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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-09-18

North, Range &c EWM., has filed
notice of intention to make finnl
proof under the third paragraph Of
Section 5 Of the Act of March a,
1915 to establish claim to the land
above described, before G. p. Kincaid,
Clerk of the Superior Court, Belling-
ham, Washington on the 29th day Of
September, 1924 and by two of the
following witnesses on the same day
before Harold G.. Fyfe, u. S. Com
missioner at Kennewick, Washing
ton.
Claimant names as witnesses:
John r. Howard and Fred Cress-
we'll, both of Kennewick, Washing
ton and Olga Mottinger and George
II. Mottinger, both of Mottinger,
Washington. -
Not coal land.
w. ID. Gregory, Register. s:2s-9:25
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-09-18

WHY-Be bothered with mosquitoes.
Skeeter-Skoot will keep them away.
We guarantee it. Vibber- Clifford
Drug Co. 19tf
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-09-18

Unpopularity or popularity IL utter.
" worthless - . test Of manhood's
worth.
The tallest trees are most In the
power Of the winds, and ambitious
men. OF the blasts Of fortune.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-09-18
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
u. S. Land Office at Walla Walla,
Wash, September 10, 1924.
Notice is hereby given that James
A. McNiven of Aberdeen, Washing
ton who on May 26, 1911 made Des-
ert-Land Entry No. 05069, for S1s
SWA, Section 20, Township North,
Range 80 EWM., has filed notice of
intention to make final proof under
the Bird paragraph of Section of
the Act of March a, 1915 to establish
claim to the land above described, be-
fore c. w. Smith. u. S. Commissioner
at Hoquiam, Washington on the Goth
day of October, 1924 and by two of
the following witnesses on the same
date before Harold G. Fyfe, U. s.
Commissioner at Kennewick, Wash.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Joseph M. Doyle and Alfred E.
Willmert of Plymouth, Harry G. Ow-
ems of Kennewick, Washington and
Paris w. Ruark, of 100 Forsythe,
Aberdeen, Washington.
Not coal land.
w. D. Gregory, register. 9:11-1O:9
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-09-18
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U. S. Land Office at Walla Walla,
Wash, September 10, 1924.
Notice is hereby given that John
B. Kline of Electric Building, Aber-
deem, Washington who on June Is,
1912 made Desert-land Entry No.
0569S for NJ, NWA of Section 20,
Township North, Range 30 EWM.,
has filed notice of intention to make
final proof under the Bird paragraph
of Section of the Act of March 4,
1915 to establish claim to the land
above described, before C. w. Smith,
u. S. Commissioner at Hoquiam.
Washington or the Goth day OF Oc-
tober, 1924 and by two of the follow
ing witnesses on the same date before
Harold G. Fyfe, U. S. Commissioner
at Kennewick, Washington.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Harry G. Owens, of Kennewick,
Joseph M. Doyle and Alfred E. Will
inert, both of Plymouth and Paris
w. Ruark of 100 Forsythe, Aber-
deem, Washington.
Not coal land.
w. d. Gregory, register. 9:11-10:9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-29
Plans Completed
 For Labor Day icnic

All plans are completed for the La Dor Day picnic to be given by the lief ferson County Orphans Home associa- ton on September 1 on the grounds at the home at East Lake.
 Mrs. c. M. Lathem is general chair man, assisted by the following chair men:
 Mrs. Arthur Granville, chairman pub ncity.
 Mrs. J. B. Crawford, chairman din ing room.
 Mrs. Harry Roll, chairman apron booth.
 Mrs. J. B. F. Chambers, chairman popularity contest.
 Mrs. K. Lunborn, chairman coffee and doughnuts.
 Mrs. Clarence Keenan, chairman bal looms.
 Mrs. Agnes Swikert, chairman vie neer stand.
 Mrs. c. R. Matthews, chairman hot waffles.
 Mrs. Charles Melcher, chairman ice cream.
 Mrs. T. A. McGough and Mrs. Stack, tchairmen cakes. { Mrs. Arnold Masberg, chairman fish ing pond.
 Miss Charlotte Thornton, chairman novelty booth.
 Mir. J. B. Hafer. chairman dolls. Y Mir. Clarence Day, chairman soft drinks.
 Mir. Maurice Welsh, chairman danc- ing and amusements for the day.
 These chairmen are being assisted by large committees and everything is being done to make this picnic sue cess in every way, and good time is assured for all who attend.
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Little Stories For Bedtime
Why Rattles The Kingfisher Is Let
 Alone
CBy THORNTON BURGEss)

