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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1911
Page
4
Finley opened with about 80 students as teachers F L Audrian Kennewick Miss L E Millay Chewelah and Miss B Cromstock begin intermediate and primary duties. Local visits, travel, and social events fill week with dinners, fruit trips and a watermelon chicken feed at Finley Grange.
H Hover notes list H H Hughes returning from Horse Heaven summer harvest. Mills Bros from Umatilla travel by Attalia side to Sunday home. Many visits occur in Finley Kennewick and Spokane areas including Calhoun family, Edna Graff, and Mrs. Cantwell after a bee sting incident. A lightning near-miss endangers E Toothaker family. Tyson vaccination aids Willis Blackman.
H Yedica returns from the coast and Miss Martha Burmaster takes vacation with Oliver Conrad filling her post office role. F. Spohn and J. Lasher receive a mixed load of vegetables delivered to Pasco. Mayor Muncey and officials clean up the park on Wednesday. O R Allen ships 20 tons of prime alfalfa to Richland Produce Co. at Pasco by steamboat. C C Lawrence two miles north builds a new irrigated 13 1 2 acre residence and plans permanent home. A Alexander and wife visit from Spokane to tend their five acre tract north of town. Mr and Mrs W Fellon enjoy a two week visit. A B Dillon leaves for Pendleton trading 18 1 2 acres of fruit land for 320 acres nearby with a new home completed south of town.
George Cress of Schuster and Cress visits Kennewick on business. Hershel Jamison makes a Kennewick trip, while Geo Anderson heads to Puget Sound and California for a month. Watermelon shipments begin with H T Miller’s first carload to Ferguson and Hendrix in Seattle. Kraft Bros. crop forecast tops 30 tons. Richland Hotel owner J Glenn travels to Kennewick. Other locals travel to Cheney, Pasco, Spokane, and Kamiah Idaho as family and visitors move about the area.
Catholic services will be held Sunday August 20 at 8 a.m. in the new church. Mrs. Joe Martin and children returned from Spokane Saturday evening after several weeks of visiting.
Extra fine Elberta peaches ready to pick. Delivery in Kennewick for 8 cents per box of 60 to 80 count packed California style. Mail orders with box count and delivery directions to Hover Washington. Peaches picked when ripe and delivered the day after.
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