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Item Memories of a Yakima Chechako of 1889 (part 2).(UNKNOWN, 1935) Stratton, Owen T."I have heard it claimed that in Yakima Valley it was unnecessary to spray hops--an expensive procedure--as, if the hop-louse exposed himself to the sun in July and August, his goose was cooked. But, later, the hop-grower found that he had to spray or he would have a poor crop. The church people, at least some of them, thought the hop-grower was associating with the devil, but I believe that most of the growers whose grandmother's voice was getting too insistent, quieted her by raising hops for hops-pillows instead of for the manufacture of beer."Item Memories of a Yakima Chechako of 1889 (part 3).(UNKNOWN, 1935) Stratton, Owen T."The beginning of James Hamilton Lewis' career listens like one of those success fables. How he had come to Seattle from Virginia, a young lawyer just emerging from his shell; how he had to pay and take on the handle of a shovel that he might live; how he went to bat in the courts to recover wages for himself and fellow laborers from a heartless contractor, thus providing himself to be a lawyer of parts; how he refused the nomination for governor, when he undoubtedly could have been elected, because his party in its platform had turned thumbs down on building the Lake Washington canal at state expense."Item Memories of a Yakima Chechako of 1889 (part 4).(UNKNOWN, 1935) Stratton, Owen T."On the corner of the block was the grocery store of Smith & Green, and south on First Street, the music room of Professor Connelly, while on the southeast corner of this block was the Guilland House, a hotel run by David Guilland, Sr., an elderly Frenchman. I believe he came from Yakima City at the time of the hegira, and he had two sons, Dave and George, and one daughter married to the man after whom the town of Huntington, Oregon was named...South two or three blocks was the livery stable of Will Davidson who was drowned trying to carry alife-line to some people in danger from the Yakima River in flood."Item Memories of a Yakima Chechako of 1889 (part 5).(UNKNOWN, 1935) Stratton, Owen T."I am a little uncertain as to whether Captain Thomas was a lawyer. He had a son named Dana, and he may bave been a newspaper man. I have a hazy recollection of him owning quite a tract of land in the southeast part of town, and I know that his daughter married Walter N. Granger, manager of the big irrigation canal. I think the town of Zillah was named in her honor, though my recording machinery intimates that her first name was Lucy. The town of Granger was named after Walter N."Item Memories of a Yakima Chechako of 1889.(UNKNOWN, 1935) Stratton, Owen T."...I, nearing my seventieth milepost, am dominated by a throwback which makes me wish to imitate Salar the salmon. That is to say that, I have a desire to backtrack part of Life's journey, and demonstrate the retentiveness of the human brain concerning people and events which occurred between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-six. This may be of little interest to anyone but the writer, an occasional psychologist, a surviving pioneer or his descendants, but stick around awhile and see what you make of it."