Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05

A Dollar saved is a Dollar earned
We will take your deposit, no matter
how small. German American State
Bank.
Fred Hoefel, who lives on his ranch
about 10 miles west of town, is reported
as convalescing from a rather serious
illness.
Miss Ella Wollenberg has accepted a
nposition during the holiday season with
Rosenoff & Co., where she will be
glad to see all her friends.
Mrs. J. S. Edwards is reported quite
i'll at the family home on College Hill.
Her many friends will be anxious about
her until she permanently RECEIVERS.
August Wellsandt is slowly improv-
ing after quite a serious illness. On
account of his illness Mrs. Wellsandt
returned Thursday from her eastern
trip.
E. w. Thorpe, the popular clerk at
Rosenoff & Co. s, is out of commission
at this writing, the result of a head-on
collision with rheumatism of the knee
joint.
Dan Kreihbel, a rancher and promi-
nent citizen of the Lind country, is in
town today on business. He will have
an auction sale at his ranch on Deem
Der TO-
Mrs. George Gebbert of Cunningham
is it the city, guest at the home of
her brother, j. M. Angel. Another
sister of Mr.. Angel, Mrs. Jason
Ringer of Pullman, is also visiting him
at this time.
h Rev. E. J. Troyer, father of Ed.
Troyer of the Meyers-Shepley Co., has
returned to his home at Newport. His
wife will follow him on next Saturday.
She is visiting her sons in the mean
time.
Mr.. G. Rotke and Johann Renius,
two German ranches from the Peters
burg country, were in the city today
trading with our merchants and incl
taking out their final citizen
ship papers before County Clerk Chris
Jensen.
Orris Dorman, of the firm of Dorman
Bros. of Spokane, was in town on bust
ness today. Messrs. Dorman Bros.
own large real estate holdings in Whit
man county and elsewhere, and for
many years were engaged in business
" in Ritzville and vicinity.
The Willis Farmers telephone people
are contemplating the erection Of a
through line from Willis to Ritzville.
This line, if built, will carry no phones
between Willis and Ritzville, and is in
tended to benefit those subscribers who
live west of Willis. At present the
line is so burdened with phones that it
>ext to impossible for Memo and the
people living adjacent thereto to talk
to Ritzville at all.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur E. Hunt, of
Leon, and Miss Eliza Grossly of this
city, will leave on next Tuesday for
LIE Grande, California, where they will
spend the winter. Mr.. Hunt says he
has landed interests at LIE Grande so
that his trip is one of business coupled
with pleasure. He expects to return
home about the first to the middle of
February. At his request the JOURNAL
will visit him weekly in his California
home.
a.. The Lind Leader says: "Uncle Sam
armstrong, who, has been ruptured
Ror many years, lifted little too
much this morning, strained himself
and strangulated hernia resulted. DR..
Smith was called, and it being the case
where an operation was necessity,
summoned DR.. Hewitt of Ritzville to
assist, and the operation was performed.
Although a very delicate operation,
the physicians consider Mr.. Armstrong q
chances for recovery to be very good.
We are always glad to receive COM
munications from any of our friends in
the outlying districts of the county OF
elsewhere, and the more we get OF
them the better we and our readers
will be pleased. But it must be borne
in mind that we cannot publish such
communications, no matter how
"newsy" they may be, unless they are
signed by the party sending them in.
We do not publish the names of such
persons but we must know from whom
the articles come, as under no circum
stances can we publish anonymous
communications. We trust our cores
pondents will remember this in the
future.