Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-11-30


wanted-Girl over fifteen, at Ell
Sanitaire Cigar Factory, over Fair
Store. 26-tf L
Sheriff Yates want to Lewiston
Tuesday morning to appear as witness
in court.
See the ad-Holstein Bulls for sale.
best values ever offered. Walter
Hickerson. l4-tf
Attorney l.. Vineyard went to Lewis I
ton the first of the week to appear in
the supreme court.
Dave Sasenbery and Frank McGrane
are among the Grangeville merchants
attending the stock show at Lewiston |
this week.
Jack Warrens, brakeman on the pas
senger to lewiston is reported to be
very ill, and at the present time is IN
Spokane hospital for treatment
Mr.. and Mrs. d. II. Kube of Grange
Vile arrived in Moscow today to be the
guests of their daughter, Mrs. D. w
eenburg.-Monday Star-Mirror.
Leave your orders for fruit trees
from the Dewey Fruit Farm, with
Marshall Games, residence the old Holtz
property, opposite old grist mill
site. 2S-tf
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Decker went down
to the stock show Tuesday morning.
Bert is one of the many enterprising
farmers on the prairie and as result
is greatly interested in live stock.
Mr.. and Mrs H. l.. Hanson left Mon
day for Lewiston where they will visit
with the mother of the former, Mrs. Nj.
W.. Kauff. III. l.. came home tuesday
and Mrs. Hanson will remain until the
last of the week.
Henry Hazlitt, the well known miner
of the Dixie section, came out this
week to look after some matters in pro-
bate court. He states there was eigh
teen inches of snow in that camp when
he left and real winter has set in.
! Hon. A. +. Parker, a. life member of
the Northwestern Live Stock Associa
ton, went to Lewiston Sunday and will
spend the week there attending the
live stock show and looking after other
matters of public concern in which he
is interested.
Judge Wallace N. Scales, who was
over to Nezperce the last of the week
on legal business returning Friday, left
Monday for Lewiston where he will ap-
pear before the supreme court in several
cases among them being the Cottonwood
Water Co. case.
The hunting party consisting of Geo.
D. Smith, Earnie Day, A. s. Wright,
Dick Crea and Pap Jarvis have return
ed from Adams camp where they had
rather poor luck in getting deer. Dick
Crea seems to have been the only lucky
member of the hunting party.
Tim Driscoll of Genesee was a
Grangeville business visitor this week.
Judge James DeHaven is affected by
eye trouble which has put one of his
eyes out of commission for the time
being, but the Judge is still cheerful
and confident that the eye will recover
it's former strength in a few days.
William Webb and Jake Eimers re-
turned the last of the week from
hunting trip in the Clearwater Meadows
country and brought home their full
quota of venison. They were in the
vicinity of where 49, tragedy occurred
when young Ruff lost his life but had
departed before the fatality occurred.
Now is the time to buy your Xmas
presents. Come and see those offered
for sale by the girls of the Domestic
Science Department on Friday, Dec. s,
beginning at 2 p. m. There will also
be an exhibit at the same time of the
articles which the girls of this depart
ment have made during the last three
months. Tea will be served to all.
Sheriff Yates and wife returned the
first of the week from hunting trip
in the vicinity of Adams Camp. They
secured two deer, one a five point buck
and the other mighty poor specimen.
According to Jean Burlingame, who has
a homestead in the vicinity of the hunt
ing grounds, Mrs. Yates killed both of
them but LATE prevailed upon her to
substantiate the story that he succeed
ed in bringing down the smaller one of
the two, thus saving his reputation as
a hunter and marksman.
Eli Ingram got the turkey. He got
it bowling. Now Eli has been known
as the most erratic bowler in Grange
vile, going up to $50 on some occasions
and then slumping down to 20 on other
occasions. But this time he chalked up
the score of 237 at the Smoke House
alleys and walked away with a 20
pound turk Wednesday evening. We
don t know how it is that the rest of us
can t be as lucky as Eli, but neverthe-
less the turkey came in handy for Eli
lid not get deer this year-only two.
This week and last the financial
statements of two of Grangeville's
strong banking institutions appeared in
the Free Press. The statements show a
remarkable growth in the financial
stability of these banks, and large in
crease in the wealth of the community
as denoted by the large increase in
deposits. This has been bumper year
with prices at the highest for many
years for all agricultural products, and
good yield on the prairie and adjacent
sections of the products. Total deposits
in Grangeville banks will approximate
better than a million dollars and they
are growing from day to day. A sur
vey of the county will show similar