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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-01-07
Sweet '16

THERE'S something in your name, rs;
1 Whichmakes us hope great things ofyou,
There's not bard that sings of you
But dreams of years you'll prove the queen
We gladly wipe the old slate clean
To write a romance glad and new;
Well try to never sadden you,
For won't you be our sweet '16?
You'll bring of Sundays 6fy-three
Which means an extra day of rest
lit may be needed, some suggest,
For you'll bring Leap Year, too, you see)
You'll bring some hope of peace serene,
You bring us dreams of better days,
You bring us JOY so many ways
You'll sure " prove our sweet 'r6-
You are as full of promise bright
AS any debuntate e'er seen;
Prophetic is your buoyant mien,
Good omens all are working right
So we will gather on the green
Or, if it's showing, on the Whitley
And celebrate with great delight,
Assured you'll prove our sweet rs.
Lee Shippey.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-01-07

First Published in he Liberal Dem
ocrat December II, 1914.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21
TO BEGIN UNION
REVIVAL NEXT MONTH
Local Churches Unite in Evan
gelistic Effort and Secure Ser
vices of Rev. Margetts

The Protestant churches of the city
have united in an effort to make the
Fall of 1916 notable for the biggest
revival the community has ever
known. Rev. Frank R. Margetts, of
Spokane, an evangelist of wide ex-
perience and reputation, has been en-
gagged and the meetings will open on
Sunday, October Ia, and will continue
for four weeks. Rev. Margetts is IN
interesting and forcible speaker and
has drawn and held large audiences
in the many cities and towns where he
has carried on his evcngclistic work.
Complete arrangements for the re-
vival have not yet been made and it is
impossible at this time to announce
the place of the me ,tings. If possible
local church leaders wish to secure a
downtown building with seating ca
pacity larger than any Of the churches.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21
WHITING-SONDERMAN

The Sonderman ranch was the scene
of vey pretty home wedding on Sum
day morning, Sept. IL, when Miss
Julia Sonderman became the bride of
William Sherman Whiting, of Kenne-
wick. Eighteen relatives and friends
of the bride witnessed the nuptial
ceremony which was performed by
Rev. X. S. .Tontz. A wedding dinner
was served to the guests at noon, i'm
mediately following which the entire
party accompanied the newly-weds to
the S., p. & S. station where all the
traditional rites, rice-throwing, label
ing suit cases, etc., were performed
to the discontinue Of the bride and
groom and to the great amusement of
the guests. Mr.. and Mrs. Whiting
will spend week in Portland, after
which they will be at home in Ken
newick. Mrs. Whiting was born in
the vicinity and has spent her entire
life in Kennewick and on the High
lands. Last year she finished her work
in the local high school. Mr.. Whiting
is cashier at the Kennewick store of
The Produce Co.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21
BENTON COUNTY
in SIXTH PLACE
Westside Counties Get First
Prizes in Competition at the
State Fair

Benton county, which for the last
two years has stood in first place
among the counties Of the state as an
exhibitor at the State Fair, was fore
ed this year to take back seat. With
Pierce county winning first and Grays
Harbor second, the west side came in
for the hig share of the honors and
this county was tumbled down the list
to sixth place.
The awards as announced by the
judges yesterday afternoon are as
follows: Pierce, 791 points; Grays
Harbor, FOG; Kittitas, 696; King, $50;
Stevens, 667; Benton, 645; Clark, 577;
Grant, 5l5. Kitsap and Lewis coun-
ties did not qualify, exhibiting only
grains and grasses, and Yakima coun-
ty was barred by the rules from com
peting. Benton county's share of the
prize money is $s0.91.
]. +. Perry, of this city, who last
year won first for the best Individual
farm exhibit, this year was awarded
second. Mr.. Perry won total of
seven first and six seconds.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21
ALL-DAY MEETING AT THE
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Members and Friends of Church to
Bring Lunch and Picnic in
the Basement

