The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12
From the Correspondents
Items Of Interest Concerning Our Neghbors Hereabouts

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! The Finley Parent Teachers asso-
citation will hold d general meeting at
the school house next Saturday, Oct.
18th.
Anyone who saw Bob Perkins driv-
ing to town with the reins hung
around the dash board and big bowl
of schmeerkase propped between his
knees, can now appreciate why Bob
cancelled his order for a Ford and
sticks by the old team.
Last Monday Grandpa Clark, chief
engineer on Gerards' silo crew left a
gasoline torch burning near the en-
CINE while he tinkered away with the
carburetor. Now the torch was left
in the sun and the flame could scarce
ly be seen, so when Joe came around
and squattcd down preparatory to de-
| livering discourse on the effects of
the money trust back in Iowa and all
this and that and SO on, he wos ex-
cusable for not seeing the torch until
it had burned hole thru the seat of
his breaches. From the speed he
showed in changing his position we in
ferred that maybe part of Joe was
scorched as we'll as his breaches.
Lester Cox took hand at feeding
the silo cutters this week. One of
the first things he did was to feed in
the rubber hose that was supplying
water to the machine. Just before
the last of the hose disappeared, the
end flew around and cracked him ono
on the ear, which must have upset him
for he Immediately sent thru a bunch
of baling wire.
Altho Slim Pastorius is bachelor,
he raises family sized potatoes. He
guarantees one spud to make meal
for family of. six.
w. M. Clements has the silo fever.
He is busy standing several lengths of
eight-inch pipe on end and plans to
have them filled with ensilage this
week.
At the Pomona meeting in Horse
Heaven last Saturday a supper was
served cafeteria style, everyone get
ting plate and walking around the
table which was heaped with good
things to eat, including perfect stacks
of China pheasants. Mrs. Wilgus
started around, closely followed by
the Judge and when she made the
rounds and reached the main hall she
turned to look back for the Judge and
found him making the second round
of the table.
Chris Puderbaugh rugged up fan
to elevate his ensilage this fall and
it worked quite successfully tho the
capacity was limited. "a little more
speed is what she needs" said Chris,
so he took the motor from his we'll
and hooked it onto the fan. He threw
in the switch and the closest piece of
the fan they found was $50 feet away.
Chris says some of it must be going
yet, for they didn't find enough to fill
his hip pocket.
Don't let the hackers of the brewers
bill fool you. They claim it is tenn
perance measure, but it will increase
the sale of liquor 100 per cent and
even tho beer is made in the state,
more money will be sent out of the
state for Schlitz, Anhaeuser Busch,
than ever. One of the latest stunts of
the hackers of this measure is to send
their boosters out with bibles under
their arms talking up the measure
as temperance measure. One of
these shameless individuals made the
rounds of Prosser recently, so look
out for him.
John Storland has got all the rocks
picked off his melon patch and has
generously offered them to the Ken
newick council to scatter on Washing
ton street.
Roy Cox ran his ensilage cutter last
year with an engine that proved too
small, so this year he bought him a
acknowledgements engine big enough
to cut twenty tons an hour. Go? Why,
you simply can't phase it! No matter
how heavy the feed it is always up to
speed. One defect it has, however for
about every half hour it has to take
a rest. 1t makes no difference how
urgent the case, it has to lay off for
a bit. Then everyone on the crew is
called in to give it rub down and
massage before it will resume. Beard
less youths, gray-haired men, curly
haired men and men with scarcely
any heads at all have all tried to solve
the problem as to why the brute sulks,
but without result. They have found
a remedy, however, for whenever she