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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06
CLEAN UP DAY is
AGAIN SELECTED
Poor Response to Previous Order -
Gotta Do 1t Right This Time
Says the Mayor

This town is going to be cleaned
up, and cleaned up right, if the coun-
ell, with the aid of the police force
is able to get it done. Strict orders
were given last Tuesday night that
the alleys and lots in the town be
cleaned up, and the mayor has Sc
lected Monday, May 10, as the official
cleanup day.
In case of neglect the police force
has been given orders to see that the
work is done. If the owners them
selves do not assume the task the city
will do the work and charge it to the
property. Special effort is being made
at this time to enable the city to
present an inviting appearance to the
thousand or so visitors from all over
the state who will be entertained here
the first week in June.
Remember the date-Monday, May
10.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06

Returning from little foraging
expedition, Mr.. and Mrs. Grow came
upon the havoc wreaked by Mr.. Sva-
tonsky. Shrill cries rent the air and
much indignation expressed by the
pair. Finally sensing the terrible ca
lamity that had befallen, Mrs. Grow
flew to the ground, snatched up
piece of string, and returned to the
lofty perch where her home had been.
Action, boy!
Tieing the knots securely, one end
about her neck and the other to the
rafters, poor Mrs. Crow deliberately
committed suicide while Pa Crow ut
tered loud lamentations.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06
Local Boy Scout to Receiue Eagle Rank

The highest honor in Scouting is
to be conferred upon Kennewick
boy next Monday night, when George
Broughman will go to Walla Walla
to appear before the special court
of honor. Here he will take the ex-
animation as Eagle Scout and the
public presentation cermonies will
take place here during the state
grange convention early in June.
To become an Eagle Scout the
member must acquire q merit badges
during his membership. The court
of honor will give the examination,
and may ask questions relating to
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06
THREE BANDS TO
LIVEN THINGS UP
Changers Want Lots of Mu.
sic - Committee Wants
Lots More Rooms

Music, and lots of it will be feat
|ured during the week Of the state
grange convention. Three bands, one
of them a forty-piece organization,
will be in attendance during the week
and there will be band concerts upon
every and all occasions.
Besides the bands, there will be
many official delegates and just lot
of grangers in attendance. Question
aires sent to the various bodies in the
state are being checked up. From the
replies of less than one third of the
grangers, over six hundred people
will attend. The committee in charge
is making preparations for at least
a thousand people, and really expect
ing about twelve hundred all told.
The committee in charge of the
housing and eating is having it's
hands full. All the available tents
from all the supply houses in the
state have been ordered, and there is
still need for more. Cots and bed
ding are needed badly, too and every
home that can accommodate one or
more Of the visitors is asked to in
dicate that fact to the committee. A
standard rent is being charged for
all private beds, of $1.25 per night,
no meals furnished. If you have a
spare bed, please notify the commit
tee at once.
The program for the week is be-
ing worked out and will include adj
dresses from prominent men of the
northwest. It is possible that the gov
ernor will be asked to be present
for the Monday night program. On
Tuesday afternoon the visitors will
be taken thru the valley and over the
to show them the country.
Tuesday evening the big dance will
be given in their honor at the High
lands club house. The balance of the
week will be taken up with the pro-
gram for grangers only and will be
in charge of the various oranges of
Benton county.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06
TWO CARS BERRIES

CIV. a@o solid carloads of KennewicL
waa, aWoerries will be shipped this
week. The cool weather Of the mast
r;as s@ oays has been ideal for the ber-
;tv s ss winch are of unusually fine quail
1sy. I shipments to the Northwest mar
he;n I nave been light, the markets
Eng ENG pretty well supplied from Cali
aia Easa and Hood River. However. the
.ha las. -. IS calling for straight cars and
hae. M TWO that will roll this week have
her, soid IN Canada at $4.OO per crate
asnaro uUre tlan fifty solid carloads of
tb;s agus have been shipped SO far
;na s season and the price is still hold
ing up fairly we'll. o ~
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06
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Mothers Day, Sunday. Nav 9th

