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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
MAY HAVE LADY
AS ALDERMAN
Mayor Leibee Rather Fav-
ors Woman Councilman
at Large-Kids Attend

Kennewick may yet be thrust into
the class with the ultra-moderns.
Mayor j. C. Leibee is considering the
appointment of a woman as council
man at large to fill the vacancy caus-
ed by the resignation of H. c.
Schmidt. At Tuesdays meeting sew
eral names were spoken of inform
ally by the council but final action
was delayed until the next regular
session.
Nobody has any argument with the
council, apparently, over sheir plans
for new city hall, for despite the
mayors invitation of last week no
citizen was present to protest or talk
about the proposition. However there
was an audience of high school pupils
who attended the session 30 watch
the wheels go around.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
COMMISSIONERS
WANT TO QUIT
New Law Cuts Pay and
Briggs and McNulty can
not Serve for Less

= Benton county is facing the possi-
bility of having two new members on
its board of commissioners. r. w. Nc
Nulty of Benton City, and r. H.
Briggs of Kennewick are affected by
word recently received from the state
attorney general in his Interpretation
of new law which takes effect early
in April.
The building Of the new court
house at Prosser and the inaugura-
ton of new system of road work in
the county calls for the services Of
men who are familiar with present
conditions. and Prosser citizens es-
pecially are much agitated over the
possibility of having new members
on the board who might not be in en-
tire sympathy with the plans Of the
present board. H. 3. rs 49,.
The cause of the trouble lies in the
advice that commissioner under the
new law, cannot act as road super
visor. While specifying that it shall
become the duty of the commissioner
to supervise road work in his district
as we'll as such other construction
work as may be underway, tho no
provision is made in the matter of
remuneration. With the new court
house being built the commissioners
would be required to devote much of
their time to this work. The two men,
Mr.. Briggs and Mr.. McNulty feel
Ghey cannot afford to make the fl
nancial sacrifice necessary.
At their meeting Tuesday ten or
twelve Prosser business men attended
the session of the board, expressing
their hopes that some means could
be devised whereby no change in the
membership of the board would be re-
quired. At any rate, the commission
ers have decided to hold up their res
ignatioins urs il the April meeting.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
FROST MAN IS
DUE THIS WEEK
Albert Cook again Comes to
Kennewick to Warn
the Growers


Fruitgrowers and Commercial club
officials are rather impatiently await
ing the arrival of Albert Cook, the
frost warning man being sent here
by the department of agriculture. a
telegram from Mr.. Cook was received
today 81 ating that he would arrive
the last of this week and get his ap-
aratus installed at once.
Last year Mr.. Cook was stationed
here and his forecasts were remark
ably accurate, considering the fact
that no previous data was available.
With the figures compiled from last
season Mr.. Cook is of the opinion
that his predictions this year will
vary but little from the actual and
that minimum temperature notices
can be relied upon.
Nearly every farm in the valley
producing soft fruits will be pro-
tected this year by orchard heating
devices, and Mr.. Cooks services will
be greatly appreciated. Old timers of
the community, however, are predict
ing that Mr.. Cook and his thermo-
meters will likely not be needed III
all this year. A regular old time Ken
,newick winter, with little or no snow
or cold weather, will be followed by
a normal, frost-free spring. accord
ing to the prophets, who base their
lunches on the fact that there is bus,
little snow in the country Or noun
tains around us, and really no occa-
sion for frost anyway.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
STATE SETTLING
WITH VETERANS
Adjudication Of Hanford-
White Bluffs Project Gets
Underway at Olympia

