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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-12-13
STATE OF WASHINGTON, COun-


ty Of Benton, SIS.
In JUSTICES Court, B. B. Plowman,
Justice. To p. HI. Hendron, defendant.
In the name Of the State of Wash
ington you are hereby notified that
William Stevenson has filed COM
plant against you in said court which
will come up to be heard in my office
in Kennewick, Benton County, State
of Washington, on the 9TH day OF
January 1924, at the hour of ten
o'clock A. M. And unless you appear
and then and there answer, the same
will be taken as confessed and demand
of plaintiff granted. The object and
demand of the complaint is to OBJ
tain judgment against you for the
sum of forty nine dollars and fifty
cents ($49.50) with interest at the
legal rate for goods sold and deliver
ed TO you.
B. B. Plowman, j. p.
C. L. Holcomb, attorney for plain
tiff. 12:6120.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-12-13

Dollars, and the amount necessary 10
redeem therefrom will be said sum
of Seventeen Thousand ($17,000.00)
Dollars, together with interest there
on at the rate of per cent per an
mum, from and after the 26th day az
May, 1923. q
e. NJ. NJ. MoULTON, I.
Executor Of the estate of Amy Man
ton Bartlett. 12:6-2D
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-12-13
BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN
Tacoma & Fifthl

Service Sunday at 1890 am. Sun
day school at g9:45 am. Children's
practice for Christmas program at
80 pm.
Evening service at 1880. Bible class
meets Thursday at 1880 pm.
You are welcome to these services.
H. C. Messerli, Pastor.
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CHRISTIAN

CHRISTIAN
Ernest I. Mitchell, pastor
Bible school at 10. Worship and Ser
mon at IL.
Every member canvass to 6. Await
the canvassers in your home.
intermediate c. E. at $50. Illustrat-
ed lecture sermon at 1880.
intermediate C. E. at $50. Illus
canvass will be reported at the eve-
ming service.
Come, you are welcome.
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CHURCHES
; = = = = = +++$
ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL
Winter Schedule

Holy Communion: LIST Sunday in
month at IL Am.
Holy Communion: 3rd and 9Th Sum-
days at 9:15 AM
Morning service: LIST, Bird and 9Th
Sundays at HOO AM.
Evening services End and 4th Sum
days at 7:30 p. M.
Young peoples League each Sunday
at $50 Pm.
Church school each Sunday at 9:45
A. M. "a
Prayer service Tuesday at 1880
p. M.
All are welcome.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-12-13

CONGREGATIONAL
Sunday School at 10 am. Preaching
service and worship at IL am.
Speaker for December 16, F. A.
Swingle. Subject: "The Significance
of Christmas.
L. J. Aldrich.
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BAPTIST
, A Chow nocko

BAPTIST
John A. Shaw, pastor
F. J.. Arnold, Supt. Of Bible school.
Bible School at 9:45. Worship and
sermon at IL. Young Peoples meet
ing at $50 pm. Praise service and
sermon at 7:30 pm.
The public cordially invited.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-12-13
METHODIST

METHODIST
Sunday School at ten o'clock. Sub
ject for Divine worship at eleven "Re-
suit of Turning Back" Leagues and
clubs meet at six thirty, preaching
services at seven thirty. Subject: ere
suits of service"
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C. L. Holcomb, attorney for plain
tiff. 12:6120.
, 1923-02-10
What Shall We Doo

