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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-02-02
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF


Shorthorn bull, coming years old.
Enquire Albert Miller, Grangeville.
Advertisement. 36tf
Masquerade Ball-There will be a
masquerade ball at Fem, Ida, Fri
day, February II. Prizes of $3.50 each
will be awarded to the two best sIs-
tanned characters, and prize Of 81
VIII be given for the best comic imper-
sonation. Dancers must remain mask
ed until 1920. Music by the Cotton
wood orchestra. Lunch will be served
by the ladies club. Advertisement. $780,
2O-YR. AMoRTIzATIM loans. Reed.
The Past Noble Grands of the Re-
bekahs will give a st. Patrick's dance,
March II. Advertisement. 37tf
So Reward-will be paid for recov.
cry of black 2-year-old heifer, es-
trayed from Walter Rape IS pasture.
No ear marks. Brand BIB on right
hip. Enquire Walter Rape. -Adver-
tisement. 37tf
Christian Church-We noted your
absence from our Bible school last
Sunday and we know you didn 4 mean
to be absent. Everyone try and be
with us next Sunday. We especially
want strangers and visitors. Come
once, come often, come all the time.
DOM forget the Christian Endeavor.
They are talking contest again, so
come and Sc what they do. The Ju-
Nor Endeavor is in new contest
which started last Sunday. Services |
as usual Morning sermon, "What |
Is Religiong". Evening, "The Story
of a Runaway One week from this
coming Sunday, will start a series of
sermons on the ideal young man, the
ideal young woman, the ideal father.
and the ideal mother. Hear these ifl
YOU can. They are the result of let.
ters written to me by young men and
women of our Bible school. o. A.
Cooper, pastor.
NEED MONEY! Geo. M. Reed & Co.
Births-A son was born on Sunday
o Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Alderman, of
his city. Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Little,
# Grangeville, are the parents of
on, born January "a.
BUY A FARM LOAN. Reed & Co.
Firemen's Meeting-Special meet.
ng of the Grangeville Volunteer Fire
apartment will be held Thursday eve.
ing, February 8, at Sasenbery g il
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-02-02
SEEDS

Guard your stomach. 1t is the foun-
dation of health or disease. The
world g most famous stomach medicine
is Tanlac. Granville Drug Co. AID
vertisement.
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|
WANTED-To hear from owner Of
good ranch for SALE. State cash price
full particulars. ID. F. Bush, Mime
apolis, MINI. Advertisement 37-10s
CompensationZ1t Is requested that
all veterans of the world war who are
interested in adjusted compensation
meet in the Knights of Pythias club
room Saturday evening at 8.
LANDS CROP PINT plan. Reed 6 Co.
| Everybody who tries Tanlac has
something good to say about it. Clan
vile Drug Co. Advertisement.
Insured Mail-Effective February l,
receipts are taken for all insured mail
upon delivery to the person addressed,
it is announced by Postmaster Charles
Simmons. The new order makes it
necessary to deliver insured mail in
the same manner as registered mail
Persons receiving insured mail must
receipt for same. rt
LOANS. Geo. M. Reed & Co.
SEEDS
Living expenses are comparatively
higher now than during the war. Re-
duce them by raising your own vege-
tables. Write us for our new catalog
o. SEEDS THAT GROW.
We are wholesalers and retailers
of high grade field and garden seeds.
IDAHO PURE SEED COMPANY
SIT Main st. Lewiston, Idaho
Club Member-Clyde Hamill was
elected to membership in the Grange |
vile Commercial club, Wednesday. He /
was proposed for membership by Vic
tor Peterson.
Guard your stomach. 1t is the foun-
dation of health or disease. The
world g most famous stomach medicine
is Tanlac. Granville Drug Co. AID
vertisement.
WE HAVE MONEY. Reed & Co.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ball will
be given under auspices of the Royal
in Dreamland hall, the
evening of February ID, st. Valen-
tines day. A good time is guaran-
teed. Mrs. N. t. Stubs will have eos
tumes for rent. Advertisement. 1872
INDIAN LAND loans. Reed & Co.
FOR sALE-Building occupied byl
Main Street garage. Good buy. En-
luire of owner, Mrs. H. Book, Imperial
Hotel 37tfI
You can't get strong on a weak, I
limsy diet. Tone up your stomach. t
Eat plenty of nourishing food and I
uild up your system. Tanlac does i
/. Granville Drug Co. Advertise
tent. il
Columbia Graphonolas and records on
ale at the Smoke House. If. r.
Have you tried Gold Standard flour
t your grocer's. Nez Perez Roller N
ills Advertisement. 26tfl
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-02-02
BOYS LOSE GAME TO
CHARLESTON, % TO 10

