The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-03-09
LIVE WIRE SPARKS

4 Iu,ksnnnuuc unQIguf1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
| If you want to vote, you must reg
lister. The registration books are oper
now at the Finley store.
Altho the oiled road along the mile
stretch between sections seventeen
and eighteen is probably worse now
than before it was improved, we wont
mention the c. e. this week for we re.
alize that the c. commissioners and
road supervisors still have their hands
full in the hills.
The recent school election has beer
the all-absorbing topic of interest this
week. The average number voting al
previous elections has been about 8
dozen, but this year the community
registered 80 votes. Guy Moore was
elected to the two-yaar term without
opposition, for he was the only can.
didate. Arthur Skinner and Ed. An
CELL ran a good race, Mr.. Angel win
ming by a margin of thirteen votes
It was good race, and everyone took
part and worked for either one can
didate or the other. The telephone
lines were kept hot and the telephone
snipers reaped harvest. As a mat
ter of fact, now that it is over, we be-
lieve no one cared much which candi-
date won, but the election will prove
fine thing for the district, for it
served to awaken the interest Of many
who had never before given the school
thought.
Now that it is over, there is but
one course to follow, and that is to
bury the hatchet-to bury it deep and
not leave the handle sticking out.
Without question everyone has been
working for the good of the district
as he sees it, and there is no reason
why all interests should not work to-
gether for the common aim. 2a
The Grange tax committeeman, Ger
ards, Lyons and Puderbaugh didn't
have enough time at Prosser to get
all the information they went after.
It seems. that when the train arrived
Sheriff Duffy was waiting at the de-
pot and had Gerards by the. collar and
out Of sight. before his slower COM
panions even got to the car door. 1t
took valuable time to locate Gerards
and still longer to secure his release,
and then Joe began to complain that
he was hungry. He kept up such a
din that they had to feed him, not
once, but two or three times. The re-
suit was that little time was left to
carry on their investigation, though
enough information was secured to
prove the trip a profitable one. "A
representative of the Live Wire Col
umn interviewed Gerards but the only
statement he would issue was that he
ate with knife and fork, while Lyons
and Puderbaugh ate with scoop.
After three months Of winter ev-
eryone in the valley was locking for
ward to the new moon on the third of
March with full expectation that the
spring would at last come. The fact
that ]. II. Jarboe recently Of this
neighborhood had taken up his work
in the U. s. Weather Factory at Port
land and had promised US square
deal after March first added to the
feeling that Spring was at hand; and
so when it started to snow Friday
night and showed most of Saturday
and all Saturday night, people were
pretty generally Disguised. Always
alive to the interests of the commun-
ity the Live Wires put in long dis
lance call for Jarboe to register pro-
test, but Jarboe was not there, so we
talked to Ed. Beals, who is foreman
of the weather factory and told him
what we thought is, as much as
the rules of the telephone company
would permit. He promised to inves-
tigate at once and we have now re-
ceived letter telling how it happened.
We aren't entirely familiar with the
way the weather is made but it seems
with each change Of moon the gem
eral outline for the next quarters |
is arranged for. Jarboe had |
just been put in charge and had been
turned loose to arrange things to suit |
himself. He looked over all the but
tons and levers, which were all labeled
with abbreviated names and after
studying them carefully, pulled on a
lever labeled I'M. Wr." expecting to
get Mild Warmer weather, but when
Beals rushed in to investigate he
found that M. VIZ. stood for Much
Worse.
Altho we don't like to admit it, we
all feel certain respect for the rob-
bers who have recently been holding
up trains in this state. They display !