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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
TRAIL MARKER
is UNVEILED
Kiwanis Sponsors Dedica-
tion of Plaque in Honor
of Pioneers

The little parked triangle where
Benton street joins the state high
way is the location of the Oregon
Trail marker unveiled Tuesday of
this week. Sponsored by the XII
wants club, short ceremonies were
conducted at noon, with appropri-
ate speeches. In the name of the
city, Mayor Anon accepted the
plaque with an appropriate speech.
Pal Clark, representing the Wal
la Walla Chamber of Commerce,
was present and explained tn e
purposes of the monument. His
talk was followed by an address
by T. C. Elliott, also of Walla Wal
la, who went somewhat into detail
in telling of the $50 pioneers who
made the first trip thru this coun-
try in the summer of 1853. Divert
ed to the Puget Sound country by
the promise of free land, $50 set
tiers turned off the old Oregon
Trail at Wallula and headed
across the hills. The monument is
in commemoration of those early
settlers who braved the hardships
incident to the first trip into the
then unknown regions. Of that
hardy group, five still live. Leav-
ing Wallula on the 18th Of Aug
ust, the shores of Puget Sound
were reached on the first of Oct
ober, trip of 45 days. The speed
lest auto trip recorded between
the two spots is four hours, while
aviators make it half that time OF
less today.
The marker is a bronze plaque
on a marble monument engraved
with the following lettering: "To
all pioneers who passed this way
to win and hold the Northwest"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
PEG. Starts Years
Work With Luncheon

Kennewick chapter, PEG, held
its first meeting of the fall sea-
son Tuesday at the home of Mrs
E. C. Tweet with a one o'clock
luncheon with covers laid for IL
including guests from Walla Wal
la, Mrs. Leslie Hoagland, Mrs.
Nat Webb, Mrs. Sherman and Mrs.
J. E. Ransom. The luncheon table
was charming with pink rose buds
and the rooms were prettily dec
Grated with autumn flowers. Fol-
lowing luncheon, reports were CIV
en- with Miss Dorothy Arnold pre-
siding. Mrs. Hoagland and Mrs. T.
C. Browne, both past state presl.
dents, gave reports of national
convention held last m ont n IN
Portland. A social hour followed
the business meeting.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
WANT 8 MEN
TO SPEND PORT
DISTRICT COIN.
Election to Be Held Next
Month to Revive Old Or
ganizatiOn; Want New
Fair Building

With the principal purpose of
spending about $500 belonging to
the old Port of Kennewick, organ
lied in 1915, the organization is
shortly to be revived. The money
was raised by taxation back in
the early days and has lain idle
since the boats ceased to operate
on the Columbia river.
On the 18th of next month an
election will be held to select three
directors to handle the affairs of
the district. The law provides that
expenditures for port districts
must be made according to GER
tain comprehensive" plans laid
out by the original board and pro-
perly approved. These plans in
clude railroad sidings, docks, of
flee buildings and warehouses, all
to be erected within the district
itself.
The plan now is to carry out this
original scheme, but to build a
warehouse" first. The building
can be so arranged as to be suit
able, at the proper season of the
year, for use by the fair associa-
ton, and inasmuch as the fair
grounds is at the dock site, this
can be done within the law. Upon
the completion of the building
presuming, of course, that the di-
rectors use all the money avail
able, the district will again revert
to innocuous desuetude, inasmuch
as there appears no way to dis
solve such a district.
Six voting places will be pro-
vided and director will be chos-
en- from each of the three districts
of the port district. The districts
follow the three wards of the city
with their Immediately adjoining
rural precincts.
To get ones name on the ball
lots a petition signed by one hum
dred legal voters in the precinct
must be presented to the commits
sioners previous to the election.
Backers of the idea are, of course,
anxious to secure men who are in
terested in the fair, mostly.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
RED EYE AND
GUN GET MAN
JAIL SENTENCE
Combination Creates Deter
mination to Get Revenge on
Employer for Discharge;
Cops Avert Tragedy

