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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-09
FINLEY ITEMS

A speaker from the socialist party
held forth at Finley last Sunday night.
The regular meeting of the Finley
Grange was held last Saturday night
at the school house.
The dance given by the base ball
boys last Friday night was well at
tended, many couples coming from
Kennewick and Hover. An excell-
ent time is reported by those who at
tended.
The True Blues were entertained
right royalty Friday night in spite OF
the fact that there was no announce
ment made in the paper last week.
The Sunbeams proved themselves
capital hosts and both classes report
an exceptional time.
Ernest Stuart of Cashmere, Wash. ,
is in Finley this week on visit with
home folks.
Minnie Under is enjoying visit
from a schoolmate from Sprague.
Elmer Hill is sick with the fever at
the Valley house.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Koerner left
for Portland Sunday to see and be
seen at the Rose Festival.
Mrs. Geo. Yeaman came down
from her new home in Mabton for a
short visit with her parents.
G. w. Taylor of Myrtle Point,
Ore, has been in Finley for the past
week looking after his property.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Knoutz are num-
bered among the visitors at Portland
this week taking in the sights at the
Rose Festival. They left on We'd
nesday evening train.
Mr.. Whaley is plastering his house
this week.
VIM. Petzel of Richland and Will
Haeenbuck of Iowa City, Iowa, Wis
tied at the Finley home this week.
Mr.. Hagenbuck and Mrs. Angel
were schoolmates together back in
old Ioway.
Chas. Rand and wife are spending
the week visiting friends in Freewater,
Oregon.
Mrs. G. E. Finley is sick this
week.
D. c. Cresswell, father of Don c.
and Fred Cresswell who has been
visiting his sons for the past week or
ten days left Thursday for his home
in WaIla Walla.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-09
From the Correspondents
Items Of Interest concerning Nghbos and down the Valley
CARLEY and WHI1cOMB

Most everyone in this vicinity began
haying Monday.
Mr.. Kennedy and Sam Bouie are
making a new cable devrick.
M. E. Carley who has been visit
ing in the east, expects to return
home the latter part of the week.
Tuesday being the last day of a
successful term of school under Miss
Longs instruction, well arranged
program was rendered by the children
and teacher.
Miss Long went to Portland We'd
nesday where she will spend most of
the summer.
Mrs. Frank Bass entertained about
fifty of her friends Sunday evening.
Games and music were enjoyed and
light refreshments were served after
which all returned to their homes
having spent a very pleasant evening.
]. B. Miller expects to have his
windmill in operation by the last of
the week.
J. w. Mckinney hived a swarm
of bees one day last week.
Mr.. Qury came very nearly losing
his COW a few days ago.
Mrs. Zumwalt is expected home
next Saturday.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-09
HOVER NOTES

Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Blackman
Jr., invited several of their friends
to their home in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Bartel, last Friday.
Mrs. Wiley Walker and daughter
returned to their home last Thurs
day after spending sometime with
Mr.. and Mrs. Shaw of Walla,
Walla.
C. C. Cantwell returned from
Walla Walla Monday after spend
ing several days there on business.
Willie Mills was in Kennewick
last Friday on business.
E. D. Spicer has been confined
to his room for sometime, but is
improving rapidly.
Mr.. Meals of Horse Heaven was
in town last Thursday visiting with
friends.
Ed Angel of Finley was in town
last Friday transacting business.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Bartel and sons
Robert and Greed left Sunday for
their home in Portland after spend
ing sometime here with their par
ents, Mr.: and Mrs. w. H. Bartel.
Mr.. Cresswell, of Finley was in
town Thursday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Remington
entertained several of their friends
last Thursday evening in honor OF
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Bartel. The eve
hing was spent in playing cards.
Refreshments were served at late
hour.
Messrs. John Mills and son Willie
and G.. B. Schroyer were in Kenne-
Tuesday on business.
Roy Bush, of Yellepit, was in
town the first of the week on bust
ness.
Mrs. Martha Bushionel, of Pen
dleton, Ore, spent several days last
week with Mr.. and Mrs. w. Spears.
Later she left for Portland to at
tend the Rose Carnival.
Mrs. B. B. Stuart entertained a
few Of her friends last Thursday in
honor of Mrs. w. Bartel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Leibert left
the first of the week for Portland to
attend the Rose Carnival.
Mrs. Hampton, accompanied by
her daughters, Myrtle and Fern,
were in Kennewick Tuesday visit
ing with friends.
The Columbia Grocery Store is
installing a soda fountain.
Mrs. G. H. Yeaman, of Mabton,
who is visiting with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. w. Moore of Fin
ley spent last Wednesday in town
visiting Minnie Mcclure.
Mrs. w. H. Bartel has been very
i'll for the past few days.
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RICALAND ITEMS

