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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-08-12
PUBLICITY is
CRYING NEED
Bumper Crop of Fine Ap-
ples Requires Help on
Marketing End

The commercial apple crop this
year will be the largest ever pro-
duced, according to reports now
current, both official and non-of-
fetal. The figures indicate that the
crop in this country will be four
teen per cent larger than last year,
and taken with the increase in the
Canadian crop there will be about
one-eighth more apples this year
than ever before.
The situation, however, is not as
bad as the bald figures seem to in
dicate, for with the normal in
crease in population, the per capita
crop is about the same as it was
last year. Tho the fine quality of
stock and the annual increase in
population are two factors that
favor the coming deal, honest,
careful packing and widespread
publicity are held necessary fac
tors to insure a successful outcome
of the season.
According to dealers this will
be poor year for orchard rum,
face and fill, C grade and unclassi-
fed grades. It is advised that these
grades be not dumped on the mar
kets to detract from the possible
sales of the better grades.
| Good, careful grading was new
er needed more than this year to
enable the apple tonnage to be
moved, according to advices. 1t is
also suggested by the dealers that
the normal ten per cent tolerance
be cut this year to not over five
per cent, which will clear the mar
ket Of seven to eight thousand
cars of the poorer stuff.
AS means of strengthening
up the demand there is big de-
mand for publicity and advertising
which, it is figured will help ma
terially in increasing the consump-
tion just enough to keep the crop
moving out briskly. 1t is an excel
lent year to tell people just how
good apples really are.
With proper publicity and care
full grading this year, there will
not be too many apples to go a.
round. If these two factors are
given sufficient attention, it is
thought, the 1926 season may be
chalked up as a big and success
full apple year.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-08-12
VOTEON 5-MILL
LEVY AUG 21ST
Funds Must be Author
lied if Buses are
Continued

A special school election has
been called for a week from Sat-
urday, August 21st to authorize an
additional levy of five mills. The
election will be held at the city
hall from one until seven pm. and
all patrons of the district are eli
gible to vote.
Since the consolidation of the
district several years ago which
called for the erection of the new
building the district has been un-
able to operate on the legal ten
mill limit allowed. Each year n
special election for the purpose of
authorizing more funds has been
necessary. In past years the levy
has nearly always been ten mills.
Last year the amount was cut to
five mills, which is the amount be-
ing asked again this year.
The five-mill levy is expected to
raise approximately $4,000. The
school board has cut about $500
from the operating expenses dur
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NEED SPEED TO
GET PAVING
Proposition to be Pre-
sented at Special
Council Meeting

Blue prints were received today
from the state highway depart
ment showing the route for the
proposed mile and half of con-
crete paving that the city may
secure from the states funds. The
expenditure Of. the money hinges
upon a prompt securing Of the
right of way for the improvement.
The right of way must be secured
before next Tuesday in order that
the state road may advertise for
bids. A months delay will mean
that the unexpended money left
III the special appropriation will
revert to the general fund.
At a special noon day meeting
of the Commercial club, called by
President D. G. Rodgers, was well
attended and the maps were put
on display and explained. The nee
essity for prompt action was point
ed out and committee was ap-
pointed to interview the property
owners affected and secure the
deeds necessary. Another commit
tee was appointed to get the legal
data required and the completed
proposition will be presented to a
special meeting of the city council
tomorrow night.
The route desired runs in broad
curve from the Day place on the
River Road thru the Caha, Hessler.
and Packwood place, cutting off a
small corner of the Carman and
Behrman places. Property owners
along the proposed Improvement
are heartily in favor of the pro-
ject, as are, Of course, the resi-
dents in other portions Of the city.
Owing to the necessity for quick
action there is no time to form
Improvement districts for the pur-
pose Of assessing the abutting pro-
perty owners for the Improvement,
nor is there time enough to permit
of special bond election. The
money for the right Of way must
be furnished either by popular sub
scription, which is deemed out of
the question just at present, or
the council may include a suff-
cient amount in their 1927 budget.
Some plan of underwriting this
proposal no doubt will be resorted
to, that the grading may be start
ed at once.
Whether or not the city may in
clude enough in its next budget to
include the cost Of the right of
way is also a matter to be looked
into. However, the Improvement is
of Importance and so greatly de-
sired that some satisfactory meth
Cd of financing will no doubt be
worked out.
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WATER RENT
is INCREASED
Levy is Re
quired to Retire War
rant Indebtedness

