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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05
YOU MAY BE INTERESTED
IN THESE BARGAINS

First we have several hundred
cakes of washing compound that
was given US by the Younglove
wholesale grocery of Tacoma. This
cost US nothing and we are giving
it out free. If the boys forget to
give you yours, tell 'em about it.
We have enough to go around and
want everyone to get a sample.
We have on hand quite lot of
imported pure CASTLE Soap in the
original bars, which we will offer
to our trade at 35c per pound.
Also have a few one gallon tins
of Mayflower N. o. Molasses. This
has been in stock a long time, and
we hesitate to offer it to our GUS
toners for cooking purposes, but it
would be just the thing to mix with
bran for poisoning cut worms, and
we offer it for sale at Soc per gal
Ion.
We still have in stock few cas-
es Of Kings evaporated fruits and
vegetables. These are all in first
class condition, but through failure
of King to advertise his products,
they are not selling and are prac-
tically dead stock. To move this
stock we have reduced our prices to
less than one half Of our cost. See
them on display Saturday and all
next week.
Last fall we bought a liberal
supply of pure homemade cane
sorghum in 10-lb. tins. This is too
dark for table use, but makes an
ideal cooking molasses. We have
20 N. 10 tins on hand which we will
offer at $1.00 per tin, the original
price being $1.90.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05
New Goods
In Stock

AS we have had many calls for
seed peanuts this spring, we have
put in a small stock of the Jumbo
variety, and are selling them at 25c
per pound.
We don't mind Dragging about
our bulk coffee and anything good
we might say about it would be all
right. If you are not using our
bulk coffee, you are one of the few
people in Kennewick that are not.
You know about what the popula-
ton of our city is. Well, one drum
of coffee will make about 5000 cups
of coffee, and we are now selling
full drum every four days, and
the best of it is, we are selling it
to the same people week after week.
Would it repeat unless it was good ?
No, of course not, you don't buy
anything you don't like.
You don't have to be one of our
customers to benefit by our bulk
coffee. Many families the using
this coffee that buy their groceries
elsewhere. Forty cents per lb. is
the price, and you couldn't buy bet
ter coffee if you were to pay $1.OO
per lb. for it.
If you don't like this coffee, you
don't need to bring it back, just tell
us and we will hand you the full
purchase price.
"Don't crowd, take your time, we
will wait on you as fast as we can"
The numerous calls for flume
corks prompted us to put in stock
of three sizes.
Mothers Oats with free alum
mum ware is another recent addi-
ton to our stock.
Have also put in that new de-
licious corn flakes, Quaker Quak-
les. 81. ~. E
After sampling many brands of
baked beans, we have come to the
conclusion that Rock Dell Baked
Beans rank with the highest, and
have placed a ten-case order. For
prices and sizes, see the Rock Dell
Advertisement.
We have a large shipment of
small oranges to arrive this week.
The price will be two dozen for
45c.
Are all the Kennewick folks
well again? For weeks we were
unable to get enough compressed
yeast to supply those who were
eating it for health. Now we are
going stuck with 10 to Is cakes
each day. It quit selling all at once,
guess everyone got well at the
same time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05
Just Like Them FelIers

The hotel clerk is a hotel clerk
all over the world. Men may turn
and men may change, but the hotel
clerk is the same forever.
Not long since Chicago gentle
man who was visiting New York
on bYpipess, and who had been out
for Stroll, came back to the hotel
rubbing his eyes and very much
Disguised, for the New York dus.
on a windy day is very dreadful.
He remarked to the clerk:
"You have a great deal of dust
here in New York"
"Y-a-a-s," drawled the clerk, ~
suffer demnibly from it myself"
"Weak eyes, l suppose?" said
the stranger, sympathetically.
Hardly"
"Your lungs are affected, them"
'Not any to speak of" yawned
the clerk.
"Catarrh, I reckon"
"Not solitary catarrh."
SIN what way then, do you suf-
fer from the dust?" inquired the
stranger, somewhat surprised.
"By hearing forty id fools
from the west say thousand times
day, you have a great deal of
dust here in New York."
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05

