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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1908
Page
2
Winter wheat looks fine and spring seeding nears completion as residents note heavy snow last Thursday and a thawed ground ready for crop yield. Local families relocate, school closes for term end, and Easter plans at the schoolhouse are announced along with community meetings and bank inspections.
The Senate passed the Benton Water Co. dam and locks bill 47 to 4 after Senator Heyburn shifted from blocking it. Debates centered on government fees and public access to waters, with implications for a party split between Hepburn Cannon Roosevelt and Republican ranks.
The census shows Washington has the largest Negro population among U S cities with about nine thousand or nearly one third of its residents colored. Mrs Christ Kruse suffers from a severe grip. St Pauls Guild of the Episcopal church plans a Missionary Tea at Mrs O L Hanson on Friday April 7. White Bluffs Irrigation Company advances irrigation for 870 acres. 12 of 20 carloads of wooden pipe delivered. engines and gas producer arrived. Kennewick Drag Line contracted to place them on a barge. machinery weighs 21 tons.
A Waynetown Indiana man hails Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as unequaled for croup and effective when given at the first sign of the croupy cough. The remedy is praised for cough and throat relief and is sold at Columbia Pharmacy.
Local notices list multiple denominations including Baptist Methodist Episcopal Episcopal and Congregational with times for Sunday school preaching and youth activities led by pastors Forsythe Smith Chandler Wood and Brockman. Archdeacon Welman to speak midweek Lent services. Also mentions architect Francis Reid supervising Kennewick church project and livestock pasture at Lott's ranch West of Second Street bridge.
G Collet took up two bay mares braided on right stifle and right shoulder, one brown mare with same brands, a buckskin horse branded with two small circles joined by a curved line on right shoulder, and a brown mare branded with a three pronged circle on right shoulder and with M on right stifle. Estrays to be sold to the highest bidder for cash on April 28, 1908 at 11 a.m. unless owner or legal representative appears with title and pays charges. Date of first publication April 3, 1908. WS Jenkins County Auditor
Mrs C C Buckman hosted an April Fool party at home with about fifty guests on Wednesday evening. Prizes went to J L Johnson for best dressed doll Miss Marion Leitch for best boat builder and J H Gravensland for most poetry using April Fool. Mrs H J McNeil won the bean hunt prize. Mrs W G Earnest heads to Waitsburg with household goods. Mr Earnest will join later.
The text shows multiple train numbers with scheduled times including No 2 at 5 35 a m No 4 at 5 30 p m No 6 at 1 10 am and No 16 at 9 40 a m and instructs not to stop
The article promotes thrift and emergency readiness, urging readers to start saving now. It emphasizes that small hoards grow quickly and that careful dimes and dollars lead to practical independence.
The notice touts Kennewick as a premier Inland Empire land claim with a railway canal and river access. It advertises five to ten year prospects, five acre homes earning about $1900 yearly, residence lots from 100 dollars, forty acre tracts near Finley school, and a new cottage with two lots priced at 1400 dollars. It urges buyers to view a “Million Dollars worth of property free” before buying.
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