Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
DERSCH BROS, Dept. II, Minneap-
oils. MINI.
ODESSA NOItS.
(From the Record.)

1T SPOKANE the tlfSt OF the week.
Barney Minard returned Wednesday
from visit with relatives in Elma.
%. +. Minch was a business visitor at
Spokane Wednesday.
| Attorney Nevins was at the county
seat on business Tuesday.
DIR. Ganson reports the birth of
daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Luiten
ON Wednesday. Dee. Is.
Mayor Guth transacted business at
Davenport Tuesday.
The Finney Lumber Co. have installed
gas lights in their office.
Chas. Bently made a trip to the
woods near Newport the first of the
week
Carl GreIsinger of Wilson Creek was
shaking hands with friends in the city
Wednesday.
Herman Engelman came up from
Mohler the first of the week and will
spend the holidays in Odessa.
+. M. Lee, cashier at the &. N. de-
pot, returned Saturday evening from
trip to his hoyhood home in Minnesota
Mrs. NJ. Bingham went to Cheney
Wednesday, where she will srend the
holidays at the home of Mr.. Bingham's S
mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Leslie left Odes-
sa Monday evening for Tiifin, Mo-,
where they will spend a couple of
months visiting relatives.
Miss Edna Zeiger had thrilling ex-
perience witha night prowler Monday
evening. During the absence of her
family from home she was spending the
evening with Mrs. Allen Shelton,
neighbor. Hearing "A slight commotion
outside the women peered out through
the window and in the moonlight saw
man making a raid on an outbuilding
used by the Sheltons as "A storehouse.
Miss Edna inquired of Mrs. Shelton if
she had any firearms about the house
and She produced IA small revolver.
Armed with this the girl sailed forth,
followed by Mrs. Shelton, in pursuit of
the thief, who, hearing them approach,
lodged around the corner of the build
ing and made his getaway.
Mrs. $. B. llougen, who was operat-
ed upon at Spokane last week for tu-
NOR, is reported doing nicely and will
probably be able to return home next
week.
A. d. Tucker Of Irby is languishng
in Jail at Davenport, charged with wife
desertion. He left his wife last July
and since that time has failed to con-
tribute toward her support.
viii Lloyd and family will leave Odes-
sa about Jan. LIST, for Buestem, where
Mr.. Lloyd goes to accept "A position
with the Moscow Mercantile Co., of
which his brother is manager.
A. Monroe has sold his $50 acre ranch
joining town on the south to Emanuel
Ruff, the stock and farming implements
being made part of the deal at $l9
per acre. Only IA portion of the land
is fit for wheat raising, the remainder
being grazing land. Mr.. Monroe ac-
ccpted in exchange AS part payment
"A quarter section of land lying south of
Krupp in Douglas county. Mr.. Monroe
has rented the Totucek house on the
north side and will move to town to
reside.
Fred George informs us that the re
port circulated here couple of weeks
ago coAcerning A. j. Farmers death in
Missouri was incorrect. The old gentle
man has been very i'll and his life was
dispared of at one time but his son
Jesse, who returned from Missouri this
week, reports that he is now on the
road to recovery. This is good news to
Mr.. Farmers many friends here, who
hope he will live for many years yet.
J.. b. Zeigler received an interesting
group picture this week from his mo-
ther's home in Brantford, Ont. In the
group were his mother, who is eighty
eight years old, his sister, her son,
grandson and great grandson, five gen.
eratiOns in ALL Judge Zeigler, who
owns up to sixty years himself, says
his mother is still quite sprightly and
bids fair to live for many years yet.
She comes of good old Pennsylvania
Dutch stock and moved to Ontario with
her parents when she was nine years
old. The country was then in its first
stages of development and she has
| lived to see some wonderful changes
brought about. The Judge, speaking
of his boyhood days on this farm; men,
toned some of the primative methods
of farming then in vogue, to show
what modern methods and modern ma
ehinery had done to tighten the labor
of the farmer of the present day Some
of our farmers who look uIon farming
as drudgery now should hear the
Judge tell of his early experiences on
the farm.