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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-11-08

There was service of sacred song.
at the Congregational church Sunda,
morning with Mr.. A. C. Hart givine
the story of some of the old wei
loved hymns.
Il. A. Hutchins and his brother.
ln-law, Irvine Hood made bushes.
trip to lone, Oregon this week.
The women of the Congregations
Aid Society will hold a bazaar and
cooked food sale Saturday Decembe,
g.
Miss Viola March is at Our Lady
OF Lourdes hospital in Pasco, recov.
erlng from an operation for append.
citis.
Lynn III. Smith visited for short
time with Kennewick friends Tuesdy
he was en- route from Spokane to
his home in Des Moines, Wash.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Perry and Mr.
and Mrs. Jay Perry were dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Harold ST.
monds of Pasco Sunday, celebrating
Mr.. Simmonds' birthday.
Tom Soth came from Walla Walla
for weekend visit at his home.
Mrs. Frank Shaughnessy of Butte
Montaa, is a house guest this week
of Mrs. Nellie Shaughnessy of Mob
Hill.
Miss Sibyl Young who has been q
guest of her sister, Mrs. F. l.. Fras-
er for several months, left Wednesday
for her home at Carmel, California
Mr.. and Mrs. Axel Johnson and
Arthur Nystrom returned the latte,
part of the week to their home in
Portland afer visit of several weeks
with Mr.. and Mrs. d. F. Cresswell
Harley H. Peter left last Wednes.
day for short visit with relatives
in Monticello, Indiana.
Mrs. R. A. Hutchins returned Mon
day evening from Albany, Oregon
where she has been visiting relatives
for several weeks. She was accom-
panied home by her brother, Irvine
Hood and his family, all of Albany
They made the trip by automobile
Mrs. George Brander was house
guest of her sister, Mrs. j. c. Leibee
the latter part of the week. She was
en- route from Yakima to join Mr.
Brander in Portland, where they will
make their home.
Mrs. E. H. Zickler of Zillah was
a guest of Mrs. H. H. Flesher Tues
day. Mrs. Zickler who is State chair
man of Illiteracy for the State FEEDER.
,, alton of Woman's clubs was en- route
to Spokane to confer with Mrs. West
more, president of the State FEEDER
alton.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-11-08

Kennewick Chapter of DeMolay
conferred the initiatory degreee upon
class of four candidates Friday
evening. Anoher class is being formed
for initiation in January. FL.
Rev. DIR. Albrich and wife, gradu-
ates of 0berlin college, attended the
college dinner at Walla Walla Novem-
Der 2. The attendance was fine and
good time was had at Mrs. Hollis
Tea Room. -s.t
John Ferguson was dinner guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Vickers Sun
day. He has just returned from Seat
tie and the many Kennewick friends
of his grandmother, Mrs. j. b. Bum
tin will be glad to hear that she is
improving in health.
Mrs. Sarah Morrison spent Tuesday
with Mrs. B. B. Plowman. Mrs. Morri-
son is house guest of her daughter
Mrs. Ingram Peterson of Richlnd.
A history of the American people
in five volumes by Woodrow Wilson
has been presented to the Public
Library this week.
The Kennewick chapter ID. A. r. will
give a luncheon Monday, November
IL at the home Of Mrs. w. j. Hoyt
in honor of Mrs. Helen Fyfe and the
members of the Pasco chapter.
Misses Marie and Louise Kaufman
assisted by Frieda Malchow enter
tanned a number of young people at
their home in the Garden Tracts Fri
day evening. Games were played DUR
ing the evening and delicious refresh
ments were served by the hostesses.
Orion Willsey, Byron johnson and
Howard Beste delightfully."- entertain
ed sixteen couples of young people
at the Willsey home Saturday evening.
Four tables of Hearts We're played
during the first part of the evening
after which other games were en-
joyed. Fresh cider and pumpkin pies
as refreshment features were sug-
gestive of the autumn season while
the rooms had been artistically dec
grated in Halloween motifs by Milton
Hooper.
Mrs. L. L. Beisel, sister Of Mrs.
Tracy, who with her father, visited
the Tracys three years ago, passed
away very suddenly at her home in
Omaha Monday evening Nov. 5. She
will be remembered by many Kenne-
wick people who met her at the Ira
Pey home. This is the second death in
little more than year in her parents
family, as the father passed away
in April of this year. Mrs. Beisel
leaves four children. her husband and
one brother.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-11-08
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Feeley

Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Feeley
on November 2, a son.
Mrs. L. w. Ramsey and Mrs. Phil
G. Warnock motored to Walla Walla
Monday.
Mrs. Roy Larkin was called to Pa
louise Wednesday by news of the death
of her mother.
w. F. Byrd returned Sunday from
weeks visit in Walla Walla, Pull
man and Spokane. Mrs. and Mrs.
Francis Stout and Miss Mabel Peter
son accompanied him from Walla
Walla. Miss Peterson has been a
house guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Stout for
the past week.
Richard Shaughnessy and Miss
Margaret Appenzeller attended a
dance at Othello, Saturday night and
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Irving
O'Leary. Mrs. O'Leary and small SON
Billy, returned to Kennewick with
them Sunday and will spend week
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Stewart have
purchased property on South Sixth
St., Yakima and moved there last
week to make their home. Mr.. Stew
art is in the employ of the O.-W. Ry.
at Yakima. Mrs. Stewart was former
ly Miss Gladys Anderson of this city.
The Horticulture club will meet
Monday with Mrs. w. G. King. During
the afternoon Mrs. Edward Sheppard
will give a description of "Ameri-
canus". as played in Seattle last July.
i. Peterson arrived Saturday from
Minot, North Dakota, where he has
been for several months looking after
business interests, and is guest OF
his daughter, Mrs. B. B. Plowman. He
will leave Friday accompanied by
his daughter, Mabel for Los Angeles
where they will join Mrs. Peterson
and make their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. N. Green accom-
panied by their daughter and her
husband, Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Turgeon,
arrived this week from Valley City,
North Dakota to spend the winter in
Kennewick. They have moved into
the F. A. Dunlap house in the Garden
Tracts. Mr.. and Mrs. Green are par
ents of Frank Green of this city.
Mrs. Harold Oliver was called to
Castle Rock Tuesday night by the ser
ious illness of her father. Later, word
was received that Mr.. Meikle had
passed away Wednesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Hayden return
ed Wednesday from Spokane where
they were called by the illness and
death of Mr.. Haydon's brother Oscar.
]. B. Hydon will return home later
this week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-11-08

Miss Eura knight of Yakima is a
-,,sst of her sister, Mrs. Forrest Nit
chell.
M. and Mrs. NJ. H. Church of Pas
- snent Sunday with Kennewick
friends.
The Bridge club will meet Wednes-
Law december Ia with Mrs. c. E. Ed
wards.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. King of Pasco
-are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
King Sunday.
The Congregational Ladies Aid will
r,eet Tuesday, November Is with
Mrs. R. E. Reed.
Mrs. Louis Wiehl and Mrs. Carl F.
Iudwip left Thursday for Bend, Or
.ron where their husbands are en-
ployed.
number of Kennewick women
have motored to Prosser today to at
tsrd the meeting Of the Benton Coun-
~ Minute Women's association be-
ing held there.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-11-08

Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Failor were
Walla Walla visitors Wednesday. !
Kennewick Masons Wednesday
evening wee hosts to about twenty
visiting brothers from Hanford and
an equal number from Richland. DT.
f. H. Henry and C. Fl. Swigart Of
Yakima, were the honor guests Of the
evening and addressed the lodge on
Masonic subjects.
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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24

Overheard at directors meeting:
while we are sitting here let us see
how we stand on running expenses"
Boston Transcript.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24
BRICK MACHINERY TO SPAIN

Mr.. Francisco Padros, of Barcelo-
ma, Spain, left Friday evening for
New York city after conducting some
experiments with brick-making ma
chinery at the plant Of J. C. Steele
& Sons Spanish clay was used for
the experiments, which resulted sat
isfactorilE. Mr.. Padros bought a
caroad lot Of the compaNy's mach
ines and will have them exported to
Spain, where he will make brick and
mosaic tile.
Mr.. Padros was held by the immi-
grafton officers at Ellis Island until
satisfied by the New York CORES
pondent Of J. c. Steele & Sons that
he had come on a commercial mission.
An interpreter accompanied him
heer from New York. Mr. Padros
not speaking English. There was
600 pounds in the lot of clay brought
over with him.-Landmark
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24
PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER WILL
HAVE APPOINTMENT LATER

