Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-12
LOCAL EVENTS Of THE WEEK
TOGETHER WITH A PERSONAL MENTION
OF THOSE N Tt6 n0viN0 pANORAnA
OF LOCAL HISTORY

TOGETHER WITH A PERSONAL MENTION
or THOSE N TUB n0viN0 PANORAMA
OF LOCAL HISTORY
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Neare Of Kala.
mazoo. Michigan. are spending few
months with brother, VIM. Neare. on
the farm north Of Lind. Their stay is
indefinite. and while they do not expect
to mose to Washington. they express
themselves as highly pleased with the
Evergreen state. The brothers were in
the city yesterday and We acknowledge
pleasant call. The visiting gentleman
was tor nine years connected with the
police force of Cincinnati and was in the
thickest Of the fight in the four days
rio, in that city:in 1884. when the court
house ard all records we're burned and
much property destroyed and seventy.
eight people were killed.
The Inland team failed 70 show up last
Sunday and there was no ball game.
Next Sunday the team will play the open.
ing game with the S. A. A. c. Of SPo-
kane. which is considered the strongest
amateur aggregation 10 the state. Ritz
vile. however. has bunch Of champion.
ship playerA and the fans are promised
that there will be something doing. The
game will be on the local diamond, which
has been put in 6rst.class condition. and
the new grand stand will easily accom-.
modate 400. people.
VIM. R. Cunningham. it,. bank presi.
dent. returned: yesterday from Wash.
tucna. where he has spent the :past six
weeks with his moneyed institutions at
that point and Kahlosus. 10 franklin
county. Mr.. w. A. Pearcs. cashier at
the former place, has taken his little son
home who has been receiving medical
treatment here for some time past. as is
again in charge Of the Washtucna bank.
Those..present at the ID. OK. X. fes-
tiv,ties in'Spokane last Saturday evening
from this city were: F. F. Davenny.
Gus Carlen. F. E. Brockhausen. E. w.
Thorp. Albert c. Bailey. J. W. johnson,
A. Reider aud Geo. Sage. A banquet
was furnished the fun.loving Knights at
Cakes cafe.
Rev. w. R. Cunningham. ST.. left last
night for Olympia. which place he has
not seen since he resided there in 1855.
The capital city. with her 500 people.
was then the metropolis Of this vast ter.
ritory. Seattle with her 100 population.
being the next town in size.
Mrs. A. W. Hawn and children de.
parted Monday morning for their new
home at Sunnyside. MIR. Hawn. who
was head bookkeeper in the King ner.
camille Co., Is now in the iemploy of the
sunnyside Land & Investment Co.
The county commissioners are with
Surveyor Ohio o. Hauchild in the south.
ern end of the county reviewing pro.
posed routes tor county roads. They
will return Thursday and be in session
until the latter end Of this week.
Fred. w. Schell, who has had charge
Of S. Kaspar's mercantile store in Lind.
has accepted the management OF the dry
goods department Of the Ritzville Trad.
ing Co. and will arrive next Monday to
assume his position.
f. w. Thorpe is back from Pullman
State college where he has been a stu.
dent in the department Of chemistry in
his Sophomore year. and 10 again at his
old position in the Rosenoff & Co. Drug
store.
Mrs. E. H. Miller Of Tacoma. q sister
Of City Clerk G. E. Lowell, spent the
FIRST Of the week in the city visiting hes
brother. Her husband is business man.
ager Of the Tacoma News.
Benz. F. Palmer and WIN. G. Went
worth Of Lewiston, Maine. arrived Sat.
urday and may locate here. They are
young men friends Of w. L. Rowland Of
the Postofiee store.
The dance given by the Ritsville band
asst Friday evening at Tinnel's hall was
we'll attended. Another one will be
given under their auspices Friday eve.
ming. April az.
Rev. F. A. Hill. c. o. Greene. Jas. Saw
age. Jesse Turner. Mrs. Graves and Mrs.
Jones Of this city. were Prosser visitors
last week, buying irrigated lands under
a new ditch.
Through the courtesy Of Senator Levi
Ankeny We received this week numbes
Of packages Of garden seeds. which are
free to any who wish to call and get
them.
Rev. NJ. w. Morse. pastor Of the FRS
Congregational church. will preach al
the Willis school house next Sunday
afternoon, April Is. at , o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Sellars of Tacoma
arrived Monday to locate permanently
and the gentleman will secure employ
ment At the carpenter trade.
c. Hill Of Lind. father Of ex.SheriG
H. E. Hill. and prosperous farmer 81
Adams county soil. was 10 our town Sat.
uvdav an husiness