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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1906
Page
5
Local items list community happenings in Kennewick including road and canal repairs on the Columbia and Walla Walla districts, projects by Wren & Greenough, real estate sales, ball games with Kennewicks’ 22 to 6 victory, and people visiting or moving through the valley, with brief mentions of court actions and auctions.
A busy Kennewick area report notes Ashbaugh & Co suits, Breithaupt yard with white clover sod, and D S Bell laying it out. Local projects include header boxes for carpenters and harvest machinery readiness. Plans cover trips to Lind, Connell, Cunningham, Ritzville, Sprague and Cheney, desert land filings, sheep business gains, ditch talks, and community events across several towns.
Rev D O Ghormley state synodical missionary will preach next Sunday morning and evening in the Presbyterian church drawing a large audience. J M Wroe was in Walla Walla earlier in the week and C E Tripp suffers a rheumatic attack. Will Howe of Tacoma visited town for his firm. The E P orchestra travels to Pasco tonight for the opening dance. Adolph Schrader moved to town and resides near Alex Bier. H A Hover travels to Tacoma to place a lumber order for Concrete Construction Co. The order runs into thousands to be awarded to the lowest bidder. Mrs W A Waller of North Yakima seeks treatment for an eye injury. The iris removal has healed and she plans to return home tonight. T E McCroskey and wife pass through en route to Garfield for the death of Mrs McCroskey's mother, Mrs G T Stivers, from heart failure. A telegram to Richland confirmed her death.
Next Sunday June 24 the German Lutherans hold morning services at Finley at 10 30 and an afternoon service at Kennewick in the Congregational church at 3 o'clock Rev Herman Bobi of North Yakima will preach all are invited
Regular services and Sunday School scheduled at the Congregational Church with classes for all ages led by competent teachers. Morning sermon on Christian success, evening talk on How a Runaway was Caught, and Christian Endeavor at 7. Prayer meeting Thursday at 8. Epworth League at 7 with 8 p.m. sermon The Story of the Prodigal Son. Also M E Church offers Sabbath School at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. The Model Church discourse and Epworth League service are noted.
Wood and Cochran report telegram from Roadmaster Scow approving track for the Northern Pacific power plant. Reservoir site secured and excavation begun. capacity set at 400 river feet and covered. Plant installation expected within six months as town braces for city water supply.
Rev. Wm. Snape united Mr. Harry E. Beach and Miss H. Fay Piereian as husband and wife at nine o clock Wednesday morning. They wed at the bride’s parents’ Riverside Drive home and left on the Spokane flyer for Spokane, planning a coast honeymoon. The bride, Idaho Normal School graduate and teacher, will live in their new Walnut Street Beach addition home. the groom is a longtime Kennewick businessman.
The Parcel Social at Mrs. Thomas McCain's home drew many despite bad weather. Guests enjoyed opening parcels with useful and ornamental items, recitations by Edna Kent Ruby Slaugenhaupt and Bertha Tripp, and cream and cake refreshments.
The Lamps express sincere gratitude to friends in Kennewick and especially Mrs H D Sweet and Mrs R A Rose for kindness shown in their bereavement and loss of their precious baby.
The new Ailen and Morefield Gallery adjacent to the drug store is now open offering quarter and half cabinets, full cabinets, sepia and royal brown tones. Prompt enlarging in photography at reasonable prices with special low cabinet-size opening-week pricing.
Market prices listed for hides veal pork beef poultry vegetables dairy and fruits in Kennewick Washington with weekly correction note by the Columbia Commission Co Prices include hides green and dry veal dressed pork live and dressed beef on foot and dressed spring chickens old hens ducks geese new alfalfa hay potatoes onions asparagus spinach rhubarb peas lettuce butter eggs strawberries raspberries cherries and blackberries plus a note on a local shoe shop removal and an operator name R EF Rretearpgen.
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