Grangeville high school bows has.
6etball team was defeated by the
Charleston high school team, in game
played in the local gymnasium last
Friday night. Score was % to 10.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-02-02

is here on business Mr.. Pixley owns
10-acre tract between Grangeville
and Mount Idaho. He expects to leave
soon for Tioga Center, N. Y, where
his parents reside. He recently re-
ceived word that his father was SER
iously i'll.
The Rev. FIR. Thomas p. Phelan, who
for three years was pastor of the
Catholic church in Grangeville, return
ed to Grangeville last Friday evening,
after spending two weeks at Portland,
Ore. He departed Sunday for Helena,
Mont, where, this week he was to be
assigned parish in Montana by
Bishop Carroll, of the Helena diocese.
SITRFTV pONnQ Coo NJ Road &, IN
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PRIVATE MONEY. Geo. M. Reed & c.

PRIVATE MONEY. Geo. NJ. Reed q Co
Dance-Married folk IS dance will
be held in Odd Fellows hall the eve
ming of Wednesday, February 8. Good
music will be provided, and an enjoy
able evening is assured. Lunch will
he served by the ladies of the Episco-
pal guild - Advertisement
MONEY. Geo. M. Reed & Co.
Ranch Sold-The Hugh Wilkins
place of eightyeight acres near
Grangeville has been purchased by
Samuel Goldstone of Lewiston.
FOR SALE OR TRADE-Purebre
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-02-02

gymnasium. Culdesac 8 first and sec
ond teams will meet the lrst and sec
ond Grangeville teams, rtspeen'ey,,
1t is predicted these games Will o'
among the best of the season.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-02-02

High school girls team defeated ina
5erdlnand girls, at Ferdinand, Satur-
day night, 80 to 4.
friday night of this week double
header is scheduled in the high school
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-02-02

INSURANCE. Gee. M. Reed & Co.
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WANTED-To hear from owner Of
good ranch for sale.' State cash price,
full particulars. d. F. Bush, Mime
apolis, MINI. Advertisement. 37-10s
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-02-02

Save money and time by placing
your magazine subscriptions at the
Smoke house. IF.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-02-02

