Nine Years Ago in Kennewick Highlights and Local Plans
Nine years ago today from The Courier recalls surveys for a park around the depot to begin soon, bank overhauls, new residences planned in Garden Tracts, and church and social notes. It mentions Mou nted improvements at Antlers hotel, a Mennonite college rumor denied, and community notices including sales, weddings, and church activities in Kennewick and surrounding area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanson
Kennewick
Antlers Hotel
William Pallister
Canada
W. Sonderman
J. B. Clements
C.h.putnam
Exchange Bank
Seattle
Courier
Brookings
High School Football Promises Strong Return and Chorus Formed
The High School notes report the football team aims to match or surpass last season with sixteen players in a second practice session, despite losses at key positions. Will Barquist and possibly Walter Barquist may return, Rodney Soth and Cecil Poston expected back later, and Barmaster joining soon. The season schedule is to be announced. The High School Chorus is formed with about thirty members, and color drawing gains popularity in the upper grades. Enrollment is rising to about ninety, Freshmen Algebra and English split into two classes, American History replaces English History, and Elsie Moeller is elected Freshman president with Ethel Watson vice president and Howard Lincoln secretary-treasurer. Domestic Science offers two Freshman/Sophomore sections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Boone
Merrill Rawson
Earl Larkin
Will Barquist
Walter
Rodney Soth
Cecil Poston
Barmaster
Shier
Elsie Moeller
Ethel Watson
Howard Lincoln
Sec’y.Treas
Domestic Science Classes Begin Semester Activities
In the Junior and Senior Domestic Science Special classes the semester focuses on cooking and lectures. Girls prepared hems for kitchen textiles while seventh and eighth graders learn simple sewing. First year cooks vegetables soups and sauces. second year adds canning jellies baking and teacher lectures. Mr. Lewis and Mr. Groom reviewed bread samples and found them very good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
Groom
We Have Four Hundred Stockholders and Rising Sales
A sales pitch notes over four hundred stockholders and 1912 sales averaging 53 percent above 1911. The firm touts cheaper prices as it grows, urges customers to call or write for lists, and promises weekly newspaper notices in local pages. They offer flour cereals oil sugar salt lard cot tolene smoked meats beans vegetables coal feeds seeds poultry supplies nails wire eggs honey soap condensed milk farm tools vehicles with free city delivery and phone 441.
Also Mentioned on This Page
L. S
Sedro Woolley
Walter Schroeder
R. H. Anderson
Baraca
The
Baptist Sunday School
Gainy Hogan
M. M. Soth
Garden Tracts
Toledo
Iowa
Pendleton
Juanita Carmichael
Walla Walla
Luella Crossland
Ruby Slaugenhangt
Miss Crossland
Washington State College
Clark Mauk
North
Yakima
F. J. Arnold
Emma Heidke
St. Paul School
Glenn Mitchell
Goldendale
D. E. Gould
Brooklyn
Mass
W. G. Gould
Lottie Bamberg
D. P. Hollaway
Spokane
Jerald Newton
J. J. Rudkin
Rudkin
D. E
Miss Hamilton
C. J. Beach
California
T. S. Cantril
V. J. Eakin
Clarkston
Kennewick Gardens
Fred Cresswell
Horse Heaven
Don
J. A. Shefer
J. S. Amon
Amon
G. E. Hanson
Frank Emigh
Ritzville
O. L. Hanson
Miss Staser
Olson
Columbia Hotel
Hawkins
Wilkis & Hawkins
Paha
John Rudkin
North Yakima
Miss Hammer
Bothell
Byrd
Stella Hansen
Tacoma
John Hansen
C. F. Breithaupt
Richland
Robert
Mildred
Edna Rosswog
Highlands
Ladies’ Aid of the Christian Church
Anderson Building
Yakima Street
E. W. Allen
E. C. Seward
Geo. Thornton
Cameron
J. H. Snyder
Hanford
Ted Wright
J. B. Rose
Thos. McKain
Portland
Thornton & Cameron
James A. Hedges
Sunnyside
Presbyterian Church
Hedges
Central Washington
F. L. Fraser
H. Holcomb
Thimble Club
M. E. Staley
Salvation Army
Chas. H. Collins Company
Houston
Rhynsburger
Shanafelt
Lynch’s
PE Clee
Veoh Ee
Kennewick Valley
Kennewick Fruit & Produce Co
E. M. Sly
Deee
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