Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-01-25
LOCAL AND Personal.
What Your Friends and Ours Have
Been Doing the Past Week.

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The east-bound passenger today is
IL hours late.
Wheat market today: Bluestem
81 cents, Club Al cents.
Otis Bemis, wide awake young far
mer from the fat, was in Monday.
Fred J. James, the Willis school
teacher, spent Saturday in the city. !.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. A. Scott are home
again after mouths trip in eastern
Oregon.
If P. Chambers does not stop buy
ing land he will soon own all that adj
joins him.
Henry Meyer and daughter of Lind
were transacting official business at
the court house yesterday.
Mrs. Alice Copp has accepted posi-
ton as deputy county auditor in the
Office of Geo. A. Kennedy.
T. B. Leonard of this city is out
again after siege of LaGrippe, which
held him down for the last fortnight.
Mrs. L. E. Paskill, wife of our cour-
teous N. P. agent, has returned from
visit with relatives in Drummond,
Mont.
Mrs. W.R. Peters, wife of our mayor,
was called to Wilbur this week in re-
spouse to telegram that her mother
was seriously ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. H. Low lost
their four months old baby last We'd
nesday. The little one had been sick
for only couple of days.
County auditor Kennedy on Jan.
18th issued glory ticket to Julia
Plugrad and Peter Wertenberger, res
idents of Adams county.
Mrs. N. H. Greene of Spokane who
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Benz. Martin, returned to the Falls
city Sunday morning last.
DR.. w. B. Richardson of Spokane,
the optical specialist, is in town again
and says if your sight is not all right
call on him at the Pacific hotel.
J. P. Schroeder of Harrington, Lin
coin county, informs US that he has
leased the OFT building and on Feb. 1,
will open the same to the public as a
hotel.
H. G. Ross, the gentlemanly sales
man and clerk in Thiel-Dorman's
store, will soon erect new cottage
close by the residence of Mr.. Orris
Dorman.
Geo. Schaffer, subject of the car
OF Russia today renowned his alle-
glance to that country and declared his
intention OF becoming an adopted son
OF Uncle Sam.
Warren N. Schoonover, the Odessa
merchant, is spending the day with
us calling on friends and looking after
business matters for the firm OF Tran
tum & Schoonover.
Benz. Martin, cashier of the Adams
County Bank, has let contract to
G. Arthur to build large addition to
his comfortable dwelling on the corner
of second and B streets.
Commissioner A. s. Kelsey came up
overland with the Ole Olson troupe
Monday and boarded the west bound
evening passenger, staying just long
enough to tell one short story.
Messrs. Summers and Colwell, two
of our industrious young men, have
purchased the dray business from j.
M. Kaufman and taken out city Ii
cense for the same for period OF one
year.
Louis Butsch of Tacoma, Wash,
came in on this mornings train and
will work in the harness shop Of o. R.
Haight. Mr.. Butsch speaks German
and has had years Of experience in
manufacturing harness.
Hugh Dunlap mounted the hurri-
cane deck OF a cayuse Saturday morn
ing and struck out for the ranch on
lower Crab creek sixty miles away.
II everything is found right side up
with care be will return in few days.
The city council in special session
Yesterday granted billiard, pool and
card table license for one year to J. E..
Finnell and David Gribling. Consii-
Grafton $125 and the place Of business
ON lot 4 block 10 adjoining the Pacific
hotel. j
A plat Of the bustiing young burg,
Lind, Adams county, Wash, has been
fled for record at the court house by
James and Dugai Nelson who are the
owners. We believe our sister town
has bright future. May she live