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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23
ORDER PLACED
FOR FIRE TRUCK
Council Votes to Purchase
Brockway Torpedo of
Portland Company

Kennewick's new fire truck is to be
Brockway Torpedo manufactured
by the American LeFrance Fire En-
gine company. The purchase contract
was awarded at Tuesday evenings
meeting of the city council to A. G.
Long company, of Portland, North
western representatives of the La
France company.
The contract calls for full equip
ment, including pump, chemical, hooks
ladders, ETC., and 1000 feet of high
grade fire hose. The purchase price
is $500 or the full amount of the
bonds authorized at the recent special
election. The company agrees to de-
liver the truck in thirty days, to SUBJ
nit it to the fire underwriters test
and to send a man here to instruct
the local department in its use. The
company agrees to accept the city
bonds at par, altho the city reserves
the right to sell the bonds and pay
cash.
The Long company was one of six
bidders. The unsuccessful ones were,
Speck Buick company, of this city,
who submitted bid on G. M. C.
truck; the Northwest Transport
Truck company; the Twin City Truck
company, the Nash Truck company
and the Northwest Fire Equipment
company all of Spokane.
All the automobile companies bids
specified the regular commercial
truck chassis to be equipped with the
fire fighting apparatus by the North
west Fire Equipment company. In
each case the cost Of the equipment,
not including the truck chassis or the
hose, was $3.50. The Northwest
company submitted a bid for its
equipment to be built on Wisconsin
truck.
The price of the Brockway Torpedo
was not as low as some of the others,
but the feature which influenced the
councilmen in its favor is the fact that
it is especially built for fire fighting
purposes and is put out and guaran-
teed by Americas largest manufac-
turers of fire engines. 1t was the
unanimous choice of the seven MEM
bers of the council.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23
CRITICISM OF NEW RECLAMATION
MEASURE NOT WELL FOUNDED
Bill Reported by Senate Committee Does Not Provide
for Logged-OH and Worn Out Lands Revolving
Feature Has Not Been Eliminated

clamation work, The bonds must be
a general charge upon all the land
within district. All reclamation pro-
jects must be initiated by parties in
terested in the land to be reclaimed.
The district must advance one-half of
the money for the investigation of a
project, the other half to be advanced
by the government.
When the secretary investigates a
project and finds it feasible, he may
contract with the district to build up
the project works, upon condition that
the district issue and deposit with
the federal farm loan board district
bonds in an amount equal to the es-
timated cost of the reclamation works,
the bonds to bear a rate of interest not
exceeding per cent per annum and be
payable within period not exceeding
10 years. The federal farm loan board
is to hold the district bonds deposited
with it until the completion Of a
project and its successful operation,
and when the property within the
district has twice the value of the
bonds, the board may sell the bonds
at private or public sale at not less
than par, the proceeds of the sale
to be credited upon the contract be-
tween the district and the govern
ment.
The money arising from the sale
of bonds is covered into a reclamation
fund to be appropriated in the con-
struction of other irrigation projects.
That the secretary may have funds
with which to carry on reclamation
work, the bill authorizes an aggregate
appropriation of $3.50, 0,000,0 900, which
is to be appropriated by congress up
on estimates made by the secretary
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23
SLOGANS ARE NOT
COMING FAST ENOUGH
Publicity Bureau of Commercial Club
Wants Little More Speed
in Contest

The Publicity bureau of the. Com
mercial club reports that entries in
the slogan contest are not coming in
as rapidly as they wish. All slogans
must be in the hands of the bureau by
Saturday, April 1.
The contest is open to the pupils
of the public schools from Richland
to Hover, including the Hill districts,
There are no restriction on the num-
Der of slogans submitted by any con-
testant or no objection to boys and
girls receiving aid from their parents
or other adults.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23
TO LOOSE TROUT FRY
larty thousand Brook Trout to be
rut Into Yakima This Spring

benton county's fishermen whose
sn'e1 hobby is trout are to have a
Na'cle for their sportsmanship. Here
"a0fe they have been compelled to
.ansier their affections to bass, crop
rs and an occasional salmon, but
S0Onty ! Game Warden Brown brings
= - good news that he is now nursing
'a.'s thousand brook trout fry in
springs near Gibbon. When the
.Oonesters have reached the finger
ae stage they are to be loosed in the
Yakima river.
s year $4,000 silver salmon trout
-, u we're liberated in Van Horn lake
sn'le the county game commission is
-" negotiating for channel cat to
'sek the Yakima and Columbia.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23
RECEIVER NAMED

Ole Brue has been appointed re-
ceiver for the Kennewick Cooperative
Creamery company and will close up
its affairs. Although strenuous ef-
forts were put forth by the dairymen
and business men to save the company
they were unavailing and the only
way out was liquidation.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23
GRAVEL STREETS

