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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1908
Page
5
Local notices report legal business, sales, and social events across Kennewick and nearby towns. Items include court and attorney movements, bakery cash payments for eggs, new orchestras, flour shipments, piano tunings, and social gatherings. References to residents, businesses, and shipments populate a bustling community page.
Berry season closed with Kennewick shipments totaling 10 000 crates and 1 000 crates from Finley. Hood River berries fetch 1 51 per crate in Seattle while late-season sales dipped to 2 50. Expected crop revenue 35 000 to 38 000 with some shipments slow due to washouts and a delayed Butte letter.
The platform calls for tariff revision and postal savings banks, supports a railroad rate law and an employers liability act, approves currency reform, and endorses widows and orphans’ provision. It notes Sherman anti trust enforcement, rural mail service, good roads, interstate commerce reforms, eight hour public works, resource protection, mining bureau, and admission of New Mexico and Arizona as states.
The first services in the new Episcopal parish house will be held next Sunday morning at 10:30. The program includes morning prayer and Holy Communion with addresses by Rev. H. M. Bartlett and Archdeacon Wellman.
LUTHERAN Rev Brockman preaches in German next Sunday at 10 30 a m at the Qld School House. Congregational W L Rowan holds Sunday school at 10 a m and service at 11 a m on The Church with no evening service. Rev John Chandler offers services in the new brick school house at 11 am and 7 30 pm with Bible school at 10 am and a praise service at 6 30 pm.
An estray bay horse with bald face and LUM brand is taken up at Horse Heaven by J O DaGue. Also offers include two houses and two 50 foot lots near the new school, a 10 by 14 tent and camp store, a loan of 350 dollars, farming land near Putnam tracts, several horses and mules, and a piano at Whitelock's.
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