Adjudication of settlers claims on
the state soldier settlement at White
Bluffs-Hanford is underway at Olym-
pia, with | he committee headed by
Erie Barnes, state director of conser-
walton and development, in charge.
The adjudication is in accordance
with an act passed at the special
session of the Legislature.
Members of the committee recently
spent several days at White Bluffs,
during which each World War We er-
an who had taken up tract under
state terms was interviewed. 1t is
understood that individual settlements
are to be made with the men in pro-
portion to the degree of expressed
dissai isfaction. Some of the settlers,
who received the better tracts and
had sufficient funds for the needed
development work, are understood to
be fairly well satisfied, while others,
less fortunate, wish the state to re-
turn to ! hem all expenditures made
during the time they have been on
the tracts and bonus in addition,
as well as to release them from their
contract with the state. Following
the adjudication, The state will be
definitely out of the soldier-settle-
ment business, it is understood, with
some valuable experience and size
able bill as the only salvage.-Yaki-
ma Republic.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
CHANGE MADE IN
INCOME TAX LAW
Exemptions. Increased to S3500.00-
Tax Rate Less Returns
by March Fifteenth

Your income Tax for the year 1926
is less, in proportion to your income,
than was the tax for 1924, says Burns
Poe, collector for his district. A rate
reduction. however, is not the only
benefit afforded by the revenue act
of 1926. Increase in the exemptions
and other changes in revenue legisla-
tion are of immediate interest to ev-
cry taxpayer.
The revenue act Of 1926 requires
that returns be filed by every single
person whose ne, income for 1925
was $500 or more, or whose gross
income was $4,000 or more, and by
every married couple whose aggre-
gate net income was $500 or more,
or whose aggregate gross income was
$4,000 or more. Last year returns
We're required of married couples
whose aggregate net income was S2,-
500 or more, and of single persons
whose aggregate net income was ST.
600 or more. Husband and wife, liv-
ing together, may include the income
of each in single joint re urn, or
each may file separate return show
ing the income Of each. Net income
is gross income less certain specified
deductions for business expenses,
losses, bad debts, contributions, etc.
The period for filing returns ends
March Is, 1926. The return. accom-
panied by at least one-fourth of the
amount of tax due, must be filed with
the collector of internal revenue for
the district in which the taxpayer has
his legal residence or has his princi-
pal place of business.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
GET BUSY ON
ATHLETIC PARK
Committee Starts Drive To-
day for Funds for Ball
Field-Will Incorporate

The first dollar for the athletic
field was the very easiest one Of the
bunch to get, according to Lee Semon,
who. wah his committee is out this
afternoon selling stock in the new
concern. While out on the old bail
grounds looking over the possibili-
ties Tuesday, Mr.. Semon picked up a
nice. shiny new dollar. There, the
first dollar for the new Fairgrounds
is contributed by the DID," he said
and the fund was started right there.
Armed with his subscrir ion list
the committee is starting out this
afternoon to raise a fund of thirty
FIVE hundred dollars to spend for a
permanent ball park and fair grounds.
A corporation will be formed and the
subscriptions will be in the form of
purchases of shares of stock. The
legal preliminaries are being sstaken
care Of and the non-profit company
formed.
Shares in the company are being
sold for five dollars and every person
in the community is expected to be-
come a stockholder in the towns
play6eld. The purchase Of stock will
carry with it voting privileges and
the location of the field and the kind
and limit of The improvements will
be determined by the stockholders.
A meeting will be called as soon as
sufficient stock is sold, for the pur-
pose of electing officers and talking
over the affairs of the new commun-
itv enterprise.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
OF
TAXES IMPROVE
Two Weeks in February
Show Is per cent Increase
Over Last Year

AS an indication of the better fl
nancial condition prevailing over the
county this year, County Treasurer
McDougal 4 ates that for the first i3
days of February this year the col
lection of delinquent taxes was over
rs per cent greater than for the first
13 days of February of last year.
This proportion did not hold up,
however, for the entire month, nor
for each class of taxes. The balance
.of the month shows an increase of
sixteen to eighteen per cent over last
wear. Mr.. McDougal pointed out that
collections were started earlier this
year than last, too, and the increase
in payments was quite satisfactory
on the whole.
In the certificate of redemption ae-
count the figures for the two years
were almost identically the same.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
BOY SCOUTS WIN %
MERIT BADGES
Big Class to Appear at Court of
Honor - Parents and Others
Are Invited