At the last meeting of the board
of directors on August 7th, the
budget and levies of Columbia lr-
rigation district for the next sea-
son. were adopted. 1t was neces-
sary to raise the rate of assess
ments this year dollar and ten
cents an acre, making the basic
rate $6.40 per acre on old water
right land and $3.50 per acre on
new water right land. This change
provides funds for retiring ten
thousand dollars of the warrant
Indebtedness Of the district, in the
next IL months.
1t is vitality necessary that this
floating warrant issue be retired
before the first material land pay
ments become due in 1880. The
following is a summary of the fl
nancial condition of the district,
All the budget and levies for the
1926 assessment roll.
The resources of the district
from all sources total $119,548.47.
From this amount is subtracted
the outstanding warrant indebted
ness of $49,221.62, leaving sur
plus book worth of $40, 0,326.05.
These resources include lands own
ed by the district, and lands on
which the district holds liens, as
well as land and water contracts
and leases and water rentals.
The estimated income from all
sources for the coming twelve
months total S67,41S.23 and include
the estimated collections from the
1926 roll of twenty-eight thous-
and dollars.
The estimated expenditures, in
cluding bond interest, warrant in
terest and maintenance and opera
tion total $57,500. This leaves a
surplus OF just under ten tnous-
and dollars with which to retire
outstanding warrants.
The item of land and water con-
tracts included in the list Of re-
sources amounting to $15,628.25
represents the value of contracts
for lands sold by the district. Cash
collections on land sales in the
last twelve months were $3657.
The item of land leases listed at
1895 represents collections for
pasture leases of district lands.
Total collections for the IL months
ending July first were SCI, 400
against $47,90O for the previous
twelve months, showing a. very
healthy improvement. Another
good sign is that delinquencies on
the 1925 roll were one-third less
than on the previous roll.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-08-12
10Y MARRIAGES
NINE DIVORCES
Last Year Recorded Few.
er Divorces Than
Ever Before

The world, or at least this i'm
mediate portion Of it, must be get
ting better, according to official
figures being announced this week.
During the last calendar year Ben
ton county recorded 1O7 marriages
and only 9 divorces. Fewer divorc-
es were given in 1925 than in any
previous year since 1915.
The department of commerce an
nounces that according to the re-
turns received from county clerks,
there were 1874 marriages per-
formed in the state of Washington
during the year 1925, as compared
with 1868 in 1924, representing
an increase Of 333, or 1.9 per cent.
During the year 1925 there were
4,126 divorces granted in the state,
as compared with 1924 in 1924,
representing an increase Of 202,
or 81 per cent.
The estimated population of the
state of Washington on July !,
1925, was 1,51O,2SO and on July l,
1924, 1,483,5O1. On the basis Of
these estimates, the number of
marriages per 1000 Of the popula-
tion was 11.88 in 1925, as against
11.87 in 1924; and the number of
divorces per 1000 of the popula-
tion was 2.73 in 1925, as against
2.65 in 1924.
Ben. Co. 1916 1922 1924 1925
Marriages 62 112 119 lot
Divorces II Is Is 9
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FOUR MORE SEEK
COUNTY POSITIONS
Two from PrOsser Two from
Kennewick - Two More
Days to File

Four new aspirants for county
office have appeared since our last
announcement. Louis p. Kelley has
filed on the republican ticket for
county clerk. Mr.. Kelley lives at
Prosser. Another Prosser man, G..
w. Fristoe, has filed for prosecut-
ing attorney.
The two local candidates to last
enter the ranks of office seekers
are j. C. Buchanan and Mrs. May
Weir. Mr.. Buchanan will file to-
morrow for the office of sheriff
on the republican ticket. Mrs. Weir
has filed for county school super
intendent.
Saturday is the last day for fill
ing, and one or two more are
looked for before the books close.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-08-12
HOLDDECISION
IN TEST CASE
County Commissioners to
Make Campaign
Anyway

