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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-09-15

Miss Luella Grassland left the last
OF the week for Pullman where she
will attend the State College this
winter.
A. l.. Minhinick passed through
kennewick Sunday on his way to
Finley to look after theimprOvements
on his place.
G. A. Getchell, took his wife to Sc
attic Sunday night to hospital.
She was taken I'll during the week
with the fever.
Merrill Rawson, who for the pasl
six weeks has been visiting in Idaho
and the eastern part of Washington
arrived home Saturday evening.
Miss Edna CressweIl visited Satur-
day and Sunday with friends in town.
She has taken charge of the school
in Horse Heaven, which was taught
last winter by Miss Althea Stuart,
and will teach out there for the win
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Silman stop.
ped off in kennewick Sunday evening
for few days visit with w. Nj.
Frans and family. They have been
visiting with friends in Tacoma for
some tire and were on their way to
their home In Spokane.
Miss Jessie Jackson, of Toronto,
Canada, spent Saturday and Sunday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
Williams. Miss Jackson is a niece Of
Mrs, Williams and has been engaged
to teach in the Pasco school for the
coming year.
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All this weeks
news T H | S
week Il Il Il

!, r. J. Tweedt returned from
GALA walla the first or the week.
.,thur Erickson is very I'll with a
...tened attack OF typhoid fever.
's Ssryices Will be held at st. Joseph
.holie church, Sunday, September
nh at "a. III.
ri The N. E. Ladies' Aid Will meet
~ Mrs Kelly. Wednesday after
an Of next week. September Goth.
.e,o Congrega tional Ladies' Aid
~ hold fruit sale at Holmes Store
:, Saturday afternoon at on
o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. A. NevlOw. who have
hon spending the past two months
i ppndleton, Ore, returned Friday
evening".
yopda sanders. of Walla Walla,
~,o has been visiting her grand
nother, Mrs. G. Sanders, left Sunday
Or her home.
Mrs. H, Doughty was over from
paoco Sunday visiting her father. DR..
reepIne returned to the suburb with
her 10 the evening.
C. A. Vibber, a brother to Harry,
,pturned to his home in COlum bia,
Ohio, Sunday. after a short visit IN
the KenDeWick valley.
Miss Levine Stevens returned Sat-
urday evening from Sea tile after VISIT
lug for several days with friends
there She left Monday for her home
m Toledo, Iowa. While on her way
she will visit at Salt Lake City, Utah
and In Chicago.
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LITTLE STORIES OF THE WEEK
Ywew@m help making this twtA local

Mr.. and Mrs. S. R. Harper returned
wednesday from a trip to Lewiston
and Walla Walla,
Mrs. NJ. f. Staley returned from
North Yakima last week, where she
visited her son w. w. Staley and
family.
A. Ficken Of Rockford. Wash. came
to kennewick Sunday to deliver the
annual missionary talk. or fest" as
1t Is called. He returned to his pas
torate in the evening.
Miss Mile Grover. who has been
spending the summer with her uncle.
Thos. j. Benedict, departed Tuesday
for Alexander, N. D., where she will
teach the coming year.
The old school ma'ams mot the
aged ones, particularly but the ones
who were in the schools last year,
gave spread at the school house
last Friday. to the new teachers.
The feast was a get-acuuainted af-
fair, and according to reports 1t
served the purpose. They refuse to
tell what happened aside from the
feed.
The N. |. L. E. Club held their first
regular meeting, after the summer
vacation, at the home of Miss Ethel
TOmpkins, In the Garden Tracts.
Regular business was transacted and
social evening was enjoyed by all.
Refreshments were served by the hos
tess, assisted by Miss Lulu Holloway.
The Club Will meet next Monday eve
ming in the parlOr of Hotel Koontz.
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J. A. Bellows left last Saturday
morning on business trip to Spo.
kane.
Mrs. l.. ID. Plantz was over from
Pasco, Tuesday. visiting with rela-
tives and friends.
Mrs A. B. Ely visited at the home
OF DR.. and Mrs. Hedger and other
friends in Benton City the first of
the week
Miss Fannie Smith arrived I'm Ken
newick from Walla Walla, last Fri
day evening. for a short visit with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
Smith and family in the Garden
Tracts
The Missionary Society of the
Presby terrain church met at the
home OF Mrs. G. w. Shanafelt Thurs
day afternoon. The subject for dis
cussion was Japan" and very
interesting and Instructive meeting
was held.
Miss Louise Gravenslund was the
guest of honor at a kitchen shower
at the home of Mrs. ". G. King, last
Thursday. A very pleasant time
was had and Miss Gravenslund was
the recipient of many useful articles
Miss Gravenslund met again with
the girls, Friday afternoon, at the
home Of Miss Bernice Griffith and
was given a linen shower, receiving
many beautiful pieces of linen. Re.
freshments were served by Miss Grit
feth assisted by Miss Eleanor Staser.
late In the afternoon.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-11-08
CHAPTER vi.