ACCORDING to the figures of the United States
n shipping board, the government on January /
owned 1879 merchant vessels, with a capacity ag-
nearly ten million tons. OF this number
1914 were out of commission. This represented an
idle capacity of practically six million tons. OF
the 964 goyernment-owned merchant vessels tied up
at the beginning of the present year, SI4 are steel
cargo ships.
The ship subsidy question is merely a question Of
what shall be done with this tremendous amount
of idle shipping capacity. The problem could not
be more concisely and accurately stated than it has
been by Senator Nelson of Minnesota in a letter on
the subject to an inquiring constituent. The senator
writes:
"The facts are that during the war and for two
years subsequent to the armistice, at an expense of
upwards of three billion dollars, the government
constructed something like 600 wooden ships, hast
lily built, of green timber, nineteen concrete ships
of cement, and something like 1000 steel ships.
"of these ships, the wooden ships turned out to
be utterly worthless and have been sold in a lump,
for a mere song. The concrete ships are of no value.
OF the steel ships, we have in the neighborhood of
400 in operation by the government, but We are
operating them at an annual loss of $50,000,000 In
round numbers, fe have on our hands, lying idle
and deteriorating in value, somewhere around one
thousand steel ships, varying from a tonnage of
1000 up to 10000 each.
"The question what to do with these ships that
we now have on hand is of a three-fold character:
~ Shall we try to sell them to our competitors ir
Europe, if possible? This would make it easier for
our competitors in Europe to drive us from the
ocean. ~ Shall we scrap them, throw them all
into the scrap pile and mark it all as a dead loss?
(3) Shall we make an effort to put them afoat I'M
der the American flag and encourage our own peo-
to buy the ships and operate them in compeii.
.tition with the countries of the old world? This is
the real situation of the case.
Owing to the high cost of living and the higher
wages we pay in this country to our officers and
seamen, it costs more to operate our ships than
the ships of foreign governments, and the object of
the socalled subsidy is to make it possible for our
people to compete with the various countries of Eu-
rope by making up this difference in cost of opera.
ton.
at is estimated that the subsidy proposed to our
shipping will not exceed $25, 900, 900 a year. We are
now operating such ships as we have in the service
Mt a loss of S50,000,000 a year. This subsidy plan
will cut down the present loss Of $50, 5000 a year
%one.half, and it seems to me that in view Of tho
situation-in view Of the fact that we have a thou.
sand ships idle-it is our duty as good American
, 1923-02-10
Mouing the Capital.

NATURALLY Cheyenne objects to the removal of
IL the state capital to Casper or any other city
likely to be considered in a removal proposal and
just as naturally the Cheyenne Tribune voices the
objections.
the state has in buildings and grounds at Cheyenne,
which the Tribune asserts could not be duplicated
for three million dollars.
This is an item, of course, if the state were called
upon to dig down into the treasury to supply, and
ct present the state has no three millions to spend
for this or any other purpose, especially IN the
face of the many other needs and the cries OF tax
pavers for retrenchment and economy
The inconvenience of the Cheyenne location is
the strongest point against the present capital, and
whether the measure now before the legislature
brings the question of a vote before the people IN
1924 or not, the day is certain to come when such a
vote will be taken and the capital as certainly re,
moved to some point near the geographical center
of the State.
In the light of the experience of other states of
the union, the further question looms as to whether
the state capital is a blessing or a curse to the
community. In very few cases can 1t be pointed out
that the capital city is the financial or Industrial
center of the state, and in fewer cases still that 1t
is the largest and most important metropolis. IN
most instances the seat of state government is a
quiet and backward town, largely out of date and
giyen over to storytelling and "reminiscences. 1t is
that way because such an atmosphere and settlng
is more suited to the profound contemplations OF
lawmakers. Speed and excitement ad the thrills OF
a regular town are too distractnG;
However, you never can tell when Ine pubic
mind will change, and what satisfies 1t TINS year
in state capital styles may not be the fayorite mode
next year.
OF course. if the thing Unexpectedly blows up and
we must vote on location next year and the capital
is presented to Casper, We suppose, we Will have
TO make the best of it. We certainly can furnish
ms beautiful a location, even more picturesque, than
tho flat where the present edifice stands. That
much is easy. We might be able to scratch around
and find the three million the Tribune says will be
required to duplicate the plant. This would not be
the toughest Job in the world either.
CHEYENNE may as well face the situation first as
last. Tho capital will be removed, because a vote
of the people will do 1t. 1t may not be done next
year, but the years that will see the removal are
not many. The development in the central and
northern portions of the state have been so great
and the population of these sections have SO out.
stripped the growth in the southern portion that
the great preponderance of votes is in the north
half. And since people desire convenience of ac-
cess to the place they have business they will vote
for a central location when the matter is sub
mitted to them. When the vote does come business
and not sentiment will rule the voter.
, 1923-02-10
Expecting Too Much of
your Watch.

