The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-28
DEPT.

| Misses Florence and Wilma Kissing
er spent last week at the H. L. Cald-
well home.
MIR. and Mrs. David Fish entertain
ed number of friends at cards We'd
nesday evening.
G. S. Gibbs went to Hanford Mon
day and will spend the week in the
interests of the Home Nursery Co.
William Perry returned home Mon
day from Spokane and the Colville
country where he has been for sew
eral weeks.
F. ]. O'Brien spent the weekend in
Pendleton, Ore, on business and in
cidentally says he had the time of his
I life at the Round Up.
Mrs. C. S. Gibbs is working in the
Home Nursery company office this
week assisting in getting off the fall
shipments of nursery stock.
William Young left again for the
harvest fields to take charge of big
threshing crew after being home few
weeks helping to run his silo-filling
machine.
Mrs. H. P. Hackett, who is visiting
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. L. Gardner, has been confined
to her bed for the past week, under
| the doctors care,
A crew of surveyors in charge of
Deputy State Engineer w. H. Weih-
tmier, came down from Hanford the be-
ginning of the week and are engaged
in running lines for the proposed new
road from Hanford thru Fruitvale.
]. U. Mcpherson and party of men
from the Coast who are interested in
the dairying business, arrived in Rich
land Wednesday from Seattle and
spent the day touring the project in
autos with the idea in view of locating
here if satisfied with the outlook.
Bill and julius Hopp were in town
several days last week visiting friends
making their headquarters at the H.
F. Yedica home. Bill left Sunday for
Connell, where he will work thru the
fall and julius left Monday for the
Big Bend country, where he has a job
in sight. ..s.aa- las #s-s ".
The crew of the Horn Rapids Irri-
cation company was engaged for
few days this week in making repairs
on the road leading to the Costello
ranch. This road is along the ditch
bank and had caved in so that it was
narrow in places and the repairs were
| necessary to facilitate travel.
The Richland kids are all rejoicing
in the fact that next week the Ben
ton county teachers institute will con-
vene in Prosser and as result there
will be no school. 1t is expected that
this years institute will be a very
successful one as good program has
been arranged and the teachers are
all very enthusiastic.
B. T. Simmons has joined the ranks
of progressive Richland dairymen and
| is constructing fine silo on his ranch
north of town. 1t will soon be such
common occurrence to see a silo in the
process of construction hereabouts
that it will fail to cause any comment
altho it is only year ago that we
had but two in the whole district.
The high school boys are working
hard at football practice these after
moons under the coaching of Prof. II.
| C. Lille. Gene Mitchell, who gradu-
ated last year is the only one of the
old team who will be missing and the
local boys feel confident, that, with the
practice they had last year, and plenty
of good, hard work this fall, they will
be able to work up an aggregation that
will be hard to beat.
One of the worst wind storms of the
year 1916 struck Richland Monday
night and ragged the greater part of
Tuesday and many hundreds of dol
lars will be lost to the orchardists of
the district as result. Fine large ap-
pies of all varieties which were ready
to pick the first of October are literal
ly carpeting the ground. Several
farmers are talking of getting cider
presses and converting these windfalls
into cider so that they will have vine
gar for their own use as well as to
sell.
Mrs. F. A. Rouse, who returned last
week after spending the entire sum-
mer visiting relatives in the east, is
a more enthusiastic booster for Rich
land than ever. While away she at
tended number of state and county
fairs and says that altho in most cases
the number of exhibits was much larg-
~. 4bo, OF tho Rich1and festival fhe