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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18
A Fish Story

Catch any fish on your
last?"
mo: but one big fellow
rose up and gave me an aw-
full saucy look"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18
His Start In Life
Number 80

his SCdrt In Lie
"You say your father gave
you a start in life which was
great help to you in after
years?"
Eyes," answered the imi-
nent capitalist.
Financial assistance, /
presumed"
mo, he came to me one
day and said that on and af-
ter a certain date every meal
i ate at home would cost me a
quarter. That gave me such
a start / went to work and
have been hard at it ever
since"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18

There are about 10000 az
to repair shops in the United
States, all doing a rushing
business every Monday
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18

Wherever they are, it must
have been borne in on the sew
en- long haired Sutherland sis
tiers by this time that they
lived in vain.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18

This cooking on electric
stoves, quite often makes me
sore. I'll have to turn the cur
rent on to shock this egg
some more.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18

'sYou have only two or
three buildings in this new
town Of yours"
81 know" responded the en-
thusiastic realtor, ''but look
at the parking space"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18

Quite A Difference
whats the difference be-
tween a Scotchman and a ca
noe?"
GA canoe tips"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18

Lapse
"What is that string round
your finger for?"
ITO remind me to post a
letter for my wife,"
slave you posted it?"
mo. She forgot to give I.
to me-"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18

An ant if as large as a man
could carry 120 tons. What q
husband he would make for
a wife's days shopping!
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18

Willie wonder if Dad
thinks the calf is going to die.
Mother:-Why, Willie?
Willie:-Well, he said /
could have it to start a herd.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18

The man who stammers &
tries to propose to a girl is
in the same boat as a hand
cuffed man telling a fish
story.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18

leCUer IOr my wife.
'Have you posted it?"
''No. She forgot TO give I.
to me-"
Entertainment
what is the principal en-
tertainment in this communi-
ty"
"Golf," answered Cactus
Joe. "Some fellers over to the
Snake Ridge is learnin' to
play it, and us Gulchers new
er got so many laughs in all
our lives"
Man is the noblest work of
God, but it's hard to believe
when you hear two of them
wrangling over crumpled fen
ders.
A bachelor leads a lonesome
life,
Deprived of the joys of a
home and a wife;
He never knows, the poor old
bum,
Where the next kiss is COM
ing frum.
The queer thing about the
Ku Klux Klan is that altilo
completely enveloped in cloth
ing and robes it still occupies
the front page of the daily
papers.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18

Guest - What have you
got?
Waiter - Well, I've got
calves brains, pigs feet and
deviled kidneys.
Guest - / don't care any
thing about your diseases.
What have you got to eat?
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18

Weary
Actor-Yes, I'm going to
when you leave the stage.
retire.
Friend - You'll be missed
That's just the reason I'm
going to retire. I'm tired of
being hit"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-18
Nuts! Nuts! Nuts!

The finest mixture of all No. nuts you ever
saw, running more to the fine large washed bra
zils than any other kind Think of the price, only
25c per pound
Evening star., 1924-04-06
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
EEW-spE6iT If ff--T1IRGIINs