HIGHLAND ITEMS
A. G. Routhe has returned from a
business trip to Walla Walla.
R. B. Evans and family are now
occupying their new residence on
orchard road.
Ethel James of Pasco is visiting
this week at the home of her sister,
Mrs. G. A. Rollins.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Hunt were
in town Sunday from Pasco.
F. Spohn went to Kennewick on
Monday with a load of vegetables
which he disposed of there.
Mrs. ]. B. Clements was a Ken
newick visitor last week.
]. E. Slorah who held the position
as bookkeeper in the local Office of
the Lower Yakima Irrigation COM
pany for some time departed for
North Yakima last week.
Mrs. F. Wendell has returned
from Kennewick where she spent
the past week.
Mrs. w. Nelson and children are
visiting with relatives at Waitsburg
this week.
Mrs. T. B. Rollins was called to
Seattle last week by the death of her
sister.
Miss Augusta Breithaupt has re-
turned home from Walla Walla
where she has been attending the
conservatory of music at Whitman
college.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. R. Palmeter re-
turned to their home in Cour d.
Alene having enjoyed a pleasant two
weeks visit with their son, E. A.
Palmeter.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. A. S.
Murray on May 81, 1911, a girl.
Mother and child are doing nicely.
Nj. G. Clark has moved into the
Penn residence which he, has rented
for the summer.
A. B. Dillon's new bungalow is
nearing completion. Basket Bros.
are doing the work.
A. Berg has returned from Top
perish where he visited short time
with his family.
The mother and son of H. Wheel
house arrived in Richland last week
from their former home at Colfax.
Mrs. Fesenden departed last week
for North Yakima to visit with rela-
tives.
Next Saturday, June 10, a Sun day
school picnic will be held in the park.
The program will begin at 1890.
Everyone come and bring your din
ner and enjoy yourself.
Next Sunday church services will
be held in the school gymnasium
which has been offered by the board
to the community for such purposes.
The Ladies Aid of the Christian
church will meet at the home of Mrs.
J. M. Basket Thursday June 18th.
Let all the members be present.
Mrs. ]. Roehl returned Tuesday
to Cheney, having spent the past
week visiting here. She will attend
the Normal school there until Septem-
Der when she will return to Richland
and take up her work in the local
high school.
A number of the friends of Miss
Mable LAUGH were pleasantly enter
tanned last Friday evening at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Lausch.
The evening was spent with games
and other amusements and at a late
hour luncheon was served.
Mrs. McAlpine has departed for
Seattle where she will visit for short
time.
Mr.. Seeley has granted the contract
to O. B. Rollins for the erection of
bungalow on his tract north west of
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. earle are in
Walla Walla this week.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
Lyceufn Theatre
CHECKERS.

Checkers will be the attraction
at the Lyceum Theatre for four
days engagement starting with a
Sunday Matinee and Including a pop
ular priced Tuesday matinee, and its
return will be welcomed by the many
playgoers who enjoyed the piece
when presented here before. The
play is called character comedy"
which is way of saying that it is
neither society play nor a problem
play. 1t is unique, story of Ameri-
can life told in crisp, clean cut di-
'alogue, with cleverly devised situa-
tions and one scene with thrill in
it that leaves the audience little
breathless The hero is named
Campbell, but nobody ever calls him
that. He is Checkers from the
moment he appears in the rotunda
of Hot Springs Hotel in Act one
until the last act curtain leaves him
with his sweetheart in his arms. He
is gentleman sport, spending his
money as he chooses till he meets
Pert" Barlow and hears her beg
Arthur Kendall, the dissipated son of
the rich Clarksville merchant, to
come home. Incidentally, he finds
out how a sport looks to a girl like
Pert, and turns his back squarely on
his old life. The second act finds
him in Clarksville,/ clerking in the
Kendall store and adoring Pert with
out hope. In one of the daintiest
and quaintest love scenes ever
played, he finds out that Pert cares
for him, and her father sends him
away, refusing to consent to his suit
till Checkers can show $1,000 earned
in a year. What Checkers does to
get the money and what he does with
the money when he gets it makes up
two more acts of unflagging interest.
The company in Checkers" is said
to be an unusually capable one.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
ruft Of Perlwak Eea,h.ra.

