The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1910-09-02
ALL AROUND THE COUNTY

| A dispatch from Elberton OF August
81, speaking OF the harvest, says: Har
vest is overall the machines in this
part have pulled in. This is the first
harvest in years that during the entire
season not drop Of rain fell to stop
the binders or threshing machines. The
yield has been a surprise to the farmers.
Much of the spring wheat that never
had drop of rain after it was put in
the ground yielded better than 80 bushels
| to the acre.
Mr.. and Mrs A. T. Lane celebrated
| their Goth wedding anniversary at their
| home in Pennington on August 25. They
were married il Illinois In 1875 they
crossed the plains to California and four
years later settled on homestead three
miles southeast of Pennington.
In the death on August % OF Joseph
De Long, Whitman county loses the
second Of the two first white settlers in
its limits. Mr.. De Long lived ~ years
on his ranch southeast of st. John.
On account of the amount of grain
being hauled the Union Warehouse Co.
of UniOntown is figuring on an extern
sion to its building to be erected at
once.
George Borgel, farmer living one mile
west of Cotton, claims the record yield of
barley for Whitman county. A n acre
field yielded SO bushels to the acre, ware.
houseman weight.
| Peter Rosgen, a farmer living in the
Bald Butte neighborhood. has the best
yield reported of spring wheat. 1t was
hard. No. 1, and averaged 80 bushels to
the acre. Most of the spring wheat has
gone 20 to % bushels to the acre.
The fruit growers OF Garfield held q
meeting in the opera house August 81
and organized the Garfield Fruit Growers
Union, with w. B. Harris president and
J. E. Trimble vice president. There will
be 100 carloads Of commercial apples
shipped from Garfield this season if con-
ditions until picking time are favorable.
James Robinson, who owns an 80 acre
farm south Of town, the greater part Of
which is in orchard, this week shipped
carload Of Bartlett years from Ringo
station, On the Inland. These pears were
the product Of 125 nine year-old trees.
The pears are as choice as have ever been
shipped from the Palouse country. They
were purchased by the Rasher, Kingman
& Herrin Co. OF Spokane, for distribu-
ton throug bout North Dakota,-Palouse
Republic, August &c.
One OF the very noticeable changes in
the agricultural products OF the Winona
country this year is the large amount OF
fruit and farm produce that is furnished
the local market. 1t would be reason
able to infer that in 80 dry year the
produce would be short, but the fact re
mains that more Of it comes to town this
season than was ever known before
Winona News.
At a meeting held in Pennington Sat
urday night the Pennington Cornet
ship of 20. new set OF instruments
has been ordered.
James Wells, resident OF Palouse for
| six years, took his life about 8 O'Clock
Tuesday night in his room in the Palouse
general hospital, where he had been re-
ceiving medical treatment for several
days. He used an ordinary pocket
knife, making two gashes on the right
side OF his neck, severing the iugular
vein. and then plunged the knife in his
right side, just below the ribs, where be
left it. He bled to death almost in
stantly. Wells is said to have been
drinking heavily before he was taken to
the hospital, and had acquired pneu-
monia. he was a native OF Tennessee
and 40 years Of age.
The Ridpath lyceum bureau has ar
ranged to put in course OF four enter
tainments at PalOuse during the coming
fall and winter under the direction Of
bers will be lecture by former Governor
Joseph W. Folk of Missouri.
FL. s. Mcclure OF Garfield brought a
load OF hogs into Palouse Tuesday
morning from his Eden valley farm
which brought him $273. The hogs
brought 81 cents pound. Mr.. Mcclure
states that while there is good money in
wheat he can make more money out Of
hogs.