Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
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1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Dec. 4, 1924 FOGGY WEATHER CAUSES ACCIDENTS The foggy weather and slippery roads were responsible for a number of auto accidents during the past week. Al Pohl and William Kembel returning from Spokane in the former's Ford coupe, had their car turn turtle when they turned out to pass another car near the Fullquartz place on the highway. Mr. Pohl was skinned up about the knees and Mr. Kembel had a blow on the head which left him dazed...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Nov. 27, 1924 SHOOTING CAUSES LOSS OF BOY'S LEG Eddie Bauer, fourteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Bauer, was shot in the leg last Sunday in the Bauer coulee, eighteen miles southwest of Ritzville. With some of the Kramer boys he had gone down the coulee and took his gun along. One of the smaller boys asked for it in shooting at rabbits. A rabbit jumped up and the lad excitedly shot the gun, or the gun went off, and the load...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Nov. 20, 1924 GETS $500 FINE ON LIQUOR CHARGE LIND - Karl Roth, a rancher living south of Lind, was arrested last Friday by Deputy Sheriffs Buehler, Oestreich and Fredericks. A search of his farm revealed a copper still; a quantity of wine was found in his cellar. He was tried before Justice Womach Saturday and was fined $500 and costs and given a jail sentence of 60 days which was suspended subject to payment of the fine and good...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Nov. 13, 1924 NEED $35,000 IN COUNTY ROAD WORK In order to provide funds for taking care of the road construction work the county commissioners will have to exceed their 1924 budget allowance by $35,000. They are therefore taking steps to declare an emergency, so the funds may be expended legally. The funds are on hand in other funds and will simply be transferred to the road and bridge fund. 75 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Oct. 30, 1924 FIGHT OFFICERS IN BOOZE RAID A raid by county officers on the Adam Heimbigner farm house near Packard early last Sunday morning resulted in a wild fight between the Heimbigners and their guests at a party, and the officers. O.S. Buehler, Melven Oestreich, H.W. Reimer and Adam Fredericks on information that liquor was being dispensed at a party at Heimbigners, left here about midnight for the place. The raid caused great...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Oct. 9, 1924 NEW DOCTOR LOCATES IN RITZVILLE As a number of people have inquired concerning Dr. H.R. Bankerd, who recently located permanently to Ritzville, the following personal facts will be of interest. Dr. Howard R. Bankerd was born in Ohio in 1875. He graduated from high school and the Ada, Ohio business college. Taught in the pbulci schools in Ohio, he graduated from Ohio Northern University Liberal Arts Course in 1899... in...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Sept. 25, 1924 STIFF SENTENCE ON LIQUOR CHARGE Jacob Kagele was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $1,500 and costs on a plea of guilty to a charge of manufacturing liquor. The sentence was imposed by Judge Truax on Monday. Kagele paid the fine and is serving the jail sentence. 75 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Sept. 29, 1949 NEW RITZVILLE GRADE SCHOOL IS DEDICATED Ritzville's new elementary school was formally dedicated...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Sept. 11, 1924 REDUCTION IN TAX LEVY FOR ADAMS COUNTY The grand total of taxes to be raised by Adams County next year promises to be less than for several years. The amount to be raised for the state is $253,000, as compared with the 1923 levy of $285,165. This reduction is made because no levy at all is required by the state general fund. Gov. Hart's administration claims that this is made possible by the new administrative code....
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Sept. 11, 1924 ENROLLMENT IS VERY LARGE AT RIZVILLE H.S. Ritzville schools opened Monday with very satisfactory enrollment. The high school shows a gain of 16 over last year's total enrollment for the first month. The facilities of the high school are taxed to capacity. Classes are large and the recitation rooms are almost too smallto accommodate pupils. 75 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Sept. 8, 1949 OIL COMPANIES OPPOSE TANK L...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Sept. 4, 1924 THOUSAND HEAR KLAN LECTURER A crowd estimated at a thousand persons attended the meeting of the Ku Klux Klan held at the Carl Lee place adjoining town last Thursday night. A goo man were here from other towns. Autos were parked abou the meeting place and the seats provided were filled. Several klansmen in their white robes had charge of the arrangement. Rev. A. N. McDonald, formerly of Ritzville, was the speaker of the...
8 Years Ago Adams County News August 23, 1899 'Round Ritzville Ritzville has not had any empty dwellings, business houses or rooms for a year. We have inquiries nearly every day for them. Many would spend the winter here for school advantages if they could only find a place to live in. City ordinance No. 81 provides a limit in which wooden buildings are hereafter to be erected. The two rows of blocks on the northwesterly side of the railroad track from B to G street will...
8 Years Ago Adams County News August 16, 1899 Let well enough alone The Sunday closing proposition evidently works a hardship on many people, judging from the loud protest that goes up against it by a large majority of our citizens. To us it seems that if the merchant and businessmen generally wish to accommodate customers on Sunday where circumstances almost demand it, there should be no serious objection to it, more especially during this busy season of the year. The...
8 Years Ago Adams County News August 9, 1899 Thieves getting obnoxious The sneak thief, chicken and several other kind of thieves are abroad in this fair land of ours around Ritzville. The chicken coops and cellars of Messrs. French and Cunningham have been raided and pretty fair hauls made from both. Get your rifles, pistols and sawed off shot guns in order and turn the bull dogs loose at night. It would also be well to scatter bear traps around the places where these...
