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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28
NEW STORE

A complete secondhand store
has been opened by J. A. Bell in
the rooms adjoining Hulet's groo.
cry in the Commercial hotel build
ing. Mr.. Bell has been a dealer in
used merchandise and furniture
for years and plans to carry a
large and varied stock. His quart
ers in the hotel building have been
so arranged that they make a neat
appearing business establishment.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28
CELEBRATION
FOR JULY 4TH
is PLANNED
Pasco American Legion to
Stage Water Carnival and
Athletic Events for Inde-
pendance Day-No Fire
Works or Speeches.

The Pasco American Legion.
which is in charge of the Fourth
of July celebration this year, has
prepared an especially interesting
series of events for that day. Con-
trary to custom, there will be no
speeches and no fireworks, the
day being given over to athletic
events, water carnival and base
ball game, and in the evening big
dance, at which time the Legion
will present free car to the hold
er of the lucky number.
Starting promptly at 10 o'clock,
at the new bathing beach, near the
Kennewick-Pasco bridge. will be
a program of swimming races and
bathing beauty contest for the
title of Miss Columbia Basin, 1923.
All events are open to all swim
mers and bathing beauties in the
Columbia River valley. No regis
tration is required, but all en-
trants should report promptly at
$3.50 at the bathing beach to the
judges in. charge of the event. It
is especially desired that as many
entrants as possible take part in
each event as the Legion desires to
arouse interest in swimming in
this locality and that eventually
interest may be created in build
ing first class swimming pool
in Pasco. 1t is also desired to
have as many young ladies as pos
sible enter the bathing beauty con-
test. A large number from Pasco
and vicinity have agreed to do this
and it is the desire of the COM
munity to have others from neigh
boring towns. The choosing of
Miss Columbia Basin for 1928, it
i shoped, will inaugurate an an
nual event by means Of which each
year the most beautiful girls in
the valley will be chosen at the
July A celebration.
Starting at 1:30 in the after
noon will be the street parale,
members of the Legion and Legion
Auxiliary, Spanish American War
Veterans, Boy Scouts and other
patriotic organizations and the
various lodges and clubs of Pasco
and neighboring towns. This pa
rade will be led by the American
Legion Drum and Bugle Corps.
IL Is especially desired in this
event that the Legion and Au1cil-
liary representatives of neighbor-
ing towns take part.
At 2:30 at the ball grounds,
there will be a tug Of war between
a team from the Pasco machine
shops and team sponsored by
Kennewick. This latter team viii
be open to entrants from any
where in the valley. Following this
will be the ball game between Con-
nell and White Bluffs. Both Of
these teams have been very sue
cessful this year, each one winning
the majority Of the games in their
section and the bringing together
of the two promises to be an in
teresting and exciting event. The
game will be played for q purse
of three hundred dollars, winner
take all.
In the evening will be the big
dance. Tickets include ten free
chances on the Chevrolet Sport
Coupe which the Legion win pre-
sent to the holder of the lucky
number, the drawing to take place
promptly at 1920 at the hall.
Should the holder of the lucky
number be unable to be present,
the car will be held for him.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28

The last meeting of the season
for the Congregational Aid soci-
ETY. was held Thursday at the
home of Mrs. R. L. Nelson. After
the business was finished, Mrs. L.
j. Aldrich, president, on behalf
of the society called Mrs. Hattie
Smith, former president, who had
been especially invited, to the
front and presented to her set
of autographed quilt blocks, as
slight token of her work in the
aid. Mrs. Smith thanked the host
ess and they gave weiner roast
following the social hour, adding
to the weiners, rolls and hot cof-
fee.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28
Observation-Disclosures

Miss Anna Bleichner and Ralph
Crutchfeld were married Sunday
morning by the Reverend Father
Mertz at the parish house. The
bride is the daughter of Mrs. C. J..
Bleichner and has lived in Kenne-
wick the past eight years. The
groom is the oldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Crutchfield and re-
Gently purchased the Empire Elec-
trio store. The young couple will
live in the Oliver house in the
Garden tracts recently vacated by
A. A. Anderson.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28

