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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1909
Page
4
Fred Watkins headed to the Sound seeking work while a stretch of calm weather improved area wheat fields. D Giard and Miss Starrit enjoyed a Beverly horseback ride. Lowgap and Southside residents picnicked at the river with a shaded juniper grove lunch. Fishing and boat riding capped a sunny day.
A summary of community news including school closure and Charles Wheeler's teaching and travel plans, visits by Miss Potter Spokane Crescent Bar, and Mrs Kittie Williams Quincy visits. Night operator dies. Mr Campbell Quincy handles burial. D. P. Wheeler family visits Wenatchee. Trinidad fruit growers organize a debating society with meetings at Crescent Bar and Mr Potter's. Owen Wheeler visits Wenatchee. Charles Wheeler trips to Seattle. Ginger conducts Spokane business. Crescent Bar residents host early spring strawberries cabbage and tomato plants. Irrigation begins for Crescent Bar Sleepy Hollow ranchers. Wheat crops look promising. Elmer Myers of Ephrata visits Trinidad.
Mrs J L Pearce visited Wenatchee last Wednesday. A C Trotter arrived from Cashmere. J A Weeks traveled to Ephrata Thursday evening. George Hanson formerly of Winlock has visited the area this past week. J B Lee from Moses Lake was in town Thursday and Friday. Miss Carrie Trotter went to Wenatchee Friday night and has taken a job at H L Weister's store. O W Johnson north of town is finishing a new house this spring.
Mrs L L Hildebrandt settles with school district No 173 accepting partial pay. She leaves for Seattle on train No 2 and has an offer to teach in Benton district. A crowded column reports local preaching, land sales, irrigation projects, new buildings in Coletta, and a caravan of desperados passing Smyrna.
Miss Mae Scott plans to attend a summer normal at either Bellingham or Seattle after leading Mount Olivet School. Pupils hope she stays another year, praising the school board. Ben Branch nears completion of seeding on Rose Cottage ranch of Mrs Maggie Branche, with promising crops. Windmills and pumps at Olive are in excellent shape as preparations for an orchard and garden proceed. A rural escape ends when a riding band is captured near Beverly by a lone traveler who brings them back via Smyrna on their way east.
Ray Booker and team traveled to Yakima for work while Miss Svensland returns from Spokane and plans her hill home. Mrs Northcutt visited town. Townsend leads road improvements north of here. Zimmerman may cook at home as his hill house nears completion. Hopeman and son visited Othello. Y A T N club met at Sagehurst. Friends in from Frenchman Hill searched for stray horses.
Warm weather boosts barley and mustard growth across the district. Local farmers report promising wheat prospects for a fair harvest. Social notes mention visits by Mrs. J. Kurrle and Mrs. Inez Kurrle with children, a Red Rock irrigation meeting attendance, and a Seattle trip for Mrs. Barnum’s health. A Columbia River picnic honored Miss Heineken who will soon move to Seattle.
Farmers in central Grant county organize to form the Dry Coulee Union Grain company with $2000 capitalization. Officers include Claude Foray president A D Pugh vice president Thomas Simmons secretary treasurer J W Wood and I L Slayton as directors. Plan a $2000 Adrian warehouse at the junction of the Washington Central NP and Great Northern lines.
A new criminal code effective June 1 ends the practice of allowing nonproperty owning jurors. Jurors must now be electors, taxpayers, and property owners in Washington. The change eliminates the old custom of selecting jurors who were only voters or taxpayers.
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