The Congregational church is plan
ming Rally Day for the coming Sum
day. Everyone who is accustomed to
attend the services Of this church, or
is affiliated with any of it's organiza-
tions Sunday school, Ladies' Aid So
ciety, or Christian Endeavor- all
who have no other church home, are
especially invited to join with the
members in making it day of fellow
ship, and of united showing of interest
in the things for which the church
stands. It will be promotion day in
the Sunday school and every member
of the school is expected to be there.
Parents are especially invited to come
to see what the children are doing.
There will be a morning service fol-
lowed by a picnic lunch in the base
ment of the church. After lunch ad-
journment will be made to the audi
torium for "sing," two or three short
talks on matters of vital interest to
the church, followed by a service in
charge of the Christian Endeavor So
ciety. The Junior and intermediate
societies will hold their meetings be-
fore and after lunch respectively, at
the 'time of the morning service and
the afternoon meetings. There will
be no evening services. Everyone in
terested in any part of this program
is requested to come, bring lunch and
join in an old-fashioned all-day meet
ing.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21
KENNEWICK GETS
FOUR OUT OF SIX
Local Schools Show Superiority
in Competition with Other
Schools of County

By winning four out of the six con-
tests for representation in the indus
trial competition at the State Fair,
the Kenncwick schools have placed
themselves easily at the head of the
schools of Benton county.
Friday evening competitive contests
were held in Pasco for the purpose of
selecting pupils from each of the
counties to enter the canning, cooking,
sewing, manual training and stock
judging contests at the State Fair.
With the exception Of the stock judg-
ing team Kennewick made a clean
sweep over all competitors.
Ruth Cresswell, Geneva Story and
Margaret Beinhart defeated tho Ko-
na-Benton csnning team, which won
the state championship last year and
were awarded second prize at the Spo-
diiS 1LlCCl SISICC L SbAAs OO CC4 I1An WC4 .
the Kona- Benton team of winning the
county honor that they had already
shipped their equipment to North Yak
ina for use at the State Fair. This
may have contributed to their loss as
they were forced use equipment with
which they we're not familiar.
In the sewing contest Miss Doris
Harper was an easy winner as was
Miss Agnes Hawkins in cooking. Les
ter Cox, of the local high school, was
judged first in manual training work.
o'an Cose, of Valley Heights, and
Junior Webber, Of Hanford, were the
winners in the stock judging contest.
These eight young people and their
chaperon, Miss Morris, are being en-
tertained in North Yakima this week
at the expense Of the State Fair.
They will compete in their respective
departments during the first days
of the fair but the awards will not be
announced until the end of the week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21
RICHLAND BOYS WIN in
STOCK JUDGING CONTEST
Three High School Boys Get Second
Prize at the State Fair
Yakima First

The Richland High School team,
composed of Harold Simmons, Walter
Shepard and Wilbur Adkins, won Sec
ond place in the inter-scholastic stock
judging contest at the State Fair
North Yakima was. first, wrestling
away from Ellensburg the silver tro-
ply cup which thew had won two
years in succession.
Out of possible $500 points North
Yakima scored 2136; Richland, 1916;
Sunnyside, 1887; Kittitas, 1892; FL
lensburg, 1876. In the individual
scores two Yakima boys tied for first
Simmons was second, Shepard fourth
and Adkins fifth.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21

ed the democratic congress for the en-
actment of the federal bank, the ru-
raj credit and the child labor and
other laws.
In speaking of this districts repre-
sentation in congress he said that
while it is true that the representative
is in manner national official, he is
at the same time servant of the peo-
pie of his own district and as such it is
his duty to look after their particular
needs. A congressman, he said, should
not only be conversant with the big
national issues bu he should be init
mately familiar with the needs of his
district. He charged that Con-
gresham LaFollette had never truly
represented the people of this district
and had never been plugger for their
individual interests.
Mr.. Masterson said the one great
problem with which the people Of this
district are concerned and the one for
the solution of which federal aid
might be secured, is irrigation. Con-
gresham LaFollette, he claimed, has
never been of any service to the peo-
pie in this respect and has never put
forth any effort to bring about federal
reclamation of the arid lands in the
district. He spoke of the Yakima pro-
ject and the proposed high line and
extension of the Sunnyside canal and
showed that he had undoubtedly given
considerable thought and study to
these projects.
In closing the speaker said: IF I
am elected and If at the end Of two
years cannot show a greater service
rendered to the people of my district
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21

