The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-09-04
MISS Esther Harrison visited in
Hover this week.

day morning you could hear the
crack OF guns. The open season fo,
ducks began.
II, A. Howe and family have NOV.
Ell back from the tent to their rooms
over the store which they deserted
during the hot weather.
1t is reported that W. A. Morain
Will return and to kennewick during
September and occupy his fine resi-
dence in the sonth part of town.
II there were Il dozen nice cottages
erected in kennewick during the
next six weeks uhey would all he
rented by the time they were ready
to he occupied at good rental.
Miss Delepine returned Monday
evening from Moscow, Idaho where
she has been visiting for some time.
She will keep house for her father
who moved to town during his
daughters absence.
The finest second-crop stra wberries
we nave ever seen, were exhibited at
this Office last week by Mrs. +. M.
Staley and were grown\on their gar
oen tract. The first crop from these
vines was also fine. The second crop
berries are said to he even finer flavor
ed than the earlier ones.
Miss Grace A. Page of Seattle.
visited over Sunday with Miss Irene
LaPorte. They were roommates for
a year in Seattle. Miss Page also
visited Mrs. George Egbert with
whom she formely went to school
She was returning from Plymouth
in the south part of the county where
she has recently fled on a homestead
Postmaster J. N. Scott returned
the first of the week from Nahcotta
out on Long Beach peninsula north
east OF Portland. There was fine
fishing. hunting. bathing and boat
ing. His parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Rob
ert Scott of North Yakima, and his
brothers were there and they all en-
loved the pleasures of the beach for
abOnt a month.
The quail put ont in this part of
the comfy by the game warden a
year ago and the year previous are
multiplying rapidly. A large num-
her of them have nested and Matched
their young in the bushes and trees
on the Ledbetter place near the boat
landing and can he seen every day
flying around there and on the Cur
rent Island. 1t is unlawful to kill
these birds before September 30, 1912.
So many improvements have been
made here within the last year in
the Garden Tracts and on the Fecht.
err & Rudkin lands just west OF town
that Mr.. Hellinger who lived here
for years was unable to recognize the
lay of the land and had to ask direc-
tons in order to find the well known
Bartlett ranch west of town. One
who has been absent a short time
notices much more than those who
are here every day.
A. +. Verify. deputy county audit
or. was in this part of the county de-
livering the primary election ballots
and supplies. Wednesday he drove
to Finley with l.. w. Soth as his
guide taking the fine ranches i'm See.
ton tie Burns & Hall ranch on
the WAY down and inspecting the
!<nautz Setter and Mob Hill ranches.
Mr.. Verify owns a Prosser Orchard
Tract which lies under the Sunnyside
ditch and WAS mach interested I'm
making comparisons of the two Sec.
tions of irrigated country. The man
agement OF the Sunnyside canal by
the government is highly satisfactory
to the water users as they have been
supplied with an abundance of water
all Summer
q
The members Of thesEastern Star
CHARTER on Tuesday evening gave a
surprise party to one of their mem
bers, Miss Mae SercOmbe at the home
OF her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Sercombe. About twenty members
of the order were present and had an
excellent time playing games and
visiting. Refreshments were served
by the ladies of the party which
aroused the highest hilarity on the
part of some Of the ladies partakine
of them. When the guests wer
leaving they expressed their best
wishes for Miss SercOmbe's success
in her school work in the Cheney
Normal School which she will enter
Tor the year next We k.
Last Friday Mrs. Julius Wehrly
entertained her Sunday-schOol class
and the class of Mrs. w II Collins al
a picnic dinner at her home in the
south part OF town. Thirty-nine
girls were present and they had 6
line time although the weather fol
the day was against them. The