Norma Steamer Purchase Drive Backs Up River Trade
N G Blalock of Walla Walla seeks 16000 to buy the steamer Norma and run a Kennewick to Celilo twice weekly. Subscriptions yield Open-River Transportation Co. stock. Pasco Commercial Club members plus Kennewick boosters gathered to hear the plan and raise funds, with 1280 collected in Pasco and 2800 locally, part of a broader effort to accelerate Columbia River navigation and government work on Celilo to Big Eddy locks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. G. Blalock
Walla Walla
Norma
Kennewick
Pasco
Celilo
Open-River Transportation Co
Blalock
Pasco Commercial Club
Captain Gray
Robert Gerry
E. M. Brindle
C. T. Giezantanner
B. F. Nye
J. Walsh
J. L. Vancleve
C. E. Goode
R. A. Klinge
A. S. Byers
S. Steffins
Messrs. Ross and Newman
Commercial Club
Doctor Blalock
Columbia River
Col. Roessler
Columbia
Roessler
Big Eddy
Cascade Locks
Pasco Party
G F.richardson
O. L. Hanson
W. G. King
F. A. Swingle
W. S. Maddrey
L. E. Johnson
H. E. Johnson
H. A. Bier
Alex Bier
Phil Bier
Roy Pierce
J. N. Scott
A. Nevon
CU. E. Williams
E. D. Collins
Kennewick Land Co Plans Vigorous Fall Campaign
The Kennewick Land Co frames a bold fall sales push for the Kennewick Valley Lands. Fourteen sub agencies open across Palouse Big Bend and Idaho panhandle, with Spokane and Walla Walla offices and extensive Garden City newspaper ads. Local agent W S Maddrey sets up at Hotel Kennewick while Arlo Hover leads operations with Hover nd Co President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennewick Land Co
Kennewick Valley
Kennewick
Palouse
Big Bend
Panhandle
Idaho
Spokane
Walla Walla
Garden City
W. S. Maddrey
H. A. Hover
California
Arlo Hover
Hover Nd Co
Hover Investment Co
Special Council Meeting Endorses Sidewalk District No 2
The council held a special session at 6 30 PM on Friday approving a petition by Amon's addition property owners to form Sidewalk Improvement District No 2. Ordinance 31 requirements were met, and Ordinance 48 creating the district was read twice. An O C Stark bar license for Hotel Kennewick was approved with license fee and owner consent. Ordinance 49 on horse hitching was read. The 1907 city tax levy was set at 10 mills. Four arclights were ordered at specified intersections. River road improvements progress noted. A chemical engine inquiry from Kahlotus was referred to the clerk. Finances show about 1100 in a separate water fund and city slight debt after 600 flood damages by Northern Pacific By.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amon
O. C. Stark
Kennewick
Hover Investment Co
Cherries yield huge profits from a single tree
Salem residents harvested half a ton of cherries from a single tree selling at five cents a pound for a net fifty dollars. The piece imagines larger orchards with 135 trees per acre producing about 5400 dollars per acre before costs, noting Yakima county prices and yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Salem (Ore) Statesman
Yakima County
Congregationalists Vote for Church Consolidation Delegates Named
Washington state conference delegates elect seven to attend the national conference in Cleveland October 8 to 17 for a consolidation of Congregational United Brethren and Methodist Protestant churches. Five Seattle leaders join Rev Dr F J Van Horn and others. Omnibus funds set to raise 1100 dollars for the Marcus Whitman monument in Walla Walla.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington State
Congregational Church
Bellingham
Congregational, United Brethren
Methodist Protestant
Cleveland
Seattle
F. J van Horn
E. L. Smith
Jas. E. Moore
W. B. Hutchinson
Samuel Green
Pie Riddle Duel At Green Mountains Inn
An elderly pie maker famed for marking pies with a cp sign faces a culinary rival at a small Green Mountains hotel. After a hearty dinner the cook hostess offers three pies open-faced cross-bar red and sivered-all apple, prompting playful banter about pie labels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Mountains
Weillmans Story of Failure and Polar Expedition Telegram
Walter Wellman reports from Tromsoe on a failed polar attempt with the America airship. After storm and compass failure the crew aimed for the Express to rectify bearings but could not steer, forced to land on a glacier. A later note praises the airship and cites a General Land Office order aiding public land filings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Wellman
Well Man Airship Expedition
Tromsoe
Express
America
North Pole
Polar Sea
the Express
Vaniman
The
Dour Bay
Commissioner of the
General Land Office
United States Land Offices
Watsons Big Stories on Wheat and Peach Losses
F H Watson of Watson Bros arrives from Lacota and notes Kennewick improvements while aiding the big Horee Heaven wheat crop. He reports peach trees killed by severe winter. he lost 600 trees and spent months pulling stumps. The section ships vast fruit to Chicago. Benton Harbor shipped 200000 crates of strawberries last spring, netting growers a dollar per crate. South Haven hosts premier summer resorts with $5 daily rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. H. Watson
Waston Bros Srain
Lacota
Chicago
Kennewick
Benton Harbor
South Haven
Eastern Washington Presbytery to Convene in Wapato
The Presbytery of Eastern Washington will meet in Wapato on Tuesday October 1 with a public session in the afternoon. Rev Walter Hitchcock retiring moderator will deliver a sermon and Mrs Hall will sing. About twenty five delegates will attend including a traveling secretary from New York. The session will fill vacancies at Roslyn and Sunnyside and adjourn to Tacoma for the state synod.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbytery
Eastern Wash
Wapato
Walter Hitchcock
Ellensburg
Hall
New York
Roslyn
Sunnyside
Tacoma
Washington
Alaska
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J. N. McDonald
Cor Waston
Yakima
Congregationalists
Weilman
Watson’s
Eastern
Washington Presbytery
Edward Vanderbilt
Northern Pacific Railway
C. W. Weigel
Wash
Northen Pacific Railway
A. D. Charlton
Portland, Ore
Cascade Lumber CO
W. F. Baker
Setsing
Jersey
Florence
Stevens
Silkolenes
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