The city OF Kennewick is calling for
bids for 100 yards of crushed gravel
to be delivered along the Inland En-
pire highway in the city limits. This
gravel is to be used in resurfacing the
highway from the city limits on the
River road to the approach Of the new
highway bridge across the Columbia.
The cost Of the Improvement will be
paid out of the state. maintenance
fund.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23

Some doubt seems to exist as to
the exact nature of the reclamation
legislation now pending in congress.
The original Smith -McNary bill was
introduced at the first session of the
present congress in April 1921. It
provided for the APPROPRIATION of $780,
100000 for the irrigation of arid and
semiarid lands. S
This bill was introduced in the SEN
ate by Senator McNary Of Oregon
and in the house by Representative
Smith of Idaho.
Later the bill was changed to in
clude reclamation of swamp and ov-
erflow lands and the appropriation
was increased to $3.50, 100000.
The senate committee on irrigation
and reclamation on March z, 1922,
filed an unanimous report recon-
mending the appropriation of $780,
100000 for reclamation. It was the
general belief that this report was
an endorsement of the Smith, Nc
Nary bill. Such was not the case.
What the committee did do was to
report a new bill which carried the
main provisions Of the Smith Nary
bill as amended.
Following this report the Spokes-
man-Reyiew sought to point out that
the new bill provided for reclama-
ton of all kinds, including logged-off
lands and the building up of worn out
farm lands in the East, and that the
revolving fund feature of the Smith
McNary bill had been eliminated.
The Spokesman's criticisms Of the
new bill were reiterated by delega-
tion Of Columbia Basin promoters
during their recent visit to Kennewick
They questioned the advisability of
the people of the West supporting the
new bill.
Some time ago the Courier-Re-
porter questioned whether or not the
Columbia Basin boosters really de-
sired the passage of the Smith-Mc-
Nary bill. The papers doubt has not
been removed by the visit of the Spo-
kane men because those things which
they said, and which the Spokesman
Review says, are in the new bill aren't
in it. It doesn't provide for the re-
clamation Of logged-off and worn out
1~-lc - EvS,s<oI fc m fIOn
by irrigation, drainage and dikeage.
The revolving feature has not been
eliminated. In fact it has been
strengthened for it makes no pro-
vision for paying back the $3.50, ,OOO,-
600 into the federal treasury whereas
the original Smith-M -McNary bill pro-
vided that beginning with the year
1912 fifty million should be paid back
each year until all of the original
appropriation has been paid back with
interest.
The following is quoted from re-
port of the senate committee filed at
the time the new bill was introduced:
This is measure to provide Tor
the reclamation of dry, swamp, ana
overflowed lands, which when re-
claimed will be used for agricultural
purposes. Under the provisions OF
the bill the secretary of the interior
is authorized to build, for reclama-
! ton districts, reclamation works. DE
| can only contract with district or
! ganized under the laws of a state,
and the district must have the author
ity to enter into a contract with the
government and the right to issue
| bonds with which to pay for the re-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23

The Needlework club was very
pleasantly entertained at the home Of
Mrs. A. V. McReynolds Friday af-
ternoon. In honor Of st. Patrick's
day green predominated in the dec
orations and refreshments. Eleven
invited guests We're present. The next
meeting of the club will be held on
Friday, April at the home Of Mrs.
Lehnhard.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23
WORKING ON CHURCH

The first brick of the new M. E.
church was laid Tuesday and it is
the hope of A. v. McReynolds, building
superintendent, to carry the work for
ward without delay. No date has been
set. for completion but it is thought
at least part of the building can be
made ready for occupancy in early
summer.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23
CONTINUED on page three)
HONOR STUDENTS

Phillip Hitchcock and Neil Johnson,
of Kennewick, are among the seventy
Freshmen at the State College whose
names are listed on the honor roll,
with averages above 80. Hitchcock
is one Of the ten highest Of the honor
students. Winnifred Huntington, an
other Kennewick student, has been
given place on the girls Freshman
indoor baseball squad.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23

Ellsa.s.G :. Gardner left last night for
dresa oare where today he will ad.
St.,s " .ne student assembly of the
a sDa., ,ormai school and later will be
the caer cs at the weekly luncheon of
Card.sm sasmoer of Commerce. Mr..
Of ss aTs talk will be one of a series
are ha; " Your State" talks which
s given at the normal.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23
IN FINLEY

The evening session of the dairy
feeding school next Saturday will be
held in the Grange hall at Finley. The
afternoon session will be held in the
Kennewick high school building as an
nounced last week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23

DIR. and Mrs. C. C. Haworth were
hosts at a dinner given at their home
Sunday evening. Covers were laid
for twelve.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23