The Woman's Relief Corps met last
Monday afternoon in the Masonic hall
for the first time since the summer
vacation. There was good attendance
and Mrs. b. M. Davenpeck gave a
splendid report Of the state convention
held in Spokane in June where she
went as delegate from the local or
der. The w. R. c. will meet regularly
from now on, the second and fourth
Monday afternoons of each month.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21
COMMITTEES TO MEET

The new republican and democratic
county central committees will perfect
organization in Prosser Saturday af-
ternoon of this week, as provided in
the state primary law. The county
committees consist of one committee
man from each of the voting precincts
as elected at the primary election.
The committees will organize by elect
ing a chairman and a secretary and
one state committeeman each.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21
C. W. MASTERSON
ADDRESSES LEAGUE
Democratic Nominee for Con-
gress Speaks at Meeting of
Wilson Organization

C.. w. Masterson, of Walla Walla,
emocratic nominee for congress from
this district, addressed the Wilson
Independent League In the CONNER
cial club rooms Tuesday evening. Mr..
Masterson confined most of. his re-
marks to general issues and only at
the conclusion of his address did he
speak of his own candidacy.
He unqualifiedly defended the ad-
ministration of President Wilson, es-
pecially his. attitude toward Mexico
and his foreign policy. He commend
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21
THE JUDICIARY VOTE

Complete returns from the three
counties of Adams, Benton and Frank
lin gives E. A. Davis of Pasco lead
of 80 votes over M. M. Moulton for
superior judge. The vote follows:
Truax-Adams 1043, Franklin 184,
Benton 213, total, 1440; Davis-Ad-
ans 299, Franklin 1856; Benton 225,
total 1910; Moulton - Adams, 81,
Franklin, Sc, Benton 1897, total 1880;
Hamilton-Adams, At; Franklin, 75;
Benton GOA, total 726.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21
STORK IN LEAD

The births in Benton county during
the month of August outnumbered the
deaths Ia to 6. The record as re-
ported by the several communities to
the state board of health follows:
Prosser, z birth, one death; Kenne-
wick 6 and 2; Kiona, o and o; Rich
land, I and 8; Hanford, and o.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21

Total S14S 40
To meet this expense it will be
necessary to collect about 7O4o of the
subscriptions pledged by the business
men.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21

than Mr.. LaFollette can show for the
six years he has held the office, / shall
not have the nerve to come before the
people and ask for reelection"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Masterson's
address the league proceeded to per-
manent organization and during the
evening increased the membership to
nearly 100. s
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21
RENEW LAMPsoN's CONTRACT

At the last meeting of the board of
county commissioners the contract
with Lee M. Lampson as county ag-
riculturalist, was renewed, with Com
missioners Clements and Bash voting
in favor of renewal and Commissioner
MeNeill against. By the terms Of the
contract the state college pays SIS a
month toward salary and the county
s1OO a month toward salary and 500
a month for travelling and Office ex-
penSeS.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21

The parent-teachers association held
the first meeting Of the season last
Saturday afternoon in the Princess
Theatre. Many interesting things
came up for discussion and plans were
outlined to make the association more
helpful and interesting this year than
ever before. ..
Evening star., 1916-07-02

lost their heads; otherwise they would
not have violated the first principle in
dealing with the unbalanced. The first
principle of treatment is diplomacy HUI
NOR the crank, appear to side with him,
and he will let you guide him.
Cranks are divided into perennials and
ANNALS. The perennials are the inven-
tors who have big device to put on
the market, or the inventors who claim to
have beon tricked out of their profits.
There are the enemies of wealth, the friends
of the down-trodden, the liquor and to-
bacco fanatics, those with an excess of
religion, and those who are atheists.
The ANIMALS depend on the big current
topic of the day. 1t may be war, unem-
ployment, or any subject that bulks big.
The loss of or the failure to gain political
job breeds many dangerous fanatics.
Guiteau, who shot Garfield, was a job
hunter; Gallagher, the man who wounded
Mayor Gaynor of New York, had just lost
a place on the city payroll
Since the assassination of President
Mckinley, the President of the United
States is guarded with extraordinary care.
1t is one of the characteristics of a crank
that he will start his campaign by mail.
Evening star., 1916-07-02

