Rose Maiden Cantata Set for April Seventeenth Concert
The Kennewick Choral Society will present Frederick H. Cowen's cantata The Rose Maiden on Wednesday evening April 17. About 70 voices will sing with soloists from the Northwest and the Commercial Club orchestra providing accompaniment. The story follows Roseblossom from fairy queen to wife and tragedy as love and fate intertwine. A list of soloists will appear next week.
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Kennewick Choral Society
Frederick H. Cowen
Cowen
Northwest
Roseblossom
the Courier
Coats & Company Opens West Factory for Veneer Fruit Baskets
Coats & Company secures a west side location in the Fruit and Produce Company’s warehouse for a new basket factory. L. H. Marks oversees installation as machinery arrives. The firm already runs two plants in San Francisco and Raymond Washington with a mill at Raymond. The new plant will initially produce veneer wood baskets and prune boxes and is to be fully staffed within two weeks.
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Coats & Have
Fruit & Produse Co
L.H. Marks
San Francisco
Raymond
Washington
Odd Fellows Honor Veteran Jewel For 25 Years
Notice calls all Odd Fellows and Rebekahs to a March 29 meeting at the Masonic Hall to honor C. A. Squibb of Imperial Lodge No. 134 LO F Spokane Wash with a Veteran Jewel for twenty five years of continuous I O O F membership. Guests welcome bring a basket of food. R G Tripp, Sec. Mrs Williams, K of Kennedi for Portland for a and pleasure, Stenographer at the k, left last Saturday few days of business.
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Rebekahs
Masonic Hall
Bro. C. A. Squibb
Imperial Lodge
LO . F
Spokane
Wash
Haskete
R. G. Tripp
Steamer Chas. E. Bureau Routed to Kennewick
Capt. T. H. McMillin leaves Monday for Kettle Falls to take charge of the steamer Chas. E. Bureau. He plans a river survey and ascent descent trial through Little Spokane Falls and Priest Rapids, building charts for a safe downriver voyage. Mrs. McMillin will join him after visiting Spokane and Cashmere.
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T. H. McMillin
Kettle Falls
Chas. E. Bureau
Little Spokane Falls
Priest Rapids
Columbia
McMillin
Spokane
H. F. Howe
Cashmere
Methodists Banquet Honors Pastor and Superintendent
About 150 members and friends of the Methodist church gathered at the Pavilion for a banquet honoring district superintendent Rev. H O Perry and new pastor Rev. C D Rarey. The event featured meals, music by Miss Ethel Kimble and Miss Elizabeth Campbell, and a male quartet. Toasts covered church building, youth work, aid and bread and butter issues, and fundamentals for pulpit and pew, with Mrs Perry and Mrs Rarey praised. The evening closed with hymn singing and reflections on church work.
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The
Methodist Church
H.O. Perry
C. D. Rarey
V. P
Ethel Kimble
Elizabeth Campbell
E. N. Chipperfield
F. A. Dunlap
C. Hoadley
R. H. Briggs
J. H. Wood
F. H. Anderson
Church of Tomorrow
Marvin Carnahan
L. L. Hursey
H. E. Owen
Board of Stewards
Bread and Butter Board
Board of Trustees
C. F. Breithaupt
Richland
Perry
Rarey
Two Big Warehouses Now Building in Kennewick
Two new concrete warehouses are under construction in Kennewick to cost about ten thousand dollars each. Financed by F. J. Arnold and Nathan Thayer, the buildings will serve as a city distribution hub linking Portland Seattle and Spokane and will occupy Hover's Park Villa Tracts with access to rail and docks. Both structures are fireproof two stories plus full basements, 50 by 120 feet, with Arnold's planned for community storage and Thayer housing Fruit & Produce offices and retail operations.
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Kennewick
F. J. Arnold
Nathan Thayer
Arnold
Portland
Seattle
Spokane
Mr. Arnold
Mr. Thayer
First Addition
Bottling Works
Front Street
The
Fruit & Produce Company
Maneger Sly
Thayer
Special Pre Easter Services At Kennewick Church
The Presbyterian Church hosts a five night Passion and Resurrection series starting Monday at 8 PM with Rev. W P Osgood and continuing each evening through Friday. Union services invite all Christians to join in the Holy Week observances in the church Sunday school rooms.
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the Presbyterian Church
Jesus
Kennewick
W. P. Osgood
E. A. Orr
C. D. Rarey
C. R. Delep
Tennis Club Flourishing at Kennewick Courts
The Kennewick Tennis Club reports swift growth with twenty members. New courts cost about $200, are clay with a cinder base, two doubles, regulation size, enclosed by 10 foot wire netting, well maintained by daily sprinkling and rolling. Chas. M. Hemphill presides, E. W. Trenbath serves as secretary treasurer.
