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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1901
Page
5
A collage of brief items from Ellensburg and nearby towns notes visitors, church services, a wardenship offer, a fire alarm scare, and travels of lawmakers. Highlights include Barbed wire interest, George Wise and Miss Lyon travel, Jerdens sick spell, Cushman and family outing, and Outdoor Life magazine feature with Cascades article.
The city school board met in regular session and set Monday, June 3, for organizing the new board and electing a chairman. Supt McCurdy and Principal Stair praised discipline actions while noting crowded rooms including Miss Ingst with 61 pupils. Recommendations approved include renting Larson’s theatre for commencement and that graduates cover closing expenses.
The board orders a holiday and 10 30 a m school shutdown to allow student participation in the G A R parade. Closing exercises for 7th and 8th grades are set for Friday evening in Mason's opera house with 25 cent tickets to cover program costs and library purchases. A baccalaureate address by Rev Dr Hayden is planned at the Presbyterian church on June 9 at 8 p m. An operetta The Cadet's Picnic will be shown at Larson's theatre with 65 pupils under Prof Wilson, funds for books and cadet company next year. Patron's day displays will run June 12 and 13 in the high school. Alumni reunion is June 13 with location to be decided. Graduating exercises are June 14.
The alfalfa season arrives with many farmers already cutting and hundreds more ready soon. Early reports praise the crop as superior to last year aided by three good rains. Acreage has almost doubled, promising a larger cut, while prices are expected to stay near last year's due to strong Yakima demand.
F C Hall and A F Larson led a committee that returned nearly all raised funds to contributors. They distributed apportionments after expenses and some donors redirected funds to other causes. Walter Reed directed his gift to the library, Coffin Bros. allocated theirs to Company C for the armory.
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