On the apex Of the crown worn by
the prince OF Wales on special occa-
sions Is a curious feather. or rather
tuft OF feath---. the top of which IL
adorned with gold thread. The value
OF this feather is estimated at $50, 600,
and II has the distinction OF being the
only one OF its kind In human posses
sion Twenty years passed after the
first hunter sent out to procure tha
feather before it was attained, and
during that period more than a dozen
hunters had lost their lives in the
quest.
The costly tuft OF periwak feathers
and the extraordinary danger incurred
In procuring 1t was due to the fact
that the periwak. for some unknown
reason, is to he found only in dense
1ungles In which tigers make their
lair.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
Wanted to Have It Done With.

Emily Gordon Baird Ia the name Of
this young lady whose people are sum
mering at Ridgeville, near Elyria. Hel
four-year-old curiosity impels her tc
close approach to the family washtut
for more intimate acquaintance with
the soap bubbles as they swirl about
the edges. In consequence she re
quires frequent change of garment.
to keep her dry.
Emily" said her mother last Mon
day, "if you get your dress wet again
/ shall punish you severely. Do you
understand"
Yes, mother" replied the young
lady.
Nevertheless her curiosity over
came her training and in half an hour
she needed dry dress to keep her
from taking cold.
DO you remember what I told you
a little while ago?" asked the mother
DO you remember told you I'd have
to punish you If you didn't mind?"
well, mother" said the little rebel
come on and do it. and let's have II
over with"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
"DON'T LIE TO YOUR WIFE"

Clear the path, you grouches! Dave
Lewis is coming. He's the same Dave
Lewis, who was all the rage with his
comedy in Campbell B. Casad's song
farce, Don't Lie to Your Wife," at
the Whitney Opera House in Chicago
last season. This favorite comedian
will be seen in the above farce at the
Lyceum Theater for a week end en-
gagement starting with a ladies' sill
yer souvenir matinee Thursday and
including popular priced matinee
Saturday, with identical the same
production that enjoyed the long run
in Chicago. The piece contains stu
ations and complications enough for
a half dozen farces, and the comedy
is handled characteristic of Dave
Lewis. Mr.. Casad drew many of the
ludicrous situations from the every
day scenes that he witnessed during
his career as a New York Herald
newspaperman. The theme is modern
in every particular, for the suffra-
gette question is treated most liberal
ly, and many other peculiarities of
the life of great city, is touched
upon with satirical hand.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
HANDICAPS OUT OF FASHION
Anyhow, the Women Golfers Pre-.
ferred to Play Bareheaded, Said
the New Member.

For exactly three weeks she had
been member of the golf club, and
was anxious that every one should
know it. She fooled her way along
the links with bag full of shining
clubs, none of which she knew how to
use, and whenever she was invited
cut to tea she turned the conversa
tion to golf and interlarded it pro
fusely with such terms as bunker,
"stymie," "divot," and so on.
At last a nice young man inquired
after her handicap, adding:
q suppose the ladies of your club
have handicaps?"
For a moment she was nonplussed
but only for a moment.
"Oh," she replied glibly, don't you
know that caps are out of fashion
however handy they may be? Be
sides, we all prefer to go round bare
headed"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
Baseball With a Diver,

A nation baseball-mad has develop
ed in recent years such variations or
the popular theme as night practies
under electric lights and games In
cramped quarters played with huge
Indoor" balls and diminutive bats
But way up at the tip of Manhattan
island is something really unique
baseball with the aid of diver.
In vacant lot near Broadway and
229th street a vital portion of left
field is cut away by a broad slough
which once may have deserved its
name Of Tibbet's Brook. The amateur
games played on this badly fiawed dia
mond are remarkable more for heavy
hitting than for scientific pitching;
and deep left field Is favorite land.
ing place for safe hits. The balls
often sail over the helpless fielders
head to land in Tibbet's Brook with q
beautiful splash. On Sunday after.
moons a small boy is kept busy diving
off the bank and swimming after balls
when they come to the surface. He
gets share of the collection as his
reward.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
MaIne,s Deserted VILLAGES.

