Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-05-04
LOCAL AND Personal.
What Your Friends and Ours Have
Been Doing the Past Week.


Wheat is 80 cents in Ritzville today.
Benz. Martin went to Spokane Sun
day.
Dry wood and Roslyn lump coal at
Greene's.
Buy your ice cream freezers of the
Bauer-Bier Co.
Quite number of farmers were in
town Saturday.
Gus Holmquist of Lamona was in
the city Monday.
Buy your oranges, lemons, figs,
etc, at Sinclair's.
Just received carload of barb-wre
at Bauer Bier Cos.
Colonel d. j. Zent made trip to
Washtucna Friday.
Fifty dollars buys an 1898 high
grade Waverly bicycle.
OFT Bros. sold two carloads of flour
to Ritzville merchants last week.
All kinds of lumber and building
material at lowest prices at Green's.
Contractor Clyde Smith made a
flying trip to Walla Walla Saturday.
For good, clean, square meal, at a
very reasonable rate, go to the Pacific
hotel.
E. d. ellison went to Spokane Sat-
urday morning, returning Sunday
evening.
Buy can of Beacon baking powder
and get handsome glass set.-C. Sim
clair.
Renovating and repairing Of gentle
mems and children's clothing.-Mrs.
G. M. Lehman.
Samuel Allen of Hatton was in town
Monday as witness in final proof for
George Graham.
Geo. Graham of Hatton made final
proof on his homestead before Louis
Walton, clerk, last Monday.
Those Superior single disc drills are
the coming machine for this coun-
try.-Bauer-Bier Co., agents.
A. L. Popple, proprietor of the
Glover Leaf restaurant, made bust
ness trip to Spokane Monday.
If you want to file homestead or
make final proof of any kind call on
F. P. French, U. s. Commissioner.
An Oddfellow's sermon will be
preached at the M. E. church in Ritz
vile Sunday, May 15, at IL o'clock am
Walter Zent and sister, Miss Lottie,
have been suffering with severe
attack of the Measles the past week.
War may ravage the country and
straise Ned" with commerce but it
will not raise prices at the Ritzville
Hardware.
A. F. Zinter, the miller, has demon
strated that he can make No. flour
with Adams county wheat, in the
Ritzville mills.
There is to be an entertainment at
the Poplar Grove school house on the
evening of May 2S. A complete pro-
gram will be published next week.
Business lots for lease from one to
five years. ] have for sale some town
lots. Also some second hand furni-
ture as good as new.-E. ID. Gibson.
Ray Thompson, an employe of the
News, has been confued to his room
for several days with that popular,
but very disagreeable fad, the measles
Charles Amsbaugh passed through
Ritzville Sunday, en- route for the
Okanogan country. Charley has some
valuable mining properties in that
section.
Mrs. John Gray and Miss Bowman
of Washtucna were in town last Fri
day. They bought one of those ele-
CANT double carriage harnesses of w
X. Peters.
If it be true, as the bible teaches,
that man was made from dust, the
facilities for his manufacture are a
little ahead, in this vicinity, of any
point we are cognizant of.
We have the largest line of tinware
ever in the city from which to make
choice, and also carry the largest and
most complete line of cook stoves in
the county.-Ritzville Hardware.
]. F. Coss, jr., was among the visit
ors in town last Saturday He let it
slip that he used to be somewhat of a
drummer in the late unpleasantness,
and we are Of the opinion that he has
not forgot it all yet.
The heavy firing heard the first of
the week was not the feet off Havana;
it was the railroad men blasting out
trenches for the pipe to be used to