Mention

We would like to announce A.,
Mr.. Sly made business tr;. .u !
Portland this week, but as he h. !
requested that he be given No -, ,sS
LEFTY in The Produce Cora Pun
News we don't dare saw a wa.s
about it. WORD
Mr.. Bliss, on his return from 9.
attic, reports finding his SON ~ ~
doing just fine. ''S'
Howard springstead was a K.,.
newick visitor Thursday Of =.
week. last
Gene Larkin made a bur.;.,
business trip to Kennewick, H.. NV
day of this week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05
Market
Letter

Since we started publishing The
Produce Company News, it has been
our aim to keep the public informed
as to the market changes each week.
We are following the market close
", no matter what our cost may be-.
This week a number of price
changes have taken place. Butter
keeps sliding until now our retail
price is 40c per Id.
Eggs sure surprised US by drop
ping to 15c per dozen for a couple
of days this week. They reacted,
however, and Wednesday we start
ed paying TIC per dozen.
The wholesale price of sugar de-
clined $1.O0 per 100 lbs. this week.
This was a surprise, as all indica-
lions pointed to higher levels.
Gold Dust Washing Powder de-
clined little, making the new re-
tail price 3Oc per package instead
of 35c.
If you don't think the price of
dry prunes is demoralized listen to
this: We bought five hundred lbs.
of small dried Petite prunes for &c
per lb. This is a dandy sweet prune
and we will give you the advantage
of our buy by offering them to the
trade at Sc per lib. until they are all
sold.
Medium Italian prunes are selling
at 1Oc per h., while the extra fam
cys are selling 2 lbs. for 35c.
Barley Malt Coffee dropped from
zoe to 15c per lb.
Last week we told you that cheese
was on its way to the old 25c retail
price; well, it is, and another cent
drop in the wholesale price this
week makes it 30c retail.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05
That Dreadful Child

Little Mamie Peterby attracted
considerable attention at a social
gathering by asking where Mrs.
farger got her new baby.
1T came down from Heaven on
a rainbow" said Col. Yerger. some.
what embarrassed.
81 know that" replied Mamie,
"but how did it get into the
house?"
Through the window, I guess"
$50 that's the way it got into
the house? Grandma, is that the
reason you go around every night
to see that the windows are all
shut?"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05
THE MAN YOU OUGHT TO
KNOW

Difficult his task and little his
reward. Countless the exaspera-
tions of his business. You-who
think you know the merchant who
supplies your table-do you really
know him AT ALL?
You know his name, but do you
really know him-this man who de-
serves for his service to you more
than your trade can ever bring
him?
Do you know him for the long
hours he works?
Do you know him for his spirit of
accommodation in carrying in stock
an almost endless variety to sat
isfy the within of this customer
and that;-many things providing
almost no profit?
Thanks to the pick of the worlds
market, in season and out, is laid
out for. your choice without any,
guaranty that you will come and
choose. Cheerfully he takes his
risks and manfully he pockets his
losses.
And, as this merchant looks with
concern to quality and service, so
also he looks to his weighing. What
more could be asked of a good store
keeper? ~@
Know your merchant, then, not
alone for his name and face, but
know him for man whose belief in
a square deal on both sides of the
counter is equal to your own.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05
The End of the Argument

Meyerstein--"You vos a gread
Teller to put on airs, aind it? I
remembers your grandfather vos
holdings but der villache hangman
in Poland"
Blumenroth-"Y / remem-
Der too, unit your granfader vos
der lasd Won he hangt!" land then
the clawing began.)
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05
The Irishman's Treat

An Irishman picked up round
bit of tin in the street. 1t looked
like a coin, and he walked into the
nearest saloon and ordered drink,
putting down the disk when he had
finished.
"Here," said the barkeeper, "this
is tin"
"Tin, it is?" said the Irishman.
"Then hav wan yourself"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05

TALLY. In fact, a number have paid
up and said we were in the right.
We want your trade and will do
everything in our power to merit it.
We must, however, have our pay
every month or we cannot stay in
business.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05
What's In a Name?