Mothers Day, Sunday, May 9th. ..
What rush of memories the day brings to us all
10 some of memories that still linked up with rea
tves, for the guardian of youthful Joys and sorrows
is still with u.s.
10 Others memories that put a lump in the throat
and suspicious mosness in the eye as little gray haired
woman is remembered little lady who could wipe away
our tears and by magic heal bruises and bumps
with stroke of the hand.
A little woman whose face was wrnkled but whose
every wrinkle badge of honor for wrinkle repre-
sented work and labor and love.
There will be a lot of flowers on the street Sunday
In some buttonholes the bloom will still be pink spnfyinp
that mother still spared to the In others the
bloom will be white, reminder that mother has gone to
join that host of saints which will some day know as
the mothers section of heaven.
Wear flower Sunday Not that it can add one whit of
respect affection for mother no bloom however beau
u could adequately express the devotion we all hold for
her. 1
But does symbolic to the world that you have paused
long enough to pay public tribute her on the day set
apart Mothers Day.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06
GRADUATION is
NEXT THURSDAY
Baccalaureate Sunday Night
-26 Pupils in Class -
Six on Honor List

With one more week of school,
twenty-six young people of this COM
munity will have received all the ed
ucation that Kennewick can bestow
upon them. Commencement week
starts next Monday. Seventeen girls
and nine boys comprise the gradua-
tion class from the Kennewick high
school in 1926.
Of this class of twenty-six there
are twelve of the pupils who have re-
ceived their entire school training in
the local institutions. Those who en-
tered the first grade here are: Elna
Beste, Helen Moulton, Kenneth Ka-
dow, Ardice Sheppard, Kathryn An
derson, Dora Williams, Lottie Smith,
John Soth, Norman Byrd, Marjorie
Moores, Ethel McReynolds and Ev-
erett Grouse.
Six Of this years graduates are on
the honor roll. Each of the following
has maintained an average of 80 or
better for the entire four-year high
school course: John Soth, Ardice
Sheppard, Ethel McReynolds, Nita
Miller, Helen Moulton and Kenneth
Serier.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
preached by Rev. N. F. Cole at the
Methodist church next Sunday night,
who will take for his subject "Free-
dom thru Submission" and all the
churches will join in union meeting.
The invocation will be given by Rev.
L. j. Aldrich and the scripture read
ing by DR.. ID. ID. MacLaurin, and the
benediction will pronounced by Rev.
F. N. Morton.
The commencement exercies will
be in the , Methodist church next
Thursday evening. The speech will
be by Prof. w. A. Bratton of Whit
man college. who has for his SUBJ
ject: "Who is Educated?"
John Soth, who has finished his
high school work with an average of
94.5 will be valedictorian of the class.
Ardice Sheppard, with four-year
average Of 93.75 will be salutatorian
for the class. John is the second men,
ber Of the Soth family to lead his
graduation class, Phillip having won
that honor in 1924.
The class of 1926 has for its colors
purple and white and the church will
be fittingly decorated with this COM
The class flower is the lilac
and the motto: "Life is like pic
5ure, so paint it WELL"
The class of 1926 comprises the
following members: Gene Spaulding.
slna Beste, Helen Moulton, Everett
Grouse, Lois Pfister, Ethel McReyn-
lids. Nita Miller, Francis Keolker,
Donald Peter, John Soth, Clara Opal
elliott, Marjorie Moores, Dora Will
Jams, Norman Byrd, Ardice Shep-
lard, Kathryn Anderson, Alta Brit
on, Lottie Smith. Opal Callahan. Ken
leth Serier, Roosevelt Christensen,
dable Nellora Thomas, Marie Day,
ilenna Kinkaid, Edna zinser, Ken
leth Kadow.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06

any OF the merit badges worn by the
candidate, his rating in school and
his general character.
AT the present time there is but
one other Eagle Scout in this district
Of the council. There will be about
six candidates appearing before the
board next Monday night.
Chief Executive Parkinson and Rev.
Herman S. Reichard, of Walla Walla.
president of the Blue Mountain Coun-
ell, will come to Kennewick to con.
duct the ceremony of investing Scout
Broughman, of Troop 9, with the
Eagle Scout badge.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06
PASCO~ GOLFERS WIN
ANOTHER CONTEST
Beste Wins Three of Kennewick's
Four Scores To Play White
Bluffs Sunday

