1906-07-14-sc-p7-in-harrington-wheat-belt
July 14, 1906 Spokane Daily Chronicle Page 7:
IN HARRINGTON WHEAT BELT
Interesting Events in and About That Section.
HARRINGTON, Wash., July 14,—(Special Correspondence.) —Warm weather continues and the grain is ripening a little prematurely, although the farmers say that the yield will still be better than the average.
"Grandpa" Yarwood, who died at his home in Mohler Tuesday, was buried in the Harrington cemetery Thursday, a large concourse of people attending the remains to the grave. Deceased was in his 88th year, having been born the same day upon which Queen Victoria was born. He was a pioneer of Lincoln county, and a man respected and loved by all who knew him. His health had been poor for the past 18 months, and the end was not unexpected.
Reuben Bowers, a Harrington wheat belt rancher, has leased five sections of Ephrata wheat land and is now plowing it with a big steam plow, He was in town today and expressed it as his opinion that the Ephrata country would rival the other parts of the Big Bend as a wheat producer in a few years.
A 12 pound boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Thompson this week.
Mrs. W. S. Thompson and daughter, Miss Beatrice, are visiting with friends at Coeur d'Alene lake during the hot weather, Mrs. Thompson conducts the kindergarten at this place.
Dr. M. M. Bettman, who has been spending 1 couple of weeks with relatives in Portland, has returned to Harrington and resumed his dental practice
W. H. Thompson, a retired farmer, who was nominated for representative on the republican ticket at the recent county convention, has offered to donate $500 for the proposed public park {n Harrington. Other prominent citizens have also expressed their intentions of helping the cause in a substantial way.
President Kroeze of Whitworth college, Tacoma, will preach in the Presbyterian church next Sunday both morning and evening.
J. Smith and family from California are the guests here of Mr. Smith's sisters, Mesdames Dobson and Thirkell, Mr. Smith ts a son of Jake Smith, a big Crab creek rancher.
Five combined harvesters were unloaded here yesterday, consigned to Harrington wheat belt farmers. This makes 10 combined harvesters that have been shipped in this summer with five more to come, making a total of 15. The same number of headers have been sold by the local dealers, making 30 harvesting machines placed in this section for the 1906 crop,
Gordon-Throop-Wolfe Co., turned out the largest draper ever manufactured in the northwest, at their draper factory yesterday. The draper was 40 feet long and eight feet wide. It was made for a Hatton, Wash,, firm, being shipped there yesterday.
The Big Bend wagon, manufactured at the new factory in Harrington, is now upon the market and Harringtonians are justly proud of the fact that it is a product of this town, Mason Long of Bluestem, took the first one out.
