The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-01-20

the week after spending a few days
visiting and on business in Walla Wal
Ia.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. D. Mann announce
the birth of baby daughter, the lit
tie lady arriving Friday morning,
January 4.
Hans Eggers left several days ago
for Nez Perce, Idaho, where he will
spend the next season running his IA
theirs 32O-acre wheat ranch, assisted
by his brother, John.
The Columbia river in the vicinity of
Richland is damned full of ice for the
first time in nearly six years. The
ice is piling up very high and has
caused many interested spectators to
journey down to look at sight which
may not be duplicated for many years
to come.
A game of basketball between the
boys team of Pasco and the local boys
is scheduled to be played in the home
gymnasium next Friday evening, Jan.
81, at 8 o'clock. 1t is to be hoped that
a large crowd turn out to show their
appreciation of the fast team work of
the Richland boys who certainly put
up an exceptionally good exhibition OF
basketball.
Word was received in Richland on
Monday from Mrs. j. L. Sutton that
her mother, who resided in Golden
dale, was dead. Mrs. Sutton was
summoned to her mothers bedside
several weeks ago and was with her
to the end. The many friends of the
Sutton family in Richland and vicinity
offer tn ir sincere sympathy in the
hour of bereavement.
Quite a siege of chickenpox has de-
veloped amongst the little ones in
Richland, large number having had
to miss several days of school on ac-
count of the disease. 1t is in very
mild form, the children who have had
it not being really i'll enough to be
kept in bed; simply in the house to in
sure being kept warm and dry during
the spell of cold weather.
Miss Ethel Smith, head of the music
department of the Richland schools,
has organized her classes in vocal
practice for the coming semester. A
number of the students have signifed
their intention of beneftting by Miss
Smiths able instruction and the public
at large would be more than glad to
hear that the high school students
were in the mind to put on another
operetta such as was staged by the
musical department last year.
Postmaster Walter Zimmerman has
arranged for the agency for all the
popular magazines and from now on
anyone desiring the best of reading
matter can procure the same at home,
thus avoiding the necessity of going
out of town for literature. Mr.. Tim
norman has secured this privilege
simply with the idea of accommodation
to the people of Richland as there is
not a great deal of profit in the bust
ness and for that reason book and
magazine lovers would do well to pat
ronize our home book department.
Richland is having its own share of
cold weather in company with all the
other parts of the Northwest, the mer-
curry ranging from 10 above to zero
and as low as ID below, during the
past two weeks. The snow has been
on the ground so long that the path
ways have become solidly packed and
it looks as though we would have the
snow with us for some little time to
come. Old timers in the Richland dis
trict claim that it is one Of the hard
est winters in good many years and
with hay away up and fuel a good
price it comes pretty hard on the
ranchers.
What might have proven to be a
most destructive fire occurred Mon
day about noon at the C. S. Teachout
residence in town. Mrs. Teachout,
when about to leave the house to sit
up with sick friend discovered smoke
in the bed room and on tracing the
smoke found that the fire was well un-
der way between the walls Of the
room. Mrs. Teachout Immediately
smashed a hole in the wall thru the
laths and plaster and threw some wa
ter on the blaze after which she tele-
phoned for help. A large crowd of
volunteer firemen hurried to the
scene and after smashing away still
more of the wall and using plenty of