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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07
EAST KENNEWICK

Prof. Pickett, botanist OF the
w. S. C. will address the farm
ers on the farm and garden seed
subject at the valley club house,
Friday the 9Th. Everybody Is
invited to come.
Mrs. C. E. Hunt returned on
Tuesday from a visit with her
friends in Eureka.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wilson
and Clark were dinner guests on
Sunday at the ]. E. McKim home.
vern and MILFORD Butler re-
turned from Dayton Saturday.
Rolyston Spaulding, who was
recently home on furlough, was
looking after property interests
lin East Kennewick Saturday.
w. H. Losse is visiting friends
in Eureka this week.
Mrs. George Hubbard, ST., is
spending the week with her
| daughter, Mrs. Frank Harrie in
Kennewick.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. G. Glassner who
have been visiting at the home
of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J
lW. Glassner, returned to theil
. home in Starbuck Wednesday.
j A number of the young people
of the vicinity enjoyed a pleas
!, ant evening at the home OF MI
and Mrs. II. w. Door Saturday
, The evening was spent in game
) after which dainty refreshment
/ were served.
l The necktie quilt, which wa
= pieced by Mrs. B. F. Neal, Mrs
D VIM. Grouse and Mrs. E. r
n Carnahan, which was quilted a
n the home of Mrs. Grouse las
week, was sold for the benefit o
N the Red Cross. The lucky mum
: Der was drawn by Mrs. II. I
o Owens. The ladies sold twenty
VI six dollars worth of tickets an
: after deducting expenses the,
were able to turn twenty-fou
4 dollars cash into the Red eros
4 fund.
. The program which was al
{ |nounced to be held at the clu
,e house tomorrow night, has bee
a postponed until next Thursda
- evening. The program will /
made up of selections by the hie
,lschool orchestra, duets and piar
"a solos by the Misses Erma BIZ
and Lorene Kennedy, some I
in Miss Nelson's always popul;
IN readings and vocal solos by MI
K, J. C.. Swayze. The remainder
It. the evening will be spent wit
r cupids and coffee.
ok C. E. Lum, of Yakima, w
looking after property interes
s. in East Kennewick this wee
he| while visiting at the home of b
i'll son.
" The choir of the M. E. chur
6 met at the w. A. Linn home
IN Wednesday evening. After t
ne rehearsal the remainder of t
a evening was spent in a soc
time.
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NOTES FROM HOVER

j. ID. HampSOn anu ldIIily, az
companied by Mr.. and Mrs; Jas.
Mckenzie and Mrs. John Mills,
motored to Finley Saturday eve
ming to attend the preaching ser
vices held by Rev. Jones.
John Tiede returned Saturday
from a business trip to Spokane.
H. w. Powell and Prof. Brad
ley were Kennewick visitors SAT
urday. ......
GB. Schroyer went to Walla
Walla Saturday for few days
visit. .s5..... rs. ~. -. |
Asa Williams, who has been
working at Waitsburg, came IN
Sunday for a short visit with MS
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sammie Stebbins
of Wallula, we're business visit
ors at the home Of John Mills
Sunday.
William Doyle, Of Spokane,
was in town on business Satur-
day and Sunday.
Lewis Tiede returned Tuesday
| of last week from Ritzville where
he has been looking over some
property.
w. o. Meals, of Horse Heaven
was in town short time Tues
day.
Mr.. Dornberg, Of Spokane,
spent a short time at the home
of Mr.. Williams.
Miss Katherine SkefingtOn
left Friday for Ethiopia, return
ing Sunday.
Captain S. V. Winslow spent
the week end with his family In
Kennewick, returning Sunday.
r. N. Mcclure was in town be
tween trains Sunday.
III. Osborne recently traded hi!
ranch in Horse Heaven to j. X
| Ayers, who has a ten-acre trac
about two miles north of Finley
II Mr.. Ayers has bunch OF sheel
II which he intends to run on nj
Il ranch in Horse Heaven.
II Mr.. Bongard, who has been il
II Seattle the past ten days, return
4 ed home Thursday.
Those in Hover that contrib
tributed to the Armenian and Sy
| rian Relief were as follows: MI
and Mrs. John Mills, $500; B. !
Il Stewart 81; E. H. Maddux, 81
II IL. J. Dimick, so; Mrs. Geo. M
-Guire, .25; Mrs. VIM. McGulr
rs; j. Franklin, rs; j. William
II .25; E. Cushman, rs; Lou
Tiede, 81; w. F. Spears, SLID. Y
Il Whiple 81; G. Rogers, $3.50; '
Brown, so; Mr.. and Mrs. j.
H Dahlin, $3.50; Mr.. and Mrs. ]
II w. Powell, $3.50; H. C. Graft S;
Mrs. C.. l.. Evans, 81; Curt
Koegler, ST.; Mrs. A. w. Thom'
l$1; Alfred Thomas 81; S. :
Il Winslow, 81; Mr.. and Mrs. WI
Il Mills, 81; John Tiede 81; G. !.
Schroyer 81; P. R. Bradley 5
Miss X. Skeffington 81; Mr.. al
II Mrs. Jas. Mckenzie $1.5O; M
and Mrs. j. E. Hampton 81;
lis. Hughes So; C. C. Cantwell al
family So; E. E. Toothaker s
Mrs. L. Johnson 80; Mr.. al
Mrs. H. Osborne so; MIR. Al
Mrs. John Howard 81; Mr.. a.
Mrs. j. Kennett so; Mr.. al
Mrs. Chas. Mills 81; Mrs. Tho
as (from F. B. DObblaar's good
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the telephone a woman's voice
asked him if he intended to 20
out driving that afternoon.
"No; I hardly think / shall
have time this afternoon" re-
piled the doctor. "But why do
YOU ask?"
SWELL" replied his anonymous
ouestioner, 81 want to send nv
little daughter down town for
some thread if you are not 90
ing"
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From the Correspondents
Items of Interest Concerning Our Neghbors Hereabouts
FINLEY NEWS NOTES

