The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-07-26
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Lie hlcHldHu boys WHO were ClOSeI
on the draft all seem perfectly salts
/ fled and the young men who have nc
J dependents upon them are all of the
opinion that they can't be examined
too soon to suit them.
| Mr.. and Mrs. G.. G. Lawrence OF
Kennewick were weekend guests at
the David Fish home.
Henry Hartung is using his new
binder to good advantage in getting
up the wheat crop for the Richland
district. He has already cut and
bound his own wheat and will get up
the crop on the tract leased by R. D.
Sawyer inside OF the week. With the
poor crop of wheat in the dry farming
districts the growers around Richland
are looking for banner prices not only
for their wheat but also for their corn
and barley. While the Richland dis
trict may not be the greatest wheat
belt on earth it sure can give all Sec
ions run for their money when it
comes to producing corn. Some of the
corn fields around Richland this year
are sight for sore eyes and should
bring many dollar to their owners.
S. Darling and family who have had
the Yedica ranch under lease for the
past year have moved to Kennewick
to make their home.
i Mrs. Ella McMakin, who has been
spending the past six months at the
j. M. Breithaupt home while her forty
acre ranch north of town was being
put into crop, left Tuesday for Seattle
enroute for Portland.
Strawberry Grange held a most en-
joyable reception Monday evening in
honor of Roy Allen who has recently
enlisted in the navy and will leave
shortly to assume his new duties. Mr..
Allen has been a prominent worker
in the local grange ever since his COM
ing to Richland and will be greatly
missed in grange circles turnout the
county.
Mrs. A. L. Nelson and two daugh-
tiers left Sunday for the mountains in
Okanogan county where they will
spend a month as guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. E. S. Hubbard at their camp.
Mrs. ]. M. Breithaupt left Tuesday
for Great Falls, Mont, to spend a
month at the home of her daughter.
Mrs. Perry Willoughby returned
Saturday from Lewiston, Idaho, where
she has been visiting her mother and
other relatives for few weeks. Miss
Catherine Eastland, who accompanied |
her, will remain in Lewiston indefinite
,ly with her aunt.
B. F. Knapp, of HeEmiston, De-,
was in Richland on real estate bust
ness Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. Mountain en-
tertained at an elaborate luncheon
Saturday in honor of The Sunday
School classes of Mrs. C. S. Gibbs
and Waldo Loucks. The house was
beautifully decorated for the occasion.
The evening was devoted to games and
music.
A meeting Of the Richland circle of
the Red Cross was held in the pork
Wednesday afternoon for the purpose
of discussing just what articles the
local women would prefer to work on,
as the treasurer has over $4,000 and
is anxious to get busy end secure me-
terial so chat no time may be wasted
in getting the work under way. The
idea of making comfort bags fo. the
boys who have been drafted from here
has been talked over and this will
undoubtedly be done.
Mrs. John Maupin and little daugh-
ter of Kennewick are guests of rela-
tives in Richland this week.
Mrs. G. S. Gibbs and three cons left
Wednesday for the Coast to spend
a month with her husband who is
working at Everett.
The band social in the park Wednes-
day evening was very much appreciat-
ed by large crowd who did ample
justice to the ice cream and cake pro-
vided for their refreshement and in
this way added considerable sum to
the teasury in the bank. The boys are
learning number of new selections
which they rendered in a capable man
! er and before the summer is over they
will have a repertoire that will be hard
to beat. Richland is tho only place
in this end of the county that has a
band and park in which they can
play and these are two items of which
her citizens aro iust1v nroud