The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-10
From the Correspondents
Items Of Interest Concerning Our Neghbors Hereabouts

Our Neighbors Hereabouts
have been dragging one section of a
spring tooth harrow.
Everyone voted the trip big sue
cess, but if they had just put the
amount of the repair bill into land
ing across from Hover, the Hover
Alfalfa ferry would be reality, and
the terrors of the Villard-Attalia road
would be thing of the past.
We couldn't resist the temptation
to josh them little, but as a matter
of fact, the Live Wires and the Hover
people put one over on the Kenne-
wick Commercial Club, for while they
were busy figuring out the strong fea-
lures Of the Villard-Attalia road, the
farmers got busy and arranged to have
the new ferry moved down to Hover
where it belongs.
Henry Thamke, the W. k. aviator,
ably assisted by Harry Hedington and
John Tyacke, attempted to pilot Aug
ust Huss from Sweden to the United
States last Monday, but ran out of
gas and were forced to volplane to
the nearest landing. spot which proved
to be near Badger Springs. After
making thoro examinations to locate
their difficulty, and scientific observa-
tions to determine their whereabouts,
they got in touch with the Kennewick
Garage by phone about a. m. and
got help.
The regular meeting of the Finley
Grange will be held at the hall Satur-
day, August IL. The Pomona also
meets on the same day at the Wilgus
Grove, two miles west of Prosser.
And again, this is the day Of the par
ent-teachers' picnic at Finley. After
a picnic lunch on the lawn, meeting
will be held in the school at. which
Fred Gemmell will speak and show
stereopticon slides illustrating the pro
gress of the boys and girls club work.
This is the last meeting before school
opens.
Bob Perkins was invited out to din
ner Sunday, and decided to polish up
a bit. He put on clean shirt as the
first Improvement, and then, during a
lapse of memory, such as young bache-
lors often suffer from, he slipped his
work shirt on over his party costume.
Then began the hunt for the party
shirt. Thru his trunk, the bureau,
down stairs, behind the stove, under
the bed, out in the hack, the barn and
the chicken house he hunted, high and
low, but the shirt was gone tho he
distinctly remembered having had it
that morning. WELL" thought he,
"I'm not going to miss dinner If
have to 60 in my night Shirt" so he
pulled off his work shirt, and there he
was, all decorated and ready for the
party.
Sometimes fold in the paper will
so separate the words in the reading
matter as to give peculiar results. We
ran across the following ad. in the
Silver City Times: "Drs. Mach &
Mach-The Dentists. Experts in
charge" Off by itself the words "of
all work" disputed the candor Of the
first announcement.
H. M. It's are getting popular. YER
non has bought half interest in G.
Monroe's and declares that it will be
thoroly overhauled before school be-
gins. Mansell Tewalt is working his
overtime, Ernest Perry has landed his
quarry, and now comes Glen Puder-
baugh with the announcement that he
has one of his own, and asks us to re-
mind the girls that this is leap year,
and that he would like nothing better
than to take some young lady to the
circus on the 18th.
The lightning struck thick and fast
around here last Monday, and pretty
close, too, for it killed one of Joe
Gerards' prize pigs.
One of the Kennewick merchants
when at Finley recently commented
on the trade that was going to Sears,
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