Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-05-11
Election, May 18th.

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master.
Subscribe for tho HERALD. We
will wait until fall for the money.
w. F. Wallace has sold his cheese
factory, at Cotton, to J. B. Stanley.
Read the Buyers and sellers column.
There is something in it that will inter-
est you.
Photographer Taylor is now turn
ing out work that will compare with any
in tho territory.
Mrs. NJ. A. helms leaves Monday
morning for Corvallis, Oregon, to spend
the summer with her parents.
Mrs Haaick arrived Thursday from
Vancouver, and will make her home
with her father, Capt. Phillips.
Hiram C. Rowe, John erase and
Thos j. Morris are advertising their
final-proof intentions in this issue.
The democratic nominees for dele
gates to the constitutional convention are
ex-Commissioner Reed, of Oaksdale, and,
J. A. Hungate, Of Pullman.
e. W. Downen put in the week. at
Spokane Falls and Medical Lake. He
reports A. A. Miller, who is at the lake,
as being greatly improved in health.
Archie White has gone to Salem,
Or, to visit his parents. He expects to
remain about month. Mrs. White will
visit her mother during her husbands
absence.
At the democratic primary held
here on the 4th inst, John Squires, E.
H. Letterman, Silas Prather and E. Z.
Ellsworth we're elected delegates to the
convention held at Palouse City.
The Oaksdale Sun observes with
truth that George Comegys and NJ. s.
Phillips are the best men the republican
party could have nominated, and they
stand on a right good platform"
Tho assessed valuation OF Pullman
- as returned by the town assessor is OF
personal property, s35,91O; real estate,
S73,140, making a total Of S109,05O.
This is an Increase Of about 100 per
cent. over last year.
A very pleasant party was given in
honor of Miss Alice Haywood, at the
residence of b. Farr, last evening, on
which occasion the most delicious ice
cream and cake of the season were
served. Miss Haywood leaves for her
home in Missouri next Monday.
Pullman now has an ice cream par
lor. and Mrs. Ellsworth is the enterpris-
ing proprietress (see card elsewhere).
The Pullman young man now grasps his
pocket book tightly, and look of des-
peration o'erspreads his heretofore
pleasant countenance. On the other
hand the young ladies are delighted.
Cotton Eagle: Tuesday was busy
day at the pushing town of Pullman.
The stars and stripes hoated from house
tops, and appropriate decorations were
everywhere displayed. The people from
the surrounding country, and from
neighboring towns, congregated and
participated in the pleasures and bust
ness of the day. 1t was day of marked
sociabiIity, and pleasure and business
were happily commingled everywhere.
Dakota soil is reported "as dry as
a shingle," SO far this season, which
means death to the sown wheat. Little
of it has even sprouted yet. The soak
ing rains that have fallen in Eastern
Washington during the past six days
would have been god-send to our Da-
kota friends. They were worth millions
here. and have assured us Of from 35 to
40 bushels per acre beyond all doubt,
whether it rains again this summer or
not.
Tonight it will not be: Suffer the
little ones to come unto me-" but,
rather, "Go We unto the little folks who
do aim to please ye old and young"
In other words, don't forget the enter
tainment given at the opcra-house this
Saturday evening by the young pupils
of Miss Whittington's department. 1t
begins promptly at Ills, and you should
be in your seats early enough to hear all
of the opening exercises. The admission
fee is % cents.
We are ready to wager any amount
of old type that the HERALD force has
been the first this season to eat straw
berries Of the crop of 1883, raised IN
Whitman county. They we're large,
rich and seductive 1.-THE berries, we
mean J. and we're from E. r. Smiths fine
fruit farm on Snake river. We received
them last Saturday, May 4th, which is
pretty early date for such products
Yet the Palouse country is full OF sur