Mailloux Wins the Fruit Prize at Yakima Fair
Fred Mailloux captured first prize for the best fruit display on Yakima Fruit Day at the fifteenth annual state fair. E. B. Leckey won second for artistic merit. Read across Yakima merchants’ windows featuring apples, grapes, plums, peaches, pears, and vegetables, plus inventive displays from John H. Weigel, Red Cross Pharmacy, Tennant & Miles, and Ditter Bros. with mentions of Teddy bears, bears on horses, and items like a Teddy bear potato and a crabapple ball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yakima
Fred Mailloux
E. B. Leckey
Mailloux
Yakima Trust Company
Selah Valley
John H. Weigel Company
Red Cross Pharmacy
Lesh Land Company
Newtown
Arkansas
Tennant & Miles
Schott Shoe Company
Fred L. Janeck
Cahalan
Ditter Bros
C. C. Case
Pearson's
Coffin Bros
Dudley Shoe
John Ditter & Co
Yakima Hardware Company
Shoan’s Drug Store
Yakima Valley
Keck
Mr. Keck
Zillah
Big Sun Dance to Open Six Day Indian Convention
Lancaster Spencer announces plans for a national Indian convention at Lancaster Spencer's Toppenish ranch race track. The event runs Sept 30 to Oct 5 with a 1000 dollar one mile dash and a grand parade led by a war band. A sun dance under government permission will be showcased with tepee villages and primitive living displays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster Spencer
Toppenish
Mississippi
Old Tecumseh
United States
Senior class plans for annual production and elections
The high school senior class has begun plans for producing the annual and will elect officers at the next meeting. Lester Palmer was reelected president with Grace Walker as vice president and Della Schott as secretary, Horace Doust as treasurer. A committee including Della Schott Clyde Sampson and Grace Warker was named to arrange class departments and pins. The senior ball is planned for after football season, with no definite action yet. The 25 seniors are active and optimistic for a profitable year. Foley's Honey and Tar is marketed as safe under the national pure food law by North Yakima Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Palmer
Grace Walker
Della Schott
Horace Doust
Clyde Sampson
Grace Warker
Foley
North Yakima
A. D. Sloan
Horehound Syrup Credited With Cough Relief
J E Gover of Ottawa Kansas reports his wife suffered severe autumn coughs and wintertime coughing. After using Horehound Syrup nightly sleep improved and two to three doses halt coughing. Available in 25c 50c and 1.00 at Colton Fry Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Gover
N. Main Str
Ottawa
Kans
Colton-Fry Drug Co
Irrigation Progress Report From Newell After Western Tour
Francis H. Newell, director of the reclamation service, returns to Washington after a three month western tour. He notes high costs and transport and labor shortages but says progress is remarkable with much land now watered. Engineering hurdles are being overcome and most projects should be finished within two years, including water supply at nine locations led by the Huntley project in Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okanogan and
Tieton
Washington
Williston
N. C
Francis H. Newell
Reclamation Service
West
Huntley
Montana
Webster plans Yakima Valley nursery venture
Chas H Webster of Centralia Illinois visits the fair and nearby countryside and decides to establish a nursery in the Yakima valley as soon as arrangements are made. He is part of the Webster family that started Webster nurseries in Illinois sixty years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. H. Webster
Centralia
Ill
Yakima Valley
Mr. Webster
Webster Nurseries
Illinois
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Fry Drug Store
Inland Real Estate Company
Morgan & McKaig Seed Store
Old Settler's Real Estate
Seattle
Barnes & Son
Yakima Commercial Company
Pioneer Drug Store
H. B. Scudder & Co
Hastings Hardware & Implement Company
ALL the
Spencer Ranch
Tume
Great Yakima Project
Klamath
Oregon
California
North Platte
Nebraska
Wyomire
Belle Fourche
South Dakota
Newell
Huntley, Mont
Herald
The
North
Certified Public Accountant
Gregg
Pitmanic
S. van Vliet
Prop
Co. W. Camp
West Side
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