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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1908
Page
8
North Yakima reports a flood of visitors and locals on business from Roslyn Seattle Ellensburg and Tacoma. Residents attend church events, funerals and social gatherings while noting a high Yakima river and a completed new Catholic church in nearby Wapato.
County correspondence reports Mr. Gannon serving on the jury this term. Dan Nelson plans 180 acres of ranch land to be platted in ten acre lots for sale soon. Mr. McNamara sold thirty acres to a Seattle buyer who will relocate his family here. Christian Endeavor meeting at George Chapman’s last Tuesday elected officers: President Frank Glasby, Vice President William Angle, Secretary Rena Justice, Treasurer Annie Newman, and several committee heads. Sherman Nemier moved to North Yakima. Naches Congregational church notes good department reports at a quarterly meeting. A. H. Bair expected home from California mid month. Meadowlarks and robins singing daily. Talks focus on the new mail route and possible political action to restore the North Yakima route, with mention of Congressman Jones and Senator Ankeny.
Protracted meetings begin next Monday night at the school house with Rev. Leon Green leading, to continue about two weeks. The community is urged to attend. Geo Jacobs is recovering from recent illness. Mr. and Mrs. J W Young visit Sunnyside with their son and plan to return Saturday. Jacob Sieber, recently operated on, shows signs of recovery. Mrs. Edgar Evans is ill. Miss Janie Young traveled from Cle Elum to stay two weeks as her school closes temporarily due to diphtheria.
Light rain fell Sunday in Alfalfa as residents note visits across the river. Mr and Mrs Dekraay visited friends. Duck hunters were seen locally. Miss Mary Ide visited Outlook friends on Wednesday. Ray Marston returned from Seattle. H G Geerheart attended the Outlook Mennonite meeting. Lou Nass is moving the Duffy house to its permanent foundation with his engine.
Snow has brought about two inches of snow in Naches. Lloyd Purdin sold his farm to buy a wheat farm in Benton county. Mr. Fossum builds a cottage with K H English doing carpentry and Mrs English ill this week. A dance at the M W A hall February 14 with Van's orchestra. L O Janeck visited Naches Saturday. Jerry Wheeler contracted digging a well at his store and J Carpenter handles the project hoping to reach water at 60 feet.
Mrs. T A Butler shows marked health improvement and the smallpox fear is debunked. John L Cruse and family are quarantined for scarlet fever with only Margaret affected and improving. Mr and Mrs Harry Creviston plan a move to Wisconsin. Inez Gervais returns from Ellensburg visit. Fred McVay leases a reservation allotment and will move soon. John Weaver builds a house near the Methodist parsonage.
Charles Campbell rents tenement to Mr. Cameron from Missouri. John Alexander helps Mrs. Carmichael with ice. Mrs. Albert Sellers ill, visiting Bradshaws on the reservation. Florence Bowers returned to Chehalis after visiting here. J. S. Baker and E. C. Richards were visitors at North Yakima. Grover Sherwood recovered from a week of cold and returned to Mr. Taylors. Mrs. E. H. Taylor visited friends in Walla Walla. Funeral of Mr. Svendsen held. Rev. M. L. Rose officiated. Svendsen, a native of Denmark, died of consumption leaving wife and three children. He joined M. W. A. community in life.
Miss Henrietta Peck enters the town high school while Mrs. Duane returns from visiting friends. Mr. Parker endures rheumatism in damp weather. Alec Loudon recovers from illness. Miss Louise Morrier returns from a Wenus valley visit. A well is being drilled on Mr. Jongewaard’s ranch with Newinhoff directing to a possible water flow at 150 feet. A necktie social at District No. 1 next Friday and a Holland school ribbon social a week later invite attendance.
North Yakima hosts school meeting with John Stump Ed De Young Scott Bennett and Henry Serge in attendance. W L Dimmick begins government freight work from Naches City to Tieton camps. Masquerade ball set for February 14 at Case's hall invites all, with good time promised.
An advertisement touts Ring's Little Liver Pills to wake lazy livers and cleanse the system. It claims relief from billiousness and sick headache and markets the product at 25 cents through seller C. W. Camp.
State Bank Commissioner Abraham W. Engle submits his first annual report to Governor Mead detailing the operation and condition of state banks since the department's June founding. It covers 192 banks and three non banking trust companies, with chartered new banks, incorporations pending, and several banks leaving or converting to national status. The report notes deposits, savings totals, and two legislative recommendations on trust powers and savings deposits, plus one bank taken over by the department, Citizens' State Bank of Brewster, now in receivership.
Suffering and dollars saved says E. S. Lopez of Manilla New York a carpenter who has used Bucklen's Arnica Salve for many severe cuts. He reports it heals burns sores ulcers fever sores eczema and piles and calls it the best healing salve he has found. 25 cents at C C Case druggist.
In Bellingham Washington on February 11 the secretary of war requested official county maps of all roads and shore lines near the international boundary. Whatcom county engineer forwarded maps and data to the department of war.
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