The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-06-15
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The following letter was received
from Granger Goss, and will prove
interesting to the many farmer read
ers of this community, hence the
place of honor at the head of this
column: .s
| Burlington, 6-9-16
NY Dear Capt:
I hope you have as much trouble
filling the column as have had and
then you'll understand why I have
to fall back on your barrel and your
iitney friends across the road so Of
ten. hope that you will hit few
of the touchy ones and that they come
around and black your eye for you
and the "ladies" call you names over
the phone, and then you'll appreciate
me more If ever decide to come back.
I've got the habit too strong to forget
the "colyum" entirely so I am writ
ing to tell you the one thing that has
impressed me most here and that is
the success of the Kennewick-Ric
land Marketing Union as it looks from
this end. Everyone has been talking
about it and the newspapers have
been full of it too. I enclose two
clippings:
"Kennewick strawberries are not
as loose as ashes on the market, and
they are not consigned to commission
merchants with the request to do
something with them. On the con-
trary, if it is desired to buy Kenne-
wicks, the plan is to buy Chicago
draft and enclose it in with the or
der to the growers agents whereupor
the berries will go forward promptly
The growers in fact are sticking to-
gether, zone by each.'
! And another, headed "Kennewlck
Fruit Fixes Standard"
i "Any growing district of this state
that desires to lift itself out of much
of the uncertainty Of marketing con
ditions and insure a profit can take
note of the Kennewick berry pack
Uniformity in measure, color, flavor
and size, every pint cup this season
has been found exactly as indicated
by the top layer of the fruit, and job
bers declare that this is the first time
in the history Of the street that such
condition has prevailed in the berry
trade. Buyers were apparently will
ing to pay the high prices demanded
and at all times the supply has beer
short"
i Kennewick not only got fine lot OF
advertising from it among the trade
and consumers of strawberries, but
the farmers all have their eyes or
Kennewick, and the comparative
phrase heard so often now, GAS GOOD
as Kennewick," will help every line
of fruit shipped this year. See il
you can't give them a little write-uI
about it.
| Don't forget to announce the regu.
lar business meeting of the Grange
for Saturday, the oath. ! will have
a whole lot of things to report on and
we will have lots Of plans to lay anc
1 wish we could get everybody out.
| am planning to go to Seattle Sat.
urday to see all the pretty girls in the
preparedness parade so naturally CAM
say when I will get home. You ought
to come to town and just look around
a bit. You'd enjoy it, know you
would.
/ Remember me to Mrs. Hoyt, and be.
lieve me,
j Sympathetically yours,
! A. S. GOSS.
! Heard at the registration party;
"Have another piece of cake, Mr.
"No, thank you, I've already had q
plenty-and besides THAT cake is
my wife's donation. get enough
of THAT at home"
| A farmer and his team had neal
collision on the oiled road near Ken.
newick and the farmer, becoming an
cry at the motorists Indifference to
his escape from injury, said, You
must think you own this road" "Oh
dear, TO There are other motorists.
and away he sped.
| The tin can detective has been very
busy this week. He not only pussy
footed Brother Goss to Burlington
but he rounded up the Finley poet
who has been so long silent, that oui
reading public was growing impa-
tient. The following gem may ap-
pease the appetite for while:
A man on our force packed his grip
And decided he'd end his courtship.
So he sauntered away
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