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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-05-16

: LETTERS OF THE PEOPLE Z
Dear Editor.

Dear Editor:
Was you down to the big live
stock exhibition and market day
special demonstrations Of course
you wah. So was everybody else.
saw you there myself helping to
feed the hungry farmers.
/ don't know just how to go
about it trying to tell you about
the impression it all made upon
me, but I had wonderful time
the whole day and arrived home in
time to do the chores and / was
perfectly sober, which / call a rec
ord in any mans country. Far be
it from me to criticise those who
are wiser and older than / am, but
did you notice how quickly the
lunch ran out. Now this only means
two things to me. First, no one In
town knows how much we farmer
folk eat and second there don't
seem to be business man in town
who fully appreciates the pulling
power of judicious advertising.
You sure can catch the people
when you bait your hook right.
Those fellows on the train had
some wonderful ideas. Some of the
speakers, however, let their en-
|thusiasum get away with their bet
ter judgment. For instance that
lad that told of raising that beau
tiful thousand pound yearling
steer and gave credit to the cow
that mothered it for only $32 for
her share, while he knows that
$32 would not pay decent interest
upon the money invested in such
cow at present day prices.
Then some one said that no
matter how we'll you feed your
stock they can't produce better
than their breeding. If this were
true there could never have been
any Improvement in live stock.
But why find fault. 1t was a
wonderful demonstration, well
prepared and nicely arranged, es-
pecially those charming little tables
all set and ready to set down to.
It's a good thing that the at
tendant had a brad in the end of
his pike pole or some of us would
have been there yet.
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HEDGES
Mrs. Helps


Sunday school at ten o'clock ev-
cry Sunday morning. At IL Rev.
Thompson will have charge. The
subject "Pentecost-"
Finley and Hover will form in
a united service at Hover On Sun
day at eight o'clock, at which time
the Prosser male quartet and gos-
pei team will have charge
There will be no evening service
at the Finley church that night.
A law enforcement convention
win be held in the Finley church
Monday evening at eight under
the auspices of the Anti-Saloon
League.
The Junior League went to Wal
la Walla Tuesday for their picnic
in the park. Percy Sellick was at
Hedges by 7:45 where the first
crowd awaited him with the school
bus which was to take the sixty
five juniors. and about twelve OF
the adults on the trip. Mr.. Thomp-
son took his car to help convey the
older people. They had roast VEIN
ers, sandwiches, cookies and fruit
juice for the lunch and all return
ed home in safety a very happy
tho tired bunch of youngsters.
Last Friday Percy took bunch
80 ,yc,,rc nonnln from the RantiSt
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RIVERSIDE
Mrs. L. Smith

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Kenneth Kratzer and Olive Jen
kins were married at Way, Idaho
May 8. A crowd of young friend,
and neighbors gave them a chart
vari and party Tuesday evening
Everyone enjoyed the evening.
The River Road was well rep.
resented at the Marketing Trair
Saturday, the 18th.
Leroy Kratzer came from Pom.
eroy the first of the week and left
for Spokane Tuesday, accompanied
by his wife and SON.
B. F. Thrasher and family visit
ed Floyd Martin in Section 9 Sum
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. o. Hendixon
and son and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Coats, travelling express agent,
who were travelling from the coast
to Keller, WASH, were visitors at
the A. /. Smith home Sunday.
Mr.. Bendixon, who is state high
way engineer, is q former college
friend of A. /. Smiths.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Bateman
are being congratulated on the ar
rival of a daughter, Vernita, born
May IL at the Linn hospital.
c. S. Hughes baby has been
quite sick but is recovering.
Don't forget the River Road pic
mic will be held May &c.
Mrs. n. p. Cranmer left for Sc
attic Wednesday for two weeks
visit with her brother.
B. F. Thrasher and family are
moving this week to the Settlers
place in Section 8, having purchas-
ed the five-acre tract. Mr.. Thrash
er is employed as agent at the o.
w. R. & N.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Warter of
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given. ana the h.,
Plans and specificat;o
file in the office Of tba az .
glneer of the counties 1 county \.
work is situated; Dailv1u which q,
commerce, Seattle: Pa;o;S Sscainsl \
and Engineer, Seattle ~ Bulb
ei so Association of the ' me- E9pS,
pre-, Spokane; Assoc;.ttanlla Inland d
Contractors of Amer;cse Genen
Portland and Seattle Cbs.SS pOha
es; and the district S ar.lI Of
the Department ~ nglneen \
where they may be insOaSatssss
Plans and specificat;o sS'so
obtained from this ofs;s mag b
posting $500 for each s go BY d
required to insure tha 81 y. q plau
them on or before the At reSun 4
are opened. uay The b
H;F.22;2l SAMUEL / nm.
