The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-12-03


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SILK HAT PROPOSITION
OF US Kennewckers would look great in silk hats
" wouldn't WEI The study the proposed $7O0Oa
mile asphalt macadam Finley the shows
silk hat proposition We have natural acquired
preudces against the silk the of folks
would be usta bit topeay carrying around Neither have
objections asphalt nacadam but $4,000 worth of
with terminal in sand bank sounds to like silk hat and
overalls.
What the taxpayers of Kennewck and Finley want is
road which will accommodate the everyday and traffic
between farm and and part of boulevard the compile
on of which will probably be left to the next generation
AS nearly ascertain the of Kennewck and Finley
not alone this wish that road what the
county the highway department
permanent highway law intended
The building roads rather than bouevards exactly what
meeting the good
roads association.
Certainly the question of durability and permaneny cannot
be lost sight Of Cheapness often fatal mistake road
building than luxury Yet the opinion that 10 miles of
$4,000 road that will last 10 years. better investment
the people Finley and Kennewc than miles $1,000 road
that will last for SO anybody needs good roads it the
fellow who has waowed through the sand the last
will be here the rather than the fellow who will be
20 years from
Therefore we believe community owes to the Good
Roads committee of the Commercial club and Engineer T.
Wright the efforts they forth the specifications
efforts bid fair be successful and it probable that
will be built Kennewick Finley with the money
now available in the permanent highway fund
THE BUSINESS BOOM
TANGIBLE evidence increasing by the Chi
Herald Business throughout the country has been given
renewed momentum.
The udebaker corporation received order
from England for automobiles seds harness and other
army equipment Jeffrey company automobile
is
under contract with the French to furnish 100000
worth machines.
tins of corned beef for the British army This
has opened it's canning plant South Omaha which
closed for two years, to fill the order
Two thousand steel employees South
Chicago Plants there running at 70 cent capacity
with 80 cent September The United States Steel
corporation Virginia mines opened
Immediately full time These mines have been closed
spring
The Robin Hood Ammunition company at swanton Vermont
has received order $250O0OO worth cartridges
largest single inquiry for pipe several months
before the It calls for $4,000 Detroit
also asking bids 1000 TONS
These only outstanding presage high
water activity in the United States.
ONE COMMITTEE AWAKE
yV1HATEVER ACCUSATIONS of inertia indifference may
w be directed against the committees of Commercial club
they hold against good committee OF all
the dozen standing committees this alone has warmed
it's work When officially existence next week
will have left behind it evidences that really exist
Last spring this committee planned pulled off good
roads day which left miles of country much more
travabe condition than before Yesterday the effort of last
spring duplicated with the city the point of attack
instead of the country roads The first definitely directed
ton for the Improvement of the road
with the committee did the to secure more
tca expenditure of the that Forthcoming from the state
highway fund
Is good thing that hay fever prevalent in this section If
the country only in the months Kennewick winter
weather isn't to be sneezed at ~
WYE HAD little two-bt shinment IF ovnross +ol
Wv few miles up the railroad track We oauod - " "