The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-11-07
A RBPORTER'S Note BOOK
Entertaining Bits Of Information Which
We're Found Within.
PEN PICTURES OF YAKIMA LIFE
All Sorts OF Paragraphs Gathered
In the Metropolis OF Central wash
ington ana from she Great and
Fertile Country Surrounding Il.

Agent Erwin was in the city from Fort
simcoe on Monday.
Mr.. Samuel Chappell was Spokane
visitor this week. leaving on Monday.
Preparations are being made for big
Thanksgiving ball at the Hotel Riverside
in Prosser, on November 20.
G. G. Carmichael left on Monday for
Salem, Ogn., on q hop buying expedition
He expects to be absent for some time.
Prosecutor Ormsbee. of Walla Walls
county, was in the city on Friday and
Saturday last, attending to matters con.
nected with the famous Edmiston case.
The use Of Halls Hair Remover pro.
notes the growth of the hair, aud re.
stores its natural colo- and beauty, frees
the scalp of dandruff, letter, and all i'm.
purities.
Rev. S. II. Cheadle AMI family are now
located in San Juan, Cal. Mr.. Cheadle
has promised to favor THE HERALD readers
with a descriptive letter of California,
which will also tell Of his change Of plans.
A cough which persists day after day,
should not be neglected any longer. 1t
means something more than q mere local
irritation, and the sooner it is relieved the
better. Take Ayers Cherry Pectoral. 1t
is prompt to act and sure to cure.
Beginning at 10 a. m. on Saturday and
continuing ovett Sunday the county
Sunday school convention will occupy the
Methodist church and Mason's opera
house. Delegations from every district
and church in the county are expected,
and the sessions will no doubt be very
interesting.
The Messenger Second street stone
building, which was to have been, event
ually, two story structure, is fast APP
preaching completion as one story af-
fair. The cornice and roof were added
last week, and work is being rushed so
that it may be Immediately occupied as
public school annex.
Thomas Lund hitched his horse to the
fence inside ofthe fair grounds on Satur-
day last, while he attended the populist
picnic, but when he come to leave he dis
covered that someone had stolen the tugs
from his harness. He is certain the thef
was pouplist, for he SAYS had it been q
republican or democrat the entire rig
would have been missing.
Prossar American: "Ducrot, Tunis," ia
name that graces the register of the
Riverside. The gentleman whom it rep.
resents was French soldier, fighting in
Madagascar; some two or three months
ago he resigned on account of some
trouble he had had with superior off.
Ger, and came to America. He is work.
ing his way across the continent, and APP
peared in Prosser in the full uniform of
French soldier.
Mr.. George Meridian, of Vancouver,
Wash, arrived in the city on Friday last
and is looking about the country, on
which he has kept posted through the
medium of THE HERALD, with view to
investment. He reports that prune grow
ing in Clarke county has proven the only
profitable industry during the past year
and that 600 tons of prunes have been
shipped from that point in car load lots.
The top price paid for Petits was cents
while the Italians brought AZ cents.
Hops on the New York market have
ranged at 7@sc during the past week,
although exchanges report three or four
transfers at Toe; the latter figure was.
however, exceptional. The New York
Tribune of October 20 quotes the follow
ing market prices: State and Pacific
coast, 1895, choice. 91S@10c, do medium
to prime, 7@s1ac; State and Pacific coast.
1894, choice, 6Ia@7c; do good to prime.
5@6c; do common to fair, 3T@41ac; do
1893, 21a@4c.
Home and Country: "Among those who
have been 30 fortunate as to hear Capt.
Jack Crawford. the Poet Scout, there can
be no divergence Of opinion as to his
merits. He is without a peer in his class
upon the platform, the best single enter
tainer in the world-not only among his
own countrymen but in Europe, where he
spent a season, appearing before the no.
bility aud having among his audiences
the leading archbishops and churchmen.
The encomiums he received-press and
individual-were such as few, If any,
Americans were ever accorded "across
the pond" Without fear OF successful
contradiction, we venture to say that he
is the only man who cannot weary an
audience in three hours every one at the
close OF his performance manifesting, in
no uncertain way, a hunger for more OF his
rich, soul-stiring material-all the product
OF his c-n brain and pen, and rendered
as no one else conld." Captain Crawford
will appear at Mason's opera house Sat
urday evening next. Admission 80 cents !;
reserved seats rs cents; gallery % cents.