Winter School for Fruit Growers and Farmers Opens Soon
The Winter school for Fruit Growers Stockmen Dairymen and farmers opens January 5 at Pullman. Courses run two weeks to until March 12 with free tuition and books costing 10 to 15 dollars. Board and room 5 to 6 dollars weekly. Four main lines are Horticulture Animal production Farm Dairying Soil Management and Crop Production. Kennewick Valley urged to send five men to return and boost farming next year.
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Pullman
Kennewick Valley
Civil Service For Fourth Class Postmasters
President Roosevelt orders civil service for all fourth class postmasters in fourteen states north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi. About 15,488 postmasters are affected, roughly one third of the class nationwide. Taft supports merit system, and reforms may extend to other regions. Examinations will generate eligible registers in these states.
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Roosevelt
Civil Service
Ohio River
Mississippi River
Taft
Cincinnati Civil Service Reform League
Civil Service Reform Affects Postmaster Appointments
The order creates county examinations for postmasters with exams in each county. Incumbents stay in place while eligible lists are prepared. Appointments will come from the eligible register with Civil Service Commission certification and no political weight in exams.
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Civil Service Commission
Death of Mrs Amanda Seal at Kennewick
Amanda Bowen Seal died at her home south of Finley on December 1 after a long illness. Born in eastern Tennessee, she lived in Hancock and Greenville before moving to Kennewick thirteen years ago. She was a Baptist and mother of Myrtle Elizabeth and a son who died young. two brothers are ministers.
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Amanda Bowen
Tennesee
Finley
Hancock, Tennesee
Baptist Church
Greene C. Seal
Greenville
Texas
Oklahoma Territory
Kennewick
Seal
Myrtle
Elizabeth
Funeral services for Mrs Seal held in Baptist church
The funeral for Mrs. Seal took place at the Baptist church in the city, attended by long time residents who knew her well. Rev. C. R. Dele pine conducted the services and she was buried in Kennewick cemetery.
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Baptist
Seal
C. R. Delepine
Kennewick Cemetery
The Total Vote in 1908 Presidential Election
Official figures show Bryan with 6 393 182 votes in November 1908, Taft with 7 937 676, and Roosevelt 7 623 486 in 1904. The socialist total reaches 448 471, about 7 to 8 percent region, failing to secure a ballot place due to the 10 percent requirement.
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Bryan
Taft
McKinley
Roosevelt
New Pumping Plant Planned to Irrigate 280 Acres
Bruce Wering of Seattle gears a pumping plant to water 280 acres of land between White Bluffs and the Benton County riverfront. A 30 horsepower gasoline engine will be installed and the project aims to be ready for the upcoming irrigation season.
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Bruce Wering
Seattle
White Bluffs
Benton County
A Brief History of Brass Bands and Their Rise
The article notes that brass bands did not exist over seventy years ago and that brass as a practice dates only back to 1835. It explains that before this, military music relied on woodwind instruments and that by 1873 a typical regimental band had two oboes two clarinets two horns and bassoons.
Long Walk for Santa and a Christmas Fire
A Cleveland family loses gifts when a Christmas tree lights cause a fire. Father Alfred Hammermeister treks eight miles through snow to buy new presents, returning to comfort his eight children. Firefighters retrieve ruined toys as the family salvages Christmas cheer.
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New Toye
Cleveland
Alfred Hammermeister
Santa Claus
Hammermeister
Stellnes Saiduke
Monster Christmas Cake Seen in Leytonstone England
A seven foot high cake weighing 1660 pounds was shown in a Leytonstone shop last Christmas. Ingredients included 152 lb butter and sugar, 325 lb flour, 3000 eggs, 120 lb almond paste, 100 lb icing sugar, and 21 lb mixed spices. The piece notes it as possibly the largest ever made.
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Leytonstone
England
Bead Christmas Tree Invented by German Girl
A German inventor inspired by bead craft created miniature Christmas trees using green beads and slender wire. The design forms a tapering trunk from bound branches and was shown to royalty and U S leaders, including King Ludwig and President Roosevelt, though Roosevelt reportedly doubted its practicality.
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Kai
Ludwikia
Childreser
Braich
Ludwig Imme
Roosevelt
Jo Fiot
Namite
Tribune
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Pioneer Yard
ST. Paul & Tacoma Lumber
St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company
H. E. Baldwin
Kennewick, Washington
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CASS
Santa
Washington
Washington Star
Pittsburg
Allegheny
George B. Nutt
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