The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-12-07
CONDENSED LOCALS.

Mrs. 6rosscup OF Tacoma Is staying
in the city for afew days.
Hal Weber came up from Sunnyside
last Thursday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. o. Gull are preparing
for an extended trip to their old home
in Missouri
Final naturalization papers were tax
en- out last Thursday by John Kennedy,
well known in the city.
Mrs. j. McNefr and Mrs. Fred Alter
are spending a couple of weeks at the
Green River hot springs.
Harry Coonse, county assessor. re-
turned last week from brief visit to
his old home in indianapolis.
Z. T. Reese of Spokane, formerly a
resident of North Yakima, was in the
city for a day or two last week.
Justice Taggard on last Wednesday
evening married S. T. Hays and Miss
Orpha Hoge, both of Ellensburg.
Miss Ida Sharkey and Hazel Williams
entertained the members of the Y. r. c.
Sorority and their escorts at Miss
Sharkey's home, 200 North Sixth street
last Saturday evening.
This "wednesday evening Mrs. \. B.
Cline and Mrs. William Scott are enter
tanning large numebr of their friends
at reception. the first of a series, and
which is known as a Shakespeare par
ty."
Harry Morris. aged &C. died of ty-
phod fever at the home of his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Morris, on North
First street, last Thursday. Interment
was had in Tahoma cemetery last Fri
day.
w. P. Murphy. deputy head consul
of the Modern Woodmen of America.
recently returned from the Wenas val
ley where he organized his fifteenth
camp of the NJ w. A. The new lodge
starts out with a charter membership
of Al.
Charles Russell and C. W. Parks. who
it is alleged held up and robbed II. Neal
were taken before Judge Taggard last
Thursday morning. Both waived exam
nation and were committed to jail, their
trial to come up on a date to be set
later.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. I. Lince Delightfully."-
entertained the Rathbone Sisters at
their home on South Matches avenue
last Wednesday evening. Cards and mu
sic aided in the entertainment, and re-
freshments were served, about fifty
guests enjoying the occasion. A num-
Der of similar affairs are planned for
the coming season by the Rathbone Sis
tiers.
Charles Thompson, recently arrived
from Tacoma, who is putting up a
building to be used as laundry on
South Second street, near the postoffice,
is pushing the work on the building as
rapidly as possible. The machinery,
which is all of the most modern de-
sign, is expected to arrive soon, and Mr..
Thompson expects to have the laundry
in operation by the first of January.
1t is said that the bank of Toppenish.
of which mention was made in last
weeks Herald, will be started by +. A.
Williams, and that stock will be taken
by number of local capitalists. There
is every reason to believe that bank
would do a good business in the thirty
ing little town of Toppenish and its
convenience would certainly be appre-
ciated by the farmers and shippers VINO
would patronze it.
A movement is on foot to organize an
association whose object will be the
improvement and identifying of Taho
ma cemetery. There is much that such
an association can do in the coming
year, and it is said the plan of the pro
moters is to work in conjunction with
the city's sexton, and to see that the
lots and roadways through the cemetery
are kept in better shape. A call for a
meeting to consider the matter will
soon be published
]. f. Hooper migration agent of the
o. r. & n. road, arrived in Yakima last
Thursday morning and is looking after
number of parties who contemplate
visiting the section of Idaho near Sno-
shone, which was recently brought I'M
der irrigation by the Twin Falls Irriga-
ton company. The canal built by this
company is 100 feet wide at the top, so
feet at the bottom and now carries ten
feet of water. 1t will water 10000
acres The land sells for so cents an