The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-25
HIGHLAND DEPT.

The B. N. C. club meets tomorrow
at the home of Mrs. Chas. CARAT.
The Fruitvale Five Hundred club
will meet with Mrs. o. Y. Anderson
next Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Anderson
announce the birth of son, the little
fellow arriving Saturday.
Mrs. Chas. CARAT was called to
Portland Thursday by a telegram
stating that her mother was dying.
Mrs. David Fish, who has been i'll
is getting along nicely and will soon
be able to be out of doors again.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Foss have COM
pleted negotiations for the lease of the
old Cox tract in town and will move
into their new home the first of the
month.
Mrs. F. A. Rouse, who has been
suffering for some time past from at
tacks of appendicitis, was taken to
the Deaconess hospital Monday to un-
dergo an operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lou Wheelhouse en-
tertained at dinner Tuesday evening,
covers being laid for Misses Marjorie
Caldwell, Zada Roe and Messrs. Jack
Martin and A. G. Rosaaen.
Mrs. ]. C. Quiner has received
fine 25-pound Tom turkey from Pay
cite, Idaho. The bird will not be
year old until May and will head the
large flock of turkeys on the Quiner
rarch.
A number of the local dairymen
went to Kennewick Tuesday to attend
the meeting of the board of directors
of the Kennewick Creamery COM
pany. Richland was represented by
Carl Willis.
The board of directors of the Rich
land Telephone company held a meet
ing Monday night at the home of the
president, B. S. Wadsworth. Regular
routine business was transacted and
plans outlined for the coming year.
Many of the local orchardists have
started pruning and within the next
week this annual work will be well
under way. Good returns were re-
ceived from the tree crops last year
and the ranchers who have good or
chards are going to give them a lot of
attention this spring with the idea of
realizing everything in the business.
J. w. CALDWELL and family, of North
Yakima, have rented the Morrison
house in town and will stay here while
Mr.. Caldwell oversees the sage brush
clearing and leveling Of his 40-acre
tract west of the M. Wienenga ranch.
H. F. Hoffman has secured the con-
tract for putting the land in shape
and will start work in the near flu.
ture. ... .ss
It would seem that Master James
Miller, small son of Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Miller, was getting more than
his share of the ills to which flesh is
heir. The little mite, not yet four
months old, has already suffered in
his short period of existence a dan.
gerous attack of bronchial pneumonia
later the la grippe and now he is bat.
Ting with a siege of the measles. Mrs
Miller says that she will absolutely
refuse to take the boy out of the house
until the Fourth of July, as by that
time she thinks perhaps all danger OF
further ailments attacking the little
man will be past. The baby is doing
as well as can be expected under thu
circumstances as his strong constitu
ton has stood him in good stead 81
far and he does not seem to have los
much strength. ..e.... :.
On account of severe attack O.
bronchitis Granville Jones, the lee
turer billed on the lyceum course fo
Tuesday night, was unable to fill hi
engagement. However, the people o
Richland were given most able sub
stitute in the person of Frederick D
Wood, a lecturer of national reputa
ton and ability. Without exception
the number was one of the best of it
kind ever heard by the writer and tina
it made a wonderful impression on tn
: audience, small boys as well as grow
e up folks, was evidenced by the man
D questions asked by the little folks Q
3 their parents after the evenings tai
!. was completed. The subject deal
: mainly with the difference betwee
: wishing" for thing and "wanting
S it and great many of the illustrs
d lions certainly struck close home an
h no one who had the pleasure of hear
Il ing this able speaker but will hay
a been in a great measure benefited.