Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-08-31
SATURDAY, AUGUST 81, 1889,
Democratic primary to-day.

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Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Doty
on the 25th inst, boy.
Miss Lyons, of Colfax, was visiting
friends in the city last Monday.
Doc. Watts pedigreed colt has been
seriously damaged by barb-wire fence
Mrs Buchanan came over from Col
fax Saturday, and spent Sunday with
iricnds.
Mrs. Archie White has been quite
sick for the past week. She is confined
TO her room.
-Chas. F. Russell and wife, and J.
W. Bellinger and wife, of Colfax, were
visitors at Pullman last Sunday.
J. W. Hollinshead came home from
Seattle, Sunday evening, returning to
that city with two carloads of mares,
yesterday.
E. Z. Ellsworth has sold his stock
of groceries to Frank Richardson and J.
A. Wilkinson, of Almota. Success to
} the new firm.
M. f. services at the Congrega-
tioln church tomorrow morning and
evening. The NJ. E. church will be
opened two weeks from tomorrow.
The delegates to the republican
county convention from this precinct
were J. NJ. Hill, VIM. yedder, NJ. F.
Spencer, r. Lanning and Thos. Neill
H. Jackson went to Spokane Falls
Tuesday morning, and returned last
night accompanied by his brother, Of
Portland, assistant general freight agent
of the Wisconsin Central Railway Co.
Yesterday afternoon Carpenter
Meter fell from the roof of coal shed
he. was hnilding at the n. P depot,
spraining his ankle. He thought it was
broken but Doc. White assured him to
tho contrary.
81 have met this man." said a great
lawyer the other day, sin a great many
places where I would be ashamed to be
seen." And for a minute he couldn't
understand why everybody laughed so
uproariously.
Elegant new dining cars will run
daily, commencing August %, over the
o. r. & n Co., Oregon Short Line and
Union Pacific Ry., between Portland and
the Missouri river. The cuisine and
service are unexcelled.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
proposes to have a one-cent rate for half
ounce letters and two-cent rate for
ounce letters. This will be substantially
one-cent letter postage. 1t will increase
the demand for onion-skin paper.
A fire at Uniontown Sunday night
destroyed Herman Bros hardware store
and stock, also a vacant building adioin-
ing, in which the fire is supposed to
have originated. The flames were dis
covered a little after one o'clock Monday
morning and the indications point to in
cendiarism.
School will commence on Monday,
September 16. W. S. Bulla, of Walla
Walla, has been engaged as principal,
and Mrs. Walling, of Pullman, for the
primary department. Mr.. Bulla comes
to us well recommended and is one of
the few who secured first grade certifi-
cate at the late county examination.
"A physician says: "If in any house
there should occur single case of ty-
phoid fever or diphtheria, test the drink
ing water or have it done at once. A
few cents will buy an ounce of saturated
solution Of permanganate of potash.
II, when drop Of the solution is added
to tumbler of water, its color changes
to brown, it is unfit to drink. If it
remains clear or slightly rose colored
after an hour, it is, broadly speaking,
safe"
j. C. Fullerton, of Colfax, met with
painful accident last Tuesday, at Da-
: vid Burgess place. He was driving a
splendid team belonging to Staver &
Walker, and had stopped at Mr.. Bur
CESS for dinner. After hitching up and
when about to start one of the horses
reared and broke one of the single
trees Both horses became unmanagea-
bic which resulted in upsetting the bug
gy and throwing the occupants to the
ground, dislocating Mr.. Fullerton's
knee and demolishing the buggy. R.
tanning was in the vehicle at the time,