George Schnell mas ne"
Ford.
Mrs. T. T. Farney is home
again after several weeks spent
on a case in Horse Heaven.
A service flag has been order
ed for the Finley church and as
soon as it is received a patrlotlc
service will be held.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Cooper
left last Thursday for the Sound
where they will visit friends and
relatives.
The Benton county Pomona
will meet in Benton City with the
Benton-Kiona grange Saturday,
Feb. 9th.
/ At last the Finley-Hover road
lis being constructed. The grade
is finished from Aug. Huss' cor
ner to the Hover ferry and the
work of crawling has begun. Mr..
Brown, who has the contract
from Finley to the Huss corner
has moved in and is ready to
start work.
Miss Nettie Snyder, of Pasco
lied the singing in church and
: Sunday School last Sunday, Miss
2 Snyder, who is a graduate of the
Willamette university, has q
4 number of pupils in instrumental
: and vocal music around Finley
and everyone will be pleased tt
know that she expects to trair
!, the choir and lead the singing II
church every Sunday.
The Finley Red Cross will
q meet at the school house as us
/ ual and everyone is asked tt
bring any scraps of goods the!
It have on hand to be used in piec
n ing quilts.
The ladies of the Ladies All
= entertained their husbands a
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. E. 1
Waldron last Thursday night
= ) About fifty were present and tn
~ ~ evening was spent in singing oil
~ songs, after which a lap suppe
=, was served.
is Hot lunches are being serve
at the Finley school now.
in Special meetings will begin j
n the Finley Methodist church Q
next Sunday. Rev. F. L. Cool
! of Lind, will be acting evangelis
Good meetings and lively SCI
y vices are expected. Rev. Coo
D is a very able speaker.
IL Wanted = Three secretarie
[c- The departure of ]. r. Ayers, tt
re, popular Finley secretary, WI
ms cause vacancies in the Finle
lis Grange, Drainage District No.
W. and the Finley National Far
W. Loan association. Here is fiji
C. chance for anyone looking for
H. job.
-; The Finley Grange will hold j
tbs regular meeting Saturday nigh
" John Lewtas, whom many
N the Finley people will remembe
r has just returned from Il
-. French front. He will speak {
~ what he saw there at the Finl
W. school house Saturday nigl
n Admission Is cents.
md Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Gibbons, !
81 i turned to their home in Conrs
md last Tuesday, after a visit Of sc
md eral weeks with Mrs. Gibbol
md parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. F
md bertson.
)m-
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In one winter the average New York
citizen pays about $52.98 in nickels
buying his two-dollar hat back from
checkroom boys. It amt the original
cost of the bonnet, it's the up-keep.-
ID. & w. Chats.
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Below Standard