A few slugs of "red-eye," a load
ed gun possessed by person i'm
bued with the idea that he has
been "done wrong by" spells a
real danger to someone.
Burns Brown, proprietor of the
local Chevrolet agency, was the
unwilling object of just such a
combination the first of the week.
Luckily the impending messiness
was averted and the gun possessor
has had time to sober up in jail,
minus his "gat" and with a some
what changed frame of mind.
Monday Shorty" Harrison, who
has been employed as mechanis by
Mr.. Brown, was discharged. He
came back to the place 10 d d
within and without, cooked his
feet up on the desk and waited
for the boss to show up when he
intended to do some perforating.
Bystanders, however, got word of
his intention to deputy Sheriff
Copeland and Chief of Police De-
Haven, who marched in and dis
armed the man.
He was fined S25 on a charge
of carrying concealed weapons
and a like amount on a sd and d"
charge. His gun has passed into
different ownership and the young
man is serving out his fine as a
ward of the city.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
IL STUDENTS FROM
CITY AT w. S. C.
enrolment Equals That of Last
Year; Fraternities Select
Local Students

Eleven students from Kennewick
are enrolled as Freshmen at the
State College of Washington, ac-
eording to the registrars records.
Approximately 5000 students are
IN attendance, the enrolment fig
ure being practically the same as
that of last year.
The Freshman class held it's own
with last years mark although the
general quality was higher, due to
restrictions on high school gradu-
ates whose records are not dis
1inctlve. Following are the names
ana major departments of the
freshmen from Kennewick: For
est Allison, general course;
oaaries H. Brogunier, department
NJ mechanical engineering; Dan
~. carter, college of agriculture;
seraid w. Henke, electrical en-
sneerng;. Bonnie B. Hitler, for
d gn languages; Harriet H. Lin
1en, PHYSICAL education; Imogene
T. Rorick, college of home eco
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
PLAY MABTON

Kennewick football team will
battle it out with Mabton Friday
afternoon on the local grounds,
starting. at three o'clock. Owing
to losses by ineligibility, flunks in
studies, charley horses and other
ailments, the team will have an en-
tirely new lineup. Coach Jacobs is
putting the new lineup thru its
PAGES at the field this afternoon
and has clamped down consider
ably on the boys. The
game tomorrow should show up
the results of his intensive train
ing.
The starting lineup will be:
Shanafelt and Schuster, ends; Will
liams and Bowen, tackles; Whitney
and Neal, guards; Knight, center;
Sherk, Vibber, Carpenter and Nc
Gahey, backs.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15

JAzzY STAMPS

+ Uncle Sam, staid old gentle-'
+ man he is, occasionally wakes
+ up, and inserts jazz note in
+ to his prosaic business, and
+ this week it is the post office
= department that strikes a gay
= note in the issue of the York
= town Commemorative stamp,
= to be on sale October goth.
= the stamps are already on
= hand at the local office, but
+ with strict instructions to
+ hold until the set date. They I
+ are rectangular in shape and I
= printed in two colors, red and
= black. The stamp carries a pic 1
= ture of General Washington,
= thanked by the two French 1
: Generals, Rochambeau and De-
= Grasse, and commentaries
= the surrender Of Yorktown by
= the British troops to the I'm !
= tied American and French I
= armies. Postal officials an !
, nounce, that the stamp is al !
= ready much sought after by I
= stamp collectors.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
BYRON TO MOVE

On account of renting the build
ing which he now occupies, Byron
johnson will move to the vacant
room in the Hover block next to
the post office with his establish
ment, around the first Of the
month. He will install new clean
ing equipment and plans several
improvements. Mr.. Utes, who will
occupy the location formerly oc-
cupied by Marsh, will ship his
household goods here next week,
but will be unable to leave his po-
sition in Prosser until about the
first of November, following which
he will move here.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
HIGH SCHOOL
HONOR ROLL
81 Pupils Maintain Grades
of 90 or Better for the
First Six Weeks

John Tweet, a freshman in the
local high school heads the list OF
honor pupils in the local high
school for the first six weeks per-
iod, with an average standing OF
81 IL. Euarda Vinson leads the
sophomore class with 81; Robert
Tweet, the junior class with 81
and Geraldine Mitchell the seniors
with 90 3-4.
Freshman-John Tweet, 81 IL;
Vivian Peter, 95; Dom Combelic,
90 Ia; Dorothy Larkin, SO; Ella
Oliver, 81 Sd; Marie Stafford, 81
Ia: Marian Gleason, 80 IL; Mary
Root, 90 1-2; Josephine Smith, go;
Lester Brown, 90.
Sophomore-Euarda Vinson, 81;
Dorothea Bechtel, 90 IL, Myrtle
Phar, 81 IL; Ruth Mitchell, SO
Id; Edna Goodnight, 90 Sd; Phyl-
lis Chambers, 81 Sd; Luella Rath-
bun. 81 Ia; Marjorie Mills, 81;
Lynette Heberlein, 90; Pauline
Struve, 90.
Junior-Robert Tweedt, 81; Bet
ty Beamer, 90 Sd; William Sherk
95: Olive Brue, "a Id; Jean Arm
old, 90 IL; Irene Heberlein, &C
1-2: Marjorie Minert, 80 IL;
Laura Funk, 90.
Seniors Geraldine Mitchell, sc
81: Eunice Foraker, SO Sd; Mar.
jorie McGahey, 95; Orville Bowen
95; Erma Rider, SO IL; Rosie
Struve, 81 ga; Roy Silliman, 81;
Dorothy Duffy, 90 1-2; Elsie Glea.
son, 90 1-2; Dorothy Heinrich, 81
LIB.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
BENEFIT DANCE