There will be another court of hon.
or for the Boy Scouts at the CONNER
cial club rooms next Monday night.
On this occasion the largest class ev-
er will receive merit badges and
grade promotions. The Scout Execu-
tive E. R. B. Parkinson will be pres
ent at this time Wi h some special
stuff for the boys.
The court will be public and par
ents and others interested in the work
are invited to be present. Twenty
two merit badges will be awarded
for specialized work and six or seven
scouts will be promo ed.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
STYLE SHOW DRAWS
BIG CROWD MONDAY
Tenth Semi-Annual Fashion Event
is Again Great
Success

For the ten h consecutive time Mrs.
nodgers' style show packed the Lib
eity theatre, last Monday night. Ever
SINCE the Inauguration of the idea
1--WE years ago, twice each year Mrs.
Aoogers has staged fashion .pageants
winch have attracted the entire COM
munity.
Assisting her this year Mrs. Rod
gers had the services of Mann's I'M
perlal Serenaders, who furnished the
music ! and the speciality dance num-
Oers. A movie comedy proceeded the
snoWlng of the seasons offerings in
women's and children's apparel, which
was Shown by models who posed on
q = runway built out from the stage.
;esses, wraps and hats for the COM
ms season were worn showing the
AeW styles and colors favored.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
DIRTY POOL

There is. a suspicion prevalent here
that the manufacturers of artificial
bats were busy at the last extraor-
dinary session of the legislature. for
Article 85 in the game code reads:
1t shall be unlawful for any person
at any time o fish for game fish with
live minnows. for bait in any of the
waters lying east of the summit of
the Cascade mountains of the state
of Washington.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04

Mrs. Sarah Stoops died Sunday
afternoon of Influenza pneumonia.
She was, born near Harrison, Ken
lucky, September 25, 1916 and was
almost eighty years Of age at the
time of her death. Her husband died
years ago and she has made her home
with her son, Finley Stoops, in the
valley. Funeral services were held
yes erday afternoon at the Baptist
church in charge Of Rev. F. w. Cars
tens, and she was buried in Riverview
Heights cemetery.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04

The Christian church people are
planning farewell dinner for Mr..
and Mrs. E. Carter in the church
basement Friday, March 5th. All
members and friends Of the church
are invited to bring your dinner and
enjoy the evening together. Dinner
will be served at $50. Mr.. Carter
and family are moving to the Big
Bend country, near Coulee City. They
have been faithful workers in ihe
church, Mr.. Carter having taught the
men and women's class for the past
five years.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04

The annual meeting Of the Gene
terry association will be. held Tuesday,
March 9th at 2:30 at the city hall.
Five trustees will be elected to serve
the coming year. All persons owning
lots in. the cemetery and adult mem
bers of their families are members
of the association and are urged to
attend this meeting.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
JENSEN SPEAKS

~ henry Jensen, agricuE urist from
e experiment station at Presser,
.s sas the principal speaker today at
commercial club luncheon. He
stn. s.u members of the club what the
sa1ion non had been doing with sweet
r. eato cui,ure and the information
80 I station has gathered show proof
VI great value to growers in this sec
asa- he thinks this country has a
Slsa,, bleat future in the raspberry and
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
NOPE. NOT so

Because she is opening a branch
store IN Grandview and has sold the
cosmetician department of her busi-
ness, people have been led o believe
that Mrs. Rodgers is quitting Ken
neWick. This is not fact. She will
continue her mercantile business here
as before, and is opening branch
store In Grandview which will be in
charge of Mrs. Neal Harper, form
er resident Of Kennewick.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04

E. F. Reese has bought the jesse
Mckinney place in the upper Garden
Tracts and has moved his family
there. This is one of the bea improv-
ed small places in the tracts and has
a two-story house, chicken runs and
other buildings. There are some cher
ry trees and a mixed assortment of
trees and, berries for family use be-
sides garden plot and large lawn.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
BIG SUPPLY OF
STORAGE WATER
Irrigation Reservoirs in the
Hills Well Filled Little
Snow is Left to Melt