Rector's wife Ito village grocer)-
Well, 1 hope that you like the new
rector?
Groceries, ma'am, thank you, we
like him very well-a pause not,
however, that / think he's as fluent
we had right to expect, seeing as
his father was an auctioneer.-Tit-
Bits.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07

A certain physician was noted
for his reckless automobile driv-
ing. One day when he answered
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07

, She-"I like man OF few words
and many actions"
He-"You want my brother; he has
st. Vitus dance.-Tiger.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10

going to concentrate them on mere
college studies. At West Point they
do mix the two things, but the sys-
TEN is different. For one thing they
take four years for doing it. But i
seems impossible from our S. A. T.
c. experiments that you can combine
the two things satisfactorily in the
hasty barracks.
The student armies are now in the
processes of abandonment. The young
men seem to be glad Of it. for the
most part, and the professors who
have had their nerves upset by all
the iub-bub are said to be too glad
for utterance. They have been long
ing to get back to the old courses of
study. They know those things and
there are some things that they do
not know so we'll and one of these
is how to get along with few hun
dred or a few thousand men in uni
forms.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
bon Dieu men await que dix" t"Four-
teen points, But this is a little strong.
The good God gave but ten.~
HOW OUR MARY BEGAN.

Interview in the Christian Science
Monitor: Mary Pickford came into
my little room, off the stage, one
day, and said, oh, Mr.. Belasco-I
recognize you by your Photographs
I'm Mary Picisford. / want to work
in one of your companies and have
you teach me- I saw at once that
she fitted the part of Betty Warren
In The Warrens of Virginia to
nicely. I've come long way to
see you, Mr.. Belasco.' she said, and
| hope you won't disap2oint me.
Her voice broke and her eyes filled
with tears. You might as well en-
gage me, because / won't leave this
theater until you do She was my
ideal for Betty Warren and | en-
gagged her. Mary stayed with me
three seasons. When she LETT me
she said, Mr.. Belasco, remember, no
matter where | am or what / am do
ing when you want me, just let me
know and I'll come
Then came the time when
wanted to produce children's play,
"A Good Little Devil BY this time
Mary had become famous throughout
the world and was the highest sal
aried motion picture actress, but she
kept her word at considerable incon-
venience and financial loss as soon
as she learned that needed her.
When Mary Pickford first came to
me her salary was s35 per week"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
others; we should forget to be generous in CIV
ing unstinted praise to those who battled for
years. We fought for months.
SEEN TN TINE FOREGROUND.

In the vision of the future which this nation,
along with the rest of those convulsed from the
normal by war must work out, few facts Of
indisputabe influence can be seen in the fore
ground First, the major problem is to find
food for hungry world. This means more
labor at producing it; better market conditions
to some extent for producers; recognition by
all our people, including organized labor, that
the labor turnover, with it's many difficulties in
wage settlements, must have in mind the need
of agriculture as an industry Of paramount i'm
portance. Labor has been given high wages to
compensate for rise in living costs. To avoid
unsettled equilibrium there must be balanced
reduction, and, to secure this, the production
of necessaries of life must come to the level of
demand. It is this level of demand that most
concerns the wise planning for the immediate
present Here again there is something for
labor to recognize. High wages with conse-
quent high costs have lessened demand below
The normal for many products of industry and
this lessened demand limits their manufacture,
until demand is increased On the other hand,
the war havoc makes sure a certain demand for
certain manufactures far above normal. Thus
for time it is impossible to avoid a dislocation
of industrial normal demand and supply.
The theoretic economist, the doctrinaire, is
an impossible pilot now, because there are
forces operative which change the whole flow
of trade. The success of readjustment will de-
pend considerably on clear understanding of
the abnormal condition to be met and to be so
met that the reduction to normal is effected
without disruption Of both labor and capital in
their necessary ability to earn the increment
that is so absolutely required to put things
right.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
FAILURE OF THE S. A. T. c.

