The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-12-27
IIA1IRs NDNsY FEAST,
aiglliF Festival Of Many Good
Things
SPREAD BEFORE HERALD" PATRONS
Whas Your sisters and xsur Ceus-
tns and Your Auass Are Doing
This week--s.issie side ISSUES Of
lasersss 90 Ati.

The proposed prize hunt and ball has
Y been abandoned. 49,.
Miss Lake, Of Seattle, is the guest Of
!. her friend, Mrs. II. X. Owens, Of this
!. city.
The marriage Of VIM. Lee, jr., and Miss
Paine is announced for the early days OF
1895.
The w. @. T. U. will meet at the home
of Mrs. Greenwslt Wednesday, January
( 9. at 8 O'Clock.
Hogan and T. c. OConnor. OF
rg, were Christmas visitors in
Ati@pa.
Dell Hiscock has returned from Ia
oma, where he passed Christmas pleas
antly with relatives.
@. II. Hyde, the well known Tacoma
Wholesale grocer, was in the city on bus
mess on Wednesday.
Fred Mehler left on Saturday morning
for visit OF two months or more at his
cid home in Germany.
The next social of the Commercial club
will be'held on Wednesday evening, Jan.
;, '95, at the club parlors.
Mrs. H. A. Griffin, assisted by Mrs.
ala Willis and Mrs. Percival, will receive
New Years day, to 5 p. m.
Rev. ]. T. Eshelman arrived from Ia
oma on Wednesday to spend the closing
,ys OF the old year with relatives and
ENDS.
I The Presbyterians VIII observe New
Years night with thanks offering So
S4cieI, the programme embracing music,
4 d Se-minute talks by E. +. Benson, J. d.
Cornett, John Sawbridge and J. Young.
and recitations by w. A. Wallace, Miss
1 Miles and Miss Mary Young.
Capt. Fred r. Reed left on Thursday
for the east, having been called there on
business which pro nises to result greatly
to the benefit Of Yakima county. Capt
Reed Is always a-hustling, and in the
end he will land himself and Yakima in
4 the glory seats of prosperity.
A three-round sparring match with
four-ounce gloves was fought ON Saturday
Ilevening vt a city livery stable by negro
land q white mantle son of Ethiopia
being the winner. 1t is understood that
the gate receipts" were quite large, al
Though the matter was kept very shady.
4 Miss Senova Fulkerson, who has been
Z Coaching school in the Natcheez, has just
pished her term; but the directors and
|me of the parents of her pupils were
much pleased with her work that they
lployed her for three months longer--a
fitting compliment to the ability of the
Young lady.
That very much out.of-dats perform
lance, Uncle Toms Cabin" occupied
1.-The boards and attracted good-sized
audience at Mason's Wednesday night
III Yakima had suitable thea.rical accom-
= stions she would secure performances
ehsr thaa - which should have been
of thirty years ago.
ere, sir, is the finest whisky that
leased the palate Of man." said
Ivan Of the alfalfa" on Christ
y as he passed a bottle of "Old
to, The HERALD Representative,
remember, sir, it il only for medici-
purposes" and forthwith The HERALD
man and his immediate friends
en- and got cured. In the phraseology
II the day. "it is out Of sight"
The syphon Of the Yakima Valley Ca
nal company ut the painted rocks is Pc
tulisrly constructed affair from an acous-
y standpoint. One standing at either
I'd may speak or shout into it. and after
Ay ten seconds bis words ere repeated
stinctly In every syllable. Every sound
we : whistle is echoed back in ladgha-
e and gutteral tones; and the sensation
mtitcd y all the more startling if one
not prepared for it, because Of the
- which elapses after speaking before
sscho II heard.
Secretary @. A. Tonneson, OF the state
.rd OF horticulture, has discovered q
disease in fruit trees which he says
just beginping to make it's appearance
ne orchards OF the state. Black spots
appay frst on the bark OF the trees and
refntiy the bark dies and the trees be-
n rot under the spots. He thinks
Pc disease 10 what is known as "sour
81 II caused by the unfavorable condi-
Ion of the soil in certain sections. Mr..
onreson has sent specimen to an ex-
pert il San Francisco 10 the hope of &C.
s5lnx 4 remedy.
brspofted that the Water, Light and
Powf company has under consideration
the Obstruction OF one or two reservoirs,
tie bdt2acsd Upon the highest points of
the Tfie Heilew lapds not irrigated by
he Wilma Valley Canal company's
new Flfh, Tor the use of suburban resi-
ientd Pipeisying and excavation there
rwfM coet but little. and the service
Ahdassd owners would be admirable.
sssrt James III. Gilbert and Chester A.
Z agdSa are two gentlemen who propose
2 take f3autage of any such opportu-
Y 5ity. tl,h Having lately decided to put in
some nv orchards upon lands which