Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1913-10-03
LOCAL BREVITIES

the past year have been holding
down a homestead near Great Falls,
Mont. were in Pullman this week en-
route to Portland, Ore, where Mr..
Enos will receive medical treatment.
John Weir, who has been working
for the Potlatch Lumber company at
Rock Lake, returned to Pullman this
week with his family and expects to
remain.
j. X. Polston of Gold City, Mo-,
will arrive in Pullman next week to
make his home. He is a brother-in-
law of j. e. Gass, and Mrs. Gass, who
has been visiting there, will return
to Pullman with them.
j. II. Robb, assistant superintend-
ent of the O.-W r. & ~, was in
Pullman Wednesday and informed
Agent Brownell that a concrete plat
form would be put in at the depot in
the near future.
Mr., and Mrs. j. d. Carson are con-
templating trip east.
Ebersole & Moore, who are drill
ing the new city well, have taken
contracts for drilling four wells for
the O.-W r. & N. Co., one of them
at Albion.
Max Baumeister, 1912 graduate
of the college, was visiting friends in
Pullman this week.
Seth Clarkson arrived in Pullman
Monday from Cutbank, Mont, where
he recently committed on a home
stead. Mr.. Clarkson's place is about
two and one-half miles from Cutbank
and is all cleared. He has rented the
place for a term of years.
VIM. Dieterle of Chicago is visiting
his son, who is employed with the
Emerson Mercantile Co.
F. H. Whitman has been over from
Corvallis, Ore, this week looking
after his interests here. He says that
his store at Corvallis has opened
with favorable prospects.
Daisy Busbey, county superintend-
ent of schools, has announced that
the annual teachers institute for
Whitman county will be held next
spring on the first three days of the
week in which the Inland Empire
Teachers association meets in Spo-
kane.
The management of the Whitman
County Fair has furnished, for free
distribution among all the school
children of the county, compli-
mentary tickets to the fair, to be held
at Colfax October to II. They are
being mailed this week from the
county superintendent office. The
tickets are good only on Chridren's
Day, Friday, October 10. In case
sufficient tickets have not been sent
call at the superintendent office
Will secure more.
The annual Freshman-Sophomo
FOOTBALL game at the college last Sat
urday was hard fought contest. The
victory of the Sophomores by a score
of TO was big surprise. as the
freshmen had a number of former
nigh school stars in their lineup.
Bartron Howard Lakin and Eff
file Ellen Heaslet were married last
Sunday near Johnson, Rev. w. G. NJ
Hays of this city officiating. 1t was
a pretty but quiet wedding, only a
few relatives and intimate friends be.
ing present. A sumptuous wedding
dinner followed the ceremony.
Much unfavorable comment is be
ing made on the condition of the two
miles of permanent highway which
was recently completed south o.
Pullman. Many declare that it /,
more uneven and worse than the OLE
road. 1t has not yet been accepted
by the county commissioners.
w. d, Foster and Professor c. C
Thom returned Wednesday from F.;
trip with the Holden alfalfa train
Ihey report that the alfalfa cam
palgn Is arousing much interest anc
mat the speakers are drawing goor
sized audiences.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burns took II
the fair at Lewiston the early par
OF the week, making the trip in tbei
automobile.
Harry Austin this week added a
np-to-date towel steamer and sterii
iTer to his barber shop equipment