Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-04-27
Band benefit May 7th.

-DdOu D6DeHG May tbu.
Republican primary election to-day.
Al. Reaney returned from Medical
Lake on Wednesday.
Z District CONSTITUTIONAL convention
at Pullman next Tuesday.
The bills are out for the Pullman
celebration on the 3Otn inst. Consult
them.
The HERALD has horse and cattle
cuts for the use of stockmen who wish
bills printed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Hattrup
welcomed the advent of a ten pound
girl last Friday evening.
You will all want to hear Prof. Har-
ris' cornet and violin solos at the dra-
matte entertainment on Tuesday even
ing, May 18th.
e. Fl. Stratton has gone to Medical
Lake for the summer. By the way, that
burg is becoming very popular resort
during the warm season.
Miss Wilmington announces that
her school entertainment will take place
at the opera-house on May 18th. The
program will be issued in due time.
Travelling men who visit Pullman
nowadays say that we have the most
enterprising town in the Palouse country.
And travelling men are pretty good
judges in such matters.
The ordinances recently passed by
the Board of Trustees are being pub
lished in the HERALD. Read them care
fully, bearing in mind that Ignorance
of the law excuses no one"
Geo. Comegys, of Oaksdale, and E.
r. Pickerel, of Palouse City, visited our
town last Saturday, returning next
morning. We hear both of these gentle
men favorably spoken Of as candidates
for delegate.
The democratic primaries for the
election of delegates to the district con-
vention to be held at Palouse City on
May 7th, will be held May 4th in the
several precincts of this (the seventy
district Pullman is entitled to five
delegates under the call.
Another beautiful boquet adorns
the HERALD sanctum, the gift of
John G. Stratton, whose orchard blooms
three miles from Pullman. The bios
SONS (apples, peaches, pears, cherries,
prunes, hawthorn, etc. are among the
finest we have seen this year.
The Further family of violin soloists
gave entertainments at the COngre-
gational church last Friday and Satur-
day evenings that we're pronounced very
fine by those who attended. Lack Of
proper advertising in advance is the only
fault of this worthy troupe. They de-
serve full houses everywhere.
Fresh paint and terraced grounds
have wonderfully changed the appear
ance of DIR. Watts place, on the hill.
e. E. Ellsworth, we notice, is also at
work improving his grounds. Ditto,
. Cashier Windus. These improvements,
with the recent grading, make McKen-
zie-st. loom up prominently. On with
the good work, gentlemen.
While the people Of Washington on
last Sunday were enjoying the beauties
of nature in latitude As to AZ, with
flowers and green grass covering the
landscape as far as the eye could reach,
and the fragrance of opening buds fill
ing the atmosphere, the bright sun in all
his grandeur shining forth from cloud
less sky, putting new life in the vege-
table kingdom, Pennsylvania and Vir-
o1nia. in latitude 40 and 40, were
covered with snow to depth of from
one to two feet These are facts, which
speak with more emphasis than scores
of emigration tracts.-Palouse Gazette.
The Colfax Commoner calls those
taxpayers who object to being burdened
with an unjust tax, "malcontents." Is
it wrong, then, for people to demonstrate
against being legally robbed? to OBJ
iect to squandering of public money
by public servants? to ask that, in mat
tiers of large expenditure, the people
shall have chance to express them
selves? Who are these malcontents,' y
and what do they want? They are the
taxpayers of the county, and they object
to being taxed to the extent of some
$4,000 or $4,000 in one year to build
"a courthouse and jail upon large and
extravagant plan. They ask that the
proposition be first submitted to them
for ratification or rejection. They also
object to paying for county buildings
which majority of them may have no
use for They object to paying for
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