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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
Youngsters Will Wind Gay Stre1nerS
on MavpOIes in Celebration MOn11,

many May mornings. Daisy chains,
crowns of blossoms and weaving
baskets have been a part of May
Day for children from time i'm
memorial.
Recognizing May first as typ
ical child's day, the American
Child Health association for sew
eral years has promoted it in var
ious communities throughout the
nation as child's health day. The
day is observed in different ways
in different places, but it has be-
come a day devoted to the child
and his needs.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
Kennewick Golfers
Lose to Walla Walla

The local golf club sent sixteen
members to Walla Walla last Sun
day to play tournament on the
Rinkydink (munieipaD course.
While beaten about two to one in
the final scores, the showing made
was satisfactory to most of the
members. Soma unusually low
scores were turned in. The Walla
Walla team will play over here the
middle of next month.
Next Sunday Home Town
Tournament will be held. Team
captains selected for the day are
c. L. Holcomb and Ross Willsey
They will be allowed to select
their own teams. Eighteen holes
starting at nine o'clock.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
SPRAY MEETINGS
SCHEDULE GIVEN
Armstrong, Extension Specialist; /;
Will Conduct Demonstrations
in Kennewick District

The schedule for the spray DEM
onstration meetings to be conduct
ed by M. d. Armstrong, extension
specialist in horticulture and the
county agent, follows:
Friday, April 26-10:00 am, M.
H. Kershaw orchard, Highlands,
Kennewick; LAB p.m., John Erick-
son orchard, Richland.
Saturday, April 27-9:30 am,
]. d. Sutton orchard, Prosser; 200
p.m., Roy Henson orchard, Ben
ton City.
Monday, April 29-10:00 am,
Robert Nitzsche orchard, White
Bluffs; 200 p.m., w. S. Webber
orchard, Hanford.
At these meetings, general dis
cussion of methods of codling moth
control which are being developed
at this time, will be held. Discus
sion will particularly center around
the best use of cider traps and the
information gained from their
use in the determination of a
spraying program which will give
better control. Methods of putting
up the cider traps and various
practices followed by growers in
preventing excessive loss of bait
from the traps will also be discuss
ed.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
aRS. PERRY OF PAsCo
ENfERTAINS THE p. E. o.

!. mrs. Floyd Perry of Pasco en-
8 st'a,ned chapter 40 of P. E. O.,
Nnicn she is a member, at her
: as = tuesday evening. In honor
~, me eighth anniversary of the
: rsaalng of the chapter, Mrs. T.
s;.l Browne presented the chapter
~ sa !, 2 bound copy of its history.
s;,s ~, NJ. M. Moulton was presented
sis;a a a guard for her pin in recog-
of Jn ~. Of service in occupying all
nm sae offices of the order. A pro-
pr.., [ oI opera stories was pre-
{ ceo during the evening. Mrs. II.
Sa.s ps0wne ". gave the story of "Mar-
alls,;. Miss Dorothy Arnold, "Cav-
C,ssS ,a Rusticana;" Mrs. Frank
+ ssen, m Bohemian Girl" Mrs. A.
sss.e megner ia Boheme." Popular
tsols lIOns ;U were played on the vic
b ~ Illustrating the type of music
aes,s %e different operas. Eleven
kr ers a' of the Kennewick chap
saests. ' ana eight Pasco
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
JONES OUTLINES
LEAGUE PROGRAM
Suggests Increase of Butterfat
Production for Dairy Profit
Better Feeding Advocated

If the butterfat production of the
four thousand odd cattle in Benton
county were increased from the
present average of about It's lbs
per cow a year to the 318-lb. av-
erage in the dairy Improvement
herd association and the additional
fat sold for only five cents per
pound, it would give the dairymen
of this county nearly a third of a
million dollars more per year than
they now receive, according to r.
c. Jones, manager of the Valley
Dairy Development league, who
was the principal speaker at the
Commercial Club luncheon last
Thursday.
Another way to increase the
amount of money coming to the
dairymen of the county would be
to eliminate the feeding Of about
a third of the cows without de-
creasing production if the dairy
Improvement average could be
maintained. Work of the herd i'm
provement association was held to
be as essential to the success OF
dairying as keeping books is tc
the business man.
Prosperity cannot be given ol
legislated to the farmer; he must
go after it himself. working a.
hard above the shoulders as he
does below, and it is the purpose
of the Valley Dairy Development
league to encourage him to make
such an attempt fundamentally
Jones said. Dairying exclusively
was not advocated, but would add
certainty to the farm income.
Help in maintaining and enlang.
ing the herd Improvement associa.
tion, better feed, scientific breed.
ing, fostering of Junior dairy clubs
sponsoring a milk campaign and
the encouragement of community
dairy shows were mentioned as
parts of the league program.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
SWAPP-CADY NUPTIALS
SOLEMNIZED AT ANACORTES

