The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-11-01
Personal, Social and Business Events
OF Local Interest.
BITS OF GOSSIP, FACT AND FANCY
Paragraphs About People We All
Know -HaPpcnings in the Live.
Hest Town and Rest Country In
Washington state.


itor last week.
Prosser's flour mill is expected to re-
sumo operations today.
Died, near Zillah, October %. Mrs.
Margaret Rohrer, aged 20 years.
X. A. Hume left on Monday evening
for a trip in eastern Washington.
The Mckee valley is being adorned by
the erection of another school house.
Mr.. Edward Whtson left for Olympia
Monday to look after legal interests in
the supreme court.
Mrs. Frank Barthoiet and child are
guests of Mrs. Bsrtholetfs sister at FL
lensburg this week.
A. McAllister, OF the old town, had
several sheep killed by passing train at
the depot on Thursday.
w. S. Wallace, bookkeeper for Fred
Pennington, who has been i'll at the hos
pital is again attending to his duties.
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Henry Teal returned on Sunday from
his visit to Portland, where he had gone
to witness the marriage ceremony of his
brother.
Messrs. Smith, Clark & Downer are
preparing to reopen the old Ross planning
mill, and start the machinery into motion
once more.
w. II. James and family have removed
to their new home in Prosser, where Mr..
James will this week assume charge of
the american.
Adjutant John ID. Davis, Colonel J. NJ.
Ashton's chief OF staff, was in the city on
Monday night to inspect Troop G, first
cavalry battalion.
A tourist printer hailing from Tacoma
was arrested on Sunday for selling whisky
to Indians. He pleaded ignorance of
the law as explanation for the INSIDE
meanor but the excuse was not accepted.
James Demerse, the painter who drop
ped dead in Seattle one day last week 4,
from heart disease, and whose relatives
could not be discovered, is brother of
George Demerse, the Front street painter.
| r. A. Hume returned on Saturday from
Dayton, the citizens of which city, he
says, are very warm in their praise of
Yakima and the state fair, and the cor
dial manner in which the Dayton band
was received.
J. NJ. Mcfarland, manager of the a
Tacoma detective agency, who was ar.
rested on warrant issued at Portland
charging him with larceny by bailee. and
taken to that city to answer the charge
was discharged after hearing of the ties.
timony of the complaining witness. Mr..
Mcfarland is well known in Yakima.
John +. Serve, representing New
York wholesale drug house, was in the
city last week as the guest OF his old
school friend, Mr.. Phil Otter. Mr.. Serve
was so much impressed with Yakima
and the surrounding country that he said
he proposed investing here, and he will
send his brother ont to look over the field
in the near future.
"A Turkish Bath" which is billed to
appear at Mason's opera house on Friday,
November =, is delightful farce-comedy
and contains much to amuse and interest
that class of people who enjoy an even
ing OF laughter at the theater and next
day feel better for it. Since last season
"a Turkish Bath" has been materially
changed, and with its present array OF
artists takes rank with the leading com
edy organizations now travelling
On the 18th OF August Charles A. Jeffers
died at Honduras, the official notice OF
his death being published in The HERALD
at the direction OF the department of the
interior. Mr.. LETTERS was member Of
the Puyallup organization of the A. o.
U. W, the financial secretary of which
was a defaulter, but the lodge has made
the defalcation good and Mrs. W. II
LETTERS, of Zillah, formerly of this city, has
received the insurance of $1,000 which
was made in her name.
Says the Northwest horticultural: Mr.
Parker and Mr.. Reed did everything in
their power, with the limited means al
their disposal, to make the fair success
Mr.. Chapman, superintendent of the pa
vilIon, took great interest in his depart
ment, and made it very pleasant fol
everyone with whom he came in contact.
He is the right man in the right place
Now for strong pull for next year
With the experience that President Par
ker and Secretary Reed have gained from
this fair, and with liberal appropriation
from the legislature, we can rest assured
that the Washington State Fair will b,
second to none in tine United States.
Mrs. Rogers, wife of the Klickita
rancher who was arrested last weel