The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-09-02

The board OF state fair commissioners
will hold meeting next Monday.
J. w. Peck is over from Tacoma this
week looking after matters on his large
Mckee ranch.
Mr.. Hougb, Of the banking firm Of
Miller & Hough, paid EIlensburg brief
business visit on Saturday last.
w. I. Lince and family returned home
from Soda Springs after very pleasant
outing Of several weeks duration.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
L. Tucker is confined to her home by
sickness, but is reported as improving.
Mrs. Coombs, Miss Durham and Mr..
and Mrs. Ase Schwartze have returned
from their outing at the Simcoe soda
springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. p. Wilcox arrived
home from their trip to Minnesota and
other eastern states on Wednesday morn
ing.
E. F. Benson, Of Tacoma, was Yak
ina visitor several days the first Of the
week, looking after the interests Of the
Northern Pacific.
The families OF A. F. Smelling and
Harry Worries returned from their out.
ing up the Cowychee last Sunday. They
were driven home by the forest fires.
The date of the county Sunday school
convention has been fixed for October 8
and 10, and it is definitely settled that
State President Merritt will be here to
take prominent part.
G. D. Murane has returned from an
extended trip through the Okanogan and
Colville country and into Idaho, Mon
tana and Oregon. He says it is hard
matter to find better place than North
Yakima.
Ben Rosenfeld, representing San
Francisco wholesale house, was in the
city Saturday, seeking trade and visiting
relatives. He is brother of Dams, and
brings word of slight gain in the con-
dition OF their father. whom he saw in
Portland few DAYS ago.
H. J. snively and wife and Miss Jen.
ME Snively were Sound visitors the latter
part of last week. Mr.. Snively went
over to meet with the state board of con.
troll, which is making tour Of the state,
looking into matters in the public insti-
tutions. Miss Jennie will remain in Ia
coma. where she will attend the Annie
Wright seminary the ensuing year.
Go dendale Agriculturist: Fred Bond
and Ii. j. Rand, of North Yakima, were
in our county lah. week buying beef
stock. While here they purchased a
large load of hams and bacon OF mer
chant Sam Waters, which was taken to
Yakima by Mr.. Rhodes, or. Mr.. Bond
is a brother-in-law of H. N. Davies, our
hardware man.
Darwin Redfeld and Johnny Van
Sickle had an experience last Tuesday
which they will be apt to remember for a
long time. They had been out over the
school section with horse and cart
looking for place to pick hops, and
were on their way home, when their
horse became frightened near the stock
yards and proceede to kick the cart and
harness into about thousand pieces.
The boys are badly bruised up, and had a
very narrow escape from serious injury.
The Columbia River conference of the
M. f. church closed it's session at Pen
dleton, Or, on Monday. Rev. Robert
Warner was reappointed presiding elder
for this district. Rev. N. Evans has
been transferred to Goldendale, and Rev.
U. +. Hawk appointed to fill the North
Yakima charge. Rev. G. NJ. Booth has
been sent to Moscow, and Rev. J. W.
Helm will fill Mr.. Booths vacancy at
Fort Simcoe. Rev. NJ. H. Marvin was
returned to fill the Ellen sburg charge,
and A. L. Burrill that at Prosser.
Our Iural mali ChIIlele hhue tuciI
monthly report yesterday, which shows
that total number OF 1896 pieces Of
mail were carried during the month OF
August. This 10 the fifth month the ser.
vice has been in operation, and during
that time SO ,4SO pieces of mail have been
handled by the two carriers. A. w.
Brewer has the west side route and
Frank Lippincott still continues to serve
the people in the eastern suburbs, and it
is safe to say that no more welcome Wis
itor comes than these two. The service
was begun as an experiment on April l
of this year, and was at first intended to
last only three months, but it has been
ordered continued to July /, 1898. 1t is
being carried on at about forty different
places within an appropriation Of $50, 600
1t is estimated that $50 ,OOO, 900 would be
required to provide rural free delivery all
over the United States, and that it would
give employment to zoe, 1000. persons.