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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-03-17
MILLINERY OPENING.
Easter Millinery For Richfield,
March % and 23.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, March
% and %, will have on display at the
New Alberta hotel, Richfeld, a swell
line of street and dress hats, consisting
of Neapolltan Straws, Lace, Powered,
Braided, etc.; Children's Bonnets and
Hats, consisting of School Days, Lar
raine, Henrietta, ETC.; New Spring
Suits, nice line of the latest Spring
and Summer styles, just the suits for
Easter. MRS. J. NoRMINGToN.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-03-17
Mortuary Literature.

His sorrowing wife," wrote the re
porter unthinkingly, and the city ed
itor glared as he changed it to his
sorrowfns widow" Her sorrowing
wfdower" was the way the reporter
phrased his next obituary notice, and
the city editor said things beneath
his breath as he made 1t read, 'her
sorrowing husband" The English Ian
guage is one of the mysteries Of civ
iiization.-Toronto Star.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-03-17

In the course OF an after-dinner chat
recorded in Sir Algernon Vests Re
collections the late Admiral Sir
Harry Keppel, who served in the navy
under four sovereigns, said the blue
collars worn by sailors had their or
igin In the dressing of the pigtails-
which Sir Harry recollected being in
use-when blue cloth was put on
the mems shoulders to keep the
grease off their jackets. The pigtails
but the collars remain
10 this day London Globe.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-03-17

Lest my motive be mistaken, ant
you think it's boost,
And you class me with Jones and
the rest,
Sure, my only intention, is to make
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-03-17
Notice TO Sheepmen.

All sheepmen are hereby request
ed to keep their sheep off the
Richfield segregation if for no other
reason than that they pollute our
streams, the water of which is used
for domestic purposes.
Richfeld Farmers Association
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-03-17
CONFERENCE RAVE
Via Oregon Short Line Railroad

For April Conference, the usual
special low round trip rates will be
made to Salt Lake City. Tickets
on sale from points north of Ogden,
April 1st., to 5th., inclusive, limit
April 18th.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-03-17

a brief mention,
Of Richfield The Town of the West.
If the facts we have mentioned, and
more we might say,
Doesn't prove there is much in the
Name,
Then I've missed my calculation
and I'm not of this Nation,
And I've failed to accomplish my
aim.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-03-17
RICHFIELD IN VERSE
Towns Present and Future Looks
Good to Minister.

Good to Minister.
If definitions at all count TO
ought,
In giving to titles a fame,
Then consider my scribble. thougl
I'm not much in trouble
AS l attempt to define just one
name.
We're not to be judged by wind o
a calm,
Of city's or towns future state.
But by the name, we can judge o.
the same,
And then for it's bright future wait
All things we're told come to then
who will wait,
For that's what the old proyerb
says,
Then sure Richfields host, will
prove it the most,
Be patient and wait, for it pays.
You ask for proof of the assertion
we make,
That Richfield has riches in store,
That its abundant resources, which
the whole state discourses,
Will provide for a host, then some
more.
It's no use to argue, to prove this
or that,
For argument often proves vain,
And such an invention is not worth
mention,
1t S apt to leave sorrow and pain.
We invite to conditions which none
can deny,
To show Richfields one of the best.
Well give a brief mention, with
honest intention,
Then let you be judge of the rest.
It's soil is productive, in richness
abound,
Which, in itself is a stake.
And if you but trust it, you'll never
go busted,
This sure is a truth, not a fake
It's climate, my, who can deny it's
the besti
Bracing, fresh, healthful and pure,
If in Richfield you'll stay, you'll not
pine away,
You'll live a whole lifetime or more.
In all this wide world. there's no
other place,
That's made such mighty head
way,
You'll hardly believe it, but as sure
as I say it,
It's not seen its second birthday
The people? well, just as your apt
to find
In most towns of the West.
They're not all superiors, a few,
perhaps interiors,
But, on the whole a wee-bit the hest.
'Twould seem like a Dragging to say
of them more
Of a people of which we're part.
But we cannot desist, though it
may seem amiss,
To say we've been one from the
start
No pickering strifes have occurred in
our midst.
AS in places composed of mob.
But in all enterprises, no spirit ar
rises,
TO grab-hold the other mans job.
Though it has been said, that a
place of ill-fame,
Such as brothel, saloon and the
kind,
Tets no liberation, by assent or
probation,
Not in Richfield a place can be
found.
)ur homes too are modern, which
with all go to prove, :
hat our town is not founded ON !
sand.
here are few shaks indeed, to 3
serve present need,
or men who are taking up land.
ut the homes of the present, will f
in no ways compare, C
18th the future abodes of our town, a
reports are reliable, and signs a
justifiable p
othing like it no more can be o
found. 81
here's to be blocks OF concrete :,
and stores built of rock,
the business center, of course. !"
nd in the residence portion, OH -
my, what a caution. =
hat homes will go up with .
force.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-01-12
APPLE SHOW IN CHICAGO
Returning Citizen Says Spokane
should no Longer Be Considered
as the Proper Location.