A FEW SPECIAL BARGAINS. -,
Confsctionery and.2 rooms; rent, Sc; we'll
Of the best buainess blocks IN nv. section: 8
fouatain. % % steam fssie, .seversI % door * cases, I
tahaea.. 16 chairs and MI other fixtures that
are used in connection With the business. and
= splendid stoe6 toe. Of soods; priced for immediate
,.e eissss; I :na rooms; rent sso good cor
Roerins hoase. 10 rooms; modern; good 10
nnss sssis Ssuss s. p5s Tes. sGS ss.....b.
central location; mice home.
Lunch and roou,s. i!th st; location; we'll
Lunch and 10 rooms, 2 baths; rent. $3.50;
business, Sl25 daily: price reasonable.
.ss sasss.. and nnsa Ssd old
Cigar stand in Iarre Office BLDG; rent; t., $50
mo. good lssss big bushes; P.ies; sS;s e ;eoe.
21s Machinists' bldg, 9th and Mass. av. n.w.s
MEAT MARKET. 5000: 81. 800 cash; doing
$3.50 week; lease; 9 rooms, Connected *LSs
Grocery and meat market. $1,000; rent.
Se25; doing 81. 500 weekly: a real business.
Grocery, 81, 800; rent. $50; . barxain.
s.ss n.ls.t Gsst Iss 'es e:s
Rooming and boarding house, II ,2oo; rent,
Rooming and boarding house. 5000; rent.
S225; fine section; making $3.50 month clear;
Roonins house. $1,000; rent, 500; $4oo
monthly. y
Rooming and boarding house, 5000; rent,
st75; l6 rooms; 81 COO cash; doing very good ;
Bakery. $1,000; rent, $175; rooms CON
nected; well equipped; doing sSo day;
Taller shop. $3.50; rent. $25; fine location.
Confectionery, $4,000: rent, $do; Lease; real
good. ,o x u,...
Tea house, making g. 900 week ciear'
81 500: $500 cash; rent, $3.50.
ali A. Halam Co..
3Oss Dist Nat Bank bldg. Frnnk IOZot
Evening star., 1924-04-06
. P. F. CARLEY.
,rneressiue Business Broker,

. Progressive Business Broker,
Now located at 41O 5th st. NV:
$50o-Rooming house; III rooms ana oaeh
furnace heat. Rent, 5000
SAJO-Roeming house; 3 rooms ana path'
good location. Rent. $40.
$S5O-Room. house; IL rms. ana oatn; cen
trail Rent. S75.
Ss5o-Rooming house; IL rooms and baths;
h-w.h.I eIec. Rent, $1S-
81 OOO-Rooming house: II rooms and bAth
furnace heat. Rent, $6S.
81 S50-Rooming house; IL rooms and 2 baths
very fine location. Rent, SOD
81 forthcoming house and cafeteria; 1e rooms
and baths; very fne buSness ioca
tiou Reasonable rent.
IS OO0-Hotei: 52 rooms and IA baths; AMI
large dining room; all rooms fuii.
Rent, 500.
$aso-Grocery; good small stand. Rent, SO.
81 ,O00-Grocery. cigars. soft drinks, etc.
Rent, $40 70; store and rooms
81 cOO-Grocery; splendid location; reasonable
rent.
81 ,500-Grocery and meats; doing good onsi-
ness; store and rooms Rent 500
g OOQ-Grocery and meats; hne location
Rent $135; store and 5 rooms.
81 ,300-L1nchroom; nne income; splendid 10
81 ooo-Bunet lunch; doing good business
rent for funchroom and 10 furnished
rooms, $S5-
81. .2b0--Bunet lunch; one Of the best stands
in the city.
Buffet lunch: on 9th st. NV, In the tbeater
- district, downtown; doing fne business.
81 .ooo-Near-beer and light lunch; good in
come; splendid location.
p. F. CARLEY,
Evening star., 1924-04-06

TAILOR, cutter. and litter desires position Il
good clothing store or interest in tailoring
Phone Cleveland lola, zs
Evening star., 1924-04-06

record breaking sale OF fur-
niture for two days only; no statesmen; tag
your, own goods 612 + INV. 7s
FURNITURE-Leavins,c city, must sell Circas-
small oak dining room suite, SIS; large oak
dining room suite. perfect condition, $40:
living; room suite; ~; T. large M reed
ssd crib, = lee hoxes, SO each; .mahogsny
grafonola and 20 records, SIS; oak. grafonola
Evening star., 1924-04-06

BOOKs-Harvafd Classics, s.Five-foot Shelf"
at half price, so vols. $50. new: set Of Hark
Twain's works, SIS; 0ppenheim's novels, rs
vols. $40, A bargain. 15l4 eth AVA
Evening star., 1924-04-06

