Apple Outlook Brightest in Years for Valley Growers
Market forecasts show rosy prospects for apple growers in the valley as cash buyers offer favorable contracts. Early sales through the Northwestern Fruit Exchange indicate strong demand and rising prices for varieties like Wageners and Jonathans, with Winesaps and Rome Beauties expected to bring good figures. Eastern buyers seek apples, and shipments are arranged to meet market price at time of shipment.
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Western Fruit Exchange
Spokane Fruit Growers Company
Jonathans
King Davids
King David
Wageners
P. R. Parks
Rome
H. W. Desgranges
Canning Demonstration by High School Team
The high school domestic science group will hold a second public canning demonstration Friday at 2 p.m. in the school’s domestic science room. Members are Gladys Motter, Ruth Dickinson, and Winnifred Huntington. The team will travel to Spokane on Sunday, September 1, to compete in the Interstate fair canning contest.
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Gladys Motter
Ruth Dickinson
Winnifred Huntington
Spokane
Orin Beinhart Wounded in France Rejoins Duty
Orin Beinhart reported seriously wounded in France on July 20. letters from Angers base hospital confirm wound in the right jaw. Next letter says he is back in uniform and expected to return to duties within days, bringing relief to his father and sister after two weeks of uncertainty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. J. Beinhart
Orin
War Department
France
Angers
Youths to Register at Commercial Club
The registration of all youths who have become 21 since June 5 will occur next Saturday the 24th. In Kennewick, registration will be at the Commercial Club rooms from 8 to 5 and overseen by Sheriff Duffy or a deputy. The War Department estimates 158,000 men should register, about half in Class 1 for immediate service. Washington should furnish 1618 men.
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Kennewick
Commercial Club
Sheriff Duffy
War Department
Washington
Early Apples Sell at Record Prices, Yakima Pool News
The Yakima Fruit Growers association notes record prices for Yellow Transparent apples and pears. A New York shipment netted growers $1,475.58 from 566 standard boxes and 391 peach boxes. Pools for week ending August 4 show varying returns with forecasts for higher future prices.
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Yakima Fruit Growers Association
New York
Beightenheimer
Gravenstein
Club Gives Up Home
The Commercial club voted at its monthly meeting to abandon its current Hover block room and seek a simpler home. The old Yakima street building vacated by the city may be leased and remodeled for club use. The Woman's club will meet in the library room after this month, and Red Cross space is undecided though Knights of Pythias hall has been offered.
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Commercial Club
Yakima Street
Woman’s Club
Red Cross
Altho
Knights of Pythias
Miss Story Weds Vancouver Army Corporal in Portland Ceremony
Miss Story wed Corp. L Burnsworth Saturday in Vancouver after accompanying Miss Geneva Story and Miss Margaret Beinhart to Portland last Friday. The couple will reside at 210 Orlando Apartments Portland. Story grew up here and graduated last year from the local high school. Burnsworth is stationed in Vancouver in the spruce division of airplane production and was formerly at Pasco with P P L Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Story
Margaret Beinhart
Geneva Story
Portland
Miss Story
Vancouver
Corp. L
Haydon Buys Partner Interest in Kennewick Club
Guy J. Haydon has purchased Bert Loyd’s share of the Kennewick Club. Loyd left yesterday for Seattle to pursue work in the war industries sector.
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Guy J. Haydon
Bert Loyd
Kennewick
Mr. Loyd
Seattle
Regimental Pride: 146th Artillery Back From Front
Sgt H R Lake of Battery E 146th Field Artillery returns to Yakima Valley after combat near Chateau Thierry. He predicts a two year war, praises unit as a crack regiment, and describes prisoners, morale, and training duties at Camp Jackson.
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H. R. Lake
146Th Field Artillery
Zillah
Lake
Chateau Thierry
Camp Jackson
Yakima Valley
Fred Berg
Bunkie
Berg
France
Yakima Republic
Benton County
Soissons
Yakima
E 146Th Field Artillery
Crack
United States Army
Europe
Sgt. Lake
SOW PRODUCES SMALL FORTUNE ON HORSE HEAVEN RANCH
W H Amon reconstructed eight years of farming gains from one brood sow. He sold 6159.40 dollars of pork after butchering 72 hogs and has 11 hogs and 48 young pigs left on his Horse Heaven ranch. He reports buying only four tons of shorts, with rest grown on the farm. His cash book shows 2580 dollars in work horse sales and a wedding gift heifer adds 525 dollars from calf sales.
