Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-05-25
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
What Your Friends and Ours Have
Been Doing the Past Week.

Court this week.
Fresh vegetables at Sinclairs.
Brick, lime-and hair at Green's.
Wheat is rs cents in Ritzville today.
Notice the change in w. R. Peters
ad in this issue.
The only "Blackev" has hied HIM
self to Northport.
w. o. Hatch is prepared to do all
kinds of shoe work.
A s. Newland and family were in
the city Saturday.
Our streets have been crowded with
strangers this week.
Isaac Rigg and family of Fletcher
were in the city Monday.
There was quite a heavy frost in
this vicinity Sunday night.
Just received, a carload first-class
lime, in sacks.-C. o. Greene.
DR.. Lehman, dentist, will be in
town all day Saturday, May %.
A. s. Elder and wife of Washtucna
were trading in town Saturday.
The L. O. T. M. served ice cream in
the Gent building last Saturday.
All kinds of lumber and building
material at lowest prices at Green's.
Go to the Model Millinery for the
Brainerd & Armstrong unfading wash
silks.
Reuben Thacker of Tyler, Spokane
county, is attending court here this
week.
For good, clean, square meal, at
very reasonable rate, go to the Pacific
hotel.
If you want your dress to fit, have
it made at the Model Dressmaking
Parlors
There has been an unusual number
OF WEARY WHY'S" in town during the
past week.
Those Superior single disc drills are
the coming machine for this coun-
try.-Bauer-B Bier Co., agents.
1t looks as though Adams county
would be the banner county of the
state for wheat again this year.
If you want to file homestead or
make final proof of any kind call on
F. P. French, U. s. Commissioner.
Rev. Hicks, who has been visiting
friends and relatives at Wenatchee the
past two weeks, returned on Friday
last.
Mothers, Attention!-Ab bonnet to fit
your baby that will also fit your purse,
at the Model Millinery and Dressmak-
ing Parlors.
If you want pair of shoes of good
leather and workmanship i'll an up-to-
date style and guaranteed to fit call
on w. 0. Hatch.
From the number of commercial
men who visit our city daily our
merchants must be dong regular
land office business.
s. P. Wright and daughter were in
town last Saturday. Miss Wright is
contesting for quarter section of land
in her neighborhood.
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. D. Gibson.
Judge John B. Davidson of Ellens-
burg is presiding at court here this
week on account OF illness in the fam
lily of Judge Neal.
In spite of the exciting war news,
the same quiet business goes on at
the Ritzyille Hardware store and there
is no change in the extremely low
price of anything they have for sale.
Chas. E Amsbaugh passed through
town yesterday morning, Ell route to
Lind. He has been up in the Okanog-
an country looking after his extensive
mining interests. Charley knows a
good thing when he sees it, so he has
ordered the News sent to his address
for one year. Thanks, cold man."
The judicious distribution of a few
doses Of snipe shot might protect our
wives and families from the threaten
ing demands which are constantly
made at our back doors, for food, by a
class Of people who are averse to the
idea of soiling their hands with any
kind of work beyond riding the brake
beam or rods of railroad car.
The old adage, that the American
people like to be humbugged, was
clearly proven Friday night at the
Indian doctors pow WOW. Several Of
our citizens who were ashamed to let
it be known that they were SO green
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