Why Rattles The Kingfisher Is Let Alone
 INTO one has much of anything to do with Rattles the Kingfisher. He and Mrs. Rattles live their lives quite by themselves. Others of the little feathered people are very social and you often find them together. Many of them are close neighbors in the Old Orchard, and when the time comes for the long journey to the far away sunny southland great many of them take the journey together, and the same thing is true when they come back in the spring. But the Rattles family is not social. Mir. and Mrs. Rattles always are found by themselves, and if the truth must be told, they seem to prefer it that way.
 Now I suspect that it is partly be- cause they want to be alone and partly because the other birds will have noth- ing to do with them. And the reason that they will have nothing to do with Rattles is because they do not under. stand him. In the first place, he isn't at all like other birds save that he wears feathered coat and flies. He ITeeS, DuI never WulkS or hops about on the ground. Yet he makes his home in the ground, a thing that no self-respecting bird does save one other, a cousin of Skinner the Swallow.
 Pert little Jenny Wren, the gossip of the Old Orchard, happened to hear his harsh rattle as he flew over the Old Orchard one day, and it set her gossipy little tongue to going as only it can go. There isn't any tongue that can wag, faster than that of Jenny Wren.
 Just hear that noisy fellow" said she. II don't wonder he and Mrs. Rat ties want to live by themselves. If I had a voice like that would want to do the same thing. Did you ever hear such voice? Isn't it awful? He can't sing a single note, and I've heard say that when he makes love to Mrs. Rat ties he doesn't have single soft note Blacky the Crow has a harsh enough voice, goodness knows, but he can soften it when he wants to. The same thing is true of Sammy Jay. He screams most of the time, but some times his voice is really beautiful. There must be something wrong with any one whose voice is always as hard as that Rattles. And then, too. his head is too big for his body. I never could 1ear peUrle with Jig heads
 "BIt you will have to admit that Rattles has a handsome coat, even if he hasn't fine voice. spoke up Well come Robbin with sly wink to Goldie the Oriole. You know Jenny Wren has a very sober coat, a plain little brown coat"
 Jenny tossed her head and jerked her tail. Fine clothes never make fine people" she snapped q would rather have a fine voice than a fine coat.
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My Husb0nd---1he BOotLegger
By Caroline Beecher

] George your reason for putting him off?"
 No"
 Tell him, dear. He will be willing to wait am sure"
 They would not now have long to wait. MOrt's time was to be somewhat shortened because of his model beha- yior and he would soon be free. When George heard why Mona wanted to wait he was all sympathy and willing ness. They would be married quietly at home and have only relatives at the wedding.
 Clifford was very pleased with Mo- mas thoughts for her father. He said
 Knowing she thought of him will be tonic to Mort and help him gain his self-respect. am sure he will like George and that George will learn to like him-no one could help it. Donald has the same gay disposition. Have you noticed how he draws all the boys | to him, how he leads them?"
 went on with the preparations for Mona's wedding. Clifford had been more than generous with her from his own pocket, besides insisting that I take Mort's full share of the profits of the last months.
 T have been saving what you wouldn't take for him. I am sure he would prefer that you use it for Mona," Clifford told me, and knowing he was right I did as he wished.
 T shall go down and come home with Mort" Clifford astonished me by the abrupt announcement. Tt would be a lonely trip for him and I want to talk to him."
 "Oh, will you. Cllfford?" I returned. For days that lonely trip Mort must make. wondering how he would be re- ceived, had been in my mind. But if Clifford were with him, talking busi- ness, telling him of us, our anxiety to welcome him, there would be nothing to worry me.
 had cautioned Clifford to say noth-
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listening I, O. Foe