Cedar Rapids Republican: The s.
A. T. c.. the student army training
camps in connection with the colleges
have not proved an unmixed blessing
to the colleges. Nor have they real
lied the hopes of the young men. The
arrangement, it should be stated,
never got really squared away right.
There was the turmoil of building thu
barracks and then came the infiu-
enza, and then the peace, taking the
incentive and the glamor off the uni
forms.
One of the biggest disappointments
to the men in authority has been in
the failure of the enrolled men to
make good as students. They tried
supervised studying, that is combining
the men in room with someone to
supervise their studies. But that IS
treating men like children in the kim
dergartens. OF course, it did not
produce results, for it is contrary to
all ideas of manhood. Supervised
men, especially Americans, are not
going to make much out of them
selves.
One thing, we believe, it has taught
US, and that is that you cannot ask
young men to do two things at the
same time. If you want to make sol
diers of them that is one thing and
If you want them to study. that is
another. The men who have their
minds on military things are not
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
TEA AND GOOD SPIRITS.

When a prominent British tea grower and
exporter remarked some time ago that because
of the growing movement toward prohibition
there would soon be a shortage of tea supply,
he was little needed But now the National
City Bank of New York recalls his phophesy
and gives lot of facts that seem to indicate
him to have been a man of vision. We have
not yet-all of us-been swept fully into the
tide of prohibition, yet the total value Of our
tea imports jumped fifty per cent. in 1917 over
that for the similar period in any other year
Of which we have record.
''Tea is a drink to promote good spirits, .
wrote one Of the seventeenth century sages and
it is just as possible that with the lack of
spirits of more moving sort the world is seek
ing in tea consolatory substitute. Certainly
the world is drinking more tea than ever
before. What will happen to the tea supply
when the Russians can again get at it and pay
70 it is something to be reckoned with Rus
sia's importation of tea was among the great
est made by any nation and it amounts to little
now. Yet the market for tea is greater than
ever. World production of tea amounts to one
billion pounds annually. But a thirsty and
dispirited world can dispose of lot of the
popular potation and possibly over the future
may hang threat of tea risen to status as
luxury of Injuries.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
Not a Bite of
Breakfast Until
You Drink Water
Says a glass Of hot water and
phosphate prevents Illness
and keeps US tit.

just as coal, when II burns, leaves
behind certain amount of incomOus'
tible material in the form OF ashes So
the food and drink taken day after
day leaves in the alimentary canal
certain amount of indigestibie ma
terial. which If not completely elimlha'
ted from the system each day, De-
comes food for the millions OF bacteria
which infest the bowels. From tnls
mass of leftover waste, toxins anu
Ptomain-like poisons are formed anu
sucked into the blood. :,
Men and women who can't get fee;
ing right must begin to take inside
baths. Before eating breakfast eaca
morning drink glass OF real not wa
ter with teaspoonful OF limesloa'
phosphate in it to wash out OF inc
thirty feet of bowels the previous
days accumulation Of poisons and 'ol.
ms and to keep the entire alimen'af'
canal clean, pure and fresh. :.
Those who are subject to slcA
headache, colds, biliousness, consupaa,
ton, others who wake up Win paa
taste, foul breath, backache, rheu.
matte stiffness, or have sour, gass,
stomach after meals, are urged 10 81
a quarter pounu of limestone pnJ,
phate from the drug store, ana DEE ,s,.
practicing internal sanitation im
will cost very little, but is sufiiclen
to make anyone an enthusiast Oh Wv
subject. o-s
Remember inside bathing is moi'
important than outside bathing,
cause the skin pores do not apsu.,
into the blood, causi.s
poor health, while the bowel po,..
do. Just as soap and hot Na -.
cleanses, sweetens and freshens =.
skin. so hot water and limes ,.u,,
act on the stomach I'''
kidneys and bowels.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
THE PRICE QUESTION.