Sufficient irrigation water for the
coming season depends largely on
the antics of the weather during the
month Of March, according to the
statistics made public thru the Yaki-
ma Republic by Supervisor j.. L. Ly-
tel of the Yakima irrigation projec
The mean precipitation to date is
only SO percent of normal, these fig
ures show. This includes an average
of the snow and rainfall for the seas
on!s
"The situation is neither good nor
bat, but just betwiX: and between"
Lytel said. "For an adequate supply
to do the valley thru the early months
of the season it is almost necessary
that the minor run-off take care Of
the irrigation needs until The first of
July. After that we can tap the stored
supply and feel certain of having a
sufficient quantity to carry US thru
the season."
At the present time there are $685.
900 acre-feet in storage as compared
with 257,OOO acre feet at the same
time one year ago. but the potential
supply of snow depended to furnish
water until July 1 thru the medium
of he minor run-off is largely miss
ing, the report shows.
Storage water on hand in these
various reservoirs for 1925-26 shows
a considerably larger quantity at this
time, but this means, officials main
tain, that the warm weather is melt
ing the snow in the hills before its
time and that water will be needed
unless the month of March reverses
its present tactics and blesses the
valley with a few wet storms.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04

The Modern Ii erature department
met Monday afternoon with Mrs. f.
C. Smith. Mrs. p. A. Combelic re-
viewed Christina Alberta's Father,
by Wells, and Mrs. Smith gave re-
view of The Perennial Bachelor, by
Anne Parish. A general discussion
followed and the hostess served re-
freshments.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04

Gus Neuman is taking vacation
from the store Ibis week. He drove
to Priest Rapids and Othello Sunday,
accompanied by the children and has
put in the remainder of the time help
ing to build an addition to the house.
He plans to take a rest next week,
he says.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04
LAST CALL

Farmers who are planning
on growing sweet potatoes must
be prompt with their orders for
seed if they want the CONNER
cial club to get it for them. Per-
cy Combelic, as chairman of the
committee having the matter in
charge. will hold { he order un-
til next Monday. Anyone want
ing seed should get in touch
with Mr.. Combelic before that
time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04

Miss Nellie Woods and Otis Stiles
surprised their friends by going to
Yakima last week and getting mar
ried. The bride is the daugh er of Mr..
and Mrs. F. C. Woods and one of the
popular "hello girls" at the telephone
office. The groom has lived here for
the past year.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04

Miss Rose Bleichner is going to
Cheney Sunday and will finish her
course at the normal Ibis term.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-03-04

w. H. Gascoigne was home over
the week end. He left this morning
for Spokane.
Evening star., 1926-03-21
COMMUNITY SOCIAL.
STUDY PLANNED
Allen T. Burns to Discuss
Chest Plan Tomorrow at
Meeting at Rauscher'S.

The question of a community pro-
gram of social work for Washington
is to have its formal public considera-
ton and discussion at the annual
meeting of the Associated Charities
tomorrow evening in Rauschers, 1884
Connecticut avenue.
Allen T. Burns, executive director of
the American Association for Commu
nifty Organization, and former preSi
dent of the National Conference for
Social Work, will make the leading
address on this subject, which is eX-
pected to emphasize the Importance of
community team work, but without
undertaking to advise Washington as
10 the community chest idea. Follow
ing the address an opportunity will be
given for open discussion from the
floor, and this may bring forth argu-
ments for or against the chest plan
for this city in the light of the facts
10 be presented by Mr.. Burns concern
ing the experience of other cities.
This meeting, invitations to which
have been sent to the members and
friends of the leading social agencies
Of the city and which is open to the
general public, will launch the annual
Easter campaign of the Associated
charities and the Citizens Relief AS
sociation for their joint budget of $59,-
600. about half of which already has
been subscribed. Letters and blanks
are being sent to many citizens in the
hope of bringing the number of con-
tributinS members up to 10000.
Coleman Jennings, chairman of the
board of managers of the Associated
Charities, will preside. The commit
tee on arrangements includes Miss
Evening star., 1926-03-21
VETS FIRST TO SEE
MINSTREL SHOW
Y. w. and Y. NJ. n. A. to
Stage Preliminary Affair
at Walter Reed.