Eleven members of the Bachelor
club and their ladies went on a
picnic to Kooskooskie lodge Sun
day. One couple caused little
anxiety. 1t started out to look
for pineapple growing on pine
trees and stayed so long the 9TH
ers t hought they were lost. Need
less to say. such was not the case.
All returned home safely and re-
ported a splendid time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28
REGISTER THIS WEEK IF
YOU WISH BOOKLET

? Kennewlck voters who de-
+ sire to receive from the Sec :
: retary of state, official PAM
: phlets containing the text of :
: the measures which will go :
: on the ballot in the general :
T election, November 6, must :
: be registered by July /. Lists
+ of registered voters from all :
: precincts in the stae will be
: made up Immediately there
: after and sent to J. Grant
: Hinkle, secretary of state,
= from whose office the PAM :
= phlets later will be sent. :
2 This district has not more :
= than one-third registration
: to date and only those whose
= names are on the books will
: receive the booklets which :
+ are highly desired by many.
: Books for the three wards
: of the city are at the city
= hall, while those for the out
= lying precincts are at the
= Courier-Reporter office.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28
uARTLEY MEN
GEEK CONTROL
OF sen AT 3
.,;,bdrawal of Lon Johnson
starts Race for Lieutenant
cavern orship- -Moul ton
u.ntioned as Possible Can
didate.

.:.,,fenaIlt G0VeTiloI 1foii ooili,
l' finished the political sur
81 If the month by renouncing
J! s,s;m to another term, and his
y I9s,s,rawal has thrown down the
W. VIZ. 70 q flock of candidates and
-. ..sued the way for a factional
s ssht for control Of the senate of
= 4. 1929 legislature. Johnson
ss,tvithstanding = the fact that
sost M Of the hackers of Governor
H.rtley were determined to defeat
m was conceded the Republican
,mination and reelection by COM
aetent observers, but such ca1cu-
htious are now scrabled and the
feht is a free-for all.
The minute Johnson stepped out
Sam Summer of Wenatchee. Re-
ublican state chairman, stepped
d: with Victor Zednick of Seattle.
ssretary of the senate, hard on
Srmmer's heels. Moreover, Senat-
& Conner and Senator Houser,
10th Of King county, rival Hartley
undidates, raised their hopes and
Pickened their campaigns. Then
With number of counties still to
b heard from, there was talk of
representative Falknor, Seattle:
1,speakeN Danskin, Spokane:
Speaker Ralph Knapp, Seattle: !:
md several lesser lights.
Some Of the candidates are look
hg for the honor of being lieu
tenant governor, which carries the
ehance OF being governor but the
ral fight will most likely be over
tie contemperaneous office of the
Fesldent of the senate. The lieu-
tsnant governor is head of the
senate. and, under the prevailing
gstem, the president of the sem
ate, names the various committees
nd is chairman of the powerful
nles committee-the group that
s5ually directs the progress of
bliss
50 the senate majority organi-
nnon, headed by senators Met
ah and Mortland, is out to elect
rs own lieutenant governor and
hereby retain control of the up
per chamber. On the other hand
cat to elect man with
hartley and his friends rememb-
mng the harrassments Of the last
NO sessions, and eager to obtain
summation of regents and trus-
ees named by tie governor are
@ to elect a man with a
lnendly understanding for Hart
e; Hence with Johnson out. it
WI be sontest between the two
9gamzations to name the success
" TO the Colville man.
the senate organization leaders
1e 70 meet shortly to decide on a
a.ise. The may decide to back
s.1er zednick or Summer, or
mg out either Mortland or M.
1 Moulton of Kennewick. Their
Ine might be to favor some one
sho comes from ouside of King
9mty. Then If the Hartley people
~pend on a King county man, the
ua-Hartley senator's of King
uunsy might all file as candidates
- lieutenant governor. They
sou!d not file to win of course.
releiy to keep votes away from
omner or Houser or both.
Il, Inc Hartley people will prob
1ly make another attempt for an
Sleement between Houser and
~ %uner, under which one or the
Naef would drop out. When John
va withdrew, the Hartley chanc-
vent up, and the governors
lends are again hopeful of hav-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28

