The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-08-02

"oy' ouly Aotn, a daughter.
Born-to Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Hitler
tuesday, July 3Oth, daughter.
j. M. Holmes returned home vester-
day from weeks vacation on the
Coast. go
Raymond Young arrived Monday eve
ming for visit with his brother. FL.
Young.
Ernest Krug, of Fond du Lac, Wis,
Is here this week with party of pro-
spective settlers.
F. Long of the present county seat,
came down Tuesday for visit with his
old friend, E. R. Sully.
Miss Amy Broome, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, arrived yesterday for a visit
with her former schoolmate, Mrs. C.
H. Collins.
Z. A. Campbell, who has been visit
ing at the Haubold home for the past
two weeks, left Friday for his home in
Carman, Oklahoma.
Al. Fisher left Tuesday for Belmont,
Washington where he will be chief en-
glneer on threshing machine for the
next six weeks or so.
Miss Mabel Pratt, telephone operator
at the N. P. station of Vista, up the
line, has returned from a two weeks
vacation, spent in the mountains in
Oregon.
Postmaster Wheaton spent Saturday
and Sunday at the present county seat
visiting with old friends, the DePriests.
Mrs. Wheaton had spent the week
there and came home with her husband.
Richard Mounsey brought to this
office branch from a crab apple tree
on his place up the river that had forty
apples in an eight inch space. The
apples are all good shape and size too.
James Vincent, Mrs. A. E. Campbell's
father, arrived Monday from Onaga,
Minnesota, where he has disposed of
his holdings. Mrs. Campbell's parents
will likely invest in Kennewick real
estate.
! Major and Mrs. John C. Waterman,
of San Francisco, visit d their niece,
Mrs. Chas. H. Collins, and family last
Saturday and Sunday. Major Water
man is chief army paymaster at the
San Francisco post.
Chas. Snipes, formerly of Pasco, who
has been deputy United States Mar
shall in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the last
three and half years, was in Kenne-
wick Monday. He will go into business
in the Columbia River valley in the
near future.
j. J. Long,, who has been holding
down the second trick at the Northern
Pacific station, left the first of the
week on two weeks vacation in his
home town in Minnesota. He will re-
turn with wife, and they will live in
the house he has furnished in the west
end of town. D. J. Beattie has the
third trick in his absence.
Among the candidates who have been
feeling the local political pulse during
the past week are David H. Cox of
Walla Walla and Edward Heath of Ia
coma, both aspiring for the Office of
state treasurer; A. E. Verify of Pros
ser who wants to be returned as audi
tor; H. K Rowland of Richland who is
grooming for the legislature; and Har-
vey R. Tucker of Prosser who would
be county clerk.
R. R. Woods, agent for the Chicago,
Milwaukee & Puget Sound railroad at
Spokane, stopped over Sunday with j.
G. Holm. He was on his way up the
river where the Milwaukee has laid out
new townsite, and where:he expects
to invest in parcel of land. Mr..
Woods was through Kennewick some
six years or so ago, and was quite sur
prised at the remarkable growth of the
place, and anticipates an equal show
ing in the town up the river.
w. R. Weisel reports an important
realty exchange this week. E. Knautz
has traded his valley ranch, consisting
of twenty acres, for 400 acres of good
farm land near North Powder, Union
County, in northeastern Oregon. Mr..
Knautz valued his Hedges ranch at
$500 per acre and paid $40 per acre for
the Oregon farm. He will retain his
city property and probably make his
home in town after November next
when possession is to be given.
]. E. Webb, agent at the S. P. & S.,
was irving to illustrate the other day
how long eternity was and related the
following negro story that fits in pat.
colored brother was telling about the
hereafter to his congregation and said
that eternity was the longest time that
anv of them could imagine. Why, if a
little sparrow should hop one hop day,
carrying in his bill one drop of water