Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-07-23

1nO O8tuIudy.
Walter Vandevender was down from
Weippe Tuesday.
w. H. Simmons and Nat Brown
were Weippe visitors Saturday.
For sale or trade-A good bicycle,
in first class condition. New tires.
Inquire at this Office.
Onie Tucker returned Friday from
Lewiston.
George w. Snyder, who has been
visiting his son at Elk River, re-
turned to Orofno Friday evening.
He is now visiting his son, Seymour,
near Weippe.
L. Clanin is cleaning up the 1914
grain in the local warehouse, and is
shipping two small cars to the coast.
Local mill men are loading out
several cars of lumber to eastern
buyers. Frank Zelenka and j. S.
Hogue have orders to fill. Bob Cook
is also shipping lumber from Orofino.
The Orofino band under the instruc-
ton of Prof. Morris of Kamiah, is
making satisfactory progress. Paulmer
Soderberg is the latest to join the
local organization.
The M. E. Ladies Aid will met in
the church Wednesday at 2 80 and
serve refreshments, Mesdames Morton
and Trough entertaining. All are
invited.
Bruce, the 3-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Chester Grove who has been
with his grandma at Kamiah since the
Fourth, returned home, alone, on the
Sunday morning passenger.
| VIM. Schilling farmer from Mimi
esota near Walnut Grove, was in Oro-
fino Saturday looking over the country
He wants tract of corn land, and
will bring with him, wherever he
| settles, a number of others.
A severe wind storm, accompanied
by hard rain, hit Orofno Thursday
evening of last week Aside from
putting down some heavy grain on the
ridges, no damage resulted.
A tennins ball was picked up in the
Clearwater river four miles below
Ahsahka one day last week, having
1oated from Orofno, where an oc-
casional ball gets through the netting
at the tennis courts into Orofino
creek.
Harry Casey, the we'll known charac-
ter of the Bertha Hill section, has
been spending a few days in the
county seat. Mr.. Casey is pioneer
among the Clearwater homesteaders
having located near the foot of
Bertha's Hill when the settlers first
went into that country.
The editor of the Republican ex-
poets to spend next week visiting
friends in Elk River, and incidental
~ fishing. We have never seen Elk
River, having been there only once,
just prior to the erection of the mill
and the starting Of the town.
Elder w. H. Thurston, of Walla
Walla, prominent member of the
Adventist denomination, visited Oro-
fino Monday night, preaching an inter-
esting sermon. Elder Thurston is
visiting the country, in the interest
of foreign missions. He left Tuesday
morning for Lewiston.
The county board, sitting as board
of equalization, will end its session
Monday, the time set by law. So far
the people seem to be satisfied with
the work of Assessor Hinckley, there
being practically no complaint.
The N. P. Company, among those to
be raised by the board, wrote that
they would enter no protest, being
willing to pay fair share of the
burden of county government.
Seymour Snyder was in Orofino We'd
nesday He says the Weippe country
is now looking up, the activity in
timber giving business something of
boost. He predicts a great future
for the Weippe prairie. A railroad,
he says, is only matter of short
time now. Business demands it. He
said the Clearwater Republican would
be moving to Weippe in less than
year because Weippe was destined to
become the biggest and best town in
Clearwater county.
Wooden underwear in summer,
even thought it is light weight, is the
height of bad hygiene. Wool absorbs
rapidly the poisons thrown out through
the skin, thus, in summer, after an
hour, the man who wears wool is
wrapped in a mantle of his own waste
material.