Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-07-20

Garden hose ana sprlnklers at Cnestei
Arnold g. SOFT
Don't forget the Saturday evening
dances at Schmadeka Is hall. eff
Roy Manning and Harry Meader are
among the sports angling in the streams
for the gamey trout this week.
Coon Smith returned home to New
some Tuesday, James Surrige going in
with him. Fred is still in Spokane.
Hans Hagen came out from the river
country the first of the week and re-
ports the usual good times on the Sal
mon.
Harry Grant left last week for
Philadelphia and other Eastern points
where he will remain for some time on
business.
| Misses Elizabeth and Lottie Jourdan,
of Spokane, nieces of ID. A. Jourdan,
arrived last Saturday evening for a
visit of two weeks in Grangeville.
Miss Mary Larkee, of Carkston, came
up Sunday night and will remain for
the summer the guest of her sisters,
Mrs. j. A. Petersen and Mrs. Leslie
Smith.
Senator Perry E. Mitchell and
Chauncey Wallace of Nezperce were
Grangeyille business visitors Tuesday
coming over in car and returning the
same day.
Carlos Call, the congenial head of the
grocery department of the A. & F. store,
is taking his vacation this week, leav-
ing for the mountains in the vicinity
of Adams Camp.
Frank McGrane and family left yes
terday morning for Portland and other
Coast points where they will spend
several weeks in the hope of benefit
ting Mr.. McGrane's health which has
not been the best of late.
Enoch Christensen of the Joseph sec
ton, passed through Grangeville the
first of the week enroute to Cottonwood
where he attended the good road meet
ing and by the way Enoch is another
one of those progressive ranchers who
favors good roads.
w. o. Smith, who left some time ago
for Boise where he intended to join the
Idaho contingent of the National guard
but was unable to pass the physical
examination, has secured a place as
guard in the state prison and is now
seeing to it that the violators of the
Idaho laws are kept busy making little
rocks out of large ones.
Private money to loan. Geo. NJ.
Reed. 26-tf
William -Soltman and G. E. Krakau re-
turned yesterday from Moore IS lake
back in the Bun alo Hump country and
they enjoyed an exceptionally pleasant
fishing and outing trip. They state
that many are going in the mining dis
trlctS and alraadxy in bax
met Mackey- Williams at Adams Camp
as he was going in to the Hump with
supplies for the operators of the Con-
cord. They met others on their way in
to Florence.
Hon. Floyd Church, who was in town
Saturday, stated to the writer that he
was in receipt of letter from his son,
Private Ray Church, who left here a
member of the local national guard
company, in which he stated he had
been detached from the company and
assigned to the mounted scouts. This
Church will find himself right at home
for he is a natural horseman and always
in the saddle.
Lands 10 years time. Geo. M.
Reed. 26-tf
Harry Wood returned the first of
the week from Seattle where he had
been for the past fortnight visiting at
the home of his brother and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Craig Spencer. He found
business f1ourishing ON the Coast and
the lumber business, in which his
brother-in-law is engaged, seemed to be
getting on an exceptionally prosperous
basis. There is much shipping to the
Orient now, the Russian government
making heavy purchases of material on
the Coast.
Money at lowest rates. Geo. M,
Reed. 26-tf
Hub Wood and another gentleman
and two young ladies from the girls
training camp at Grangeville were in
the city Thursday afteroon selling
dance tickets to a benefit ball being
given to raise "pin money" for the
members of Company "E" which re-
Gently left Boise for the front. Most
of the local business men bought a
ticket and few journeyed across the
prairie last evening and made ample
use of the opportunity to trip the light
fantastic step with the fair maids of
the county seat town.-Cottonwo
Chronicle.
w. L. Campbell, the writer, and Fore
man Bangs, from the Free Press force
left Grangeville early last Thursday
morning and journeyed up the river the
same day to Golden, returning home by
way of Newsome Tuesday. The two
spent very pleasant time in the boom
ing Ten Mile district and remember a
very pleasant visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
G. w. Smith at the Smith Brothers
property. Two rollocking baby girls in
the Smith home make the place seem
more homelike ad take away some of
the cares and hardships of a mining
camp back in the hills when dad comes
in from hard days work.
Next week the writer hopes to be
able to furnish an article ON the Ten