the statement that Henry knew right where that tapestry was when he walk ed out of the front door to go to Pata- gonia or Tibet or wherever he had been so long.
 "The persons with the notebooks, however, remained placid and suggest ed that he prove it. The insurance company was ready to pay over just as soon as it was technically established beyond doubt. Henry gradually passed from cold, calm positiveness into dead ly rage against everybody concerned.
 "Just as some seventeen law suits were all about to start at once Henry's grandmother went up in the attic to get her winter nannels and when she undid the large neatly tied box she found also Henry's famous tapestry. Immediately he remembered then hay ing, sneaked it off the wall at the last minute when his wife's back was turn. ed and hiding it in that place as un- likely to attract thief. No thief ever wanted winter flannels.
 ''Henry hasn't been the same man since, I'm telling you! Now about that watch" @
 q remember now" the excited man said grossly, T didn't have time to get it at noon as I planned--I thought I'd get it on the way home, but I wouldn't touch the alarmed thing now for :. thou sand dollars!" "
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ing of why Mona had not yet married George, to let her tell her father. Don- aid and had long serious talk. He was very young and thoughtless. Un- less he were careful he might say or do something to hurt Mort and he had been hurt enough, punished enough.
 Clifford left. Although it would be nearly a week before he got back with Mort, for me the world seemed to stand still. Not that I wasn't busy, couldn't be idle a moment, but there was only one thought in mind-Mort, my husband.
 How would he look after the long months of loneliness? Would he be much changed? Would be be happy to be with us, or would t oughts of Lucille poison all happiness for him?
 Mona had insisted upon keeping on with her work at the office until her uncle's return. Her trousseau was ready, but even so she had set no date for her wedding.
 We will wait until talk to dad,'' she said, and George agreed. I had grown very fond of him and had not the slightest fear in trusting him with Mona, knowing they loved each other deeply, that they would be happy.
 It was a new, yet the old Mona. who danced about the house chatting and laughing and what change if made Yet her very response to the happiness that had come to her proved how terribly the child had suffered.
 So we waited for husband and fa- ther. None of us went to the station. but waited for him in the old home where he had spent his boyhood and where nothing would remind him of all he had suffered in the New York house.
 (TO Be Continued)
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CHAPTER SS

HAD been right. 1t was MOna's
 feeling that we were disgraced, al.
 though she still loved her father, that had made her refuse George Att wood. She loved him, confessed it as she wept in my arms.
 "But I felt I couldn't marry him, couldn't ever marry" she sobbed. Some time he might throw it up at me, make me suffer"
 "He knew it all the time, my dear. "
 "I know-and he says it makes no difference. Do you think it ever would if I married him? 1 do care for him, mother, but if thought" She shud- dered.
 George is fine young man. He would never make you unhappy by speaking of a thing that hurts you" And then l told her what he had said harshly the man who was her father.
 So Mona promised to marry George. Her uncle was delighted.
 "He is one of the finest characters I know. He will make the child happy" he said. "And when I die and you and Mort have also passed away, the old homestead shall belong to her and Donald. have made my will; it is MOrt's for life, then theirs"
 George wanted to be married at once. But Mona begged for time, look on her face I could not fathom. Then one day she told me.
 T would like father to see me mar ried," she said, her voice low.
 It would make him happier than anything in the world" l exclaimed, taking her in my arms. T have told him all about George in my letters and he approves. It is very sweet of you to want him, dear. Have you told
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Rattles has rather good-looking coat although 1 don't know as I would call it handsomt. He needs something good I'm told his home smells something awful. But what could you expect of any one who lives in hole in tllt ground and eats nothing bur fish?'
 ''I live in hole in the ground and 1 know a good many others who do the same thing, and let me tell you that our courses are as neat and clean and sweet as those of people who live in holes in trees" spoke up Johnny Chuck who had been listening. For my part I think Rattles the Kingfisher has more sense than some people 1 could men, tion, if it is true that he makes his home in hole nthe ground"
 "That is all right for you folks who cannot fly" retorted Jenny Wren sharp ly, but for bird-Bah! It gives me the feeling that he is only half bird And they say that he makes his nest of fish bones Did you ever hear of anything like that? No self-respectine bird will have anything to do with an. other who lives in hole in the ground and uses fish bones for nest. Fish bones! Think of it p
 T don't know that that is any worse than using Mir Blacksnake's old clothes to line nest with. and that is what Cresty the Flycatcher does," said Chat. terer the Red Sqirrel, who had been listening.
 Certainly it isl" snapped Jenny Wren. And then think how the place smells !'
 And so Jenny Wren chattered on and on, and the other birds said little. But it was clear to Johnny Chuck that they agreed with Jenny Wren. They didn't like Rattles the Kingfisher, and aE be cause he didn't live as they did
 Next Story: The Home of Rattles the Kingfisher.
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to her home in Mobile Saturday after visit to friends in Birmingham.
 Mrs. A. R. Wilson and Miss Lillie Queen Wilson, who have been visiting Mir and Mrs. T. L. Mcdonald at their home in Selma, have returned.
 Mrs. Otto Mooney motored to Sana Souci Beach to spend the weekend with Mir and Mrs. Joseph A. Ryan.
 Mrs. Tinman Copeland is visiting Miss Mary Alice Steber in Mobile.
 Miss Elizabeth Reid has returned to her home in Selma after a visit to Miss Florence Beavers. Miss Beavers re- turned to Selma with Miss Reid.
 Edgar Stewart, Jr., and William Greige, Jr., are the guests of Miss Kath- Teen Mallory. On their return to Selma they will be accompanied by Miss Nal lory, who will visit her sister, Mrs. Walden Dansby, and other relatives.
 Mrs. Howard Pope and little son have returned home after visit to relatives in Anniston.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. K. Lanning are home after spending several days as the guests of Mir. and Mrs. Wood Her ren, Jr.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. D. Haralson have re. They were accompanied by Mir. and Mrs. J. c. Barrett of Ensley. Adele Shaw hns returned from a stay at Sewanee, Tenn.
 Mrs. Rollis Armstrong is resting com fOrtably after an operation at South Highlands infirmary. Mir. H. F. Foster has returned to his home in New Orleans after a visit to his daughter, Mrs. John l.. Sims Mir. i Foster stopped over in Birmingham en route from New York, where he attend ed business convention. Miss Nora Walker has returned to her home in badsden after a visit to friends.
 Mir. and Mrs. Ben Weller and two sons of Huntsville are spending sev- eral days in Birmingham.
 Miss Margaret Allison has returned to her home in Troy after visit to friends.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. A. Abercrombie have moved into their new home at 3910 Summit avenue.
 MT and Mrs. Robert +. Hall have named their little laughter Jane.
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Random Notes