The Business girls are busy this
week getting the Highlands club
house ready for their benefit dance
to be given Saturday night, Oct
ober 18th. The hall is being decor
ated as hunting scene with its
"spooks", pumpkins and harvest
moon. Odja Sheppard and Eleanor
Allen are in charge of the decor
alton committee. The proceeds OF
this dance will go to help the needy
this winter.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15

nomics; Margaret A. Witt, secre-
tarial science; and Boyd A. Rupp,
political science.
At the close of formal rushing,
conducted by the social fraterni-
ties of the campus during the OPP
ening days of school the following
pledges among students from Ken
newick were announced: Gladys
Vickers and Miss Rorick, Delta
Ieta, and Boyd Rupp, lambda
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
IMPROVEMENT DAY

VALLEY Changers are invited to
be present at the Valley Clubhouse
next Saturday morning at 8 o'clock
when the day will be spent i'm
proving and painting. Coffee will
be furnished at noon. The banquet
to be given at $3.50 will be in hon
or of the young people who recent
ly won the entertainment contest.
All valley Changers are invited.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
LEGION AUXILIARY
TO GIVE DINNER
Membership Drive Being Started
for Auxiliary; Hope to Re-
tain State Cup

A special meeting of the Amer
lean Legion Auxiliary was held
Thursday night at the Don Thomp-
son home on Kennewick Ave. The
main topic of the evening was the
October membership drive. The
auxiliary wishes to urge all elig-
ible members to join and help car
ry out the work of the organiza-
tion. There were thirty-two mem
bers last year. Each old member
is urged to bring in one more for
the coming year. The auxiliary
CONTINUED on Page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
Lester Larson Assistant
Track Manager at W.S.C.

Lester Larson of Kennewick has
been appointed a sophomore as
sistant manager Of track for this
year, according to a recent an
nouncement. Approximately 100
student managers are working in
various sports at Washington
State. AS the men work on a COM
petitive basis, the most efficient
managers are promoted at the end
of each respective sport season.
Larson is enrolled in the school OF
mines and geology.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
HELP WANTED

Work will begin on the Finley
Methodist church Thursday morn
ing, October %, on reconstruction.
Donation work will be appreciated
so bring out your shovel, hammer,
saw or what tools you have and
help US out, says Rev. Afford.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15
WEDNESDAY, rs
LAST DAY OF
WATER SEASON
Work on Enlarging Canal to
Be Delayed Until Money
Comes From Government !;
New Work Progressing

wednesday evening, October 81,
has been set as the date for clos
mo the headgates of Columbia
canal the end of 1881 irrigation
season. Careful inquiry has been
made among the water users and
this date seems to be generally
satisfactory, states w. G. Null
drow manager of the district. As
has been stated before it is sound
district policy to continue water
service as long as there is real
need for water enough to justify
the expense of operating. 1t costs
about $500 per day for each day
this service is kept going. There
NAV be some who would like to
have water a. little longer, but UNI
less there is real need for it they
should not expect the district to
keep up this expense.
It is not possible at this time to
tell Just how much work will be
done on the bitches the off season,
nor Just when it will be done. AS
is generally known, there is a
plan to fix up the main canal so
as to furnish the additional wa
ter needed for the Highlands de-
velopment. This work is to be done
with money furnished by the
Kennewick district, which is to
get it from the, U. S. Reclamation
Bureau. This money has not yet
been turned over to the Kenne-
wick district and there is no way
to tell just when it viii be. Until
this money is available, this work
cannot be started.
The work of building a heavy
fill to replace the old box flume
on lateral No. 2 is proceeding
smoothly, about two-thirds of the
$4,000 cubic yards being in place.
There is seam of heavy boulder
hardpan below the top soil, maxi
ing difficult material. The height
and size of the fill made neces-
sary some double handling with
the dragline. In spite of these
things the cost of the fill will be
less than ten cents a yard.
There has been some criticism of
the Board for deciding to do this
job with the county machine in
stead of doing it with teams and
scrapers, on the ground that work
for these men and teams is so bad
~ needed in the valley. This is
true and there is no one connect
ed with the district who would not
have been glad to furnish these
jobs if it could have been done
without too much extra cost. But,
the daily cost of this job wouldn't
quite pay the wages of four men
and teams. And anyone who will
look at this job will agree that
four men and teams would not have
placed more than one-third of the
dirt that has been moved. To have
done it that way would h av e
spent $4,000 more of the districts
funds unnecessarily. In spite of
the benefit to those who received
the work, this district is not rich
enough to spend money that way,
and the landowners generally
would certainly not stand for it
fthey knew it.
1t is the plan to settle this fill
over winter and line it with con-
crete in the spring.
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Mr.. and Mrs. E. Kleinknecht and
daughter, Marjorie, expect to leave
Friday morning for Oaksdale to
spend the weekend with Mr..
Kleinknecht's sister.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-10-15

