The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-11-23

Dictionary says the germ requires
from 3 to months of incubation, so
he must have been bitten last sum-
mer some time. Whichever it was, it
took.
The hydrophobia scare's about
And mothers warn their kids at night
ga coyote1l git We il you go out"
Curfew need not ring tonight.
The school bus comes at half past four
But soon there's not child in sight.
Straight from the bus to kitchen door,
Curfew need not ring tonight.
The skating's fine, but none will go,
Because they dare not leave the light.
The love-lorn youths are lying low.
Curfew need not ring tonight.
No need for curfew any more,
The kids are all inside by four.
And while it lasts the scare's all
right.
The curfew need not ring tonight.
Ed Angel recently Joined the Royal
Order of Ford Busters, and last week,
while giving the Royal Ford Grip he
got a black eye.
Uncle Sam should provide Rural
Mail Carrier Oliver with an assistant.
Last week he had over 40 postcards
still unread when he reached the rail-
road crossing, and he was so busy
trying to catch up that he failed to
notice the approaching freight train,
which quite neatly took both rear
wheels off his mail cart.
| An abandoned Hughes electric stove
seen last week reminded us that this
had been a hard fall for the Hugheses
or an autumn of hard Hughes falls.
Besides our own H. S. Hughes, who
suffered broken knee cap last Sep.
TENDER, there were Chas. E. Hughes
late presidential candidate, Premier
Hughes of Australia and Gen. Sir S
Hughes, of Canada, who recently re-
signed upon request.
4 Mrs. VIM. L. Cochran entertained
the Ladies' Aid last Thursday. Mo-
having enough chairs to accommodate
such a gang, she sent Mr.. VIM. L. t.
,, the church to bring up few extras
Bill couldn't find Mr.. abbey to get tn
, key, so he decided to go in thru {
window which he found could be open
ed. The window was little high
and he had to take quite spring t.
make it. He made the spring yer.
neatly, but he had miscalculated hi
own proportions, for he found he wa
: a trife bigger around the middle thai
the opening and there he wedged wit
head inside, and feet in the air, stucl
0 hard and fast. He could just reac
the back of of the nearest pew wit
the tip of his fingers, BIT couldn't eth
0 er push nor pull. Outside, he couldn'
0 reach anything, and kicking agains
= the thin air didn't help bit. 1t seem
ed awfully undignifed to holler to
help, especially as there were nearl
n a hundred school children just aroun
n the corner out on recess. Here luc
favored him, however, for his own so
o Merton appeared on the scene an
= pulled him out.
g Mrs. N. C. Bowles is responsible
. for the following. Tuesday she NJ
8 ticed one poor rooster which WE
. moulting, and had scarcely featht
on him. She thought she would k
- the poor thing for the weather was
cold, so Tuesday night she caugl
him and put him in a box SO she cou
get him handily in the morning, b
. in the morning when she went to g
Do him she found he had all feathered OF
- The Finley Grange will meet Sa
urday, Nov. 18th. A full attendan
% is expected for this is the annu
election Of officers.
" Roy Cox appeared at the Rur
Credit meeting with a six week
growth of beard. "Why don't y
shave once in while :" he was aske
81 don't have to-" he replied, my vi
is away"