Rev. Mr.. Long who has taken up
the ministerial work of the late la
mented Rev. Edgar Tufts with Mr..
Edgar Tufts, Jr. Mr.. Frank Stinson
and Mr.. Ingle, all of that town, pass
ed through Sunday, en- route to Blow
ing Rock where he preached his first
sermon to that congregation. 1t is the
intention of the board of trustees
to carry out as nearly as possible
the program laid out by Mr.. Tufts
and accordingly the Boone work will
not be neglected. An appointment
for Mr.. Long will be made for next
month, the Sunday to be occupied
not yet decided upon, when we sup
pose some other matters will come
up of great interest to the little band
of Presbyterians in and around Boone
We are told Mr.. Long is fine SER
monizer and we will be warmly well
coined in our town.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24
BRIGHT PROSPECTS FOR
THE ELECTRIC LINE
Lenoir News Topic.

There are still bright prospects for
the construction of an electric line
from Mount Holly through Lenoir to
Blowing Rock, Boone, and to tap the
coal fields, according to DR.. w. T.
Shipp here a few days ago. DR..
Shlpp says that number of Char
lotte manufacturers are interested in
this project and are lending their aid
and pushing the matter along.
DR.. Shipp has been working on
this project for several years. At no
time, he says, have his hopes been
higher than at the present time. He
has definite information which cannot
be given out that would cause the
people of Lenoir, Hickory and other
towns along the survey to sit up and
take notice, and within another few
months the proposition may material
lze sufficiently to be given out to the
public.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24
JUDGE CONDEMNS CONVICT
WHIPPING

Wilmington Dispatch.-Declaring
that outrages perpetrated by men
"Who disguise themselves in dark
ness, take out men and women and
beat them" is ''ten thousand times
more menacing to the public than all
the bootleggers," Judge N. A. Sin
clair, in charging the grand jury at
the opening of the criminal court of
Superior Court here this morning,
also f1ayed the liquor traffic castigat-
ed officires of the law who violate the
statutes in enforcing the laws, con-
demned the widespread disregard and
disrespect for law and order and
charged that tn claw is being violated
in many sections of the State by ad-
mitting prisoners to jail without the
required medical examination hav-
ing been given"
"The old idea of tortue is gone
with the dark ages" Judge Sinclair
reported, and said that he had motto.
ed reports of grand juries over the
State regarding their visits to jails,
the reports simply stating that the
"jails seemed all right" In criticiz.
ing such reports, Judge Sinclair said
that he hoped no such report would
be submitted by the present grand
jury, requesting that the grand jury
oetail its findings, whether they be
good or bad giving due credit to the
officers responsible for the good con
ditions they find existing. He saiC
the State has The right to deprive g
prisoner of the lii erty. and demand
his services dusiag penal SER lie. hu:
other than this the State could de-
other than this the State could de-
mand. nothing else.
Judge Sinclair directed the jury's
attention to the reckless operation o1
automobiles, citing the law enacted
by the last General Assembly pro
hibiting the driving Of automobile.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24
CHEESE MAKERS FORM STATE
ASSOCIATION

The North Carolina Cheese Makers
association was organized here Tues
day with representative from all of
the cheese making counties of the
State in attendance. Officers for the
coming year were elected as follows
President, T. D. Hefner, Vale Cru
els; vice-president, Farmer McCrary
Horseshoe; Secretary, Carter Earth
ing, Sweet Water.
The meeting was called to order
by j. A. Arey N. C. extension dairy
specialist, who stated in his address
"Dairying Makes Farmers indepen-
dent. States with an average of
several cows per farm have a higher
annual farm income than states with
less than two cows per farm as is
the case with North Carolina"
Speaking of making cheese, Mr..
Arey said: Good cheese can only
be made from good milk. With grass
for cattle and fresh water in abun-
dance in which to keep the milk,
Western North Carolina has the best
conditions available for the produc-
ing of good milk"
The meeting was held in the XII
wants hall and had an attendance of
at least twenty-five. - Morganton
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24
GOVERNOR MORRISON WILL
MAKE ADDRESS AT LENOIR

Lenoir Dispatch to Raleigh News
and Observer.
Cameron Morrison will deliver the
Fourth of July address here at big
picnic celebration to be held by the
American Legion. The message in
forming the local post that he would
be here was received several days
ago by F. D. Grist, former post COM
mander.
A program is being arranged now
by committee of the Dysart-Ken-
dali Post for the coming event. A
number of interesting features, it is
understood, will be on the program.
The celebration will be whole day
affair with big parade Of former
service men. The committee is ar.
ranging for several unusual attrac-
tions during the day. At night 8
home-talent minstrel will be given.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24
FRIDAY CLUB