NvAaNS . - . ANCAhSs
The lady was talking to an old
friend about the marriage of her
daughter to wealthy man.
81 understand" said the friend,
"that Madge has married very
WELL"
ooh, yes" replied the gratified
mother, Every well indeed"
"But he had such peculiar
name; Frizzlewiggle, wasn't it?"
EYES,"
"That's perfectly horrid, don't
you Think"
"Well," hesitated the mother,
cit doesn't sound very melodious,
possibly, but it is perfectly beau
tiful on a check"
"Drudging is the gray angel of sue
cess: Look at the leaders in the
professions, the solid men of BUSH
ness, the master workmen who be-
gan as poor boys and end by build
ing a town to house their factory
hands; they are drudges of the
single AIM"
William C. Gannett.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05

Sunday School Teacher-Who
made the sun and the moon stand
still?
First Boy-Adam.
S. S. THO.
Second Boy-Moses.
S. S. THO; what's the matter
with Joshua? H. - -.
Class Tin unison)-He's all right.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05

This week the aluminium ware
goes to the holder of numbers 49,
372 and $4,000. Only one of the
numbers were called for last week,
the remaining number being 49,
478. If
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-05-05
The Biggest Ones

Mr.. Collarbutton (reading from
an engineering journaD-Some of
the biggest dams in the world are
in California.
Mrs. C. (meekly) - I've heard
some very large ones around here,
Hiram.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-02-10
Income TAX
FACTS YOU
should KNOW

Births, deaths and marriages dur
ing the year 1920 affect materially in
come tax returns for that year.
Millions of babies were added to
family circles, each of whom brings an
exemption of $500 in the parents in
come tax return.
Widows and widowers who lost their
husbands or wives during the year are
especially affected. They are single
for the purposes of the income tax law
and are granted only an exemption OF
$1,000, unless the head of family.
Persons who were divorced or sepa-
rated by mutual agreement during the
wear also must consider themselves as
single persons.
The status of the taxpayer on De-
cember 81, 1920, determines the
ing with wife or husband, claim may
amount of the exemptions. If on that
day the taxpayer was married and liv-
be made for the $4,000 exemption. Ii
single, or married and not living with
wife or husband on December 81, the
exemption is only $1,000.
Persons who reached majority dur
ing the year and whose earnings for
that period amounted to $1,000 or
more, or $4,000 or. more, according tc
the marital status, must file return
and pay a tax on their net income IN
excess Of those amounts.
To avoid penalty, the return must
be in the hands of the Collector OF
Internal Revenue for the district in
which the taxpayer lives, or has his
principal place of business, on or be-
fore midnight of March Is, 1921.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-02-10
C0RRIGAN
FOR SUPREME
COURT JUDGE

Walter D. Corrigan, of Milwaukee
native of Portage county and a for
mer Wisconsin Rapids man, is being
prominently mentioned for the ap-
Dointment to the Supreme court bench
to fill the vacancy left by the death
If the late Judge Kerwin. D. w. Su-
therland, of Fond du Lac, is another
strong contender for the position.
Corrigan was one of the few law
yers of statewide fame who openly
supported Blaine for governor in the
primaries and election. He made
number of speeches in Portage coun-
ty and is thought to stand very close
to the throne He was a candidate
for the supreme court at the time F.
c. Eschweiler was elected.
A peculiar condition in regard to
this appointment is created by the
state law. A supreme court justice is
elected for 10 years. In case of a
vacancy appointment is made by the
governor to serve until the next spring
election, provided that election to fill
a vacancy can take place only in years
in which there is not to be another
election to the same court. The pur
pose is to prevent two elections to
the court at the same time. Justice
Vinje's successor is to be elected this
spring, the vacancy caused by the
death of Chief Justice Winslow, now
held by temporary appointment, is to
be filled in April, 1922, the successor
Of Justice Winslow is to be elected in
1923, and all this will prevent an cleo
ton to fill Kerwin's place until April,
1924 This is the year the election
would have been due had Kerwin liv
ed, so that it happens the temporary
appointment of Governor Blaine to
the supreme court will in effect be
for the entire unexpired term, and
the election, when held in 1924, will be
for full term of 10 years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-02-10
DRY LAW IS
FAVORED BY
LUMbERMEN

