Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-09-13
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LOCALS AND PERSONALS


Watch for return dates. DR.. f. A.
Sehnling, Optometrist. lift
w. 5. Brockman, cattle man from
the Snake river country, was a business
visitor in the county seat this week.
B. r. York of Elk City was in the
county seat Monday, bringing over A
bunch of fire fighters from the burnt
district.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Baer of Cotton.
wood were IN our city on pleasure last
Friday. Mr.. Baer is interested in the
stock business.
Clerk j. A. Peterson of the local post
office is enjoying vacation this week,
going down to the Clifford section to
supervise the harvesting of his crop.
Tom Seay of the Winona section. had
slight accident last week when en-.
route to the Spokane fair, his car 60
ing over the grade in the Lewiston
orchards but with no serious results.
Joe Roberts will leave in a few days
for Spokane where he has been en-
ployed by government contractor to
break horses. Joe is an expert rider
and well entitleR to the ten dollars n
day he will pull down for the work.
This weeks mail brought to II. F..
Church notice of the death of Mrs.
Martha Pearson, age "a, of Bandon,
Oregon, who died August, 2S, 1917. The
deceased was the wife of II. II. Pearson
who died about a year ago. They
were both pioneers of the Camas Prairie
country and are we'll known in this Sec
tion where they have number Of rela-
tives living.
The party of engineers who arrived in
Grangeville the first of the week, have
located their camp at the watering
trough near the top of the hill on the
road leading to Whitebird. They will
be in this vicinity for the period of
about three months, checking over old
surveys and finishing the engineer work
through Idaho county. Geo. Smith took
the men to camp.
Those who figured that it would never
rain again have made mistakes in their
computation for in addition to the nice
rain of Monday night soaker set in
| wednesday evening and is moistening
| the ground to fare you well. AS a re-
suit there is considerable giggling and
tittering among livestock owners who
are pleased to know that they will be
assured of better fall pasture.
Sam Wright, who owns considerable
body of land up in Canada, received
word this week to remit 1925 to the
Canadian government, this being called
for in accordance with recently en-
acted law up there placing an additional
tax on all real estate for patriotic pur-
poses. Sam says while his taxes used
to be something like $26 on his land he
is now paying better than a hundred
and twenty-six on same property.
III. +. Church is one farmer who is
taking the wheat price fixing PROPOSE
ton philosophically. He says that back
around Chicago they grow wheat on
$400 land and at that do not produce
as much as we do in this country on,
land that in some instances did not cost
$40 to $15 per acre, so their 30 cents ad-
ditional in price does not mean SO
much to them after all. Mr.. Church
thinks we should have grain center
at Portland or Seattle
The funeral of William Edgington
was held Sunday at $3.50 in the Han
cock Undertaking parlors. A large
crowd of sorrowing friends were pres
ent and heard Rev. j. M. Powers of the
Baptist church deliver the funeral SER
mon. Many flowers were in evidence
and the choir rendered some appropriate
selections. Interment was made in the
Prairie View cemetery. The pail
tbearers were u. III. Sasenbery, Tom
Chandler, Frank Groom, Mat Geary, o.
T. Lingo and Fred Miller.
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