The Friday Afternoon Club was
charmingly entertained last week by
Mrs. w. R. johnson. In addition to
the regular needle work the guests
enjoyed a sewing contest Mrs. I. G..
Greer winning the prize, a sewing set
while Mrs. B. C. Johnson was given
a thimble holder for the consolation.
Following the contest, the hostess,
assisted by Mrs. H. L. Wilson and
Mrs. B. C. johnson served a salad
course with hot chocolate, followed
by strawberry short cake.
Mrs. j. F. Hardin and Mrs. B. c.
johnson were the invited guests.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24

by children under 16 years of age
the new law making the parents OF
such children or the owners of the
cars, liable to indictment on the
charge of misdemeanor. He urged
the grand jurymen to keep youl
eyes open and indict them, and !
don't care who you indict, if theil
children under 16 years of age are
operating an automobile"
Judge Sinclair differentiated two
classes of crime, those against the
person and those against property
and cited a number of different
crimes, stating that carrying a con,
cealed weapon, perjury and gambling
are vicious. He charged the jury that
sit is your duty to investigate every
crime of gambling"
He referred to certain extenuating
circumstances that might mitigate a
crime, but said that there would be
no extenuating circumstances in first
degree murder, admitting, however
that such conditions might be mi
tigation in manslaughter. He said
there are no eXtenuating circunl
stances to the man who manufacturer
liquor, stating that "a man who man
ufactures liquor, goes out and buys
his material, makes his still and Sc
lects site, is guilty of cold-bloodet
premeditation."
However, Judge Sinclair cited al
example of mitigated circumstances
as being possible in the case of {
negro bay, who is not a professional
bootlegger, but who is inveigled into
buying liquor for a white man, sin
ply as an accommodation. He sait
that he had far more respect for tn,
negro in such a case than he had fol
the white man influencing the bo.
to become a bootlegger and law
breaker.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24
STORIES OF HORROR TOLD BY
SURVIVORS OF CLEVELAND
TRAGEDY

CAMDEN-Tales of heroism ant
personal experience were slow il
coming out of the situation created
on the 18th by the fire at Cleveland
schoolhouse. Virtually every person
who was in the building when an OF
lamp over the stage fell and started
the blaze was more or less injured
With the exception of a few, all were
taken to widely scattered homes anc
it was positively impossible to gath
er up the list. Confusion reignec
throughout most of the day, few be-
ing able to tell coherent stories. The
total death list to date is rs.
j. N. Mcleod caught on the sec.
ond floor of the building, jumped tc
safety and obtaining a flag pole pla
ced it against the building. Many
slid down the pole to safety.
George Dixon lost eleven relatives
in the fire. After saving one of his
children he returned to get his wife
and other children. He was caught
in the jamb of. the door and was
pulled out by Jesse Pearce. Pearce
was caught in the same jam little
later and perished
Stoney Campbell, who saved his
wife by hurting her through a Win
dow and escaped through the same
exit, went back to find his 14-year
old daughter. He found her in the
front of the jam in the stairway
and seizing her arms, used all his
strength to pull her to safety but
in vain. Both her shoulders were
jerked out of the sockets bu ther bo-
dy could not be moved.
The school building that became
death trap on the last night that
it was scheduled to be used for school
purposes, was erected about fifteen
years ago. 1t was of frame construc-
ton, 100 feet by 40 feet, with the
auditorium on the second floor and
~ airw". leading
to it.
Thursday nights program was the
last that was to have been carried
out in the structure, the school au-
st.horities having arranged to abandon
the use of the building and to send
the pupils to nearby school of more
modern and larger design.
Witnesses said the building burned
with inconceivable rapidity. The
crash Of the ceiling lamp which was
to mean the death of almost four
score people, startled the audience
at 9:05 o'clock adm by 10 o'clock
there was nothing left of the building
but mass of smoking debris.
Many of the victims died within
reaching distance of safety. Caught
in the jam of humanity at the lone
entrance they were grasped by the
hands and arms by relatives and
friends from the outside, but the
wall fthe trapped humanity could
not be moved.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24
LIBERAL DONATIONS FOR
THE APPALACHIAN SCHOOL
Lenolr Dispatch to Charlotte Obser-
Ver

