The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-11-19
JUST AMONG OURSELVES
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Buy your fruit trees of W. L. Richard.
the nursery man. 2O-1O
Special sale in pictures and frames at
Miller's old stand.
Uncle Bob McInnis Is rusticating at
various down river points.
Frank d. Crandall for watches; all
sizes; all kinds; prices right,
For high grade mems and boys shoes
60 to Gust Anderson's store.
Llnfesty's Entire Wheat Flour. The
hest in town. Home Grocery.
Fine large Office room for rent. In
quire First National Bank. If
Miss Jones, of Priest River, spent
few days last week in Newport.
Joseph Lacost, of Priest River, ira MS
acted business in Newport this week.
Harvey Mccullough has returned
from the Elk City, Idaho, mining camp
Leave your order for Thanksgiving
turkey at City Market. Strictly fresh
stock.
Lynn Hurd and family have gone to
Standpoint for a weeks visit with Mr..
Hurd's parents.
Hello, Central! I want something
good to eat. Give me South Side Gro
Gerry, P. & ", Props.
FOR SALE-Three horses, half truck
wagon and harness price cheap. In
quire of B. F. Seeley.
Charlie Dietrich and Jack Adams were
down from Standpoint the latter part of
the week to visit with friends.
F. D. Eckerson, of Spirit Lake, was
over attending to matters concerning
his local investments last week.
The Newport Cement Works received
another carload of Canadian Portland
cement for use at the plant this week.
Charles Milliron, a former resident of
Newport, but who has been residing in
the lewiston Charleston district for some
time, has returned to Newport.
Al J. Warner reports that the popu-
lation of the city was increased by one
on Thursday morning. The new arrival
is seven and half pound boy.
Rev. Father Folchi announces that he
will hold sereices for the members of
Catholic church on Thanksgiving day at
8 a. IN. at Kelly's hall.
Fred Stewart returned from Standpoint
on Thursday. He has been working on
new steamboat at that point. The
craft is an excursion steamer and is IS
feet long.
Heldmaier & The have removed their
stock of groceries and their bakery to
their new concrete block building on
Washington avenue, adjoining the First
National Bank.
The room formerly occupied by the
Caldwell Clothing Co. is being painted,
papered and otherwise improved. It
will be occupied bv Frank Smith a. a
billiard parlor.
The light service on Thursday was not
as satisfactory as the Flynn Bros.
wished. The trouble was caused by an
error at the factory in shipping wrong
pulley. This will be remedied by next
Monday
S. B. Smith, of Cusick, proprietor +
the Commercial Hotel at that place, was
attending to some business matters in
Newport this week. He says that every
body in the valley expects to see the
Great Northern construct line of rail-
road down the east side of the river.
There was a small sized war cloud
hanging over the japanese colony on
Wednesday. One of the members de-
sired to leave the city without the for
malitv of squaring accounts with the
boss. The latter held on to suit case
filled with the personal property of the
boarder. The air was blue with Jap
talk for a time, until Deputy Sheriff
Harper assisted in settling the affair.
The D. & K. Mill company, have a
contract for furnishing the piling for
the Idaho & Washington Northern's
trestle across Aschenfelder bay in the
northern portion of the CITY. The
trestle will be about 10 feet higher than
the highest point on the Great Northern
fill at the meadows just east of town.
Some of the piling will have TO be nearly
100 feet long. They will be tamarack
and fir.
The Colville correspondent of the
Spokesman-Review says that petitions
are being circulated by residents along
the line OF the Newport and Orient state
road, asking the legislature te appro-
pirate sufficient sum of monev to
complete the road from Tiger to Colville.
The original appropriation was frittered
away, to large extent, by those in
charge, and the line deviated so that the