was put in; the third summer bath
room, with small engine outside to pump
the water from the well. French doors
and diamond-paned windows were added
by the denial of theater tickets.
Six months denial of candies and
"movies" built the trelises and the porch
to the back door, and it was great fun to
plan how to meet the repairs and extras.
Next came the hardwood floors and re-
modelling of the exterior. This was all
done the fourth year, and at the end of
that time they owned the house free of
debt, and were rewarded by comfort and
happiness. There is to-day fine large
living-room, dining-room, study, kitchen,
and laundry, with two bedrooms on the
first floor, and three sleeping-rooms and
a bath on the second.
The work is carefully divided. One
week two of the girls plan and serve the
meals, and put up luncheons to be taken
into town to save restaurant expense;
two take care of the house upstairs,
and two downstairs. Having house of
their own and sewing machine, they
are able to do great deal of their own
sewing.
Company is paid for by whoever in
vites the guest, at the rate of twenty-five
cents For breakfast, thirty cents for
luncheon, and fifty cents for dinner, while
twenty-five cents allows a guest for the
night.
Evening star., 1916-07-02
By SAMUEL CROWTHER

President and public officers generally are
guarded as never before.
If only all cranks were alike, the busi-
ness of being wealthy or being ruler
would be much simplifed; but cranks
vary quite as much as does the normal
individual. There is no way of fixing the
exact state of crankiness except by expert
ment; one who will be perfectly harmless
under most conditions needs only the
wrong rub to transform him into a maniac.
Sorting Out the Cranks
FOR instance, an emaciated, unkempt
fellow bobbed up recently from shaded
divan in the corner of the reception-room
of New York hotel. How he got there
no one knew. He approached lady and
with deep salaam inquired if it would
please her ladyship to have him jump off
the roof of the building. "Have no fear,
madam he continued most politely. "I
am so constituted that | should alight as
softly upon the pave as a thiste-down
upon clover" The guest screamed; the
detectives came running, and it took three
of them to get the fellow out of the hotel.
The detectives who grappled with him
Evening star., 1916-07-02
After Seven Years

THE house as it is to-day represents
an investment of S3400. The taxes are
$50 year. The owners are now re-
placing domestic rugs with Oriental and
buying an occasional piece of real antique
furniture. The den has been fitted up
with homemade shelves stained and
painted by the girls themselves, and it is
filled with books bought at mark-down
sales.
So six girls who We're alone in city,
homeless, and spending all they earned
just to keep alive, now own their own
home and have money in the bank.
We like to publish articles like this.
Other girls who hare solped their hiring
problem In nopel rags are inpited to ten
their stories, accompanied, ,ohereuer pos
sible, by interesting photographs. Names
need not appear. Pass along your expert.
ence for the benefit Of the rest of us.
THE EDITOR.
Evening star., 1916-07-02

sum total Of $l9.lO week in the country
as against $50 in the city. The $40 saved
each week was put away as a general fund
to meet emergencies and help pay for the
house.
1t was agreed that if any member
dropped out, the sum she had invested
would be paid back to her and the amount
made up by the remaining girls.
That was seven years ago. Since that
time they have paid for the house, raised
vegetables enough for the table, and sold
enough to cover the expense of cultiva-
tion. Little by little, the house has been
remodeled. The second year furnace
Evening star., 1916-07-02

By the time they were settled the girls
had saved about $l35.
1t was early June when they moved in,
so that by fall they had saved enough to
put in stoves and buy coal. Their living
expenses were brought down to SIS a
week. The scrubwoman who came in
every Saturday cost half dollar more,
and their carfares were $500, making a
Evening star., 1916-07-02