DR.. L. G. Spoulding and j. III.
Siegfried, who attended the XII
wants convention in Seattle last
week returned Saturday. They
came home by way of Portland,
stopping there a few days while
Mr.. Seigfried attended the Ma
tional Electrical Engineers Associ-
alton and DR.. Spaulding visited
his brother.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28

F. F. Beste returned Friday from
Tacoma where he represented the
Kennewick Masonic lodge at
Grand Lodge last week. Mr.. Beste
was honored by the appointment
of grand senior deacon for the
coming year.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28

Mr.. and Mrs. B. j. Campbell
and daughter will spend the week
end with an aunt in Haines, Ore
gon and go on the first of the
week to visit their daughter, Mrs.
Floyd Wooduff, at Buhl, Idaho.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28

The Horticulture Club met Mon
day afternoon with G.. w. Sherk.
The club voted to adjourn the
meetings during the hot weather.
The ladies spent an enjoyable af-
ternoon sQwthg ON their fancy
work and discussing garden prob
lens and Mrs. Sherk served re-
freshments.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28

Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. MuldroW
We're in Prosser Tuesday.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28

Mr.. and Mrs. H. T. Cox and son
Billy visited his niece, Mrs. I. S.
Gleason, a few days the first OF
the week. They had been attend
ing the Kiwanis convention at Sc
attic and were on their way to
their home in Los Angeles.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28

C. C. Hagen, who was burned
last week when working at the p.
p. & L. sub-station at Hanford,
passed away at the Pasco hospit-
al. The body was taken to Yakima
for burial. Mr.. Hagen is survived
by his widow and two grown sons.
Miss Velara Kulp has finished
her school at Metaline Falls and
is home with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. o. B. Kulp. She was accomp-
anied by her sister, Mrs. R. AMI
erson and baby who will spend
part of the summer with her par
ents.
The Entire Nous club met Tues
day afternoon with Mrs. C. S.
Knowles. The honors for the af-
ternoon went to Mrs. Knowles and
Mrs. j. Fl. Turner. Refreshments
were served by the hostess. Mrs.
Holmes, of Spokane, was an out
of-town guest.
C. L. Holcomb and family left
yesterday morning for Seattle
Mr.. Holcomb and Vance will re-
turn in a week and the others will
spend the remainder of the sum
mer there.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28

AS announced elSSWHcIc III eaiA0
issue the New Cozy Cafe at Pasco
has been taken over by former
Kennewick residents, Mr.. and Mrs.
|C. E. Warter. The new owners
will take possession Of the place In
time to have everything in opera
tion by the Fourth when Kenne-
wick residents are supposed to
ioin with Pasco people in pulling
the tail feathers out of the nat
ional eagle. Mrs. Warter will be
remembered as Miss Ethel Paul
son.
Kennewick friends of the bride
have received announcement tof
the marriage Of Miss Ethel Han
ratty to Mr.. Henry Mckenzie OF
San Rafael, California, June Il:
The bride is the only daughter OF
Mrs. Thomas Hanratty and the
family were Kennewick residents
until leaving for California over
a year ago. She graduated from
K. II. S. in the class OF 1928 and
taught school in Horse Heaven.
The groom lives in San Francisco
and they will reside there at 2O9o
Howard.
Mrs. H. A. Howe, former Ken
neweck resident. was in town the
first of the week looking afer bus
mess matters. She had been visit
ing her daughter in Spokane and
was on her way to California. The
Howes have purchased a hard
ware store in Oceanside and are
living there now. Their son, Trac-
#ey, and family has moved down
from st. Helena, Oregon, and he
is in the business with them.
Sam Root, A. A. Edwards, G. D..
Nicoson and the Richmond broth
ers. all living within a radiue OF
five miles have each purchased
new combines and expect to start
harvesting right otter the Fourth.
The Bridge Club met yester-
day with Mrs. George D. Peters,
at ten o'clock and luncheon was
served at one at the Hotel Ken
newick. High score was held by
Mrs. C. D. Fratt.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-06-28

Continued on page eight
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-18
HOOVER CANDIDACY CLARIFIES
 SITUATION.

