The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-11
SOUTHERNERS TO
SEE THIS VALLEY
Representative Crowd From All Over
Dixie Land Coming on Louisville
and Nashville Excursion.

a party of 100 southern people, ex-
cursionists seeing the northwest under
the guiding influence of the Louis
willie and Nashville road, will arrive
here at 7.S5 Friday morning. August
90. They will leave at noon. accord
ing to G.. \. Worthington. the ticket
agent in Louisville. Ky, the tourists
are a representative crowd of southern
citizens and among other things they
are going to see Yakima, because
they have learned at home that to see
Yakima is to learn all there is to know
about irrigation.
Here is what these people read
about this neighborhood in the little
folder guide book distributed by the
railroad:
1.-THE tourists will be well repaid in
making trip to the irrigated vine
yards. orchards, and fields of this rich
and interesting valley. This is the
most opportune season to see the
wonderful pruductivencss of this re-
gior. which is due to highly develop
ed system of irrigation. Intense farm
developed here along the most mod
ern. scientific lines. and the tourists
will see results secured from ten acres
that are rarely secured from one hun
dred acres in the older eastern coun-
try
Among those who will visit here are
the following:
Mrs s. II. Paxton and niece, Will
mot, Miss; Misses Thomlinson Char
lesion, s. c.; Miss Bertin New Or
leans, La; Misses Ford. Lynchburg.
Va; Mr.. and Mrs. II. w Powers.
Bristol, Tenn; Mr.. r.. L. Poston,
Statesville, N. c.; Miss Ella Isabel
Hyams, Charleston, s. c.. Mrs f. II.
Perkins, Jr., New Orleans. La: Miss
Caroline Richardson, New Orleans,
La; Misses Gildersleeve johnson City,
Tenn; Mrs Little p. Cargille, johnson
City. Tenn: Miss Burbage, johnson
City, Tenn; Miss Fannie Cade Cog
gins, Canton, Ga; Mrs. Thos. Hut
cherson. Canton. Ga: Mr. J. w. Lynch,
Jr., Halltown, Va; Mr.. w. J. Ramage,
Knoxville, Tenn; Miss Ida Andrew,
Knoxville, Tenn; Miss Lydia f. Fret
scher and sister, New Orleans. La;
Mrs. Hubbard's party of seven, Hick-
man Ky; Mr. and Mrs. X. l.. Penning-
ton, JonesvilIe. Va; Mr.. Homer c.
Amerine, Townsend, Tenn; Misses
Mary and A. X. Hardy. johnson city.
Tenn; Mrs. Cornelia Crowder John
son City Tenn; Mr.. and Mrs. l.. ID.
Campbell. Cleveland. Tenn. Mr.. and
Mrs. N. II. Perkins Williamsburg, Ky;
Mr.. Jas. M. Ritter, Jonesboro, Tenn:
Mrs. and Miss White, Chattanooga.
Tenn; Miss Allie o. Brown, Jonesville.
Va: Mrs. James Pitt. Knoxville.
Tenn; Misses Ross. Macon, Ga; Mrs.
Mittie Wynne, Fort Valley, Ga; Miss
Tiller and party of 4, Mullins, S. c.:
Mr. j. f. Hart. Jr., Madison, Ga:
Mrs. s. ID. Cawthon, De Funialo
Springs Fla; Mrs. S. II. Holston. Nor
ristown. Tenn; Mr.. and Mrs. Sam c.
Hodges, Bristol. Tenn; Mr. and Mrs.
c. G. Wayland. Knoxville. Tenn. DR..
and Mrs. G. Fl. Gordon, Knoxville.
Tenn. Mrs. V. A. Fain, Knoxville,
Tenn; Miss Katherine Mullingan,
Knoxville, Tenn; Miss Grace Miller,
Knoxville, Tenn; Miss Laura Thorn
burg, Knoxville, Tenn; Miss Leta
Gray. Fort Valley Ga; Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Richardson. Newport. Tenn.
Miss Elizabeth Haynes. Boyds Creek.
Tenn; DR.. Donaldson and son, South
Rockford, Tenn; Mr.. C. 3. Elarbee,
Ella Bell. Ga; Mrs. L.. w. Goddard,
Griffin, Ga: Miss Rosie Wade, Athens,
G =; Miss Luna Lovett, Atlanta. Ga;
Miss Maud Marable, Athens. Ga; Mr..
and Mrs. Simonton, Adarrsvllle, Ga;
Miss Annie Collins. Waycross, Ga:
Mrs. Shaw. Waycross. Ga; Miss Daisy
Allen, Mullins, s. c.; Mrs. j. l.. Manor.
Newport Tenn.