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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
FIRST STEP IN
P. r. PROJECT
Huge Transformer Plant
Being Built at Hanford
by p. p. & L. Company

Construction work has been started
by the Pacific Power e. Light COM
pany st Hanford on transformer
station which is believed to be the
largest station for distribution of
electric power in the state, if not in
the Northwest. Also temporary line
is being built connecting with the
main line of the Milwaukee railroad
at Taunton. This will supply electric
current from the Land Lake plant
beyond Spokane.
The transformer will have ca
pacity, exceeding 10000 XIV, OF
sufficient to take care of popula-
tion of $4,000. The high voltage will
be stepped down at this point for
local consumption.
1t is surmised that the work is be-
ing rushed on this station in order
to be prepared for construction work
on the big dam at the Priest Rapids
where the actual needs for electric
excavators, concrete mixers, dump
cars, etc., will at times be 10000
horsepower, or much in excess of the
capacity of present plant at Priest
Rapids.
AS it will be several years before
power can be furnished from the new
plant, there will be a tremendous ad-
vance demand for power. This big
transformer station will be for per-
manent distribution Of Priest Rapids
power.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
TO DISCUSS HEATING
PROBLEMS MONDAY
Combelic and Cook to Head Meeting
at Commercial Club Rooms
Farmers Invited

A regular old-fashioned "exper-
fence" meeting for farmers is called
for next Mondsy night at the Com
mercial club rooms. when Percy Com
belle and A. w. Cook will lead with
talks on orchard heating.
1t appears there are lot of little
''kinks' that local orchardists are
finding out about this heating bust
ness this past week or so and gen.
eral exchange of experiences will
prove interesting to every grower
who is thinking of doing anything
in the way of crop insurance.
Mr.. Cook has the solution for sew
eral of the problems that local farm
ers are facing, learned from exper-
fence in the orchards of California.
Also the matter of getting the warn
ings, about which there has been
some misunderstanding, will be ex-
planned fully. 1t is likely that the
value of natural gas as a factor in
the future of orchard heating will be
discussed.
All farmers are urged to attend
Monday night next, at the CONNER
cial club rooms.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
SCHOOL GLEE CLUBS
TO PRESENT SYLVIA"
Amusing Situations Told in Song
at Liberty Theatre Friday.
April Third

"Sylvia" a pastoral operetta in two
acts will be presented by the Glee
Club of the Kennewick high school
at the Liberty Theatre on April 3.
Sylvia, lady of the court tires
of her betrothed and wanders into
the hay field where she overhears
Betty, charming country lass be-
moaning her fate and wishing she
were engaged to marry nobleman
instead of her honest farmer, Will
liam.
Sylvia suggests that they exchange
places for the rest Of the day. The
girls successfully fool their betroth-
ed. Sylvia returns worn out with her
experiences of the afternoon, while
Betty declares that she will be for
ever content with her own lot.
Unfortunately their prank has been
observed by Arabella and Araminta,
two ladies of the court who were
prone to gossip. The news is impart-
ed to Prince Tobbytum who tries to
make mischief but is foiled.
Comical situations arise. The back
ground of the plot is maintained by
the choruses of farmers, haymakers,
daughters, and lads.
Diligent work coupled with a gay
situation promises an interesting per-
formance for those who come to the
Liberty Theatre, April 3.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
DITCH BREAK
rs REPAIRED
Leak Discovered by Small
Boy Who Fails in Effort
To Stop Flow

A break in the main canal of the
Columbia Irrigation company's canal
seven miles above town last Sunday
has caused five-day delay in the
starting of the irrigation season IN
this valley. This is the first break in
the main canal in four years and was
started with gopher hole.
The break has been repaired and
the water is being gradually let into
that section of the ditch, today. By
the first of the week the main canal
will be filled and by the middle of
the week all patrons may be served.
A small boy, seeing the break.
made heroic effort to save the ditch
by stuffing trash into the opening
but, failing he ran home to get an
older brother to help. The two filled
sacks with hay, but by the time they
had got back to the scene the hole
had grown so large that the sacks
were carried on thru.
The bank was cut out for dis
tance of about thirty feet and was
about twenty feet deep. A couple of
acres of alfalfa land were covered
with silt from the ditch and the high
way was under water for day or
so. but no serious damage was done.
Owing to the cool weather the weeks s
DELAY in receiving the water will make
l., difference to the spring crop.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
KENNEWICK, WASHINGTON THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1925
w. w. PRODUCE co. TO
OPEN BRANCH HERE
Oldest Produce House in Valley to
Pay Cash for Fruits and
..-........ Vegetables ..-....

