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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1913
Page
3
Correspondents report Christmas visits from the Finley and Pasco families and local travel to Tacoma and Idaho. A White Gift Christmas raised over one hundred dollars for church additions. School events included a successful basket social netting 64 dollars and a long program with songs recitations and a chorus by students and teachers.
Miss Mela DuGanne departed Friday for a Christmas visit with her sister near Seattle. Prof. Allen Phillips traveled to Prosser for vacation. T. H. Dry went to Spokane on business Sunday. Toby Long is employed on the Drill Scow this week. Wn. Mills of the U S Str Umatilla is mentioned in coastal activity.
Nearly every family is noted as visiting relatives over the holidays. R H Stephen and family arrived from Alberta to stay with Mrs. Stephen's mother Mrs. Breithaupt. Ada Corbett and Miss Mabel Lausch visit with parents while college students enjoy time home. Local tradesmen undertake projects and gatherings include a Grange dance and church Christmas Eve entertainment. The weekly social scene includes barn construction for dairy ranches, ice house work, and holiday travel to Spokane and Idaho.
On Christmas Eve the Sunday school presented The Holy One of Israel cantata at the Richland Methodist church. After the program Santa distributed treats to the children. Mrs. C. S. Teachout arrived Thursday from Horse Heaven for the holiday season.
Locust Grove and Triple Springs schools held a Christmas program Saturday night featuring songs dialogues and recitations by students and the five little girls and three girls. The event included decorations a Santa visit gifts a fruit cake with citron leaves and candles and a Christmas supper followed by dancing. Miss Laura Long and Miss Edith Owen planned holiday visits.
Miss M F French and Anthony Das dice visited Kennewick on Monday. Badger youths were entertained at J A Das dic home with music games and refreshments, with guests Albert Bears Spokane Fred Battig William Battig and John Halasey. Elsie Humphrey left for Sunnyside to spend Christmas. Badger school term under Miss Nona Phillips closed Friday with a pleasing program for parents and patrons.
George Bennett travels to Walla Walla for Christmas with his mother. Mrs M E Carley recovers from rheumatism and is able to go out. Warwick and Sherman of Goldendale visit Mrs Miller and family. Gertrude and Maud Poston from Pendleton plan holidays with relatives. Carley family hosts last week. Mabel Bass improves after a week of illness. Notes on a piano poem and light literary scraps from New Orleans and Baltimore newspapers.
The column records residents returning from trips to the coast and Wenatchee, notes a fashion trend called mumps, and mentions Geo Scott, Charley Lum, Phil Bier, and Miss Edith Ebner. It also covers home construction by W H Collins, a proposed business block by L W Brown, and visits by R A Simmons. Minor items include a moonstone pebble, property visits by J J Rudkin, and plans for Kennewick Hardware and a barber building developments.
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