Miss Eva Swapp, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Swapp of
Anacortes, was married to Carl S.
Cady of Kennewick, son of Mrs.
Steven Cady of Spokane, Tuesday,
April 16, at 1880 o'clock at the
Presbyterian manse by Rev. Nc
Cormack in the presence of i'm
mediate relatives.
The bride wore an attractive
model of powder blue with beige
coat and hat to match. She was
attended by Mrs. Bernadine Taylor
and Miss Ruth Strawser.
Following the ceremony we'd
ding luncheon was served at the
New Wilson hotel. Mr.. and Mrs.
Cady took short trop to Seattle.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
GROWERS SHIP
"a CARS GRASS
THIS SEASON
Kennewick Asparagus Valued
at $57 10000 Has Been Sold
at Various Places So Far
This Year

Approximately $57,500.00 worth
of asparagus has been shipped out
of Kennewick so far this season
Twenty-four carloads have rolled
to various points in the United
States despite the late start the
asparagus had due. to the cold
weather.
Seventeen cars of asparagus
were reported out so far this year
by Lee Lampson, manager of the
8 Rivers Growers Association to-
day. Lampson says that since the
asparagus has been cleaned up
from the bad blow week ago last
Sunday, it has been running only
about Is to 20 per cent under
Washington No. 1. Lampson pre-
diets that while the market is
somewhat weaker at the present
time due to warmer weather in
the East, it may improve if cold
er weather prevails there.
The Big "Y" has shipped seven
cars this season. The average price
for asparagus is better than SITS
per IL pound crate up until the
present time, according to H. w.
Desgranges, local manager.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
DISTRICT FEDERATION TO
MEET AT SUNNYSIDE

The Yakima Valley District Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs will hold
its thirty-second semi-annual con-
vention in Sunnyside, Friday, May
8.
The meeting will be held in the
Presbyterian church and will open
at 1890 am. Mrs. M. d. Scroggs
of Sunnyside is chairman of the
general committee on arrange
ments, and Mrs. Ray Freeland Of
White Swan, chairman of the pro-
gram committee.
The general theme of the pro-
gram will be international Re-
lationsp and DR.. w. d. Robinson
of Yakima will speak on that sub
ject.
Mrs. Serena Matthews, of Pull
man, president of the state fedora
ton will be an honor guest, and
wlil occupy a place on the program.
Club Institute on the subject Of
The Relationship of the Individ-
ual Club to the District, State and
General Federations" viii be led
ny Mrs. Oscar Follansbee Of Zil-
lah.
Sunnyside is extending a most
cordial invitation to all club wo-
men >of the valley to attend this
meeting.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
JUNIORS TO BANQUET
SENIORS FRIDAY

Members of the Junior class will
entertain the seniors with ban
quet at Hotel Kennewick dining
room Friday evening at $50 o.
clock. Dale Smith will speak as a
representative of the school board.
Harold Nelson, president of the
Junior class, will be the toastmas-
ter. Edward Cotman and Walter
Knowles will represent the senior
class and Geneva Broughton and
Billie Burris, the Junior. The din
ing room will be appropriately dec
Grated in purple and gold. The
musical program will consist of a
solo and vocal duet by Omer and
Grover Lincoln.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
BISHOP CROSS
SPEAKS AT
NOON MEETING
Episcopal Bishop Claims His
Business the Most Import
ant One on Earth at Com
mercial Club Luncheon

