The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-05-24
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

MT. anu MIS-. II. II. AIlen were WIS.,
itors on the Sound over Sunday.
Agent M. 8. Meeks of the Northern
Pacific spent Sunday in Spokane.
Attorney W. H. Mason came from
Prosser on legal business Monday.
Mrs. Gilbert of Seattle is visiting
Mrs. Joseph Metzger for fe W days.
Robert l.. Allen and Miss Ida L..
Jack were granted marriage license
last Saturday.
j. F. Simmons of this place has
sold his Montana clip of wool on the
sleeps backs for % cents a pound
Commander Cavanaugh of the dis
trict of Washington and Alaska,
Grand Army of the Republic, whose
home is in Prosser, paid an official
visit to the local G. A. r. post last
evening.
Henry Otter returned last week
from a visit with relatives at Sub
Unity, Oregon. After closing up
some business matters here, he in
tends to return to Sublimity, to re-
main for some time.
The sixth grade of the Columbia
school and the sixth Of the Lin
coin school, taught by Miss McKin-
ney and Miss Forman, Joined in a pic
mic last Saturday. The youngsters
haI
Miss Helen Scott returned Friday
from California. She has been at
tending the university at Berkeley
the past year, and has come home to
spend the summer with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. r. Scott.
Miss Laura Burbank, member of
the high school graduating class,
will be unable to be present at the
commencement exercises this year
owing to the fact that she is quar-
antined at home from scarletina.
The new business block being
erected by A. E. Larsen and Jasper
Mikkleson on Second street is pro-
crossing rapidly, and will soon be
ready for occupancy. The cement
sidewalk in front of the property is
being laid this week
w. w. Scott of Centralia, ILL.,, is
here on visit with his sister and
daughter. the Misses Scott of the
photograph studio. He is very
favorably impressed with the Yaki-
ma valley, and intends to buy land
near the city for home for himself
and family.
Miss Beth Willis and Miss May
Myhan of Tacoma are visiting Mrs.
Wallace Wiley and Mrs. ]. Howard
Wright, old college friends, in this
city for a few days. Both are EN-
pioyed as teachers in the Roslyn
schools, which are now closed for
the summer vacation.
+ At the First Presbyterian church
next Sunday morning the pastor,
Rev. F. l.. Hayden, will speak upon
"The Immortality of Influence" In
the evening will be given the second
of the series on Men Who Have
Made the World" the subject of this
discourse being Victory Out of De-
feat"
Mayor fletcher has received official
notification of the setting apart Of
June 2S, as Yakima Day
at the Lewis and Clark Exposition.
The letter of notification also in
cludes cordial invitation to all
Yakima people to attend the fair at
a time that will permit them to be
present on this day.
H. V. Human, register Of the land
office, who underwent an operation
last week, is improving rapidly, and
it is expected that he will soon be
able to attend to his official duties
again. During his illness business
in the land Office has been delayed,
no provision being made by the de-
partment to cover absence of a re-
Mrs. S. B. Beadle oneday last
week left at The Herald Office bou-
luet of roses that won the admiration
0, all who saw them. They we're
from her gardens at the east end of
D street. which at this season Of the
rear is a thing of beauty. Many of