If you have a watch that does not
gain or lose more than a day or so a
week. the wisest thing you can do is
not to fuss with 1t. Leave well
enough alone. AS oon as you begin
to try to regulate a watch you are
lost; you might as well throw 1t in the
river in the first place and save your
self the tears.
A mar had a watch which lost
seventeen minutes a day. 1t was a
high priced watch, made by a famous
house. and 1t lost those seventeen
minutes just as regularly and as sure
ly as the going down OF the sun, and
the man had no reasonable cause to
ccmplaln-he always set the watch at
Z o'clock in the morning. and there
vas no time in the day that he could
not figure out the exact hour by get
ting pencil and paper and using the
formulas for permutations and com.
binations.
If his watch had been In the habit
of adding on twenty minutes one day
and dropping off sixteen minutes the
next. like SO many watches. that
would have been a different PROPOSE
ton. But his watch wasn't in that
habit; it was a perfectly reliable time
piece, n he had no cause to get ex-
cited and do what he did.
One day. when he did not have a
pencil and paper to figure out the
time he got provoked and took the
watch to a Jeweler and said: did 1
buy this piece of junk In this junk
shop?"
THE baby has been driving nails
with It." answered the jeweler. II
can always tell"
~ have no baby" said the man. az
haven't ven a wife. I annot take
on any more worries than this watch.
One more worry would split by skull"
Come back in two weeks with a
five dollar bill" argued the jeweler.
In two weeks the man came bacl,
and got his watch and wore 1t away
, 1923-02-10
They are preaching

washy. They are preaching for
money
THE director of an economic foun.
dation expressed his sentiments Min.
listers, especially ~EpIscopalian minis
ters. don't give me anything in their
sermons; they fall back on stock
phrases; they don't define terms, but
Just keep on talking. They talk on
the price of coal or industrial and
economic conditions which they don't
know anything about
"a medical student adds. Ministers
aren't motern; they lack moral cou--
age to speak the truth
ut IS OF no use my protesting that
I have known hundreds of ministers,
and that what these people say isn't
true. Thousands on thousands are
thinking as these people think; and
that being the case. they probably
have some ground for their opin.
ions.'
, 1923-02-10

and two or three hours Later he pulled
1t out and looked at It and knew It
wa gaining like Il race horse simply
by comparing it with the sun.
He took it back to the store, had
some words with the jeweler. and left
1t.
A week later he came in and got It
again. and that night when he went to
bed he looked at it and found that 1t
was running away back in the day.
light somewhere-it did not even seem
to realize that the sur had gone down.
Next morning when the jeweIer
came to open his store there was the
man sitting on his doorstep, holding
his watch in his hand n trembling
like n poplar leaf.
Take it away from mer' said tho
man.. Its haunted"
Listen" said the jeweler. am
tame that watch If 1t can be tanned by
n human being. In the meantime III
give you another one to carry" And
he gave the man a dollar engine
weighing a pound n a half. which
did not lose or gain except on Satur.
days mt Wednesdays. and the man
went on his way.
Every nee in a while the man goes
into the jewelry store and pays q sick
call, so to speak, and foots up the
board bill. and looks the patient over,
and makes bright and CHEEKY remarks
to i~rlicate he is hoping for the best.
1t is like caring for n dependent
friend at a sanitarium.
, 1923-02-10

think of ministers: and he found out.
It is interesting to know. how the
other half lives. ven more interest
ing to know how the other half
thinks. Hers is what they say about
the church: The ministers are clever
at sliding through; they don't believe
what they say a y a bridesmaids
wife. They keep telling you what
you mustn't do; that you can't do this
n that-play cards. &c to the the
alter. They talk about charity and
give a mar a cent or n job. I
, 1923-02-10

writing, and sometimes even a little better, John
Smith, has friends and admirers who want to do
business with him.
John don't have to worry. After a time he is in
the siuation meant when you say he is ~"sitting
pretty" His investment in so sound a security as
honesty is bound to yield handsome dividends.
This security does not %fluctuate. There are no ups
and downs. 1t remains steady and the old per cent
comes as regular as the days roll around.
1t would seem that more people would follow the
course of John Smith. They can scarcely help
noticing what his system does for him. A contract
is not a difficult thing to fulfill unless it is n bad
one and that is the particular kim John Smith
avoids entering into.
Take old John for example and go along with
him, and draw down the same kind of dividends
he is getting.
, 1923-02-10

had enough Of them when I was a
GIRL
ministers are fakers.' answers a
Syrian shoemaker. q member of the
Congregational church. They look
after Americans and think the rest Of
us arc duts. In Syria the ministers
are pastors; they know every child;
they are friends of everybody-nut
S 70 here
"A manager OF n machine works
does not hesitate: 'N~inety-eight per
cent of the ministers are wisliy-
, 1923-02-10
Striking at the Root.