Marshall Business Brokers.
800 seats receipts $3.50 to, $500 per
week: good lease.
IS, ,5O0-Groceries, meats and vegetables: es-
tsblished IA years; fine corner: Z year
lease: rent. 800, including 6 rooms
and bath.
So, ,5O8-Grocery and bakery: hne loca ton
81, ,5oo-Confectionery and delieatessen: no bet.
ter location; he; good living quar-
ters; inspect and you win buy.
So 3.200-Delica lessen and confectionery; near
busy transfer corner; 5-year lease; /;
small mint for right man.
s,7So-Confectionery and delic.tessen: nine
rooms and bGths above: hot-w1ter
heat aud electricity: best downtown
location; rent Of apartment win more
than pay rent for entire building
rent. S91 per mo. good lease.
s3,S0o-Restaurant, exclusive and paying; eX-
pensiye equipment; inspection invited.
s2'5oo-Exelusiys boarding seuss business;
room; rooms completely furnished; To-
Gated ON Mass. ave. Price, 5000.
VIII exchange for equity in house or
building lots.
50, ,50e-Roonins and boarding house on Conn
ave. Is rooms, 3 baths; electricity ;
lease.
81. 2.5oe-Rooming house, 81 rooms; furnished:
rent. $125: 7-year lease; electricity
S5o0-Roofning house, IL rooms; rent, S6s;
downtown location.
$1,OOOITailor shop, downtown; rent, 500
large trade.
LArxe stable near Rock Creek PARK, suitable
for riding school building has gas, water and
TWO acres OF land rent, $40 per mo.
Marshall Business Brokers,
$500. 010 N V Ave
Evening star., 1924-04-06

Rooning and Boarding House.
We offer for sale q profitable roomine and
boarding house at 1912 K st. NV; an rooms
niled; 2S bos-ders. fair rental. See this place
You want something good; low price for q
good, business
I. GOLDEN RULE, INC,
l2oo & st NV. Main 65e7.
, 1924-08-27
POWELL

Mrs. j. S. Gopen of Basin spent
w. kirkpatrick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Wells of Ok
lahoma left for their home Satur-
day, having spent two weeks at the
home of Mr.. Wells sister, Mrs. E.
w. Crawford, north of town. Mr..
Wells was a civil engineer in the
reclamation office at Powell in the
year 1910, INT he was very much
surprised to see how the Powell
project had improved.
Fred Carpenter came in from
Chugwater Thursday evening and
will visit a few weeks with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Carpenter,
north of town.
Dr.. Carl Van Hoozer returned
Saturday from New Hampton, Mis-
souri,, where he had taken the body
of his wife for burial, she having
passedaway about two weeks g
at Powell.
Mrs. Jim Berry of Basin, who
was injured in IN auto accident be-
" Cth oWtil anu LIN bdSlH ABOUT
ten days ago, was taken to her
home in Basin Friday morning.
Mre. Berry received a severe in
jury to her hip when the car they
were driving at a high rate of speed
turned turtle. She was brought to
the Whitlock hospital and cared for
until she was able to return to her
home
A. A. Hancock has sold his ice
business to Al Popeian. giving pos
session Monday.
Lee Cunningham, proprietor of
the Economy Grocery, is in the
Whitlock hospital suffering with an
infected throat.
Miss Sayer, who has been spend
ing the summer with her sister,
Mrs. Ida X. Swallow, left Sunday
for her home in Chicago.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Mudgett, who has
been spending the summer with her
son, w. G. Mudgett of Powell, was
called to Denver Friday by the
serious illness of her son., George
Mudgett.
Mrs. F. A. Miller, who was called
to Glen Elder, Kansas. about two
weeks g by the serious illness of
her aged father, the Rev. Mr.. Bar
rick, returned home Tuesday, leav-
ing her father much improved.
Mrs. c. L. Funk, Mrs. Oscar
Ericsson, Mrs. Cliff Collins, Mrs. Lee
Cunningham and Mrs. L. l.. Rhu
len returned Sunday from their
camping trip of several days up on
Southfork.
Mrs. Paul C. Douglas returned to
, 1924-08-27
DEWEY JOHNSTON, MISSING
SOUTHPORT TRAPPER, STILL
ALIVE, THINKS FATHER

