The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-08-24
GATHERED ABOUT HOME.
Personal, Social and Business EYents
Locally Important.
NOTES FROM THE MADDIHG THROyG.
a Grist OF Gossip, Bits OF fact and
Fancy, Movements tn Active Life,
Drift OF Popular Speculation aud
News Items Generally.

ing on the Nile Yesterday.
j. Carpenter has sold his clothing
store to his brother, ]. II. Carpenter.
Trout are not being very numerously
caught ia the streams hereabouts these
days.
Sawyer ii. ID. Rowland, OF Tacoma,
was in the city on land Office business on
Saturday.
John Sawbridge is making many inn
proveme its in the interior of his store on
the avenue.
Charley I.angert, the jolly wholesale
liquor dealer OF Tacoma, was in Yakima
on Tuesday.
Hon. i. +. Benson left on Tuesday
evening for hurried business visit to the
Sound cities.
Several carloads of watermelons were
shipped to the Sound from this city dur
ing the week.
Miss Etha Henderson is visiting with
the Misses Patton at the Patton ranch on
the Ahtanum.
o. Il. Laird, station agent at Yakima
City, has purchased block of land from
George Weikel.
Hon J. P. Stewart and son Fred, OF
Puysllup, were Yakima visitors on Fri
day aud Saturday.
Judge Erwin, of Ft. Simcoe, returned
to-day from Fish lake, where he went re-
C, ntly on official business.
The real estate market has begun to
improve. This is another reliable fore
sign OF returning business vigor.
Rev. w. B. Eakin, of Dixie, was hung
in effigy the other night and given ten
days In which to leave town.
X. s. Breckenridge, of the house OF
Honeyman, DeHart & Co, Portland, Or,
was in the city during the week.
Colin Carmichael, purchasing agent 'or
d. II. Gaskain & Co., London hop fac
tors, was in the city on Wednesday.
DR.. W. Fl. Hare, N. S. Bagwell and
wife and Mrs. q. Smith, OF this city, were
registered at the Hot Springs on Sunday
last.
The Normal school site at Ellensburgh
has at last been definitely selected and
the Capital says work will be begun at
once.
A South Bend paper urges the local
council to enact an ordinance prohibiting
bears from running at large in the town
limits.
William p. Bird, travelling auditor for
the Northern Pacific Railroad company,
was busy in Yakima on Thursday and
Friday last.
Miss Blanche Lund was thrown from
young horse she was breaking on Satur-
day and severely bruised, but fortunately
her injuries are not serious.
State Senator Eshelman, formerly OF
this city, but now pastor of the Chris
tian church in Tacoma, visited friends
and relatives in this city this week
The South Bend Journal is urging the
farmers of the Willapa valley t, raise
hops. The conditions of that section OF
the state are similar to those in Puyallup
valley.
The glasses furnished by DR.. Harraes,
the optician, seem to give unusual salts
faction. DIR. Harrses is located at the
Hotel Yakima and will give free examin-
ations Friday.
The ladies of the Christian church will
give social in the dining-room Of the
church building on Wednesday evening
tended to all.
George Weikel, of Yakima City, will
leave in about ten days for six weeks
visit TO the Worlds fair and other points
in the east. Mr.. w. has well earned his
rest and recreation.
]. NJ. Bain will forward carload OF
fruit to the World fair from Tacoma on
September LIST. Exhibits from Clarke and
other southern counties will be placed in
the car at Portland.
G. A. Fisher, formerly OF Yakima, who
two or three years ago located on tire
Sound, has returned to this city to re-
main permanently. He will engage in
the tailoring business.
The people of Roslyn are agtating the
question of establishing creamery there.
The creamery will have capacity suffi
cient to utilize the milk of 500 milch GOV
If the present calculations are carried out.
Agent Jacks, for the New York Lille In.
surance company, is in the city. Mr.. j.
is quite partial to the Yakima section of
the country. He says it is the livliest,
soundest and safest portion of the state
to-day.
G. NJ. Mckinney left on Tuesday morn.
ing for the Columbia river country where
he will put in another of his steam irri-
CATION pumps aud look after other bust
ness in which he is interested in that
section.
G. H. Knapp and family. J. Boyd and
Keller, of Portland, 0gn.. passed through
Goldendale Wednesday en- route for
Yakima. They came overland by wagon
and were well fixed for travelling.
sndaIe Courier.
Mrs. J. q. Lawrence, wife OF the
county school superintendent, returned
-oA Monday from visit to Illinois. She
was accompanied home by Miss Kreger,
sister-in-law of w. L. Lawrence, secre-