Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-09-04
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Ritzville public school opened Mon
ay morning with a large attendance.
Following is the corps OF able teachers
for the session: Principal, D. L. Van
Alnberg, OF Aurora, Mo-; Miss Marie
Faucher, of Ward, Mich. assistant
principal. Eighth grade. Miss Grace
s. Perry, OF Cheney; first intermediate,
Miss Bertha Damman, OF this county;
second intermediate, Miss L Cornelia
Hall; first primary, Miss Bertha Bar
ronett; second primary, Mrs. Eura
Snowfall. The three latter named
ladies are residents of Ritzville.
The dedicatory exercises of the new
German Congregational Church edi-
fee were solemnly observed last Sun
day evening, and the program was
carried out as had been announced in
the NEWS of last Wednesday. The
spacious floors were all filled to over
flowing, and the occasion was one
that will be long remembered by our
German people.
Orlando s. Edwards, OF Belmont.
who was a leading stockman of Adams
county seventeen years ago, is in town
to-day Tor a few days visit with his
brothers, j. S. and Oscar l.. Edwards.
He was one of the regular nominees
for sheriff on the ticket in the cleo
ton held here in 1884. He is now
railroading.
The 1901 wheat crop OF Washing
Con will reach 100000 bushels.
Paste this in your hat and read it to
your friends once or twice in awhile.
Adams county, with her promising
future, contributes four million BUSH
els of the states yield, which will be
doubled when all the available agri.
cultural land is under cultivation.
Henry Luiten, German farmer,
while running a threshing machine,
had the misfortune Thursday evening
to get his left hand caught in belt,
breaking the arm above the wrist. DR..
Julius Frank reduced the fracture.
The injured man will do no more hard
labor this season.
Mrs. w. r. Cunningham, Jr., &C.
companied by her sister, Miss Ella
Frick, leave this evening for visit
with their parents at Blue Springs,
Mo. Mrs. Cunningham will be gone
for Two months, and Miss Frick will
remain with her parents.
William Loyles, one Of our honest
and industrious farmers, seven miles
east of town, suffered heavy loss by
fi,e Thursday last. His barn. granary,
three stacks of hay, besides other
property, were consumed by the fiery
element.
Horace E. Hill, ex-sheriff, was in
Friday from his farm, where he is
now making his bread by the sweat OF
his brow, which he says is softer
snap than playing sheriff. Mr.. Hill
was an efficient and trustworthy Off
Ger, and always had many friends.
Peter Johnson, of Fosston, Mimi,
a young attorney, is here looking over
the country. He is also a photog-
rapher, and is gathering views here
abouts OF the greatest wheat kingdom
on earth.
7. w. Howell, local manager for the
st. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Com
pany, leaves tonight for Denver to
arrange some mining affairs in which
he is heavily interested stakeholder.
Henry Kalkwarf, who graduated
from the public school here and at
tended Whitman College last year, has
gone east to spend the fall and winter
in study at the high school at Oberin,
Ohio.
The welcome rainfall Of the past
two days has laid the deep dust,
cleared and cooled the atmosphere
and made it pleasant for the busy fall
work and finishing of the big harvest.
Albert s. Elder, of Washtucna, &C.
companied by his excellent wife, was
mingling with the sociable people OF
the burg Friday, driving home in the
evening.
John Mcmillan, blacksmith OF
Washtucna, accompanied by his boy
hood friend Robert Mason, the stock
man, were among the business visitors
Saturday.
Mrs. l. Watson Myers returned
Sunday night from Buffalo and other
points OF interest in the east. The
lady was absent two months, and en-.
joyed the trip.
G. F. Porter, the photograph artist,
returned Friday from Dayton, Wash,
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