Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
w. w. Floyd went to Spokane

w. w. Floyd went to Spokane
Tuesday.
J.C. Shorno has been ailing the
past week.
D. N. Mcdonald will be deputy as
SCISSOR this year.
Town lots for sale by the under
signed at the Adams County bank
Benz. Martin.
Mrs. Copp returned last evening
from Spokane where she has been
visiting since last Thursday.
NJ. K. Cunningham was summoned
to Standpoint, Idaho, Monday morn
ing to take charge OF that Office tenn
porarily.
We call your attention to the bust
ness card of Wilburn, the photograph
er, which appears in this issue for the
first time.
A hundred or more prominent
people who have been in the city the
past week cannot be mentioned this
time for want of space.
Ladies aid society of the NJ. E.
church will meet at the home of Mrs.
j. A. Thompson next Wednesday.
Everyone invited. There's work for all.
There will be a business meeting of
the Epworth League Friday evening
March 4th at 7.30 p. m. The meeting
| will be held at the NJ. E. Church.
Business of importance is to be tran
sacted.
A. J. Clever and family returned
yesterday from a long visit in central
and southern Iowa. Mr.. Clever says
he has no desire to live in that coun-
try again. He says that the majority
of people are afflicted with some kind
of lung trouble, splitting blood, ETC.,
and that the chances for people of
moderate means are very poor. He
cited instances where land owners
charged $500 per acre, rent, without
pasture.
D. N. Mcdonald, brother of Judge
Mcdonald of Colfax, WIS in the city
Friday last ard made the Dawn very
pleasant social call. Ny. Mcdonald is
a live, wide awake ana thorough-going
populist of the first water and believes
in thorough education of the masses.
He says he takes no stock in half
breeds or mongrels-wants nothing
but genuine reformers. May his
shadow never grow less and may he
yet prove power for good in the re-
form of the state.-The Dawn, Ellens-
burg.
Prof. M. F. Knox finished his course
of lectures here on Monday night.
His subject for Monday evening was,
What the parent owes the child. After
an able talk of about 80 minutes to a
large audience he gave the delinaitions
of about one dozen people explaining
the science of phrenology and telling
them what they were best fitted for.
The professor is travelling the state
giving lectures and issuing charts.
His main object is to get the science of
phrenology introduced into the schools.
He left on Tuesday for Sprague.
The habeas corpus proceedings in
the Bowers divorce case, that was to
be heard before the court last Wednes-
day, was postponed. The press OF
business before Judge Neal will prob
ably prevent its being heard before
the April term, when the matter will
be called up and disposed of. This is
contention of both parties for the
possession of the infant child, and will
be hotly contested by both sides.
Attorney d. H. Harrison appears for
Mr.. Bowers and Judge Cation for Mrs.
Bowers.
We are proud of the following adj
ditions to our subscription list the
past week: H. w. Saunders, BENZ.
thinner, c. r. Bardwell, James Wat
son, Alex Watson, j. G. Vehrs, A.
Savage, A. Holimquist, J. e. Prouty,
d. Buchanan, s. G. Weller Emmett
Hubbs, T. I. Boyd, John Bovee, Jos.
Lavender, A. F. Linn, DIR. LII. Sutton,
Geo. Seidl, s. A. Osborn, d. c. Barron
nett, Jacob Beuhler, ]. L. Brown,
Geo. Graham, Ed Caldwell, J.P. Cham
bers, w. G. Moore, J. H. Bowers, VIM.
Mccoy, John Allen, Ben Snyder, of
this county and A. d. Davis,
Pomeroy, WASH, d. r. Lamor-
eaux, Mound City, Kan, d. Kuhlman,
Glencoe, Mimi, Thomas Farrelly.
Dunchurch, Ont.
Attorney d. H. Harrison has kindly
furnished us with a copy of his brief
in the appeal OF the case OF Koch, ct
al. VS.. Adams county. 1t would seem to
our limited understanding that il his
story is true, the county is beat, but
we know that one side is good till the