Maine has had her deserted farms
ar now and then one can find her de-
serted villages. Such one is WEIGH
vile. In the town and county Of Ok.
ford, where once the pulse of ma
chinery kept life beating fast in a
thriving little community. To day the
population is scattering, on the farms
thereabouts chiefly. while the change
in the value of the property is indi.
Gated by the stor: rece 80 related of
the sale of 2h-story house for SITS.
which was worth $1,000 rs years ago.
But the number of such towns Is
small. Maine is building up fast. Her
deserted farms are being taken up.
sometimes by progressive young farm.
ers. and again by summer people, and
the deserted Maine villages promised
o new lease of life.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1911.

Beulah Binford, child without
parental guidance and care; started
on the road to ruin at the tender age
of l3 years; pursued by, and constant
ly associated with q rich mans will
ful and depraved son; declared to be
the cause of his terrible crime OF
numbering his young wife; scorned
by the world, despised and Stunned
by all it's people, Released from pri'
son, with no home, no friends, no mon
ey, no reputation-nothing to make
life worth the living and nothing
with which to sustain life Kicked
from the stage where others fully as
vile have made fortunes; barred from
posing for moving pictures; not even
being able to hold a job as cashier in
three cent "beanery." No woman
would give her help, and no man
dares do so, therefore what is left
for her but the easiest Way" And
yet, once she was somebody's cooling,
dimple checked baby girl. Madeline
Force, reared in the lap of luxury
becomes the beneficiary of another
woman's refusal to longer remain the
wife of John j. Astor because of his
unbecoming conduct, and by marry
ing him Madeline secures millions.
To win notoriety each girl paid the
same price-herself.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
Joke on Policeman.

A Dublin eccentric short time ago
entered a purveyor's shop and bought
ham. Having paid for his purchase.
ne requested that 1t should be hung
outside the shop door. saying that he
would call back for It. The customer
then paced up and down outside the
shop till a policeman came in sight
and Just as the man in blue caught his
eye he grabbed the ham and bolted.
The constable. however. soon collared
the thief. as he thought. and hauled
him back to the shop. Having ex-
planned the nature of the alleged crime
TO the shop assistant. =, asked he LAT.
ter to charge the offender. But" said
the assistant. as he realized the Joke.
Its his own ham! He was quite at
liberty to take 1t In any circumstances
he ch se"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
syphoned Oxygen.

The dark, unfathomed caves OF
ocean are continuously supplied with
air, else life in the depths could not
be supported DR.. Carl Herring sug.
gests in Science that the oxygen is
siphoned down by pressure. Those
who have witnessed the opening of q
champagne bottle understand that a
liquid will hold more gas in stable so.
luton under pressure than when un.
confined. The spraying of the waves
saturates the surface of the ocean
with air. The layer beneath, which is
under higher pressure, in turn forces
the captured air particles still lower,
until at the utmost depth the richest
content of oxygen should be found.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
LIFE AN UNCERTAIN GAME
Systems for Reaching Old Age az
Doubtful as Those for AcquIr-
ing Wealth.

The late John w. Gates, who was
frequently spoken of as "plunger,
played Wall street on a system, ant
was thirty or forty million dollars
ahead of the game when he died al
the age of fifty-six.
Thomas A. Edison, luckily amone
those guests who escaped unharmed
from the Carlton hotel fire in London
is now sixty-four. He also has his
SYSTEM" applied to living, by which
he declares he expects to attain the
patriarchal age Of one hundred and
fifty.
A man died in Minnesota lately only
eleven days short Of the century mark
AS is too often the case, this near
centenarian was hard drinker and
an inveterate smoker. Maybe II he
had lived temperate life he might
have rounded out the full hundred
years.
But 1t all goes to show what an un.
certain game life is. Some men take
things easy and pass off in their
prime. Edison works 16 or 18 hours
a day, intends never to retire, and is
going stronger than ever at sixty-four
The only positive assurance the
wizard inventor can have in regard
to the long span he looks to, and
which all the world cordially wishes
him, Is that he has achieved 15O
years worth of work already.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
'Possum Points the Way.