"The business in which l am en-
gagged is the most important one
on earth," said Edward M. Cross,
bishop of Spokane for the Epis-
copal church, who was the princi-
pal speaker at today's meeting os
the Commercial Club. "And I feel
sometimes that we clergymen are
a bit presumptious in our conduct
of it." he continued.
Bishop Cross was one of four
clergymen, who were present at to-
days meeting, Rev. John B. PEN
mel of the Episcopal church, Rev.
F. N. Morton of the Methodist
church and Rev. L. j. Aldrich of
the Congregational church, all the
guests of the club.
In his talk the bishop, in his in
teresting way, brought home to his
listeners facts which he felt were
being slighted not only by the peo-
pie of Kennewick, but in the larger
centers as well. That the deeds of
greed and violence which are hap
pening every day were but indi-
cations of a general feeling of
passivity on the part of the public;
a feeling which it was his job, as
well as that of all other clergy
men to subdue.
The week of May 1T will be
known as National Egg Week and
the local club will feature the hen
and her product at the meeting
next week. Kennewick will do it's
part in fostering the growth of
Washington's $30,0O0,0 900 industry
by telling of it's possibilities in
Benton county. Local poultrymen
will have places on the program
next Thursday, at which meeting
all farmers as well as the regular
members of the club are invited.
This being Kennewick's turn to
celebrate the Fourth of July, the
matter of preparing for the day
was left in the hands of a special
committee to be appointed.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
HOUR OF SERVICES is
CHANGED BY CHURCH

Due to the uncertainty of the
ferry service between Pasco and
Kemewick, the morning service
hour at st. Pauls Episcopal church
has been changed from 11:15 o.
clock until 8 O'Clock, beginning
next Sunday. This hour VIII De
maintained thru May, June an0
July, according to Rev. John B.
Pennell.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25

be capped with blossoms and the
children in their dainty summer
frocks will wind the ribbons.
ALI of the children in the school
will participate in the days pro-
gram, which Miss Rosalyn Brain
ard is directing. The program in
cludes dances by the first grade
children 81 See You" ssDance of
Greeting" Chimes of Dunkirk," "
and Japanese Dance" "Minuet," "
"Indian Dance" "Gun Drill !" "Bos-
castle Dance" Highland Fling"
and the 'Maypoles."
Dainty May baskets of colorful
flowers have been left on front
porches for tiny neighbors for
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
j. III. GELLATLY !
TO DEDICATE
FARM TRAIN
Lieutenant Governor will Pre-
side at Initial Showing of
Train at Cheney Special
in Kennewick May IL.

Accepting the invitation of Pres.
E. 0. Holland of the State College
of Washington, Lieutenant Gov
ernor John H. Gellatly will dedi-
cate the Farm Marketing Special
to the promotion of better agri-
culture and more profitably mar
keting of farm products at the
ceremonies to be held at Cheney
on May 6, at 2:30 p. M, in con-
nection with the first showing of
this train.
This event is of such moment
and great interest to the agricul-
tural interests of the state that
no less an official than the lieu
tenant governor is willing to give
his time in making these cere-
monies worthy of the beginning
of this campaign for better agri-
culture in Washington.
The market train will arrive in
Kennewick Saturday morning,
May II. It will consist of three
cars of livestock exhibits and two
of agricultural products. Exhibits
will be made at the train in the
morning, a free lunch will be Civ
en- to all visitors in town that day,
by the Commercial Club, and in
the afternoon talks on marketing
will be given.
Lieutenant Gellatly has always
been deeply interested in the prob
lens connected with the market
ing of farm products. He believes
that successful markets can be
maintained and greater profits Sc
cured for the producers only thru
the economical production of high
quality products. Economical pro-
duction" and quality for profit"
are the cornerstone messages of
the Farm Marketing Special.
The Marketing Train is being
prepared by the Extension Depart
ment in Agriculture of the State
College of Washington in cooper
alton with the United States De-
partment of Agriculture and the
Northern Pacific railway. After
the dedication at Cheney, the train
will leave on three weeks tour
of the state, during which DEM
pnstrations will be given in AZ
towns along this railway. Exhibits
OF dairy, livestock and poultry and
their products, as we'll as fruit,
potatoes, grain and hay will be
carried on the train emphasizing
more economical production, finer
processing and higher quality of
farm products to the greater profit
to the producer.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
r. F. D. Mail Shows
Increase Says Shanafelt

A twelve day count just COM
pleted at the local postoffice shows
a steady increase in the amount
of mail handled over a like per-
iod last year, according to G. H.
Shanafelt, postmaster. Route No.
1, 81 1-2 miles long, with total
number of 230 boxes, accommodate
ing 251 families, handled total
number of 1924 pieces. Route No.
2, % 1-2 miles long with total
of 185 boxes, accommodating 212
families, handled a total Of 1902
pieces.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
DEMAND FOR .
DITCH WATER
is HEAVY NOW
Spring of 1929 Exacting One
From Irrigation Standpoint,
According to w. c. Null
drow, District Manager

