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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1899
Page
9
The notice lists subscription choices of one year six months and three months with a date reference Thursday November 23 1899 implying a publication or deadline tied to that day.
The Herald renews a year plus Farm Journal for five years at $1.50, with arrears paid and one year in advance. The message touts Farm Journal as a practical progressive, clean, useful paper with wide circulation among the best people.
Garret Augustus Hobart, vice president of the United States, died at his Patterson New Jersey home on Tuesday morning from angina pectoris. The line of succession follows the 186 rule with a cabinet officer, and Senator Frye becomes vice president pro tempore. Funeral arrangements set for Saturday.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer lauds Col. Lewis and Jim Ham returning home in celebratory tones. A Sunburst of the Sound mass meeting is set for next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in city hall to gather broad civic support and avoid factional influence for the city’s road to success.
A county board of trade is deemed essential as state fair funds are exhausted. Yakima must stage a fair next year with cooperation from farmers and business leaders. The piece notes Washington also offers a 1 cent per pound sugar beet bounty, matching New York, and recounts a $50,000 legislative appropriation to pay growers 1 cent per pound on all beets, about 4 a ton.
The state fair proposition for next year collapses after exhausting two years of $8,000 funding in one season. Yakima cannot afford to let the fair lapse. A past committee of eminent gentlemen including Whitson Fechter Benson Wyckett Horsley Hugh Sinclair and others ran a prior fair without treasury funds and produced a superior event, finishing about $900 ahead.
Madam Conolly offers stamped linens at specially low prices. H. J. Contine of Minneapolis, visiting his elder brother in Selah valley, is ill from a complication of diseases. 8.H. Mason, a young attorney recently located at Prosser, was in the city Saturday on legal business.
An advertisement promotes C and B Clothing with men's suits priced from six dollars to eighteen, plus hats underwear shirts neckwear shoes and other essentials. It claims easy prices and guaranteed goods to fit a limited income and urges customers to visit and compare.
Local notes cover sales at Moore Clothing Co with wool and silk mittens and prices up to $1.50 a pair. Community events include a Woodmen of the World lecture, road obstruction charges, an appeal in a desert land contest, and library fundraising. Also reported are visits by Peter Kirk, medical and educational services, and store refurbishments after a fire.
A roster of religious services in Yakima includes Christian Science at Masonic Hall Sundays 11 am, Congregational church sermons at 11 and 7:30 with Sunday echoes at 10, and a solo by Miss Parkhurst of New York at the evening service. St. Michael's marks Advent preps with 11 and 7:30 services and a vesting choir. Mennonite Brethren revival begins at Nob Hill schoolhouse Thursday Nov 23 at 7 pm. Union Thanksgiving service set for Nov 30 at 10:30 am in the Congregational church with sermons by Rev Lyons and Rev Dent, plus a poor relief offering. A Sunday-school convention is planned for Dec 5–6 in North Yakima. committee meetings are urged at the M E church. Try Levering's package coffee.
20 acre fruit and alfalfa ranch offered for sale. Includes 500 peach trees 350 prune trees 250 apple trees 80 pear trees plus plums and other varieties. Alfalfa yield stated and peaches last year produced three carloads. Pears reportedly earned 120 per acre this year.
North Yakima camp No 5550 Modern Woodmen of America and the order at large express deep sympathy for neighbor L. J. Greenwalt on the death of his wife. Resolutions to be entered in minutes, copies sent to the neighbor and local papers. Committee: M L Marrerson, James G Dickson, Joe SHOMAKER.
Fair Store advertises men calfskin shoes at 125 per pair. Gilt Edge store promises biggest tablets for the least money as Christmas goods debut at the 44 45 School children can buy.
The teacher reports a creditable record for Tue Herato publication. The November month ending 17 shows Isaac Carman Ida Carman Dell Reed Lizzie Kimball Cora Miller Ella Hecox Brulah Hecox Minnie Bessie Olive Josie Vera Frakes as not absent nor tardy.
Notice of a citizens mass meeting at City Hall North Yakima Washington at 7 30 p m Tuesday November 28 1899 to nominate city officers for the ensuing year including Mayor five councilmen city attorney city clerk city treasurer and city health officer by Orper or Committee
Prominent local ads claim Kinsey & Co. offers fine eastern cranberries and premium produce at Kinsey’s Gilt Edge store. Coffin Bros. promotes goods with daily bargains, clothes specials, and loyalty tickets for Chinaware, plus discounts on mowers, wagons, hacks, and buggies at their big department store on Second Street in North Yakima.
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