High Line Canal Survey Advances Under Ed Whitson
Ed Whitson and a corps of ten men survey the Yakima Improvement Company high line canal and have secured provisions at the site. Whitson has taken personal charge, signaling an early completion. Manager Anderson reports telephone construction from Natchez to Fechter and Janeck ranches with about 30 phones for farmers, targeting operation within a month. Selah Valley will gain telephonic links. twelve subscribers already secured.
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Ed Whitson
High Line Canal
Yakima
Anderson
Natchez
Fechter & Janeck
Natchez Bridge
Selah
Good Roads Convention Attendance at Spokane Session
Yakima sent a strong contingent to the Spokane good roads convention with County Commissioners Lince Randle and Pace County Surveyor Meroy a lay delegation including Representatives Hare and Dunn and H D Winchester. The sessions were lively with many discussions promising long term benefits to the region and state. Dr W H Hare former speaker reviewed the new road law and urged electing legislators who support it while pledging to lean on the local congressman for national aid.
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Spokane
Yakima
Lince
Randle
Pace
Meroy
Hare
Dunn
H. D. Winchester
W. H. Hare
North Yakima
Yakima County
Improvements at Kennewick Opera House and Depot
W J Eakin plans a 24 by 75 foot opera house with a second floor hall for fraternal orders. The Northern Pacific depot at Kennewick nears completion, praised as among the finest on the line with separate waiting rooms for men and women and an outdoor covered promenade. An extensive 38,400 square foot park system will surround the depot with shade and fruit trees and flowers.
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W. J. Eakin
Kennewick
Northern Pacific
St. Paul
Portland
Commissioner Von Holderbeke on Yakima and state fair
The Tacoma News quotes State Horticultural Commissioner Von Holderbeke stating Washington fruit crop this year will total 96,900,000. He adds the state fair was a financial success and seen as educationally valuable, though the interview ends abruptly.
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Commissioner von Holderbeke
Yakima
The
Tacoma News
State Horticultural Com
Asioner von Holderbeke
State fair exhibits praised by commissioner and counties
The commissioner notes gate receipts will exceed last year by about two thousand dollars, excluding railroads rebates on passenger tickets. Twelve counties including Chelan and Spokane sent exhibits, with Clarke county presenting varied nuts and Italian prunes. Okanogan showcased winter apples, while transport delays reduced county participation to thirty. North Yakima hosted visitors well with lodging guides, and Sessions Gilbaugh advertised funeral designs at 18 South Second Street.
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Tacoma
Seattle
Chelan
Kitsap
Kittitas
Okanogan
Clarke
Stevens
Columbia
Jefferson
Walla Walla
Spokane
Skagit
Washington
Clarke County
Okanogan County
North Yakima
Wanted To Buy Secondhand Clothing
Help wanted brief advertisement for buying used clothing by Halpern located at 22 North First Street. Public notice appears in the local classifieds dated the 39th day of the 12th week.
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Halpern
North First Street
Yakima People and Things in the Valley
Reports from the Yakima area highlight notable Exhibit at the state fair. Yakima apples weighing a pound nine ounces win first prize and promise broader attention at the St Louis fair. Local farmers gain orders for berries while a sugar industry discussed by Attorney Parker. Marriage notices for Will and Bert Graham of Bickleton to Miss Bond of Toppenish announced. Division talks for Yakima and Klickitat counties surface as Prosser residents push the plan.
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Yakima
St. Louis
Yakima Valley
Washington
North Yakima
George Mills
Minneapolis
Ellensburg
Fred Parker
Will
Bert Graham
Berg
Bond
Toppenish
Bickleton
Bert
Prosser
Klickitat
East End
Pettit Bound Over In Chinatown Robbery Case
Judge Taggard bound Louis Pettit over in 250 dollars for appearing before the superior court on a charge of robbing Chin Sim of 7 dollars. The crime is alleged to have happened around mid July last year at Parker Bottom. Also on Thursday John Buzzard faced a 500 dollar bond on a charge of assault to murder J. S. Williams. Leonard Buzzard, father of John, was allowed to go on his own recognizance as a party to the assault. In Nichol's court Skinah the Indian failed to prove his claim in a replevin suit against P. A. Bounds and was aten in the suit.
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Taggard
Louis Pettit
Superior Court
Chin Sim
John Buzzard
J. S. Williams
Leonard Buzzard
Parker Bottom
Nichol
Skinah
P. A. Bounds
Aten
Lost black pup with distinctive white markings
Lost, strayed or stolen about Sept 17 a three month old black shepherd sheepdog with a white ring at neck a white chest one white front leg a tan other leg a white tail tip and a tiny black nose spot Reward $5. Return to 110 North Ahtanum Avenue. Also ad for 38-day wedding and engagement rings from Goldna An's Seattle.
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Ahtanum Avenue
Electric whip aims to bend balky horses to will
The Lind Leader reports a new electric device tested in the Chicago stock yards. Copper plates in the horse collar, a wire to a wagon battery and a push button move the horse. The device, created by a Georgia rural mail carrier, is billed as humane yet effective. Also listed is a rental ad for 150 acres near Ahtanum with ten milking cows available to remain.
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Lind Leader
Chicago
Georgia
Kuppenheimer's Clothing Sale Draws Attention
Cof fin Bros advertise closing out sales at 41 Rinehart's with big interest. Ladies millinery suits skirts and jackets offered at cost. An odd tale explains an old tippler unable to pour whisky without spilling it, yet finding humor in sugar for strawberries.
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Rinehart
Harness dealer C E McEwen relocates to South East Street
C E McEwen, longtime harness dealer, has moved to 7 South East Street. Repairs available and service continue.
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C. E. McEwen
South East Street
Heralds Clubbing Offers
The Herald lists clubbing rates with other papers including the New York Tribune For The Ranch Seattle Twice a Week Spoke view neuw sman Re 2.00, Twice a Week Tacoma News 2.00, Tacoma Daily News 4.50.
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New York Tribune
Seattle
Tacoma News
Tacoma Daily News
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Cascade Lumber CO
Telephone
Yakima Herald
Sessions & Gilbaugh
South Second Street
Scouller
Goldendale Sentinel
Justice Court
Goldna An’s
Ahtanum
Hinman
Kuppenheimer
Coffin Bros
the Herald
Herald
Sman
Blair Business College
Wash
C. E. Jones & CO
Bartlett-Foote Warehouse
Butchers and Packers
S. Second St
Rainier
Haviland
China
Hotel
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