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And when he says thing Is wrong
His wife always says it's right"

And when he says a thing Is wrong
His wife always says it's right
Well, that was Geo. to a golf-tee, but
the trouble was all the other married
men tried to crowd into the seat soon's
they had read 1t. But Mabel had verses
equally appropriate for everybody else
as well. and just only think, she had
made them all up herself.
y i; x
THEN to polish the lily, as it were,
led Geo. up TO telling his favorite
funny stories. and that got them TO
taking turns at the same thing, all
around the table. These stories all had
the same pre-ranlble to them, which
was, say, have you heard this one, now
please stop me if you have heard it-a
challenge which no one amt ever vet
had the courage to take up, not SO far
as l know of, anyways.
Well, just when we had all got to the
point where we didn't know how we
was going to stand all this gayety one
minute longer, the whistle blew, and
some bells commenced changing. and
Mabel looked at her watch, and says
there folks, told you my time was
right, it's IL to the dot, Happy New
Year ALL
ana tIldL was SUCH d IclleI we Gil
yelled happy New Year and ratified the
noise makers and blew on the horns
quite hearty, and the men hit each other
on their back, indicating good fellow
ship, and we all put on the paper hats
at our places after which, the food
being all gone, why there didn't seem
nothing left to occupy US, so we played
nt-up-the-overshoes, etc.
Well, when we got home, there
was the house, all right, just as we
had left it, with Junior asleep up
stairs, and Annie Gooch, our dear,
soft-voiced colored nanny from the
south end of town, sitting with her
open work white silk stockings
crossed in front of our living room
fire, hard at work earning the two
berries I had promised her for sit
ting up just in case, II you know
what 1 mean.
Well anyways. there was Annie,
and she woke up when we come In,
and just then whistle blew and
Annie Gooch says, there she goes,
Happy New Year, all!
And / says, why 1t was happy new
year almost a hour ago, Annie.
Didn't you hear the whistles blowing
and the bells ringing?
And Annie says, yas'm l heard it,
but gee whiz, says sch, in her quaint
Southern way, them wasn't no New
Years whistles, them was the fire
whistles. The barn right acrost the
street burned down ana the engines
and all WAS up here.
lC0RxIzhs if2zl ---
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Deeds to Land In City's Center, Part of Metzerott

y the geographic sketch of Will
liam q. Metzerott last Sunday il
was told that Mr.. Metzcrott was
Il born at HilbGrghaussen Meinin-
gen, Germany, in 1881: came to
the United States in 1S4s, to Wash
ington in 1855 and died JUNE Z, 1884,
at his home, SIT Twelfth street. In a
gazetteer the town name is spelled
Hildburghausen and a map shows it is
a small town in Thuringia, 20. miles
northwest of Coburg and 200 miles
southwest of Berlin. An encyclo-
pedia, though not late edition,
says Of the Duchy of SAKE -Meiningein
that 1t is a long. narrow crescent
from the west edge of ThurinGian
Forest with a dozen small detached
pieces of territory scattered among
the Thuringian states. The area is
953 miles, the surface billy, the pop
ulation Gs00) 250,731, the great ma
Jority being Protestants- The reign
ing dynasty, according TO this en-
cyclopedia, was founded in 1851 and
the duchy assumed it's existing shape
in 1926
On April 13. 1898, King Henry Of
France made a decree that the HUI
guenots or Professionals of his king
dom should have freedom of public
worship, the liberty to build churches,
cAScpt CT dTIS- anu the royal resi-
dences, to maintain four universities,
the right to send representatives to
the parliament at Paris and to hold
provincial and national synods.
The Huguenots in the congress at
La Rochelle confscated property of
the Roman Catholic Church and con-
stituted throughout France q military
and civil organization for Huguenot
ends. There followed restrictions
upon the Hugenots. On October Is,
1888, Louis XIV revoked King Henrys
edict of Nantes OF 1898, ordered de-
struction of the churches of the HUI
ings under penalty of confscation of
goods, and banshed their minister.
Many OF the Huguenots moved into
Germany, and among the refugees
were ancestors of William G. Met
zerott. Metzerott is Generalization
of a French name.
The Rambler does not find the name
Metserott in the Washington Directory
OF 1855, and he did not find directories
of 1856. and 1857 in the Washington
Public. Library. In the directory of 1858
William G. Metzerott is entered as pro
prietor Of MetZerotts music store, 327
d street, corner of Eleventh, house 400
G. street north" Without being clever in
transposing numbers of the old system
into our present house-number system
the Rambler puts No. 400 Ct street on
tho south side of G between Tenth and
Eleventh streets, five lots east of
Eleventh. There were two other music
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Barometer of Business Provides
Highly Entertaining Forecasts


