The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-09-06
LITTLE STORIES OF THE WEEK W

| Miss Rcsella Hamilton return II re
last of the week from Chicago where
she has spent the summer with her
friends. Miss Hamilton will leave
shortly for North Yakima where she
will teach a school near Mckee.
w. j. B. Smith of the engineering
department of the O-W. R. & N,
visited Kennewick friends this week.
Mr.. Smith is stationed temporarily in
Walla Walla, where the railroad COM
pany is making some improvements.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Walters and
daughters of Prescott, were visitors
Tuesday at the home of, Mr.. and Mrs.
U. D. McShurry on Kennewick Ave.
They had been spending their vaca-
ton on the Coast and were returning
home in their car stopping here for a
day. "
Mrs. M. McShurry, who has been a
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past week, returned to her home in
Prescott yesterday. Mrs. McShurry
was accompanied home by Mrs. U. D.
McShurry and little daughter, Mary
Ellen, who will spend couple of
weeks with relatives in Prescott.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Rankin and
daughters, Of Guthrie, Okla, are the
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
L. v. Corfman this week. Mr.. and
Mrs. Corfman also have with them
their son, L. L. Corfman, who will
leave in a few days to resume his
studies in dental college in Omaha.
Rev. and Mrs. C. D. Rarey and their
daughter Esther, of Spokane, arrived
in the city Tuesday, coming down in
the Ford recently purchased in Spo-
kane by F. A. Dunlap. Rev. Rarey
went to conference at North Yakima
Wednesday, leaving Mrs. Rarey and
Esther to visit with friends here this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Slaugenhaupt
have moved out to their place in the
Olmstei for the winter months. Mr..
and Mrs. R. E. Pratt have taken the
Slaugenhaupt residence, thus vacating
the G. F.. Hanson home in tire for
the retur.l &C Mr.. and Mrs Hanson
and John, who came Friday fror
the Coas&.
Rev. Burris, of Finley, Rev. Smith,
of Richland, Rev. C. E. Miller of this
city, and Rev. E. C. Corn, of Kellogg,
who has been a guest the past few
days at the Methodist parsonage, left
Tuesday morning for North Yakima
to attend the annual conference. Quite
a number of the local Methodist peo-
pie are planning to &C up Saturday
for the week end services.
The local Baptist church will hold
their annual church supper and cleo
ton of officers next Wednesday eve-
ming. This promises to be an unus-
ually interesting affair, for on that
evening the church board will have
the pleasure of burning the mortgage
on their building, since it has been
paid in full. Quite little celebration
has been planned for that event and
to the two little boys under fifteen
years of age who have contributed the
largest amount toward that debt will
be given the honor Of burning the pa
per. Supper will be served from six
to seven, then will come the business
meeting and celebration.
M. E. Carley, of Carley, was in the
city yesterday on his way home from
Prosser, where he went to beard the
county commissioners in their den.
Mr.. Carley wants some road work
done down in his part Of the county.
He says they have been paying taxes
for ten years to help build the other
fellows roads and it is about time
something was coming their way.
Last year he says is the first time
since the county was created that any
of the district road funds have been
expended in his neighborhood. He
found the commissioners in not alto
gether an unreceptive mood and be-
lieves they will get enough road mon
ey to build fairly good road from
the county line to Hover.