County Commissioners r. HI.
Briggs and c. E. DeBow will be
compelled to make their campaigns
for reelection this fall without
knowing whether or not they will
be allowed to serve after they
win. The suit they started for a
test case has been carried to the
supreme court for decision which
has been delayed until after the
fall primaries.
That the state supreme court
will not enter a decision on the
test case of these two commission
ers in which they seek compensa-
tion for acting as their own road
supervisors prohibited by a law
passed in 1925, until after the fall
primaries, is the belief in Prosser,
according to the Yakima Herald.
Cases heard at the same time
and afterwards during the session
have been decided upon, it is re-
ported, The case of the Benton
county commissioners is of state
wide interest as it affects counties
in the same class as Benton, such
as Franklin, Garfield, Asotin,
Whitman and others.
According to the new law, coun-
ty commissioners are prohibited
from acting as their own road SUI
pervisors. The two commissioners
applied for their compensation but
were refused by the superior court
They contemplated resigning but
later decided to remain in office
when urged by residents. They con-
tend that the new law is a viola
tion of the state constitution which
states that no county officers sal
ary shall be changed during his
term of office. That the two COM
missioners believe the suprsme
court will decide in their favor is
evident in the fact that both have
filed for reelection this year.
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AS soon as he has finished with
some special work for the state
board of equalization, Richard
Briggs will go to work in the M.
M. Moulton law office. Richard has
completed law course in the u.
of o. and has taken the examina-
ton for admission into the bar in
Oregon. He has not yet received
word as to whether or not he pass
ed, but as soon as he hears he will
make application for the examina-
ton in this state.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-08-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Plowman and
SON George returned yesterday
from a months auto trip. They
visited their old home and various
places in South Dakota, one place
being Belle Fourche, where they
saw the E. M. and w. S. Sly fam
lilies, former Kennewick residents.
They are in the grocery business
there. Mr.. and Mrs. Plowman had
a most enjoyable time with old
friends both going and coming, and
were royalty received by the Palm
force on their arrival home.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-08-12
MANY NAMED
IN CONTEST
45 Entries in Popularity
Race for Annual
Fair Days

y :.
This Queen of the Fair contest
is starting off with bang. Forty
five nominations for the honor
have already been received and
more are coming in in every mail.
Forty-five young ladies will vie
for the privilege of representing
Kennewick at the Interstate Fair
and forty-five will seek the honor
of ruling this community for the
two fair days.
Entrants in the race have come
from all parts Of the eastern end
of the county, there being names
in the list from every town. Out
side of Kennewick, Richland heads
the list with ten entrants. Young
ladies from Finley, Hover, Han
ford and White Bluffs have been
nominated, each of whom has an
equal chance of receiving the hon.
ors.
The American Legion committee
in charge of the contest will spare
no pains in seeing that the win
ner Of this popularity contest is
entertained like a royal parsonage
should be. A member of the COM
mittee will interview each of the
contestants this week, if possible
and explain all the details.
From Kennewick the following
young ladies have been nominated:
Floyce Smith, Evelyn Serier, Elna
Beste, Helen Moulton, Anna Nc
Bee, jeanette Huntington, Lydia
Byrd, Mona Young, Dora Viii
liams, Ovidia Williamson, Marian
Lewis, Leota Byrd, Evelyn Olbrich,
Gladys Speigle, Nita Miller, Ame-
liza Warnock, Florence Flood, Marie
Keolker, Nellora Thomas, Ethel
McReynolds, Ardice Sheppard, OPP
al Callahan, Opal Elliott, Sally
Frazier, Vera Wright.
Richland has entered the fol-
lowing: Evelyn Yedica, Wanda
Pearce, Margaret Davis, Dorothy
Stevens, Lorena Raught, Helen
Stevens, Garnet Meredith, Fern
Wilson, Elsa Moretz, Edith Long.
Finley nominees are: Elsa Schaf-
ner, Amy Akridge.
Hover entrants are: Sue and
Clara Ashby, Anna Thomas, Pearl
Thomas, Fern Hampton.
Benton City has entered Ernes-
tine Allen and Mabel Kendall.
Hanford has named Virginia En-
yeart, Ruth Paschen and Annette
McConnachie.
There they are, folks. Who will
be the winner, when the contest
closes with a big dance at the
Highlands club house on the night
of Saturday, August %. Pick your
favorite now and give her your
hearty support.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-08-12
NEW FIRM

