The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-06-01

fhe initiative and referendum-eVery-
thine-must give space for this mo-
mentous event. Wallula was the VIC
tim and it was good game, from start
to finish in spite of young gale which
worked the pitchers a-plenty. Inc
first man to bat cracked Powell's hrsS
Offering on the nose, and aided by the
wind it just kept going and before
Ray Powell got it started for nome
Wallula perched on third. Almost ev.
ervone in this end of the county heard
the Wallula girls yell, and when two
errors by Moore let in two runs IN the
first, they nearly went wild. In FIN
ley's half, Bill Spears pounded the p'll
clear out of the pasture and got home
before the left fielder got within
quarter of mile of the ball. Finley
tied the score in their half and then
everyone got so excited that it is in
possible to get an authentic and ac-
curate account Of the game. Walluia
went to bat in their half of the ninth
with the score 10 to IL against them
and Powell had no trouble in holding
them there. Half dozen times tina
umpire slipped notch, but the gifts
and thefts were pretty evenly divided,
tho a couple Of raw ones in Finley's
favor helped Wallula to loose. Merl
Johnson, the visitors captain, is en-
titled to great credit for the way in
which he took his medicine. He's a
game sport. The game was played on
the new grounds, which proved much
faster and better in every way than
the old grounds down by the river,
Finley will play Wallula again next
Sunday at Wallula. The boys will go
down by launch. Ed. Angel has
charge Of the arrangements.
The Finley Red Cross received a
hurry call from Ernest Perry whose
calf crawled thru the fence and tasted
Of the forbidden forage. Assistance
arrived too late, however, so the /
Told You-So club was notified and will
take charge of the obsequies. No
flowers. Services at the grave will be
private.
Everybody is up to his neck in work
and news is scarce. The writer drove
over to Sleepy Holler last week ir
search of something worth printing
but got nothing. He found a few
working over there, but most of them
were sitting around smoking Kill Dad
Talk about your wind-we have hat
our share this spring too. just t.
prove it, up along the north line Of
Section II there was five acre piece
originally completely covered by sand
So deep was it covered that the ownel
couldn't dig out the taxes and the CD
were issued some years back. Tn
owner of the C-Ds recently made com
plant that there were not five acre
in the piece so last Tuesday Count.
Assessor Wheaton and County En-
gineer Wright came down to measur
it up and found that there was bu
57-1OO of an acre. The rest had blow
clear away.
The McWhinney boys also los
heavily from the hard wind. Tn
scantling erected a week ago las
Thursday blew down, destroying a
their efforts since last September.
Really the valley is full of news
but so much of it is heresay, and S
hard to confirm that we often have t
omit the most interesting items fo
lack of authentic testimony. It seem
too bad to spoil good newsy items b
delaying a week or two to make SUI
Of their authenticity for too often I'll
snap is gone by then. Besides, fl
many people there is great pleasul
in ferreting out the truth when a r,
NOR is abroad, so we have decided
open Dame Rumor department. TT
Live Wire Sparks could always be d.
dended upon to keep abreast Of Il
times, but from now on we hope a
ways to be little ahead of the time
It is Rum0red that the Wallula II
~ will move to Hover.
Il is Rumored that Bob Perki,
thinks young lady strawberry pickle,
much more efficient than young men
It is Rumored that Nip and TUT
have signed articles for another ra
in the fall.
Il is Rumored that the CAPITA
brought home another barrel la
week. eE VA.
Il ia Rumored that G. E. Shelton
laying for the Live Wireleditor with
dick. a-sas2 F29 ssgE
Only fifteen per cent OF those
lending the grange last Saturday mig
had registered, so It was decided
hold a registration party. The col