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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1909
Page
2
Attorneys at Law, 205-208 Mullins Building, with offices for American Surety Co. and Empire State Surety Co. in Ditter Elk and North Yakima. Lynch and Weyer at Mullins Block, Dr. Lynch and Dr. Weyer with specified office hours and residence addresses in Yakima area.
X ray laboratory available for treatment and examination with prompt day or night service. Residence at 3 North Naches Avenue with two office phones for Wells and Nagler listed as 1903 and 1904 respectively.
Dr David Rosser, physician and surgeon, based above Janeck's Drug Store with residence at Sixth and Chestnut. Office hours are 9 am to 12 pm and 2 to 6 pm. He serves as a member of the Pension Board.
County commissioners granted Yakima Valley Transportation Co a six month extension for the next five miles of its suburban street line, from March 12 to September 12, with a forfeiture threat if not completed. Ten miles must be done within a year, five in six months and five in twelve. Officials anticipate further extensions into Ahtanum and Moxee valleys toward Yakima City. Sheriff Lancaster convened the meeting with Dan McDonald as chair. New county commissioner W. F. Meloy attended.
A sequence of fires Sunday and Monday in Yakima valley tied to zero temperatures and frozen hydrants. A Fifth Street home owned by widow Mrs Terleau burned. shed fire at 502 South Nadhes. basement blaze in Shardlow building controlled with chemicals. Fire Chief Dawson and crews thaw hydrants as cold persists and fuel supplies hold.
Leonard C. Meigs of Yakima county wins the speaker post as the Washington state house convenes in Olympia. Loren Grinstead named chief clerk with Ruth presiding in the senate, and an early move sets an $85,000 session appropriation.
Two plats of additions to North Yakima were filed with County Auditor Crocker and officially approved. Second Richland addition lies north of Bonnie Brae southwest of the city, filed by Alexander Miller who has prepared streets. Maple addition lies two blocks intersected by Tenth street north of Maple street. Nob Hill orchard tracts west of Nob Hill were also approved on Monday.
A several hundred strong crowd greeted Francis J. Heney on his return from the east at the Ferry Building. He pledged to press graft cases and personally oversee the Calhoun prosecution, declaring his physical health good and readiness to work.
Frank X Nagler warns Yakima county rivals to the Coeur d Alenes if the state road via Naches and American river Bear gap is completed. A road link would unlock vital mining districts and boost North Yakima into a major Northwest mining center. In Lebanon Ohio, William Beachey father of Lincoln Beachey is declared insane and awaiting admission to Dayton asylum after years of elation and homelessness.
Advert shows Man Zan in collapsible tube with nozzle for piles. Suitable for any form of piles. Price 50c. Sold by C. W. Camp at West Side Drugzist.
Mrs H M Gilbert of Nob Hill plans to apply to the U S government for a voluntary weather observer position. She argues the Scudder ranch thermometer in the Moxee fails to represent Yakima valley conditions and notes Nob Hill thermometers rarely drop below seven degrees. She has monitored nightly readings around 1 to 2 a m to highlight colder spots and urges an official thermometer elsewhere.
Miss Sarah Campbell, a trained nurse and Aeon passenger, describes the Christmas Island wreck and ten weeks on a barren rock. She testifies Captain Bonnie risked his life to aid passengers and crew while two failed attempts to reach Fan ning Island were made for rescue. Her hair has turned white from the ordeal and she carried a newborn to safety as boats arrived.
There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together and until recent years was deemed incurable. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio is described as the only constitutional cure and is taken internally. They offer one hundred dollars for any failed case and advertise circulars and testimonials. Sold by druggists for 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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