Mrs. W. j. Tippie was taken to
the Linn hospital Saturday, suf-
ferlng from intestinal flu.
Smyrna times., 1931-11-11
WEST INDIES ONCE PEOPLED
BY TWO RACES Of INDIANS
TWO BRANCHES INCLUDED
ARAWAKS AND carries
Importation of Negro Slaves Began
1905 = Haiti Bacome Pre-
dominantly Negro

Before the arrival of the white
man in the West Indies, the inhab-
itants of the islands consisted al
most entirely of two branches of
the American Indian race, the Ara
walks and the Caribs. These had
made their way from the South
American mainland, through the
whole chain of the Antilles as far
as the Bahamas. The Caribs had
come later and had ousted the Ara
walks from all of the Lesser Antilles
and from some of the larger islands.
The Caribs were warlike and ag-
gressfve, while the Arawaks were
more peaceful agriculturists, with
well-developed arts. The people of
the Bahamas called themselves Yu-
cayOS and the chief tribe of Cuba
was the Ciboneys. these also being
branches of the American Indian
race.
Old records declare that Haiti had
over a million inhabitants. The
forced labor demanded by the Span
ish cOnquerors, together with the ac-
tual massacres and war losses, prac-
tically wiped out the native popu-
latiOn of Haiti. Cuba and other is
lands in less than a century. The
importation of negro slaves began
as early as 1905. at first for the
mines and later for the plantations,
and Haiti became predominantly
negro. Part of the island had be-
come French colony during the
Seventeenth century, and the out
break of the French revolution led
to the proclamation of universal
freedom in 1893. A few years later
the Haitians. former negro slaves.
declared their independence of
France and successfully maintained
it against the French forces.
Smyrna times., 1931-11-11
Great Ok Among Others
of Vanished Animals

Caesar wrote of an animal which
he called "urus" In size, he said,
it was "a little less than elephants;
in appearance and color and form
they are bulls. Great is their
strength and great their swiftness;
they spare neither man nor beast
whom they have perceived. These
(the Germans) take pains to catch
in pits and kill" Caesar, the sci
entists assume, probably was writ
ing of the great OK whose skull and
other bones are found in so many
drained marshes, clay pits and caves
across the length and breadth of
Europe. And if the animal still
lived in Caesars day, how much
longer did it continue? Various
proofs" Of its persistence have been
Forthcoming. Perhaps the most
likely is the report of Brown Herb
enstein. who. returning from Mus
covy in 1850. wrote of race of ami
mails obviously greater than the BIZ
son which then lived in the Polish
forests; but some scientists suspect
that he merely saw a race of cattle
gone wild.
Smyrna times., 1931-11-11
PENSION GROUP IN SESSION
Commission Reviews Three Gases
at Meeting in Dover

At a meeting of the Mothers
Pension Commission at Dover,
Thursday, eight new applications
in New Castle were received of
which three were granted, three
disallowed because of sufficient in
come; one dependent child and one
former action sustained In Sus-
sex county there was one new ap-
plication which was granted. In
New Castle county 18 cases were
reviewed, of which two were dis
continued on account of remar-
riage, three temporary pensions
made permanent and five reduced.
In Kent county six pensions were
reviewed, of which one was in
creased and one discontinued be-
cause of removal. In Sussex coun-
ty seven cases were reviewed of
which two We're reduced. Those
present at the meeting included
Mrs. I. Layfeld Long, Mrs. ]. NJ.
Lank, Mrs. Howard Pyle, Mrs.
Frank Hall Davis, Miss Marie T.
Lockwood, Miss Cora C. Tschudy,
Miss Julia F. Burton, Miss Eliza
beth Hazard and Miss Frances
Griggs, executive secretary.
Smyrna times., 1931-11-11
HELENA IN SERVICE FOR us.