"The Spring of 1929 has been a
rather exacting one from the ir-
rigation standpoint" said w. C.
Muldrow, manager of Columbia
Irrigation District, today. "There
has been no rain sufficiently heavy
to wet the ground since the snow
went off. There have been an UNI
usual number of strong drying
winds. In spite of late cool wealth
er, the lands generally have be-
come dry unreasonably early, and
the early demand for irrigation
water has been heavier than in
any spring since 1926.
"Most people do not think of
weather conditions as having any
thing to do with seepage losses or
physical conditions in a canal, but
they do have a very marked eff
feet. Normally the Yakima river
is rising to spring flood stage
when we begin running water. The
silt in the muddy water speedily
seals up the pores in the ditch
bottom, which has been disturbed
by the heaving Of winter frosts.
Excessive seepage is rapidly shut
off. This spring, as in 1926 and in
1920, the river is low and glass
clear. 1t will rise soon, as warm
weather melts the snow in the
mountains, but In the meantime
the seepage losses from our main
canal are very high, and in many
places the banks are getting in
soft and dangerous condition. The
headgate gage is now running at
the maximum amount of water
carried at any time last year, or
20 per cent higher than at this
date last year. Still, on account
of high losses, there is Is per cent
less water delivered on the land
than a corresponding head would
furnish last year. 1t is very fort
unate that such seasons come
early and that the conditions are
corrected so promptly as soon as
the river rises. From within q
few days after the muddy water
begins to flow the worst seepages
begin to disappear and the cages
on the lower canals begin to rise,
and in ten days or so we gain
twelve to fifteen hundred acres OF
water. This probably will not be
long now. 1t usually come about
May 1.
Meanwhile the canal force is
keeping in close touch with con-
ditions on the main canal and do
ing such work as can be done to
insure safety at the worst points.
There is no practical way to cor
rect the general condition except
natures way. 1t would take many
men and thousands of dollars to
muddy the water artificially, even
if suitable material were conven-
iently available, for our canal
runs 600 cubic yards of water a
minute. 1t is not believed that
there is any real danger of a
break if the canal is not crowded
too hard at this time, but it would
not be good judgment to increase
the head any further until better
conditions set in. Meanwhile it
win be necessary to be very care
full in the use and service of the
water, to allow no undue waste,
and to keep the land as well wet
up as possible to be in shape to
stand the first spell Of hot wealth
er. AS soon as the muddy water
comes, more water will be avail
able"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
NEW DISTRICT MAP AT
COURIER-REPORTER OFFICE

A copy of new map, which
takes the place of the Horse Hea-
ven quadrangle map, has just
been received by the Courier-Re-
porter from the Automobile Club
OF Washington. The map is post
ed in the office. The new map
shows in detail all highways from
Yakima south to. Goldendale and
west thru Toppenish, Sunnyside,
Grandview and Prosser to Pasco
and Kennewick.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
FIVE LOCAL
: r1HILDREN T WIN
IN CONTEST
LA 900 Persons From All
Agsss p.rts Of County Attend An
mail Spelling Contest and
Field Day

