The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-11
From the Conespondents
Items of Interest Concerning Our Neghbors Hereabouts

lCo1nS Oh INTEREST concerning
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Don't forget the Finley Fair, which
will be held on Friday, January 18th,
at the grange hall, beginning at 8 p.
m. Lots to look at, lots to laugh at
Just one great big, good time.
The Pomona Grange met with the
Valley Heights grange near Prosser
last Saturday and held one of the
most successful meetings of the year.
The new officers were installed and
plans for buying and selling co-opera-
lively were discussed from every
angle and a workable plan finally
adopted. The working out of the last
details was left with committee and
they will make their report at the
next meeting. The Pomona will meet
at Benton City next, on Saturday,
February 8.
Admission to the Finley fair
grounds is free.
I'd The farmers thruout the county not
excepting those living right around
Prosser, are thoroly Disguised with
the court house deal. At the Pomona
grange meeting held at Biggam last
Saturday, naturally the Prosser dis
trict was represented best, yet the on
" sentiment heard was that of con-
demnation of the underhanded meth
DDS employed, and the extravaganza
waste of money. The sentiment SEEM
ed to be unanimous that this is not the
time to build court house. We've
heard the statement that the whole
west half of the county was jubilant
over the bond issue but such is not the
case, for the farmers who have the
taxes to pay are about as fully dis
gusted with the affair around Prosser
as around Kennewick.
IF you are suffering from a case OF
crouch, bring it down to Finley Fri
day night and let us drown it in con-
fetti.
Undoubtedly there has been some
talk around Prosser Of recalling Audi
tor Syfford for refusing to be party
to the bond issue frame up, but if any
one is to be recalled, it won't be Syf-
ford, but should rather be Prosecut-
ing Attorney Fristoe. There is plain
way provided by law for issuing and
selling bonds, buying real estate and
building court house and if the
county attorney couldn't advise the
commissioners how to do it as the law
provides he should have made way
for someone who could. But for some
unexplained reason Commissioners
Clements and McNeill wanted to sell
the bonds without advertising for
bids, wanted to sell them to one GER
tain firm at figure which cost the
taxpayers some $3O,OOO.OO or more in
excessive interest. Right here is
where Fristoe should have quit them
if they refused to handle the bond is
sue in the manner plainly set forth in
the law. Instead, what did he do?
When the taxpayers whom he repre-
sents attempted to stop the raid on
the public funds, he advised the raid
ers to get additional counsel to help
him fight the taxpayers and stood mo-
rally party to the deal whereby Mr..
Clements and McNeill took another
$15O0.00 of the taxpayers money and
handed it over to these outside at
torneys as first payment for their
services in fighting the taxpayers. We
can't reconcile such action with the
oath of Office he took, and believe that
his actions justify the taxpayers in
demanding that he be supplanted by
someone who will represent them
faithfully.
You can't afford to miss seeing Ag-
atha, the fat lady and Annabella, the
slim lady at the Finley fair.
Two or three times we have been
taken to task for saying in the issue
before Christmas that more people
were close to the bread line than for
many years and the wonderful growth
of bank clearances, the enormous
trade balance in our favor, the lack of
unemployment, and many other indi-
cations of prosperity have been point
ed out to us. Still we maintain that
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