Another cash buyer has come to
town. The Walla Walla Produce Co.
will this week open a buying station
in the rear of Price e. Lincoln's store
which will be in charge of j. E. De-
buc, an experienced fruit man.
The Walla Walla Produce Co. is
the oldest establishment Of the kind
in Walla Walla, having been incor-
porated in 1893 and are carlot ship
pers of vegetables and fruits. The
sales end will be handled from that
point, this local station being merely
a source of supply.
VIM. E. Berney, sales manager for
the company was in Kennewick yes
terday making the necessary arrange
ments and further announcements of
their business will be made later.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
DELAY KITTITAS
WORK TIL FALL
Commissioner Mead to Visit
Valley Before Spending
Appropriation

According to word received from
the national capitol at Washington,
work will probably not begin on the
new Kittitas project until the latter
part Of the summer, Notwithstanding
there is money available now for the
project. The secretary of the interior
intends to defer in this matter large
y to the wishes of Reclamation Com
missioner Mead. and DR.. Mead is eag-
er to 20 over the project and make a
personal study of it before recon-
mending the beginning of operations.
he especially thinks it important to
study the project on the ground be-
lore authorizing construction work,
In order that he may more intelli-
gently determine just what shall first
be undertaken.
Dr. Mead will visit the project in
July and as the $4,000 is only a
small part of the cost and that
amount can readily be spent during
sne fall and winter months on pre-
nminary work, whenever Commits
sioner Mead decides what the initial
sseps shall be. BY holding off until
Ut. Mead goes over the project no
s.me Will be lost, according to the
department for it is not in their plan
20 spend any part of the second ap-
preparation of S375,0O0 for the rea-
son that that money is available only
al1er the state has obligated itself by
.11ntraet to settle the project, finance
sne settlers and get the lands ready
.1r cultivation. At the next session
,ne delegation will try to have this
'es'siatlve restriction repealed.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
DUTCH LOVE? GIRLS WILL
DEMONSTRATE

Kennewick needs no further statis-
tics or improved methods of love max
ing, however, as side light on the
subject, two members Of the William
cite Ladies' Glee Club will bring 2
version from overseas in the Dutch
Courtship," a new feature number
of this years program. The GOV frau
line, Miss Trista Wenger, acquieses
amusingly to the ardent proposal OF
Herr Aldeane Smith. AS climax 'he'
sings "Katrine, my Darling. She's go
ing to be Mine"
Come to the Methodist church on
the evening of Saturday, March 2S
and see how it is done.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26

dark colored liquid in glass ther-
mometer when exposed to the sky,
altho they read the same when prop
erly sheltered. In other words, an
exposed thermometer merely indi-
Gates its own temperature.
The amount of water vapor present
in the atmosphere has some influence
on the temperature indicated by an
exposed thermometer. If the air tenn
perature falls below the temperature
of the dewpoint, the water vapor in
the air will condense on the thermo-
meter and other exposed objects and
form water, or, if the temperature is
low enough below freezing) frost or
ice will form. Evaporation takes place
at all times and at all temperatures.
Evaporation takes place from ice as
well as water. Since evaporation is a
cooling process it is readily seen that
the temperature registered by ther-
mometer covered with ice or water
will be below that of the air sur
rounding it. The amount of cooling
depends upon the amount of mois-
ture in the air and the rate at which
the air is moving past thethermome-
ter.
Hence, if thermometer is to reg
lister the temperature of the air it
must be sheltered from the sky and
from direct sunlight, and still be ex-
posed in such way as to prevent
the gathering of moisture from any
source upon it. However, orchardists
contend that since the buds on the
trees are exposed to the sky an un-
sheltered thermometer will give more
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
RIND, GAG 16-
YEAR-OLD GIRL
zora Miller of Hanford Vic
tim Mysterious Attack
Sunday Night

