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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
5
A local ad invites customers to feel at home and freely browse the establishment. It touts welcoming methods and asserts that purchases will stretch money further than at rival stores, promising noticeable savings after each buy. The note emphasizes helping customers and friendly service.
Kennewick community items report shoe repair upgrades at Richardson's and the Kennewick Harness Shop. visitors from Prosser, Toppenish and Tacoma. farm sales, cattle and wheat trades. local notices on housing, schools, and moving posts. no major events, but a bustling local bulletin.
The Benton County Board of Education met in Prosser with Annie Goff presiding and Olaf Strandwold as secretary. They approved library book selections, authorized purchases at discount, and allocated about 400 from the mill levy for 1000 volumes to be rotated among districts for thirteen weeks. A levy of one twentieth of a mill for library purposes was requested for the coming year, library control rules were adopted, and a revised course of study will be published.
Dr Alexander Cameron of Minneapolis Minnesota, a blind lecturer, will speak at Baptist services in the Brick School House next Sunday morning and deliver his lecture The Way the World appears to a blind man at the M E Church Monday evening. He is brother of a Reporter staff member and will stop over Sunday in Kennewick. He is a Yale graduate with a doctoral degree in languages.
The Lewiston marshal warns vandals stealing melons grapes and fruits from town ranches that they will be arrested jailed and prosecuted if offenses recur. The notice stresses firm enforcement to deter crime.
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