The dress rehearsal Of the Y. W..
and Y. NJ. Fl. A. minstrel show Will be
presented at Walter Reed Hospital TO-
morrow night, when the soldier pa
tients and nurses will witness this
first showing of the eleventh annual
entertainment OF the Hebrew associa-
tions.
Wednesday night at the Jewish Com.
munity Center, Sixteenth ana "
streets, the first public performance
will be presented. The show VIII De
The production Is being directed and
staged by Adlai NJ. Mann. Lee katz Is
interlocutor Lillian Friedman, Mike"
Jolson, brother of AL JOlson, Char.
lotte Luber Rosenblatt and Baby
Margaret" Levy, stars Of past produc'
tions. will be seen again. Costumes
for the girls of the cast were designed
by Jeanne +. Portion.
Reserved seats for both perform
ances have been placed on sale at the
Center. A large share OF the proceeds
Of this years entertainment will be
turned over to the Jewish Community
Center as payment on the pledge TO
the Center building fund.
The Sidney Seidenman Orchestra
will play for the dancing that follows
the entertainment.
The following committees are in
charge:
Production committee-Dr. Joseph
Norman, chairman: Jeanne e. Portion,
associate chairman.
Publicity committee-Leo J. Pinkus.
David Wiener, Zelma Friedman.
Program committee-Samuel Len
kin, chairman: Reuben Taresky.
Ticket committee-George G. Cohen,
chairman; Hyman Greenberg.
Reception committee-David VIE
Evening star., 1926-03-21

Jefferson's birthday, are going ahead
rapidly under the direction of Marie
Moore Forrest, it was announced
yesterday.
Although the pageant has been
presented twice before-in York in
1924, and in Baltimore in 1925-the
performance on April 13 will mark its
first presentation In the National
Capital. The pageant has been loaned
for this occasion by the author Mrs.
Evening star., 1926-03-21

ner, Louis E. Spiegler, Maurice Bis
eyer, Isidore Hershfield, Mrs. NJ.
Gutenberg, Morris Garf1nkle, Joseph
Wilmer, Harry Viner, Morris Cafritz,
Moe Gutenberg. Harry King, Charles
A. Goldsmith.
= Floor committee-Luck Goldberg,
chairman; Jack Cohen. Minnie HUT,
Isadore Lesser. Norman Mayer, Meyer
Fichman, Louis II. Rusga, Boy Scout,
No. %; Goldye Goldstein. pianist.
Evening star., 1926-03-21

Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, and
members of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Association will sponsor
many of the scenes. Other scenes will
be sponsored by George Washington
University. the dramatic committee
of the Arts Club Of Washington. the
Dramatic Association of Central
High School and the President Mon
roe Chapter, Daughters of the Amer
jcan Revolution.
Evening star., 1926-03-21

Music will be by the orchestra of
the United States Army Band. con-
Quoted by Capt. William Stannard.
The public will be invited to attend
the performance as part of the
civic observance of the birthday of
Thomas Jefferson
Evening star., 1926-03-21

Effort i; being made to have the
Swiss government control the watch
industry of Switzerland in order to
stop the wholesale manufacture of
parts to be sent to other countries to
be mounted in cheap cases. thus de.
preciating the entire watch market.
Evening star., 1926-03-21
G.. w. U. Debaters Beat Syracuse.

The George w: ,hington University
debating team received the unanimous
decision of the Judges in it's meeting
with Syracuse University debaters in
Syracuse, \ y. Friday night. The
child labor nendment was the sub
ject matter uf the debate.
Evening star., 1926-03-21

Helen Nicolay. Charles c. Glover, jr.,
and Dwight Clark.
After the discussion there will be
brief reports concerning the work of
these associations during the past
year.
Evening star., 1926-03-21

Prague has a new automatic tele-
phone system.
Evening star., 1926-03-21
PAGEANT PLANS PUSHED.
Presentation of "Thomas Jeffer-
son" Slated for April 13.

Preparations for the pageant
Thomas jefferson" to be given by
the Community Center Department
Tuesday night. April 13, in honor Of