Local notes from Walla Walla and Kennewick week
Mayor Lockerby engaged in legal business in Walla Walla Saturday while banker Hemphill and other Kennewick residents joined Seattle's Potlatch events. F M Weil toured from White Bluffs to the river city by auto seeking city improvements and H P Niles campaigned in Kennewick for Public Lands Commissioner. Local fishing reports praise whitefish chisel mouths and rainbow trout caught near Garden Tracts with hints of larger fish upstream.
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Lockerby
Walla Waltz
Hemphill
Kennewick
Seattle
L. H. Marks
F. M. Weil
White Bluffs
H. P. Niles
Everett
E. Hanson
Banta Place
Hover
Eleanor Stacer
G. D. Hyser
Minneapolis
Grant A. Stewart
Guy Davis
Messrs
Martin Garber
C. B. Michener
Prosser
W. R. Weisel
J. G. Philson
Hedges
Halvorson
Garden Tracts
Mert Dwire
Local notices and community updates from Kennewick one week
Readable items chronicle local trades, parties and public notices in Kennewick including bakery flour purchases, new agency openings, arrivals and departures, social events, and a summer road improvement decree. Changes involve city council actions for paving and funding with hearings scheduled for August 6 1912.
Butter Makers Urged to Print Names on Wrappers
A call urges butter makers to print their names on wrappers to protect themselves in sales. The note highlights that name printing resists grease and water and suggests ordering today as a low-cost option.
Nine Years Ago Today Items from The Courier
Readable items note the Pope in coma as Roosevelt sends sympathy from Rome. J P Smalley plans operate a new combine, W J Eakin to build a residence, crops of alfalfa grow, Miss Charlotte Lum moves to a homestead south of town, and Old Sol cools in a sea breeze. C Conway faces cattle disease, U S Deputy agriculturist praises irrigation near Kennewick and notes favorable soil and climate for future prospects.
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Rome
Roosevelt
Vatican
J. P. Smalley
Smalley
C. Conway
U. S
Kennewick
Kennewick Improvement Resolution outlines street grading plan
City Council of Kennewick resolves to order improvements on specific lots in Stanton's Addition and Hover's Park Villa Tracts and Beach's First Addition. The plan establishes five foot cement sidewalks along Monroe Street from a point on lot 13 to the tract boundaries and follows the east side routes through the listed blocks.
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H. H. Nixon
Star Palace
Kennewick
Golden West Hotel
Attalia Tribune
D. J. K. Timmerman
Tacoma
Highlands
W. S. Haxton
J. A. Whiteman
Koontz
Walla Walla
City of
Stanton
Park Villa
Beach
Monroe Street
Hover’s
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Twin City
Davis Best
Kennewick Trading Co
H. W. Byerly
Immigration Department of the Northern Pacific
St. Paul
L. S. Crossland
Benton County
John Storland
Crossland
P. O. Box
George Newton
White Salmon Fruit and Produce Company
The
Courier
Second Avenue
Kennewick Opera House
L. M. Conry
Northern Pacific
Spokane
Yellowstone Park
C. A. Crawford
Spokane Chamber of Commerce
George Moore
Earl A. Munger
Pasco
Margaret Harrison
Tulles
Newport, Wash
J. E. Tull
Portland
Harold Gray
National Guard
Mr. Rarey
Johnson
Bickleton
Dot
Methodist Church
Gardner
A. Spence
F. D. Pike
Jam Koh
Finley
J. S. Kennett
S. Z. Henderson
Mulkey
Helen Stewart
Republic
L. A. Peters
Miss Boone
Rose Streter
Saginaw, Mich
Chas. Bamberg
D. L. Taylor
Seaside
Ore
F. Frances
Moscow
Idaho
J. A. Corder
Women’s Union Missionary Society
Episcopal Rectory
H. W. Brown
M. E. Church
Washington
J. B
Nelson Williams
Congregational Church
Episcopal Church
Anderson
Maud
Dell Haven
S. M. Lockerby
T. J. Wincut
Kennewick's Printers
Mer
Sol
Chas. H
Kennewick Fruit & Produce CO
E. M. Sly
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