~ EcENTLY. with the assistance
IL of group of experts, 1 have
been going into the statisti-
i cal forecast business.
I have been led to do this by
noticing how popular this kind of thing
has come to be. All over the country
there are banks and trust companies,
and statistical bureaus and college
departments that send out surveys OF
business conditions and prophecies of
what business is going to do. In any
good high school the senior CONNER
cial class is prepared to work out
chart~-showing what world condi-
lions" are going to be next month
note that this kind of literature is
having a wonderful popularity. Many
people are so busy nowadays that
they have hardly time to read even
the latest crime news, such as how
the bob-eared bandit held up the
Grand Central Station and got away
with the entire Information Stand.
But they can always find a few lei
sure moments for reading about the
probable effect of the failure of the
Siamese rice crop on the motor car
industry.
In other words, this kind of liter
AZURE has come to stay. There is
henceforth a regular demand for a
wide eyed. clear sighted survey of
the business field. 1t is for this reA-
son that | have been led to go into
II with the aid of experts, am pre-
pared to offer for the use of bust
ness men brief survey of the pros
poets of the globe for next month.
We decided. naturally, to begin
with the discussion of export wheat.
It is the custom of all survey makers
to start with the wheat situation and
we follow their example. We find
that advices from the Argentine, from
Turkestan and from Simcoe County,
Ontario, indicate that the wheat sit
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BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