Mir. and Mrs James Yates returned from their wedding trip and are at . home at the Glen Iris apartments. Mir Dixon Durham will leave for New York, where he will rejoin the ! California quortet.
 Miss Marie Adelaide Torbert of Greensboro is the house gue7t of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Whelan.
 Mir. and Mir. Harry J. Gillian have returned to their home in La Grange, Ga, after spending several days with the formers mother, Mrs. H. J. Gill lam.
 Mrs. Carl Wittichen has gone to Memphis for q several weeks visit.
 Miss Virginia Adams, who has been visiting Mrs Carl Wittichen for sev- eral weeks, has returned to her home in Memphis.
 Mir. and Mrs. Kenneth Hall Gayle, Jr., will return the end of the week fro mVirginia Beach, where they spent their honeymoon. Mrs Gayle was Miss Mary Jackson of Montgomery.
 Miss Nell Dickson, who has been vis- iting Miss Gladys Harlee at her home in Norwood, will return to her home Saturday in Darlington, s. c.
 Miss Lolita Stubblefield of San Fran cisco is the guest of Miss Nancy Sharpe. .i Miss Margaret Rowe, who has been the guest of Miss Sara Neakley, will return to- her home in Louisville, Ga, Sunday.
 Miss Marian Stavrovsky, teacher of voice at the Misses Howa d School for Girls, and soprano for the SOuthside Baptist church, returned Thursday from Scranton, Pa, where she as been wis iting her parents.
 Miss Maud Green has returned to her home in West Point, Ga. after a visit to. her sister, Mrs. W. J. Baldwin. Mrs. N. c. Densler ha sreturned from a visit to her sister in Selma.
 Mir. and Mrs. W. J. Baldwin have re- turned from a visit of several months in California.
 
 The many friends of Mrs. Henry Key Milner will be glad to know that she is Improving at St. Vincent's hospital from an automobile accident received Tues day. Mir. Milner is confined to his home suffering from minor injuries re- ceived at the same time.
 Mrs. A. Key Foster has returned from Asheville, N. C.. where she spent several weeks at the Biltmore.
 MT. and Mrs. J. K. Brockman is in Asheville, N. C., visiting Mir. and Mrs. A. H. Mccormack.
 Mir. and Mrs. E. w. Wilcox are the guests of Mrs Wilcox's sister, Mrs. Donald Harletta, Camp Sunnyside.
 Mrs. Florence Terrant, secretary of the Church of the Advent, returned Wednesday from Sewanee, Tenn, wher she has been attending the summer classs at the University of the South.
 Dr. and Mrs. M. S. Barnwen, who have been spending their vacation in Maine, are expected to return to the city early newt week.
 Mrs. D. J. POncelor has as her guests her sister, Mrs. Charles RobisOn, and her aunt, Miss Mckinney, both of At lanta.
 Miss Emma Louise Pugh returned
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Mrs. D. J. POncelor has as her guests her sister, Mrs. Charles Robison, and her aunt, Miss McCanney, both of At lanta. Mic Nr.r,n o,,;nn Drnh rnt,,rn al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-29
BRITAIN FACES A CRISIS
Lack of Water Power For Industrie
 May Shift Production Center

