The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1917-08-23
LOCAL NEWS

visiting at the home of Mrs. kel
sey 5 sister, Mrs. 7. ii. Fertig.
Saturday the Madison Lumber
Co. sold a bin of lumber to school
district No. 2S, north of Mohler
for their new school house. The
company furnished plans for the
building and Norton & Van Wag-
Oner were awarded the contract
for putting up the same.
AUTO FOR SALE-Chevrolet Four.
Ninety with license paid, set Of mud
chains, extra tube, pressure gauge and
extra tools 60 with it At 1896. Ru@s
better than when new. II you are buy
ing car this fall this is your chance
to get new one at discount. Write
or phone Hariand Moser, Clifford.
John Stellmon started his pew
Holt thresher Monday in an So
acre field of fall wheat just across
the road from his home. The yield
shown rs 80 bushels 10 the acre
and the grain is certainly A No.
l grade. This is bad year for
spring-sown grain all right, but
the fall article is holding its own
beautifully.
There is ON exhibition at The
Herald office a cluster Of straw
berries, grown by A. A. Hunter
at his home in Nezperce, which
contains eighteen berries. II is
the everbearing Progressive varie-
" and il is repoted Dir. Hunter is
trying to cross them with a milk
weed so he can serve his friends
Strawberries and cream.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. 5. Adsley and
two children, Of Pollock, and Post
mistress Mrs. Martin, Of Ferdi-
nand, &ere Nezperee visitors
Tuesday. The Adsleys are old
friends of Supt. j. w. Curtis and
family and are looking for a suit
able location where their children
may attend high school and they
might decide to locate here.
FOR SALE-Having purchased
a combine. we win sell our thresh-
ing outfit, consisting Of 25-horse
Russell engine, .32x55 Minneapolis
(both in first-elass con-
dition), 3 good SIT. Mccormick
binders, s good bundle rack wag-
ons. Win sell at a bargain. Ma
chine at Turner Bros. ranch, 5 mi
south Of Nezperee. Turner Bros.
B. J. FIke, the king Of real es-
tate dealers, reports the following |
recent sales: the c. Ternahan |
ranch south Of Nezperee 10 A. G.
Roper, of Tekoa, consideration
SIC, 10000. Mr. Roper takes pos
session October LIST. The }. A.
Bushue mercantile business at Fer
dinand to T. Wienss, OF Nezperee,
and the Ferdinand Hardware &
Implement Co. business TO Mr..
Wienss.
Vern Swartz and Ray Garrison
over to the A. L. Garrison
home near Lenore Saturday, re-
turning home Sunday. They were
accompanied home by their wives
who have been visiting there for
he past week. The Garris0ns are
going into the berry business very
extensively and their bench land
grows fruit Of quite a superior
quality and size. A sample Of the
ogan berries were left at The Her
I'D office and we can vouch for
heir superiority.
Ordinarily il is hardly worth
yhile for the backyard gardener
o attempt saving many kinds Of
garden seed. This year it is dit
erent. Like many other old es
ablished industries, it is more or
ess dem0ralized and il is quit,
possible that it will be difficult I,
eeure next spring, even at high
rice, garden seeds that have been
AIKEN from high grade plants
With this fact in view, it viii b.
rise for the gardener where pos
ible to save seed this summer for
ext springs sowing.
T. A. Bayless, superintendent Of
he Grangeyille Electric Light &
over Company, informed the
lobe representative this week
nat they had the bridge CON-
leted across the South Fork 70
leir power plant and had been
sing it for several days. Several
'ads Of lumber were hauled our
MS week for the construction Of
le warehouse and the completion
the bunk and cook houses. The
teams are now daily
luling big loads Of cement out
J the site Of the new dam and |
over plant. The compressor and
e air tank which works in con-
netion with the same, were tax.
out this week. Mr., Bayless says
ey viii soon be engaged in ae-
al construction work on the dam
bis is good news for everybody
this country. for the company i