Searchers of the body of Dewey
Johnston, Southfork hunter and
cowboy, have combed the entire
range this summer with no sue
cess and the belief of his father.
l.. X. Johnston. that no accident
befell him is more generally shared
than it was last December when he
was reported missing by his trap
per partner. Glen Billings. AS many
as three special searching parties
of cowboy friends have outfitted
this summer from the Southfork
dude country and have returned
without a single trace of the miss
ing man. Cowboys and shepherd
ers have been instructed to be on
constant lookout for his body and
altho they have ranged closely over
the territory covered by his trap
line the section is void of evidence.
The constant faith of his father
that the boy left the country for
some real or fancied reason is now
accepted as a fact and no further
effort of a definite nature will be
made to locate him in the hills.
There are three ways the young
man could have gone and not been
observed. in the opinion of the
father. He could have gone down
, 1924-08-27

Eleanor creek to the Greybull val
ley and reached the railroad at
Basin or other points on the Bur-
lington. 1t is but eighty miles over
to the Wind River section and on
s~nowsnoes that would not have been
a difficult trip. No n knows him
there. altho Hank Bedicker, head
of Lander's police force, is his uncle.
For all that he could have come
down the Shoshone valley and got
away. He knows the entire country
and if he wanted to could have
easily slipped to the outside world
without observation, his father
thinks.
The latter two theories are borne
out by the report of Billings that
when Johnston did not show up he
worked his trap line. Upon follow
ing the line toward the trail that
cuts into the circle from the Valley
ranch he found a fox which had
been eaten by eagles, thrown away
by Johnston and the trap reset. The
next trap beyond the trail had a
frozen fox in it indicating that he
had not worked the trap line be-
ycnd the junction and had gone tC
the Thanksgiving party he had sug-
gested he wished to attend.
, 1924-08-27

would have never been created
der a properly-thought-out plan of
settlement.
Much of the and to be reclaimed
ed hereafter is privately owned. OF
will be when the works are author
lied. The price at which it's own
ers sell the land to settlers and the
terms on which it is sold are likely
to be as important factors in de-
veiopment as the cost of the water
right. Initiation of land prices, high
interest rates. and too short a time
for payment for the land to enable
the money to be earned out of the
soil are among the main reasons
why settlers are not paying the gov
eminent. We must in the future
consider land prices and the mort
gage debts on privately-owned lands.
Here is an example,: We are
next spring to announce project
costs on an area hal was settled
and has been cultivated by dry
farming methods. The people liv-
ing on this land urged the govern
ment to build the canal and agreed
to pay the cost, but now hat the
time has come to assume this OBJ
legation they state that the cost is
more than they can afford to pay.
They say that no payments should
be required for the first five years
because the settlers are so heavily
in debt hat they must first pay off
their mortgages and get rid of high
interest rates before they can con-
slider paying the government and
they will use every effort possible
to have the government forego pay
ments in order that their financial
corpse may be resurrected.
81 am now presenting a solution
for the old projects. What l have
seen in the last fifteen years of the
achievements of planned settlement
and financed farm development in
other countries compels me to real
ize that we are ignoring the most
valuable features of reclamation and
a few demonstrations like the col
onization plan l propose will assure
the success of reclamation in the
future"
, 1924-08-27

Having already noted that j. Cor
o Douglas, Jr., and Austen
Townsend Gray have gone together
to ranch in Wyoming, it only re-
mains for me to add that other lads
of the Newport colony have proceed
ed westward. these including John
Aspegren. Jr., and Dyson Duncan,
son Duncan, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Stuart Duncan. If this exodus con-
tinues. Charles F. P. Richardson
and Ettere Romano Fontana will
be donning chaps and sombreros,
n taking as their model Buffalo
Bill, rather than Beau Brummel!
, 1924-08-27

