The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-11-15
OUR LOCAL GRAB BAG
Ia II are Found Stories Of Home Life
Entertaininsly Told.
DILIGEET REPORTERS FIND A FEAST
city and Country Searched For
News ta Please 1.-THE Herald,s',
Many Headers and the Result will
Prove How Diiigent wasthe Quest

f. A. Phillips has opened a new meat
market at Mabton.
A hall for all public purposes is being
erected in Mabton.
Mrs. Joseph Stephenson is in Portlan d
receiving medical treatment.
Mr.. AL KATE is in Tacoma this week,
having left Yakima on Mondays train.
With Deputy Marshal Catron to Walla
Wala went 30 prisoners, last week, held
for selling whisky to Indians.
A young son OF w. l.. Stabler is suffer
ing from broken leg which he sustained
on the 3rd inst. by falling from a hay
now
| Rev. Daniel Mackinnon, of Ellensburg,
and Rev. Alfred Brown OF st. Michael's
Episcopal church of this city exchanged
pulpits on Sunday last.
The american says that colonization
deal is we'll under way whereby forty-two
families from Illinois will be located on
the lands under the Prosser Falls Irriga-
ton company's ditch.
| Cards are out foi the marriage OF Prince
Harris, secretary Of the Prosser Falls IT.
rigation company and Miss Edna Rich,
daughter of County Commissioner elect
Nelson Rich. The wedding will be cole
brated December 10th.
The constant drop OF water wears away
the hardest stone; the constant gnaw oi
Towser masticates the toughest bone.
The constant cooling lover carries off the
blushing maid; and the constant adver-
tiser is the one who gets the trade.
One more OF Yakima's newspaper enter
prises has gone where the woodbine twin
eth and the whangdoodle mourneth for
| its lost one. This time it is the Independ'
snt that came 10 the conclusion that
''long felt wants. had been long satisfied.
The Mabton Stock Ranch company
organized by Y. L. Sullivan, 7. w. Howell,
S. b. Smith and eastern capitalists have
purchased sixty acres OF land from Frank
Lafayette upon which to start a Stock
ranch. They will begin improvements at
once, the lumber and material for water
wheel being already ordered.
There were twelve applicants for teach
ers' certificates at the examination con-
Quoted by Superintendent Lawrence in
this city, on Saturday last, and all but
two were successful Mrs. g. ii. Knup-
penburg and A. ID. Wheaton received
second grade certificates and third grade
certificates were granted to Miss Florence
Cameron, Miss Marguerite Carey, Miss
Eva Lampson, Mrs. Fife McCracken, J.
w. Day, James Meyers, M, M. Francis
ard J. II. B. Clark. A certificate was
granted to Miss Edith Allen ON the basis
of state certificate from West Virginia.
Thomas & Shorts latest quotations to
| TIE HERALD show that from 5000 to 1000
bales of states and Pscifics have arrived
have been sold at from s u to 1034 cents.
The deficiency of choice English leaves a
good opening for yellow and yellowish-
green sound hops from the states and Pa
cific coast. Brown hops should not be
shipped there, there being already glut
of these of the home crop. The great re-
qurement is for hops suitable for pale al.
brewing. They anticipate good de-
mand for such and advise holders OF suit
able hops to ship at once to catch the
early market.
| North Yakima is becoming city Of
school houses as we'll as sunshine. From
Col. Howlett's cottage on the hill to the
west OF the city, the reporter on Sunday
was shown seven buildings where the
young idea is taught Nimrodean tactics.
They were the Mob Hill, the School Sec
ton, Yakima City, Mckee, Columbia,
Central and the new two-story structure
off toward the painted rocks. OF course,
there were several hid from sight by the
foothills; but seven were plainly visible,
and that is indication enough of one of
the causes OF Yakima's progress, pros-
perity and development. knowledge is
power"
The state board of horticulture advises
Tor rather, orders) all fruit trees to be
sprayed this fall, and again in the early
spring; upon the ground that the San
Jose, oyster shell or woody aphis can best
he utterly annihilated by such practice.
The Legislature OF Washington has pro-
vided suitable penalty for disobedience
to the mandates of the state board, and
growers should therefore note this sug-
gestion. For all practical purposes the
following Ingredients compose splendid
wash: Unslacked lime, 40 or go pounds
sulphur, best powdered, 20 pounds; salt,
10 pounds; concentrated I've, American
Lye Co. brand, 2 pounds; water to make
60 gallons. When 60 pounds instead of
40 pounds OF lime are used, the solution
has a whittier appearance and the operator
can better detect when every limb has
been DroneFly treated