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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1905
Page
13
The article explains the tight state truancy law in effect for children aged 8 to 15. It details enforcement by officers, the duties of attendance officers, and penalties for parents, guardians, and institutions failing to guarantee school attendance during the term. It notes changes expanding officer appointment to incorporate towns and villages and authorizes arrests of truants.
The Society and the man who works for his living have their linen laundered here. We deliver your laundry when you expect it and return clothes clean and finished with a domestic finish from our A. T. Hagen Bosom Press. We double the life of your linen and keep clothes in repair free of charge. No chemicals or alkali soaps are used.
Read's Steam Laundry on A Street is cited in a notice about habitual truants and the authority of justices of the peace to bind truants to the state reform school. It also warns school boards that failure to comply with the act could withhold 2 percent of state school funds until compliance, and includes a drug ad for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea at 85 cents from Case's Drug Store.
Sunnyside High School crushed Yakima High 11 to 0 on a muddy Sunnyside field after Friday night rain turned the ground to a duck pond. Yakima, heavier opponents and mostly new players, struggled with line defense and ported bucking, while Sunnyside kept a steady lineup and full pace.
The city of North Yakima proposes to issue 30000 in 1000 denominations dated November 25 1905 payable November 25 1925 with 4 percent interest semiannually at First National Bank of North Yakima bids due November 10 1905 at 4 PM and city may redeem after November 25 1915. bids to be sent to City Treasurer. bids may be rejected. Includes unrelated ads and jokes from local paper.
Citizens urged to claim advertised letters dated October 12 including numerous names and addresses. A separate note mentions a creditors sale at Macdonald's, plus a humorous Skunk poem about a roadside odor and memory of mother.
James Whitcomb Riley apes a rye field exchange with a neighbor who asks about earnings per acre, replying with a measured four gallons. The Market items announce a millinery sale at Schott's, a humorous exchange about Orphic myths, and a final proof notice for a desert land claim filed by Louis K. Brooks at North Yakima, Washington, with names and officials listed.
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