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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1911
Page
9
Details of social visits, entertainments, club meetings, church activities, and personal milestones in Sunnyside and North Yakima. Reports include illness and hospital transfers, weddings, dances, school events, fundraisers, and upcoming fairs with multiple named residents and organizations across dates in October and surrounding weeks.
Mr and Mrs J Tessier and Z Demers wed at Hill Rosary church. A dance followed the ceremony. Miss Agnes McShane departs for Estopia to teach. Bushey family guests from Wapato and North Yakima. Bans of marriage for William Huard and Pamelle Capistran published. marriage set Thursday.
The area reports clear warm weather with farmers winding down fall chores. S B Williams sold 90 acres to Mr Shanks of Oregon for about 4650. A basket social raised about 45 at the schoolhouse for a new organ. The Nile sawmill will run all winter. Riders and visitors, including Pierce, Johnson, and Fancher, are noted along with railroad prospects and an annual cattle roundup.
Robert Parker Mills lecturing Tuesday evening October 24 at the Christian church as the first in the Lyceum course with four monthly numbers. Boxapple contest entries totaling twenty five boxes compete for a $500 prize offered by the Northern Pacific at the New York land show. Robert McGubbin prepares to depart for Australia after recent reclamation service dredge work. J W Frakes sells his home to F H Rasmussen, plans Idaho trip. Herman Harlin of Seattle making a business and pleasure visit. Plunderers busy at Bartley new building prep for city Water K Herod opens a new warehouse the same size as Richey & Gilberto’s with full basement. Johnson Brothers Co shipping Zillah produce from Easton and Cle Elum.
The seloul reports rapid progress in a new building with an enrollment of 80. A wagon brought eight from Tieton headquarters as the threshing season closes.
Local residents announce changes in jobs travels and schooling. Joe Steiner and Roy E Weaver buy a Lozier touring car. Several residents return from Seattle and Boise while others move to Los Angeles and Portland. Ellensburg High plans travel for a football game and new fire chief named George Orth.
Mrs Loud of Walla Walla visits her daughter Mrs Arthur Hughes. O Umstead calcinating and finishing inside work on Mr Ward residence. Mr and Mrs J J Miller depart for Tacoma. Transportation company busy hauling hay grain and potatoes from Wiley City. Rutherford builds a new bungalow near Wiley City, Banney constructs a new house. Lumber bought from Crake Creek lumber Co Wiley City. Telegraph lines begin in Antanium central Wiley City. Frank Brown riding for Wiles Land and Stowe Co injured when horse fell last Monday. he held the horse down until help arrived.
Dexter Kentucky. In a signed statement Mrs. Cook claims Cardus revived her health after ten years of weakness and nervous distress. She reports renewed energy and regular daily function, calling Cardui a help many women have found.
The city commission adopts changes renaming multiple streets. Luce Street becomes Pacific Avenue and Park Street becomes Rainier Street. Other streets are re designated to divisions such as Division Street and West Yakima Avenue, with many avenues renumbered from Thirteenth to Twenty and beyond.
In New York on Oct 21 a report claims the old American cruiser Detroit built in 1890 has been sold by the U.S. government and bought by Turkey after renovation. The Detroit was sold nine months ago for $20,000 to an American shipping firm.
The ordinance redesignates several streets in North Yakima. Reed Avenue becomes Eleventh, Cherry Avenue is now West Cherry Ave, Willow Street changes to West A Street, Western Avenue to Bonnie Doon Avenue, South Naches Avenue to South Sixth Street, Fair Avenue to South Sixth Street, east edge county road to Fair Avenue, and the street north of Haynes and Victoria Additions becomes Haynes Street.
Mrs Carrie Moore of Cherry Valley Arkansas says Cardui cured her long suffering heart palpitations headaches and low vitality after five years of decline. She urges other women to try Cardui the women's tonic sold by local druggists.
Lawton Oklahoma reports W Joseph Eldridge heir to the title and estate of Earl of Mar is closing affairs and will sail next month. His brother in law O B Scofield will accompany him bringing his family. A letter from his fortune attorney says he expects no trouble proving his right to the estate and title.
Mrs. Margaret Frieser, 87, registered to vote in Cincinnati for the school board while aging supporters rejoice in a pension scheme that guarantees full pensions to those who marry before leaving service and to their children as if their fathers had served. The dowager empress warmly approved the plan. She believes women gaining voting rights will earn their husbands' respect.
Enthusiastic women fill Cooper Union as Dr. Anna Shaw proclaims glory in the farmers and their win over the saloon in California. The crowd celebrates a decisive victory in favor of farmers.
The army ration was reformed over the last year per Commissary General Sharp. Chicken is eliminated from the menu. turkey is limited to Thanksgiving and Christmas. field bread replaces hardtack. the field ration is abolished.
Boston reports the Pennsylvania railroad demonstrates large scale reforestation by planting trees along track rights of way. In three years the line used 2,600,000 board feet of lumber and 15,000 trees grown on its own land, with plans to expand to supply all track ties and timber needs.
The ordnance bureau of the Navy Department announced that the battleship Maine was not wrecked by the explosion of smokeless powder and that there is no ground for linking its destruction with the French navy Liberte. There was no smokeless powder aboard the Maine, and the bureau did not determine the explosion’s actual cause.
Providence Kentucky reports that after a board ruling banning high school athletic participation a student strike is planned by boys and girls with the aim of restoring sports activities and student involvement.
A Popular Magazine note highlights quirky name choices in diplomacy and fashion. It cites a Russian embassy official named Uxkull and a Los Angeles tailor named Hornkow, illustrating playful name variance in public life.
Mrs Minnie Lamb of Lebanon Jet Ky credits Cardus with saving her life and stopping her spells. The ad touts Cardus as a plant based remedy for women’s ailments, claiming over fifty years of safe use and availability at all druggists.
Charles McKenzie of Butte Montana is registered at the Washington hotel. William Rider of Minneapolis was a guest Monday at the Washington hotel. B Heyman, president of L Schoenfeld & Sons house furnishers of Tacoma, and his daughter Miss Reba N Heyman are guests at the Yakima hotel. Mr Heyman is here for his health and finds this a delightful fall resort.
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