Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-08-24

with an abscess on the neck.
j. II. Bellinger was in town for q
short time Thursday evening.
Miss Rose Tewalt returned from
Dayton last Tuesday EVENING"
e. Mustard, of Cotton, has provided
himself with a new horse power thresher
Mrs Dellingham, of Genesee, has
returned to Pullman for medical treat
ment.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Phelps, on the morning Of the 22nd inst,
son.
B. c. Looney has sold quarter
section of his land to Henry D. Harlow
for $4,000. v
The N. P. elevator on the Northern
is connected with the one on the o. R. &
N. by telephone.
The Palouse boys speak highly OF
the treatment they received at Pullman
the day of the ball game.
Mr.. Smith, of the firm of Smith &
Hargrave, was in town Thursday evening
feeling of the political pulse.
Under the new o. r. & N. time card
the freight train from Portland will come
to Pullman in "a hours shorter time than
heretofore.
Geo. Ford has one of the hand
soonest If not the handsomest farm resi-
dence in the country. It reflects the
taste of its owner.
The paper for this issue failed to
come on time, hence the change in the
appearance of the HERALD, but we are
on time just the same.
Bryant Bros. will have about $4,000
bushels of wheat this year. They have
700 acres which was sown in the fall and
it is turning out 81 bushels per acre.
B. Farr, who moved to Medical
Lake from Pullman a few weeks ago,
has taken a claim near Ceur d'Alene
CITY, Idaho, and will make his future
home there.
DIR. Watt with his wife and child
left Friday morning for Hood river, Or,
where Mrs. Watt will remain about a
month visiting friends and relatives.
Doc. will return in about week.
Frank Sears has moved his stock of
drugs to Spokane Falls, where he has
secured a choice location. DR.. |. l.. Ma
gee will open drug store in the room
vacated by Mr.. Sears.-Boomerang.
One day last week Ringer & Man
chester threshed on Len. Hetherley's s
ranch, on Spring fiat, 1880 bushels of
wheat and moved three times. The
average yield of the crop was 81 bushels
per acre.
Mrs. E. l.. Farrand wishes to ex-
press her gratitude to friends and neigh
bors who SO kindly assisted in caring for
her deceased husband during his last
sickness, and especially to the members
of the A. o. q. W. lodge.
West. Booth has a patch Of corn
which he planted on the first of June
that stands II feet high, has large ears
and plenty of them. Mr.. Booth says
that corn can be grown here with sue
cess, and expects to plant 80 or 40 acres
next year.
The following are the statistics OF
Whitman county made by the assessor
Total number of inhabitants, 1921, OF
which $500 are adults, 5,682 minors;
1854 whites; "a negroes, and lob Chi
nese. There are 1886 males and 3,161
females over the age Of 81 years, and
449 aliens.
The following taxes have been levied
for this year: County, 8 mills; territor-
ial, 81 mills; road and bridge, 2 mills
school, 81 mills, and military, one-ffth
of mill. A total Of eighteen and one
fifth mills. The county tax is one mill
higher than last year and the school tax
one-half mill higher.
Thursday afternoon a dense smoke
was seen near Andy Fairs residence In
the north part of town. Citizens rushed
to the scene but were agreeably dis
ap;eointed to find that only hay stack
was on fire; bat even that was no small
loss to Mr. Farr as it was a stack o.
timothy and worth about $500. The
fire was started by Mr.. Farr's little three
wears old boy who made bonfire neal
the stack.
The prospects are now very fatter
ing for grist mill. The citizens have
taken the matter in hand in good ear
nest and as a natural result three
fourths of the desired capital has beer
subscribed. Only few of the farmers
have been seen but all are in favor o
the enterprise and there will be ittl'
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