Betty Sets Out for Tennessee.
Bruce's first memories had to do
with long nights when he perched be-
side his father on the cabin roof OF
their keelboat and watched the stars
or the blurred line of the shore where
1t lay against the sky, or the lights on
other barges and RATS drifting as they
were drifting, with their wheat and
corn and whiskey, to that common
market at the rivers mouth.
Bruce Darlington had seen the day
of barge and raft reach it's zenith, had
heard the first steam packets shrek
ing whistle which sounded the death
knell of the ancient order, though the
shifting of the trade was slow matter
and the glory of the old did not pass
over to the new at once, but fingered
still in mighty fleets of RATS and keel
boats and in the Homeric carousals
of some ten thousand of the half,
horse, half.alligator breed that nightly
gathered in New Orleans.
After the reading of the warrant
that morning, Charley BALKAN had
shown Darlington the road to the
Forks, assuring him when they separ-
ated that with little care and decent
use of his eyes it would be possible to
fetch up there and not pass plumb
through the settlement without know
ing where he was.
He was on his way to Fayetteville,
where he intended to spend the night,
and perhaps q day or two in looking
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synopsis of Preceding Chapters.

At the death of General Quintard at
the Barony-,his family seat in North
is discovered by those who are settling
up the estate to have been left without
a protector. The old general has led a
strange and secluded life and what kin,
If any, Hannibal is to him nobody knows.
Bob Yancy-a native of the mountains
takes Hannibal home with him and be-
comes deeply attached to him. The
Barony, is sold to Mr. ana Mrs. Ferrls,
as their guest Betty Malroy Mrs Der
ris and Betty conduct a Sunday school,
which Hannibal attends and Betty be-
comes very fond of him.
Soon after a stranger-Captain Muir
rell-of handsome dashing appearance,
comes into the neighborhood and secret
ly employs BladenEa local attor 11 TO
day Bob is absent Hannibal is stolen
fbut Bob intercepts at cross roads the
man who is carrying him off and rescues
Hannibal. A warrant is issued for Bob
arrest.
Betty closes her visit at the Barony
and starts west to her own home at
Belle PLANE in Tennessee, near Mem
cause Of the unwelcome attentions of
Captain MurreH, who has been fire.
sauent caller at the Barony. Bruce Car
:sonality, who has been visiting in the
neighborho God where his family once
uived, takes the same coach with Betty
TO whom he has been greatly attracted
Betty at first, feeling that he is social
hy beneath her. is inclined to sn%b him i'm
snate worth make themselves felt and
SHE is unable to resist his advances g: al
seo1ned by Charley Norton, her friend
from childhood and long her suitor The
mouse and plantation which-during her
absence at school-have been in charge
of her step-father's son-Tom Ware
have, she finds, been greatly neglected.
TO Wares disguest, Betty insists on re-
storing the place to its former beauty,
Meanwhile Bob Yancy, fearing that he
will finally lose Hannibal. decides to take
him and make his way toward Belle
PIaine where Betty has suggested that
ne should come On the way ,t they are are
night at Slossons Tavern Bob is set up
by slesson and Murrel "a and %aa terribly th.y
drop his body in the river. Hannibal,
who has been upstairs in bed Il, al hears ears
10 the yard outside. He sees the two
men carry Bob's still form to the river
and fees through the woods he knows
not where
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around, when the meeting with Betty
and Murrell occurred The girls face
remained with him. 1t was face he
would like to see again.
He was still thinking of the girl
when he ate his supper that night at
Cleggett's Tavern. Later, in the bar
he engaged his host in idle gossip. He
had met a gentleman and lady on
the road that day! He wondered, as
he toyed with his glass, if it could
have been the Ferrises? Mounted.
Then it was Ferris and his wife-or
it might have been Captain Murrell
and Miss Malroy. Miss Malroy did
not live in that part of the country;
she was friend of Mrs. Ferris, be-
longed in Kentucky or Tennessee, or
somewhere out yonder-at any rate
she was bringing her visit to an end,
for Ferris had instructed him to re-
serve a place for her in the north
bound stage on the morrow.
Darlington suddenly remembered
that he had thought of starting north
in the morning himself.
The stage left at six, and as Car
rington climbed to his seat the next
morning, Mr.. Cleggett was advising
the driver to look sharp when he came
to the Barony road, as he was to pick
up a party there. 1t was Darlington
who looked sharp, and almost at the
spot where he had seen Miss Malroy
the day before he saw her again, with
Ferris and Judith and pile of lug
gage bestowed by the wayside. Betty
did not observe him as the coach stop
ped, for she was intent on her fare
wells with her friends. There were
hasty words of advice from Ferris,
prolonged good-bys to Judith, tears
a place was being made
for her many boxes and trunks. Car
rington gathered that she was going
north to Washington; that her final
destination was some point either on
the Ohio or Mississippi, and that her
name was Betty. Then the door slam
med and the stage was in motion
again.
All through the morning they swung
forward in the heat and dust and
glare, and at midday ratified into the
shaded main street of a sleepy village
and drew up before the tavern where
dinner was waiting them.
Betty saw Darlington when she took
her seat, and gave scarcely percept-
ible start of surprise. Then her face
was flooded with a rich color. This
was the man who saw her with Cap
tain Murrell yesterday! There was a
brief moment of irresolution and then
she bowed coldly.
It was four days to Richmond. Four
days of hot, dusty travel, four nights
of uncomfortable cross-road stations,
where Betty suffered sleepless nights
and the unaccustomed pangs of early
rising She occasionally found her
self wondering who Darlington was.
She approved of the manner in which
he conducted himself. She liked a
man who could be unobtrusive.
The next morning he found himself
seated opposite her at breakfast. He
received another curt little nod, cool
and distant, as he took his seat.
"You stop in Washington" said
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Betty shook her head ''No, I am
going on to Wheeling"