Pilot, Wyoming. after a few days
visit at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G.. MIDGET.
Mrs. Herbert Bender left Sunday
morning for Casper to attend the
American Legion .convelt!cn. Mrs.
Bender was chosen as representative
of the Powell American Legion Aux
Hilary to attend the state convention.
Chas. Olbrich has returned from
his eastern trip where he spent some
time buying the new fall stock of
merchandise for the Powell, Cody
and Elk Basin Golden Rule stores.
Mrs. F. P. Carpenter gave a one
o'clock luncheon at her home north
of town Friday.
Mrs l.. R. Ness, daughter Mary
Ellen and son Jimmie left Saturday
for a visit with relatives at Hayes
Springs and Crawford. Nebraska.
The funeral of Mrs. Chris AL
thoff was held at the Catholic church
Saturday morning and attended by
a large crowd of sorrowing friends
and relatives.
Frank Schulman of Garden City,
Oklahoma, is visiting at the home
of DR.. F. A. Mills.
Chas. Atteberry and family spent
the week end at the cabin up in
the mountains,
A. S. Wilson and family returned
from a most enjoyable stay of sew
eral days at the cabin on North
fork.
A. A. Hancock is seen driving
around in his new Oldsmobile tour
ing car.
, 1924-08-27

a house is safe, and yearly payments
of 3 per cent on the principal, max
ing a total of 8 per cent. will pay
off the debt in twenty years.
For the last six months | have
been studying the causes for in
creasing arrears of payments by
settlers and the widespread demand
for postponement of payments on
federal irrigation projects. One
reason has been the extreme agr1-
cultural depression, which, however,
is temporary and may be ignored.
There are other reasons more SER
ious which we must consider. One
of these is the terms on which
settlers have bought farms and the
prices they have paid for them.
Another is the lack of capital and
lack of other qualifications indis-
pensable to success in agriculture.
The evidence is conclusive that we
must in the future pay more atten-
ton to settlement problems and the
qualification of settlers if we are
to escape complications and losses
that will discredit. if not terminate
this policy. We cannot go on ig-
nortng the things which determine
ability to make payments, while
expanding from $4,000 to $4,000
on SO-acre farms to provide water.
There is little prospects that
any irrigation works built hereafter
by the government will cost less
than 800 IN acre, and one now
authorized may cost 5000 an acre.
To pay these large prices for water
means that farms must be improved
and equipped for growing crops
and handling livestock in a way
to secure the largest results. That
alone costs more money than many
settlers possess even when land is
free. To put settlers without zap
ital, and often without experience,
on irrigated farms does not give
them an opportunity; it simply
involves the Bureau of Reclamation
in trouble and the government in
loss.
81 have just inspected an area
on a federal irrigation project where
the settlers for 80 farms of unenter-
ed public lands were chosen by a
lottery. 1t is evident that the ma
jority of these settlers had no CON
ception of the responsibilities they
We're assuming. They thought the
government was giving them some
thing. On many of these farms
they erected the same kind of a
shack the nominal h~omesteader used
to erect. This was a 10 by IL
taxpayer structure without a floor.
Without money and experience they
could go no further. Many of them
did not know how to try and what
they did was to look for someone
who would rem their holding. They
found what they sought in a group
of Russians who are the tenants on
nearly all of the So farms now
rented. Instead of an American
soldier settlement we have created
an ALLEN colony. The reclamation
fund is not being reimbursed. All
the desirable social and economic
purposes of the law are being lost
and the Bureau has a problem that
The Washington times., 1924-03-08
Rock Creek Church Rd.,
$4,000

Kennedy built: 3.story, S-room
and 2-bath brick; % It. wide: S
bedrooms and sleeping porches;
front and rear porches: hard
wood floors; screens; h.-w.-h.;
elec.; 2-car garage; fine condi-
ton TeYTnR
The Washington times., 1924-03-08
American University
Park. $1,000