The open entry of Secretary Hoover through his representatives in that State, in the Ohio Presidential primary election should tend to off, set the draft Coolidge" movement inspired by some of the Republican leaders of the East. None of the Presidents Cabinet with the pos sible exception of MT. Mellon has been closer to MT. Coolidge than his great Secretary of Com meree. While there possible chance of his Chief responding to draft" MT. Hoover was in position to appear openly in the hunt for delegates, nor to permit the use of his name as is being done in Ohio. He could not afford, as a member of the Cabinet for reasons of politi- cal expediency, to be put in position of opposing the President though he were but passive recipient in the matter of renomination.
 It is significant that MT. Hoover chose to make Ohio the scene of his first campaign ac- tivity. The start 'comes almost the heels of the LaFollette third term resolution that was re- gently passed by the Senate. It is made public at time when the Eastern movement to draft the President is being vigorously pushed And it in field that is close enough to the cen- ter of that movement to give those behind it idea of the strength that MT Hoover will be able to swing in a State that already has fayorite in the field seeking it's national convention vote MT. Hoover may not get majority of Ohio's delegation but he will divide it with Senator Willis which is sure to diminish the latter's prestige at the Kansas City conclave.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-18
Gov. Pincitot on Power.
(New York Times

In an article in The Nation on "Who Owns Our Rivers?" Clifford Pinchot attacks the public utility lobby in Washington for opposition to the Boulder Dam project. He welcomes Mr Owen Youngs conditional acceptance of Government in tervention where navigation and flood control are involved. but complains that the electric light industry has renounced the position taken by MT. Young, and is seeking to prevent the tablishment of Government standard by which their rates to consumers of electric power can be measured The inference is that Mr Pinchot would like to such a standard estab- lished But later on, discussing the -four lines of defense,' the power companies have set up against it, he declares that their fourth line or defense is to saddle the Government-made cur rent with every possible or impossible expense" in the hope of hamperng the enterprise. Here is where the demand of Arizona and Nevada for the right to tax the Government property fits the hand of the power companies like a glove"
 MT. Pinchot evidently didn't try the glove on his own hand first. If he had, he might have discovered that it fitted there better. It is possible to urge actual test between public and private owership, both plants running side
 by side and on the same footing It is equally possible to contend that public enterprises should be cushioned all about with special favors like tax exemption But these are alternative posi- tons and when Mir Pinchot takes both in the same brief isn't he simply "arguing both sides against the middle? One weakness of most experiments in Government ownership is that they are so constituted, or their accounts are kept in such a way, that they seldom afford the very test for which MT. Pinchot, by inference pleads Into their treasuries flow all manner of subsidies They tend to warp the results, and either destroy the value of the experiment al- together or sink it in bog of controversy, like that which rages in Ontario. Advocates of Gov ernment ownership delight in the achievements of
 the Post Office Department which ''pays for it. self" There are plenty of conclusive reasons for
 maintaining the postal service as a public enter prise. but the operating figures would tell very different story if they were made to include such
 items of expense as taxes interest and amortiza- tion
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-18
LEyIES THAT MEAN NOTHING.

The proposal of the Ketchkan Republican Club to tax the Federaly-granted leaseholds or contracts held i'll Southeastern Alaska by pulp and paper interests does not represent an en- tirely new departure politically in Alaska It would not be the first time that a tax levy has been laid on an industry which did not exist in the Territory. Back in 1923 there were two outfits from big producing oil corporations pros pecting for oil in the Cold Bay oil field, Geo logists and others were cofdent they would bring in a new field. But both companies had much work to do before the results would be definitely established. In the meantime they were spend ing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Territory In that same year the Legislature met and imposed a tax oil production, all wells producing more than 5000 barrels per day being subject to the levy. Since then the companies have left Alaska closed down their operations, pulled their drills and moved their machinery to some other part of the world Their prospecting did not reveal oil in commercial quantities. But the remained the books for four years, perhaps on the theory that somebody or some cor poration might in sometime. and find com mercial oil.
 The oil production tax not needed. The proof of this is found in the fact that the other levies brought in more than enough funds to conduct the Territorial government for there was a surplus left in the Treasury after all operating expenses were paid. Yet there wasn't single cent collected from the oil tax Such taxes mean nothing as far finances concerned To impose them before there is industry is foolish from a standpoint of public policy. It is calculated to drive away needed capital which ought to be given every inducement possible to come to the north and develop latent and in some instances, wasted raw resources.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-18
HUMPHREY GOES EAST.

