The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-02-01
From. the Correspondents
Items of Interest Concerning Our Neghbors Hereabouts

Our NelgADOfS I1eiedUouCS
it away. Stock raising means more
men employed on the farm, and more
in town. It means butter, beef and
hogs to export and a steady income
for the whole valley. We wish that
the banks all up and down the valley
would follow the example of the Mt.
Angel institution and the results would
be of far more benefit to the country
than all the efforts of the fair asso-
Citations, chambers Of commerce, and
commercial clubs combined.
Said Clyde to Vernon: 81 can't see
how I'm such a mean man, when l
give you the chance to walk home with
two pretty girls"
Said Vernon to Clyde: eyes; but you
forget that two is company, and three
is a crowd
Said the editor to both: cav, we
were not thinking about you fellows.
We were thinking about the girls"
Joe Gerards said other neighbors
have tried getting up by Goss' light,
but long ago gave it up because it was
too unreliable.
The tin can detective received a
hurry up call from A. F. Woodward
last Saturday and was requested to To-
cate stray elephant.
"Elephant!!! Where on earth did
you see an elephant?" he exclaimed.
81 didn't see him, explained A. F. w.,
'but he was around here and stepped
on my pocketbook three times last
week."
The Finley poet has called on US to
deny writing that poem about Chris
Puderbaugh. The t. c. d. has been no
titled. d.
Frank Struthers called at friends
home to have game of cribbage last
Friday and brought his cribbage board
along. When he was untieing his
team to go home he remembered he
didn't have his board, so went back to
the house, where they looked high and
low. The lantern was lighted and the
path examined back and forth, but no
board was to be found. He went thru
his pockets dozen times without re-
suits and finally decided to go home
without it, half convinced that his
friend had stolen and hid it. AS he
started to drive off he discovered that
he was holdingst missing board in
his hand ~ Ill. :.
One of our warm days last week
Fred Tweedt went out to haul rock.
He got so warm that he sat down to
rest and went to sleep. When he did
not return for supper Mrs. Tweedt
became worried and set out to look for
him. She found him sitting propped
up against the wagon, sound asleep.
The t. c. d. has at last found what
ails our weather, causing us so much
cold. It seems that for years the
Japan current has swung in along
the North Pacific coast, moderating
the winters, but when the war started
Japan placed an embargo on all food
stuffs, currants included, and again
neutral nations suffer.
For the benefit of those who wish to
make known their ideas on subdivid-
ing the road districts between Kenne-
wick and Hover, we publish the names
of the committee Of ten who are to
confer with Commissioner Pratt on
this subject. C. C. Cantwell and H..
S. Hughes, Frank Struthers and ]. r.
Ayers, Frank Lyons and Frank Vol
land, C. E. Cox and VIM. Engels, w
H. Allison and I. N. Newkirk.
One suggestion we would like to
make to Commissioner Pratt: When
he selects his road foremen, eaoh
should be deputized to make arrests
for speeding, for it is the speed fiend
who does the most damage to our
roads, not to mention the menace he
is to anyone using the county high
ways. One Of these undesirable citi-
zens l. W. drove from point 1900 feet
west of the S., P. & s. crossing to the
crossing in 3s seconds and we venture
was going over forty miles an hour
when he crossed the grade. Had any
one been on the grade approaching
from the east, it would have been mir
aculous If one or the other had not