The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-02-17
NORTH YAKIMA AND VICINITY

pany, +. A. Hall has purchased the ten
acre farm on Mob Hill of VIM. HEM
melsbach, the price paid being $4,000.
Lester Coffin was in the city for a
few days the first of the week, visiting
relatives while or his way with his
family to their new home in Berkeley,
California.
c. +. Jones, formerly well known
commission man of this city. has pur-
chased the drug business of Stewart &
Holmes Co., of Tacoma and viii make
that point his home.
Rev. H. NJ. Bartlett came all the way
from kennewick last Sunday to fill the
pulpit at the Episcopal church He will
endeavor to do the same thing every
Sunday until after Easter
Arthur Pease, who has been in Spo-
kane the past six months, has returned
to North Yakima and accepted posi-
ton with the Yakima Grocery Co. His
family will follow little later.
The cold weather of Friday night COM
PEELED several hoboes to apply to the city
marshal for lodging. They were ac-
commodated at the city prison ana or
dered to leave town in the morning.
! The Deaconess Aid society will meet
| Tuesday afternoon, February %, at $50
o'clock with Mrs. Richev, BOG north Ma
ches avenue. All should come prepared
to sew, as there is work to be done
| Everyone cordially invited to be present
| Ed. +. White of Seattle. formerly a
merchant in this city. was i'll the city
the first of the week soliciting orders for
merchant tailoring. He has not been
here before for about five years and
said the improvements We're so marked
that he hardly knew the town.
| The school board has awarded the con-
| tract for moving the portable school
/ houses Nos. and ) from the Columbia
| school grounds to the lots on north Ma
ches avenue, to W. W. Pettijohn for
| SO, the buildings to be set up and ready
for occupancy by next Saturday, the
Goth.
/ First Church of Christ. Scientist. Bird
/ street between \ and B streets Rcgu-
/ lar services, Sunday morning, / a. M;
Wednesday evening, 1:45 p. M. Sun
| day school for the children. 10 a. III.
Subject of lesson sermon this week is:
Christ Jesus The public is cordial
| ly invited.
Died. at his home in this city. Friday,
February II. 1904, Eugene Rose, aged
43 years. Mr.. Rose had been sick for
! several months, the cause of his death
being kidney disease He leaves a wife
/ and several children The funeral ser.
vices were held from the Salvation Army
/ barracks at o'clock Sunday afternoon
\ Prosser dispatch of last Friday
says that the Washington Irrigation
company has advertised for bids to clear
/ the rock and gravel from about five
miles of their ditch extension opposite
/ Prosser. 1t is estimated that from 80
to loo men will be needed on this work
which will take two or three months
with such force to complete it.
+. Groshen, the reservation farmer
who recently returned from the Imperial
country in California, has disposed of his
/ lj00-acre lease to Seattle parties and
/ will 90 to California to live. having ac-
/ quired large land interests there Mr.
I Groshen has sold 40 acres of his Selah
valley farm to George Mitchell for SS5
an acre. Mr. Mitchell will put 20 acres
of the tract into hops.
A pleasant surprise party was held
one evening last week at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Mills, 507 north First
street, the occasion being surprise to
Misses Mabel and Hazel Mills. Refresh
ments were served and the evening was
most pleasantly spent. Finch was one
of the games played, Miss Mabel Mills
and Harry Fox taking the prizes. Those
present were Misses Vica Castor Lulu
McNeice, Eva WATSON, Ernie Greenwood,
jeanette. Hazel and Mabel Mills and
Masters Guy Navarro, Joe Sandmeyer,
Roscoe Adams. Chester Adams, Ches-
ter Mills, Clyde Davis and Harry Fox.
Clean Grain