Pratt e. Dickinson is the name
of the new garage firm that has
entered the business ranks of our
city. They have purchased the
equipment formerly owned by the
Service Auto Co. and have moved
it to the Emigh building next to
the Washington Hardware store.
The new establishment was op-
ened for business this morning by
the two young men named above.
They will conduct a general auto
repair shop and hope soon to have
the agency for a popular car.
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VOTER DISAPPEARING

) The small town voter seems
to be a vanishing race. While
the big towns like Seattle,
Tacoma and Spokane have a
fair registration, the number
of qualified voters in the
: smaller incorporated cities is
so meager. as to suggest the
idea that many of the peo-
pie have ceased caring about
governmental affairs and are
about as useful when public
: questions are at stake as a
resident of British Columbia.
; Registration closes for the
primaries August oath and if
the smaller cities are not reg
istered, Seattle, Tacoma and
Spokane and the farming dis
: tricts will put on the show.
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Git THIRD OFF
1927 BUDGET
pnt Doesn't Mean Much
New Court House is
Cause Of Cut

The estimated budget for Ben
Tan county for 1927 is third less
than for this year, according to
,be estimates from the various di-
v;sions of the county that have
Aled their estimated expenditures
for the coming year with County
Auditor E. o. Keene.
The cut of a hundred thousand
dollars is due largely to the spe-
cial appropriation that was made
last year for the new court house
building. which is now being COM
nleted at Prosser. While it was
necessary to include the hundred
thousand for the court house, the
money was raised by bond issue
and no levy was made on the tax
roll to cover the amount. The cap
ital outlay will be repaid over a
period of twenty years, so no spe-
cial appropriation or tax levy will
be necessary.
The totals for all the offices of
the county amount to $205, ,644.80
as against s3O7,313.S9 for 1926.
Exclusive of the court house item
the estimated expenditures are
about fifteen hundred dollars less
than last year.
The county commissioners will
review these estimates in Septem-
Der and the following month will
pass upon them. The board may
cut the figures, but no additions
may be made.
For the first time in the county
the clerk and auditor, the treasur-
e. and assessor and attorney and
coroner offices will be combined
q tabulated. The engineers office
5 no longer elective but appointive
b the commissioners. In the bud
gets listed for 1926 the separate
budgets of the two Offices are COM
bmed in order to gain a compari-
son with the 1927 budgets.
Twelve of the budgets show an
increased estimate for 1927 while
i've Of the budgets show a decrease
and three are the same as in 1926.
1926 1927
Office Budget Estimated
Budget
AUDI Clerk 5 1O,81O.OO S 100000
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500 FARMERS UNION STORES IN NEBRAS-
KA WILL SELL WASHINGTON APPLES,
PLAN TO BE TRIED OUT IN OTHER STATES

of the Farmers Union Fruit q
Produce association of Wenatchee,
is on a trip thru the Middlewest
for the purpose of arranging for
sale of Washington fruit through
Farmers Union stores. He said
prospects are encouraging for ex-
tending the plan thru other states
in that section. The system may
be extended.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-08-12
FIRE FIREMAN

The owners of the Hover block
are installing an oil burner for the
heating system. The operation will
be entirely automatic and will
eliminate much of the dirt and
SCOT, as well as the fireman. This
will be the first oil burning in
stallation in Kennewick.
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announcement was made recent
y IN the press of the state by A.
= cross, secretary of the Wash
nigton Farmers union, of an ar
iangement for the sale of Wash
ston apples and other fruit thru
ooo stores and warehouses oper-
s'ed oy the Nebraska Farmers un..
'On. he said s. o. Pool, manager
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J + + + + + + ~ + + + .
ONE COUNTY PERFECT

