Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-02-15


Country lard wanted at the City Mea.
Market. I5-tf
A pretty baby girl arrived at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Neal last Fri
day.
All music lovers call at the store of
the Clark Music Co. and inspect the
bargains being offered. 39-1
$1o0.0O0.0O private money to loan at
low rate of interest. A. w. Talking
ton. 28-tf
Among the Ferdinand people in town
this week on business were John Wag-
ner, f. Kinkaid and 0. G. Hanson.
Attorney Hanna and Prosecutor
White of Clearwater, came up from
Orofino this week on legal business.
E. w. Kincaid and John Wagner of
the Ferdinand section, well-to-do ranch
ers were visitors in Grangeville the first
of the week.
Mrs. Ed. Cawley returned last Fri
day from Lewiston where she has been
spending the past two weeks visiting
with friends.
Ben Knorr left Saturday for Van
couver, B. c. from which point he will
travel out and look the country over
with view to locating in the Dominion.
Auctioneer Zuver, who was reported
quite i'll at his home early in the week
with a threatened attack of pneumonia,
is now able to be out and around and
looks as pert as ever.
Mrs. A. j. Maugg came over from
Cottonwood Tuesday night and they are
now living at the Imperial, Mr.. Maugg
having secured very desirable suite
at this popular hostelry.
Mesdames Granville and Hewes en-
tertained informally last Monday after
noon in honor of Mrs Hilda Hohaus
Wood of Fairfield, Montana, who is
visiting friends in the city for a few
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Day are the
proud parents of a pair of twins, the
youngsters arriving Tuesday morning.
Mother and children are doing fine
and the husband and father is just
about the happiest man in the world
today.
The Eimers Hardware Company re-
ceived q full car of the 1917 Dodges
this week and are now unloading the
same and placing them on their floors.
The new machine has number of
improvements over the last year s
model which was very popular with the
public
The Latin play being staged at the
High School, Thursday evening, Feb.
10Th promises to be great success
owing to the untiring efforts of Miss
Brooks, the English instructor and the
students taking part The costumes are
very elaborate and unique and everyone
is invited to attend.
g. Unsicker and Robt. Dobhins of
Joseph Plains were in Grangevil!e the
latter part of last week on business
matters. They are both putting in the
winter feeding the Jim Aram cattle
Mr.. Unsicker is regular reader of the
Free Press and called at the office to
deposit his annual contribution.
Twenty-Five cars of hogs were shipped
from the Prairie last Saturday, the
value of the shipment being in the
neighborhood of $4,000 or $3.50 car
This is not extraordinary during these
times as it is getting to be a common
occurrence for stock shipments of similar
value to leave every fortnight or two
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Benedict and sol
returned Tuesday night from Southern
California where they have been for the
past several months enjoying the ex
ceptionally fine climate of that
favored section. Grant says he en-
joyed every minute of his stay and re
turns looking twenty years younger.
The damage action instituted by Dave
Yates against the Spokesman Review
which was to, have come to trial at Spo
kane this week, was settled out OF
court by the parties to the action il
this city last Saturday. Just what the
terms of settlement were are not known
as no statement has been made by
either party.
Attorney Charles Greenough of Cot
tonwood was over the first of the week
looking after legal matters. On ac
count of his growing law practice he
has found it necessary to devote his en-
tire time to the same and as result
has rendered his resignation as post
master over there, the same having
been in the hands of the department for
some time but as yet not accepted.
Dressmaking by day or at home
Julia Bowman. Phone Pacific 1853. 3s-tf
U. S. Marshal Mark Howe came in
Saturday night and remained until
Monday, serving some papers in a
government case coming up shortly. He
recently returned from Columbus, Ohio
where he took federal prisoner who
was sentenced to a term in the Ohio
penitentiarv, the prison having a con
tract with the government to keep 8
number of federal prisoners. He
states business conditions are excep
tionally good in the East
Don't overlook the ad of the Clarl
Music Co. in this issue 3d.
Henry Johnson, who is visiting il
the city at the home of his son anc
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs Mat Gearv
found time to make this office pleas
ant call yesterday afternoon. Mr.. ant
Mrs. Johnson, who are old pioneers OF
this section, left nine years ago, loeat
ing in Opportunity, Washington on