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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
2
Former pupils and new students invited to join a violin instruction class. Interested individuals should contact Miss Ethel Burlingame at the home of W. G. King, phone 552. Announcement appears in local notices.
Sermon topics at two local churches list morning Bible schools and preaching services. The first church promotes Growth by Addition as the Sunday sermon with a Youth meeting and the Worth of the Individual in the Epworth League. The second church outlines A Cure for the Blues and public worship with no evening service.
The annual election of officers for the Baptist church was held Wednesday evening. About seventy members dined together and elected Claire Chapin president of the corporation, W. H. Allison trustee, L. C. Gardner clerk, J. S. Motter treasurer, J. M. Holmes chorister, Miss Edith Goodale organist, S. D. Lynch Sunday school superintendent, and ushers Claire Chapin and Gany Hogan.
A compact clippings-style item recounts Agrippina the widow of Germameus, her alleged poisoning suspicion, and her subsequent downfall under Tiberius. It also includes brief, dated puns and witticisms from The Detroit Free Press and London Tit-Bits, followed by a proverb from Calderon.
A large Kennewick gathering in the high school gym brought church and school together for a Sunday evening service endorsed by the Ministers Association. Rev. E A Orr led, with Rev. C E Wilkinson, Supt M S Lewis, and W P Osgood delivering addresses on building an "more ideal Kennewick" through faith and education.
The article explains how smut balls in seed wheat release spores when broken and contaminate grain. It stresses using open tanks or machines to stir and skim off unbroken smut balls during treatment, ensuring clean seed wheat. It warns that dipping in sacks fails to remove balls and that spores germinate if balls break, highlighting the need to prevent reinfection.
Field peas have been tested for years at the Experiment Station with 100 varieties tried. Three top varieties performed well under field conditions, yielding 40 to 50 bushels per acre. Peas offer multiple uses from grazing off for swine to hay and green feed with oats, and can be harvested with other grains. Early spring sowing and thorough land fitting are key to success.
Seed wheat is treated to destroy smut spores mixed with kernels. Formulations include formalin and blue stone or vitral. accuracy in proportions is essential. Recent Pullman Washington State Experiment Station work notes that unbroken smut- grains may persist after treatment.
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