Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-01-01
Dedication. services and reopening

pastor of the First NJ. E. church o.
Spokane, successor Of Rev. P. A. Cool
will occupy the pulpit. DR.. Henry
Brown, presiding elder, will preach at
o'clock. DIR. r. A. Heritage, the well
known president of the Spokane Mu'
steal College, will assist in the choir
service. In the afternoon a sermon
will be delivered in German by Rev
Jams, the German Methodist minister
A pleasing Christmas reunion Of
the family of Mr.. and Mrs. John E
Prouty of College hill, occurred last
Wednesday. There are three children
two daughters and a son-all mar
ried, and present on the happy occa.
sion. They are Mr.. and Mrs. VIM
Wright of Seattle, Mr.. and Mrs. Laban
thinner of Odessa and Mr.. and Mrs
Earl Prouty OF this county. A num-
Der OF old friends also participated in
the gathering and enjoyed the hos.
pitality of the worthy people.
A. J. Loranger of Butte, Mont, ar
rived in this town Sunday to visit his
old friend, Antoine Faucher. The
gentleman is an expert first-class
painter and paper hanger and has
consented to enter the employ OF
Faucher & Carney for awhile, as they
are crowded with work. He is at
present putting some fine artistic
touches upon the new mansion OF
Mayor Peters which is yet unfinished.
A small blaze started in the card
room OF the Temperance hall Christ
mas day but prompt action with the
new chemical engine probably saved
the town from conflagration that
would have put the business portion
in ashes. Situated in close proximity
to the Pacific hotel, should the fire
have passed control Ritzville would
have received blow which would
have taken years to recover.
Z. J. Dolbow, of the firm of Dolbow
& Weston OF Washtucna, who are
dealing in land hand over fist, was up
Monday on business, preparing to
close up large deal there. Mr.. Wes-
ton is the proprietor of the new town
site at Hlrderburg, on Washtucna
lake Just across in franklin county
A number of new blocks in addition
to those now under way will be erected
in the early spring. All the main
business corners will be covered by
brick structures where wooden build
ings now stand. Next year promises
our young city building and gener-
al improvement boom such as have
never been her experience before.
Hon. w. X. Kennedy has disposed
OF his large fine farm just west OF
town to Chas. F. johnson for $25 per
acre. The tract embraces five hun
bred and sixty acres and is an ideal
farm home. Mr.. Kennedy will move
to this city in the spring and engage
in business.
Aaron Hollenshead, retired farmer
and mine owner. has completed his
new brick lodging house on Main
street, near the Centennial mills and
will open the same to the public
within a few days. Read his an.
nouncement in this issue,
S. NJ. Lee, one OF the genial clerks
in the large mercantile establishment
of A. I. Kendrick & Co., partook o.
Christmas dinner with friends in
Odessa. Today he accepts like posi-
ton with the new firm OF f. B. Shep-
ley & Co.
We have few nice calenders left
for our friends which we will be pleas
ed to deliver hoping they may be &C
cepted with as much pleasure as tho
Publishers of the NEWS finds in pre-
senting them.
W. L. Jackson, county superinten.
dent of Linn county, Oregon, desires
to ascertain the whereabouts OF r. B
Jackson, school teacher, aged 80
who he thinks, is in this section o
Washington.
Henry Rosenof, the plucky LITTLE
German boy who declares he will have
firstclass English education, came
over from Pullman to holiday with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Rosenoff.
II. Delos May, a prosperous young
stockman and farmer of Washtucna
was shaking hands in town yesterday
driving home again-thirty miles tt
the south-in the evening.
J. H. Kingsley, young farmer ter
miles south Of town, was among those
of yesterday adding their names tC
nur stpadily growing sIlhscrintion lis1