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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1909
Page
5
An old advertisement touts a line of expensive combs and jewelry from two to ten dollars. It highlights solid gold rings brooches and pins from one dollar up and notes a new stock of silverware. It offers watch and clock repair at a reasonable price and urges yearly clock cleaning.
Local notices list farm and wheat sales near Pasco and Kennewick with prices from 1.85 per sack to 30 bushels per acre. Several residents travel to the Seattle Fair and coast cities, while others plan visits and business in Spokane and Yakima areas.
A dense column of community items from Kennewick includes updates on residents like J. F. Pierce and Stanley at Send Oregon, C P Staley and son visiting the Fair, and various home improvements. News covers real estate sales, farm activity, hospital visits, illness quarantines, and upcoming church events with multiple local names and places.
Morning service at 11 a.m. led by Rev J A Pine with 10 a.m. Christian Sunday School. Evening sermon at 7 p.m. Bible study at 7 p.m. All are invited to attend these services.
Baptist C R Delepine invites worshippers to Sunday services at 1 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. with Sunday School at 10 a.m. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m Episcopal service next Sunday at 11 a m with Rev C W Dubois of Vancouver and Bishop Wils of Spokane to attend. full attendance urged.
Rev B F Brown pastor notes Sunday School at 10 a m Epworth League at 6 30 p m preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m invites all without a church home and welcomes strangers to worship with them
Rev. H. T Murray pastor with Sunday School at 10 a.m. Sermon by the Pastor at 11 a.m. Topic The Offense of the Cross. Christian Endeavor at 7 15 p m and Evening sermon at 8 p m All are welcome.
W L Rowan pastor directs S S at 10 a m with morning service at 11 m and evening service at 8 p m changing by one hour. Catholic services at GJ Henneberry home Sunday Sept 26 at 8 a m. F E De Sellem sells thoroughbred Rhode Island Red to Chas Conway who moves them to his town place. De Sellem may work winter with North Coast crew or Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co offers.
Finley residents Finley Tems D D Moreland and A H Sasse traveled to Seattle on Saturday while Mr E Knautz went to Spokane on business. Mr Teawalt works near Kennewick for Supervisor Godfrey and Mrs Teawalt joined him to oversee the domestic science department at the camp. Mrs J K Setzer, ill for a week, is recovering. Mr and Mrs John Dicus returned to Garfield after visiting their son Chas Dicus ill with typhoid fever. Mrs E O Brown returned Sunday from Seattle and Tacoma. Mr and Mrs E Knuauts came back Sunday from Seattle where they enjoyed the eights at the AY. Mr D D Moreland returned from Seattle Tuesday. A Friday night dance at Finley hall ended with some youths overindulging in Columbia river water and misbehaving. leaders urge proper conduct to preserve pleasant gatherings.
Prof. C. A. Goetz of Washington State College Pullman. on summer tour through western forests. He praises Washington timber resources as among the greatest natural assets and foresees forestry becoming a major business like horticulture.
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