SJH:oB Director Of Of FHE ;l4E
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Kennewick Golfers To
Play Prosser Sunday

Kennewick Golfers will play
Prosser Sunday morning at 9 o.
clock at Prosser. They will meet
at the Courier-R Reporter at 7:30 o.
clock in the morning. Anyone who
wishes transportation is advised
to get in touch with Herbert Shan
afelt by the committee in charge.
Sunday, May 26, Kennewick fol-
lowers of the niblick will go to
Pasco to play there
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parents near Seattle.
Mrs. Theo. Buchanan has re-
ceived announcement of a grand
son, Joseph Berton, born to Mr..
and Mrs. Joe Buchanan at Top
penish, May IL.
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Head
andy
Hands'
Work


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head as well as with his hands.
Not a tool is touched until sur
faces are critically examined.
Exposure conditions must be
considered. Proper formulas
must be decided upon.
We take all conditions into
account and then mix our paint
from Dutch Boy whitehead to
suit the job exactly. Such paint
is tough, durable does not chip
and scale.
If you are looking for expert
painting you are looking for
JOE NADIG
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Sunnyside attended the gradua-
ton Of Mrs. Warter's sister, iona
Paulson. They intend to Stay with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. B.
Paulson thru the berry season.
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water power control, the Limitation OF
ornaments and the nobility of expert
ments, his preference in dogs, his taste
In cigars, and what he eats for break
fast-all these are subjects of front
page gossip. The country as a whole
feels that he is we'll fitted for the Office
of Chief Executive.
But there is one question which re-
mains unanswered: Does Mr. Hoover
read detective stories? AS yet he has
said nothing which would indicate his
position in the matter. This silence can
be taken to mean only one of two
things: either Mr.. Hoover reads detec-
tive stories and is ashamed of it. or
he does not read detective stories at all
If the latter is true he should come
out frankly and say, mo, I do not read
detective stories; they bore me-" In do
ing so he would upset carefully fos-
tered tradition, but his words would 20
ringing down the corridors of history
and take their place among the "Fa-
nous Sayings of Great Mem; In time
they probably would be attributed to
Lincoln.
But until we know how Mr.. Hoover
stands on the question of detective
stories, his caliber as statesman can
not definitely be gauged.
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Can Solve Hypothetical Murder Mystery Than Nghbor
Society Likely Beat Path Your Door-A New Peak of
Popularity for the Modern Detective Story.

he had written it; but he denied any
knowledge of the circumstances of his
uncle's death. Suspicion was directed
toward him, however, for 1t was known
that he was John Blakes heir, and the
nature of the note indicated that the
writer was planning to live on a more
lavish scale than he had in the past.
ReconStructing the scene in the
library on the night of Blake's death,
the police arrived at the conclusion
that Maltravers had called on his uncle
to ask for money. that violent quarrel
had enSued. and that Maltravers had
threatened his uncle with the Floren-
tine dagger, causing him to suffer a
fatal heart attack.
The questions to be answered are:
Cd Were the police correct in their
theory?
CD Who was responsible for the
! death Of John Blake?
III you are unable to solve this prob
lem in less than 5 minutes, turn this
page upside down. Then turn it right
; side up again, and relax. allowing the
weight to rest evenly on the balls of the
feet. The correct answers are given
below.
Cd OF course not.
(2) H. L. Mancken.
In his article on American Kultur"
Mr.. Mencken states that you can 20
into the library of the average boob,,s
Americanus and find nine-tentlls of the
books with their leaves still uncut. A
magazine containing this article was
lying among the books near John
Blake's body. 1t was evident that Blake,
reading it, had remembered that most Of
the books in the library had uncut pages.
Stung by Mencken's accusation, he
seized the Florentine dagger paper
knife and set out to remedy the defect.
