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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1906
Page
2
County correspondence notes local movements and arrivals as residents travel home, return from trips, and seek health. Several families are mentioned including Forni, Vilind, Shadbolt, McKee, Tunn, and Adair. School reopens with Prof Evans and Miss Pendergast guiding, and several relocations and farm sales are recorded along with a new baby.
J K Torsett died Tuesday September 25 at age four. He lived on the School Section in Yakima County after moving from Shirley County UL in 1880 and spent years at Old Town before final residence here. He leaves a wife and eight children. neighbors extend sympathy to the family. Also notes L L Diamond’s Mt Vernon trip, school opening next week with Mrs Duncan as principal, Fred Chandler visiting parents, and local hop picking nearly finished along with a curious two tailed calf sighting with an eight to nine inch tail extending before the fore shoulders.
Joan McCready and wife welcome a baby girl born Sunday. Will McCallum and wife celebrate a baby boy born Friday. Both mother and child are ill. Viola Clarke of Mabton visits Miss Fannie Smith over Sunday. Rev. Phillip Stover to preach at Presbyterian church as Rev. McIntosh is away at synod. Vandals break church windows. call for communal expulsion of offenders. Kilpatrick moves family to Lotus to keep kids in school. Schools reopen with Hunsinger and Eastman teaching. 32 pupils attend. Bethany and Grandview schools announce teachers and new buildings. Third alfalfa cutting underway. hay prices around $7.50 fob Mabton hindered by car shortages. Elva Allison visits from Seattle. Peter McCallum and wife from Molips arrive. Robert Walker of Seattle visiting.
Mrs N I Turley and sister Miss Cora Houser return from Sound country after a week away. John Ide promoted to night operator. School opened Monday with large attendance. Miss Rena Marston of Seattle visiting locally. Mrs Dekroay and family back from the hop fields. Hr S Hatch ill with malaria. Geo Olson building a new house. W L Hatch visited the county seat. George Ide visited from Outlook. James Skirving in Sunnyside buying hay. Rena Marston Collie Hatch and Roy Marston visit Liberty.
Alex McGee and Eugene Moore bought 1200 head of sheep in eastern Oregon and will move them to Dave Wheeler. Wheeler travels to Spokane for the fair. Hop picking nears completion on the Natchez with an average crop. A H Bair finished his second timothy and clover crop. A birth announced for Mr. and Mrs. Wilson on September 24. District thirty school opens Monday with Miss Susie Hess as teacher.
The water users held a Monday meeting with usual business transacted. W H Cline traveled to North Yakima for a commissioners meeting. Miss Retta Stover hosted a drama club reception Friday evening. The Emanon club hosted a Friday dancing party. E Pawson and son Fred returned from a Delevan summer outing. Mrs D B Eby arrived home after a Illinois summer. Miss Mary Woodin visits home after two months in the east. Mrs L P Vandermark of North Yakima seeks medical care from Dr F C Jones. Rev E M Smith of Minnesota, Trinity’s new rector, arrived Sunday night. Rev O W Taylor left for Wallace Idaho to become rector there. Miss Elsie George visited Saturday and stayed with her parents. Mr and Mrs Herbert Burroughs celebrate a new arrival.
The items note a birth on Saturday September 29 and Sunnyside visitors H H Wende from North Yakima and Florence Maxham Evans of Prosser visiting relatives. Mrs Calkins and her son left for Tacoma for a month. Friends mourn the death of the Day's little daughter from North Yakima. R L Rose and family plan to return to Sunnyside on November 1 to occupy their Fifth Street home.
The Yakima market reports apples priced from 35 cents to 1.50 dollars per box with export Spitzenberg scarce due to poor color. Growers hold back on selling causing limited supply as warehouses hold 80 carloads and buyers fear winter shortage. Winter Nellis pears bring 1 to 1.50 dollars per box. Hay demand remains high with car shortages hindering Spokane and Seattle orders.
In Tampico, A Slavin hosted a lively gathering last Wednesday for his hop pickers who had just finished harvest from three yards. The event featured candy music games and festive cheer as a thank you for their labor.
The article notes Mr Slavin habitually secures families to do picking at his ranch. Workers view the fall season as an outing with comfort and pleasure provided by Slavin, a pattern that continued this summer.
Harry Morrison defeated Barney Piles 100 to 67 in a lively billiards match at the Pastime cigar store Sunday night. Piles challenged Morrison to a rematch in two weeks, with Willis Lindsay also proposing a $25 side bet and potential future matches aimed at boosting local pool interest.
Claiming to ward off summer ailments Mio na tablets are advertised as a tonic in hot weather. The ad promises life energy and digestion improvement with a tablet before each meal and guarantees cures for stomach diseases or money back by seller Fred L. Janeck.
The Women of the World plan a large reception and dance Thursday night headlined by head consul I. I. Boak. The event includes a woodcraft talk followed by dancing all at no charge and open to members and friends of the lodge.
Robert Johnson returned Monday from the Spokane fair praising Wenatchee’s prize but saying Yakima was treated unfairly. H. M. Gilbert won $100 for best ten boxes of apples donated by the Silver Grill, with Johnson earning $50 for second. Johnson also won first premium on Clairgeau Duchess and other varieties.
Mr. Johnson urges more advertising after a Northwest fair where most sections were represented with literature and other advertising methods. Yaki ma shows potential with second place on Rambo apples and peaches on display while exhibitor collections take fifth prize.
Vancouver dispatch reports Chester Jackson a New Westminster fisherman arraigned on a capital charge of murdering G W Gilley in November 1904. Remanded eight days with no evidence offered as authorities await Munn from Yakima, while another suspect remains at large. The case centers on a wharf dispute and a river fall or throw into the Fraser.
The quarterly report ends September 30 shows a $991 rise from last year to $5,963 and the year totals reflect strong growth with $4,454 increase. West Side station adds six new letter boxes amid overall city expansion.
Prat Inspectee Brown clarifies in the Herald that his spray history was misreported. He states he did spray before June 25th, countering the reporter’s impression.
Letters remaining uncalled for at the Yakima City post office as of October 1 1906 are listed with one cent due on each. Names include Berg Berry Beiroon Bradford Buckley Bushby Carter Chadbourne Clement Frost Gard Haggard Hatch Howard Dierker Dunn Jarvis McDaniels Mitchell Morrison Nelson Nettleship Nolbe Rivers Rube Smith Petter Wangelder Waber and others.
Two tramps were killed when a freight wreck occurred at LaCruz Creek on the Fort Worth and Denver railway today in Amarillo Texas.
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