Just work for Chicago for the next
National Apple show and don't ever
again give second consideration to
Spokane" said Ed. Van Brunt as he
stepped off train No. ]. two days and
two hours late in arrival at North
Yakima Saturday afternoon. There
is absolutely no room for discussion,
he said. lover the superiority Of Chi
cago for the apple show. And those
people back there are simply land
crazy. There is no other way to de-
scribe them. | was present at the
Land and Irrigation congress for the
closing day and found out that the
people want to learn everything they
can of this country. They came back
again and again for information and
% learn little more about the condi-
tons. This included all sorts and
conditions of people, too, from the
Vealthiest to the girls in the depart
ment stores with but little money to
invest. They want land, all of them,
and they propose to have it. There
ore, I say take the apple show right
up to their front doors. Take it to
chicago.
Another thing that l want to say
is that w. M Nelson was the right
nan as representative from this
county at the apple show If he sold
all the land he had and came away
! millionaire 1 still say he was the
tight man and that what he did to
advertise the entire Yakima valley
was as effective a piece Of work as
has ever been done for this section.
And they know about us back there.
They know a whole lot about us, and
there are but few who don't know
something. They are enquiring and
the dealers are doing more than en-
Guire. | went into number of
stores in various places after the land
ongress and looked at apples. The
dealers had bought them at s2.75 and
up to $3.50 per box and had them
- exhibition purposes and to adver-
Use. You couldn't buy one of them
for any money any more than a mer-
chant here will sell his store decora-
tons. And they felt that they had
prizes, too, and were willing to tell all
about them"
showed I'm for Two Days.
Mr.. Van Brunt went as far as
Champaign, Ill, and, of course, Wis
tied number of other cities He was
showed in for a couple of days this
side of Butte and says the trip in
that respect was very tedious. The
train would pull ahead a mile, or two
or five at time and then have a long
wait. Master Michael Van Brunt also
returned from the east Saturday. Mrs
Van Brunt remained to finish out her
visit.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-01-12
COFFIN FINDS AUTO IN EGYPT.
Many Interesting Things Are Seen by
North Yakima Traveller on
the Nile.

Editor Herald do not see many
fine Arabian horses, the automobile
has taken their place The carriage
horses are small, not very we'll fed,
and have to be driven in a gallop
to get any sort of speed ont of them.
The low Phaetons used here are quite
comfortable and cheap, fifteen to
twenty cents is charged for a single
journey in the city. This includes
two or three persons. Fifty cents
is the tariff by the hour. A trifle
more is charged if outside the city
limits.
Most Of the farming here is done
Inv a laborer with a wide mattack
digging into and turning the soil over.
and he works fast and does not SOL
der on the job either, and he only
gets from 35 to 40 cents a dav, and
boards himself.
Under the supervision of British
engineers great dams and canals have
been built. which make the land
quite productive and valuable. The
overflow each year of the Nile leaves
a rich deposit which tends to enrich
the land not irrigated and six crops
year Of clover and a kind of al
falfa and four crops Of maize corn
and other cereals are raised. This
land is worth more than $1,000 per
acre and the growers of Egyptian
cotton have made big money
l have talked with a number OF
farmers and owners of land and they
are more than pleased with England's
rule over their country. Formerly
their rights were not protected and
If some old government official want
ed their crops or wives he trumped
up some kind of case against them
and managed to take possession. But
now the English government sees that
justice is done and they have equal
rights with a Sheik Pasha or any
other aristocrat.
There method of raising water
from canal to cover higher land
S crude indeed. Two bullocks are
harnessed to long arm of wood at
tached to cog wheels, which in turn
are fastened to big wheel on which
are placed buckets which empty
into sluice box as the wheel turns
round on the same principle as the
wheel at the Yakima hotel. The
bullocks are blind folded so that they
will not fall from the incessant GO
.ng round in circle and they look
very poor and honey. in fact all of
the milk COWS. sheep, goats and ami
mails of all kinds are very poor and
Ill fed In this land of plenty
The next thing Great Britain should
do would be to start a Humane So
clety and see that the poorer people
and dumb animals are better fed. A
French building contractor informed
me that the workmen here do much
less than the same kind of workers
IN France on account of their not
getting wine to drink as a lunch every
hours as in France. Camels are
used for all bulky loads. immense
'hocks of corn, hay and Cotton
branches are tied on them TO he car
rled to market or to the stack where
he corn is shocked out. You never
see wagon.
| Cairo, Egypt. ARTHUR COFFIN.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-01-12

