The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-09-18
MERCHANTS OF
SPOKANE GIVE
THE ONCE-OVER
Financiers and Merchants of In
land Empire Metropolis
Visit Here
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL TRIP
Visitors Express Pleasant Surprise
at Apparent Thrift of City
and Country

Wearing glad hats and big smiles
Spokane business men, SO of them
swarmed thru Kennewick business dis
trict Wednesday morning, gave tn,
town the once-over, pronounced it al
right and left for day of handshak
ing in the Yakima Valley. Their des.
tination was the State Fair, where
they expect to make themselves plain
" seen and loudly heard today, which
is Spokane day.
In the party were many of the men
who have put Spokane on the map as
q financial and business center of the
Inland Empire, and men whose names
have figured prominently in the civic
life Of the City by the Falls, such
men as Mayor G. M. Fassett and ex-
Mayor w. j. Hindley. Then there
were those inexplicable Individuals
the credit men-who work their stem
ographers overtime the tenth, fifteenth
and twenty-fifth of each month send
ing out form letters to tell customers
the one thing they can't forget. Withal
. it was bunch of livewire, wide-awake
business men out on that oddly COM
bined pleasure and business jaunt
known as the annual trade tour of the
Spokane Merchants association, of
which this was number Ia. The fast
sst man of the bunch, by the way, was
4 +. 2. ,Elnenderf, of Elmendorf &
Pope, who did regular collegiate
220 up the track and make flying
tsckle on the railing of the observa-
'tion car as the special train was pull
ing out of the yards. Mr.. Elmendorf |
had been out in the country with I
Frank Emigh and o. w. Rich. There
Is some question as to why he ran,
whether to catch the train OF. to get
away from Emigh and Rich. AT any
rate he made good run and got away.
The visitors had sent advance no.
tice that they wished no entertain
ment, their only desire being to meet
tie KenneAick business men in their
places of business, consequently no
Program of entertainment was ar
faneed. Some of the business pro-
prletors saw to it that they were down.
scwn little earlier than usual and
most Of thsn were ready to receive {
me Spokane bunch when they left the Z
special train soon after seven o'clock. t
James Thompson, proprietor of the t
nome Grocery, who was formely a lf
member of the Spokane association, f
lound many of his old friends in the t
Party. Several of these, including d
.ayor Fassett, he took for an auto b
l0e over the Highlands to his orchard k
.lcn IS now loaded with big red ap- i,
ness The plant of The Church Mfg. f,
smpany attracted many of the vis-
s'fs who were interested in seeing il
IL
!. = vests largest grape juice factory. o
'Aey found it indeed dry plant as e
very drop of last years product was ii
Aaiaeted several months ago and this h,
sars pressing season had not start IL
al
on the whole the visitors seemed W
!. '..s.epslonally well pleased with their
'Se once-over and many expressed pl
eslet that the time allotted to Ken CT
! WICK did not permit of excursions to So
: country and visit to the seven til
Z !rult warehouses which are now dc
lung out the earlier varieties of ev
sIlue"lck's big winter apple crop. WI
'0Se VINO did go into the country ex-
sssed genuine surprise at the won tn
!, y crops which are now at matur- su
4 ~ tne fields and orchards. The of
= SPOILERS were equally compli- st,
y - In expressing their opinions gr
a'e city, both the business and res in
entail districts. th
0re the special train pulled out he
ne O'clock committee from the cel
!; ercial club placed on board some 1 fal
,sNe boxes Of Thompson Seedless rig
',s spss from the vineyard of r. e. lTh
] psnser and pears and peaches from Ipls
NJ orchard of D. J. Beinhart. as
No. - II !, -
sha names Of those in the party, to- tsul
lss M with the firms they represent
!. : I. G. Adams, Adams Leather wi
= =. Hafer, Armour & Co. off