D . ~
: Election Supt. Charles Fos-
+ ter has great deal of re-
: spect for Walla Walla county
: registration officials. They
: form the only group in the
: state who sent in complete
+ lists of registered voters by
: August 1, the final date when
: Mr.. Foster should have them
! to prepare for mailing this
: years election pamphlet. CO.
: lumbia county showed only
+ ten out of % precincts re-
! ported, ranking lowest. Alto
+ gether one-third of the pre-
: cincts in the state were un-
: reported.
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MUST SCREEN sPUDs

: Notice of screening to po-
+ tato growers: Beginning the
+ 18th of August, all potatoes
+ must be screened at the car
: door until the quarantine is
+ lifted in October. This means
! that at the time the potatoes
+ are screened they must be
+ placed IN new sacks or III
: clean secondhand sacks which
+ have not been used for pota-
+ tees before. Anyone having
+ potatoes to dig after Aug. Is
+ notify your local forticultur-
+ al Inspector.
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Mr.. and Mrs. G.. H. Shanafelt
and son Eugene and Mr.. and Mrs.
II. z. Brown spent Sunday with
Mr.. Browns parents at Helix, Ore
gon. Barbara and Dean Brown, who
had been spending several weeks
with their grandparents returned
home with them.
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Total = ssO7,21s.ss s2O5, ,e44.ss

Clark L. Savidge, state land
commissioner, was in town yester-
Spokane.
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Miss Helen Beste of Melrose,
MINI. was a guest of her cousin,
F. F. Beste the first of the week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-08-12

Mr.. Siegfried left for Portland
Monday, and expects to remain the
balance of the week on business.
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-06
General Tom Thumb
cleveland Plain Dealer)


The true name Of the celebrated Tom Thumb was
port Conn., Jan. 4, 1885, and died at his home in
Mddleboro, Mass, July Is, 1883.
The attention Of P. T. Barnum first called
to Stratton in 1912, when the midget was about 4.
He then weighed less than sixteen pounds, and was
only two feet tall, although perfectly formed
child Barnum introduced him to the public
Dec. 8, 1912, under the name of General Tom
Thumb, and kept him under his management dur
ing all of the more famous part of General Toms
career.
BY January 1916, the interest in the midget had
obliged Ba1num to increase his salary from 50 to
$50 week! In that year he was taken on
long and profitable tour of Europe, during which
he presented to Queen Victoria, the king of
Prussia and other notabes
In 1857 Barnum took General Tom and Cordea
Howard famous as little Eva in "Uncle Toms
Cabin to Europe where the two children appear
ed in humorous characters and reaped rich har-
vest. In 1852 the Snowman introduced the two
sister midgets, Lavinia and Minnie Warren to the
public, the former of whom Stratton married before
the end of that year Barnum desired to turn the
courting and marriage ceremony to advantage and
offered $4,000 to postpone the wedding month";
permit it to- be widely advertised, and have it per-
formed before large audience. But the bride and
groom rejected the offer and were married in Grace
church, New York. The public reception at the
Metropolitan hotel, Immediately following, was
notable affair.
For many weeks thereafter the tiny couple drew
crowds to Barnums museum, the receipts some
times being more than $4,000 day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Thumb had enc child who
died at the age Of years, months.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-06

ly-the day when mans material troubles will b"
conquered.
Very well; and what then?
When we have freedom frcm toll and dis
comfort and pain, what will do with it? Will
we make of it blessing curse?
We-the common ordinary ctizcn-must keep
pace with the scientists, who have our dcstnies in
their keeping.
We must realize that old prejudiccs and mar
roWness and hates and fears Outworn and use
less. We must learn To reach out for knowledge,
always; to give up our old habit of looking only on
the bright side Of life; to accept life whoe-hearted
ly and without terror, resolving. come what may,
to live with neghbors in peace and friendliness
and 10 seek always to extract from life it's 8u
richness Of beauty and wisdom and truth.
Only thus reap the fruit of our modern
miracles.