The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-25

Get the habit of stopping at McGee's
for good smoke.
See our mems hats and be convinced
at Sherman's store.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Gus Schibsby Wednesday morning.
Sixteen inch cordwood for sale cheap.
LID MoEsER LUMBER Co.
Mayor George T. Heslin was a Spo-
kane visitor several days the first of the
week.
We have few suits and mems fur
nlshlngs left to sell to you at cost at
Sherman's.
WANTED-To trade cordwood for a
good delivery horse.
MODEL BAKERY, Newport, Wash.
Now is the time to look after
fire insurance. See us,
Security State Bank.
Freight business on the Great North
ern appears to be better than it has
been at any time for several years past.
Assistant Cashier Wilburn, of the
First National Bank, has returned from
two-weeks' vacation, spent at Hayden
Lake.
DIR. H. F. Kennedy, Veterinary Sur
geon. Office with Newport Washington
Land Co. Leave night calls at North
ern Hotel. 38tf
A. G. Grinnel and family, of Spokane,
are new Newport residents, residing
in the Nebergall house on the South
Side.
Will trade gasoline lighting system,
two double burners, for horse or COW.
Inquire of H. E. Runnels, Newport,
Wash.
If you live in this county you can
have room at the Hotel Martin for so
cents. Running water in each room,
Special rates by the month.
James w. Rogers, superintendent of
the Dalkena Lumber Co., is making
satisfactory progress toward recovery
from the injuries sustained last week.
A large number of men have departed
the past week for the harvest fields of
the Big Bend and Palouse countries,
and it is difficult to engage men for any
kind of labor.
The ordinance of baptism was admin
istered to D. W. Bonney, Sunday, July
81, in the Pend Oreille river, Rev Allyn,
of Spokane, officiating. Mr.. Bonney
united with the Baptist church.
The band boys are having their stand
equipped with trucks, so that it can be
moved to the various corners on Wash
ington avenue for the regular Saturday
evening band concerts.
Joseph Parker, of lone, is county
seat visitor this week. Joe is one of
the old timers of the Pend Oreille val
ley, and is firm in the belief that the
next few years will see wonderful de-
velopment of the north end of the county.
Section Foreman Bob Tabor reports
hauing seen big brown bear on the l..
& w. N. tracks several times the past
week. The animal appears just after a
train passes, evidently having its curl
osity aroused by the passage of the
train. AS usual the section hands have
failed to have gun along when the
game was in sight.
B. Webb, tax commissioner of the
Great Northern Railway, was in town
several days the past week, going over
the records in Assessor Purchase S office
and checking up the assessment on real
estate in this county, to ascertain the
comparison between the actual and as
sessed valuation of property.
Chas. Fletcher, an icorrigible young
ster, from the Blueslide country, was
in the custody of the county officials
several days last week, and was taken
to Spokane Saturday by Deputy Sheriff
Miller, to be held in the juvenile Jail
until the next session of court in this
county. The boys mother. Mrs. Pen
nington, entered complaint that he had
on several occasions fired revolver at
her, had thrown stones at her, and when
she fled into the house threw stones
through the windows. She admits her
inabity to control him and asks that ne
be committed to the sta4e reformatory.
The boy is IL years old.
Now is the time to prepare exhibits
for the District Fair, to be held at
Newport this fall. The exhibit will be
sent to the Spokane Interstate Fair,
and arrangements are being made for
Pend Oreille county to have a booth
| that will oivo q Uood showing of our