The Washington Republican Washington County Friday September 7, 1900 Frank WHITE left this week for Topeka where he will attend medical school. N. THAYER of the Washington Housee, made a business trip to Hanover Wednesday. Miss Minnie VEDDER was down from Haddam Monday instructing her class in music. Mrs. Jennie CLARK has been spending this week in St. Joseph selecting her millinery goods. Misses Alta and Elsie THROOP went to Kansas City Monday to lay in their supply of millinery. Sam'l PORTER, of Streator, Ill., arrived in the city last Friday to visit his sister, Mrs. Rob't McKAY. W.C. TURNER returned to Marysville Tuesday. He has been here helping John HAWK in the laundry. A OBERNDORFER arrived home from Colorado Monday evening where he had been to spend the hot summer months of August. He is troubled with hay fever here, but escapes it in Colorado. Rye seed 50c per bushel at Brown's feed store. Born: Friday, August 31, to John HAWK and wife an eight pound girl. H.J. WATERS and wife are the proud parents of a girl baby, born Monday, September 3. Miss Rachel HENDERSON has secured the principalship in Waterville schools and commenced teaching there this week. Ross PROCTER left here yesterday by team and wagon for his new home in Oklahoma and his family will follow after the re-union. He has been a resident of Washington county for a number of years. He says he would not leave if his farm was no so far from school. Claude NEEDHAM, wife, and baby arrived in the city last Friday from Clifton where they visited Mr. NEEDHAM's parents. The are guests of Mrs. NEEDHAM's mother, Mrs. Hattie HOLLOWELL. R.O. WOODY has moved his justicce office, law office, land and loan office, opposite Hooper's gallery, where he will be glad to meet his friends. J.K. Van PATTEN, of near Linn, was here Tuesday of this week and left word that he would start for Alberta, Canada, as soon as he could get a car to load his goods. He has been there and picked out a home and says he likes the country very much. He read, of the new country in an article written by Mr. Cummings and published in the Republican. Mr. Cummings is a brother of Wm. Cummings of Morrowville and has lived in Alberta, north of Oregon for a number of years. Miss Lelia DRAPER has discontinued her music class of this place and will leave soon for Washington, D.C., to spend fall and winter in company of her mother and sister. Mrs. D.M. YODER who had a protracted seige of chronic rheumatism, we are happy to say is rapidly improving.