! Bulletin of the National City Bank
! OF New York: The end OF the war
raises question as to the future of
prices which of itself puts a check
(, upon buying. Every dealer wishes to
| keep his stock as low as possible
while this question is pending; never
less once they are low they must be
replenished in order to continue bust
! ness. Consumers will hold of to some
extent also if they expect prices to
| fall, but where great numbers OF peo-
pile are in possession of more funds
than usual, as is the case today in
many countries, the United States in
/ cluded, very high degree of restraint
| in personal expenditures is net to be
| expected. Expenditures which repre-
sent capital investments are more di-
rectly affected. Business men are re-
tluctant to put capital into permanent
investments at high level of costs,
/ because it means permanently high
costs for their products. business pru-
dence dictates delay in the case OF
new enterprises, unless there is some
special advantage to be gained by
haste. In the case of repairs and re-
placements delay may be impractical
BILE.
The indications are that there is a
good volume of business which will
come forward at present prices or with
moderate concessions, and more as re-
auctions occur. Including the whole
field. there is an assurance of business
which in ordinary times would be con-
sidered an unusually coed outlook for
the next year. This is especially true
in sections where the agricultural and
,i,,ir inf iy,a ia
and prosperity in these regions will
react upon the manufacturing states.
1t is only by comparison with the enor-
nous government demands of war
time that the prospect appears doubt
full. 1t goes without saying that w,ir
time conditions will not continue and
il is not desirable that the pressure
of wartime should continue. There
has been a demand for materials and
labor in excess of any possible supply.
and the conditions thus created in the
nature of things were abnormal and
temporary.
1t cannot be questioned that the
general tendency will be downward
from present levels. but there are
counter influences which will tend to
held the movement in check. The
most important of these influences. is
the high cost Of living, which, owing
to the situation in food stuffs and
clothing materials seems not likely to
decline much before another worlds
crop has come to market. 1t is very de-
sirable that the general wage scale
and living costs shall decline together,
so that the wage-earner may lose moth
ing of his present command over the
goods which enter into his budget.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
TOASTED POTATOES.

The United States this year, it ap-
pears, will have to feed practically
all of Europe. Every suggestion FOR
conservation of food and variation in
preparation is welcome and an article
in Good Housekeeping has special
value in this connection. To quote:
1t is plainly a patriotic duty to use
potatoes as a bread substitute. The
nearest approach to conventional
methods of cooking potatoes for a
bread substitute, is, of course. a per-
fectly baked potato, but a perfectly
baked potato is rare as day in
June.
Even perfectly baked potato
served at the psychological moment
does not give that subtle sense of
bread function that the piece of bread
or toast, held in the hand affords.
Prepare good-sized potatoes as if to
bake, being more scrupuously careful
than usual to scrub and cleanse the
skin carefully and remove all bad
spots. Cut the perfectly cleansed
potato lengthwise into slices one
fourth of an inch thick Put the
slices loosely into a wire basket or
steamer and steam until they are
properly 'tempered"-that is, until
they are in part but not completely
cooked. If they are completely cook
ed by the steam, they are of no par
ticular value as bread substitute.
AS a rule, about ten minutes steam
ing is adequate. After this initial
steaming. dry the slices well between
clean towels and toast as you would
slices of bread, or put them in wire
basket or perforated pan and bake in
a very hot oven until the slices are
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10

ST. Louis Republic: The world has
been made safe for democracy. As
far as it goes. that is a great triumph
for civilization, but Ii four years of
blood and tears have done no more
for society than to change certain
forms of government and move a
few boundary lines, then the benifi-
cent results of the holocaust have
been pitifully few and wholly made
quate to the effort expended.
We hope the war has succeeded in
making the world safe for decency
as well as for democracy. Unless
the nations of the earth in passing
through their baptisms Of fire have
left in the ash heaps by the road
side the impurities, hypocrisies and
shams of their former lives, they
will profit little by their sacrifices.
For many years before the war
we in America had been hearing how
much better the world was becom-
ing. Outwardly there was some
proof of it. Slavery had vanished as
human institution, the inquisition
and the rack had gone to shameful
oblivion, religious intolerance was
passing. woman was being lifted
from the position of chattel to one
OF equality with MANN fact, the
superficial manifestations OF bet
ter life were many.
Inwardly, however. we have been
travelling the wrong road. Hypocrisy
and sham were becoming national
fetiches. Our most sublime i-istitu-
tons were being perverted to base
commercial ends. Honesty was be-
ing measured by ability to keep out
of jail, shady adroitness and border
line shrewdness in business were
magnified as great virtues, while up
right, unyielding honesty was sneered
al as a concomitant of failure.
Even the very church was prosti-
tuted in the pursuit for money
Preachers in many instances con-
torted the word of God to meet the
wishes of rich parishioners; others
preached charity as the only real
virtue. knowing that the wealthy in
their congregation had money to give
their fellow-man, but nothing else
Crooks and sharpers became deacons
and pillars, for under the cloak of