The Helena" the rum runner
confiscated by the y. S. govern
ment several days ago was taken
to Cape May, n. J., Friday under
tow by a Coast Guard cutter. The
ship was delivered to the us. Gus
toms Office at Wilmington upon
consideration Of S287.14, which rep
resents what it cost the Depart
ment Of Justice to prosecute the
libel suit against the boat. This
sum in turn is repaid to the Gus
toms Office by the Coast Guards.
The ship was valued at $500. No
opposition was made against the
confiscation by its owners. The
Helena" will be remodeled and
equipped with new motors and
pressed into the rum blockade ser
vice at Cape May.
Smyrna times., 1931-11-11
Normal Human Instinct
for Beauty in Clothes

One reason why clothes, or at
least the clothes of men, excite so
little interest is that they have be-
come drab, and this drabness is ex-
cused on the ground that clothes
are meant TO be useful and COM
Portable; and usefulness and COM
fort have ceased to be associated
with beauty in modern life. Neither
reason, of course, is true. Clothes
are worn to enhance human dignity,
and, at bottom, only such comfort
is wanted as Shall not interfere
with the prevailing mode. The
women who starved and sliced
themselves in order to keep slim,
who will cripple their limbs with
hobbled skirts when these are the
wear, and cruelty their feet when
pointed toes and high heels are the
fashion, display a normal human
instinct. Men have suffered much
and gladly to wear patent leather
shoes at garden parties in the
height Of summer, and have choked
themselves rapturously with tall,
stiff collars; and comfort means
little to them SO long as they re-
main convinced of the rightness
and fitness Of both.-Osbert Bur
dett in the London Saturday Re
view.
Smyrna times., 1931-11-11
WEDDING OF MUCH INTEREST
Miss Dorothy NJ. Millman Becomes
Bride of I'll. A. Richardson, Dover

A wedding of interest to Della
wareans was solemnized in Dover
last Wednesday afternoon, in his
toric Christ P. E. Church, at 4,
when Miss Dorothy NJ. Millman,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. F..
Millman, of Dover, became the
bride of Harry Alden Richardson,
I'd, son of Mrs. Neva Parvis Rich
ardson. The ceremony which in
cluded the ring ceremony of the
Episcopal Church was performed
by the Rev. Benjamin Fish Thomp-
son, rector of Christ Church. Mrs.
Helen B. Hughes presided at the
organ. Only the immediate mem
bers of the two families and a few
close friends attended. The brides
only attendant was Mrs. William
P. Richardson, and William P.Rich-
ardson, brother of the bridegroom,
was best man. The ushers includ-
ed Robinson G. Walker and Char
les L. Terry, OR, of Dover. The
bride was given in marriage by her
father. The bride, one of the most
attractive members of Dover's
youngest set, was gowned in white
satin, with tulle veil caught with
orange blossoms and carried white
roses and lilies of the valley. Mrs.
Richardson, matron of honor, wore
a gown of silver lame over pink,
with slippers and hat to match.
Mrs. Richardson, mother of the
bridegroom, wore gown of black
velvet while Mrs. Millman, mother
of the bride, wore a gown of dark
green velvet with hat and slippers
of the same shade. The brides
travelling costume was a brown
suit trimmed with blue fox with
hat and shoes to match. Follow
ing wedding trip the couple will
reside on North State Street, Do
yer.
Smyrna times., 1931-11-11
Mariners Compass

The mariners compass, which the
Chinese call 1.-THE south pointing
chariot" is of great antiquity. The
idea, it is said, was born during the
reign of Chong Wang, that is to say,
a little before 1919 B. C. But In a
few centuries the discovery of the
principle was forgotten. A philos-
opher named Chang Hong revived
1t. He died in 139 B. G. and during
the succeeding troublous times his
model was neglected. It was In the
Third century A. D. that the CHI
nese interest in the south pointing
chariot was revived Old writings
were eagerly studied. trial after
trial was perseveringly made, and
in writings of the Eleventh century
we read of the compass being used
by mariners. Before that time it
seems to have been used for guild
ance in travelling by land.