The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-03-12
THE LOCAL SKETCH-BOOK
Entertaining Bits Of Information Which
Were Found Within.
PEN PICTURES OF YAKIMA LIFE
All Sorts Of Paragraphs Gathered
in the Metropolis of Central w ASH
ington aad from the Great and
Fertile Country Surrounding It.

Frank Ashcraft left for the Sound on
Monday.
Born, March 9th, to Mr.. and Mis-.
Smiley Walden, daughter.
The foot ball game, between the High
School and the Ahtanum academy teams,
is off.
Frank d. Black, the new mayor Of Sc
attic is the owner OF considerable proper
ty in North Yakima.
II. b. Doust arrived from the Sound on
Saturday last to remain with his family
for a week or ten days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Sharpe, of Tacoma,
are visiting the family of Edward Whit
son. Mrs. Sharpe is Mrs. Wilson's
niece.
Col. A. G. Walker is favorably men.
toned for the nomination for assessor
on the republican ticket. The colonel
would make strong candidate.
The school in the Messenger building
on Second street, will be closed with
this month, and the pupils apportioned
to the Central and Columbia schools.
F. M. Spain on Tuesday instituted a
lodge of A. o. U. w. at Mabton. The
lodge starts out with membership of
sixteen, and promises well for the future
English Lutheran service will be held
on Sunday next at 80 p. ID. 10 st. Mich.
ael's church. The subject will be "The
Son of God in Tears" Everybody is
invited.
The Children of the Methodist church
will give an entertainment at the church
Friday evening, March 20. An interest.
ing program of songs and recitations will
be rendered.
Miss Maude Steiner, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Theodore Steiner, and Miss
Cora Black, will give a concert at the
Reed House, Gle Elum, Friday evening.
The program is an attractive one.
Claude Briggs has sold to Frank
Wheeler 1850 peach trees, and 100 APP
Piles of the Spitzenburg and Ben Davis
varieties. Another heavy purchaser was
Samuel Storrow who took 1000 winter
apples and 500 pears.
The findings of fact and conclusions Of
law in the Ahtanum water cases were
forwarded on Monday, by Attorneys
Whitson & Parker, TO Judge Sol Smith
for his signature. The matter will I'M
doubleday go to the supreme court.
The annual meeting OF the Library
Association will be held at the associa-
ton rooms in the Syndicate block on
Wednesday, March IS, at 1880 p. m.
Every member of the association is re-
quested to be present; officers for the en-
suing year will be elected.
During the absence of s. Schreiner in
Minnesota he visited many breweries and
sold his '95 crop of hops for and 51ac.,
and contracted some '96 hops at 8 cents.
Mr.. Schreiner says the Minnesota brew
ers are stocked up with hops for year
and half to come, and he understands
similar conditions exist all over the
country.
A silver medal contest ia to be held in
tho Chyiot;ap chuvoh Ep;day ayap;nr
March 9th, under the auspices OF the
w. G. 7. U. A class of boys and girls
have been in training for some time and
this is expected to be as creditable an en-
tertainment as any of those which have
have preceded it. The medal will be on
exhibition at Schindeler's jewelry store.
The second anniversary of the found
ing of the Women's club was celebrated
on Friday, the 9th inst, at the home OF
Mrs. F. G. Hall. There were solos by
Mrs. Gilbert, Mrs. Sperry and Mrs. Lesh,
and couple of quartettes by Mesdames
Gilbert, Horsley, Sperry and Lesh. Mrs.
Morrison reviewed the history of the
club, while dialect sketches were rem
dered by Mrs. Geo. Vance and Mrs. T..
M. Vance.
The Tustln-Adams land contest which
has been pending since 1889 has finally
been decided by the secretary OF the in
terror in favor OF the estate Of j. NJ.
Adams. The land comprises 100 acres
lying southwest Of the city and is valued
at $4,000. The fight for its possession
has been very bitter one and the right
full owners have ut last succeeded against
the Jumpers" Messrs. Whitson &
Parker represented the Adams estate.
Rev. B. E. Utz, OF Drake University,
Des Moines, has accepted the charge of
the Christian church of this city, and
will arrive here about May LIST. Rev. NJ.
L. Rose, who will leave for his new home in
Oregon early in April, says that Rev.
Utz comes most highly recommended, the
latest commentator coming In the form
of congratulations to the people of North
Yakima from a Tacoma pastor. who
speaks of Rev. Utz as highly educated,
Christian gentleman, blessed with a jewel
Of q wife.