Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-07-20
LOCAL EVENTS Of The WEEK
TOGETHER WITH A PERSONAL MENTION
OF THOSE m THE TOWING PANORAMA
OF LOCAL HISTORY

II. J. AlcIt, prominent idtiHer Vi
Memo, will be a candidate for the Office
of county commissioner, Second district.
his card of announcement appearing in
our issue of today. Mr.. ALERT will be
remembered by nearly all our people, as
for two years he was the trusted and
accommodating clerk in the Ritzville
Hardware Company establishment. on
the corner of Second and D streets. He
is farming nearly a thousand acres of
land out west of town, and halls from the
Second district. while Mr.. Fred Kembel
is from the First district He is a
married man with an int resting family
of wife and several children. He is 38
years of age. in the prime and vigor of a
happy life. an educated German. prac-
teal business man and good citizen
He is formerly from Beatrice. Neb., and
since coming here. a few years ago, has
made many friends.
City Treasurer and Mrs. II. A. Albert
are saddened in their home by the sud-
den death of their one year old baby and
only child. from scarlet fever. early
Monday morning. after only four days
illness. A week before he was well
and happy. but the unseen hand Of death
comes quickly and the loved ones are
borne away. We live in the fond hope
that we will meet them again beyond the
shadows. where we trust to all gather at
last. A little bed and chair are vacant
the baby footsteps are gone. and all is
SO painfully still. The neighbors. friends
and community deeply sympathize with
the broken-hearted parents in Their loneli-
ness and dark hour of bereavement.
Burial services were held at the ceme-
terry Monday evening.
George Gebert, who is familiarly
known as Jolly Pittsburg George"
has opened the City Market on ID street,
in the Tinnel block. and invites the
public to call and inspect the new shop.
MIR. Gebert is the sole proprietor. and
requests US to state that he has no con-
nection with any other shop or persons,
that he is not in any trust or company
and that his business will be conducted
on strictly legitimate lines and on his
own merits. Mr.. Gebert solicits por-
ton of your trade and asks trial.
Louis Scholl. IT., well known Adams
= county boy, has been nominated for
county clerk on the democratic ticket in
Walla Walla county. He is an excellent
young man. worthy of the position Of
trust. and his ability and integrity should
make him strong candidate in the
Garden city, where he has made his
home and conducted his Touring mill
business for some years. The Scholl
family are highly respected and have
many friends here.
The little two-year daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. +. R. Stingley. was terribly
scalded Thursday noon at the home
near Memo. twenty miles west. The
mother had just poured out boiling hot
water into tub. preparatory to washing,
when the little one put both arms into
the water up to the elbows. DIR. F. r.
Burroughs is caring for the little
sufferer. who is now at the home of W.
ID. McCollom, a brother of Mrs. Stingley.
Birney M. Snyder is up from Rattle
snake fat and says the sound of the
header and the buzz of the separator can
be heard in several places in that section
Of the county and that by the first of the
coming week every thing will be hum
ming. There is plenty of help so far
and an industrious set Of men. many OF
them being from the saw mills and lum-
Der camps on the sound which are shut
down for the summer.
The proceedings Of the eighteenth an.
nual session of the Washington State
Press Association, held at St. Louis, May
% to IS, 1904. will be published by the
News. in.pamphlet form, and ready for
general delivery next month. A copy
will be mailed to every newspaper Office
in the state. 1,
Carroll A. Lee delivered the first load
Of the seasons wheat last Friday to
James Turner, at the Falmers' Alliance
warehouse. The grain was raised one
mile south Of town. on Mrs. Lees farm,
is of the Jones Fife variety. graded No. 1 !;
and the quarter section yielded an
average of 81 bushels to the acre.
Mr.. A. M. Mckay. an experienced
printer. who has been employed on the
Davenport Lincoln County, Times for
the past three years. has accepted a
position on this paper. He owns a
home in Sprague and Davenport. his
family now residing in the latter place.
J. Ray Thompson. of this paper. Ed.
win Taylor, of the First National Bank.
accompanied by Miss Daisy Whitney
and Miss Laura Ahlers, left Monday to
attend the meeting of the Grand Lodge
of Good Templars which is in session
this week in Seattle.
The cool weather prevailing, inter.
spersed with life-giving showers, is a
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