/, .s - banquet given Friday evening
a..;., ne Baptist young folks was a
nsN uea success. Decorations in keep
tDs. "''n ST. Patrick's day were fea-
4. aao green also predominated in
q, 90 .,aeireshments. Covers were laid
n... ss vernon Emil acted as toast
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23
SOMETHING DOING

For excitement be at the Valley
club house Tuesday, March %. The
Grange will initiate new members, an
interesting program is being prepared
and last but not least, something to
eat. Every member is urged to at
tend.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23

hosts - u Mrs F. ]. Arnold were
Tuesds,.. :. pleasant dinner party ON
Misses ~ evening. The guests were
zela al mora and Ragna Anderson.
Harvau s.u irma Hazen and Miss Mary
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23

The Episcopal Guild will serve a
chicken dinner in the basement Of the
Christian church on Washington street
Thursday evening, March 30, from $50
to 7:30.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23
p.o;n Work at Once on ALI
steel Structure to Cost
$1,5OO,OOO.OO
~ TAKE PLACE OF
OLD ONE AT HEDGES
PRESIDENT Gray Says New
structure will be Com
pleted in Year

According to an announcement CIV,
q = The public Wednesday by Carl
-, nresident of the Union Pacific
s..t.m. - the construction of an all
!. .s..l bridge across the Columbia riv-
9 6ve miles below this city, will be
...rt.d at once. The new bridge,
vA;eh i on the Yakima Valley branch
= the O-W. R. & N, will cost ST.
$4,000. It is estimated that a year
vill be required to complete it.
he new bridge is to replace the old
wooden structure the use OF which was
,handoned last July when it was pro-
rounced unsafe by the company's en-
siueers. Since that time O-W. trains
nye been diverted to the N. P. tracks
= the Walla Walla county side and
have been operated thru Pasco, re-
turning to their own tracks in this
eiu. While this plan has not ma
terislly affected the schedule it has
oeeasioned considerable inconvenience
. eperating crews. This is particu-
hriy true during the fruit shipping
season for the reason that the big
engines which pull the heavy fruit
trains cannot cross the N. p. bridge
over Snake river.
President Gray's announcement
says : crew Of engineers is now on
tAe way to the bridge site to make
soundings for the piers.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23

The information contained in Pres
Aent Gray's announcement as carried
By the Associated Press Wednesday,
win be found in the Hedges News"
published elsewhere in this issue. The
Courier-Reporter's Hedges correspon-
dent sent the news to this office Mon
day' Tuesday it could not be verified,
either at the local offices or at the
general offices in Yakima. Wednes-
day forenoon the Yakima Republic
te'ephoned this paper that the news
lad Just been received there by wire.
u other words, the Courier Reporters
Hedges correspondent was two days
aaead OF the Associated Press this
time
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-04-05
Federal Money not All Cream.

(From the st. Adams Messenger
Vermonters are beginning to wake
up to the fact that it is not all cream
that they get by matching federal
aid money for highways or anything
else In the first place when state
matches federal money it has to meet
the federal requirements, which
means that the federal government
has the decision of things, not the
state. This is true of the highway
money and it is asserted that thesfed-
eral aid project could be better built
for less money if the state could de-
termine the specifications.
Nor are we, by matching, getting
something we don't pay for. We are
only getting back small part OF
what we have paid as Vermonters in
to the federal treasury. The states
which benefit are those which pay
small income tax aggregates, and
Vermont is not one of those, relative
ly. The industrial, prosperous Sec
tions are helping to build roads and
other things for states which send In
relatively small amounts. The East
pays most of the freight for the 9TH
ers to ride on. But the main objec-
ton is that put forth in the first par
agraph; the surrender to the federal
government of the right to tell us, as
a state, how we must spend our mon
5ey if we are to spend any of the fed
eral aid funds.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-04-05
Determining Cost of Maple Products


mere are now, according to re-
ports received by III. p. Young, Farm
Management demonstration of the
University of Vermont, College of
Agriculture, approximately four hun
dred farmers keeping accounts on
the cost of producing maple syrup
and sugar. At the end of the season
these accounts will be summarized for
average costs of production and for
conditions and methods that go. to
secure low costs with a high quality
of product.
Last year 81 men kept these ac-
counts and their average cost of pro-
ducing gallon of syrup was $1.52.
The price in bulk was about rs cents
| and most men did not receive fair
wages for their labor. This year
with somewhat lower labor and ma
terials costs, higher prices, and a
possible better run of sap, the sugar
business is Cooking up"
The economic truth, that s'no prod
uct can continue to come on the mar
| ket unless there is fair profit fol-
| the producers of this product" applies
to maple syrup and sugar as well as
any other product. 1t will be better
for both producers and consumers Oh
maple products If most of the ner
who sugar get fair wages for theil
work and fair profit beside.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-04-05
Statewide Soil Improvement Planned

