F. Pa
d err was present.
A fine rain fell Sunday mig
!. and Monday morning which VI
worth thousands of dollars to o
:, farmers. 1t was not needed, b.
~ was none the less grateful, al
4 will add fully ten bushels per &C
to the already promised large vie
of fall grain, besides helping alo'
i the timothy and spring grain.
r Oliver Stewart, who ranch
= eight miles west of town, was
- Saturday visitor. He has shirt
five acres of barley on his ram
he states that it will make an ave
n age yield of from eighty-five
r. one-hundred bushels to the acl
It He states crops generally we
never better than they are tt
season.
Len Ramsdell, who ranches We
- of town, was caller at this Off
! while in town Saturday. M
Ramsdell has some two hundr,
head OF hogs he is feeding tt
d summer and in speaking OF t
IL breed best adapted to this count
n spoke OF the Duroc Jersey as /
W idea of the best mortgage rails.
II He says the Duroc is the conf
hog of the country.