Fragmentary Notice From Local Market on Items
Brief OCR read shows items including suits and hand at the Wor Yles with prices 4.65 and 3.15. Details are incomplete but indicate a sale or listing of clothing items at a local shop.
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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1909
Page
1
Brief OCR read shows items including suits and hand at the Wor Yles with prices 4.65 and 3.15. Details are incomplete but indicate a sale or listing of clothing items at a local shop.
Special representative E M Sly reports Grand Junction frost prevention methods work well for Kennewick Valley. Smudging saved crops in 1909 with 4000 oil pots and various coal pots. Costs run about 10 dollars per acre, and extensive community effort saved apples and peaches, prompting a planned detailed report and a regional frost campaign.
Mr and Mrs O C Stark hosted a Friday anniversary reception at Hotel Kennewick to mark the second year of their management. About fifty guests attended dancing in the dining room and a luncheon in the adjacent Land Company offices with music by the Kennewick Orchestra.
The Thimble Club Woman's Club and Literary Club form a Library Association to establish a public library in Kennewick. Officers include Mrs H M Bartlett president and a public meeting is set for Tuesday November 23 at the Parish House with leaders from local groups Mayor and Commercial Club to speak.
New cases linked to Kennewick interests include Wash Hettinger and Geo Dolson versus J Kelly De Priest N P Irrigation Co Cascade Lumber Co Kennewick Hardware Co for alleged debt of 2500 dollars with interest and attorney fees North Coast Railroad Co versus J E Steffens for specific performance of rights.
Clerk Marsh on Monday received tender of $125 from the railroad company in Johnson vs Freeman et ux. Estate case involves petition for performance of decedent Effie M Simp son. Gillett vs Smith and Erickson concerns a promissory note for $109 plus interest and attorney fees.
A school event on Friday November 26 at 8 30 P M in the Pavilion features Indian Rain Dance by nine girls Dusky Tokio Maids Spanish Students with tambourines and the Lonely Bachelor skit plus kindergarten and upper grade choruses aiming to boost patriotism. In local legal notices irrigation water users file around 30 complaints against Irrigation Co at White Bluffs for insufficient water with attorneys Roberts Udall and Anderson for defense. Superior Court delayed to December 1. Also listed: five year old mule for sale by L S Crossland.
Last week the Commercial Club discussed a new governing plan with a salaried secretary and a six director board. Attendance rose at the special meeting to hear the new president and amendments to the constitution and by laws. Proposals include higher membership fees with two rate options and a 60 day reduced fee for new members.
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