The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-08-05
DEPT.
RICHLAND NEWS ITEMS
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y. II. Lilly is In Walla Walla on
business this week.
F. ]. O'Brien was business visitor
in Prosser Tuesday.
Miss Mabel Lausch spent the week
in Kennewick visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Van Horn made
a business trip to Kennewick We'd
nesday.
1 Mr.. and Mrs. D. Holt are enjoying
visit from their daughter, Mrs.
Ormby and little daughter.
| Hermann Eggers expects to leave
any day for the harvest fields to be
gone the balance of the harvesting
season.
! c. S. Gibbs, accompanied by his
small son, Walter, went up the river
Tuesday in the interests of his moving
picture show.
Two of our local county officers paid
us a visit Friday, Messrs. Duffy and
Wheaton, being on a return trip to
Prosser from Kennewick.
Vic Hudson left town Friday to go
to work either in Idaho or the harvest
fields and will not return until this
winter.
Rev. j. C. Erwin, who returned last
week from the Epworth League con-
vention being held at Redondo beach
near Seattle, will preach at the union
services in the park Sunday evening.
Miss Edith Fisher returned the lat
ter part of the week from Ellensburg
where she has been attending the
summer session of the state normal
school. She will visit her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Fisher until the
latter part of the month when she
will depart for her school work near
Ellensburg.
Miss Olga Burmaster, of Spokane,
is in town visiting at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Carl Willis. Miss Bur-
master has host of friends in the
!! Richland district where she lived for
a number of years while a little girl
everyone else in making her visit a
everyone else making her visit a
pleasant one that she will remember
a long time.
! The Sunday school picnic Of the M.
E. church was held in the city park
Wednesday afternoon and was surely
a great success not only from the
standpoint of the kiddies but from
that of their elders as well. A large
crowd attended and the refreshments
were plentiful and tasted just fine.
Games were played and everybody
made to enjoy themselves just as much
as they possibly could.
A great many people attended the
Parks & Banks circus in Kennewick
Wednesday and all report real good
time. This is the first time we have
had a circus so close to home and as
result a great many who could not
afford either the time or the money
to make a long journey to see the
/ show were there in attendance and had
a fine time.
The worst wind-storm of the year
occurred in the Richland district Mon.
day evening lasting for over an hour
The wind was terrific in its velocity
and was accompanied by lightning and
occasional drops of rain. As resul,
all the housewives of the vicinity haG
to do their Saturdays housekeeping
all over again on Tuesday morning.
The Commercial club of the ole
town of White Bluffs is surely pro
gressive body and to demonstrate that
fact they have engaged C. S. Gibbs t.
put on his moving picture show every
week, at fiat rate, under the auspices
of the club. The show will be giver
in the open as long as the weather
permits and if the crowds who atteni
keep up their present enthusiasm there
is little doubt Of the success Of the
venture and it might be good ides
for other small towns to follow in the
footsteps of our progressive neighbor
4 F. C. Biendorf and wife were mosi
pleasantly surprised fast week by the
unexpected visit of Mr.. Biendorf.
nephew and his wife, from Ohio. Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Anderson, the unlock
editor visitors have been out here be-
fore, several years ago and thought
they would like to see the country
again and as result simply walked
in on their relatives here, not even no
tifying them to send a rig to town aft
.. ter them. Mr.. Anderson is connected
with the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
! Rev. Albert label, presiding eldel
| for the Evangelical church, arrived il