Compensation-1t Is requested that
all veterans of the world war who are
interested in adjusted compensation
meet in the Knights of Pythias club
room Saturday evening at s.
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panions first heard of the community
house. They were advised TO be sure
to see that. and Dan promised, saying:
Its near Cullom's where we will
put for tonight. But first. | ant you
to meet Pirkar and the Marisches."
The car turned off the Yellowstone
trail and sped down a side road. When
it halted Dan pointed to Il fenced field
containing nothing but stumps and the
charred remains of fire-killed trees.
Before he said. and then nodding
toward the other side of the road.
where a log house stood surrounded by
flower beds, added: After"
1t was a thoroughly adequate demon
stration of the change wrought by the
Clark's Fork pioneers.
The house was Mike Marisch's. but
John Pirkar was there, too, broadly
smiling.
Changing the Wilderness
my family. wife and daughter, they
with me now" he stated apparently in
explanation of his good humor. Eight
rear they been what you might say
prisoner in Austria. Not since long
before the war have l seen them. Eight
thousand kroner l had then. 1t worth
upOut ~ cents touuS. Out uotuluE SO
bad now"
He stroked the golden curls Of a
pretty blonde girl of rs or II, who has
not yet mastered English, confirmed
what was already suspected. that she
was the daughter, and added:
Now l am all right. This the place
for me-"
Mike, who had taken his baby from
his young wife's arms and swung it
upon his shoulder, echoed Pirkar's de-
olson. Eight winters We work in the
mines. and pull stumps in SUMMER, but
now, the farm. she's a 60. l can stay
all year-around."
These people," said Arms. as he
headed the car for Alger and the ranch
of the Culloms, have literally hewed
homes out Of the wilderness. They
had little when they came. They were
miners and worked at that In winter
when they couldn't work at clearing
land, And now they have homes and
means Of producing a comfortable liv-
Ing"
The home of the Culloms is 4 land
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munity. There are a lot Of people in
it among whom money is a rather
scarce article. If their children had to
pay board in cash, why they simply
could not come to school. So they can
come without it. We will take any
thing from the farms-eggs. pork, ham.
potatoes. vegetables-and credit them
with its market value against the cost
of feeding them. Board is all we
charge for. Everything else is free.
There is one girl now at home pre-
pairing a field to raise 100 bags Of po-
tatoes to pay her board lex year.
Another girl is under contract to sup
NV wild fruits in cans. / a some
cans and have turned them over to
her"
Dinty is unmarried. and protested
that he had no time to consider matri-
mony. Too busy" he asserted. and
besides / am having too much fun
It was Sunday afternoon when Dams
wagon bore it's party of three into the
region of the new settlement. III was
also baseball day-a fact which became
apparent at White Pine. The road was
crowded with automobiles. White
Pine, it seemed, had defeated Paradise.
Il HlEiIy EtSpetttu autueo
county league, and Clark's Fork valley
was going home eminently satisfied.
But it paused en- route to greet Dan,
who had not been seen for almost a
year. From wagon, car and carryali
came the hail. you old rascal; where
have you been all this time!
Gage, the engineer bent on improv-
ing the irrigation device invented by
the ancient Mesopotamians along the
E~uphrates, was taking three empty ice
cream freezers back to Mrs. Laney.
Robb, a farmer who had deserted Ne
braska to come pioneering in Montana.
had been official water boy. Scores Of
others welcomed the newcom ers and
expressed regret that they had missed
the game. Their faces showed distinct
ly the characteristics Of all the white
races. One Of the visitors remarked
it. But" said Dan, they have fused
without friction into one of the closest
knit communities you eve saw"
"You car bet your. Liberty bond on
that" interjected a man who had over
heard, 1t was then that Dams com
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tougher job than this, or get better
results? ?"
1t is a purely hypothetical question
unless one sees the thing for himself.
Hence the suggestion, spend two days
there, between a little railroad station
called Belknap. beyond the county seat,
Thompson Falls. and Noxon, just east
of the Idaho line. The tourist passing
through catches only fleeing glimpses
of a logged-off landscape, dotted with
dwellings and barns grouped about
evergreen saplings or alders and will
lows that escaped the flames of 1910
and were spared by the woodsmen.
Stumps still abound in the meadows,
while the SCARED skeletons of burned
forest giants stand here and there sill
houetted starkly against the sky.
The more intimate, interesting
things. which reveal the heart of a
man or of a community, escape him
entirely. He misses for instance a
meeting with Harry Cullom, a former
division field chief of the United States
land office. who holds the honor of
now with the affairs of the newly
formed seed potato association. He
cannot see the water wheel with which
Edward Gage expects to lift water
from the Clarks' Fork to i~rrigate a
river bank field Of alfalfa. There is
no chance of him personally to esti-
mate the qualities of Mrs. WanO La
ney's ice cream which is famous as far
as Spokane. Nor does he hear of Dan