Detectives sort out the Presidents mail.
If the tone of a letter is abusive, the
writer is investigated, and sometimes is
warned or is prosecuted through the
Post-Office Department. If, as often
happens, the sender declares that he is
coming on to see the President, the de-
tectives meet him at the train and either
send him home or take him into custody.
Guarding the President
WHEN the President visits hotel the
precautions are elaborate. Joseph
Smith, head house detective of big New
York hotel, has handled many Presidents.
He says:
81 put twenty-five or thirty men around
the hotel to watch as a first line of de-
fense. The last time the President was
here, these men headed off at least fifty
men who were known to be anarchists or
men with dangerous tendencies. The
President has his own guards, but we also
assign good men to the President and to
every prominent man in his party. These
detectives follow their men everywhere,
and do not allow any person who does
not look right to approach At the same
time, they must take care that the men
whom they are guarding are not aware
Evening star., 1916-07-02

6 beds at So. SO each. ........ $500
lS sheets at so each .. 900
IL pillow slips at 10 each .... 1.2O
IL bath towels at .15 each l.SO
"a huck towels at 10 each ... 2.4O
blankets at So each. ... 1900
spreads at 81 each. .... 600
chiffonnieres without mirrors
at 50 each ............ 900
3 chiffonnieres with mirrors at
s4.5O each. ..........,.... 1880
6 bedroom chairs at Sl each 600
Grass-mat rug for living-room $50
3 willow rockers at 81. so each $50
Cot for living-room. ....... 1.5O
Cover for cot ot..... $50
Dining-table. ......... 600
6 chairs. .......... 600
Rug. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 600
Set of German china " $50
l dozen plated knives. ....... l.2O
Evening star., 1916-07-02
Photograph from Mary II. Northend



And this the house four years later Remodeed
painted Jnaceheaed small garden in the large enough
proude vegetables for the table and enough additional produce
pay for cultivation AH paid for by the ss girls of the
they saved by living the country instead of
Evening star., 1916-07-02
Guarding Rich Men from Cranks
By SAMUEL CROWTHER

CASH this check for me at once;
need million dollars.
Henry P. Dawson, now one of
the partners of j. P. Morgan & Co.,
looked up at these words to find a
very nervous, shabby little man showing
a scrawled bit of paper under his nose.
IL must have the money right away;
God sent me for it to stop the war
Certainly, sir, certainly; glad to ac-
commodate you. Won't you sit down?
How will you have it? I'll get the clerk
right in, answered MIR. Dawson suavely,
as he pushed the emergency button on
his desk.
The man sat down complacently to
await the million. The buttons summons
brought the firms detectives on the jump;
they took the near-millionaire from be-
hind, 9frisked' loaded revolver from his
coat pocket, and sent him out to rejoin
the army Of cranks who wander through
the financial district of New York.
Evening star., 1916-07-02
They Plan Their House

A SMALL farmhouse in tolerably good
repair was found at rental of $50 a
year. 1t was unpainted, shabby in interior,
and surrounded by half an acre of land.
Feeling it was within their means, they
hired it, agreeing to pay SIS year apiece.
The house had to be thoroughly cleaned at
a cost of SIS to scrubwoman, and papered
and painted at their own expense. The
paper cost ten cents a roll and was put on
by the girls in the evenings and on half
holidays. The cost of the painting
amounted to $17. Some of the girls had
rugs, and few low-priced ones were
follows:
Evening star., 1916-07-02
War Responsible for Many

THE head of an international detective
bureau has estimated that at least
thousand men and women in America
have become unbalanced by the European
war. The country is full of cranks. The
Evening star., 1916-07-02
How Six Women Solved Their Living Problem

INK working girls who were boarding
- Worcester, Massachusetts, and be-
longed to the same church, were dis
~ cussing theirway of living at church
social. Each was lonely; each longed for
place that would really be home. Three
of them were stenographers at salary of
from $12 to SIS week. Two were school
teachers who received $l8 week; while
the sixth was a private secretary earning
$25. They were spending, each of them,
an average of $40 week for board, living,
and sundries.
The following evening they met again,
and each one rendered an account Of her
expenses and the furniture she owned. 1t
was found that they were spending an
aggregate of $50 week; and that alto
gether they owned furniture enough to
furnish quite house.
@Let's find a farmhouse near the city,"
one Of them suggested, "a place we can
rent for while and buy later, if our plan
works out"