A S Buffalo Bill, the famous COW
~ catcher used to say, THE
"A three most easily broken things
4 "A in the world is a woman, a
horse, and a New Years res
olution." And / guess Bill unloaded
that about right on account you
have only to turn woman loose in
a good dept. store and she will be
broke in no time.
Well, in this lull between the two
storms of Xmas and New Year, 1
decided where there was no use in
me making any resolutions except
|, only one.
Geo. may give up smoking, and
decide to save 1-3 of his net income,
and etc. if he still enjoys that great
Natl sport, but I personally myself
have got just one resolution that /
can be absolutely sure of keeping,
and 1 am getting so stingy since
Xmas that 1 can't endure to give up
even a good resolution onct I have
gone to all the trouble of making 1t.
And this lonesome little resolve come
to me in consequence of the big time
we had last N. Yrs. Eve.
OF course I must admit that Geo's
friend, Joe Bush of the Hawthorne
Club, was not SO much responsible
DIS MS ITdu.
Joe had wanted we all should re-
serve a table for New Years down
to the Rosebower Cabaret, where
we could make fools out of ourselves
in public, but Mabel, that's his wife,
SAYS no, that amt necessary, why
not let us have a jolly little home
party, we don't need to GO out to
celebrate, and of course I and Geo.
was the first of our crowd to be
called.
Well, as the poet says, many are
called but few get out of 1t, and that
was US.
When the invite come Geo. says,
well oh, heck, If don't hat to dress
all right, Til go.
And 1 says you'll go anyways, but
II I was you 1 would dress, suppose
YOU don't and when you get there
all the other men are?
And Geo, says we'll I don't give
continental tripe stew, but when the
night come he was yelling down at
me for his other dress collar by eight
thirty PM, l having laid out ms
souu-and-ffsh on the bed as a gentle
hint.
Well anyways, that Joe Bush him
self opened the door and says well
well folks, this is great, and L felt
well" myself but in a far deeper,
more watery sense then he meant
IL, being BY then soaked to the knees
And then the next thing he pulled
~. why thu epAuefacsd suit. -Gsoggs
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town, and take on to yourself a little
social polish; why not board at the
Elsmere, on II street between Four
teenth and Fifteenth, or at Mrs. Plum
mers boarding house, in a long row
of ex-fashionable dwellings on I'll
street west of the Arlington, and
where the War Risk Building stands;
or at Mrs. Ricketts,. on II between
Ninth and Tenth; or at Mrs. Hellen's,
the site of whose boarding house is
covered by the Chaumont, 1886 |
street: or at the Fredonia Hotel, 1921
II, or at lie F'etra's Hotel, at the cor
ner of and Eleventh?
Many of you remember Mrs. Plum
mer Her guests called her THE
Duchess" and when she passed from
earth the big boarding house was run
by a woman whom The Duchess loved.
Her name was O'Keefe, and my mem
DRY lisps that her front name was
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the milreis. AS far as we can under
stand what the milreis did, IL seems
to have risen upward, fallen down,
lain fiat, tried to get up, failed. raised
itself again and then Topped. Our
experts are not prepared to give any
opinion as to what the milreis will
do next. Some people think this is
a good time to buy ii, but If il was
ours we should sell il. We wouldn't
want il round the place.
The movement Of prices has been
in various directions, some up, some
down and some sideways. There was
per cent drop in portland cement
and a 10 per cent fall in pig iron.
But we ourselves are not using any
just now and were more affected by
the rise of cents a gallon in gaso-
line, which hit us hard and shortened
our Investigations by about 10 miles
day.
nURING the same period under
~ consideration there have been
strikes, lockouts, earthquakes. cloud
bursts, instructions and other dis
turbing conditions beyond even the
power of a senior commercial class
to calculate.
Taking all these factors into con-
sideration our conclusion upon the
whole is that we don't know what
business is going 10 do next month.
and we don't believe that any one else
does. 1t is our humble opinion that
problem which contains among its
factors the weather earthquakes.
snowstorms, revolutions, insured
tions, labor, the tariff, the wishes and
desires of one and three-Quarter bill
lion Of human beings and the legis-
lation of over a thousand legislatures
is little beyond us.
We will go little further We in
cline to believe, and our experts
agree with us (they are paid to), that
all this business barometer, statisti-
cal forecast stuff means nothing more
than the age-long desire OF the hu
man race for prophecies. There is no
doubt people like to listen to good
prophecy. Children have their for
tunes read in the leaves of tea-cups.
Servant girls pay a quarter TO have
it done with a pack of cards. And
cultivated people pay IS to get a
divination from a Persian astrologer
hailing from East Thirteenth street,
New York
And 50 the business man has
started up his own particular form OF
divination in his new statistical fore
clients (as we do not propose 10
stay in the forecast business) is this:
If you want a really good forecast
don't bother with all the statistics
and index numbers and the averages.
Go and get your fortune told in the
good old-fashioned way in words of
this sort:
There is a fair woman coming
into your life and there is also a dark
woman. One of them will bring you
great happiness, but beware OF the
other. You are going TO strike
great opportunity OF getting rich; but
you are also in danger of getting
poor. You have nerve, but you lack
confidence. but if you will cherish
your belief in yourself you will never
know what a boob you really are.
One dollar"
That is the kind of forecast that
has been going since the days of the
Pharaohs and is still the best known.
Stick to it,
Copyright, 1924
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and on November 2, 1859, Metzerott
sold the remainder of the lot to
Alexander Schilling. In November,
1866, Mr.. Metzerott bought a lot
from James NJ. Latta and his wife.
Elizabeth, on the north side of L
street, nearly midway between North
Capitol and First streets west. He
sold that lot November Is, 1874, to
Lloyd King. June 3, 1872, he bought
from William H. and LetitiS G..
Plunkett lot % and part of "a. on
the south side OF Q street midway
from Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets.
X X y X
TN 1871 or 1872 the Metzerott family
moved to SIT Twelfth street-a
two-story brick house, which Mr..
Metzerott enlarged to a three-story
house, with square tower on the
south side and with a three-story bay
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The Rambler has no doubt that this
particular boarding house was pleas
ant place, but the Rambler admits
disesteem of the adjective fashion
able" and he is filled with suspicion
when it qualities the noun boarding
house"
He remembers that when he was a
young reporter, living turn-and- turn
about at Mrs. Cobb's theatrical hotel,
at Tenth and E, Sam Gassenheimers
Hotel Lawrence. on E street. where
the Munsey building is; at Mamma
Rosenbury's theatrical boarding
house, on the south side of the Ave-
nue. between Sixth and Seventh
streets, and at Perreard's Hotel Fran
Gals, on Fourteenth below the Ave-
nue., he would sometimes say to him
self, Why don't you try something
flossier and gayer, and mix more with
learned and prosperous people of the
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New Years Party Beats the Clock

