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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1912
Page
4
Correspondents report on travel to Seattle and Benton City for work while residents arrive or relocate around Richland. Updates note irrigation company rename to Horn Rapids, club meetings, school sports results, visits from Walla Walla and Spokane, and local housing and business moves including new nursery work and a rebuilt residence contract.
Mr Ziller arrived from Yakima and is improving the Highland tract. The water pipeline on the west line between Sections 2 and 3 serving the Shady Hill addition is completed adding about five hundred acres under irrigation. One and a half miles of pipe, ranging from 14 to 4 inches, has been laid. All land has been sold and is being prepared for improvement.
Mrs Williams travels home to Walla Walla and Herbert Powell returns from Grandview. Missouri Flats and Prosser residents call in for a week of business and lodge work. Donations and illness update Mrs B Stewart and siblings visit Kiona. Cantwell welcomes a daughter born March 30. Kennewick scenes include Miss Hatch, Mrs Doublaar improving, Walla Walla nurse Mrs Lane, Bartels’ Portland trip, and irrigation canal duties led by Clarence Ennis. T. H. Dry attends I O O F meeting.
The Pierce family arrived from Clarkston. Lateral irrigation work begins in Kennewick Garden Tracts with 40 000 strawberry plants on J Sercombe's six acre plot. H E Baldwin builds first home in Kennewick additions. A F Brown becomes St Paul Tacoma Lumber manager. Ballinger moves to cashier. Gus Wilkie to operate local store. Beach’s Addition lots advertised at 75 dollars. Congregational chapel on Maple Street to open April 12 Easter service led by Rev Samuel Green.
Mr. Eaken of Seattle came with a carload of lumber last week. Preparations are under way to erect a fine bungalow on his son's ranch south of town.
The school board engaged Prof. Harrington of Mohler for the high school and Mrs. Mae Rhodes of Okanogan for intermediate grades. Various residents and visitors are noted, including local travels, church events, and community updates across several towns.
A union Sunday School rally is planned for next Tuesday night at 8 o clock in the Presbyterian church. Rev Stuart of Prosser and Rev Rarey of the M E Church will speak with five minute talks by Sunday school superintendents and special music. Everyone is invited.
City council passed an ordinance requiring second hand dealers to obtain a license and keep records of purchased furniture. Dealers must fumigate articles shipped into the city and pay the business license fee as a health safety measure.
The contract for installing the irrigation system in Beach's addition was awarded to Spokane Concrete Company and will be completed by May 10. A new irrigation district in the Anion Addition received third reading and bids were invited for the work.
The O W R N Co announces mail transport on the Yakima division with a mail car on one train each way daily between North Yakima and Walla Walla. Postmaster Wheaton says the government has waited for this and expects authorization to route mail over the line soon.
Fans will see how Kennewick lines up on the diamond next Sunday in a game against a P. P. & L. force aggregation. The payroll includes strong players and the game at 2 30 should provide a brisk workout.
A vault beneath a razed De Roode house near the Battery yielded a skeleton. The tale ties Abbe Spencer to Tory loyalties and a love affair with Lt Brayton as American forces moved in. Abbe hid in the vault and died unseen, her fate hidden until the discovery and later revelation by an investigator.
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