WITH the army of officials and the numerous or.
" CARNATIONS active in the suppression Of the
illegitimate use and sale of narcotic drugs, success
in achievement might be expected if the task were
not one of so many and 80 great difficulties.
As it is one can only hope, and not too conf
IDENTIFY at that.
There is enormous profit in pandering to the de.
mands of victims whose willingness to pay is lin
tied only by the difficulty Of getting money for the
satisfaction of a torturng need.
That is why laws against selling to them can
scarcely be enforced, no matter how stern the pun
ishments threatened. Smuggling of the drugs
through customs and other barriers also is almost
fatally easy, so small in bulk compared to value,
and, as is not tho case with gems, the drugs do not
remain long in evidence to convict the dealers in
them.
Recognizing these facts, students of the subject
declare that little or nothing toward the abolition
of this fiendish trade can be accomplished, other,
wise than by an international league for the pur-
pose Of attacking the evil at it's root. II made,
these drugs will be sold in whatever amounts pro.
duced, and therefore, production must be restricted
within the limit of proper medical use.
The doctors of all the world could be supplied
with but a minute fraction Of the narcotic sub.
stances now consumed in this and in each Of the
numerous other countries. The problem wouId he
Aoi'eu il the raising Of two plants could be con,
, 1923-02-10
DO YOU KNOW THAT

~ III NNOW AE1Al
The conductors, brakemen, engl
.leers and firenlen of the Burlington
railroad are compelled to have the
right time?
DO YOU N o THAT
They have to carry watches OF
STANDARD Make. that will not
vary more than Is seconds in a week
either fast or slow?
Do YOU KNOW THAT
They have to bring their watches
to AYRES JEwELRY Co. twice
every month and have them inspect.
ed7 WHY AYRES JEWELRY CO?
DO YOU THINK
That the Burlington railroad guess
who they want to be their official
watch inspector? NO. They INVES.
TIGATE FIRST.
DO YOU THINK
That If our watch repairing meets
with the exacting requirements of
the Burlington railroad that we are
the firm that you want to have do
your watch work.
AYRES JEWELRY CO..
1873 S. Center Street.
, 1923-02-10
Good Form of Dioidends.

THE MAN who lives up to his contract collects
L interest on his investment as long as he lives.
He is the bird people are looing for to pay him
the interest. He don't have to go out after it
when he has established the fact that he is a con-
tract keeper, or that he is so rare as to be n cur
iosity. There are lots of people who keep their con-
tracts, and their spoken word too, for that mat
ter; but there are not enough of them. So when
doing what he saws he will do either orally or in
, 1923-02-10
Preachers as People See
Them.

Writing in the New Republic.
Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts,
says this:
What are the opinions of the av.
erage person about the church and
the ministry? A fNv days ago I
asked a young friend to find out
what men and women on the street
, 1923-02-10

|trolled-that from which come the various deriya-
tives of opium and the other out Of which cocaine
in its several forms is made.
That is the work which the reformers have I'M.
Idertaken, and it is not an inpossibility that con.
fronts them.
, 1923-02-10
The Casper Tnbune's Program

Irrigation project west of Casper to be author
lied and completed at once.
A complete and scientific coming system for the
city Of Casper.
A comprehensive municipal and school recreation
park system. including swimming pools Tor the
children OF Casper.
Completion OF the established Scenic Route bou!e-
ward as planned by the county commissioners TO
Garden Creek Falls and return.
Better roads for Satrona county and more nigh
ways for Wyoming.
More equitable freight raise for shippers OF the
Rocky Mountain region, and more frequent tram
service for Casper.
, 1923-02-10

citizens to aim to put these vessels afoat and in
the service under the American flag.
"The government itself ought to get out of the
business of operating ships. 1t has proved as ex-
pensive a luxury as the government operation CT
our railroads"
, 1923-02-10

Jeweiry and watch repairing by ex.
pert workman: all work guaranteed.
Casper Jewelry Manufacturing Co,
o-S Building. 1.9.tf
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-15
DOUBLE RECORD TIED
Boston and Cleveland Collect Ten
Two.Baggers In Game.
By JOHN b. FOSTER.