this is informal old scout? and
George at once commenced saying by
heck I'm going right back and change
into citizens clothes, and Joe says nc
such thing, you'll come right in
| there's nobody here minds if you
don't.
Well, I had put on a exclusive new
model ] got down to the Emporium
and ! thought it was going to be a
big surprise to Mabel. and it was. on
account she had on one exactly like
it, and any intelligent person will
know how that established the
double intend between us, as the
French say.
WELL, there was Old Gen. Buster
w and DIR. Salary and his fiance
that bottle blond, Miss Demeanor, and
the General was telling about how
when he was cabin boy to Gen. Grant
cele brated New Years with fire
crackers or something. I don't quite
know what. But anyways this story
helped to pass considerable time
while waiting for the New Years
whistles to blow, and it also give us
ladies a good chance to talk in low
tones about real interesting things
like the servants and etc.
And every little while Mrs. Bush
would look at her wrist watch and say
10 80, or something, and at once all the
men would say oh no, you must be fast,
and she would say, oh no, I'm sure my
watch is right, it's exactly Is minutes
slow, that is how / can tell. And this
come to be a regular indoor sport as
the evening wore on rather badly.
one present except as a laundry mark,
and we don't none of US play bridge, so
nately Mrs. Bush didn't insists on Lon
don Bridge as a substitute like adult
hostesses sometime think will be cute
kind of a relief when Mabel's watch says
II 80, and she opened the door into the
dining room, gayly calling out come
along folkses, the eats are here-find
your own places by the favor at each
plate!
Well, the chain gang all filed in and
stood around looking at the place cards
and making cracks, and darned if Mabel
hadn't squandered another dollar at
least on the table decorations!
She had horns and rattles at every
place, and the cards themselves was a
scream, l thought, especially the ones
about the other people. They made me
want to scream. anyways. For a sample
she had Geo. down cold, with a verse to
the effect
"This place is for certain boy
Who COMES home aKeH might
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nd Discusses Fashionable Boarding Houses

Nellie. Most of you will recall the
Elsmere, 1406-1412 II. l think a great
many of you will recall Mrs. Ricketts,
She had several daughters, but there
were three whom / brightly remem-
Der - Laura, who married Campbell
Darlington: Missouri, who married
James y. Davis, and Rebecca, who was
married, ] think, to a gentleman
named Harsha.
X x 4
I REMEMBER that I would try some
fashionable boarding house and it
would seem to me that the food was
not so varied and well-cooked as In
the theatric hotel. There was no
midnight supper. No bar was a part
of the house. The guests used to
seem to me very polite, but very
tiresome. 1 could never figure out
whether they were tiresome because
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uation is easier than il was. My ex-
perts place the Russian output at
about half a billion pools while the
Egyptian crop is not likely to fall be-
low two hundred million guilds Add
to this Chinese Autumn production OF
at least a million chunks and a first
impression is one OF exuberance If
not hilarity.
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to Editor The Star.
- EAREST SIR: Last MNndy
Am. Mrs. c. W. Quackmire,
my owner, approach TO
Kitchin with her nose far
in front From that l know
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4; s: =: r.: ::
horSa aud Naw
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-07-10
JOHN w. DAVIS
nut OF THE SMOKE of battle

nut OF THE SMOKE of battle
~ comes the report that John w.
Davis, of West Virginia and New
York, has been named as standard
bearer for the Democrats, and the
party should be congratulated for
naming a real man. ~
LaFollette will probably not need
much evidence on which to base
charges that ]. Pierpont Morgan paid
board bills for busted delegates in
return for votes for Davis. his per-
sonal attorney. Right thinking Amer
leans, however. have wholesome re-
spect for the gentleman from West
Virginia, and will look upon him as
a brilliant lawyer and statesman.
Davis and Coolidge will conduct a
clean campaign, as each has whole
some respect for his opponents in
tegrity and ability.
As far as the temporary editor of
this paper can learn, j. Pierpont
Morgan never hires anyone that isn't
clean and honest, yet we tremble to
think of what Bob LaFollette will
say.
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POLITICS