youne girl from Hanford is ly-
the Pasco hospital, part of
M lime in straight-jacket as the
'ue ,,t Of a mysterious attack made
[ es.1v Sunday night. The girl was
ea .d unconscious. bound and gagged
lu p,.s;de the church where she had
In ,.sr attending services. No attempt
VI been made at criminal assault
I .rd the perpetrator of the deed is
-. =. Known nor has the girl yet been
III. III 70 tell who her assailant was.
Miss Fora Miller, a sixteen-year-
IA o;rl. had gone to young peoples
,.est;ne at the church when she was
.a;,ed with a fit of coughing. Leav-
;rc the building, she stepped outside
and I didn't return. Friends making a
sesrch found her lying on the ground
unconscious from blow on the head,
esr in her mouth, and bound hand
and foot. Failing in effortrs to re-
v;v. her. DR.. L. G.. Spaulding was
c.lled at three o'clock in the morning
and he had her removed to the hos
n;tal at Pasco, where a trained nurse
IS n attendance. The young lady has
lucid intervals but so far has been
unable to tell the name of her assail-
ant or to describe him other than the
color Of his hair.
A note was found on the ground
the next morning near where the girl
had lain, but the contents have not
been made public. The message was
signed with initials only, and inves-
tigation has shown that the girl had
received others signed similarly at
various times, but the writer is still
unknown to the authorities who are
working on the case.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
Of Orchard Thermometers
By Albert W. Cook
Assistant Observer, u. s. Weather Bureau

accurately the temperature of the
buds. But such is not the case. A
large percentage of the buds are
sheltered from the sky by the limbs
of the tree. Also, the buds, being a
different color and a different sub.
stance than that used in the thermo.
meters, has rate of radiation all its
own and entirely different from tina,
of the thermometer.
A shelter for the proper exposure
of the thermometer is not hard to
construct. If the horizontal type OF
thermometer is used take a board
about fifteen inches long and about
six inches wide for a back Take a
similar piece and fasten it at right
angles to the back for top. The TOP
will shelter the thermometer from
the direct sunlight during the day and
from the sky at night. Small trian-
gular pieces are fastened on each end
to prevent too rapid movement OF
the air past the thermometer and a
resulting rapid evaporation of any
moisture which may have collected or
the thermometer. The front and bot
tom are left open. If vertical type
thermometer is used the best method
of sheltering is to take an apple box
remove one end and the top. Mount
the thermometer on the back and
well to the top of the box.
The Thermometer should be about
four and one-half to five and one
half feet above the ground with the
open side to the north and no bot
tom in the shelter. Only white paint
should be used to paint the shelter.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26

One of the most important things
in orchard heating is the exposure of
the thermometers in the orchard. A
thermometer exposed in the open air
gives neither during the day nor at
night the real air temperature, even
if it is an accurate standard instru-
ment. During the day it will indicate
any where from 20 to so degrees
above the real air temperature, be-
cause of the excess of radiant ener-
gy received from the sun. During the
night the thermometer may indicate
a temperature from one to seven de-
grees below the real air temperature,
because it radiates heat freely to the
sky and the earth. 1t is well known
fact that an exposed thermometer
will radiate heat more freely on clear,
calm nights than on nights when the
sky is cloudy or the wind is blowing.
Not only does the rate at which ra-
diation takes place, vary greatly on
different nights, but every individual
substance has its own rate of radia-
tion of heat. Generally speaking, dark
colored substances radiate heat more
readily than light colored substances,
and substances with high polish.
We would expect, then, that thermo-
meters of different substances would
show different temperatures when
exposed to the sky on nights when
conditions are favorable for free ra-
diation. This is just the case, ther-
mometer of mercury enclosed in glass
will show higher temperature sthan
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26

d. L. Tailor has received word from
his daughters Hope and Joy, that
they have returned to this country
after year spent in Honolulu and
nine months in China. They arrived
in Vancouver, B. C. on the Empress
of Austr ALA and came from there to
Seattle by rail, where they are visit
ing relatives. They report a wonder
full trip l,.t are glad to be home once
more. They will likely pay Kenne-
wick visit in the near future.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
WILL TRY AGAIN

