The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-12-12

w. S. Davidson completes a dea
this week whereby he sells his nice
little PA -acrc tract in town to p. L
Guppy of Aurora, Nevada, son-in
law of Andrew Paulson. Mr.. Guppy
wife and three children expect to take
possession of their new home immed.
lately as Mr. Davidson, who is vet.
eran of the Indian wars, will leave as
soon as the papers are signed for the
soldiers home at Orting.
Mrs. Efie Campbell, who has been q
guest of Mrs. j. A. Thompson for the
past week, left Wednesday for her
home in Illinois stopping enroute to
visit relatives in Olympia.
A. L. Nelson, John Erickson and
Oscar Rollins, the committee appoint
ed by the waterusers to determine the
farmers status in the water case,
went to Seattle Saturday to confer
with the bondholders and with officials
of the irrigation company.
Mrs. Joseph Koelsch was summon
ed to Spokane the latter part of the
week by a telegram announcing that
her daughter Emma was seriously i'll
with the flu. The latest reports are
that the young lady is we'll ON the road
to recovery altho all other members
of the family are down in bed with
the disease and Mrs. Koelsch arrived
just in time. to take charge of the
entire number of cases in the house.
Wesley Clements left last week for
Spokane where he will work this win
ter. Two of his sisters reside there.
The family of A. R. Long is again
under quarantine for diphtheria, as
Florence, the only member of the fam
lily to escape the disease, took down
with it last week and necessarily the
family has to be put under restriction
until she is well again.
Mrs. Thos. Foy, a resident OF Rich
land for number of years, but who
now, with her husband, makes Oak
land, California, her home, spent sew
eral days in town last week. While
here she rented their ten-acre ranch
south of town to C. F. Shepard and
family. Mrs. Foy says that they like
their southern home and are living in
town for while, not farming as they
did while in Richland.
Mrs. George Taylor will leave the
latter part of the week for Seattle
and other Coast points to spend the
next two months visiting relatives and
friends.
Hester Quiner, little daughter of ].
E. Quiner has been confined to her
home for the past two weeks on &C
count of illness. The little girl was
playing basket ball at the grade school
and was hit severe blow in the re-
gion of the stomach caused violent
sickness. The doctor, when called in
said it had affected her heart and
stomach. She is slightly better at
this time but unable to return to
school.
The school attendance is much de-
pleted this month. In Miss Chellis'
room IL student were out on Monday,
while Mrs. Rosaaen's room was also
mart hit. Of course, all these children
are not victims of the flu; some are
staying home to avoid the disease
while others are suffering from severe
colds and tonsilitis. However, it makes
It hard for both teachers and pupils
10 make any great showing as their
work for this year has been so much
To date osserious cases
IF the flu have developed here and
hose who are in bed are all on the ra-
oid road to recovery. -. -.
F. ]. O'Brien returned Tuesday from
Seattle where he had been spending
1 week in the interests of the Irriga-
ion company.