In the forthcoming departure Of MAX Humfrey from Alaska to take up his residence in Chicago the Territory loses of it's most promising young business He has more than merely made good as the representative of his firm, Hills Bros, in Alaska. He has taken active part in the business life of than Alaskan community, investing his money i,l local enterprises and being first. last and all the time a real Alaskan.\ His friends legion and scattered all over the broad domains of this Northland. It is with very deep regret they will see him depart and extend the most sincere wishes for the success they confidently expect will be his in his new field.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-18
MT. Walkers Water Wagon.
(NeW York World ]

(New York World
 As a topic of popular interest Mayor Walk CTS abstinence and the therefor have started lively discussion. The Rev. pr. Chris tian F. Resner began it on Sunday, when he said in the course of a sermon:
 Mayor Walker in his generous way,
 permission Friday to tell
 you T longer drink champagne nor
 acoho any form, nor nave l since
 September. My health is very much
 better without it. Then, too, while I
 enjoyed the exhilarating high spots from
 alcoholic stimulants, the low spots of
 the next morning collected a heavy toll
 l find it more agreeable as well as
 healthier to walk the even pathway
 with stimulant."
 Out of this comment three schools of thought have developed. There is one school, led by Dr. Reisner, which regards MT. Walkers new abstn- ence as a moral victory of no small importance MT Seymour Lowman officially in charge of Prohibition, seems to share this point of view. Opening the bass stops his organ and sound ing ful-voiced hallelujah Mr. bowman de- clares MT. Walkers reformation is great eomplishment for enforcement the country over" second school of thought, however, is more sceptcal. It regards Mr Walkers conversion as less matter of morals than of digestion, and inerprets it, so to speak a training period for more healthy and less arid future. Fin ally, there is third school, of which MT. Walker himself is the chief spokesman, which regards the whole affair as MT. Walkers own personal and private business. since it chiefly concerns Mir Walkers own personal and private diet
 In the whole controversy has yet pointed out rather interesting fact in the mat ter of values. Prohibition has been with us for eight years. But accustomed we to it's ways that if the Mayor of New York an- nounces that he is the water-wagon the fact of his abstinence is considered unusual enough to merit headlines
 If Mayor takes a drink, it's all in the days work-if he signs the pledge it's story
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-18
Yeh, This Is BeastIy
Zero in Excuses for Poverty
More or Less True

More or Less True
 They used to trim dresses with lace and ribbons. but now they trim they with q pair of scissors
 One of the pathetic sights of tthe day is the middle-aged woman who has been debating whether 10 get hers bobbed or not ever since the fad started and finally gets nerved up to 1t, only to find all her friends are letting theirs grow long again.
 Every time we see silk stock ings and galoshes together we are more convinced than ever that the ridiculous is no fit compan- ion for the sublime. The modern girls idea of doll. ing up is to take something else off.
 Most of our troubles are due to the fact that the things We post pone doing never are those we oughtn't to do anyway
 A cynic is an old married grouch who thinks married man who'll go out and buy a parrot, a photograph and radio hasn't transitory but permanent insanity.
 Now that it is so easy to see whether they are-or are not perfect ladies, candor compels us to admit darn few of them would make good artists models.
 The impression we get from the pumps girls wear is that their owners expected to do all their walking during the winter by riding in nice, warm closed cars.
 Nothing spells bath for man like the thought of having to clean the ring off the tub after he gets through
 We can imagine lot of weird things, but we can't imagine easy divorce adding anything much to the sum total of human happi. ness.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-18
CAPITOL APPROPRIATION SEEMS
 SURE

z The approval by the House of Representatives of the $200,000 item for the local Territorial capitol building seems to insure that funds will
 be available in "a few weeks for beginning work ;on that structure. Only a short time ago the Senate approved similar item in the first de- fciency appropriation but it was eliminated in
 conference between the two houses. Its approval of the original item seems to be adequate enaranfee that ft will find nothing Objectionable