He worked increasingly for many hours,
painstakingly cutting the pages of vol
un1e after volume. And shortly before
midnight, as he was finishing VOL
XxXIV of Masterpieces of the World
Literature" he died of exhaustion
The white powder on the sleeve of his
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black velvet dressing gown was paper
dust. Cyril Maltravers was exonerated.
Since the appearance of murder par
ties on the social calendar, family con-
versation has assumed a morbid tone,
for all the problems concerned the TAX
ing of human life. Be it ever so hum
drum, there's no plot like homicide, and
the secrets of the Borgias are now
items of common domestic knowledge,
like the recipes of Marion Harland.
Stool pigeon" "hydro-cyanic acid
'strangulation" and "rigor mortis" are
household words. We are no longer
alarmed when grandma puts down her
knitting and says gently. If shot you
in the back as you were running up
stairs, would your body fall backward
or forward?" We know that she is
merely bordering over last nights MUIR
der problem.
Perhaps murder problems are pass
ing enthusiasm, like crossword puzzles
and hooked rugs. But as long as the
pilots of the Ship of State cry out for
good detective stories, the market for
mystery tnril!ers will be active.
And this brings us to the unaccount-
able reticence of Mr. Hoover. Mr.. Hoo
ver's public and private utterances have
been thoroughly broadcast; his opinions
| on farm relief, Pan-American relations,
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In the bank at Lombard street where
looked sharply at it. asked her to wait,
conferred with some superior, then
came back. Instead of money, he
handed her back the check
You'd better take it to the police,
madam" he said unfeelingly. Its
worthless, and it's not the first of its
kind this man has made OUT"
For week poor LouiSas life was
even more drab than before. Her CLAM
orous Prince Chraming, was cheap
mean thief, and the only bit of orna-
ment she owned had gone the way of
her romance and her IS shillings.
Then on the eighth day as she was
walking along Tottenham Court road
she saw her gentleman. distinguished
debonair, but apparently without the
least glimmer of recognition for the
woman who was so strikingly like Lady
Clyde
This time Louisa was not dazzled
Planting herself in front Of him she
demanded:
Where is my money and my jew
elry?"
Lord Willoughby drew himself up
with truly lordly hauteur.
My good woman. I haven't the
slightest idea who you are nor interest
in knowing. Be off or I'll ask police
man to take you into custody!'
That suits mel" Louisa said grimly
and looked about for policeman her
self.
So far from helping her. Lord Will
loughby jumped into a passing cab
and tried to leave the scene. Louisa
raised loud and effective objections
John Cook. a passerby, seized the cab
horse by the bride. Lord Willoughby
called out to the cabby to use his whip
on the man. Cabby, loyal to his fare
struck Cook with the whip and Lord
Willoughby tried to escape from the cab
The commotion brought Policeman Ellis
Spurrell. who arrested the self-styled
nobleman. Spurrell, who later rose in
the ranks, had reason subsequently to
remember his prisoner.
Lord Willoughby made an effort to
impress Policeman Spurrell.
You must see how embarrassing this
scene is to me-" he said to the constable
But If you will step into one of these
houses where I can talk to you in pri-
vate will prove to your satisfaction my
Innocence"
Policeman Spurrell promised his lord
ship chance to prove his innocence
before his superiors. At the station
house Inspector Officer William Red
stone searched the prisoner and found
five rings on his person.
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costed in Bond street by an elegantly
dressed gentleman, wearing a silk top
hat. His hair was slightly gray, his skin
rosy, his voice urbane.
Aren't you rather young for a
widow" he asked, sympathetically
The widow admitted she was only 81 j..
The gentleman was sympathetic in
deed. He asked what she was doing
to support herself. The widow told
him of her dependence on a meager
pension and what she could earn as
sort of genteel domestic.
Then you're just the woman I'm
looking for!'
He told her practically the same
story John Smith had told the women
although she had received gifts and
jeweiry from him to the value of $4,000,
he had met in times long past. He
had villa in St. Johns Wood; had
just sent his housekeeper away because,
she proved to De an untrustworthy
character, So he was without a house
keeper now, and would Mrs. Mutt ac-
cept the position?
He asked her to consider the matter
for day or two, after which he would
call on her
Mrs. Mutt had all the rigid respecta-
bility of the woman who has little more
than her good name to help her
through life. AS she put it. she was
mot in the habit of receiving gentle
men," But in view of the distinguished
appearance of this particular gentleman
and the munificent offer he was max
ing, she decided he should be made an
exception. and gave him her address.
