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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1911
Page
8
The Moxee Commercial Club held its second meeting to discuss fire protection and electric lighting and formed a committee with Lance Champoux and O Loughlin. School opened with 136 pupils and new teachers, while Miss Mosier arrived to teach. Local residents relocated homes, opened stores, and planned infrastructure projects including a new depot and a county road on Sniper mountain relations.
The Naches valley school season began Tuesday with visits from Mr. Aaron Shanks and Mrs. Shanks to North Yakima. Emil Anderson also visited North Yakima on Tuesday. A Sunday school picnic hosted by the Noches drew a large turnout.
Misses M Schott and Catherine McShane visited the Mc Shane ranch in Monee. The Holy Rosary bazaar follows the hop picking season. Beckett of St Paul Tacoma Lumber Co left for a two week vacation. About forty hop pickers at Pincus ranch struck seeking 1.25 per box. strikers discharged and others got the raise. Sam Horita shipped 100 baskets of grapes to Seattle. Water is being piped to the parochial and Cascade lumber yards for fire protection.
Miss Fannie Deputy of Mt. Carmel Illinois visits her mother Mrs. Ky S Flish. A Ladies' Aid benefit program on September 5 features readings by Mrs Foster and others with music by Mrs Sickler and Mr Conrad. Pomona Grange to meet Moxee Grange September 13 with train arrivals and a noon hall dinner. Mr and Mrs Dean Foster return to Pullman College where he teaches. Rev Cooley returns from Coeur d Alene visit.
Milwaukeee September 11. Boxing promoter Mulkern says the Wolgast vs McFarland light weight title bout will proceed September 15 in the auditorium. Sheriff Arnold insists the fight will not go on, citing legalities and a no decision ten round exhibition as the basis of the dispute.
In Yonkers a dialogue reveals grudges over politics and hats. Mrs Gorham skipped voting due to two female candidates and offended remarks about her hat while the other candidate ignored it. Della notes wage deductions for news breaks.
Judge Preble heard two divorce cases in the superior court Monday. Grace Agus seeks divorce from Te. DD. M. Ampus of Prosser, alleging personal indignities and infidelity. The court grants the petition and orders permanent alimony of 125 dollars monthly until remarriage, with both parties relinquishing rights to certain real estate. The decree also prohibits remarriage for six months. The couple married in The Dalles, Oregon, June 26, 101, with no children. In a separate case, Anna Elizabeth Black is granted desertion and non-support. two children are awarded to the mother.
The Congdon ditch will use reinforced concrete for a new irrigation flume in the Yakima Valley. Contractor Powell begins after September 15 with 11 000 feet of flume and a 320 foot siphon, priced around 20 000 dollars per mile, under engineer Bannister and consultant Jacobs.
Yakima horse Tom and the Yakima horse on British Columbia coast tracks is described as “certainly being himself” by a Victoria correspondent dated Saturday. The note calls Tom a dry land horse and praises his performance on the coast circuit.
The horse secured two hard fought victories and two second places in mud as deep as six inches. He captured the mixed event for 2:18 trotters and pacers with a best time of 2:19 while the track stayed stubbornly slick and heavy. Since leaving North Yakima on August 12, he has earned over 1200 dollars this month, showing strong form and earning potential for the circuit ahead.
The note lists varied prices for many items. Grapes are five cents a pound or 85 cents a basket, rolled barley at 86.50 per ton, alfalfa hay 17.50, pork up a half cent, and vegetables down. It provides flour prices per sack from several mills and a broad roll of farm goods including cheese, eggs, and produce with scattered figures and typos.
In Buffalo on a recent Saturday P. J. Lynch secretly married Miss Helen Donald of Montreal. The couple, traveling from the Sound to New York for their honeymoon, surprised North Yakima friends who had telegrams pending. George Donald, president of the Yakima National Bank, is Miss Donald’s uncle.
Unofficial returns from 499 of 521 Maine municipalities show a repeal of the prohibition amendment by about 1000 votes with 120000 total ballots. Cities favored repeal by roughly 12,000, but rural districts offset the urban margin as campaign literature flooded homes and voters faced heavy persuasion.
Robert G. Fowler begins a transcontinental attempt from San Francisco. He flies at 45 to 56 mph, landing at Auburn 126 miles from the start, as a support train follows with mechanics and spare biplane parts. He plans 26 days to cross the Sierras via Truckee, with stops in Reno Salt Lake City Cheyenne Omaha Chicago Pittsburgh Buffalo and Albany.
President Taft will not pass through North Yakima on his western itinerary. He is scheduled to be at Lind and Ellensburg in October, traveling via the Milwaukee railway, so North Yakima residents will likely meet him in Ellensburg.
A Washington Herald item describes a man posing as a duke who courts a young woman's family. He appears convincing, has asked for car fare, and took milk earlier, prompting warnings about his legitimacy.
A warning from the Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a shady man at the back door offering a dingy two dollar portrait of an antique lady. Caution against assuming the Mona Lisa mystery is solved by such a purchase.
North Yakima and surrounding areas see visits from George P. Eaton and others, with plans for a new Kennewick flour mill set to start next week. The Selah schools open September 18, Elks and Masons meet, and local figures travel to or from the valley for commerce, exhibits, and family visits.
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