MADISON. S. Landon, manager
# the Medford Lumber Co., Medford,
Wis, today wrote the dry leaders at
Madison saying that resolutions pro-
testing the recent action of the federal
grand jury at Milwaukee in petition
ing for legalization Of beer and wine
were unanimously adopted by the an
nual meeting Of the Northern Hemlock
ton at its annual meeting in Milwau-
kee, and the president was instructed
to name an official representative to
appear at the public hearings and urge
passage of the Matheson bill, No. 16-A.
The Association took exception to
he jury's plea that prohibition had in
iured logging operations. Many told
# its benefits to their camps and the
homes Of their employees. One said it
had increased bonuses to the men be-
cause they lost less time. Another,
eve do not favor return of liquor,
whether it be moonshine or just beer
and wine; if we open the gate all will
come in" Another said, Prohibition
is better enforced the first year than
| had hoped If it is completely OBJ
served in a dozen years we shall do
WE'LL GAS experience shows loopholes
we must plug them"
The Association numbers over 100
firms, mostly in the state, and a few
in the northern peninsula of Michigan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-02-10
WISCGNSIN'S
WOODS DIS
APPEARING

I'VE are going up into the woods
is the way we used to speak of. our
vacation trip in upper Wisconsin.
Some Of US still say it, but it now
is far from being true. In large
measure the woods are gone In great
areas almost all the original trees are
gone. In some places new trees are
growing, but some of this growth is
undesirable. Moreover, all trees,
young and old, handsome and ill-fav-
ored, are virtually left at the mercy
of forest fires Then, too large tracts,
once thickly covered with beautiful
pine, are as barren and ugly as a
western desert. They have been
swept again and again by fire, which
destroyed the very last seed tree, even
the seeds in the ground.
Of course, countless thousands of
pine seedlings and young trees are to
be seen and they will beautify the
spots where they are growing-pro-
vided they are protected against fire.
But to beautify the "barrens" only
one thing is possible-reforestat by
hand.
The state should have inaugurated
a systematical and comprehensive
forestry policy years ago. 1t should
have protected the old trees and the
growing timber against fire. 1t should
have acquired hundreds of thousands
of nonagricultural land and planted
trees upon it. 1t didn't 1t is doing
nothing now. 1t has lost valuable
time, and it is still losing valuable
time. The need for timber, long ur-
gent, has grown more urgent each
year. The only course to pursue is
plain. How long rs it going to take
Wisconsin to replace ugliness with
beauty and to restore the charm of
lake and river, and to do all this by
renewing her timber supply at great
material gain?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-02-10

Our Soldiers a patriotic song of the
times
e.The President and his party did
, not arrive before the curtain rose. 1t
was during the dairy scene when they
came in Miss Hart, playing Georgi-
ana, was telling an American joke TO
Mr.. Emerson, taking the part of Dun
dreary, and he failed to catch the
point. Twice she said to him: Why,
can't you see it?' And he replied: No,
I cawn't see it, At this moment the
Presidential party entered, passing
around the south side of the gallery to
enter the box. The play was suspend
! ed until President Lincoln was seated,
the audience having risen with one ac-
cord and cheered enthusiastically.
After some time Georgiana said, with
emphasis: We'll, everybody can see
that, and Dundreary drawled: They
ought to see it, you know
"It was about 10: 80 when the pis-
, tol shot which sent the bullet at Lin
coin was fired Booth suddenly Slid
down from the front of the box onto
the stage and rushed diagOnally across.
disappearing He caught his foot In
the flag decorations and made some
exclamation which I did not under
stand. but no such dramatic speech as
has popularity been accredited to him.
Had he done anything of that kind
believe he would have been mobbed
before he could have escaped. AS 1t
was. 7. B. Steward, man OF athletic
build. sprang onto the stage and was
after Booth Immediately.
"There was no panic, such as fire
would have caused. The entire audi
ence was stunned. the real significance
of the trage6v coming only after sew
eral minutes. The theater people
swarmed upon the stage. An officer in
military uniform managed to get to
the President ny climbing up from the
stage into the box. the door having
been barred. Laura Keene came quick
" through the gallery with a pitcher
of water. lending an odd note to the
scene with her costume and makeup.
The door of the box by this time was
opened and she entered.
Intense excitement reigned, yet no
lack of self-control. There seemed to
be a desire to lend whatever assist
ance was possible, while the air was
electrical with a spirit of vengeance
against Booth for the crime just COM
mitted Several people climbed over
seats. T.myself helping one lady thus
in making her exit. Some seats were
broken. Yet. withal, the people left
the theater slowly and quietly. 1t
WIS about ten minutes before the
President was removed followed by
Mrs. Lincoln supported by two gentle
men. A crowd of people filled Tenth
street.
"At that time I was member of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-02-10