Copyright. by the San Antonio Light.
New York, Sept. 15.-The Ameri-
can League record for two-baggers
was tied in the game between Boston
and Cleveland Thursday but everybody
was so busy talking about Dempsey
and Firpo that no one seemed to
have noticed the fact. However. it
is a fine feat TO tie league record
and so little has come the way OF
Boston this year that perhaps even
a delayed celebration is permissible.
The two-base hit record for a
game is ten-a total first assembled
by Cleveland and Chicago, May 20,
1920. So Cleveland has double
grip on the honors. The extra-base
clouters of Thursday were Summa,
Speaker, O'Neill. Lutzke, Picinich.
Menoskey, Burns, Harris, Flagstead
and John Collins. Not a man of
them doubled with a double. Had
any of them loen that fortunate. the
American League would have boosted
new record today.
Incidentally. Thursday was a great
day for two-baggers throughout both
leagues. Only seven games were
played and thirty-eight semi-circuit
smashes were batted. Brooklyn and
Pittsburg gathered twelve between
them in two games, Cincinnati and
Chicago divided five and Philadelphia
and st. Louis six.
The National League record for
two-baggers stands at fourteen. fig
ure set by Chicago and Buffalo back
in 1855.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-15
RickafA, Amid Adding
Machine Chatter, Puts
Attendance at $4,000

New York, Sept. 15.-Promoter
Tex Richard today estimated the
attendance at the Dempsey-Firpo
fight last night at approximately
5000 paid admissions. with
gate" of more than S1.2OO,O00.
He did this MS his battery of add
ing machines and his corps OF
clerks labored to get an accurate
count of the crowd. The complete
figures will not be known for a
day at least. il was indicated.
Richard estimated that fully
25.000 people massed outside the
Polo Ground gates, unable to get
in.
The battle. in point of both at
tendane and receipts. ranks second
only to the Dempsey-Carpentier
sDectaclc two years ago at Bovles'
Thirty Acres. Jersey City. where
$4,000 paid S1.6O0.0OO to sce the
champion CONQUER his French
rival. The Willard-Firpo fight at
the same arena last July was
credited by Richard with a nail
attendance of 100000 but official
figures showed a paid attendance
of only $4,000.
DEMPSEY reaped with FRIDAYS
triumph the greatest fortune Of mis-
career. Receiving 81 IL ner cent
Of the gross receints his share. on
the basis Of estimated receints,
would be about S4J0.000. while
Firpo, with a Il IL ner cent nor
ton. would get Sl50000. This
amount is nearly twice as much
MS the Argentine received for
knocking out Jess Willard.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-15
BALL TEAMS READY
Elks and A. I. d. Tangle in Benefit
Game Saturday.

The Elks and Kelly Field Air Inter
mediate Depot baseball teams were
ready at noon Saturday for their
benefit ball game at League Park at
o'clock in the afternoon. a con test
around which unusual interest cen
tiers because of the heavy ticket sale
the Travis Park Methodist Epworth
League has reported in an effort to
raise a big sum toward establishing
and equipping a public rest room in
the church basement.
The Elks will use their usual lineup,
according to Manager Al Jonas. The
batting order follows: Satcher. center
field; Burnett. shortstop; Calm, left
field: Sheldon. catcher: Onion. first
base: Schuhardt. right field: Dotson,
third base: Naylor. second base :.
Wurzbach, Shook and Villaret, pitch
ers.
The A. 7. d. team will be picked
from the following: Glau and Fields,
catchers: Milhans and Munoz. pitch
ers: Estes. first base: Hernandez,
third base: Winans. second base ;
Wetherell. shortstop: Smith. Haley,
Meggs and Cox. outfielders: Colpack.
and Brown. utility infieldcrs.
Ellis and "Shorty" Bonner will UNI
pire.
The Kelly Field team promises 10
bring a band and big crowd OF root
crS.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-15
AMATEURS AT "FEEI
Boosters OF Baseball Speak ut b
quet When Clubs Presented.

The banquet honoring vim
teams and runners-up, managers
these teams, and members of
amateur baseball commission of !
Antonio at the Gunter Hotel Frii
night was characterized by 81
snappy talks by members of the q
mission. They commented briefly
the success of the season and
future of amateur baseball in I
Antonio.
Talks on behalf of the variI
leagues represented in the commits.
were made by Charles \. Wuest.
s. Garrett. Ralph Durkee. III,
Stokes and Gene Seng. More :
better diamonds for next season
the subject of the talk by Mr.. Stol
while others spoke on various pho
of the season and suggested imprd
ment for the coming year.
The Public Service company I'd
was presented cup as winner of |
senior amateur baseball champions
of San Antonio, while the So
Side Outlaws received the intern
late cup and the Newsies thc Jul
cup. TIE silver ball and bat for /
best batting average was given
Gene Mergele Of the Telephone c
pany team.