Lenoir Dispatch to Charlotte Obser-
yer.
The Appalachian Training School
received liberal consideration from
the last legislature according to
friends of the school here recently.
The educational bill passed by this
legislature provides an appropriation
for this school sufficient to enable it
to build a larger power plant, a
model building for physical educa-
tlonal work, central dining room
laundry cold storage, and for the
Improvement of the grounds. The
appropriation for the next two years
will be 100000. This will give the
institution the largest and best plant
in this part of the state.
The Appalachian Training School
Is now one of the best organized of
state normal institutions. 1t gives
two years of work above high
schools and grades for these two
years may be transferred to any of
the colleges Of the state. Graduates
from this institution receive the gra-
mmar grade B and primary B certifi-
Gates. Under the leadership of B. B.
Dougherty, the northwestern coun-
ties have in the Appalachian Train
ing School one of the finest education
al institutions to be found in the
south.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24
INCREASED DEMANDS
FOR SKILLED LABOR

Increased demands for all classes
OF skilled labor, skilled mechanics,
and farm hands have practically put
an end to unemployment in every
section of the country, the Depart
ment of Labor recently reported in
an analysis covering conditions dur.
ing April.
"The predicted shortage of COM
petent farm labor" the report said,
lis now already a fact and in many
sections of the country the farming
interests are being severely hamp-
cred by the inability to secure labor
for farm work. In the south and in
the southwest where heretofore thre
has always been a sufficient supply
they are experiencing for the first
time a situation which is causing
alarm, as large numbers of men who
have always worked on the farm have
migrated to the large cities of the
country, securing immediate employ
ment in the various industries which
are having trouble to find sufficient
labor to meet their demands.
indicative of the country's sound
industrial condition is the fact that
a large per cent of the public en-
ployment offices report that it soon
will be impossible to meet the grow
ing demand for certain classes of la
bor."
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-05-24
MANY THOUSANDS WILL
VISIT MOUNT MITCHELL

With the opening of the automo-
bile road to the top of Mount Mitch
ell on the State Park within a few
days, it is expected thre will start a
pilgrimage to the historic peak that
will number 100000 people before the
end of the season. This is eight times
the number that took the trip during
the short season following the open
ing of the road late last year, but the
figure is a conservative one in the
light of apparent interest and the
number of inquiries that have reach
ed the Development Company.
In order that the thousands expec-
ted may be we'll cared for and their
number in creased, the North Caro-
lima Geological Survey is taking steps
to assure camping conveniences for
spending the night near the summit,
including water supply, tents, blank
cts, sanitary conveniences, etc. 1t
is also planned to have in operation
for the season a tea room at which
visitors may be served with meals
These essentials to the free use of
the states one park will be taken
care of either by the Development
Company, which has charge of the
road or provided under state'manage-
ment. The Development Company al
ready has plans made for the build
ing of number of huts at Camp
Alice for the accommodation of tou-
rists.
Suggestions for the broader i'm
provement and greater conveniences
of Mount Mitchell and the contiguous
Federal Forest Reserve were also dis
cussed at a meeting at Asheville in
which Director Pratt of the survey,
State Forester Holmes, Verne Rhodes
Supervisor of Pisgah Forest, and C.
A. Dickey of the Mount Mitchell De-
velopment Company took part. These
included the proposition of erecting
a modern inn and lodge on govern
ment land near the park, by Federal
concession as allowed by the Weeks
Law. Mr.. Dickey has now taken up
this matter with President Perely of
the Development Company and will
report within a few weeks whether.
or not that interest will be able to
undertake. tho nroiaot
Other projects in contemplation
for the improvement of the park are
the extension of the motor highway
from Camp Alice half mile further
up the mountain to Commissary
Ridge. the proposed site for the lodge
the improvement of the trail leading
to the summit and the construction
of additional trails for horseback ri
ders and pedestrians. Established or
under construction this summer are
trails to connect Mount Mitchell with
Micaville, along the Black Mountain
range to Deep Gap, Spruce Forest
and South Toe River; and trail on
the Yancey-Buncombe divide, thru
Balsam Gap, by Yates Knob to Ogle
Meadow, where there are roads to
Burnsville and Barnardsville.