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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1907
Page
5
Local notices detail visits by residents to White Bluffs and Ellensburg, property purchases, plumbing jobs, and traveling to North Yakima and Oregon. Community events include a kindergarten meeting, a home cookery sale, a boat party at Columbia, and band practices with an open air concert planned. The White Bluffs Spokesman expansion and regional travel highlight the area’s growth.
Notice from the Columbia Basin W. L. and P. Co states water will be shut out of town Wednesday morning August 14 to enable a necessary mains change. The report notes a local sports update that White Bluffs’ team will travel Sunday to cross bits with the home squad. A fine game is promised.
T. F. Clark has received a special centrifugal pump he invented for placer mining on Homle Island. The device can move 200 miner's inches per minute and will be powered by a gas line engine. He has three placer claims and expects to wash 5,000 yards of gravel yielding about 40 cents per yard in fine gold. With three men, output ranges 800 to 1,500 yards per day, profitable in low water. In the growing season, the machinery will irrigate 100 acres on the island. Clark is currently in California attending mining interests there.
William Collins, the North Coast bridgeman, travels to Wallace Idaho for thirty days on company business. He reports Chief Engineer Pitman and Construction Engineer Newman say the North Coast is financially strong. The Union Gap case will be heard in the Supreme Court at the November term and a decision rendered. Left unresolved are right of way matters from North Yakima to the Columbia river, including Kennewick. Work at Ringold Bar and below the Snake mouth will resume on Collins’s return in 30 to 60 days, with Kennewick slated for early fall.
Mr and Mrs E G Cox visited Kennewick on Wednesday. Mrs Hanson has improved after a week of critical illness. Mr and Mrs W L Blackman left for Tacoma with Mrs Blackman to stay the summer. Ladies Guild ice cream social raised 12 05. Rev Dry and wife left for Blue Mountains. Amy and Della Phillippi returned from Milton. New school house crown by flag pole and belfry. contractor Cox says completion in three weeks. J C Koegier hosted visitors from Kennewick. Rev Smith of Finley preached Sunday and scheduled next Sunday. Mr and Mrs Graff visited Kennewick. Mrs Heath and Styles Ely on the sick list. W F Anderson home from Horse Heaven harvest to market watermelons.
Hugo Koerner sold ten acres of his twenty to a railroad man for 250 dollars per acre who plans fruit trees. C F Cole traveled to the Palouse for harvest work. Miller Cooper’s crew bale hay near Horse Heaven for Jim Dodson. Haney’s alfalfa, eleven stacks, burned with losses estimated 1500 to 2000 dollars. fire possibly started by a hay hauler’s match or pipe, with delay in responding.
Church and community notices from Richland describe Lutheran and Methodist services on August 11 and a quarterly conference, a communion service, and shifts of worship in a new Concrete Block hall. Local trips, visits, and moving of businesses are noted along with a fishing restriction at Van Horn Lake and a Presbyterian sermon in the school house.
Meals berths and state describe a river trip, with passenger schedule and freight tariff details. The item promotes an up river outing offering pleasant travel and onboard services.
An urging plea highlights banks as public capital, urging readers to open personal accounts. It claims responsibility of 75,000 and frames banking as thrift and prosperity, urging non-depositors to start saving with the bank.
Finley Ranch near Finley 1 mile from Finley 4 miles from railroad offers 40 acres with 26 acres leveled and flumed using 1500 ft of cedar, 14 acres easily leveled. 10 acres alfalfa 16 acres wheat balance rye. Small house and barn. Adjacent land sells for 225 to 250 per acre. new Vancouver railroad may boost value 25. Contact 323 Bankers Trust Bupa Tacoma WA.
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