In removing the debris from the eel
lar of the old Riggs house, which
has been torn down, number OF
Washington workmen the other day
discovered big, fat 'possum, which
they mlstook for an enormous rat, and
fled precipitately. The effects upon
the negro of the refinements of high
er education and the white mans civ
ilization may well be challenged when
1t destroys the nature of the race tc
the extent that It's members fail tc
recognize fine, fat 'possum when they
see 1t, says the Baltimore Sun. About
one more generation of progress along
the same line and we will see color
ed man and brother shying at the
watermelon and running from the vel
low-legged pullet.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15

Present indications point to grand
success for the 1911 Wood County
Fair. The entries in all departments
are greatly in excess of those of any
previous year, and the speed program
gives promise of being the best and
most interesting ever before offered
in Wood County. That means much.
Everybody owes it to himself and
family to attend at least one day, and
as many more as possible.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
COURT HOUSE NEWS.
Continued from First Page.)

J. Munger, out-lot GO, Perrysbure
$3.50.
Peter N. Mas to Henry p. Shanks
40 acres, sec. "a, Milton township
$4,000.
Bertha L. Harner to Lewis Zies-
sler, a acre, sec. 81, Milton town
ship, $500.
Edgar l.. Kingsbury to Fred j.
Gibbs ct al, lot las, Perrysburg,
$1OO.
Fred Woke, grdn. and G. to Ida
Ulrick, lot 1873, Perrysburg, $4O0.
Tena Craven to Ida Ulrick, lot 1873,
Perrysburg, $S25.
Ida e. and Frank o. Cullen to
Laura C. Roether, lot 166, Perrys-
burg, $500.
E. F. Metzger ct al. to ]. G. H.
Stein ct al, 14-1O0O acre, sec 5, Troy
township. SIS.
Alice l.. Gundy to John Freed, lots
70, 76 and 675, Tontogany, $65.
Peter Martin, adm. to Thomas E.
Houser, lot and 1894, Millbury
SIS.
Granite Improvement Co. to Tole-
do G. C Ohio R. r., sec. 81, Ross
township.
Same to same, sec 32, Ross town
ship.
Mary l. Carroll to Frank Hilla-
brand, lot 224, Perrysburg, $500.
John Arniitage to Sarah Armitage,
80 acres, sec. SO, Middleton town
ship, $100.
Joseph Carpenter to Arthur Car
penter, 20 acres, sec. 2S, Webster
township, $1,000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-15
TOLEDO'S BEAUTIFUL NEW
THEATER.

Toledo is now able to boast one oil
the largest, handsomest and most
complete popular priced amusement
palaces in the middle west.
The new Columbia Theater, loca-
ted on st. Clair street between Madi-
son avenue and Adams street, is ack-
nowledged to be the finest vaudeville
and moving picture house in the city
and no city in the central states has
anything that excels it.
This beautiful new house will be
devoted exclusively to high class
vaudeville, the very latest and best
motion pictures and music of the
highest order. When it is announced
that the vaudeville bookings will be
made exclusively by the William
Morris booking agency nothing more
need be said on this feature. The
Morris agency is noted the country
over for having always the best and
latest vaudeville features and the
cream of its bookings will be seen at
the Columbia in Toledo.
In motion pictures nothing but the
finest made will be given screen
room and programs will be changed
on Monday of each week.
A feature of this theater possessed
by no other in the city is a $4,000
pipe organ on which popular and
classic concerts will be given at each
performance. This is not mechani-
cal organ, such as may be heard in
some houses, but genuine pipe or
gan. Manager o. l.. Bradley has Sc
cured the services of Prof. Leon
Iodine, a noted English organist, to
give these concerts and choice pro-
grams will be rendered at each of
the three daily performances. Prof.
Iodine was born in Birmingham,
England, and began the study OF
music at the age of five years. He
studied under the best masters OF
England and the continent and at the
age of IA was the official organist of
one of the cathedrals in the British
city. The Columbia organ, which is
the product of one of the best fac
tories in the United States, has one
feature not duplicated in any instru-
ment in the world. That is a COM
plete set of organ orchestral chimes
which exactly duplicate the rich tone
color of the most famous of chime
bells.
Visitors to Toledo will find the
Columbia a pleasant and instructive
place to spend an hour or two. The
theater is located in the heart of
the business section of the city, is
always heated just right, is beauti-
fully decorated, has comfortable
seats, and offers both a quantity
and quality of entertainment that no
other house in this section of the
country can give. The admission is
ten cents-and the performances will
be on a par with those offered by
houses charging five times as much.