The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-25
STITES-NEWS
(Enterprise.)

The Commercial club which talks the
beast and does the most OF any club on
the Clearwater river Is probably locat-
ed in Sites and the latest manifesto
ton of it's activity Is the retaining wall
being built on the west side of the
river from the bridge down to the de-
pot, The Northern Pacific Railway was
solicited for a donation of timber and
came across with five carloads Of tim
bers which were being taken out OF the
bridges at Ahsahca and Fords creek
but the work of placing the timbers is
so great that the railroad men laugh
ingly tell us that they really did not
think the job would be done Well 1t
Is not done yet but Manager Joe Bur-
1eubine has a crew of men digging the
trench and laying the foundation tim
bers and he is doing first class job.
The village board have the direction OF
how the work Is to be done but the
burden Of furnishing the muscle and the
money for the completion OF the work
has fallen on the Commercial club and
before long there win be another mon
ument to the hustling qualities OF some
of our citizens. The old sidewalk from
the bridge to the depot, which has been
such an eyesore and a menace to life
and limb, will soon be a thing of the
past as when the wall Is completed and
the fill Is made behind 1t, the old walk
will be taken up and a new five foot
four walk placed the entire length and
as the retaining wall rs straight and
level the task OF getting from the depot
to town win not be such game of
hop SIX -and-jump. dodge and a fall as
It is at present.
AS good a gage OF the amount OF bus
mess being done in any community as
can be found Is the amount Of business
transacted by the railroads in that COM
munity. In a conversation with Agent
Il. ID. Donaldson. we learned this week
that the business in every department
has shown a marked increase lately, The
total OF the business done in October
being some $500 greater than for the
same month in 1914
c. II. Davis appears to be pretty sore
because someone tried to ROB his chick
en- roost the past week. but C. H. says
that he Is not nearly so sore as the
would-be thief will be IL ne gets an
other chance to load Mr. Thief up with
bird shot.
Rex Craig Of this place and his broth
Monday from Minneapolis. Mimi, where
they went to attend the funeral OF
their mother. Mrs. Craig made a Wis
1t to .ier sons only a short time ago
J. b. Leeper moved into his new home
on upper Main street on Wednesday,
j. B. picked pretty nasty day to move
but we suppose he just couldn't wait
ito get into that nice new cottage, which
by the way Is one Of the incest in town
N. b. Petttbone was In from his
ranch the first Of the week looking aft
er business matters. Mr.. NJ p. Streck-
er has the active management OF the
real estate busdnss OF the firm of Streck
err and Pettfbone, but It Is necessary
for Nate to come In once in a while
to receive his share OF the dividends.
X. B. STIFFNESS, divisional superintend-
ent Of bridges and buildings for the
Northern Pacific. and o. v. Smith,
bridge foreman. were lin Sites We'd
nesday morning making an inspection
OF the work recently done by the bridge
gang on the stock yards and the work
being done by the city on the retain-