Betty shook her head. 'No, I am
going on to Wheeling"
You're fortunate in being so nearly
home" he observed. I'm going on to
Memphis"
Betty exclaimed: "Why, am going
to Memphis, too"
"Are you? BY canal or Cumber-
land, and then by stage over the ma.
tional road to Wheeling?'
Betty nodded. 1T makes one wish
they'd finish their railroads, doesn't it?
Do you suppose they'll ever get as far
west as Memphis?" she said.
"They say it's going to be bad for
the river trade when they're built on
something besides paper" answered
Darlington. and l happen to be a
hatboatman, Miss Malroy."
No more was said just then, for Bet
ty became reserved and did not at
tempt to resume the conversation. A
day later they rumDled into Washing
ton, and as Betty descended fro mthe
coach Darlington stepped to her side
81 suppose you'll stop here, Miss
Malroy," he said, indicating the tavern
before which the stage had come to
a stand
"Yes," said Betty briefly.
"If can be of any service to you
he began, with just touch of awk-
wardness in his manner.
mo, thank you, Mr.. Darlington"
said Betty quickly.
Good night good-by." He
turned away, and Betty saw his tall
form disappear in the twilight.
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CHAPTER VII.
The Fight at Slosson's Tavern.

The Fight at Slosson's Tavern.
A month and more had elapsed
since Bob Yancy's trial Just two
days later man and boy disappeared
from Scratch Hill. Murrell was soon
on their trail and pressing forward in
pursuit. Reaching the mountains, he
heard of them first as ten days ahead
of him and bound for West Tennessee;
the ten days dwindled to a week. the
week became five days, the five days
three; and now as he emerged from
the last range of hills he caught sight
|of them.
Yancy glanced back at the blue wall
|of the mountain where it lay along
the horizon.
well, Nevvy," he said, we've put
a heap of distance between us and
old Scratch Hill"
For the past ten days their journey
had been conducted in a leisurely
fashion. AS Yancy said, they were
seeing the world, and it was well for
them to take good look at it while
they had chance.
Suddenly out of the silence came
the regular beat Of hoofs. These
grew nearer and nearer, and at last
when they were quite close, Yancy
faced about. Smilingly Murrell rein
ed in his horse:
"Why-Bob Yancy!" he cried in ap-
parent establishment
Eyes, sir-Bob Yancy. Does it hap
pen you are looking 70 him, Captain 2"
inquired Yancy.
Mono, Bob. Pm on my way
West
Murrell slipped from his saddle and
fell into step at Yancy's side as they
moved forward.
''They were nightly stirred up at
the Cross Roads when left, wonder
ing what had come of you," he observ-
ed.
That's kind of them" responded
Yancy, little dryly. There was no
reason for it, but he was becoming
distrustful of Murrell, and uneasy.
They went forward in silence. A
sudden turn in the road brought them
to the edge of an extensive clearing.
Close to the road there were several
buildings, but not tree had been
spared to shelter them and they stood
forth starkly, the completing touch
to a civilization that was still in it's
youth, unkempt, rather savage, and
|ruthlessly unitarian. A sign an
nounced the dingy structure nearest
the roadside tavern.
From the door of the tavern the
figure of man emerged. He was
black-haired and bull-necked, and there
was about him certain shagginess
which a recent toilet performed at the
IOIoC IiOuS3i Huu uOI oSI NSu W
gate.
"Howdy?" he drawled.
"Howdy?" responded Mr.. Yancy.
"Shall you stop here?" asked Muir
rell, sinking his voice. Yancy nodded.
Can you put us up?" inquired Muir
rell, turning to the tavern-keeper.
81 reckon that's what I'm here for"
said Slosson Murrell glanced about
the empty yard. Slack observed