the rapids where the diversion dam
is to be built, making surveys and
preparing for the actual construction
of the big dam. This dam is to be
built at the head of the channel to
divert the water into the channel
that carrys it to the power station
where the big turbines transform It
into electrical power and send II
speeding over the slender wires to
the pumping station at Coyote Rap
ids.
Will Be ponderous Dam.
The dam will be a ponderous af-
fair and require big machinery and
great amount of work to construct.
A large steam shovel dump cars,
tracks and dinky engines will be. ship
ped to the rapids to hasten work. 1t
is thought this machinery will be
shipped to Beverly on the Milwau-
kee and taken down the river on
barges to the works. As soon as the
machinery and material arrives a
large crew of men and teams will be
put to work and things rushed till
the work is completed, which will
While the work on the dam is be-
Ing done. the machinery that will
form another unit at the power
house will be placed in position and
when the time for irrigation comes
the purr of mighty dynamos will send
a stream of life-giving water down
the long canal to the thirsty land
The turbines, generators, dynamos
switch boards, ETC., have been ship
ped from the eastern factory and are
expected to arrive soon. This addi-
tional machinery will furnish pow.
er for the city light and water plant
at Hanford and also for other pur-
poses.
AS soon as weather conditions will
permit work will be resumed on the
construction on the pumping PLAN
for the city water works system and
stand-pipe. Development at the rap
ids and power plant will be complet-
ed and water in the canal for irri-
cation by April 1.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-01-12
ELECTION FOR
COMING YEAR
IS MARKED BY BIG BANQUET
Y. VI. c. A. Selects Board Of Trustees
to Carry Out Policies of Organi-
zation--New Features.

The second annual banquet given
by the members and official board Of
directors of the Y. M. c. A. was held
last evening at the association build
ing. Long tables were laid at $50
o'clock, bearing covers for 100 men,
and an elaborate course banquet
served by the ladies of the Mob Hill
division, ladies5 aid society of the FRS.
Methodist church. Later the men ad
journed to the auditorium where.
during the business meeting, presided
over by b. f. Barge, vice-president, in
the absence of the president, w. b.
Dudley, the following directors were
reelected to serve for term of three
years: W. b. Dudley, c. H. Human,
George T. Baker, b. A. Wise and A. B.
Howick was chosen to fill the unex-
pired term of ]. A. Adams.
H. M. Gilbert then officiated as
POSTMASTER, introducing the various
speakers of the evening, opening with
an address by Thee. Weisberger on
the subject, What Is Y. M. c. A.
MANI" followed by excellent talks,
which gave occasion for entertaining
discussion participated in by those
present, led by r. j. Logan on How
Can the Y. M. c. A. Better Fill Its
Place in North Yakima?" the theme
and treatment of which was that 1t
was the place of the members and not
the association officials to carry on the
work and enlarge the mission of the
organization. A pleasing feature of
the evenings entertainment was a mu-
steal program, Thomas Noll and the
Y. M. c. A. quartette redering beau
tiful solo and quartette selections. Mr..
Sawbridge also contributed an instru,
mental group and A. B. Miller of Colo
RADIO, who arrived in Yakima Saturday
to reside permanently, favored the
guests with an artistic collection OF
cornet numbers.
Among the valuable suggestions
made was one which aims to embody
an industrial department which will
establish reading room in this city
for the workingmen and transcients
who do not feel disposed to visit either
the association rooms or the public
library. 1t will have for it's purpose
the elevating Of the transient laborer
who lodges in cheap rooming houses
and who finds the time heavy on his
hands evenings and Sundays This
move may be made during the coming
months and will meet a real need in
the life of this city, according to the
ideas expressed in a number of chan
nels.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-01-12
WORK ON DIVISION DAM
is BEGUN AT PRIEST RAriDS,
Power and Irrigation Water Will Be
In the Canal Not Later than
August list.

