The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-12-23
, CITY NEWS IN BRIEF


sorts. has been received at the city
offices of the O. r. G N. ard is being
distributed by City Ticket Agent
Haynes.
| Funeral services of Charles Spoor
who died in Salem Saturday, will be
held in that city today AS the de-
ceased's mother is critically i'll, it was
decided yesterday to- have interment
made at Salem instead of Walla Walla.
! Messrs. Mcdonald, Rupp and Bry-
sen. attorneys have moved their Of
flee to the new Denny building and
may now be found comfortably in
stalled in their new quarters on the
third floor.
/ Many merchants of the city are dec
Grating their stores in honor of the ap-
| preaching holiday season. w. l.. Van
De Waters grocery store has taken the
lead and has been tastefully decorated
with holly and oregon grape.
/
4 j. p. Wilbur, of Union, Oregon, is n
Walla Walla visitor. Mr.. Wilbur has
been the lessee of the WOODEN mills at
Union for several years He is now ne
gotiating lease on the Pendieton
WOODEN mills and may arrange TO take
over the big plant soon after the first
of the year.
H. W. Brooks a newspaper mahsof
Baker City. accompanied by Mrs
Brooks and Miss Lola Dalem a school
teacher at Baker. are in the city on
a visit to Mrs. Brooks relatives. Mr..
Brooks is circulation manager of the
Baker City Herald. one of the newsiest
dailies published in oregon.
\ The Peasner family was brought be-
fore Justice j. j. Huffman Saturday
evening with the result that Joe and
Ida were fined $40 each for disorderly
conduct and George was given "a
hours to get out of town. Mrs. J. z.
Preston who was arrested with Joe,
was also fined $40.
AS announced Saturday, meeting of
the Ministerial union will be held this
afternoon in the Y NJ. c. A. building.
The meeting will be interesting ami of
unusual Importance Worldly amuse-
ments." will be the topic of the meet
ing Following the general discussion
of this subject the annual election of
officers will be held.
The funeral of Mrs. Nellie Mace,
who died Saturday evening of tuber-
culosis occurred from the family resi-
dence 400 Elm street at noon today
The services were conducted by Rev.
A. l. Thoroughman. pastor of the NJ.
E. church. South. Following the SER
vices the remains We're shipped TO Pen
dlaton on the 1: 50 o'clock train, for in
terment.
In marked contrast to last years
flood, Garrison creek yesterday did rot
show trace of the food waters pour
ing down Mile creek as a result of
Saturdays reavy rain. The bulkheaJ
work and cribbing put in by the
county last summer at a point where
the two streams diverge easily with
stood the battering of the flood waters
and little fear of future floods is felt
by residents along Garrison or yell
llowhawk creeks.
II Mrs. John Babe, wife of a well
known farmer residing nine miles
southwest of Walla Walla, died Sun
day morning at 10 o'clock. Mrs. Bale
is survived by six children besides Mr..
Babe. The funeral occurred from the
German Lutheran church at 2 O'Clock
this afternoon Rev. LANCE officiating. A
large number of friends attended the
services and accompanied the remains
to the city cemetery where interment
| took place.
! Little business of importance vas
| transacted at the meeting of the FarTn&
| ers' Cooperative union held in the
| Odd Fellows hall Saturday evening, Us
the various committees asked for fur
Their time in which TO report on their
respective assignments. Efforts Will be
made to form a stock holding organf-
cation for the purpose of building
| warehouses along the railroads in
which the farmers can store their
grain at a moderate cost. A meeting of
| the union has been called for January
Ia
| Sergeant Morse of the local police
force, was notified last night of a most
/ peculiar If not embarrassing theft
/ which occurred shortly after dark last
i evening when c. F. Gillian, a local
freight inspector, dropped his pocket
book from the second story Of the
Olympia lodging house. Before the
! owner could reach the sidewalk below,
/ he pocketbook had disappeared. The
purse contained $50 III cash and three
gold rings. 1t is believed that the police
have a clue which may lead to the dis
| covery of the thief
i II reference to the arrest of Jessie
Ferris. the boy who is accused by John
McNerney with breaking a window in
a dwelling on West POPLAR street. it js
requested that the statement appear
ing in Saturdays Statesman which
says that the boy confessed, be cor
rected. Jessie Claims that the window
was NOT broken by him. and that he
Lr nothing ahar,f The casa Was