Slosson languidly. Eyes, sir, slack's
the only name for it," 1t was under
stood he referred to the state of trade.
He looked from one to the other of the
two men. AS his eyes rested on Muir
rell, that gentleman raised the first
three fingers of his right hand. The
gesture was ever so little, yet it seem
ed to have tonic effect on Mr.. Slos-
son What might have develoned in
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Continued next weekly
The Republican journal., 1911-05-04
THE CIVIC ALPHABET,

A--Aim to make Arbor Day annual Cleanup"
Day.
B-Banish the tin can district from your city.
Clean up back yards and alleys.
D-Destroy rubbish by burning.
kets.
Fine every club member who does not work.
G-Give free lecture upon civic improvement.
H-Have campaign against unsightly bill
boards.
Interest city authorities in cleanup" day.
join all forces for the anti-drt crusade
XIII sidewalk splitting or it will kill you
Let your slogan be: "Do it for Home
Sweet Home"
M-Make requests of preachers for cleanup"
sermons.
N-Next to Goodness is Cleanliness.
O.-Organize the children into Civic Leagues.
P--Plant trees, and then plant trees, and plant
more trees.
Q--Question authorities about city expendi-
lures.
R-Remember to plan parks and play grounds
now.
Study city ordinances and work for their
enforcement.
TRY to make the school buildings social
centers.
U-Use every effort to arouse citizens.
V-Vanquish the opposition with good nature.
W-Wage unceasing war upon all weeds, flies
and mosquitoes.
X--Xact obedience to city sanitary laws.
Y-Your city is You; never forget that.
Real, courage and patience will cleanup
Colorado land every other State).
Sarah S. Platt Decker.
The Republican journal., 1911-05-04
Halls Quarry Paving.

The modern style of small paving
blocks for street work in all the large
cities now being used requires fine
grained quality of granite. It is hard to
find this kind of granite outside of very
few States. A very fine formation of
this granite has been found at Halls
Quarry, Me. 1t has the right texture
and fast working qualities which the
paving cutter likes because he can make
good blocks and high wages with an easy
amount of labor compared to the rough
er class of granite. There are numbers
of the local paving cutters at work now
and are all highly pleased at the fine
quality of granite, and the small blocks
they are cutting out The difference
from the old fashioned large paving
block being genuine advance to the
benefit of all concerned. There are acres
of this quarry land where hundreds of
paving cutters can find work even now.
The formations are easy to get at, the
granite laying in sheets from two to six
feet thick, with good beds. The paving
blocks being cut now show clean and
clear in texture with no stains.''
The Republican journal., 1911-05-04
THE BEST WAY OUT.

Many of the Maine municipalities have
decided that the best way out of the
present difficulty in regard to the assess
ment of taxes caused by the failure of
the 18th Legislature to pass the 1911 tax
act in form containing an emergency
clause is to obtain the amount Of the
State tax from the State assessors and
to make up the lists as usual but not to
commit them until after they have re-
ceived their State warrant. This will do
away with considerable of the delay that
would otherwise be caused.
The State board of assessors has re-
ceived for the past few days from Is to
20 letters each day from town officers
asking what the amount of the State tax
is to be and registering vigorous pro-
that prevents their laying the tax until
in July. Many of the towns and cities
have been accustomed in the past to
make their collections earlier than July.
The Republican journal., 1911-05-04
MAINE OYSTERS AT BALTIMORE.

