The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1909-01-29
FINLEY

| Ai''Nf DCftIotillcul AluD III
olelr meeting next Saturday night,
Jan. 80. will discuss plans. WAYS and
means etc. of erecting Il new central
srhOOl house and want everybody in
the valley, present.
f. E Colleen went to Prosser. Nab
ton and Sunnyside on a business trip
the first OF the week
&. E. Finley brought over a car.
'oao OF beef cattle from Waitsburg
Monday. He had quite a time get
ing til EN- through on account of the
"ashouts and bad track, He had
them already to load and the agent
refused to let him load them and the
| freight train was annulled. He
should have got out with them on
Wednesday but did not get away
until Friday and even then was both
cred with tedious delays. He finally
reached PascO and the q hour limit
was nearly up. They tried to make
him unio"d them but he threatened
to turn the consignment over to
them and they finally hooked him on
10 a throug' freight and brought
across the river Monday morning.
Work was resumed on the new
town hall Monday and everyone is
cooperating to push the work as
rapidly as possible snd finish the
building. The new firm, Moreland &
Sasse are anxious to get started in
business for the spring trade. Mr..
Sasse was here Monday looking after
various matters connecting with get
ting IN their stock and opening bust
| ness.
Work started on the drainage
ditch and all who wish can find
plenty to keep them busy these days.
Marion Roger and family have ar
rived and are getting settled in their
| new house in Section II. Their car
| load CT household goods arrived in
che midst OF the cold weather ana
they werh a little delayed.
Mr.. Thompson of Nebraska, brotl :
erin law of H. w Johnston, will
spend few weeks at the latters
h3me.
Someone entered Elmer Torpen's
house one day last week and took
two or three good suits of clothes,
nearly all his bedding, a gun and
revolver. Elmer was staying at Mr..
Jacques house looking after his stuff
while he was away, when the things
were stolen
Henry Carstens has examined his
peach trees and thinks they are near
iy all dead. while some others who
have examined their trees think they
may come out all right. Mack O.
Donnell says his cherries are all
right but his grapes are frozen clear
to the ground except the Concords.
they are not injured. Mr.. O'Donneli
has one of the finest vineyards in the
valley.
A government dredge broke loose
somewhere up the Snake and came
down into the Columbia while the ice
was running. also a launch got away
from it's owner and started off to
have good time. The dredge was
captured by the government boat
that is working in the river near
Hover and taken back up the river.
Mr.. E. o. Brown who has been at
work in kennewick spent last week
with his family.
The Rev. Murray of Kennewick
preached sermon On temperance
lines at the school house last Sunday
and stated to the audience that the
same sermons were preached thruout
the state on that day He had peti
lions signed by the audience to be
sent to our representatives at Olym-
pla requesting them not to accent
any amendments to the local option
OIL that would give a part of a
county local option and leave the
other part wet and to only require
20 per cent OF the voters names in
stead OF 40 per cent as the anti-option
forces would have it.