Individually built corner ."
room and bath detached brick;
on lot 75x100; h.-w.-h.: elec.;
front, rear and Sleeping porches;
hardwood floors and other fea-
lures; house less than . years
Did. This is an unusual subur-
ban opportunity.
The Washington times., 1924-03-08

duration. There Il active competi-
ton between the two companies,
which have similar bus equipment
and bus service. though the pur-
pose OF one is to sell homes to the
bus prospects, while the other deals
exclusively In lots.
Eighty-one thousand dollars worth
OF property in Coral Gables was
sold In one day to one busload of
passengers. Recent reports show
tnat buses are helping to sell
property at the rate of $4,000 a
day, for during eighty-five bust.
ness days, from October % to Janu,
airy 81. sales at Coral Gables to
taIed $S.O29,4S4. This was slightly
more than was sold during the en-.
tire year before White buses were
put into service. The develop.
The Washington times., 1924-03-08

ers Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS report
that 100000 worth Of property
has been sold in two and one-half
years.
Hollywood buses average ESQ to
200 miles day, regular trips be-
ing run from Jacksonville, st. Au-
gustine. Daytona. Orlando. Lake
land, Tampa and st. Petersburg.
Every day six busloads are
brought from Miami and two to
three daily from Palm Beach, and
four busses meet incoming boats.
About 800 houses have been built
In this development, which Is on
the Atlantic Ocean and also includes
two artificial lakes covering eighty
seven acres. There are 1900 acres
in the development. A $4,000 900
beach hotel Is being built and q
The Washington times., 1924-03-08
RUBY LEE M|NAR
HAS UNUSUAL
WINTER
Lots Selling Fast In Lee
Heights, the New Arlington
County Suburb.

An unusual winter record in sub
division sales has been made by
Ruby Lee Minar in Lee Heights,
the new Arlington county suburb,
adjoining the Washington Golf and
Country Club. During the winter
months, commonly accepted as q
slack time for suburban property,
sales in Lee Heights continued at
a gratifying rate.
The winter buying was attribut-
able to two causes, the important
one being that more people than
ever before are planning this year
to build and own their homes. They
are selecting the sites now. Another
factor in the remarkable activity in
suburban property was the mild
weather which encouraged many
to do their real estate shopping"
before the annual spring rush which
will be here within a few weeks.
The Washington times., 1924-03-08

Lee Heights embraces a tract of
400 acres stretching back eastward
toward Washington from the Coun.
try Club grounds. 1t lies along the
Country Club road and the Lee
Highway. both concrete thorough
fares, and was selected by Mrs.
Minar because of its splendid eleva-
ton, 400 feet above Washington.
Mrs. Minar reports that a large
amount of building will be done this
spring and summer by lot pur-
chasers. Several builders are erect.
ing homes for sale and other pur-
chagG.' are letting contracts for
houses for their own occupancy. G..
Fl. Marstellar, an Arlington county
builder, liz completing two bunga-
lows, one of five rooms and the
other of six rooms. T. p. Sheppard
Is building a six room bungalow on
Hillendale lane, In the wooded Sec
ton of Lee Heights. Two other
homes are going up on Fairfax
street, near the Lee Highway.
An eight room stucco home on the
Country Club road was recently
completed by Mrs. Lucy B. Watts
and a seven room Dutch colonial on
Spring drive by F. C. Hall.
Among the recent lot purchasers
in Lee Heights are the following
James B. Shuts, Emma B. Cooney,
Mrs. Susan N. Powell, Mrs Louise
NJ. Jennings, Cora r. Riggsbee,
Ora L. Ottley, Mabel A. and Pearl
Long, William r. Howe, Mary D.
Farrar, Jessie e. Russell, Ethel
Ragsdale, Gordon Robertson, Wal
ter F.. Black, Mrs. Clara B. Stowell,
Hobart D. Dunlap, Mrs. s. 8. Vel
lowley, H. c. Lewis, Robert A. and
W. H. White. Mrs. Minnie K.
Coates, and Mrs. Villa p. Mitchell