RY THE TIME the Courier Report.
II er goes to press it is hoped that
the democratic melee of 1924 will be
ended. The whole affair does moi
argue well for the success of the
party in November, nor does it give
much reason for putting such par.
ty in power. Each leader seems dis
posed to wreck the party rather than
yield in selfish ambition, while all
leaders seem ready to straddle on
everything from prohibition to the
league of nations. ..- --.-.
Coolidge and Dawes, working with
men like Hughes, Hoover and Mel
lon, in perfect harmony, are begin
ming to look like good combination
to tie to.
LaFollette of course, will try to
cash in, on the discomfort caused by
a surplus on agricultural products.
A sour old wrecker who suggested
no constructive legislation for the
farmers relief during the last SEES
sion of congress will hardly get
started, especially since wheat has
raised in price. Mother Nature has
ruined Bob's chances. Bob and hate
are always political bedfellows, and
hate spreading grows harder as
wheat advances in price.
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CHAUTAUQUA
DESPITE the fact that Kennewicl

DESPITE the fact that kennewlck
~ has for years been known as a
splendid Chautauqua town, many Of
it's best boosters are this year hold
ing back on next years contract.
We shall not give the numerous rea-
sons for refusal to sign by many
guarantors who heretofore have been
most willing to pledge their share of
the guarantee. 1t is sufficient to say
that many reasons beyond the chance
of monetary loss are being given.
The temporary editor of this paper
has no desire to argue the matter,
but he has a real desire to see this
community come down to earth and
take stock of itself. Kennewick
should be able to find out what it
wants and needs, as well as what
it doesn't want or doesn't need, with
out indulging in personalities or
threats of reprisals. The question of
Chautauqua should be put up square
ly on the merit of the Chautauqua it
self. No one organization like the
Business Girls club should be allowed
to do all the work, nor should but a
few be asked year after year to ac-
cept the financial responsibility. A
strenuous drive each year should not
be necessary. A few tried to carry
the load of the Lyceum and we all
know the result. The same guaran-
tors and the Business Girls alone
should not determine the fate of the
Chautauqua for the coming year.
Public opinion should determine what
we want and don't want.
A few weeks ago the Kennewick
Commercial club sent out feeler to
other organizations of the city and
made the suggestion that a city club,
composed of one member from each
public organization of the city be
formed. The whole idea behind the
suggestion was to get united Ken
newick either for or against this or
that activity, and get public opinion
quickly and without misunderstood
ing. Golf and kitty ball both seem
to prosper and Sunday baseball has
become financial success. Now,
what else do the people of Kenne-
wick want? If we want other things
and will work together we can get
them.
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lean boyhood has departed, and left a
vacant space in beautiful family
circle. What pity such life must
end and what pity such a family
must suffer. The nation has been
requested not to mourn, but a deep
feeling of sadness and regret is grip
ping the heart of America. .-.
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The nature of some children, as

The nature of some children, as
we'll as the nature of some people
of larger growth, requires a change
in diet. If beneficial change is
not at hand an injurious substitute
is often used to satisfy the craving.
1t might not be untimely to analyze
substitutes before we kill the Chau-
tauqua. Whittier are we drifting?
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man: 3rd, Mr.. Carratt, hose support
ers, Neuman.
Needle threading race-Mrs. Anon
81 so in trade at Beste's; Mrs. Hook
err, 1 doz. quart jars at Price & Lin
coin.
Ladies' blindfolded race-Iva Mar
tin. s1.50 order on Sherk.
Egg race.Odile Shepard, s1.5o at
Tobin's; Mary Atkinson, 81 at Col
umbia Pharmacy.
Nail driving-Mrs. Geo. Fredericks
crystal set from Economy Store; End
Mrs. Van Martin, iodine and cotton,
Vibber Clifford.
Rail- throwing-Mrs. Geo. Meyers,
vase, Gilmore.
Sack race-Chas. Warnock, shoes or
oxfords, Golden Rule.
Tug of war-married men, won a
box of cigars from Price & Lincoln.
The rodeo was well attended and
Clint Davis, Harold Gerard, Orville
Zindel, Clarence Thomas, Will and
Cap Tyacke, CT Swanzig, Max Rick
man, Pen and CODY Toothaker did
some good riding of horses, mules
and cattle, which highly amused the
spectators for about three hours.