Booster meeting fuels Finley Kennewick growers group
Local notes report a successful booster meeting with a full house and plans to form a Kennewick and Finley Fruit Growers Association. The group discusses strawberries and water needs for Finley, with a tentative meeting set for the 21st. Also noted are land sales, a found pocketbook recovered with $300, and a government move to add 1,000,000 for state national guards.
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Finley
Kennewick and Finley Fruit Growers’ Association
Kennewick
C. A. Lundy
Bowles
Sanford
Charles Riggs
Rosalia
Miller Cooper
Albert Fehsel
Coffin Bros
Albert
Aldrich Currency Bill Draws Senate Support Yet Delayed
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts defended the Aldrich Currency Bill as an emergency step pending a more comprehensive reform. He praised a central government bank in principle but said the current session cannot safely enact such changes and more time is needed.
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Senate
Senator Lodge
Mass
Lodge
Local Notices and Classifieds Blink This Week
Pure bred Plymouth Rock eggs offered by L Smith. Ching Sing to open American Restaurant next Saturday with meals at 25 cents. Mrs Eckley of Ellensburg deputy organizer of the R N A plans to organize a camp soon. For sale piano 400 dollars, six hole Monarch range with oil burner, Elgin King bicycle. Also seven room plastered house on one acre with fruit trees, call at former blacksmith shop in Garden Tracts. sale of many household goods at reasonable prices.
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L. Smith
Ching Sing
Eckley
Ellensburg
French
Estray horses notice at Ves sey McRae ranch Kiowa Wa
On February 25 1908 CG Jollet took up estray horses at Ves sey McRae ranch Kiowa Wa A Bay mares branded m on right stifle and m on right shoulder One brown mare with same brands One buckskin horse branded with two small circles joined by a curved line on right shoulder One brown mare branded with a three pronged circle on right shoulder and within on right stifle They will be sold to the highest bidder for cash on April 6 1908 at 11 in the forenoon unless owner or his representative appears to claim title and pay charges Date of first publication March 20 1908 Ws Jenkins County Auditor
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Vessey McRae Ranch
Kiowa
Ws Jenkins
Washington News in Brief Highlights Local Calamities and Courts
Fire damages the Western Cooperage dry kiln in Aberdeen with stock losses. Prominent Centralia attorney Frank Burch dies suddenly. Martin Luther sells a pearl found in Seattle for 50 dollars. Port Townsend receives survivors of the Japanese schooner Satsumi. Escapee couple Skip Keiser and Mary Hamlin marry after fleeing Spokane poor farm. Judge Rice denies Bridgham new trial and sentences him to be hanged for wife murder May 29. Tacoma wife abuse case alleged involving an 8 year old son.
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Western Cooperage Company
Aberdeen
Frank Burch
Centralia
Martin Luther
Germania Cafe
Seattle
United States Revenue Cutter Shells
Port Townsend
Alaska
Skip’ Keiser
Mary Hamlin
Spokane
Rice
F. I. Bridgham
Napercine
Himo
Church Services and Schedules For Multiple Denominations
The notice lists Sunday services for J Forsythe Smith church Rev John Chandler at a brick school house with times 11 am and 7 30 pm Bible school 10 am. Methodist J H Wood with 10 am Sunday School 11 am preaching and 7 30 pm, Epworth League at 6 30 pm. Lutheran Rev Brockman 10 30 am Sunday School and 11 am preaching. Episcopal 2 30 pm Sunday services with Lent 7 30 pm Wednesday at Presbyterian Church. Congregational next Sunday morning with Rev Superintendents Scudder and Greene Seattle present 10 0 clock Sunday School and 11 0 clock Divine Service plus Congregational Home Missionary Society offering.
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J. Forsythe Smith
C. E
Abraham
John Chandler
New Brick School House
Methodist Episcopal
J. H. Wood
Brockman
Episcopal Episcopal
Presbyterian Church
Archdeacon Wellman
Congregational Church
Scudder and Greene
Seattle
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Money Savings Emphasized for Practical Independence
The article extols thrift, urging readers to save dimes and dollars to gain financial independence. It praises building a personal hoard for emergencies and invites readers to start living prudently with the First National.
Kennewick Real Estate Appeal for Land Boom
Kennewick touts itself as the best land in the world in ten years with the North ern Pacific Great Gravity Canal and a growing Inland Empire hub for bridge river and rail. Listings include five acre home sites paying $100 yearly, residence lots from $100, forty acres near Finley school at $150 per acre, a cottage and two lots for 1400, plus a free Million Dollars worth of property offer from Kennewick Real Estate Rental and Fire Insurance in Washington.
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Inland Empire
Kennewick
Finley School
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Reeves’ Bakery
SA Rolling Works
Kennewhix
Washington
THE
Chas, HR. Collins CO
Kernewick
Lauren W. Soth
Courier
Second St
Wash
Congress
Official Paper
Benton County
Mr. Davis
Godfrey
Fuller's
Willy
Sherwin-Williams
A. Howe
Asack
Yakima
Estray Sale
Washington News
Margaret D. Philby
Tacoma
Kennewick Trading Co
Armour Plate Hosiery
Mayers
W. A. Hawes
H. E. Huntington
Hanson & Rich
Insurance
Kennewick, Washington
W. J. Eakin
Eakin Building
Front Street
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