The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1917-03-08

| PAPERING9-Anyone wanting
wall paper can see samples Of the
new line received by Abe Fuller
at Thomas & Jamison's hardware.
lie is agent for the Henry Bosch
Paper Co, Chicago. Newest line
in town.
Mrs. Baltic Savage and the baby
returned last week from a visit
al Salem, Ore, and Colfax. She
viii remain here until Mr.. Savage
gets things IN readiness at their
homestead near Gillette when she
will join him.
A line from Miss Maud Ham,
mel, at Seattle, where she and her
parents have spent the winter,
states that they are leaving there
on the Bird instant and expect 70
be at their home in Nezperce in
the near future.
Mart Miners returned home last
night from week s visit to the
Pendleton and Walla Walla coun-
try. He reports a very backward
season down there and that big
acreage Of the winter grain had
been frozen out.
$500, 900 private money TO loan
az 61s per CT. interest. NO other
expenses except abstracting and
recording; no red tape. If title
Is complete can close up loan same
day you make application A. @.
Gross, hEohler. Idaho. If.
L. ID. Parsons was in town from
Steele last week and reports that
Rev. Nixon, Of Peck, is holding a
series Of revival meetings at the
Central Ridge church and that the
literary at the Holm's school
house has been postponed on ac-
count Of the meetings.
w. s. Grant returned home last
night from Lewiston where his
daughter, Elsie, was operated on
last week for appendicitis. He re-
ports her getting along nicely and
|if no complications set in she will
he able to come home about the
2ith. He also reports Mrs. John
Mckinley much better but she was
very low following her operation.
The best section in Alberta, four
miles from town; all under culti-
walton, good buildings; fenced
partly hog tight, $35, 600 per acre.
This is fully as good as NezperceI
and Palouse land, where you pay
$4,000 per acre. Also three quar-
ter sections of number one wheat
land six miles from killam, $500
per acre. w. f. Larson & Co, Kill
lam. Alberta. If.
Fen Emerson, SON of County
Treasurer and Mrs. w. r. Elmer
son of this city, and one of the
brightest little lads in the COM
munity. has been bravely fighting
, serious attack of measles with
pneumonia complications the past
week, and this morning gave en-
signs Of winning the
fight, which viii be good news to
the many friends of the family.
Henry Laur and family, pros
porous and well known citizens of
the Russell section, leave this
week for Gillette, Wyo., where
they will form homestead colony
OF their own. Under the new
homestead law this family is eli
gible to take up 1900 acres of
land. and this they expect to do
and have each homestead adjoin-
ing as far as possible. Their many
prairie friends wish them good
luck and prosperity on their broad
acres.
The J. A. Beck public sale, at his
place northeast of town last Tues
day. was a dandy. Mr.. Beck says
of IL: 81 had a very good sale
nice weather and an exceptional
ly big crowd. thanks somewhat to
the weather man, too. Everything
went at good prices, but ! had
only good stuff in fair condition
10 offer. | made several hundred
dollars more than expected, and
am very well satisfied, and be-
lieve every buyer has reason to be
satisfied, too"
What came near being a ser
ious accident happened to Mrs.
Omar Marshal at their home north
east of town Sunday. II appears
that she was bathing the baby and
was standing with her back to the
stove when her apron caught fire.
Being busy she did not notice it
and It was not until her husband
happened to come in that she
knew anything was wrong. He
tore the burning clothes from her
before she received any serious
burns, but burned his hands quite
badly by so doing.
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