Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19
Miss Hattie Oberholtzer is reported
as quite sick.

w. J. Windus came in from Spo-
kane Monday night, and will spend some
time in our city visiting among his rel
atives and many friends.
Miss Mamie Mcconnell, of Moscow,
who went to Havana, N. Y, to attend
school, returned home Thursday evening
over the Northern Pacific.
&C. G. Raby was reported among the
sick ones this week, but is now himself
again and will appear in Better Than
Gold" at the opera house, tonight.
At Johnstown, Pa, the scene of the
terrible flood, typhoid fever is raging
with alarming results. 1t is estimated
that there are 800 cases there at present.
james B. Cochran, while operating
well boring machine, had the misfor-
tune tol lose a portion of two fingers,
and have his hand otherwise badly in
jured.
David Clark, an architect and build
er of thirty years experience, who
planned and built the Clifford barn men
toned last week, has decided to locate
at Pullman.
Considerable wheat has been sowed
this fall, James Anderson already having
so acres in. Fall sowed wheat produces
the large yields for which the Palouse
country is famous
The Colfax Commoner has it that
G. H. Olmstead and Emma May Davis
son were licensed to wed. Pshaw! it
wasn't Charlie at all, it was John j.
Shupe-any how Shupe got away with
the cake.
The Methodist society will hold a
quarterly conference at the M. E. church,
Tuesday, October %, at 1 o'clock P. m.
All official members from country ap-
pointments are earnestly requested to
be present.
The N. P. company will have tickets
on sale on Thursday, October "a, to the
Portland exposition, at $15 for the round
trip. This also includes one admission
ticket to the exposition. Limit of tick
cts, seven DAYS from date of sale.
DO not fail to go to the entertain
ment this evening and hear Mrs Partch
Mrs. Vine) and W. J. Windus in their
superb vocal selections. This is a rare
opportunity, one that you may never
have again, of listening to this couple.
Willis Ford presented us with a
couple of apples raised by his father,
Ninevah Ford, Of Walla Walla, that
measured Is inches in circumference.
They are of the Glory of Munda variety.
Mr. F. raised one of this variety that
weighed three pounds.
Married. At the Baptist parsonage,
Moscow, Sunday October ID, by A. j.
Cable, Elmer E. Luellen and Laula F.
Woodland, both of Pullman.-In Mos
COW, Friday, October IS, by Rev. c. L.
Westbury, John A. Osterburg and
Miss Anna Anderson, both Of Pullman.
"A move is being made to establish
stock sale association in Pullman and
hold sales on the first and third Mon
DAYS of each month. The first sale will
be held next Monday, October q, and
all stock, farming tools, etc, brought in
on that day will be sold free of charge.
There is no better advertisement Of
the agricultural superiority of the coun-
try surrounding Pullman, than the huge
pyramids Of wheat in sacks, or the man.
moth bins of loose grain at the elevators,
and to the man from any part of the
world it speaks volumes for the richness
of Palouse soil.
}. T. Carrere, a well known newspa-
per correspondent, was a visitor in town
Thursday night, He reported that Con-
gresham Wilson had just returned from
the Sound country and would leave for
Washington, D. c., tomorrow Sunday,
and that he would make an extra effort
to secure an appropriation for clearing
the Palouse river.
Last Saturday Grant Shelton re-
ceived the sad news that his youngest
brother, Wardie, aged II years, had been
instantly killed at his home near Carlton,
Oregon, bv the accidental discharge Of
a pistol in the hands of another brother
aged IS. The boys were examining the
pistol when it was discharged, the ball
passing through the little boys heart.
Lew Johnson's colored minstrels are
billed to play at Reaney's Opera House
next Thursday evening, October a.
These genuine colored minstrels, consis-
ting of twenty actors, have no superior,
being actors of great talent, and singers
with excellent voices. The performance is
strictly moral, and is of a character to