The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-04-03

Harry Moore has leased the r. L.
Davidson seven-acre alfalfa tract for
the coming season.
The Boy Scouts, under the leader
shin of Scoutmaster H. A. Stone,
will take a hike along the river next
Saturday.
James Lowden and family, who have
been spending the winter in Seattle,
returned to their ranch home at Rich
land Saturday.
Wesley Clements left Friday for
Yakima where he has accepted job
driving big auto truck. He expects
to stay all summer.
Mrs. C. d. Mitchell and children,
Eudora and Francis, accompanied by
Mrs. R. ID. Sawyer, were in Pasco
Saturday afternoon on shopping trip.
The young people in the high school
had an annual picnic at the Yakima
river bridge Friday afternoon and en-
ioyed dandy lunch and all the regu-
lar picnic sports.
Mrs. Geo. Eggers, who accidentally
broke her leg last week, is getting
along as well as can be expected but
she viii have to stay in bed good
while as it was very bad break.
Andrew Paulson has been doing a
little sheep shearing on the side the
past week. He is quite an expert in
this line and those in Richland VINO
have, small flocks are in luck to be able
(. to secure his services.
The children in the fifth and sixth
grades who are taking geography from
Miss Myrtle Gray, went over to the
high school Tuesday to see some pic
lures giving ideas of life, conditions,
etc., in the Philippine Islands. The
pictures were shown on the new ma
chine which is now part of the high
school equipment.
Misses Viola Noonan, Beryl Holt,
Elsie Nebergall and Mrs. q. L. Lud-
wick drove to Yakima Friday to at
tend the concert given by Miss Anna
Case. They report grand time and
a great musical treat. Misses Evalyn
Yedica and Helen Gale also. went up
for the concert and while in Yakima
were the guests of Miss Gales uncle.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. M. Ross accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. butcher
motored to Yakima Wednesday to at
tend the sale of the famous Marks herd
of registered Holstein cattle. Altho
compelled this year to give up farming
on account of his health Mr.. Ross is
just as firmly believer in the future
of the Richland district as dairy
country as ever, and he took this OPP
.portunity to keep in touch with the
best cattle of his favorite breed, the
Holstein.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Wade, who
have been spending the winter and
spring in Yakima, returned to their
ranch in Richland Monday. Mr.. Wade,
who is an expert horticulturalist, has
been taking contracts for pruning in
the Yakima valley all winter and this
spring, having an average of seven
men working for him all the time. He
now has so many people after him In
Richland to prune their orchards that |
he will have his own troubles to take
care of his ten-acre tract.
Little James Macomber returned to
Richland with his uncle, F. j. O'Brien
for short visit. His parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Ira Macomher, formerly of
Hanford and Richland. who have been
In Alaska for the past three years,
are now in Seattle where Mrs. Macon
Der will enter hospital for an opera
ton for appendicitis. They will come
to Richland en- visit as soon as she
ls able to travel and will also visit
Mr.. Macomoef's parents in Hanfori:
Mrs. Maconiber is Mrs. 0'Brien's sis
ter.
!. A. F. Griffith of Omaha, Nebr., who
owns great many fine orchards in
this section, arrived in town Monday.
Mr.. Griffith has perhaps done more
Tor the advertisement of the apple
business of Richland than any other
man, as he has sold the Richland ap-
pie thruout the east at record price,
having an excellent opportunity to do
So as he is travelling salesman for
one of the largest wholesale grocery
houses in Nebraska. He will remain
mere for some time lining up his work
Tor the coming year and overseeing the
pruning and spraying of his numerous
orchards.
There is quite a little dissatisfac-
tlon among the parents of the child
rem who attand cchoo1 IN, Rich1and in |