She received a letter next day. the
stationery being that of the Grand
Hotel, London. 1t apprised her that
her new acquaintance would call on
Tuesday between l and 2. And prompt
ly on Tuesday he came.
His manner was blend of dignity
and that friendly familiarity that
seemed to forecast successful rela-
ton between generous employer and
his housekeeper. He asked if IS a
week would be fair pay, in her estima-
ton; If not, he was ready to consider
a raise, if she proved satisfactory.
She was so taken with this generosity
that. he seemed prompted to show still
more of it. Then came the offer that
she go at once to the most stylish shop
in London-this time Redfern's-and
buy at his expense clothes that would
be worthy of the woman who should
be-well, practically hostess at the villa
in st. Johns Wood.
The offer was accompanied by a
check written out for Is guineas on
the Union Bank. Belgrade Mansions.
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For an informal sort of dance moth
ing is more amusing than a children's
party. To be with group of good
friends with the men all dressed in
rompers and the girls in simple little
Bingham frocks with big ribbon bows
in the hair, f1at-heeled strap pumps and
socks is enough. to make one forget all
ones adult responsibilities.
If you are quite modern and have
become accustomed to bare legs you
may choose to wear your socks as chill
dren do. Otherwise you may wear
thin flesh-colored silk stockings with
pair of short children's socks drawn
over them. The costume is so COM
Portable that you will not feel like sitting
out single dance.
The hostess at an informal party of
this sort the other evening distributed
fancy garters among the guests as they
came ir-one garter to each. Then
when time came for supper the men
found their partners by matching
carriers. Then by presenting the girls
with the carriers they had worn during
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One ring was identified by Louisa
Leonard another by another woman,
Louisa Howard. Miss Howard had a
tale to tell that differed little from that
of the other woman, except in unessen-
tial details. She. too was mistaken for
Lady Clyde by the distinguished gen.
tleman; she, too, was offered the post
of housekeeper in the villa in st. Johns
Wood The same glamorous gifts were
promised her; the same list of gorgeous
apparel to be bought by her at Howell g.
James, only that this time 400 was to
be spent on clothing. Again he bor-
rowed a ring-''just to get the proper
size"
1t was this ring that Miss Howard
now identified among those which In
spector Redstone found in Lord Will
loughby's pocket.
x i X *
WHEN the police authorities ar
raigned Lord Willoughby he gave
ms name as John Smith. Later he said
he was William Augustus Wyatt. en-
Englishman educated at the University
of Vienna, where he obtained two aca-
damic degrees.
At the trial for defrauding Louisa
Leonard and Louisa Howard of their
Jewelry, a third woman. Ada Wooding.
came forward with the same story that
the other two women told of Lord
Willoughby.
A month later William Augustus
Wyatt, alias John Smith alias Lord
Wllloughby. was found guilty of larceny
and sentenced to five years penal servi.
tude.
The letters and checks he had writ
ten were kept as records of his case,
purely as formality and of course
with no provision of their Importance in
time to come.
John Smith-let us call him by the
simplest of his aliases-never raised any
protest that his conviction was unjust.
His only petition addressed to the au-
thoritieS was asking that the severity
of his sentence be lessened The au-
thorities did not listen to his petition.
Five years after Lord Willoughy had
dazzled Louisa Leonard and the other
women he came out of prison. no longer
the plump. suave, elegantly dressed
''nobleman," but now grown lean and
looking the laborer which his ticket of
leave described him to be- He told his
prison friends he was going to join his
parents in Germany.
Then he disappeared.
Thirteen years later, in the early
part of December, Fanny Mutt, the
widow of a corporal major in the Life
Guards, dressed in mourning, was ac-
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Murder Partes New Game Based on Solving Mystery Store

They were fascinating because they
were forbidden. In order to read them
you had to maneuver as stealthily as
Old Sleuth himself.
1t was easy to identify yourself with
the leading character. You tiptoed
across the creaky floor of the attic,
slipped the yellow-covered book from its
hiding place and sat down on the old
leather trunk beside the window. "Old
Sleuth and the Phantom Fiend:' or,
Tried by Blood and Fire. The double
barreled title was eye-filling and gen.
erous; if you didn't like one, you could
take the other.
