Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-03-28


OF Adams county went over to Seattle
Thursday ON business, returning Sat
urday morning.
Aug. Krouse last Saturday brought
in five potatoes weighing fifteen pounds
which were raised on his farm few
miles east of town.
w. T. Winslow, ex-assessor OF Adams
county, now resident of Cheney, is
down on business connected with his
! land interests at Paha.
Thomas w. Newland, hardware
merchant OF Harrington, passed
through town Saturday ON his way to
Lind on business trip.
WILDER S. Egbers bought big wagon
load of bran new furniture from w. c.
Reeder Friday for his large farm house
residence north OF our city.
If any OF our readers want to know
of a good opening for business, any
line not represented in these columns
is open to them in Rtzville. Splendid
opportunity.
Mrs. Leta w. Emmert, formerly
school superintendent OF this county,
is in the city from Spokane county
where she now resides. She will visit
here for few days.
Fl. d. May of Washtucna, the stock
man and farmer, came up Saturday,
remaining over night on a. trading
tour. He reports crops in most ex-
cellent condition down that way.
Clayton E. Shipman, a retired mcr-
chant of this city, is among the rusti-
Gators at Hot Springs this week. His
health is improving since leaving the
close confines and hard work. of the
store.
L. II. Starr and wife, newly mar
ried couple, came in from their farm
Friday sixteen miles west OF the city
and visited during the day with Mr..
and Mrs. D. G. Barronett, the parents
Of Mrs. Starr.
Miss Myrtle Graham, formerly a
teacher in our public schools but now
of Cheney, will spend her vacation here.
The young lady came down Saturday
and is the guest of her uncle and aunt,
Prof. and Mrs. G. II. Knapp.
o. H. Greene spent Friday and Sat
urday last out near the western bor-
der OF the county with parties who
contemplate buying some OF the land
lying twenty miles west of town and
owned by N. II. Greene & Son.
Thos. 7. Boyd was pleasant and
financial caller Friday The gentle
man has $1,000 farm six miles east
Of town which he expects to dispose OF
and in such an event will embark in
the lumber business at this point.
Amos. Helmick and family from
Caney, Kansas, arrived last week and
will make this county their home. He
is brotherin-law Of Mr.. E. Upte-
grove. They have taken temporary
quarters in the Blackmer building
d. H. Harrison, Esq, will open a
law Office in Newport and will practice
in the courts of Washington, Idaho,
Oregon and California. He will build
an Office in the near future and bring
his valuable law library here, says the
Newport Miner.
Geo. B. Guier and family OF Dunks-
burg, Johnson county, Missouri, ar
rived Thursday morning and will To-
cate on some government land. He
was met here by his brother, Thomas
Guier, who has been here year and
is now employed on the farm OF John
Clodius.
Mrs. S. L. Dyer of Hooper, who
spent the winter visiting in California
returned Thursday and is the guest Of
Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Hair for few
days. She will 60 to her home at Mig
ger Lake Saturday. The lady is an
exceptionally intelligent person, well
read and posted on current events,
believes in womens' rights $50 do WEI
prohibition and reform, takes deep
interest in political affairs, is close
observer and bears the reputation OF
being consistent and conscientious in
her views which she expresses in an
earnest and convincing manner. The
world would be better OF with more
influence such as Mrs. Dyer Yields
over those with whom she is associat-
ed as she is thoroughly alive to BUSH
ness and other topics of the day.
Why should we treat the Pacific
islands, two thousand miles from our
coast, as American territory, and treat
Puerto Rico, not a thousand miles
from our coast, as foreign territory