The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-05
From the Correspondents
Items of Interest Concerning Our Neghbors Hereabouts

yards gone???
Mrs. Farney brought back from
Spokane with her material for a new
leather purse.
H. H. Bowers was down the valley
the other day and bought seven pigs.
He loaded them into his auto,
strapped canvas over them securely
and started for home. When he got
to Kennewick he had only six left.
! Next Saturday the Pomona Grange
meets at Horse Heaven and the ques-
ton of township organization will be
debated. A week from Saturday, Oct,
18th, the Finley Grange will hold the
most important meeting of the sea-
son. We will then decide whether to
move our quarters to the schoolhouse
or not. Plans will be laid for the win
ter's work, and Lee Lampson will be
present to discuss with us the question
of whether or not the Office of county
agriculturalist is paying investment.
A full attendance is looked for.
The whole community was shocked
to learn of the sudden death of our
friend and former neighbor, Henry
Robertson. Altho he had left the
neighborhood it would be hard to find
today anyone whose death would affect
more of us as a personal loss than
does his. This is due, doubtless, to his
faculty for making friends and his un-
bounded generosity in community af-
fairs. No entertainment was ever CIV
en- and no gathering was complete
without some song or music from both
Mr.. and Mrs. Robertson and they both
responded so willingly that they won
a warm place in the hearts of all of
us. 1t seems but few days since we
wrote of them that, could they realize
the pleasure they gave to the COM
munity, they would feel partially re-
paid for their efforts. Surely no one
has given more pleasure or spread
more good cheer among us farmers of
Finley than our friend Henry Robert
son, and Mrs. Robertson has the sin
cerest sympathy of a host Of true
friends in this her hour of bereave-
ment.
j. r. Ryerson reports car short
age that makes the arrival of the
Grange car of coal somewhat uncer-
tain. He says he is doing his utmost
to expedite" it.
George Gerards isn't going to rest
on his milking laurels merely because
he MIXED silo full, but now he has
taken to milking sows as well as cows.
We went by there the other morning
and there he was milking big black
sow and he had a bucket nearly full,
too.
j. r. Ayers has another new hat.
Telephone Brown declares that I'M
less the young people cut out lot of
this soft talk over the phone he
will have to put heavier insulators on
the wire. Sometimes so much soft
soap is passed back and forth that the
suds runs down the poles and grounds
the whole system.
Anyone with children please take
notice that whenever Mrs. Bowles has
children come to see her she sends
them all home with cat apiece.
The registration books are now open
but there are only ten days left iii
which to register. Doubtless there are
many who are not interested in poll
tics and would be as well satisfied with
Benson as with Hughes or with Wilson
as with Benson or with Hughes as
with Wilson, but there is not a man
nor woman in the valley who should
not take vital interest in defeating
the infamous Hotel Bill Initiative
No. 18). A few Of the women of Fin
ley have not registered take
any interest in it-but we want to tell
you that it is just this indifference
that is likely to allow the liquor peo-
pie to slip thru law that would es-
tablish chain of brothels thruout the
state and you have no right to hold
aloof and say "This doesn't interest
me-" 1t interests you, your children,
your neighbor and his children very
vitality and it is the least you can do
for your state and your community
to go and register and on the 7th of
next November to go and help defeat
Initiative No. 18.
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