HANFORD. Jan. THE coming
IF the new year sees the commenc-
ing of development work that means
much to the people of Hanford and
the whole Columbia river valley.
Those far-sighted men who have pre-
hicted such grand things for this
great valley begin to see their pro-
phesy become realization. With the
settling of weather conditions this
mighty old valley which has been
smmering under the suns of thou
sands of years will fairly hum with
activity of the exclamation work.
Work at Priest Rapids has begun.
The Hanford Irrigation and Power
company have surveyors at work at
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-01-12
WOULD FENCE
YAKIMA RIVER
George Foster OF Mckee Says Woven
Wire Properly Used Will Do the
Trick Properly.

George Foster of the Mckee, con-
tractor, and his son, who are well
known in this section of the country,
have a device for controlling the
Yakima river and preventing it from
washing away its banks which they
think will prove most effective. 1t Is
nothing more nor less than a series of
mattresses in which woven wire fenc-
ing and hay are the chief ingred-
tents. They vary the construction in
some instances into the form of bas-
kets which are loaded with stones
and sunk in position, making wing
dams to direct the flow of water.
These, with a sort of wooden caisson
can be used to utilize the flow of the
river and force it to excavate it's own
Gus other rivers in the country. The
chief claim made by Mr.. Foster for
the work he proposes is its cheapness
and durability.
Plan Is Simple One.
Without entering into details of the
plan it may be said that Mr.. Foster
thinks the mattress should be suf-
ficiently large to protect not only the
banks but to some extent the bed of
the stream in front of the banks, thus
preventing a wash and undermining
process which has previously done so
much damage. He so constructs his
wire mattress or cushion that it can
be weighted by cable on the bottom
of the river and he depends upon the
action of the water to carry a mass
of leaves, twigs and other articles
carried by the stream against the
wires and in time form a cushion
over them to take the place of the
original hay, which will of course rot
away.
Many Favor the Idea.
Mr.. Foster has taken his plans up
with w. L. Steinweg, Messrs Stein
& Thomson and others interested in
protection of the river front and all
are greatly impressed with it. He was
too late getting before the county
commissioners but expects that if
private work is undertaken or If the
county proposes to do further work
towards protecting the banks he may
induce the adopting of his plan. He
says for it that initial cost Is COM
paratively light, the work should
have a life of about 10 years, will
prove effective and can be renewed
at repair cost which will be but a
proportion Of the original outlay.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-01-12
MUST CURTA|L
SCHOOL STAFF
But NOT TILL EMO OF YEAR
Director Fechter Says Taxpayers Owe
no Duty of Providing Technical
Training to Pupils.

