The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-08-08
Pend Oreille

County Land 20.
Pasturage to rent,
E. THOMPSON, Newport.
WHY bake at home. Sanitary bread
is strictly home made article.
Harding & Harding, the undertakes.
Night and day. Phone 100.
The work of laying brick on the b.
bier building started this morning.
Sixteen inch wood for sale cheap.
MoEsER LUMBER Co.
If you wish to sell your farm, list it
with the Pend Oreille County Land Co.
Watches! Watches! See them. Price
them. A. F. Benson, Newport, P. O..
Jeweler.
One-fourth off on all silk dresses,
fancy white dresses and tub skirts at
Sherman's.
LA. Culver, of Blueslide, was a
county seat visitor today, and filed his
declaration of candidacy for assessor as
Socialist.
For RENT-5-room modern house,
furnished or unfinished; piano and
chickens for sale
NEWPORT DEPARTMENT STORE.
Several auto loads of Newport Demo-
Gratis attended the party meeting at
Cusick Monday evening. Attorney A.
S. Sherlock, Mayor Heslin and others
delivered addresses.
Miss Gertrude Pratt, who was a
member of the Newport High School
faculty last year, and who was reelected
to her position, has resigned and will
teach in Seattle the coming year.
Pend Oreille county friends of Rep
resentative and Mrs. Henry R. Spedden,
of Colville, extend their sincere SYM
patty in the dire affiiction that has be-
fallen the couple in the death of their
8-months-old son.
F. A. Blackwell and Peter Johnson,
of Occur d'Alene, were in Newport
Monday evening, and left Tuesday
morning for lone. Mr.. johnson was
last week named as the Republican
nominee for senator from Kootenai
county, Idaho.
H. w. Reading returned Monday from
Tacoma, where he attended a meeting
of prosecuting attorneys of the state,
and is spending several days at the
county seat, advising the Board of
County Commissioners on legal matters
connected with their work.
Appel Bros. have delivered to the city
hall the material necessary for the con-
struction of hitching posts for the use
of farmers trading in town. The posts
will be set in the neighborhood of the
city hall, on Union avenue and on the
South Side.
Albert Hutchinson, of Newport, ma
tive of Canada, and Elfraem Sandstrom,
of Blueslide, native of Sweden, have
made application to Clerk of the Courts
Parks for second naturalization papers.
Hearings are set for Nov. II, the ap-
plications having been made too late to
be heard prior to the election this fall
A. C. Bryan, demonstration for the
Everitt Northwest Co., of Spokane,
was in Newport Saturday and Sunday
with an Everitt $50" roadster, which
made strong appeal to several pros
pective owners of autos. Mr. Bryan
will make another trip to Newport
shortly, driving five-passenger car.
Ed Houchins, formerly a resident of
Old Town, where he kept a general
store about 20 years ago, was killed in
Spokane about three weeks ago while
walking under bridge being con-
structed by the Milwaukee railroad.
Mr.. Houchins resided in and about
Newport until three years ago. when
the family removed to Spokane.
H. D. Coon, recent arrival from
Connecticut, has purchased from Louise
Flynn the northwest quarter of section
"a, township 81, range "a, near Diamond
Lake. Mr.. Coon has been in the North
west the past three months, and after
looking the situation over carefully has
decided chat Pend Oreille county is the
place for him to carve out home.
W. E. Allen, secretary of the Bead
Lake Mining Co., was in town Tuesday
on business connected with the property.
The company's personal property and
all of it's equity in the mining claims are
to be sold at sheriff sale on August "a
to satisfy judgment of 5000 and costs.
1t is rumored that the sale will be fol.
lowed by a Reorganization of the COM
pany.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E.
church will have hard earned dolla,
and experience social in the church or
Friday evening, August 9, beginning al