A novelty contest will be staged al
the golf course next Sunday, wher
then local club will be given an en-
velope containing number. Upon
their return from the round the en-.
velope will be opened and the winner
of the hole as indicated on the en-
closed slip will have won the round
Players will not know which hole is
the deciding one until the round is
completed.
Last Sunday the team from Pasco
came over and the regulation contest
was staged. Pasco went back home
with the big end of a 26-4 score.
A return game will be played some
time this month on the course over
there.
The play last Sunday also furnished
the local ladder standings. Frank
Beste brought in the lowest medal
score so he heads the list, with 81.
Muldrow is second with 80; Tullar
81; Shanafelt 81; Vickers "a; Lundy
90; Spaulding 98; Vibber SO; Knowles
1O3; Schmidt 1O4; Gaul 104; Day 1O4;
Holcomb 113.
On the ladder play any member
may challenge any of the three above
him on the ladder. If he wins he
moves ahead Of the loser. If the cha;-
lenged person does not arrange a
game within week he loses by de-
fault. Score cards must be turned in
and marked Ladder to be considered
as counting toward position.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06
WIN ANOTHER

The Kennewick ball team won at
Richland last Sunday by a score of
1862. Sunnyside, the only undefeated
team in the league added another vic
tory by beating Grandview 81. Ben
ton City won from Mabton So. Next
Sunday the team will go to Grand
view.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06
Mrs. Grow Deliberately Commits Suicide

= SAD tale of thwarted ambition,
or.o.ken-heartedness which ended
~. suicide as was brought to this office
c. Osner day by Joe svantonsky. Mr..
Of fthOnSky tho lives out in the fag end
wbanrsJH ue Horse Heaven, where the
bina tr;e u1oale mourneth and the wood
and zoe farm there is a windmill
sreass st1a 4Si aplenty. Climbing up to
Joe L;o1 ine squeeking joints last week.
spilIad neo .1 over crows nest and
actors ready! al SCI ana the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Wheeler Pratt of
Walla Walla spent the week end with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Gra-
ham.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Campbell
and children left Monday night for
Ohio to visit relatives for a month.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06

The Ladies Aid Of the Bethlehem
Lutheran church met with Mrs. NJ. G..
Kauth this afternoon.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06

Mrs. w. M. Brace came home from
the hospital last week and is improv-
ing in health.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-05-06
Potato Growers not wishing to
screen notify Briggs at once.

Field inspection can only be
made on application of the
grower. It requires that an in
spector visit each field once a
week from now until digging
Time. No charge is made on this
work. An affidavit must be fur
nlshed with each car going to
the quarantine district on field
inspected or screened potatoes.
The dealer shipping the car will
oe assessed for the affidavit
Zee. All growers that do not
want to screen their potatoes
must notify r. H.. Briggs by
mail at once.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-05
DRY CHIEF OF
AREA TO COME
HERE SHORTLY
lRu pisnarcn A. P Wire1

PHOENIX, Jan. Am inspection
of prohibition conditions and law
enforcement problems in southern
Arizona will be made by Colonel K.
E. Firth, of Los Angeles, prohibition
administrator for Southern California
and Arizona, who arrived here today.
In company with Frank NJ. Pool,
assistant administrator for Arizona
and w. w. Anderson, assistant ad-
ministrator for Southern California,
colonel Firth will visit Douglas,
Tucson, Globe, Miami, Nogales and
Bisbee and other places in the south
ern par tof the state.
Colonel Firth said today that he
was well pleased IN general with
conditions in Southern California and
as reported in Arizona. He remarked
that the high price which liquor
commanded in Arizona was an ex-
cellent indication that the bootiegger
was held in control effectively
The administrator declared that the
necessary days of experimenting in
the enforcement of the prohibition
act were past and that sufficient
experience had been gathered to en-
able the work to be done in more
regular and intelligent manner He
said he expected to see the prohibit
tion forces as we'll organized as any
military unit.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-05
.DOWAGER QUEEN
OF ITALY dies
DURING MONDAY
(By Dispatch A. p. wre7

