The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-05-03

Sheriff C. E. Duffy was in RichIand
on business Tuesday.
George Dresser is another Richland
boy who has enlisted in the Navy.
Miss Augusta Breithaupt, of Toy
penish, is a guest at the home of her
parents.
Miss Lulu Brown, teacher of the
third grade for the past year, left
Saturday for her home in South Bend
Word has been received in Richland
that Mrs. H. L. Anthony, of Kenne-
wick, will be taken to the hospital in
Walla Walla to undergo a serious op-
Grafton.
There are thirty cases of measles
in Richland at this writing and the re-
ports continue to come in. Everybody
who feels a little badly diagnoses his
case as measles and governs himself
accordingly.
Jim Willard, of Kittitas, who pub
lished weekly paper there until he
had the misfortune to have his entire
plant burn, is in Richland, visiting
friends and looking around before 10
eating in another field.
S. Poot has taken over the fine Co.'S
tello ranch north of town and is get
ting nicely settled in the ranching
business and has secured valuable
assistant in the person of William
Anshutz, who will work on the ranch
during the 1917 season.
George Wendell, who owns fine
five-acre tract north of town, has sold
his ranch to William Hackney, dis
posed of all his goods and stock at
private sale and will leave the latter
part of the week for Tyler, where his
people live, to make his home.
From the present outlook, unless
more labor is available before the
Strawberries are ripe, it will be up
to the housewives and business people
of Richland to lay aside their usual
daily grind and take spell of that
"back-to-nature" stuff, if the harvest
is to be taken care of to advantage.
It is rumored around town that a
new newspaper will be started in
Richland in the near future. It would
seem that this is mighty poor bust
ness policy, as it has always been
the history of the newspaper bust
ness that when competing papers run
for short time one must eventually
absorb the other and in the meantime
must operate at a loss financially
Richland is very well represented in
the newspaper line and it would be q
big mistake to start another venture
of this kind here. fractional differ.
ences might be better settled in other
ways than by trying to ruin a bust.
ness which is of vital Importance tt
the community and it is hoped that
this is rumor, pure and simple.
Word has been received in RichlanG
of the death of Harry Thurman, oc
curing in Santa Monica, CAL, on Apri
10th. The body was shipped to the
family home in Kalispel, Mont, fol
interment. Announcement of thu
death of this young man did not come
as surprise to his many friends il
this district as it was thought at the
time he left for California with hi.
parents last fall that he would not live
much longer. He had been a sufferer
from tuberculosis for the past three
years and little hope was ever enter
tanned for his recovery. Harry Thur
man was one of the most popular
young men in Richland where he liveG
for the past seven years, making hi:
home on his ten-acre ranch north oil
town. His death leaves a host Of
friends here who sincerely mourn his
loss and extend their sympathy to the
bereaved family.