The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-03-25
KENNEWICk---FUTU

/ Recent Meeting Of the Womans Club
a community busting with life and
teeming with industry, community |
peopled with sons and daughters into
whose makeup has been indeliably |
written a savory sage-brush philoso-
ply, so-called from a vanished and
vanquished weed, the habits Of which
were not unknown to their forebears;
a people of determination and
grit. traits acquired and inspired it
is said, through long association with
the tenaciousEess Of a certain powdry
substance long since extinct, which In
days gone by was sometimes erron-
eously called volcanic ash, and which.
was prone to perch upon parlor furni-
ture in the lulls which occasionally
followed the storms; people of strict
sobriety, habit acquired through a
long and intimate acquaintance with
a certain non-sectarian, non-denomina-
tional, non-itoxicating beverage man
ufactured and guaranteed by one of
our churches; people schooled in civ
ic righteousness, in literary elegance,
skilled in household economy, and
above all a talking and laxative
people, accomplishments and traits
which have followed down the years
through the activities of an old, but
still extant organization known as
the Kennewick Woman's club.
In trade and commerce our star
shines particularly bright and it en-
tiers interesting phases in the very
near future. The beginning of things
commercial is recorded in 1915 when
the Cello canal is completed and the
Columbia made navigable from the
sea to Lewiston on the Snake and to
Priest Rapids on the Columbia. The
same year the Port Of Kennewick is
created and the harbor improvements
thus made possible gives Kennewick
a clear lead over all competitors for
commercial supremacy Of the Inland
Empire. With this done, great events
tread upon each others heels with diz-
" rapidity and the time-old Columbia
which now flows quietly past our
doors carrying nothing on its bosom
but ice in winter and drift wood in
summer, becomes thing of life, q
great fundamentally Of trade; a
highway coursed by all manner OF
craft from the fleet hydroplane to the
deep-chested, chugging freight steam
er and the flat floating barge.
Wharves line the water front and
the hum of industry is never still.
In 1916 the wool growers Of the north
west erect shipping warehouse at
the waters edge. The same year ar
enormous cold storage plant is erec.
ted to house the fruits from the or.
chards of the Columbia, Snake, Wal
Ia Walla and Yakima Valleys. The
q one beginning leads to the erection o.
securing mill and later large wool
en- factory; the other paves the way
for great by-products plant WHERE
the waste Of our orchards and gar
dens is converted into wholesome ant
marketable commodities.
i The big achievement in industry
an achievement which attracts the at
tention of the world and makes mod
ern science stand aghast with SURPRISE
is not chronicled until the star ha
passed into the cycle Of 1910. In tina
year young man who in 1915 shiv
cred in his scant clothing and munich
: ed a crust for his MONDAY schoo
, lunch, startled the world with an in
. vention which marked him as the ma
: tier genius Of the day. Working upol
: the theory of stored energy he har
. messed Kennewick wind storm. ii
: pulled the fangs out Of that same oil
: blast that bit into his tender flesh 2
3 years before and gave them as
: blessing to mankind. His inventio
. made it possible to pull the push on
j Of the wind and store it for use at viii
+ Stored wind became the motive fore
: of the world and supplanted the dy
: namo and the gasoline engine. Tn
8 world over, cities rose up and tried t
1 snatch from Kennewick the control Q
. the worlds wind output. Every al
e tempt ended in failure because the
= lacked the wind.
8 A few years later q young lady VIII
/ is now kicking up her toes in he
J. cradle in one of the homes of TIL
/ lcity gave Kennewick commerci'
impetus second. only to the inventio
e of to the young wind wizard. It we
. the merest accident in the world an
:. might have happened to any one
n you ladies. She neglected one day
) dust her curling iron and as she 81
It piled it to the flame she noticed thu
iaooh inv nortic1o O1nvod red the