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W. H. Amon
Amond
Amon Place
Amon
Weekly newspapers face 15 percent cut in print runs
The War Industries Board orders a 15 percent reduction in paper use by weekly newspapers starting September 15 and requires monthly sworn statements of paper consumption. Publishers must cut copies or pages to comply, with Courier-Reporter likely reducing issues to four or six pages monthly.
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War Industries Board
Courier- Reporter
Club champions to compete next week at Prosser
Kennewick pupils named by Miss Edith Morris and A L Hildenbrand will join district champions for a Prosser event to select five county members for state fair competition. Teams from Prosser Richland Kiona Benton City White Bluffs Finley Valley Heights and Walnut Grove will contest.
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Prosser
Benton County
Kennewick
Edith Morris
A. L. Hildenbrand
John Keene
Richland
Kiona-Benton City
White Bluffs
Finley
Valley Heights
Walnut Grove
Yakima
Terril
Register Now for Primaries Registration Push
City Clerk Soth warns that fewer than half of city voters are registered and urges residents to sign up during the coming week. Registrations open every afternoon, with evening hours via Chief Copeland, and close Friday night the 30th before the September 10 primaries.
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Soth
Copeland
Draft Call Seventeen Men for Camp Lewis in September
The local draft board orders 17 men from the 1918 Class to entrain for Camp Lewis during Sept 3 to Sept 7. Names include Rutherford Dunlap, Nathan Travis, C H McCormack, Floyd Temple, Ray Copeland, Otto Erickson, James Dawson, George Miller, Howard Door, Miles Reimer, Herbert Long, Samuel Foraker, Wm Lamson, Walter Shepard, Harold Weisel, Adoniram Rhine, Octave Perrault, with alternates Richard Randell, Guy Rogers, James Wommam, and Julius Olbrich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Lewis
Rutherford B. Dunlap
White Bluffs
Nathan W. Travis
Kiona
C. H. McCormack
Portland
Floyd Temple
Benton City
Ray H. Copeland
Kennewick
Otto E. Erickson
James C. Dawson
Prosser
George Miller
Billings
Mont
Howard Wesley Door
Miles J. Reimer
Herbert N. Long
Samuel G. Foraker
Wm. E. Lamson
Walter
Union reports Berry figures from Kennewick to Richland
The Kennewick Richland Marketing Union shipped 26 036 crates of strawberries this season with 21 922 extra fancy 2 702 fancy 1 012 field run and 400 No 2 grades. Ex tra fancy berries sold in 34 pools from 14 88 on May 6 7 to 2 25 on June 10. Season average 3 06 overall 2 90 for all grades. Prices exclude 20 cent handling. Last year 22 482 crates at 2 70 average. Market fluctuated with a mid May drop to 2 60 and rebound to 3 50 before final slump.
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Kennewick-Richland Marketing Union
F. O. B. Kennewick
Union
Edith Morris Leads Local Canning and Sewing Clubs
Miss Edith Morris returns from vacation and finishes season duties as leader of the canning cooking and sewing clubs. She will join the local canning team at the Spokane Interstate Fair on September first then depart for Oregon to teach this year.
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Edith Morris
Spokane
Oregon
Ford Truck Arrival Planned After Seattle Trip
A. I. Smith of the Columbia Garage returns from Seattle with arrangements for a carload of Ford trucks due in about ten days. Recent buyers include F. M. Lyons E. E. Pyle and G. Bowen who will run the trucks on their school bus lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. I. Smith
Columbia
Seattle
Mr. Smith
F. M. Lyons
E. E. Pyle
G. Bowen
Baker Albert Haas Visits Parents at Camp Lewis
Albert Haas a Camp Lewis baker visits his parents on Sunday and says he will stay at Camp Lewis for some time perhaps permanently and hopes to wear sergeant stripes the next time he comes home.
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Albert Haas
Camp Lewis
Domes Family Leaves for Blue Earth on Ill Brother News
Mr and Mrs F S Domes and their young daughter departed Wednesday for Blue Earth Minnesota following a telegram announcing the serious illness of Mr Domes brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. S. Domes
Blue Earth, Minn
Mr. Domes
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Apple Outlook
Orin Beinhart
MISS
Corps of War Nurses
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
146Th Artillery
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