8 Years Ago Adams County News August 2, 1899 A party of pleasure seekers spent last Sunday on the farm of John McDonald on Cow Creek. During the day the Misses Lillian Cunningham, Iva Frick, Elsie Landry, umpired by Chas. Ebener, killed a large rattlesnake with seven rattles and a button. Among others who accompanied the crowd were Mr. and Mrs. F.P. French, Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Cunningham, Jr., Misses Kendrick and Greene. 'Round Ritzville Judge French fined Thomas Caton $25...
8 Years Ago Adams County News July 26, 1899 Rumor has it that an order will soon be issued requiring all postmasters to wear uniforms. The uniform will be light blue trousers, with stripes down the legs, white blouse and a scull cap with a white star in front. The average postmaster may not object to be thus uniformed, but what about the hundreds of ladies throughout the country who write P.M. after their name? Can't chuck them into a uniform with a blue trouser attached. 10...
8 Years Ago Adams County News July 19, 1899 Hanging too good The miscreant who cut the rope on the well drill of M. F. Cochran who is boring the city well on College hill if caught should be dealt with severely. Hanging is too good for such a wretch. He should be kicked out of the county. Had not the critical eye of Mr. Cochran discovered the matter in time, all the good work done thus far might have been for naught. The well is now 350 feet in depth with 150 feet of water,...
8 Years Ago Adams County News July 12, 1899 Irby & Benward finished up a well on July 8 for Mr. Carl Ewald at a depth of 238 feet thirteen miles west of town after only ten days drilling. Sheriff H.E. Hill informs us that the Inland Telephone and Telegraph Co. of Spokane have the poles and wires up as far as the Chris Kyriss place which is ten miles east of Ritzville on the Sprague road. We will soon be connected up with the long distance telephone. 100 Years Ago Ritzville-Journal Times July 10, 1924 First visit in twenty...
8 Years Ago Adams County News July 5, 1899 The strangers within our gates must be tapped for all there is in it when they fight and brag they can whip any man in this place. Such conduct won't go. If the would-be toughs will take a tumble and behave themselves, they will never have any trouble in Ritzville and they will be treated as gentlemen whether they deserve it or not. Judge French will take care of them all right. If they are not good they will be raked fore and aft....
8 Years Ago Adams County News June 28, 1899 From Russia to Ritzville Twenty-five families from Russia passed through Spokane last week on the way from their native country to settle on farms near Ritzville. This is the largest of a number of colonies which have gone through this city this spring and which have been located on farms in Adams County. It was many years ago that the first Russians were placed on land in Adams County, and since that time there has been a gradual...
8 Years Ago Adams County News June 21, 1899 Call a halt We feel it a duty incumbent upon us to call the attention of the authorities and citizens to the fact of danger continually confronting us by leaving teams standing unhitched on our public streets and thoroughfares. Hardly a week goes by without a runaway. So far, no serious accidents have happened, but it will not always be so. Some of these fine days they will come carrying home the lifeless form of your little one,...
8 Years Ago Adams County News June 14, 1899 Team ran away The well-known old couple, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rosenoff, pioneers of Adams County, started out from the city Monday for a visit to the farm at the German church five miles west, and in some manner their team became unmanageable and ran away, severely injuring Mrs. Rosenoff. Local and Personal Several of our citizens who were vaccinated have been suffering considerable inconvenience from the operations, in some cases the...
8 Years Ago Adams County News June 7, 1899 Dirt changes hands An important real estate deal was closed last Saturday when Wm. Snyder sold his eighty acre tract lying partly within the city limits, to Geo. Achziger for $2,000. A fine well has just been sunk on the premises and Mr. Snyder was preparing to have a large residence built, but the opportunity to make a handsome profit came and was accepted. Mr. Snyder now contemplates putting up a brick store building and in all...
8 Years Ago Adams County News May 31, 1899 Dying by the track Ritzville, May 30. – With his right leg and right arm cut from his body, Alfred Barton was found alongside the Northern Pacific railroad track by a train crew about two miles west of Ritzville. The poor fellow was feebly waving a handkerchief to attract the attention of the men on the passenger train. He had been attending school in Ellensburg. He says that he rode on the blind baggage from that place to Lind, w...
8 Years Ago Adams County News May 24, 1899 Merchant Snyder has just had completed on his 80-acre farm in the suburbs, a fine well with plenty of water. A regular old-fashioned camp meeting will be held at Tyler commencing May 25th and continuing about ten days. Rev. Jno. Koch is having a Woodmanse windmill and pump erected on his new well this week by the Ritzville Hardware Co. 100 Years Ago Ritzville-Journal Times May 22, 1924 S.S. Schuler, contractor, falls dead yesterday...
8 Years Ago Adams County News May 17, 1899 John Campbell is languishing in the city bastille with a sore head and a fine of $20 and costs, the result of being drunk and disorderly and resisting Marshal Rettig, who as conservator of the peace of the city, protested against his using the sidewalk for a horse path and the voluble display of adjectives said bad man from Bitter Creek was hurling vindictively and promiscuously at our inoffensive citizens. As the hilarious...