FROM THE FILES
Last updated 8/22/2023 at 9:06am

Journal photo (August 23, 1973)
Weighing wheat trucks. David Danekas helps out at the Ritzville Warehouse Co., announcing truck weights to the drivers just outside the window by annunciator. David worked several days late in harvest. He will be a fourth grader when school starts next month.
125 Years Ago
Adams County News
Local and Personal
Quite a serious accident occurred at Lind on Monday night in which one man was killed outright and another probably fatally injured. They were engaged in unloading coal into the bunkers there, and in some way the brakes failed to work and a car was thrown to the ground some thirty feet. The regular heaver, an Italian by the name of Joe Sirinnie, was buried under the car and killed. The brakeman, Albert Nesbet, jumped and received injuries to his spine from which he can hardly recover.
The man killed last week on the track east of here prov...
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