Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-06-18
Local News


E. W. Thorpe, proprietor of
"Thorpe's Smoke House" spent Sat-
urday. Sunday and Monday in Spo-
kane.
]. c. Jackson, the barber, went to
Seattle with the cadets last Thursday.
His shop has been in charge of Guy
McReynolds during his absence.
Annual Summer Science School for
Teachers, opens at Washington State
College Monday, June 81 In session
six weeks. Tuition free.
Don't forget the date of the annual
picnic and livestock show of the
Oranges of Whitman County. July l,
., ami 4, at Lyle's Grove, seven
miles west of Pullman.
George Henry, Jr., is now working
as baggageman at the Northern Paci-
fic depot in the absence of Victor
Girard, who went to Seattle with the
track team last week.
Miss Tottie Shaw came up from
the ranch near Pendleton Sunday and
is spending several days in Pullman
with her father, DR.. A. E. Shaw. Miss
Tottie has grown wonderfully since
leaving Pullman and declares that
ranch life agrees with her.
Alfalfa harvest will soon begin
and one of the best crops ever har-
vested will be cut this year. There
is so much moisture in the ground
that at. least two good crops are ex-
pected this year on non-irrigated
lands.
That implement dealers are certain
that there will be big crop this year
is shown by the activity in that line
and the large amounts of harvest
machinery that has been received.
Pullman dealers do an immense bust
ness in this kind of machinery.
Oscar Hill and wife returned Sun
day evening from Hot Lake, Oregon,
where they spent five weeks. Oscar
has been in the hospital there and
was greatly helped by the treatment.
He appears to be entirely we'll and
says he feels better than he has for
years and he looks it, too.
Carl Townsend and Frank Reed of
the Herald office; fred finish and
Homer Lewis made trip to Wawa-
wal Sunday and visited the big or
chard of the Alpowa Fruit Growers
Association They report cherry har-
vest in full blast and large force
of Indians picking and many boys
and girls packing the luscious fruit.
o. II. Braisure, telegraph operator
at the o, r. & N. depot goes to Pen
dleton this weel; to take the position
of day operator there f. l.. Brownell
son of the agent, will take the posi-
ton of operator here Mr.. BrownelI,
Jr., has been attending Washington
State College but will work as opera
tor during summer vacation.
Howard Talmage, 12-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Talmage, went
to Seattle with the track team last
Thursday and will remain IN Seattle
with his grandparents all summer.
The little fellow was the pet of the
team being the only little boy in the
sleeper, and he had a jolly time on
the trip.
Invitations are out for the wedding
of Herbert Lee Nessly and Miss Myr-
tie Howard, at the home of the brides
parents. at Mulvane, Kansas, on June
%. MIR. Nessly spent a year in Pull
man and helped to install the electric
light system here and at Oakesdale.
He is an electrician and may come
to Washington to locate.
j. S. Klemgard and family made a
trip to Palouse, Potlatch and Viola
Sunday in their big touring car. Mr..
Klemgard says he never saw grain
looking better and the acreage is the
largest he ever saw, there being al
most no summer fallowed land on the
entire route taken, which included
trip to Palouse, thence to Potlatch
and home by way of Viola and Fal-
Ions.
A. p. Anderson, assistant professor
OF civil engineering and instructor in
good road building, is to be married
at Butte, Montana, on June %. to
Miss Emma Ware Dunkel, daughter
of a well-known family of Butte.
Professor Anderson has resigned as a
member of the faculty of Washing
State College and will accept a posi-
ton with the good roads department
of the government. They will make