The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-08
REPOR3ORIAL FANCIES
Brief Bits Of News Gathered From the
Highways and ByVays Of Life.
PERSONAL and IMPERS0EAL JOTTINGS
"News'' IL Something That L. Not
Generally known and Here Read.
ers Of ssThe Herald" Will find q
Couple Of Columns of IL.

J. D. Daley, the well known conner
cisl traveller is in the city.
Born, Wednesday, June 9th, to Mr.
and Mrs. r. F. Taylor, Of the Wenas,
con.
J. A. Macarthur and bride returned
from their wedding trip to the sound OF
Saturday last.
Mrs. Edward Whtson and childrer
will leave early next week on a visit t
relatives in Tacoma and Seattle.
J. B. Taylor and Theodore Mondor o
Tampico have ordered q complete thresh
ing outfit of Russell & Co., of Portland.
S. S. Purdy left last week for Vancouv
er, B. G. His place as Western Unior
operator is being filed by Mr.. Heise
from Toppenish.
W. H. Kershaw has retired from thu
butchering business having sold his mar
ket to j. A. Noble, cattleman of Yski
ma City, who took possession on the 9Th
Mr.. and Mrs. +. l.. Van Dusen, Mis-,
Van Dusen and F. L., Jr., left last weei
for Seattle, where they expect to make
their home If the conditions are favor
able.
That boy! Who shall have him" vii
be the theme at the M. E. church Sunday
evening. Sabbath school at 10 q. m
Preaching at IL a. m. and 8 p. m. Ep
worth League p. m.
1t is reported that A. B. Wyckof hat
secured bond on the Floudine group Of
mines in the Swsuk district and that al
stock has been withdrawn from the
market. Mr.. Wyckoff paid visit to the
property during the past week.
At the Congregational church next
Sunday the following subjects of interest
will be considered. In the morning
"The Religion that Saves" in the even.
ing, "The Millennium and the Coming
of the Kingdom" Both addresses will
be given by the pastor.
w. A. Giddings, graduate of the col
lege OF Dental Surgery, Chicago, has re-
turned to Yakima, accompanied by bis
wife, and has opened dental parlors in
the Lewis Engle block. over the store oil
Moore & Moore, and is now prepared to
attend to work in his line.
Alex Mclean and Joseph Metzger left
on Sunday for the Fish Lake district.
They were delayed some days by Nc.
Leans loosing his horses which were
finally found in the pound. 1t is unnec-
essary to say that the atmosphere in that
neighborhood was sulphuric for some
time afterwards.
The celebration on the Fourth on the
reservation was not up to the usual
standard, owing to differences among the
Indians, which resulted in two celebra.
tons being held, one at Toppenish and
the other at Fort Simcoe, neither OF
which is attracting much attention or in
terest, although the horse racing and
sports are still being carried on.
On Wednesday, the ten-year old son Of
Mrs. Harkins, who lives on 7th street
attempted to ride s. G. Henton's horse
1t was his first effort and the horse re.
cognizing an inexperienced rider started
off ON gallop. The lad was unable to
maintain his seat and fell off with the
result of frscturing his right arm. Drs.
Rosser and Hill set the broken bone and
the little fellow is doing nicely but has
concluded that he not was cut out for g
horseman.
The hopyards around Puysllup were
never before 80 lousy, says the Puyallur
Citizen. Complete arrangements through.
out the district have been made for thor.
ough spraying, and there is determine.
ton to make good samples. Regardless
of depressing market conditions, there il
a more hopeful feeling among me gro .ers
Never since 80 have the vines been more
vigorous, or given promise OF such a
good yield, and were it not for the lice
the yield would be unprecedented. Trim.
ming and training is going on in all the
neighboring yards.
Prof. R. W. Doane. assistant in the
department of botany and zoology OF the
state agricultural college, writes to d.
Have, of Yakima, as follows: "After
the worms have once reached the corn
there is nothing you can do to destroy
them but to go over the field carefully
and kill them by hand. This may seem
a slow process but it is the only one that
can be recommended. If you go over the
field now while the corn is in silk the
presence of the worms can be detected by
the silk being prematurely dry or by its
being partly eaten. feel quite sure il
will pay you to do this or they will be g
source of annoyance to you all summer.
After the crop is harvested give the field
late fall blowing. This will do much
to lessen the number that would other
wise appear next spring as it would ex.
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