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Kennewick Tennis Club
Chas. M. Hemphill
E. W. Trenbath
Season ready with new utilities and tournaments planned
In order and members are assured of every convenience, a telephone and water service has been installed. Several tournaments will be arranged for during the season, both among local players and outsiders.
Apollo concert to close high school lecture course
The Apollo Concert Company and Bell Ringers will perform at the high school Friday evening April 5 as the final program of the lecture course. The five artists include Arthur Wells a veteran string specialist, G E Holmes a noted composer who plays flute and cornet, Clay Smith on trombone and guitar, Mrs Alta R Wells a pianist, and Miss Cayla M Spring a reader and vocalist.
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Apollo Concert Company
Bell Riners
Arthur Wells
Canada
G. E. Holmes
Clay Smith
Alta R. Wells
Chicago Musical College
Cayla M. Spring
Mueller Takes Over Kennewick Hardware Interest
Last Friday I N Mueller bought the Knautz and Son stake in Kennewick Hardware Company. The purchase makes Mueller partner with H A Bier, a pioneer Kennewick merchant. The firm anticipates a bright future for Kennewick.
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I. N. Mueller
Knautz and Son
Kennewick Hardware Company
Mr. Mueller
Kennewick
H. A. Bier
Enormous Crop Expected by Valley Fruit Grower
J. K. Olbrich of the Garden Tracts predicts a huge fruit harvest this year. His orchard holds apricots in bloom and peaches, with frost risk not expected to limit production. He plans a busy summer caring for crops and worries about sufficient harvest help.
Baseball Benefit Dance to Kick Off Kennewick Season
Kennewick hosts a big benefit dance on Friday April 5 to raise funds for ground prep and to start a local baseball season. The Commercial Club provides the hall and orchestra. B E Reser is secretary treasurer and H E Halloway manager. Old timers Larkin and Cryderman face off in an early trial game with the veterans winning about 10 to 6.
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Kennewick
B. E. Reser
H. E. Halloway
Baseball Association
Larkin
Cryderman
Svatosky Returns with Bride in Kennewick Reception Held
Joseph Svatonsky returned to Kennewick with his bride Anna Budilovsky of Chicago after a February 20 ceremony at St. Procopius Church in Chicago. The couple, seen by many friends, received guests at the bride’s parents home with gifts and well wishes for a pleasant stay in Horse Heaven.
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Joseph Svatonsky
Kennewick
East
Anna Budilovsky
Chicago
Svatonsky
Mr. Svatonsky
Elizabeth Svatonsky
Courier
Government Endeavors to Thwart Jack Frost
The U S Department of Agriculture has placed a forecaster in the Yakima valley to warn fruit growers of frost danger earlier than normal. Warnings for Kennewick valley are telegraphed from Yakima to Kennewick Valley Telephone for after seven PM calls to interested growers. The early service, begun at growers’ request, starts three weeks before the usual April start.
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Chase J. Frost
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Yakima Valley
Kennewick Valley
Yakima
Kennewick
North Yakima
Amateurs Do Well in Rebekah’s Light Comedy
Recollections of the Girl of the Hour by the Rebekahs under W E Graham pleased audiences in Richland Pasco and at the Crystal Theatre. Despite eight days of rehearsal the cast performed smoothly with no breaks and the effort was deemed worthwhile for the time and labor expended. The cast included Charley Shakleton played by Ernest Kolb William Tibson by A R Gardner Claud Worth by A H Wheaton and Jane the Girl of the Hour by Bertha Leverich with Lucy Norton Violet Anderson Mrs Chadwick Ruby Slaugenhaupt Mrs Pixton and Kenneth Richardson among others.
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Rebekahs
W. E. Graham
Richland
Crystal Theatre
Pasco
Charley Shakleton
Ernest Kolb
William Tibson
A. R. Gardner
Claud Worth
A. H. Wheaton
Mr. Shakleton
W. E. Graham Jane
Girl of the Hour
Pas
Bertha Leverich
Lucy Norton
Violet Anderson
Chadwick
Ruby Slaugenhaupt
Pixton
Ellen Richardson
Sabe Bes
A. H. Wheaton Baby
Kenneth Richardson
Firemen entertain mayor during inspection visit
The Mayor of Kennewick rode in Station No. 1’s fire truck during a visit to the city. He praised the big apparatus and plans to send his department to inspect Kennewick’s equipment in the near future.
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Kennewick
Walla Walla
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Apollo
Mueller
J. K. Olbrich
Bride
Jack Frost
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