The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-03-29
From the Correspondents
Items Of Interest Concerning Our Neghbors Hereabous

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Telephone sniping is a most exas-
perating habit at all times and it
makes one mad all thru to know that
somebody without sense Of shame is
listening at the phone trying to catch
something not intended for his ears.
1t is even worse when they "butt in"
to the conversation, but when they 60
so far as to break in and tell the par
ties talking that they are lying, it is
unbearable, and the phone company
should make an effort to locate the
guilty parties and refuse to sell them
phone service. Another most exas-
perating trick of the snipers who are
afraid they may miss something, is to
take down the receiver as soon as the
bell rings and hang onto the line. If
the first signal is not heard, their
sniping effectually prevents the bell
being heard again and the phone SER
vice gets the blame. We can't under
stand how the chronic snipers can do
it, particularly since their neighbors
soon get to know them, but lots of
them do it just the same.
The t. c. d. has landed again. He
has discovered the whereabouts of
Felton's rock. 1t seems that some
smart Aleck attempted to tell one of
the members of the Finley Farm Loan
association that we wouldn't get any
OF the farm loan money down here be-
cause we had nothing but sand, and
so one of the local appraisers just
borrowed one of Felton's rocks to
prove to the smart one that he was
wrong. ..L Ii.
In Kennewick some good souls built
a free shelter shed for the farmers
teams. In it there is room for four
teen teams. Often on week day one
will find the places all filled, two of
the compartments leach designed for
four horses) being taken up by empty
school busses while the buss horses
occupy the extra stalls.
The guy who said the wind never
blew for more than three days in
stretch here is (deleted by the
The Horse Heaveners were glad
enough to see the wind take the frost
'ut of the ground, if it had only quit
hen, but it took most of the ground
With it.
There was one man in the commune
ty who was not Disguised with our .
week of wind and dirt and he is a !!
newcomer, too. That man is E. w.
'ry, who has rented the Finley
lace. He has just come from Mon
ana where, he says, next to his ranch
ne boys were shooting cattle that
we're frozen to the ground and couldn't !
ct up. II prefer wind" said he.
Anyone with half dozen cows ]
hould have a silo. Anyone with half
dozen cows or more who has no silo I
hould take the matter. up with the S
1nley Grange, for they have worked !
ut plan whereby almost anyone
an have silo if he is rugged to raise !
ne corn and feed the ensilage. Don't
clay.
News dispatches from California
III OF poultrymen wiring their chick
houses for electric lights which
ley turn on before daylight to get :
le chickens out to scratch early in
le morning. No one need get ex- il
ted over it, for Finley has number n
poultry raisers who have been do v
g this very thing for years.
Mr.. Woodward says the wind has "
zen blowing up and down for ten
ays. Judging from the way it fixed s.
5. Shorts silo, we think it must Ii
I'VE blown straight across part Of d
e time.
The hay holders mouths are all
rned up now, but many Of them sold
fore the turn came and the down :
rners outnumber the up corners at d