Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-08-09
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From the Chronicle

l.. M. Simson, superintendent of the
Grangeville Light & Power company,
passed through. town yesterday on his
way to Spokane by auto.
Ole johnson drove fine bunch of
beef cattle through town Wednesday
morning from out on the prairie enroute
to Forest. The cattle belonged to Will
Plat and had been wintered on the
prairie.
Some fifteen or twenty members of
the local K. c. lodge went to Union
town last Sunday to attend big mi
tiation of the order at that place, some
twenty five candidates taking the three
degrees. They report fine trip and
royal time while there.
GARDENERS are finding that the pota-
to crop will be light this year in spite
of the extra large acreage as the hot
weather has prevented the potatoes
from setting on the vines as they should
and while the vines look thrifty few
potatoes are to be found beneath them
except in very favorable soil.
Mrs. Fred Simon and children, Mrs.
Creelman and son, Mrs. Hale and son,
Mrs. Baer and daughter, Mrs. Fred
Lange, Misses Nell Confer and Minnie
LANCE motored over to Mt. Idaho Wed
nesday and spent the day picnicing in
the woods.
Joseph Uptmor made sale of his
farm just south of Keuterville the lat
ter part of the week to Lawrence
Vetsch for $50 an acre but after con-
sidering where he could go to better
himself decided Idaho county was the
best country he knew of and bought
the place back again Wednesday.
A deal was closed here Monday even
ing for the sale of the Tallman farm of
200 acres northwest of Keuterville to
Chas. and Alois Boxleitner for $3.50.
The new owners will take possession of
| the place at once and aim to work up
most of the timber on the land into
fuel posts and sawlogs.
DR.. Orr, assisted by DIR. Stockton of
Grangeville, performed an operation last
Friday afternoon on the little son of
John Arnzen for appendicitis. The APP
pendix was found to have bursted and
the operation was rather difficult but
the little patient is getting along nice'y
and will soon be well again.
H. f. Patton and family returned to
the prairie last week from Oklahoma
and is again looking for farm to pur-
chase in this locality Mr.. Patton sold
his farm west of Denver a few years
ago to Joseph Uhlenkott and went back
to Oklahoma to reside but eventually
decided that Camas prairie was the best
place for farmer, hence his return.
Anthony Vessels returned the first OF
the week overland from his homestead
on the Colville reservation and will re-
main for the winter. His family came
down couple of weeks before. Tony
says the crops are all burned up and the
country also suffered a bad prairie fire
before he left. He may go back next
spring or get an additional leave OF
absence.
Otto Aichlmayr purchased the new
Lexington car late last week from G
w. Thompson and left Wednesday III
company with M. s. Hendrickson for
Silverton, Oregon, where they will pick
up two or three others and continue on
an extensive trip through Oregon, north
ern California, Utah, Wyoming and
Montana They will cover about 5000
miles on the trip and may locate some
district that looks good to them from
an investment standpoint. /.