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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1909
Page
5
An advert warns of graft in the optical business and urges buyers to check prices first. It promises free eye examinations and a money back guarantee if glasses do not fit, stating a large stock of lenses is on hand.
Local ads note for rent and sale of offices in First International Bank building and Baraca social at Baptist church. Items include nursery stock offers, real estate developments, farm equipment, and household services with notices of residents, club meetings, and local business moves in Kennewick and surrounding areas.
Richland grows with new homes and businesses as land buyers, builders, and farmers arrive. The W R Amon bank opens under B F Knapp, and a 17 piece band earns praise. Local social events fund the band while sad news touches residents with a death and a baby's burial.
E Hentzchell plans a residence north of town as Richland Trading Co expands its store with a second floor counting room and shoe shop for Henry Faust. Main building measures 50 by 50 with a 24 by 24 store room and an 85 by 48 furniture department in the new addition. A 24 by 40 warehouse is built beside the store. Ten carloads of lumber arrive from St Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co with Ward of North Yakima as local manager. R S Oliver of Elberton Ga bought sixty acres in section 35 and contracts leveling to C E Griffith. Dr Lymann Shanklin of Tacoma purchased grapevines from Richland Nursery to plant twenty acres. Chas Weigel of Seattle visits with land buyers.
Churches announce February 21 1909 services across Baptist Methodist Episcopal Congregational Episcopal and Presbyterian denominations. Pastor names include Delepine Anderson Rowan Bartlett with Sunday School at 10am morning services around 11am and various afternoon or evening programs plus Epworth League and C E activities. Strangers welcome at all meetings and notices invite attendance.
The seventh grade will present a program Monday at noon including a debate on whether Lincoln did more for his country than Washington. The sixth grade will debate the same topic Friday February 19. A high school literary society program is set for Friday February 26 with chorus, debate on private profits and burger traffic, and solos.
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