It seems a bit like carrying coal to
Newcastle to exhibit Maine oysters in
Baltimore. for there is no city that
makes a greater specially OF the oyster
business than Baltimore with its ada
cent waters teeming with oysters, but
there was a Maine exhibit Of oysters at
the National Shell Fish convention, just
held at Baltimore and it is worthy of
note that the exhibit attracted much
favorable comment. The delegates from
the oyster-growing States expressed
much surprise as they did not think it
possible to raise such oysters IN Maine.
1t was but few years ago that this
latter view was very generally held in
Maine, principally because OF the cold
temperature of our waters. Commits
sioner James Donahue of Sea and Shore
Fisheries, however, thought differently
and has worked very theoretically and
well to develop this industry, which he
regards as one of its large undeveloped
resources, and it is gratifying to note
that his efforts are meeting with remark
able success.
In his recent report Commissioner
Donahue notes that there are now eight
oyster beds in the State, OF which the
oldest is in the Sheepscot river. From
that bed in 1909. there were take 600
bushels, while in 1910, up to December
LIST, there were taken 5000 bushels,
small earnest of what may be accom-
plished with the oyster in this State.
Mr.. Donahue believes that the inme-
diate future holds glittering possibilities
for Maine in oyster propagation and is
determined to push the work of develop
ment energetically as may be seen from
the following extract from letter to the
Commercial: Il plan to plant oysters
in every coast county of the State,
where suitable bottoms can be found,
this season, and believe it is only mat
ter of a few years before Maine can be
large shipper of oysters, as well as
Holsters, clans and scallops, on which
We now lead all the other States. BAN
gor Commercial
The Republican journal., 1911-05-04
William Tell
Flour
that the court should have discretion as

that the court should have discretion as
to sentences.
sin the last Is years some 20 or more
liquor sellers have been driven out of the
business in Kennebec county through
prosecutions and stiff penalties, as l have
reason to believe. But in many if not
most instances they have had successors
either at the old stand or near it, who
are not so sensitive as to the nature of
the penalty and are willing to assume
the risk of conviction. They go cheer
fully to Jail and at some subsequent term
of court new party is 'presented" as
the proprietor of the saloon of the late
jailed proprietor. Sellers may come and
sellers may go, but the rum flows on for
ever, like the brook of Tennyson' s lyric.
With others stiff fire with jail alter
native is equally effective 1t also has
the advantage of reimbursing the county
treasury in part at least for the direct
and indirect costs and loss effected
through the liquor traffic. Most men
who now descend to rumselling are not
sensitive about few months in Jail.
They part with their liberty for 80 or so
days with less conjunction than with
their money. Hence a stiff fine in nui-
sance convictions with a long Jail SEN
tence in case of non-payment, is the most
effectual penalty when. applied to them.
For this reason it was mistake to
amend the nuisance statute by reducing
the alternative sentence to 80 days. 1t
was wisely repealed by the recent Legis-
lature.
Very few native Americans are now
in the liquor business in Kennebec coun-
ty. French Canadians and Greeks are
the principal offenders. The average
immigrant in search Of liberty regards
the denial of the sale of beer or stronger
liquor as an oppression greater than any
he has fled from and seems to think him
self justified in breaking all the laws
that stand in his way. He is slow to
learn this particular custom of the
country or to conform to it. The State
is in great need of a moral campaign
with leaders of eloquent voice and char
acter commanding respect. Every gen.
GRAFTON should have its John B. Coughs.
''As to the prohibition amendment to
the constitution, much good may result
from the campaign now opening by the
temperance forces of the State to retain
the amendment. Prohibition in the con-
stltutlon, however, without prohibition
in the hearts and will of the people is a
ueluSlon anu d Sndfe-allU as futile as
the statute law without its constitution
al protector. If the campaign shall
arouse the people of the State to any
adequate conception of the extent and
destructiveness of drunkenness within
our borders, resubmission will have justi-
fed itself. And it is sincerely to be
hoped that the platform advocates of
temperance and retention of the amend
ment will be judiciously chosen and not
given to exaggerations which make the
judicious grieve. If there be any vice
affecting society which needs no exag-
geration to depict its hateful mein' it is
the drink evil.''