Of AN ADVEN-
TURER'S 'SSTORY

Everybody has read about Capt
Robert Gray's discovery of the Col
umbia River, May II, 1892. But the
evidence on which our knowledge rests
is not so well known. That evidence
is a couple of pages of Gray's log
book transcribed in 1916 when our
government wished to establish its
claim against England to the territory
on the Northwest Coast. Proof of
the American discovery of the river,
it was thought, would be a very I'M
portant point. Some time after the
excerpt was made in 1916, Gray's log
book, which would have given in de-
tail the history of Americas S first
venture into the Pacific Northwest
fur trade and China, was used for
waste paperi We cannot even verify,
by comparison with the original, the
extract describing the discovery of
the Columbia. In 1919, however, the
Massachusetts, Historical Society Sc
cured journal of the Columbia's
voyage kept by John Bolt, young
Boston man who sailed in her. This
journal is now being published and
it tells for the first time the complete
story of Captain Gray's famous voy-
age along the Northwest Coast, in
cluding the discovery of Columbia
River. Thus after the lapse of one
hundred and thirty years one of the
most notable stories of American ad-
venture is at last fully told. The
companion story, of Lewis and Clark,
was first fully told when in 1906
Doctor Reuben Gold Thwaites, of the
Wisconsin Historical Society edited
The Original Journals of Lewis and
Clark
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-02-10

Here rs face upon which men may see
The hushed austerity that nature
wears
At touch of twilight, brooding on
the cares
OfNbygcne days and of the days to be;
And yet which bears the clear tran
qu!lity
OF one whose youth has breathed
sweet prairie airs,
Or followed firm behind the plowman.s
shares,
Or trodden Ieafy forest ways and free.
The forehead tells of mastery; mind
Which holding life thing inscruta-
BILE,
Kept faith and hope forever sentinel;
The furroWed cheeks, the locked lips
sorroWined,
Betray a will the nation knew so
we'll,
And deep eyes showed love for all
, mankind.
CLINTON ScOLLARD.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-02-10
REPUBLICANS
CUTTING DOWN
EXPENSES

The Appropriation Committee OF
the House demonstrates its practical
belief in the principle that the way to
reduce expenses is to reduce them, and
also that the way to disarm is to dis
arm. Never has there been more
noteworthy cutting of departmental
estimates than in the case of the Army
dill. The quondam Pacifst who pre-
sides at the War Office wanted $685.
100000, for an army of 100000 men
and $4,000 officers The committee
recommended giving $329,00O, 900, for
an army of 100000 men and $4,000
officers That meant a saving of 1884,
100000, and reduction of more than
81 per cent in cost and reduction OF
more than 46 per cent in the size OF
the army. Note, however, that there
was only a slight reduction IN the
number of officers provided for; the
wise purpose being to keep the army
over r-officered rather than let it be-
come under -officered. Enlisted men
can be secured and drilled much more
quickly than officers can be educated
and trained. 1t might have been well
to provide something more for the
Reserve Officers Training Corps, and
for military training in schools and
colleges; but at least those indispen-
sable adjuncts to the military estab-
lishment were recognized. The per
petuation of the "Plattsburg system"
in a number of summer camps
throughout the country is a most au-
spicious provision, and the military
training of 100000 young men yearly
in schools and colleges will be useful
above all estimate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-02-10
PUBLIC PASTIME URGED
FOR WISCONSIN CITIES

Public recrea tion is the greatest
need in Wisconsin communities, ac-
cording to answers received in re-
sponse to questionnaires sent out to
representatives in 800 Wisconsin
towns and cities by the State Confer
ence of Social Work. Parent-teacher
associations and the care of neglected
children were considered next in i'm
portance.
The questionnaires were sent out to
enlist one person in each town in the
cause of promoting community social
welfare. This person is to take a
special interest in social problems, to
cooperate with the State Conference
of Social Work, and to advance leg
Station for social purposes in their
communities. So far about 300 replies
to the questionnaires have been re-
ceived.