The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-04-30

Mrs. M. L. Ecker. and also met Mr.
and Mrs.. James Hatley former we'll
known Grant county people. Mr..
Lester Ecker, who will be remem-
bered as Z Milbank boy. is married
and settled down he and has . fine
little son and two daughters. Lester
is business MANAGER in q plumbing
establishment. While here we e1-
joyed a visit with Mrs. j. w.
Johnson, who was a guest of the
Nichols family.
W. also had the pleasure Of meet
ing Mrs. Chas. Cannon, a former
resident Of Milbank. who with her
daughter Gertrude is nicely situated
in a cosy home in Dillingham;.
Dillingham; is a busy little city,
overlooking Burlington bay; the
thru transcontinental roads. the
Great Northern, Nothern Pacific
and Milwaukee now enter it, and it
has a daily boat connection with
Seattle and other towns on the
sound. The city has a number of
large saw mills and the lumber in
dustry and fish canning establish
ments are it's important business
interests. A coal mine is now in
operation from which a quantity of
coal is being secured. One of the
state normal schools 8 located here,
at the head of which is President
Nash, a former South Dakota edu-
Gator, who was for q number Of
years president Of the Aberdeen
Normal
After LEAVING BiIlingham. we spent
3 week at Sunnyside in the Yakima
Valley, but before reaching there
we enjoved a day in Tacoma where
we visited the Addison Conright
fami ~. and found them nicely sit
uated and doing we'll. They recent
ly had a severe affection in the loss
Of their son Orris who had been i'll
for several years past. At Tacoma
we also had the pleasure of meet
ing an old friend of former years.
the peson of DR.. Edward A. Rich,-
who is at the head of a fine hospital
with a clinic Of some fourteen
physicians and surgeons associated
with him. The hospital is superb.
ly appointed with every modern
convenience and requirement for
the examination and care Of the
afflicted, and is beautifully located
on an emine nee overlooking the
sound. DR.. Rich will be remem-
breed by by many Of the older res
idents Of Wilmot az having COM.
menced his practice as q physician
in that town a number of years ago
He is now recognized as a most u
cessful specialist in bone diseases,
and during the war was assigned to
the army medical corps as an ex-
pert this line of work.
On our way to Sunnvside we stop
ped off for a few hours at Filings
burg, where we met Mrs. Sophia
Nixson and her daughter. Mrs.
Mayme Webster and family and
found them we'll very comfortable
located, Mrs. Webster clerking in a
department store in the city.
While in SInnvside We were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Main,
the gentleman beng a brother of
the chaperon who had the writer in
ch a,ge during his wanderings. and
might as be expected we were tho
roughly curried. and cared for and
fed on the fat of the land. This
little city is located in the famous
Kakima Valley said to be the rich
est agricultural county in the Unit
ed States. The government reports
state that the 1919 products of the
county totaled $42 ,727.455 and for
the same year the products Of tie
Snnnyside reclamation district vas
Sl2. 678,247. The soil is what is
known as volcanic ash, on which
naturally grows but sage brush.
and the valley was simply a dusty
desert until the water of the Yaki-
ma river was directed on to its
sands, since which it has been
transformed into a garden of pro-
ductiveness in miles Of fruit or
chards of we'll cared for stock, and
made into a wonderful producing
county. While here we made a
trip to the city of Yakima by auto,
and on the journey stopped at the
H. H. Green fruit ranch at Zillah
ad at the John Reeve fruit ranch at
Yakima. Mrs. Green has her son
Harvey with her to care for the
ranch since the decease of her hus-
band We found Mr.. Reeve in
very poor health. and his son.. who
lives on an adjoining ranch is TAX
inu caro- If hia fathers nlaco These