BORDlGHERAs Italy, Jan. 4.-As a
family might mourn one of it's best
loved members, Italy tonight mourned
the loss of Dowager Queen Margher-
ita of Savoy, mother of King Victor
Emmanuel, who died peacefully at II
O'Clock this morning, surrounded by
her immediate family in her modest
villa on the sunny shores of the
Riveria.
Although her death was not unex-
pected, it brought forth spontene-
Gus wave of characteristically intense
emotion from the entire land, uniting
Italians everywhere in sorrow for the.
passing of the gentle old woman,
known as "the Italian Queen" be-
cause she alone of Italy's feminine
sovereigns was born on Cisalpine soil
Death was due to a cerebral throm-
bus, or blood clot, symptoms of which
became manifest esterday morning
after the queen mother apparently
had quite recovered from recent
attack of pleural pneumonia
Immediately on being informed by
Cardinal Gasparri of the death of the
queen, whom he knew personally,
Pope Plus expressed deep sadness
and retired to pray in his private
chapel. 1t is asserted, but cannot be
confirmed that the pope conferred
pontificial benediction when it be-
came apparent that the royal sufferer
could not survive, this fact being
in view of the friction be,
tween King Humbert, the queens
husband, and the Holy See.
Premier Mussolini issued pro-
clamation to the nation and the
armed forces, recalling that Margher-
ita had always been the symbol OF
regality and gentility He then left
for Bordighera.
Throughout the nation normal ac-
tivities have been stilled, buildings
are draped with black and flags half
stated. The theaters, schools. pub
lie buildings and most of the stores
have been closed.
No arrangements have yet been
made tonight for the funeral, but it is
believed will be elaborately carried
out at Rome. The press has appealed
for her burial beside her husband in
the Pantheon, the repository OF the
nations most illustrious deal.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-05
Disarmament Participation Is
Put Up to Congress on Monday

WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. - President
Coolidge today put the question
whether the United States should
participate in the league of nations
preliminary disarmament discussion
UP to congress.
In special message, transmitted
to both the house and senate, he rec
commended a $4,000 appropriation to
defray the expenses. of American par
ticipation Acceptance of the league
councils imitation to take hand in
the work of the preparatory commits
sion, he said, "involves no commit
ment with respect to attendance upon
any future conference or conferences
on reduction and limitation of arlno-
ments; and the attitude of this gov
ernment in that regard cannot be de-
fined in advance of the calling OF
such meetings."
In the house Representative Tenn :
pie, of Pennsylvania, ranking repup-
lican on the foreign affairs commits
tee, introduced resolution to author
ize the appropriations. 1t was refer
red automatically to the foreign at
fairs committee which will meet on
wednesday to consider it.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-05
WATER GOING
down IN ALL
FLOODED AREA

PARIS, Jan. .-(AP)-
Transylania, eastern Hun
gary and Rumania present
the most critical situation
in Europe which is slowly
emerging from one Of the
worst floods in it's history.
1t is variously estimated
that between so and 1000
persons have perished, while
the loss in cattle and the
damage to spring wheat
and property is tremen-
,dous.
of territory are likely to remain un-
tries and the amount of damage in
flicted probably will not be known
for several days, perhaps weeks be-
cause of the decentralization Of COM
munications and because vast areas
ofterritory are likely to remain UNI
der water for some time. But it is
certain that there will be a trem"n-
dous death toll and financial loss
Details of the casualties and the
suffering in Transylvania, Hungary
and Rumania are slowly reaching
Budapest and Bucharest
Most deaths occurred in isolated
hamlets and on small farms where
the residents had no warning Of
danger. This makes the
task of close computation Of
causualties almost impossible. Many
died of hunger or exhaustion while
waiting to be rescued from their
housetops or other vantage points.
Eastern Hungary has suffered
greatly but the wheat reports are
more reassuring. At Kis-Jano, it is
known that 155 houses collapsed and
several persons perished. In the
Ozetete district, 410 houses and farms
were destroyed and it is believed
that portions of this district will be
inundated for at least ten lays
The worst situation exists along
the river Thesis where thousands OF
still remain on the
roofs of their flooded houses await
ing rescue. Great ice packs swept
down from the mountains by recent
SHOWS have completely damned up
the rivers at several points, causing
the water to overflow the country
side.
The Seine, Marne and Yonne rivers
tell slightly during the day but the
situation tonight was not without
danger. Never have the French so
closely followed the weather mans
forecasts. The predictions tonight
were for continued rains, and the
maximum flood level was expected
in the Paris region about January
5 or T.
The floods today reached their
highest point in the region of Crell,
Beauvias and Noyon, and trains from
Belgium had to slow down to ten
Or twelve miles, with the water
reaching the floors of the coaches.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-05
TAX REDUCTION
BILL STARTS ON
WAY In SENATE
fBv Dispatch A. P. wlran

