Simple Life Dream of a Modern Cottage Bright With Light
A speaker imagines a life in a ten-room cottage with a garden and beauty to brighten young love. She envisions electric lighting and steam heating as modern comforts for their home.
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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1912
Page
7
A speaker imagines a life in a ten-room cottage with a garden and beauty to brighten young love. She envisions electric lighting and steam heating as modern comforts for their home.
In Yakima Washington 1912 the court fixes a hearing for the final account and petition for distribution and discharge of administrator W Redfern of Nettie Redfern deceased. The hearing is set for September 3 1912 at 10 a m at the North Yakima courthouse with notices to creditors and interested parties to appear.
The Embroidery club met with Mrs. Scott Stevens on Wednesday August 21 correcting a previous report naming Mrs. John Shanks. The next session is set with Mrs. Emma Williams on Wednesday September 4 with all members urged to attend.
Tieton residents anticipate a harvest around 75 tons as Mr Roy Peele and Walter Young spent Saturday in town. A sizeable crowd attended Sunday school last Sunday and neighbors are urged to attend again next Sunday. Walter Smith and wife return from Oregon where they visited relatives. Ella Witherow is ill with lagrippe.
Mrs. Frank Brooks of Denver visits sister-in-law Mrs Palmer in town while Mr. Brooks stays in Seattle awaiting reunion. Louis Brooks of Naches and his daughter Miss Alice visit the Palmers. Belle Chandler returns to Seattle from summer with her parents. Mrs. Frances Woodcock heads to Seattle then Bremerton and Oakville for two weeks. Mrs. A C Day and daughter Edith of North Yakima visit D A Gillette. Grange plans move of the old schoolhouse for a hall. Public schools delayed to Sept 30 due to fruit packing and hop picking. A new well to be drilled at the school. Steam threshers busy. warehouse packers increased for incoming fruit.
An old Pacific Northwest farmer shares a simple method to deter nit flies from horses. He cuts a square guano bag, sews strings to corners, and ties it around the horse’s neck under the throat to shield it. He notes nit flies swarm midsummer and torment horses, hindering work.
The Spokane Fair will spotlight education as its star feature with a week of farm related displays and contests. It will bring thirty farm boys under a three institutions program including Washington State College and Idaho University exhibits plus rural school prizes. A creamery and milk test booth will run daily to explain dairy science.
Reports from Paris say wings will be widely used this fall on hats replacing pricier parade pieces. Pasted wings rise on crowns and extend high, with mercury wings favored for tall looks on smart tailored hats.
Advert promotes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a remedy for piles and skin conditions, claiming it relieves itching and inflammation and heals burns and cuts. It notes a price of five cents at Red Cross Pharmacy and a service offering gasoline at 22 cents a gallon at a nearby auto station on B Street west of the courthouse.
North Coast Limited and Sunset Sun routes shown with east and westbound times. Sunnyside Branch lists daily trains from North Yakima to Grandview and Wallula with mixed and gas car services. Northwest lines include Grandview to Seattle and Walla Walla connections.
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