A moment later and you were cropping
your way through pages of fine print,
skipping the solid paragraphs of de-
scription-tor every minute was pre-
cious--and whispering the conversation
to yourself to enhance its dramatic ef-
feet. Suddenly there was the sound of
a footstep on the attic stairs. c"Hist!"
breathes Old Sleuth. with a warning
gesture to Inez. I'VE are being fol-
lowed!) The footsteps on the stairs
grew louder. Instinctively you closed
the yellow-covered book and slipped it
behind the trunk. (Old Sleuth lifts the
blind cautiously and then draws back
with an exclamation of horror 1T is
the Phantom Fiend!' he cries. Quick,
we have no time to lose!")
In desperate haste you rummaged
| among the dusty books beside the
trunk, drew forth volume and opened
it at random. 1t was the despised Henty
| .-despised because he tried to teach you
history on the side. with lightning
speed, Old Sleuth produces false beard
from his pocket and adjusts it to his
! handsome face).
The attic door opened Elmer" in.
quired "a suspicious voice, what's that
you're reading?"
I'm reading Bonnie Prince
Charlie" you replied virtuously, with
faint shade of impatience at having
been interrupted in that improving
pastine.
And when the door closed and thu
| footsteps on the stairs died away, YOU
heaved a sigh Of relief and reached
again for the yellow-covered book
| CFear not, Inez," says Old Sleuth re.
| assuringly. 1.-THE Phantom Fiend car
never penetrate my disguise!")
Old Sleuth and his false whisker,
would seem pretty tame to the young.
ster of today who knows his tabloids
! The fair Inez was the pale Pigment Of
| hack writer's imagination. but Mrs
TesSie Lopkowsky of 1898 First stree
is a real person photographed in the
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bachelor, was found dead in the library
of his Park avenue home. There were
no marks of violence on his body. but
near him lay paper-knife in the form
of Florentine dagger, and on the sleeve
of his black velvet dressing gown was a
sprinkling of fine white powder. The
bookshelves were in unaccustomed dis
order, as if they had been ransacked III
a hasty search for some hidden object;
dozens of handsomely bound volumes
had been pulled from their places and
scattered over the floor. Conspicuous
among the heaps of books was copy OF
magazine, folded open at an article on
American Kultur," by H. l.. Mencken
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The police thought nothing of this at
the time, and they don't think much OF
it even now.
On the morning following the dis
covery of Blake's body, a detective
from headquarters found mysterious
note thrust into the neck of an empty
milk bottle which was standing just
outside the door of Bronx apartment
occupied by Blakes absolute nephew
Cyril Maltravers. 1t read: please
leave DTS grade A hereafter instead
of l qt. grade B. Also / OF. cream
every other morning Anxious"
When confronted with this note NAL
travers broke down and confessed that
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very act of wiping the tears from her
eyes as she inspects the meat-ax by
which her lover has been decapitated.
The older generation, however, pre-
fers crimes of fiction rather than of
fact. Elegant, complicated murders
committed in distant mansions by
Oriental servants are pleasanter read
ing than the actual homicides which
occur with disturbing frequency in ones
own neighborhood. The average man
feels only stimulating sense of ar
tificial apprehension as he reads these
fantastic tragedies which are being
turned out by Scotland Yard-for he
has no East Indian valet, the family
Jewels are in a safe deposit box and he
has never received any cryptic mes
sages except from the income tax COL
lector.
Then, too, there is belief in the
back of every mans mind that if Fate
hadn't made him bank president or a
Senator or a corporation official, he
would have been first-rate detective
just as every woman believes that she
could, if she wanted to, make fortune
as an interior decorator.
After a lifetime of repression, these
| amateur detectives are coming into their
own. A popular form of entertainment
this Winter is the murder party" This
| is not, as the name might imply, Jolly
| get-together of Chicago gunner for the
purpose of eliminating superfiuous
voters. 1t is a highly decorous diversion
IN which our best people participate. The
hostess gives her guests a description OF
an imaginary crime, with certain impor-
tant details omitted. The guests are
then asked to supply the missing details
by process Of deduction. It is almost as
! much fun as mid-year exams in Pol.
Econ. D32 g points,.
Some of the crimes are just too
baf1ing. Take, for example, THE Blake
Affair" with which Mrs. Challis agitated
the master minds of the East Teabone
Literary and Sunday Afternoon Hiking
Society:
At midnight John Blake. q wealthy