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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1905
Page
5
Ex-Yakima County commissioner Carl A Jensen-Since resigning his post he commends the county’s tax guard officials noting overviews show clean books and proper accounting. He congratulates the board for honesty and diligence while urging Benton race candidacy.
The Park Theater presents My Uncle from California this Monday through Thursday, a three act farce praised as very funny. Friday through Sunday features The Fire Patrol with Bertie Van Cleve in a leading role. New acts include Marie Thompson and Rufus Drum, plus Leo Bivens singing Good bye Sis and Kate Kearney. A Napoleon in a moving picture chase, Nagler's Cornet band performs Mondays and Thursdays. The Park promises a lively, elegant evening of music and stage.
A satirical riff compares muscle at 1.50 a day to brains priced at 75000 a year for a railroad president. Loree is cited as once earning one dollar daily before insisting on brains with character, arguing brains with character fetch top value while muscle without character is wasted. The piece ends with a call to workers to reflect on their value and indispensability.
The Illinois Central offers strong west to east and south service with connections to Chicago Louisville Memphis and New Orleans and onward to the far east. Prospective travelers seeking lowest rates and best routes may contact B. H. Trumbull Portland Oregon J. Lindsay and Paul B. Thompson Seattle and Colman Building Seattle Wash. Dr. Hall veterinarian reachable by telephone 2183 or at 102 South Selah avenue. The great milk producer Gluten Shorts. Try it. Coffin Bros. 17-tf
The Herald corrects last week’s report naming Prof McHenry as the new winter teacher at Zillah high school. The directors engaged Prof S S McIlvanie, a top qualified instructor, and the paper regrets the error.
L. V. McWhorter & Sons of North Yakima Wash exhibit a North Devon herd at the Puyallup Valley fair last fall and receive a silver cup about twelve inches high for best herd. The award bears the engraving Nette Top 12,989 and the inscription listing the association and dates October 4 to 8, 1904.
A mix of classifieds and notices including a health ad for Foley's Kidney Cure from North Yakima Drug Store, A D Sloan proprietor. For sale five room house on two lots with barn, etc. Sprocket wheel power sprayer capacity 150 gallons. Pure bred Holstein cattle and a registered two year old bull from premium lines. Capito nil lots with house barn improvements offered for sale. See Hartung Hardware and Implement Co for details.
A collage of small quotes and ads from a newspaper page includes humorous local observations about wealth and professions, kidney health cautions with Foley's Kidney Cure, a Gracie and grandma joke, a Sweet Marie cigar promotion, a Jackson's parlors ad offering grooming and children's haircuts, a piano tuner service, Turkestan Alfalfa sale, and a millinery department sale at half price.
A 1905 notice states the Northern Pacific Railway will sell round trip tickets to Milwaukee Wisconsin for the June 30 annual meeting of Modern Woodmen of America. Tickets on sale June 14 to 16 at 74.90 with 60 days return and stopover on the return. Also brief local ads for harness, savings at Coffin Bros., and a juniper drink.
Having purchased the grocery business of Cary and Cary, I invite the public to note the change and get acquainted with my methods. I offer my experience in groceries and guarantee satisfaction to patrons, hoping they will not regret their choice.
The First National Bank of North Yakima is authorized to continue as a banking corporation through the period stated in its amended articles, with the close of business on June 25. The order is issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under the act of 1882 and dated June 10, 1905. Also, a divorce suit is filed in Yakima County Superior Court by Inez Craig LaBelle against Joseph LaBelle, citing abandonment and neglect. summons require appearance by June 21, 1906.
Ordinance No 446 establishes a local improvement district to fund a wooden sidewalk on the west side of Selah street between C and D streets in North Yakima. It authorizes assessments on benefitted properties, issues warrants, and follows prior council resolutions and standard specifications adopted May 2 1904.
The city of North Yakima establishes Local Improvement District No 86 to assess and fund sidewalk construction on specified lots. A board of assessors, led by the committee on streets and ditches, will prepare and publish an assessment roll, with notices and appeal process, and delinquent amounts incur interest and liens. Warrants issued to contractors are payable from the Local Improvement District No 86 fund, with city liable only for the fund, not the warrants. The ordinance, approved June 20, 1905, takes effect two days after publication.
Assessment roll of local improvement district No 79 in North Yakima Washington is certified for collection. Payments not made within thirty days from June 7 1905 will become delinquent and collected as provided by law and city ordinances. City Treasurer R Donovan dates the notice at First National Bank office on June 7 1905.
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