May Shift Production Center
 The world power conference, sum- moned in London last June to study in- dustrial problems of the future, has left the British manufacturer gasping. The material which had been gathered from all parts of the world showed that water has rapidly been displacing coal as means of furnishing power. Swift zerland is using 36 per cent of her water supply; Canada has harnessed over three million horsepower and will soon have four. Other British dominions notably Australia and New Zealand are fast developing their resources and Norway and Sweden are already fol lowing suit.
 Great Britain, in the meanwhile,
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.clings to old-fashioned methods which yield less than 4 per cent bf the energy available in her coal, oil. and water. Should she ever be forced to rely solely on the latter, not more than one-fifth of her machinery could be run. It is, therefore, Kkely that the next fifty years will witness decided shift in the production centers of the world From the Living Age.
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Absolutely Certain

=.e. ADSOlugeiy Certam
 <<EUNNY" fussed the agitated ee man, turning things out of his
 pockets excitedly. T know I nut it right here and it isn't to be found! Somebody must have stolen that box! My wife warned me not to attempt bringing her watch some from the jewellers, where it was being regu- lated She said she felt safer going after it herself! Gee-whillikens !"
 Be calm" soothed the man who look cd as though sad experience had often washed OCT him. "Let your mind re- main in it's usual state of absolute blankness and maybe you'll remember what you did with it !'
 "But I put it." began the other.
 T know you did" agreed the sadden- ed man, with even more sympathy in his tone. That's the dickens of it ! If we didn't invariably put things in absolute spots there would be no trouble about 1t at all If my friend Henry Taproot hadn't been blessed with such an exceedingly good memory he wouldn't have stirred up the excitement he did recently or made several deadly enc misses among insurance men, caretakers and policemen.
 Henry and his family went on a lengthy trip to Alaska or Kalamazoo or Patagonia or some foreign port and it took some work to leave the house in shape for it's spell of loneliness. How ever, as Henry had all kinds of insur- ance abainst blond burglars and bru- nettes, day breakers and night breakers, he felt tolerably safe. He did send the silver to a vault, but much discussion ensued over other valuables. What, Henry demanded from his anxious wife, was the use of paying good money for insurance against loss if one went to just as much trouble hiding things as though one had no insurance? Let the rugs and linen remain strictly where they were! Of course, now, with the tapestry, it might be different! You see, the tapestry in question was rare antique brought from Europe as great trouble and expense and the apple of Henry's eye.
 If that were stolen during their ab- sence no money could salve the injury. Possibly the tapestry would better come down and be lead away in the vault with the silver. His wife bitterly jeered the idea. She didn't like the lady on the tapestry anyhow. If Henry made her leave her lovely French embroider- ed linens, and priceless rugs, he could just leave his old tapestry! She grew quite violent on the topic and won the argument.
 When they came back from their trip and gave the place the nasty once over everybody noticed right away that tha tanestry was indeed gone missing vanished. Inside of an hour Henry had the insurance company and two po- lice stations all surging and rioting be- cause of his loss His library was filled with persons, taking things down in large formal looking notebooks and what they took down always included
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-29
Mrs. Knight Hon- ors Son s Birthday
 With P arty

Albion Williamson Knight the son of Mir. and Mrs. E. H. Knight, was the honoree yesterday afternoon when his mother entertained twenty-five of his friends to celebrate his ninth birth. day.
 Garden flowers decorated the dining room table, around which the guests were served a delicious ice course, the color scheme for the occasion being pink and white.
 Several games and contests were en- ioyed, the fortunate winners being Will liam Going, Mary Beatty, Jean Forest, Colbert Shelby and George Lester. \
 Assisting the hostess in greeting the guests were Aileen Beatty. Louise Knight and Marguerite Knight. Dur ing the afternoon punch was served to the following guests Mary Beatty, Jean Forest, Gayle Forest, Mary Dun bar Cornell, Jessie Forest, Frances Bass, Anne sand Margaret Mckinley, Geraldine Snead, Mary Dudderar, Mary Virginia Pounds, Aileen Beatty, Mar garet and Louise Knight.
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Whatever you do or wherever you go, be sure to read the Woman's Reals next Sunday--aT exclusive Age.Herald ought to know. You'll find it where the Want Ads begin. |,