A study of crop yields shows that
some Vermont farmers are producing
twice as much from an acre as are
others who are on land which might
be made equally productive DIR.
Ernest Van Alstine, agronomy spe-
cialist for the Agricultural Extension
Service of the University of Yer
mont, is planning statewide demon
stration work to encourage farmers
to adopt methods which will increase
their efficiency at minimum cost,
and establish practices which have
properly been called permanent agri-
culture. In cooperation with the
county extension agents and some of
the county farm bureau members,
demonstration fields will be establish
ed in those counties where interest
and condition warrant it.
After visiting field and making a
study of the soil, its past treatment
and productivity. system of treat
ment as to lime, fertilizers and crops
| will be worked out with the farmer
| and tried on a small area. Another
area will be left without this treat
ment or with but part of it and COM
parsons of the yields will be made
each year to see how profitable the
treatment may be.
A typical demonstration field will
contain four plots; one without treat
ment, another with lime alone, one
with a fertilizer mixture, and one
with both lime and fertilizer mix
ture. Each farmers own preference
as to rotation of crops will be follow
ed if it includes enough clover or 9TH
er legumes to supply fair amount
of nitrogen.
The attempt will be made to use
fertilizers in such way to get the
largest profit from them. The great
interest that has been shown by
Vermont farmers this last season in
the use of fertilizers indicates that
considerable interest will be shown in
the project to establish system of
soil improvement
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-04-05
Cost of Potato Production.

Forms for keeping account on pro-
duction of potatoes are now ready for
those who want them. The second
page shows average amounts of
labor used in blowing, narrowing
planting, cultivating, spraying and
digging on Is farms who kept these
accounts last year.
On these farms the yields varied
from 1873 bushels to 438 bushels per
acre and averaged $50 bushels per
acre. 1t cost an average of S142.52
to grow an acre of potatoes and an
average of 81 cents per bushel.
If you are interested in keeping
your cost of growing potatoes for
1922. and studying your methods
compared with other men you may
have one of the blanks free of charge
by writing the Farm Bureau office
at Newport, VT.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-04-05
What Hindley Saw and Heard in Bos
ton.

(Hindley in Rutland Herald)
Politics on the press outing in Bos-
ton?
Far be it from such; also, let the
thought expire!
OF course, Harry Whitehill, as
Abe's personal representative, got
big hand when he gave-as Abe's long
distance greeting. and Howard Rice
moved vote Of thanks for Harry's
mellifiuous message, but outside of
that nothing much occurred.
/ did satisfy myself that Nelson
Jackson isn't candidate for any
thing outside the Legion; that Guy
Bailey isn't going to trife with poll
tics this year; that Warren Austin is
doing so much law business that the
draft by wireless doesn't interest him;
that unless Redfield Proctor gets a.
going soon, Frank Howe is liable to;
that Orlando Martin is talked of as
speaker; that our highway system is
going to be jolted hard; that Billings
will be the next lieutenant governor.
This isn't much, and things might
happen to change it about, but that's
about the way I sized it up, with
Fletcher as sort of privateer in the
offing, with the black flag up, mag
azines filled with bar-shot and powder
and letters of marque against all and
Sundry.
Of course Frank Howe wore an ex-
preston of suppressed anguish at
times, especially when we passed and
repassed the postoffice, and occasion
ally he'd burst forth into "Migod,
boys, what are we going to do about
the governership?" but no one offer
ed to draft him and most of the
bunch seemed to think he'd better
pluck off the Bennington P. 0. while
the plucking was good and save his
shrapnel.
George Whites Scandals" isn't
things turned loose in N. Y. In fact,
in dear old Boston, but there were
some fairly tart lines and the general
tone did not suggest a Sunday school
entertainment in Irasburg, VT.
1t was pleasure to- hear jeff
Boynton again. He used to "get back
home" campaign times, and his fine,
run-Stickney-like physiognomy, his
gorgeous voice and finished delivery
seemed to be just as good as when he
was attorney of Massachu-
sets.
Pity the schedule was so close; we
could have stood lot more of jeff.
Even though he was born in West
field. he's a very creditable scion.
O'Brien of the Boston Herald is a
finished speaker. enjoyed his refer
ence to his own experience as a cream
separator. He claims that when he
took over Embarrassing scheme for
Harvard a certain well-nown Boston
man handed him poem written to
celebrate a golden wedding and said
he would donate the proceeds to the
fund.
Another man actually 1oosened up
to the extent of thousand, then
dropped dead within. a few days.
But DIR. Philpott of the Globe
toched mighty close home when he
spun his yarn about telling the truth
in the newspapers.
He said he had the question hurl-
ed at him once when he was doing
little talk to a club: 'eWhv don't the
newspapers tell the truth 2"
He countered hard bv asking:
"How'd YOU like to have the news
papArs tell the truth about you? !
The applause and yells of glee
showed him that there was something
. to IL