The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-09-15

He is employed by the \. w. Light
& Water company.
Mrs. G. A. Graham and Miss Clara
Graham came to North Yakima Mon
day from Seattle to attend to several
| business matters which have been
awaiting their attention.
Egg plants, the finest ever seen in
Yakima. were shipped Monday by the
Horticultural Union to the Yakima
county building at the A.-Y.-P. The
plants were in a corn crate and it
took just a dozen to fill the crate.
John Michels has returned to North
Yakima from Seattle where he has
been for two or three weeks. He will
remain here for a couple of weeks and
will then go to Santa Barbara, Cal,
where his family is spending it's time.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. H. Hess leave this
morning for Phoenix, Ariz.. to spend
the winter Mrs. Hess is recovering
from an attack of pneumonia. and the
move is made in the hopes that her
health may be benefited. They have
rented their home at 3O5 Seventh ave-
nue. south.
At the Christian church Sunday
x.
talks were given by Miss Edna Dale.
returned missionary from China Miss
Dale is planning to return to her work
there after the centennial convention
of the Church of Christ, at Pittsburg.
october 8. While here Mr.. and Mrs.
A. C. Vail of the Selah gave Miss Dale
$1,000 for public library she is in
shutting at WI HUI, Chine.
Gov. S. ]. Lowe has returned to
North Yakima from his retreat in the
hills near Soda Springs He is looking
as he did years ago but says he swal
lowed lot of valuble dust on his drive
in. There has been rain at the Springs
and the season has changed so that
campers have all come in. There are
but one or two families at the Springs.
After attending to a few business mat
ters Mr.. Lowe will go to Sea- to pass
judgment on the fair.
Car Inspector w. E. Parsons of the
Northern Pacific railroad has got a
vacuum cleaner and proposes to do a
few stunts in car cleaning that will
surprise the best housekeepers of
North Yakima. Mr.. Parsons has been
wrestling with the Sunnyside dust
brought to North Yakima on the cal
falfa limited" and finds that all old
fashioned methods of handling it are
inadequate. If he can't get away with
it with the vacuum cleaner ne says
he will let it go and convert the cars
into green houses.
d. NJ. Rand, chairman of the board
of education of North Yakima pro-
poses to make an extended trip east.
last evening he asked PERMISSION from
the board for an absence. Mr. Rand
will first visit his old home in New
Hampshire and from there will travel
down the coast as far as the Carolinas
and will be absent probably several
weeks.
Not all the travellers from the east
over the Northern Pacific railroad stop
at North Yakima. A tranload of peo-
pie sightseers from Pennsylvania pas
sed through North Yakima shortly be-
fore midnight last night on their way
to Seattle to see the fair. A few late
ones in the party got out and saw
what they could of Yakima but that
was ALL
Hylas Henry, son of Rev. A. Fl
Henry, who has been studying at
Northwestern University in Illinois, is
to take an engineering course this
year at Whitman college.
C. H. Morgan of Toppenish has re-
turned from a trip of two months and
half duration, during which he traV-
eled across the northern tier OF states.
thence down the Atlantic, across the
gulf and home by way of the Pacific
j. f. FOrman of this city is to re-
move to Gle Elum for time to become
engineer in the survey work for the
electric line which Frank Farpuhar is
building in the upper part of the Kit
tjtas valley. The road is to run to
Roslyn and Lake Gle Elum.
Mayor Arm bruster has tentatively
selected the corner of Naches avenue
and East Yakima as the site for the
rostrum from which President Taft
will speak on his visit here the latter
part of this month. This is the same
place at which former President Roo
sevelt spoke.
c. w. Hickman, general car SER
vice agent of the Northern Pacific rail-
road was in North Yakima Saturday.
He is rounding up the freight car
situation, seeing into the matter of
expediting trains. etc. From here Mr..
Hickman went down over the Sunny
side branch.
]. ID. Johns expects to leave North
Yakima this week for Montana to at
tend the interstate fair and to bring
Mrs. Johns, who has been i'll, to North
Yakima with him. Mr. Johns will
stop at Spokane and Missoula and
examine the cemeteries there for ideas
to incorporate in his work here.
The Misses Geering and Leverich.
late of ST. Paul, have purchased the
stock of millinery of Mrs. Fawcett,
and will on Monday reopen the Chap
eau to the ladies of North Yakima
and vicinity. Both ladies are exper-
fenced trimmers and milliners and will
carry most fastidious line of ladies
| headgear.
The Yakima Realty GO. has recently
purchased through n. ]. Damon. what
is said to be the largest single order
for fruit trees ever placed in the Yak
ina valley The order comprised 30
900 trees which will be used by the
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