The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-10-17
HIGHLAND DEPT.

disappointed by the fact that their
son, Lieutenant Ross Page, who ex-
pected to be home on short furlough,
will be unable to get away this fall.
Lieutenant Page was at one time prin-
cipal of the Richland grade schools for
three years and was probably the most
popular instructor ever holding that
position in this community. He went
to Honolulu where he had a permanent
position in the schools, joining the en-
gineer corps when the United States
entered the war. He has worked him
self up to the position of first ieuten-
ant, and is now stationed at Fort
Grant, Ill. Everyone would like to
see him home on a furlough.
Friends in Richland have received
word that Bill Davidson is now en-
gagged in police duty at the ship yards
in Vancouver. He is a member of the
military police force and has been in
Portland until recently.
Geo. w. Snow, of Tacoma who owns
a ten-acre improved tract in section
Ia north of town, was in Richland
several days this week. Mr.. Snow is
employed in the shipyards in Tacoma.
H. L. Tucker and family have decid-
ed to move to the Hayden Lake coun-
try in Idaho and will hold an auction
sale of all their effects on Thursday,
October oath, at the Tom Foy place
south of town which they have been
leasing for the past two years. Mr..
Tucker will have charge of big fruit
and wheat ranch in his new location.
Mrs. F. Sanders is in receipt of sew
eral letters from her son Lou, who is
now in France with the American
forces. In one letter he stated that he
was encamped near Bordeaux and that
the French customs were a source of
considerable amusement to the Yanks.
Flowing in that vicinity is done with
cows, the regular oxen yokes being
placed round the horns of the cattle.
The women did their washing by wet
ting the clothes and placing them on
rocks and flaying them with a stick.
He also stated that he had been help
ing put out big forest fire which
started in the neighborhood and that
when the Americans stated the back
firing methods which are so common
in this country, the French thought
they We're crazy, but on seeing the re-
suits turned over the village to the
men and nothing was too good for
them. Lou writes that he is perfect
ly happy and writes most interesting
letters.
To date no cases of influenza have
developed in Richland for which every
one is duly thankful, but the strictest
methods will be used to see that all
necessary precautions against epidem-
ic are observed.
Services will be held in the Luth-
eran church Sunday, Oct. Goth, by the
Catholic people of Richland, Father
Flavin coming down from White
Bluffs to officiate.
Mrs. R. T. Hadley of Tekoa is
guest at the home of her mother, Mrs.
Herman Richter, and her sister, Mrs.
Elmer Hinkle.
w. T. Amos of the Wright Con-
struction Co., of Tacoma, who built
the drainage ditch north of Richland
three years ago, is in town taking the
company's big dredge to pieces so it
can be shipped back to the Coast.
Clarence Yedica who is on the U. S.
ship Cheyenne at Galveston, Texas,
writes home that there are a great
many cases of influenza among the
crew of his boat and that they are
quarantined. julius Hopp, another
Richland boy who is on the same boat
is down with the disease, but is not
seriously i'll.