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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1906
Page
6
Local notes list numerous residents leaving for Ellensburg to attend the state normal school. Others are away visiting Seattle, Green River Hot Springs, or returning from trips to Tacoma, Port Townsend, and the Sound, with social and work updates interspersed.
If you want a healthy, happy child get a bottle of White's Cream Vermifuge. It has a worldwide reputation as the best worm destroyer and improves digestion, strengthens the nervous system, and restores health and vigor in children. Sold by Colton-Fry Drug Co. B-9
C W Dorsey of the Department of Agriculture visited the Yakima valley to study alkali soil reclamation and demonstrated drainage methods at the Gervais place where alfalfa thrives. He predicted rapid redemption of alkali lands with proper drainage and surface watering. North Yakima hosts the Methodist conference with Bishop Henry W Warren presiding. Warren, a long time board member and author of science and religion books, is noted for contributions to education and astronomy.
Monday Morning Sam Alderson reported a young bear in his orchard near Fruitvale two miles from town. He fired several shots after spotting the animal munching fallen fruit, ending the trespasser with a gun. The bear appeared to be a juvenile wandering down from the hills.
E A Bickford died of consumption Sunday afternoon at his Yakima Heights home. Born 1848 in Glover Vermont, he lived in Maine and Minnesota before settling in Sunnyside six years ago. He married Ella F B Adley in 1872 and had five children. Funeral at 10 am Tuesday at the residence with Rev. Dr Hayden.
In Toppenish on September 4 the Washington Nursery company runs 20 000 buds daily with a projected total over half a million buds this season. About 300 000 peaches and 100 000 apricots almonds nectarines plums prune budding on peach stock. The remainder are principal apples and cherries. A crew of about thirty Japanese workers aids the white staff, praised for industry and skill.
W W Brown, a well known pension attorney of Pittsfield Vermont, urges Dr King s New Life Pills as the best health aid after pensions. He claims they keep his family in splendid health and promote quick relief from headache, constipation and biliousness. Sold at C C Case s drug store.
Mrs Fred Schott arrived home Sunday from Everett where she had been with her husband. Mr Schott left Monday for Satem Oregon to enter his horse Topsy in the races with Co R Offmer of the Walla Walla.
Charles Slaser, 21, son of Rev. V L Slaser, drowned while swimming near the slaughter house on the Yakima river. Four friends watched as he sank near shore after attempting to swim across a 100 yard wide stretch. Rescuers recovered the body at 6 45 pm after a search with boats. he had lived in the area about three years and worked as a clerk at the Boston store.
A Port Williams Ohio woman Mrs Ora A Stephens writes that three bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery stopped her two year cough and cured fears of consumption. The ad notes it treats chest and lung troubles with guaranteed druggist approval, priced 50 cents and one dollar with a trial bottle free.
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