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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
8
Local items report camp meetings and temperance sermons, births, visits, and travels of residents including the Petrie family and the Brunton lineage. Surveys, examinations, social gatherings, irrigation projects, and hay market chatter illustrate a busy period with infrastructure and social activity in the Sunnyside area.
Heart trouble likely caused a man’s death when he fell from a carriage near Sunnyside. Mr. Chase found the body and sought medical aid. the deceased left a wife and three young children. Local history notes recount frontier activity during Kansas troubles and John Brown raid. Democratic primaries named county delegates J B George C Gordon Mr Pickard and S J Phelps. Odd Fellows picnic planned for Aug 30 with sports and evening party. All day church meeting discussed church building and work plans.
George Ide, postmaster, is absent after a month of sickness. Ranchers have sold hay and stockmen are buying early amid predictions of extended feeding due to drought. The I O O F picnic is set for Sunnyside on Thursday August 30 with a ball game horse racing and a dance in the new hall planned.
Mrs Hiatt sister of Mrs Joan Dillon arrived from Blue Hill Nebraska and may stay. A Chandler is building a large costly barn in the school section. Mrs George Grist has recovered. Mrs Geo Jacobs hosted a dinner for Mr and Mrs Scott of Seattle and Mr and Mrs Hoage of Moxee. Mr Zitts wife and three daughters suffer typhoid fever. The thresher hum is heard in the school section.
The population at Soda Springs decreases as campers leave while new families arrive during a warm spell. Elmer Nordick, candy maker, sells varied candies during an outing. Wesley Jones and Ernest Benham encounter two bears near the north fork Ahtanum. Charles Shearer claims the season’s largest trout at 22 15 inches and three pounds. A wind-driven tent fire near Mesdames Anglin and Baker is quickly extinguished with little damage. Local ads promote L. E. Lawrence undertakings, Sunlight Axle Grease, and Yakima Hardware Company camping supplies.
Influential agriculturists renew opposition to hydraulic mining arguing the Cameritti act dams fail, with debris floods harming crops and reducing navigable waters. Scientific American notes Chinese as offenders, rivers like the Sacramento suffer silt buildup, and farming lands contribute to bay sediment through plowed lands.
A jumble of small ads offers fruit jars porcelain tops Keene watches Kinsey McKinsey stock bull and banana tree notes about Yakima mineral water and Malaria prevention. It also mentions Missionaries in China canceling 100000 book orders and a claim of one million men who could reproduce the classics from memory.
Rule H. H. Schott & Co. notes Philippines trade at two million dollars monthly. Hartford autos tested for mail pickup on 15 mile routes. D N Keeene moves bicycle shop to basement to free first floor. Officers Liggett Mulligan arrest fifteen hobos offering street work or exile. Bale H H Schott Co Fred Brooker family and Mrs G S Taylor return from Fish Lake outing.
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