."e organizer for the Moose lodge
va, "as unable to be present on the date
ICED on account of illness, so the
.a .sanilatlon date for the local chap
S M Of the Royal Order of Moose
ta s oeen set for Saturday, April
ibOu,sn' b.,, when the ceremonies will be
;ora, M IN the Woodman hall as prev
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
BIDDY's VALUE

No agricultural product has
o oeeh more constant in price
aaa more consistent in the
.sseiding of profits for the last
ven , years than poultry" said
:. .. Carver, head of the poul-
sy ay department. at the state
ooliege in a recent radio talk
over KFAE.
The insignificant hen may
am.i aake considerable fuss over one
se, and it is therefore hard
= give her credit for her real
t;a, a,ue IN agricultural produc-
M b Inc production of all
,a,S use cackling hens for the year
i;o. @ amounted to over ten mil
aoIl ooI,. dollars worth of eggs. The
nas. ru,ue of the chickens sold for
l;", t amounted to another mil
non dollars"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
aApRIL rooLr ORIGINS

The custom of playing tricks
On the first day Of April is so
old that the record Of its origin
has been lost, but we do know
that India, as far back as his
tory traces, has celebrated the
spring festival of Hull which
ends March 81, with tricks and
pranks playing a large part in
the merriment.
In France such customs were
in force back in the 18th CEN
tury. The victim of the hoax
was called an april Fish,"
while in Scotland he is an sap
ril Gowk." Our own small boys,
when they get you to pick up
a block Of wood wrapped in
paper to look like lost bundle
of value, will cry april Fool!"
Or sometimes they take an old
pocketbook or a penny and nail
it to the sidewalk, and see how
many people they can fool into
STOPPING to pick it up.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
PRODUCE COMPANY MOVES

The Columbia Valley Produce COM
pany is moving this week from. their
location in the Gleason place
to the old laundry building on Front
street. Here the office will be located
as well as the storage rooms and the
egg-processing machinery.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
Three autoloads of Kennewick Ma

Three autoloads of Kennewick Ma
sons went to Walla Walla Tuesday
to see the degree team from Lewis
ton put on the Rose Croix degree. The
local Masons were guests of the Wal
la Walla fraternity at the Country
Club golf course in the afternoon. A
trip to the penitentiary also occupied
their attention fora while.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26

Rev. and Mrs. F. L. Fraser left
last night for Portland where Mr..
Fraser who has been seriously i'll
for some time will enter hospital
for medical treatment.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26

Mrs. Laura A. Field of Hatton,
state president of Rebekahs, visited
Althea lodge Tuesday evening. Fol-
lowing an interesting address by Mrs.
Field, degree work was put on by
members of the lodge. Refreshments
were served end social hour en-
joyed at the close of the meeting.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26
SOME CHERRIES
ARE INJURED
Crop not Lost - Heating
Successful Low Tenn
peratures are Given

Temperatures injurious to cherries
occurred on three nights during the
week, according to Albert w. Cook,
government weather forecaster, sta
toned here. On the morning of March
10, the lowest temperature recorded
anywhere in the district was 26.6
degrees at station No. 8 Northwest
ern Improvement Go. prune orchard)
and the highest was 81 degrees on
the same night at station No. 6 (Fred
Shoemaker, apple orchard). The tenn
perature in that section was 2S for
a short time. On Monday morning
the temperature reached the lowest
point for the week at most stations.
The lowest being % degrees at the
Kew or Forecast station. The highest
temperature recorded on that morn
ing was 30 degrees at. station No. s.
There was general firing Of heaters
thruout the district on Monday MORN
ing.
Extensive firing on Tuesday morn
ing was prevented only by the arriv-
al Of some clouds and light south
west breeze. The temperature was at
its lowest point at most stations
about 1915 am.
The minimum temperatures on the
Highland orchards ranged from two
to six degrees warmer than those re-
corded in the orchards in the flats
and along the river.
The following table gives the low
est temperature recorded at each sta
tion for the week of March 1926,
1Qoh
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-05-29
SPECULATION BLAMED
FOR PRICE CHANGES

