The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-03-08

Mrs. A. H. Williamson is confinet
to her bed by illness.
Mrs. Moore is visiting her son ant
family in Kennewick.
Sherman Muncey has installed To-
cal phone in his house. r.
j. M. Breithaupt met with serious
accident last week which has kept hin
under the doctors care.
Miss Anna Fallon, who is teaching
school in the Horse Heaven country
spent the week end with friends and
relatives in Richland.
Prof. Walter Holt, spent the week
end in Spokane and Walla Walla on
business and while there visited q
number of old friends. .....--
B. F. Knapp, Of Hermiston, Ore.
spent several days in Richland last
week on business connected with his
property interests here.
w. S. Sheppard and family who
have made their home in Richland for
the past two years left Saturday to
live on ranch about a mile below Fin
ley.
Cyril Relton and family have moved
out to the o. r. Allen ranch to make
their home. Mr.. Relton expects to
go extensively into the turkey bust
ness this spring.
E. w. Barnard and family, of North
field, MINI. are located on the A.. f.
Griffith tract north of town and will
have charge of all the Griffith pro-
perry in this district.
James Mcintyre, banker from Ban
try, N. D., who owns forty acre tract
in Section 4, arrived yesterday and
spent several days here looking after
his property interests.
Albert Boos, of Spokane, has leased
the old Reed place south Of Richland
on the Kennewick road and will move
here with his family at once to work
the ranch this season.
]. R. Gardner has just completed
negotiations by which he has sold the
10-acre tract owned by ]. J.. Daugh-
erty north of town to A. D. Fraker,
the consideration being $500.
Mrs. o. E. Compton, who has been
visiting at the home Of her sister,
Mrs. H. E. Compton, left Tuesday, ac-
companied by her little, son, to spend
a short time with her parents in Sc
attic.
Mrs. M. d. O'Connell will not con-
duct restaurant on the main street
as was her intention, but wishes to
inform her friends that she will open
the dining room in connection with the
Commercial Hotel.
J. H. Cooley and family, old time
residents of this district will leave
the latter part of the week to make
their home on a ranch about seven
teen miles east of Spokane. They car
ry with them the good wishes of a
host Of friends on this project.
Glenn Forbes, who made his home in
Richland off and on for the past two
years arrived here Saturday to spend
the summer. He is at the home Of
his sister-in-law, Mrs. II. E. Compton.
Mrs. Forbes and daughter Audrey will
join him some time next week.
C. H. Lind, of Tacoma, who is in
terested with Judge C. C. Chapman in
a forty-acre tract in the Fruitvale dis
trict was in Richland Monday looking
his property over, and had surveyor
at work locating the stakes, etc., with
an idea of putting the place into cul-
tivation.
The Richland girls basketball team
are sure bunch of winners, and, as
the saying goes, "they never fail to
bring home the bacon" They won
both games played here last week on
Friday night from Kennewick on the
home floor and on Saturday from Pas
co at the down river town. The boys,
however are not in the same class with
their fair sisters and lost both games
played. This Finishes up the basket
ball season for 1917.
The basement of the Methodist
church is being completed with the
idea of using it as a social room in
which to hold reunions which hereto
fore have been held in the church par
lors. A range and dishes belonging
to the Ladies' Aid will be installed to
take care of that department and
many good times will undoubtedly be
enjoyed in the large room when COM
pleted. A great deal of the labor is
being donated and subscriptions are
being taken to purchase the numerous