Milton News Briefs: Local Visits and Plans
Milton June 16. Miss Mable Crofutt of Prosser Wash returns home after visiting Miss Minnie Lee. Mrs. E. S. Stowe and son and daughter head to Mullan Idaho where Mr. Stowe engages in mining. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bell of Portland visit Mrs. Bell’s parents and will stop in Elgin. Rev. J. B. Dalsley, once pastor here, visits. in fading health he has not preached for years. Mr. and Mrs. Earnest McQueen go to the mountains near the toll gate for the summer. William Nichols and daughter Mira Mayme and son Ben return from California and Portland. Mrs. Daisey Ownby returns to Pomeroy Wash after visiting her parents. Milton baseball team vs Sharpetein school tomorrow at Miller’s grounds. The foundation for the new M. E. Church South nearly done. contractor F. A. Woomington to begin soon. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Parker of Wisconsin county visit Asa Moore. Mr. Parker considers business here.
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Milton
Mable Crofutt
Prosser
Wash
Minnie Lee
J. B. Dalsley
The
Christian Church
Dalsley
Earnest McQueen
Toll Gate
William Nichols
Mira Mayme
Ben
California
Portland
Daisey Ownby
Pomeroy
A. J. Marsh
Bate
Sharpetein
Miller's
M. EB. Church
South
F. A. Woomington
Barley Harvest Begins in County Weather Risk
The barley crop in the southern part of the county is near ripe and harvest will start in a few days. Yields are expected to be good countywide, though heavier land is rank and vulnerable to damage from strong winds or heavy rain. Warm weather in a few days should finish ripening around Pilot Rock.
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Pilot Rock
Omaha trade campaign aims to win Idaho business
Nebraska merchants plan a five city tour by a Pullman train with seven cars carrying hundreds of Omaha dealers. They will canvass Boise and western Idaho towns to prove Omaha offers better freight rates and terms than Chicago or St Louis. The drive seeks to win regional trade and reclaim lost territory for Omaha merchants.
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Omaha
Idaho
Chicago
St Louis
Nebraska
Boise
C. H. Roberts
Middle West
Bole
Itla
St. Louis
Growless Potatoes Claim From Great Falls Inventor
A Great Falls Montana report describes a local man claiming to grow potatoes without vines inside a 4 by 8 foot box. He uses a heated soil-like compound layering potato eyes and more of the material, asserting plants develop underground with no above surface growth and no need for air or grit, though details of the process are not shared.
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Great Falls
Mont
Prosser to get a steamboat named Queen of Prosser
Edward Fournier of North Yakima plans a steamboat on the Yakima River from Prosser to upriver points. The Queen of Prosser will be built at Prosser with 40 hp stern wheel engines, 16 by 74 feet, carrying freight and passengers, plus barges. A wharf land purchase and construction materials have been ordered. The river below Rocky Ford remains navigable, irrigated by Sunnyside canal. Steamboat captains Spencer and Scammon suspended for 155 days due to a collision near Linton.
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Prosser
Edward Fournier
North Yakima
Yakima
Elingines
Fournier
Rocky Ford
Sunnyside Canal
W. Spencer
Sid Scammon
Portland
United States
Edwards and Fuller
Charles R. Spencer
Dalles City
Linton
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Pendleton Pilsener Beer
Pendleton Brewery
Pendleton
Schultz & Stricker
Pilsener Beer
Building Foundation For
M. E. Church, South
Gene T Mullan
G. B. Parker
Wallowa County
Asa Moore
Mr. Parker
Omiha
Tatoes
Athena
Oregon
EH. C. Smith
Jorgen Mumm
Lewis Street
C. E. Troutman
Oce
Northwestern
Vincent
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