Washington, D. c. = Wide fluctua-
tions recently in Chicago wheat mar
ket prices We're due primarily to heavy
trading of lirlited number of pro.
fessional SPECTATORS, Secretary Jar
dine declared in a review of the de-
partment of agriculture's investiga-
ton.
The professional operations, the sec.
rotary declared, were facilitated to a
considerable degree by the large par
ticipation of the public after material
advance in prices had occurred in the
last half of January.
Proof necessary fo1 the conviction
of persons who might be charged with
manipulating prices has not thus far
been obtained, the secretary said.
Secretary Jardine is determined to
utilize the results of the investigation
to institute whatever prosecutions
might be justified, but he is concern.
ed more particularly in the develop.
ment of some method by which a
repetition of destructive price changes
may be obviated.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-05-29
DocKToN ROAD

The Editor drove over the new
Dockton highway last Sunday and
is ready to 0. X. the whole thing.
With the exception of the paved
highway, the new road is perhaps
the best built road on the island.
Less than two miles in length, and
at a cost of $4,000. it will stand
as a monument to the enterprise OF
the Docktcn citizens, who were all
back Of an adequate road, and the
unflmehing determination of Com
missioner Paul. 1t is too late now
to argue over the wisdom of the
present route as compared with
the original shore line drive, but
it is not too late 10 say the present
road is credit to the island in
general and to the people of
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-05-29
USED HUMAN HAIR
TO ADoRN SPEARS

We're the American Indians the
first race Of people to seek to a
dorm their fighting implements
with the hair Of their victims
Historians have said little ahCpt
il, but W. J. Rciter preparing lie
research work for Frank Lloyd,s
production of Sabatini's "The Sea
Hawk, va First National picture.
showing at the VasAon Theatre
Friday and Saturday, May 29-90
discovered that in the early six
teenth century certain wild Arab
tribes in lower Algiers using
spears and pixies as weapons con
sidered it a high honor to have
hair from the boards Of their VIC
inns to replace the customary
horse hair trimmings on their pike
sticks.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-05-29
GEN. MILES DIES SUDDENLY
End Canes WhiIe Attending Circus
Performance in Washington.

Washington, D. General Nelson
A, Miles, veteran of the Civil war and
famous Indian fighter, dropped dead
here. He was Sc years old
General Miles was occupying a re
served seat at circus here when he
suddenly fell forward on the heads
OF those sitting in front of him. He
was dead when his friends reached
him. Death had resulted from my.
carditis and acute dilation of tho
heart,
Born in Westminster, Mass, in 1886
Miles was educated at Harvard,
Brown and Colgate, and first entered
the military service in 1851 as first
lieutenant in the I'D Massachusetts
infantry
He became lieutenant colonel OF
the New York infantry in 1862, a brig.
adier-general in 1864, major-general
in 1866. He served as brigadier.
general and major general in cam,
paigns against the indians in the west
notably against Sitting Bull, crazy
Horse, Chief Joseph, Geronimo and
Natchee
During the Spanish war lie was the
seaior American officer in command
of troops, retiring from the army IN
1903 as lieutenant general
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-05-29
EDITORIAL
THIS WEEK
ALEX STEWART

Alex Stewart, attorney at Wash.
on Heights, performs more than
he promises" He succeeded in
having the Western Newspaper
Union of Portland, Oregon send
out all over the state in their syn.
dicated state news story of the
coming discovery day celebration
on Yashon island. In last Sun.
days Oregcnian, through his eff
fort, the first editorial on the edit.
oriai page, of more than a column.
was on Vashon island, and plan
to make the observance Of discov.
cry day a permanent event. The
News-Record approves M. Stew
art way of DONG things.