The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-11-09
RELATED IN SIDE-HEADS
4 Busy Week In The Most Active Town
In the State.
PUBLIC LIBRARY AID YAKIMA CLUB.
An Indian suicides In yail-.Prosser
saloon Keeper Robbed ON Freigh,
Train--The Local situation TeIa
I'm a Few Words.


I'm a Few words.
nIE PUBLIC LrBRARY.-The officers oil
the Library association intend to give q
High Tea" on Saturday afternoon, the
llth inst, at the residence Of Mrs. w. L.
Steinweg. Over 200 ladies' have been
invited and very social affair is antici.
pated. Following this will be series OF
parlor talks similar to those last winter.
These talks will be on historical and liter
airy subjects and will be given at the
homes OF the ladies on one afternoon in
each month, finishing with musical
evening reception at the opera house.
One dollar will be charged for the series
consisting Of four afternoons and the
evening, or twenty-five cents for any one
afternoon and fifty cents for the evening.
The money obtained from the series OF
last winter was spent in books and library
furniture; but this season 1t is purposed
to use the amounts obtained to securing
better Accommodations for the members.
An effort is being made to obtain more
comfortable room and to have it warmed
and lighted six afternoons and evenings
Of each week, that the members may not
only change their books, but have all the
advantage OF pleasant reading room.
The Public Library over Lombard &
Horsley's furniture store contains FIVE
hundred volumes OF well-selected itera-
ture and is open Wednesday and Satur-
day afternoons and evenings. The fee
Tor life membership is one dollar, and
the books cost five cents per week rental /;
or the charge for books may be commuted
by paying $3.50 year. At present the
membership is about 80. All who are
interested in good books should join the
library and help to make it a success.
COMMISSIONER HUBBARD's Luck. Com
missioner Hubbard is not saying great
deal about his official visit in the lower
end of the county on Tuesday, but it has
developed that his experience was laugh
ingly interesting. He left the train at
Simcoe station, from which place he un-
dertook to walk mile or two across the
country to new bridge which it was his
business to inspect. There were three or
four sloughs to cross and he found it a
very difficult task TO land on the objective
shore Of each OF the first two or three.
He, however, waded them with indiffer-
ent success; but the fourth one was
deeper and more dangerous. He looked
about for help, but none was at hand.
Finally, when he was well-nigh overcome
with despair, assistance hove in sight. An
Indian woman on puny cayuse that was
well laden with blankets, kitchen uten-
sils and farm implements, came up, and
the redoubtable commissioner, una
Dashed, opened negotiations with her for
carriage across the slough. Satisfactory
terms were finally concluded and Mr..
Hubbard bravely boarded the hurricane
deck of that meek and iowly cayuse and
into the slush the caravan plunged. Lit
tie was seen of the courageousitrio until
the pony in due time climbed the bank
OF the other side Of the bayou, with the
commissioner perched triumphantly on
the dome OF the little animals burden.
Friends appeared at this time and gen.
eral agreement was reached that nothing
should be said of the amusing circum-
stance. That's why they won't talk about
it now.
THE YAKIMA CLuB.-The Yakima club
is again brushing up its elegant apart
ments in the Lewis Engle block for its
usual winter entertainment. Organized
activity in that circle has not been very
marked for some time, owing to the gen.
eral apathy in every line of human exer-
ton, but the approach Of winter months
brings with it the suggestion that the
club may again most profitably and en-
Ioyably enter upon social and business
activity. The club occupies the entire
upper floor of the block, it's suite compris-
ing six rooms, among them being an eIe-
gantly furnished reception room 5ox30
feet, a dining room and kitchen, a billiard
and pool room, a department devoted to
locker and sideboard privileges, ct hoe
genus omne, card rooms for innocent pas
time, etc. The club is incorporated, its
membership, now 90 in number. compris.
ing many Of the leading men of the city.
Its entertainments are all first-class,
affording amusement with instruction.
Young men of the city whose names are
enrolled pass their evenings there, when
not restrained by other social dates, in a
pleasant, quiet and gainful manner, thus
avoiding the din, uproar and ill-odor OF
ordinary resorts with vicious attractions.
When prominent people visit the city the
club room is thrown open and appropriate
entertainment furnished. 1t is an excel.
lent social and commercial organization
and its influence is always beneficial.
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NEARLY DRowSKD.--Laura, the FIVE.
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gas
kell, who reside in the northeastern part
Of the city. narrowly escaped drowning in
the big Union ditch in the vicinity of her
parents home on Sunday evening last.
When the child fell into the canal, its
mother plunged IN to rescue it, but the
current was so strong that she, too, was
carried away by it and had it not been
for the opportune arrival of friends the
experience might have been tragic foi
both mother and child. The little one
fioated nearly block before it was res
cued. The ditch, being large, deep and
the water swift of current, is a very dan
oerous adiunct To n plavpround for chill.