The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-04-24
N. Yakima, Wash.
April 6, 1913

longer and the sunshine brighter here
for this time of the year than in Wis
consin.
Potatoes have been planted for the
past two weeks and considerable gar
den vegetables are above ground in
many places.
| This Valley sent a train OF tw enty-
eight car loads of provisions to the
flood sufferers in Indiana and Ohio;
twenty-five cars being potatoes, four of
apples and two Of onions, besides cloth
ing and money, with every car bear
ing banner, telling of the sympathy
| which the citizens of this Valley have
for those who are in distress because of
floods which have left many friendless
and homeless.
Many of this Valley are Ohio and In
diana people, and eagerly awaited news
of the fate OF their friends and relatives
in both states.
For the past three weeks shepherds
and cowboys have been taking their
fiocks and herds TO the foot hills to the
West of this city, One could scarcely
imagine that SO many sheep could be
taken care of by shepherd and his
dogs. The Yakima Sheep Co. here
has already handled and sold $1,000
lbs. of wool to the Portland, Oregon,
wooden mills.
One ranchman lost about 1000 of his
band while they were on the trail to
the Hills, due to two days of drop in
the temperature, and the resulting
losses were much larger than if they
had been on the range. The growth
of grass on the Hills has been some-
what slow this spring. Friday and
yesterday we had rain here, while on
the range hail fell while raining thus
making the loss sum up greatly. Be-
low Union Gap fruit trees are already
in blossom for the weather is not so
cool there as it has been here in the
evenings. This morning the Their
mometer registered A above at 700
and at noon Is above. The days seem
almost too warm for teaching and
about 2:30 P. NJ. the pupils long to re-
main outside for the rest of the after
noon.
This city has decided to abolish kind
ergarten classes. At the last meeting
of the Board of Directors, it was point
ed out by the members of the board
that as the work of the Kindergarten
was actually taught in the lst grade, and
as the state had made no appropria-
ton for this sort of work, there was no
legal reason why it should be continu-
ed.
The next festival that this Valley is
looking forward to with pleasure is the
Blossom Festival to be held Thursday
and Friday, May and =. Invitations
have been sent out for excursions from
points adjacent to the Valley, and fav-
orable responses have been received.
The West is certainly alive when it
comes to boosting for its various festi-
walls. Seattle will soon be boosting
for her Potlatch; Spokane for its Pow
WOW; and Tacoma for its Montemarte.
Portland's rose festival seems to have
proven drawing card, also Pendle-
tons Roundup. Local committees are
at work daily on plans for the fete,
and the towns of this Valley are quite
enthusiastic over the princesses and
queen to be chosen. The different
schools get an afternoon off to attend
the festival.
This city also secures the new Arm
DRY Building for which the recent leg
islature appropriated $4,000 for the
erection. The work on it will not be
begun before June ] but the a6jutant-
general has written to adjutant-gener-
ais of number of other states with
armories of size similar to that to be
built here, asking for copies and plans
of their buildings.
The Mob Hill school has Just receiv-
ed an interesting set Of letters regard
ing the growing and manufacturing of
linen IN Ireland. Learning that the
great centre of the linen manufacture
is at Belfast, Ireland, several of the
pupils wrote TO the pupils of the fifth
and sixth grades at Belfast describing
the fruit industry of this Valley, ask
ing in return description of flax grow
ing and manufacture. The Yakima
letters certainly made "hit' with
those little Irish lads and lassies, more
IMAM quarter of the way around the
globe from here, for eighteen pupils
In the Fifth Standard of the Rosetta
National School at Belfast replied Civ
ing accounts of how flax is raised and
the process of its transformation into
linen thread and the manufacture Of
the various kinds of linen cloth. The
eighteen letters were enclosed in a
strong manila envelope with cordial
note from the secretary of the school
stating that he chopped Enclosures will
prove satisfactory"
The eighteen letters are marvels OF
careful composition and beautiful pen
manship. Some CT them have almost
the accuracy and delicacy of copper
plate, each one while dealing with the
same subject has enough difference to
give it individual interest Some of
the letters give detailed account of