, 1883-08-25
SCRAPINGS.

Paint up.
August 25th.
Chilly O. mornings.
Fall is near at hand.
Building continueth.
Big mill starts Oct. lst.
Entertainment tonight.
The brick blocks groweth.
Spokane Falls is to have gas.
Job work done at this office.
Lumber arrives by rail daily.
The smoke came back on us.
How about that Opera House.
Farmers are at work thrashing.
A company talks electric light.
The band practices regularly.
Protection against fire is needed.
The new school goes up steadily.
The Council wants steam fire engine.
Sales Of real estate are nothing to brag Of
A new livery stable is the next enter
prise.
Wednesday morning was decidedly
frosty.
The band starts in with fresh list Of
officers.
Electric lightsl Eh How does that
strike you.
The Justice court was not at all lively
this week.
There is some talk Of passing a 'vag''
Ordinance.
Boston operate Minstrels perform here
on the 18th.
"Echo Roller Mills" Which is the
echo, roller or mills ?
McElroy proposes to have some tone to
his depot decorations.
The red walls Of Brownies block now
riseth above the earth.
Jas. Bruce, the injured railroad boy, is
improving right along.
ThSfall term Of Spokane College com.
Hleuces september lSth..
A brisk breeze blew blythly between
times during the front end Of the week.
A well is being sunk on the lot at the
corner Of Riverside avenue and Mill street
r. r. Hargrove had a magnificent sam.
pie Of oats this week, grown near this city,
A new building was thrown in to fill up
the vacancy on the fiat west Of town this
week.
Harry Ainsley's troupe OF specialists
give'a, performance in Cannon's Hall to.
night.
Jas. Roe has sent to Courtland, y. v,
for a couple Of barouches for his new
stables.
Farmers are bringing in reports that go
to show that the crops are not a complete
failure.
The gypsy camp on the north side Of
the river was an attraction for pedestrians
Sunday.
1t is calculated that the circus scooped
over a thousand dollars out Of the city
Monday. .
The youth tackles the watermelon and
the watermelon tackles the youth. Honors
are even.
Pilling, the paint singer, has decorated
Charley Merriman's windows with some
neat lettering.
One would hardly believe the statement
but the letters on Echo Mills are seven
feet in height.
Bricklaying recommended on Central
Block this week, and the second story
goeth upward.
The showmen found some difficulty in
hoisting canvas Monday in the teeth Of
the stiff breeze.
Jones, the ice dealer, received a large
quantity Of ice from his house at Cocolalla
Lake this week.
The days are dwindling down so that
one is not compelled to get up very early
to see the sun rise.
The pay car laid over here Sunday
night, and the boys felt like millionalres
for the time being.
We republish a neat little article from
the pen Of E. V. Smalley on Spokane Falls
in another column.
The town was again covered with smoke
from fires in the circumJacent forests
Thursday morning.
It is calculated that the Methodist Col
lege now under way will be completed by
the lst Of November.
Stewart has about completed the struc-
ture to be used as an agricultural imple-
ment store house by Windell.
Warner & Dow have their new saw mill
out on Indian creek in full blast, and are
cutting up lots Of building material.
Small game is reported to be showing
up in quantities sufficient to give even the
poorest shots a chance to secure a bag.
A run on butter, or a shortage OF the
crop, compelled housekeepers to invent
some other kind of tUnsll lubricator this
week.
OF all the bitters now in the market there
is none superior to the Peruvian. J. n.
Squier is sole agent for them in the upper
country.
A forest fire crowned the ridge Of noun
tains southwest Of the city Tuesday night,
and penciled the heavens in that quarter a
ruddy red.
Look out for fires. Dryness and lack Of
water would give fire chance that 1t
would not hesitate a moment to take ad-
vantage Of.
Rima has the bulge on his neighbors in
the way Of building. The iron OF the front
has been put up and the next story is
unIar ,.,o.r