The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-05-08

buy some OF that ST. 90 coal at the
st. Pa II yard.
! Try II sack of Yakima Beet Flour.
uuarant' ed the best II the State.
| For Sale Poland China Pigs.
j. Z. Roe. Chicago Tracts.
Rolled barley $l.15 per sack Ken
ne"lck Trading Company.
c. A. Warnstrom. superintendent
o! the Cascade Lumber Company' y
sash and door factory at North Yak
ina. was in town Monday, making
estimates on special milled work for
some of the fine new IIenuewick resi-
dences'
Attorney II. H. Humphrey and f.
A. Hwingle make Il business trip to
-klona Monday. They report that
the delegates from that precinct t.
tia county convention are; G D Nc
Alpine. Z o kelso; + Lowry, E II
Mckee and Porter Hartman.
}. B Clements has aspirations to
become the potato king" of Benton
county. He has 60 acres in spuds on
his ranch west of town. The field is
looking fine and promises a big
yield. The lard has been in meadow
Tor many years and breaking it up
and getting in proper shape for thu,
crop was job that tried the metal
OF even an Old-timer like jim.
Magic washing COMMONWEALTH
revolutionize all washing Throw
away your wash boards and machin-
rs- A new discovery. The house
wife's friends. No idle talk. we have.
used it ourselves. Small lot, it won,
last long. Contains no acids or in.
furious washing caustics or sodas:
directions with each cake. For snl,
by 5. E. Lodge & Son at the Photo
gallery store.
j. F. Looney, of White Rlnffs
shipped special road grader from
"alla Walla to this place and up the
river on the boat to the Bluffs.
where he will use it ON a. big con.
nract for digging laterals, which he
has just taken faom the Irriyat ton
Company. From previous experience
with the machine in the Walla Wal
la country. he says it does excellent
and rapid work.
G. w. Shanafelt, of Sunnyside, who
purchased the Scott & Co. stock of
mems clothing, has arrived and ia at
work in the store getting things in
shape to open an up-tO-date Gents
Furnishing store. Several changes
ate being made in the interior ar.
ranGement and the new stock is on
the why aud therefore the opening
will not take place for some littl,
time, perhaps the latter part of mex t
week.
B. F. Galloway and family are
recent arrivals from the Santa Clara
valley in California and are occupy.
Ing the Halves house in the Beach
addition. They expect to settle here
and will probably he Joined by rela-
tives who now reside in Whitman
county In this state. Mr. Galloway
says that he left California to get
| away from the 'DagOes" who are
filling mp the country and working
in the vineyards.
There has recently been placed in a
saw mill at Tacoma what is said to
be the largest leather belt that was
ever made. 1t is ia feet long, eight
feet wide and three ply thick. 1t
weighs 2,2OO lbs and there were re-
quire1 in it's manufacture the hides of
225 large steers. The hides, after be-
ing tanned, were stretched under
great tension and were cemented to-
gether under a hydraulic pressure so
that there was no need for stitch or
rivet in the whole belt.
George Lane and family were in
town Saturday after being shut in
by quarantine for some time on ac-
count of the children having scarlet
fever. One of the children was very
critically i'll with the disease but both
havr have now entirely recovered
without any bad after effects which
this disease so often leaves. Caring
for the sick made strenr Gus work for
women folks and Mr.. Lane had a
strenuous time looking after the big
hay ranch alone, being compelled to
let all his help go on account of the
quarantine.
r. A. Oliver, Chas. Widrig, K. D.
Washburn and w. C. Crawford have
arranged to bring In about 40 Japs
from the Coast to pick Strawberries
in their patches in Section 7. The
advance guard has already arrived
and lively bright looking fellows who
say they have gone to school in Japan
and could speak the English language
fluently before they arrived in this
cpuntry. The experiment Of using
Jap pickers will he watched with in
| terest and the question of getting