Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-09-16


the Brown residence.
Chas. Maxim a rancher of Lucille was |
registered at the White Bird hotel the
fore part of the week.
Harry B. Zerr will take your measure
for nobby suit Of clothes. Satisfac-
| ton guaranteed. White Bird. Il l5-4
A good many ranchers of this sec
ton attended the auction sale of Wal
ter Hiekerson on Camas Prairie
Tuesday. t-a
The Misses lnez, Ruth and Zena
Cochran passed thru town Tuesday en-
route to Walla Walla, Wash. where the
girls will enter Whitman college.
Professor Curtis, Mrs. May Meyers,
Miss Iva Peterson and other school
teachers left on Sundays stage for
Grangeville where they win attend the
teachers institute.
John Nash merchant of Cottonwood
accompanied by one of the Jesuit Faith
ers of the same place came in Tuesday
evening in response to a telephone mes
sage that Pat Nash had been seriously
injured.
Mary Cochran who has been teach
ing the Joseph school has finished the
!. term and gone to Lewiston for a few
days visit with friends before taking
another position as teacher on the
Doumecq.
William Sly and E. Lowther returned
this evening from Fem where they
drove 1873 head of hogs belonging to
Shell Delmage to place in the stubble
fields. Most of the pork owners of
Salmon river are holding their hogs for
higher prices.
Bob Gill of the John Day country
was in town Tuesday enroute to Koos-
kia with bunch of bronchos he has
sold to be taken to the Grangeville
Border Days. Mr.. Gill predicted that
big crowd of Salmon river boys will
go out to the program.
Chas. Salee the Boles post master
was in town Monday night and reported
| that a big delegation ,-om his section
of the country would doubtless attend
the Border Days program at Grange
vile. He was accompanied by Saxby
Boles of the same address.
g The explosion of an Irish potato
q which an Oregon house wife had placed
n in the oven to bake and which burstet
o from the heat, blowing the stove int
q fragments, has led the frightened
woman to believe that the big sput
must have been developed in Germany
While conveying a pail containing
: boiling water few days ago Mari
Mothorn had the misfortune to spill
! the contents of the steaming caldron in
to the mouth of her shoe. When DI
Foskett arrived and removed the stock
: ing the skin slipped from the child
:. foot and ankle.
A train of flat ears pulling int
Three Rivers, Michigan, recently, an
u Eeontaing five deer and seven dead mel
u The result of criminal earelessness b
81 Hunters, should serve as danger sigma
'e to sportsmen who contemplate goin
:. into the Idaho woods this fall in pu
o suit of big game.
P. C. Brown the carpenter of Viii.
Bird was in town Sunday after spen'
ling several weeks constructing res
dence for Mr.. Shuck. The house whe
completed Mr.. Brown says, will be OF
e. of the best in the Salmon river countr
as PLY is about the busiest man in Il
he country these days, and has more co
re- tracts on hand than he can easily fu
he fill. He is an excellent workman
he his line.
zee .Pat' Nash who lives in Bak
zee Gulch mile east of White Bird is 81
ne fering at the present writing from
hg kick received by horse. Mr.. Ma
III had walked in behind the animal pr
lge paratory to placing the harness upon
$50 when the horse suddenly shot out
hind foot striking Mr.. Nash in
. abdomen and lnJurlng MN serious
DIR. Foskett was called in and sta
that a rupture may result from
bruise.
Last week we reported that the
dredging apparatus of for the Doumt
placer bar was being hauled in p
paratory for operation. We had motto
huge piece of mechanism of so
kind loaded upon freight was
which we actually took to be
dredge. The fallibility of our ju
ment become very evident when
were afterwards informed that
machine was sausage mill for the c
meat market.