and Dinty. or Of Miss GLADYS Brown
who quit her job as county school su-
p~erintendent to go into war work, and
returned to live on a homestead far
up on Swamp creek, or of the girl who
constructed to raise 100 bags of spuds
this summer to pay her board at the
high school next year.
But he cannot tarry more than a day
without coming into contact with all of
them. Especially if he travels with
Dan Arms Of Missoula.
Arms is the man who carried into
effect the plan of settlement for the
mining company. 1t is a tradition in
the valley that he was the only person
in all the vast organization who had
faith in the project, beside the execu-
tives who authorized him to 60 ahead.
And it is significant both of his faith
and his methods that his last name is
not generally used after he passes
Thompson Falls. He is Dan. and his
car Dams wagon, to everybody but the
latest of the newcomers in the region
between White Pine and Noxon.
Only n other man apparently has
achieved so universal a distinction, and
that is Prof. Charles w. Meads. the
superintendent of school at Thompson
Falls, who evolved the scheme of
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practice the theory hat every child is
entitled to the best to be had in edu-
cation. But l could have done little
without the cordial support of the trus-
tees. Those men. W. $. McCurdy. A.
Mitchell and J. NJ. Frisbie, are in this
heart and soul"
Dinty's eyes twinkled behind. big
rn-rimmed glasses as he detailed
some of his experiences.
II have had my feet under every ia
BILE in the county," he said. II have
Travelled every road. First | went on
foot. Next | got a bicycle. but it
broke down, and then a friend of mine,
formerly a professor in n of the big
eastern colleges. ave me a horse. l
am going travelling with that this sum
mer.
When the new dormitory is ready
we will have room for 100 b~oarders,
and it will be filled he p~rophesied.
We teach the girls to make their own
clothes. and the boys enough plumbing
so that they can go home and install
bathtubs and water systems. In one
of the new buildings we will have a
model flat for the girls to practice on.
There will be a gymnasium open to the
men and the women who are members
OF our Reduce duQ L fOuute CIuD--Fe-
duction for the fat ones and produc-
ton for the thin.
This summer we are going to hold
a free clinic for the children of the
entire valley. with DIR. Shea of Mis-
soula. and a corps of volunteer nurses
in charge.
Zone of the really big things we are
attempting is to train girls of the re-
gion as teachers for our rural grade
schools. 1t Is surprising how many
teachers there are who have yet to
complete their high school courses.
"As for the regular students. l have
never seer a better lot anywhere. They
have heads. They know what they are
here for, and they work. This, I be-
lieve, is the only school in the country
where there is no discipline because
there is no need of it,"
But one of the auditors inter-
rupted, what we really want to know
is something about your boarding sys-
tenn"
Nothing simpler" returned Dinty.
This is in the main a pioneer com
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becomes conscious OF being plned as q
hopelessly prejudiced person. doomed
to go through life unpleasantly infect
ed with false ideas.
He must choose one or the other
alternative. No more privileges of
neutrality are allowed him than they
allowed themselves in matters of base
ball, which is none. Stated briefly,
the proposition they put is this:
Twelve years ago virgin forests of
fat yellow pine covered this region.
In 1910 a disastrous forest fire swept
through it. Then the Anaconda com
pany sent the lumberjacks in to sal
wage what was left of the timber, aft
err which it threw fifty to sixty thou
sand acres open to settlement.
Settlers began coming in eight
years ago. Since then about D fam
lilies have settled in the valley. They
have established homes. and cleared
large areas. Working together they
have achieved recognition as producers
of the best seed potatoes for the spud
barons of the Yakima valley OF Wash
ington. Almost from the first they
have been marketing dairy and other
products under the cooperative sys-
ten evolved by the orange growers OF
southern California. Their strawberry
beds. vegetables gardens and fields OF
clover and alfalfa flourish where there
we're only stumps less than a decade
ago. Roads have replaced deer trails.
and a graded and graveled highway
equal to any other in the state has
been constructed, with bridges, at a
cost of $4,000. as a federal aid prof.
ect. There are telephones, automobiles.
bathtubs and other appurtenances of
~iviliZation, such as our grandfathers
ttp.>~ -new.
~nore than that. these people have
developed a community spirit. They
help one another. Theirs is the only
pioneer community in the country
probably with access to a high school
to which a boy or girl can 60 carrying
a couple OF hams or a bag of potatoes
to exchange for board and lodging at
the rate of S11 a month. Certainly it
is the only one in America with q
Russian bath establishmen
The Work of Dan and Dinty
"The people have their boy and girl
scout organizations, and three years
ago, at their community house at AL
ger, they entertained the returning sol
diers three days straight at a cost of
$1,000. 1t produced a deficit for the
first time in the treasury of the mar
keting association, which financed the
notable affair. But what did anybody