uannewick children, two
-. W. Hover and one from Finley
ilor r;sd off honors in the first an
al sail'ee BENTON County spelling con-
nus' M ,ah;ch was held in Kennewick
e.. ,sss saturday. About 600 teachers,
l.ss 1srsnts and pupils, many OF whom
PslVn 3 not participate in the contest,
a'a a,fended uSs the contest with which
pas as's1 also held a county field day.
asl1 asn Games and a picnic lunch was
0.S usrt Of the doy's program.
Alma D. Wysong of KenneWlck
,,seed second in the third grade
,outest rnt and Martha Chellis of Ken
.ss 'sw;ck was second in the fourth
srsde sru group. Wilma Tucker OF Ho-
~ was third in the third grade
lass and Genave Tucker OF Hover
,as third in the fifth grade. Fay
stroue - of Finley won first place
! the fifth grade contest.
other winners in the contest
we're:
Third grade-John Mckinney,
Ruena Vista school, first. Fourth
,rade-vonna Coats, of Harvest
Home school, Rattlesnake Hill,
first: Lavelle Plotner, Benton City,
ihird. Fifth grade-Dorothea Fin
~, Buena Vista school, third;
9th. grade Wilfred Goulet
Fbitstran school, first; Harriet
shaw. Whitstran school, second,
llDelle Weber, Prosser, third.
Suenth grade-Ruth Mitchell, Fin
b school, first; Francis Wagner,
Nhitstran school, second; Herbert
Bell, Hanford, third. Eighth grade
Dallas Carver, Whitstran school,
first; Lila Underhill, Prosser, Sec
md; Patricia Thompson, Benton
City, third.
The contest began at 10 o'clock
b the forenoon. A recess was TAX
a nom 1920 till 300 for a picnic
lntheon. The contest ended in mid
Gakrnoon, when the awards con-
isting Of ribbons were made by
he committee in charge. The first
prize in each grade consisted OF
IN inscribed ribbon for the winner
md a suitably inscribed pennant,
IA inches by three feet for the
nom where the winner attends
rhool. Second and third prizes
unssted of ribbons bearing pro-
rr Inscriptions. The winner of the
hrt prize in the eighth grade is
lieible to represent Benton county
N the state spelling contest at
olympia, sponsored by Congress
man Summers.
The basis for the contest was a
list Of three hundred words, select
ID by the county superintendent
office. Of the 152 pupils who en-
tered the contest, forty-nine of
Aem wrote all 800 words correct
y. Ten of the "a entrants in the
Eh grade had a perfect score, z
missed only one word, and the low
et score in that grade was 297.
The sixth grade had the highest
number making a perfect score,
he number being nineteen. The
levest score earned was, of course,
y the third grade; but even there
NO earned a perfect score, one
pupil had 299, five 298 and seven
ea below 295.
VI account of so many perfect
xsres, supplementary word lists
aad to be used in orded to settle
oss between pupils. The contest
,0f supremacy in the eighth grade
,@o the championship of Benton
.0uatyl was particularly close and
'nnted, and three supplementary
"to lists were used before the
@.ter was settled, Dallas Carver
!, Nnltstran finally winning over
q underhill of Prosser by a
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
HANSEN TRADES PLACE
FOR SPOKANE PROPERTY

w. +. Hansen has traded his
place In section I5 for Spokane
property and is leaving Wednes
day with his family and household
goods for his new home. The new
owner has leased the Hansen place
for the year.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
BUSH BECOMES LOCAL
CONTINENTAL MANAGER

&C.. w. Bush, who has been the
manager of the John Dover Lum-
Der Co. at Finley for the last 8
years, has become manager of the
Continental Oil Co. here. C. G.
Hitchcock, who was formerly man.
ager, has left for Bend, Ore.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
ENGLISH SERVICES AT
BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN

English divine services will be
held at 1880 o'clock Sunday at
Bethlehem Lutheran church, of
which M. C. Kauth is pastor. Sum
day school is scheduled for 9:45
o'clock and the Bible Class meets
Thursday evening at 8 o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-18
Fake Amnesty by
M ussOlini Fails
to Materialize

ROME (By Mail) .-There was no
amnesty nor any combinations in
Italy at Christmas for the deported
politicals. Mussolini was in the habit
of making great advertisements for
his regime by these amnesties. The
explanation for the absence Of any
amnesty this year must be that there
are no banished politicals worthy"
of being amnestied. The previous
amnesties were always carefully
prepared. The commandant Of the
deportation islands commenced to
influence banishcd persons who
were made weak by sickness, family
worries, etc. and worried them so
long until they finally agreed to ac-
cept the amnesty and make servile
statements of thanks to the Duce
for the amnesty. This time Musso-
lini has not been able to find any
of the deported prepared to make
any such thanks and to sacrifice
their opinions for their liberty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-18
AUSTRALIA DOCK
WORKERS FIGHT
900 Resist Attack of
Mounted Police

SYDNEY, Australia, Jan. IT.
Eight hundred dock workers and
about 100 women workers, demon
strating against the hiring of nom
union men and the discharging of
union dock workers by the ship
companies, resisted the police when
they attempted to break their lines
at Port Adelaide today.
One hundred foot and mounted
police charged the workers, swing
ing their clubs freely. The fight
lasted for an hour, during which
many workers and police were in
jured.
The workers are still on strike
despite the sell-out of the water
front strike by the reformist labor
leaders who put the workers at the
mercy of the Bruce government and
the company thugs. AS a result Of
the sell-out the companies retained
the scab labor and refused to re-
hire the union workers.