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-The tax re-
duction bill was started on it's way
in the senate today, facing three
cornered fight.
Secretary Mellon expressed the adj
ministrations position generally by
warning the senate finance commit
tee that the measure as passed by ths
house represented the total amount
of tax reduction which the condition
of the treasury warranted = about
$3.50, ,OO0, 600 This sum was the sur,
plus the government had, he said, at
the close of the last fiscal year,
Before the day was over, however,
both republicans and Democrats OF
the committee met in separate con-
fcrences to discuss possible changes
in the bill.
Senator Simmons of North Carolina,
ranking democrat on the committee,
announced later he was dissatisfied
with the house bill and hoped thas
senate democrats would urge greater
reduction than it provided, mention
ing $4O0,0O0,OO0 as the minimum.
Chairman Smoot, spokesman for
the republicans, meanwhile, has un-
der consideration some changes in the
rate schedules which would not dis
turb the total amount of tax reduc-
ton. He is considering increasing
the exemption from the admission tax
from so cents to $1.O0. He would off
set this, under the tentative plan, by
repeating provisions in the bill cut
ting in half the alcohol levy.
Republican insurgents are expected
to wage a fight for restoration to the
bill of the provision permitting pub
licity of income tax returns.
In the program for greater tax re-
duction, the democrats would repeal
all the excise and stamp levies, a
plan to which Senator King of Utah.
a democratic member of the commits
tee, today announced his adherence.
The committee will continue hear
ings probably through the remainder
of the week before actually, consid-
ering any changes. Chairman Smoot
plans to have the bill presented to
the senate by January 20, and prompt
action apparently is favored on all
sides, so that it's provisions may be-
come effective before March Is, when
first installments of the income taxes
are due.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-05
IRVING BERLIN
MARRIES ELLEN
MACKAY IN N. Y.
tBy Dispatch A. P. wire)


NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Iriving Ber-
lin, the Russian immigrant and
former bowery saloon waiter who
later became popular song writer
and producer of reviews, today mar
ried Miss EIln Macksy, daughter
of Clarence H. MacKay, head of the
Postal Telegraph company. The cere-
mony was performed by Deputy City
Clerk Mccormick in the municipal
building.
When informed Of the marriage
Mackay, prominent layman in the
Roman Catholic church. issued a
statement asserting:
'The wedding was a complete sur
prise and was without my knowledge
ior consent. Beyond that / have
nothing to say"
Mackay's persistent opposition de-
layed the marriage which had been
expected for months by friends of
Berlin and Miss Mackay. Her mother,
who now is the wife of Dr. Joseph
A. Lake, gave her consent several
months ago.
Last June, with the approval of
Cardinal Hayes, Miss Mackay OBJ
tanned a ~dispensation from Pope
Plus XI, allowing her marriage to
Berlin, who is a Jew. Under the dis
pensation any children will be reared
in the Roman Catholic faith.
Berlin's song, Remember" which
was sung by John Mccormack in the
international Radio program New
Years night was said to have been
written to Miss Mackay.
In a recent magazine article Miss
Mackay said that society girls were
frequenting cabarets because they
wanted privacy from "unattractive
people" often found in society. in
another article she said that modern
society girls marry as they choose,
without chasing eligible young men,
The only witnesses at the wedding
were Ben Bloom and Mr.. and Mrs.
Max Winslow. Neither Berlin nor his
wife gave any information where
they would spend. their honeymoon.
Soon after arriving in this country,
a penniless and friendless immigrant
, boy, Berlin was employed as sing
ling waiter in "Nigger Mike" Saul
ters saloon in the Bowery. Soon he
began to write songs, and when the
first measure of success reached him
he changed his name from Baline
to Berlin and forsook the bowery.
Berlin's first wife died in 1913. In
memory of her he wrote one of his
most popular songs, when I Leave
the World Behind" and "Oh How /
Hate to get up in the Morning" were
written when he was a sergeant Of
Infantry during the world war His
recent hits are "All Alone" and
Remember"
Miss Mackay has been one of the
most popular of society girls. II
consider Ellin Mackay" the Prince
of Wales said on his visit here last
year "One of the most charming
girls I've ever met. She is a de-
lightful person to converse with"