Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-08-27

Miss Leona Nessly is visiting
friends at Almota this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Wenham are
the parents of another son, born a
few days ago.
Miss Winnie Wenham has gone to
Seattle to spend her vacation. She
Will be absent two weeks or more
Mr.. and Mrs. George Layman came
up from Almota and spent Sunday
in Pullman with relatives and
friends.
Mrs. J. D. Evans, of Colfax, was in
Pullman Tuesday. Mrs. Evans thinks
seriously of coming to Pullman to re-
side.
Mrs. James Hinchliff, Mrs. M. e.
Coleman and Miss Coleman spent last
Saturday visiting relatives near Col
fax.
Byron Hunter, of Walla Walla,
western representative of the depart
ment of agriculture in plant industry
research, was in Pullman the first
of the week.
Mrs. James Hinchliff is enjoying
a visit from her aunt, Mrs. Towns
! ley, who is here from the east, en-
route to the exposition at Seattle.
Phil. Harris, of the Herald compos-
ing room, accompanied by his fam
| lily is spending two weeks vacation
at Cheney, Medical Lake and points
in the Big Bend country, having left
Pullman last Sunday.
! George Kenou, proprietor of the
Jackson barber shop, received a
handsome gold watch as a birthday
present from his father Wednesday.
TT e watch is a handsome one and
was sent from San Francisco, Mr.,
Kenou's home.
w. F. Hickman, of near Almota,
was in town on business Saturday.
Mr.. Hickman reports harvest well
under way in his neighborhood and
much of the grain has been thresh-
ed. The yield has been satisfactory
Henry Anderson, of Tacoma, a
brother-in-law of e. w. Mccain, has
rented one of the Moss houses and
moved to Pullman, where the fam
lily will make their home MIR. An
derson comes here to send his child
rem to school.
Mrs. C. N. Hinchliff, of Colfax.
spent Wednesday of this week in
Pullman, the guest of here sister-in-
law, Mrs. James Hinchliff. Mrs.
Hinchliff's mother, Mrs. Steele, ac-
companied her to Pullman.
Mrs. Clara Ringer has sold her
cottage and five arce tract on South
Grand street to f. F. Burgess, of
Corvallis, Oregon, who bought it for
home and will move to Pullman to
educate his daughters.
j. M. Reid returned Monday night
from his ranch in Garfield county
opposite Wawawai. His renter there
has finished harvesting with a COM
bined machine. The wheat aver
aged about 40 bushels and the fall
barley averaged about so bushels.
The grain is of fine quality.
Rev. and Mrs. NJ. H. Marvin, of the
Methodist church, leave Monday for
Occur d'Alene to attend the annual
Columbia river conference. While
at Occur d'Alene they will be the
guests of Rev. and Mrs. w. f. Powell,
formerly of the Baptist church, Pull
man, and Rev. Mr.. Marvin will oc-
cupy the pulpit in the Baptist church
at Occur d'Alene one week from next
Sunday.
c. A. Price has finished cutting
the grain on his farm, with a com
bined machine. There was 10 acres
of wheat and it averaged more than
As bushels per acre, counting all of
the land, but there were several acres
of grain that was knocked down and
the combined machine would not
pick it up That was a total loss.
Had it not been for this loss the
yield would probably have averaged
more than so bushels per acre.