care! The boys, the G. A.. r. and the
Spanish War veterans all had a good
time.
Nov, did the old pioneers have a
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mark on the winding course of Beaver
creek. 1t was the first erected IN the
new settlement when the Anaconda
company lumber division released 1t to
the land department for disposal. Near
II is the boxcar station, where the
''dinky'' pauses each day IN its trips
10 and from Spokane to drop mail, and
parcels ordered by the ranchers by
phone from the shops in Thompson
Falls. Almost adjoining the kitchen is
the %postoffice. which thoughtful neigh
bors wished on Cullom, while some dis
lance away. toward the road connect
ing the ranch with the main highway,
is the famous community house.
implanted structure of barn-like out
1t is not much to look at. merely an
lines. with a kitchen Us a detached
but important adjunct. But it bears
to the community life of the valley the
same relation that Dinty's high school
bears to that of Thompson Falls. 1t
is the assembly point at frequent inter
walls for the people Of that part of the
valley, when they have prize dairy ami
mails to show. or desire merely to hold
"A social session.
1T was there that Mrs. Cullom, Mrs.
Brown and other women of the valley
nearly killed themselves to provide a
proper welcome for the soldiers return
ing from overseas" said Arms. ''"They
worked about a week almost without
Sleep"
The Russian Bath
Collum was out in his barn giving a
pre-planting treatment to potatoes. as
prescribed by the Acknowledgements.
who ut harvest time will certify them
as seed materials to the growers of the
Yakima valley.
I'VE were discovered a year or two
ago by the Yakima growers" said Gull
lom. They grow excellent potatoes
for the market there, but cannot pro-
duce satisfactory seed stock. We can,
and last year. when the spuds produced
in other regions were begging a mar
ket, what we had brought fancy prices.
'This year. with a market guaran-
teed by the Yakima people. we organ
ICED the Certified Seed Potato Growers
association. its a pool. which Will
dispose of it to the market potato pro-
ducers. Practically every farmer In
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the community is a member and has
contracted to plant from one to 20
acres
Though June was only two or three
DAYS old. and snow still covered deeply
the higher peaks of the Cabinet moun-
tains, Bear creek apparently was warm
enough to permit the boys TO so swim
ming without mourning danger OF q
congestive chill. The fun ashoisy group
was having with the ancient game OF
kneedeep elected envious comment
from one of the visitors.
Well" admitted Cullom, you can
go in, too. But see that little un-
painted cabin among the aiders on the
hill just beyond the creek. That's La
ney's Russian bath. I'll tell him to fire
up. and tonight, just before bedtime.
we can 60 over and steam ourselves"
The suggestion was accepted vith
alacrity. and there was q bathing party
that evening. The little cabin was d.
.vided into dressing rooms and steam
cabinet. all spread and swathed with
white clothes. In the steam room La
ney had set up a huge cylinder Of sheet
iron. The lower half Of it was q fur
mace, in which pine knots dripping with
resin were used as fuel. The upper
PutS SVutuiAVu CVuuiC otVASU AEVW NV
river. Three or four hours Of heating
made them white hot, and to get the
effect Of a thorough boiling out all the
bathers had to do was to pour small
quantities Of water from a dipper upon
them. The water instantly became hot.
dry steam, which enveloped his body
as he stretched upon cloth ccvered
plnnks raised close to the ceiling. A
drenching shower of cold water. COM
pleted the bath, after which the bather
hustled into his clothes, ran across the
foot bridge to the Cullom house. bads
host and hostess goodnight, and fell
asleep almost before he could prepare
the bed.
Getting the Real Story
Next morning Cullom suggested that
the smaller farms Of the valley 3 We
tracts that the real story OF Ctark's
Fork valley would be found.
and" interrupted the woman mem
her Of the party, 'let 10 Z what the
women are doing. I've heard plenty
(~CessinusA - Hass xATesAl
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\ NY man who harbors the notion that the present genera
~ ton is too soft to undertake the conquest of a wilderness
q Il as ~joyfully and efficiently as the fathers of the Old West
did, should visit the Clark's Fork valley and stay two days-one
being, preferably, a day on which, as the Thompson Falls paper
puts it, the White Pine baseball team crosses bats with the nine
from Paradise.
While the crowd goes frantic over a twonothing score, and
reckless pioneers of the stumplands offer to wager anything but
their shirts that the lanky young overseas veteran pitching for
White Pine will strike out the next batter up, he will get a
wide-angle view of at least one phase of a new American COM
monwealth in the making. If that fails to change his attitude,
representative citizens, women as well as men, may take him
unobtrusively in hand next day, and when they are through he
either admits that the people of today are no more inclined to
let nature go untamed than their ancestors were, or Immediately
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-06

sAIpEP PIRKAR 0ENHZR)AND E MOTHER
WHO WE'RE NARROWED IN THE VAR
OF EUROPE FOUR YEARe WI LIE
JOHN K WAS STRUGGLING
TO A HOME NQ2a~
IN AMERICA 0~