The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30

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so laying Leghorn hens for sale. Silver
Birch Farm. Att
A big gun in Newport Monday night
at Congregational church.
Boarders wanted. Apply to Mrs.
Deitrik, Spokane avenue.
Noble & hurd are exclusive agents in
Newport for Red, White and Blue Flour.
A girl was born'to Mr.. and Mrs. J. A.
cannon, OF Priest River, on Thursday
last
". l.. Richard, who is nov living near
Spokane, was Newport visitor this
week.
G. F. Craig received carload of
cement today for use at the cement
block plant.
81 per setting for thoroughbred Or
pington eggs, Sc per hundred good lay
ers. V. P. Brown, Newport. 4Ot-f
W. C. Moeser, of Kansas City, of the
Moeser-Terry Lumber Co., is Newport
visitor, and will spend some time in this
section.
Communion service and reception of
members at the Congregational church
next Sunday morning, May 3, at II
O'Clock.
The Opera Bar, owned by Joseph
Barry, and the Dunlap Bar, owned by
JamesJ. Dunlap, on Wednesday reduced
the price of beer to 5 cents.
G.. P. Lindsey, president of the Pan
handle Lumber Co. and the Pend d.
Oreille River Navigation Co., was a
business visitor in Newport Wednesday.
WHY NOT BUY CEMENT BLOCKS
INSTEAD OF SAND BLOCKS when
the price is just the same? See Fred E..
Lehmkuhl before YOU buy blocks or de-
eide on building.
The memorial service at the NJ. F..
church last Sunday evening in honor of
the late G. S. Thomas was largely at
tended, the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
being present in a body. Revs. Morton,
Motor and Waite delivered addresses.
f. w. Stevens has secured contract
for the making of six rowboats for Oscar
Melder, which will be placed on Melder
lake at blanchard on the l. & w. n.
This lake is we'll stocked with trout and
Mr.. Melder expects to do fishing and
summer resort business
There will be a mass meeting held at
the Congregational church at 7 80 p. m.
Wednesday evening, May 6, for the
purpose of organizing public library
for the town of Newport. Everybody is
cordially invited to this meeting and
earnestly requested to take an active
part therein.
Engineers Fleming & Randolph are
making preliminary surveys for the
grading of Fourth street, and petition
is being generally signed by property
holders requesting the council to take
the necessary steps to have the work
done. The petition will be presented to
the next meeting of the council.
If you are thinking of building this
season you would better prepare now tc
have the work done Better see Lehm.
kuhl about letting your contract, eithe,
! for frame or concrete block buildings
The cement blocks manufactured by
Lehmkuhl are the best in the world
| They have continuous air chamber.
Aft
J. NJ. Mcdonald, who is acting as
deputy horticultural inspector, inspected
about 1000 fruit trees for this section
this spring. Not as many as we would
like to see planted this year, but they
were mostly varieties which will do vel
here, and in time the advantages o.
fruit culture will be better recognized
and pushed.
For some time the Newport postoffice
has been unable to supply its rapidly
increasing number of patrons with lock
or call boxes, and the line at the deliv.
cry window has been such as to retard
the work of the Office. To remedy this
Postmaster Towle has had an addition
arranged and a new case containing e
lock boxes installed. The new boxes
are combination lock, and over half o.
them were taken at once by people who
had been on the waiting list for box
The business of postoffice is a gooo
index of the growth of town.