The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-21
Who is it? Make a guess.


Over million words were tele-
graphed the first day from convention
headquarters, on the Republican fracas.
to newspapers throughout the country.
Miss Ortha Suson, who is visiting at
the home of P. C. Book of this city,
spent the early part of the week with
Mrs. A. c. Anon in Horse Heaven,
and in company with Mrs. Book visited
in Pasco, Thursday.
Sam Ash, the genial owner of Wall
ula, was in Kennewick Monday on bus
mess. Sam has many friends in this
section of the country, especially among
the old-timers who were here before
Kennewick was a town.
You surely can guess who the profile
on the front page is. You know we
are running the contest under new
plan now and you stand as good
chance of getting that dollars worth of
goods as any one. Send in your ans
wer any time before noon Saturday.
F. E. DeSellen, district fruit in
spector, was down from the present
county seat Thursday. While he did
not exactly say 80, we believe that F.
E. would like to make his permanent
home in the Kennewick valley. He'll
be one of the first to move this fall.
James B. Swidensky, who will be re-
nembered as leader of the Kennewick
band, died at the Sacred Heart hospital
in Spokane Tuesday after an illness
of several weeks. Hewas we'll known
throughout the Inland Empire as a
band leader and instrumental in
structor. He leaves a widowand two
children living at Charleston.
The burglar alarm at the Bank of
Kennewick began to ring furiously
Sunday night about nine o'clock, bring
ing out nice little crowd of brave men
who stood about in groups, not much
more than hundred feet away. The
polcie discovered the outer door of the
vault was open, which set off the auto
matte alarm.
Kennewick people who paid perfectly
good strawberry money to see Cole
Brothers mammoth" one-ring circus
a week or so ago, will take some salts
faction in the news that the show was
put in "hock" yesterday by the bill
posters and the members of the band
for back wages. The Great Northern
now has the under-fed elephant and the
moth eaten camel.
Earl Larkin and Everett Howe at
tended the Pioneer Picnic Wednesday
and Thursday at the Crab Creek camp
ing ground, about 20 miles from Ritz
vile. The boys worked as the battery
for the Lind ball team. They played
Ritzville on Wednesday and won, z to
2. Yesterday they were to have played
Harrington but the game was pre-
vented by the storm.
The Methodist Ladies' Aid held a
tea Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Jacot. Mrs. Jacot, Mrs. Walter Lodge
and Mrs. R. Dorothy entertained. The
ladies planned sometime ago to each
earn dollar and then tell how they
earned it. There were about twenty
five present and $18 were handed in.
After the meeting they were served
with lemonade, cake and sandwiches,
Friends of S. S. Callahan will learn
with regret of his misfor tune in losing
by fire his new automobile, which he
recently purchased. While Mr.. and
Mrs. Callahan were on their way to
Winthrop, Ore, to visit their daughters,
the gasolene tank became ignited by a
back-fire from the engine and the ma
chine was completely destroyed. Mr..
Callahan carried insurance of the auto.
F. J. Zeisberg, of Abingdon, Va, ar
rived yesterday afternoon to look after
his five-acre tract on the Highlands.
Mr.. Zeisberg purchased the tract two
years ago through Geo. D. Peters and
this is the first opportunity he has had
to see his property, the land having
been put under cultivation by Mr.
Peters. Mr.. Zeisberg is making gen.
eral sightseeing tour of the west, hav-
ing come by the southern route and
visited the larger cities of the southern
coast. He will stay in Kennewick a
few days and then return to his home
by way of the Northern Pacific, stop
ping at Yellowstone Park on the way.