The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-04-01
P. E. MILLER TRADES
HARDWARE BUSINESS
Magnificent Store and Stock Goes to D.
P. Donovan Of Portland for South
Idaho Ranch.

Perry E. Miller on last Saturday
closed trade with Daniel P Dono-
van of Portland involving the large
hardware and implement store and
stock owned by the former in Nez
perez and $40 acres of irrigated alf-
alfa land, we'll stocked with horses,
cattle and hogs, in the Pay val
ley in south Idaho. The properties
exchanged figure about 500, 900, and
The deal is by far the largest ever
consumated at this place. Mr.. Doao-
van at once took charge of the store
here and Mr.. and Mrs Miller will 90
to their newly acquired ranch this
week to assume the duties of oper-
ating the same.
The Miller hardware store in Nez-
perez is landmark that has figured
largely in giving this section of the
country the enviable reputation it en-
joys as being among the most pro
gressive and substantial districts in
tn. notoriously progressive North
west. Il is the crowning achieve
ment of 1o years Of diligent effort
on the part of Mr.. Miller to keep
little ahead of the best of things
The massive building, covering a
ground space of 70x150 feet is a
most attractive structure of white
brick and plate glass, and it is
equipped and furnished with all
modern conveniences for displaying
and handling the lines carried in the
best manner possible. 1t repre-
sents an outlay of about $50, 1000.
The farm for which he has traded
lies within 20 miles of the thriving
city of Payette. Of the $40 acres,
$50 are under irrigation, with an
abundant water supply from Willow
creek, on which it has the first water
right. 1t is we'll improved for stock
raising on large scale; has a fine
artesian we'll near the main residence
and a ten-acre reservoir. 1t furnish
es a line of work with which Mr..
Miller is quite familiar, he having
followed live stock handling and
ranching before entering the hard
ware and implement business.
Perry E. E. Miller is justly recog-
nized as one of the leading spirits
behind the upbuilding of this COM
and since entering home
stead in this vicinity 1o years ago
has had hand in all the major
for the development Of
Nezperce and the country round
about. AS mayor of the city for sew
eral years, he has fathered improve
ments that will stand as lasting mon
nments to his energy and enterprise.
He and his good family will be
greatly missed from our public and
social life, and they will take with
them many warm friendships and the
pest wishes of all for bountiful health,
wealth and happiness in their new
environment, to which they are most
highly commended. Mr.. Miller's
Miss Madge and Messrs.
vonley, Roy and Vernon, will finish
the school year here before going to
their new home.
Mr.. Donovan, who succeeds Mr..
Miller in the store, is man of wide
experience and extensive interests,
and though he will give the imme-
iiate management of the business
largely over to Mr.. Robertson and
the force that has been assisting Mr.
Miller, he is SO favorably impressed
with the country that he has decided
to make his home here.
He is now in Portland arranging
his affairs to this end. However, he
will not move his family, consisting
IF his wife and two daughters, to
Nezperce until the close of school in
hat city, where daughters are stu
dents. The people of our county ex-
,end them the glad hand ofwelcome.