The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-03-30
LIVE WIRE SPARKS

around Hedges that the telephone
company was about to put in me-
talic circuit and among those who or
dered phones in are, Frank Volland,
Bob Perkins, F. E. Masters and Jens
Lande. We certainly hope there is
some truth in the rumor.
The Finley poet has not been idle.
and has managed to elude the CEN
sorship of the asylum warden, send
ing us the following:
There is a farmer who is Wy
Enough to take his ee
And study nature with his ii
And think of what he &C.
He hears the chatter of the j,
As they each Others tt,
And &C that when tree DIX
1t makes home for BIB.
A yoke of oxen he will uu
With many haws and gg,
And their mistakes he will xqq
When blowing for his PIP.
He little buys but much he sells,
And therefore little 90;
And when he hoes his soil by spells,
He also spoils his hose.
We consider this quite an improve
ment over his last effort, and if it is
original, we have hopes Tor fears)
that he may soon be at large again.
Somehow it doesn't sound just like
him, however, and we can not help
suspecting that it has been partly
plagiarized.
The Finley school teachers took ad-
vantage of leap year recently and in
vited their admirers on little party
to Kennewick. They failed to carry
out the spirit of the occasion COM
pletely however, for the boys footed
the bills. This is the more inexcus-
able, when one. sees the evident signs
of prosperity among them, for now
three of the five teachers have Fords.
We notice in the telegraphic dis
patches that the army is refusing
bald headed men for Mexican service.
This is relief to C. E. Cox, president
of the Kennewick Cooperative
creamery, for it was rumored that his
buttermaker was considering enlist
ing.
The next district meeting of the pa
rent teachers association will be held
at the home of Mrs. A. S. Goss on
Wednesday, April 9Th. The next gen.
eral meeting will be held at the Fin
ley schoolhouse on Saturday, April 8.
Last Sunday on account Of the wind
the baseball boys did not turn out in
force. Next Sunday they hope to do
better, and everyone interested in
baseball is asked to report to Ed. An
CELL, either in person or by phone at
once. 1t is hoped good crowd will
turn out and start getting in shape
to wallop some of these up-valley
teams.
AS Clay Puderbaugh knocked off
work sitting in the bottom of the Pa
cifc Power & Light Co.'s new well
and started for home one night last
week, he was picked up by Elmer
johnson in his auto. The front seats
were occupied, and Clay was invited
to sit on one of those little flat tool
box seats.
"YouIl have to hang on" cautioned
Elmer.
Gratis. could stand on one foot
with my hands in my pockets all the
way home," boosted Clay.
"Wen just see about that" thought
Elmer as he opened up the throttle
and began hunting out all the high
spots and holes in the road. At the
first Jump, Clay landed on one shout
der. but his feet hooked over the back
of the front seat so he couldn't fall
out. After that he began to pull
leather; in fact he squeezed the brass
hand rail on the back Of the seat al
most in two, but he stayed with the
machine to the end of the run. That
night Mrs. Puderbaugh was awakened
by an unusual noise, and discovered
it was Clay perched astride the foot
of the bed, hanging onto the bedpost
with both hands and hollering, LET
-, L,,ol,i T Of ,o,r huck"
G.. Monroe Ford is still! on the job.
He has just purchased thorobred to
go with his H. M. T.
Last week Frank Struthers plowed
up Rome Beauty apple that had lain
buried in the weeds all thru the cold
of last winter in a perfect state OF
preservation. When he told Capt
Hoyt about it, the Capt remarked
"There. You see the editor OF the Live
Wire Column isn't as smart as ne
thinks he is"