No changes are to be made In the
teaching staff Of the schools of the
district which embraces North Yak
lima before the close Of the present
school year. This was practically de-
termined upon by the directors at a
meeting at the high school last night.
That there will be changes. however,
in the form Of curtailment of the
teaching force, was made manifest,
these CHANCES to take place with the
beginning of the next school year.
o. A. Fechter outlined in some meas
ure what these changes will be when
he declared that the board must adopt
policy. 1t must decide whether 1t
will follow what he called the modern
tendency or take a middle course be-
tween present ideas and those of ten
years ago.
Duty Of the Taxpayers.
All over the United States, accord
ing to Mr.. Fechter there is tendency
in boards of education to swing back
This of course, was not the tendency
of teachers as they, in the nature of
things, must be progressive along
lines of study The public, Mr.. Fech-
ter. said, does not owe it, as duty to
the young people of the community
to teach number of the things now
taught. Personally he favored re-
duction in the number of courses and
ne thought such reduction would
probably result in giving a better
education in the things taught The
taxpayer, he said does not owe
technical training to the pupils By
that he said he did not mean such a
course as manual training for that
is a training to the eye and in other
ways. But there are technical sup
jects and the taxpayer is under no
obligation to supply these. The tax
lazy has to be reduced. OF that there
Is no question. The board must de-
termine course to that end
That radical reform Is necessary
In the high school was the assertion
OF w. W. Robertson and this is an
attitude of mind which appears to be
general among member of the board.
School Statistics.
Three hundred and fifty three pu-
pills were enrolled in the high school
during the fourth month of the pres
ent term, which brings the record up
to- date. There are 20 teachers. which
is an average Of 1915 pupils to the
teacher. This is felt not to be a
proper proportion. The foregoing
figures and those concerning the
other schools were submitted by d.
c. Reed to the board last night. At
the Barge building there are PCS pu
pills and nine teachers, an average of
so. At the Lincoln there are nine
teachers and 2SS pupils, an average of
80. The average at the Central 's
SO, there being 500 pupils and ~
teachers. The Fairview, with $50 pu-
pills and four teachers, has an average
of 80. The Columbia. with SIC pu-
pills and Is teachers has an average
of 34.6. There is one teacher and IS
pupils at the Capitol hill school.
Three teachers at Modern Addition
teach 81 pupils and the 354 children
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-01-12
CLERK MAKES CASH
FOR YAKIMA COUNTY
Fees Collected by This Department
More Than Pay Expenses OF
Operation.

The total number of cases filed with
the clerk of the superior court during
the past year were 10000. From this
number the total fees collected
amounted to $7,297.30. When it IS
considered that the total expenses per
month of this office is but $3125 and
when the total fees per month collect
ed were s60S.14, the monthly profit is
shown to amount to $295.64
Both the clerk and the deputy clark
have been busy men for the year and
not an idle moment has been spent
and when this is considered the coun-
" can show where it is winner for the
year by this department of it's work.
ings.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-01-12
Crandmohers and Crandfathers Who Believe In Pe-runa

lfI CAN recommend Peruna as a good
i medicine for chronic catarrh of the
stomach and bowels. have been
troubled with it severely for over year,
and also a cough.
''Now my cough is all gone, and all the
distressing symptoms of catarrh of the
stomach and bowels have disappeared.
81 will recommend it to all as rare
remedy."-Mrs.F F. E. Little, Tolono, Ill.
KIT HAD catarrh Of the stomach, bow
! els and lower internal organs. Had
. great deal of pain in my right hip,
which felt like rheumatism. Also, pain
in my internal organs. The water was
highly colored, my back was weak, was
constipated, and very restless.
81 commenced to take PerunA accord
ing to directions, and began to improve.
! have taken ten bottles of Peruna and
think 1 am cured."-Mr. W. O. Hemp.
hill, Louisville, Miss.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-01-12

MFRS. H. G.. GREEN and family, Of
'1V1 Lewis Creek, Ind, write: eve
cannot express to you our thanks foe
what Peruna has done for mother.
"when she began your medicine she
was not able to be up all day, but now
she is helping with the work and st
present has gone on visit. Her health
is improved in general. No discharges.
Good appetite. Sleeps we'll and looks
WELL"
&1RY following your instructions and
- taking your Peruna and Manalin
I am cured Of catarrh.
IL had catarrh for twelve years and
quite bad cough SO could not sleep
nights. do not have any cough now.
If feel anything in the throat take
swallow of Peruna and am all right.s
MIR. w. d. Smith, ST.. $40 Forest 81
Port Huron, Mich.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-01-12
Simple Remedy for LaGrippe

LaGrippe coughs are dangerous, as
the frequently develop into pneu-
monia. Foley's Honey and Tar not
only stops the cough, but heals and
strengthens the lungs so that no seri-
Gus results need be feared. We do not
know of a single instance where q
cough or cold resulted in pneumonia
when Foley's Honey and Tar had been
taken. The genuine Foley's Honey
and Tar contains no harmful drugs
and is in yellow package. North
Yakima Drug Store.