The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-08-17
Annual Pioneer Picnic
Will Be Held Sunday

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Richland pioneer picnic viii be held
in the Anon Park Sunday after
noon, August 20. Last year large
number of early settlers of the val
ley gathered with their families and
friends in Anon park, one of the
oldest in the County, under the
high shade trees on the bank Of the
Columbia to recount pioneer scenes
and conditions of district. Plans
are being made for q bigger and bet
ter affair this year and the COM
mittee in charge is urging not only
the pioneers but every resident of
the valley to spend the day at the
park. The event viii open with a
picnic dinner to be served at 1890
where everyone will be seated at a
long table in genuine family style.
Every family is asked to bring their
picnic dinner, free coffee and lem
onade will be served. Ice cream will
also be served for which each fam
lily will be called upon for q free
will collection to pay for the ice
cream. Following the dinner a short
program of speaking will be given
during which old timers viii give
brief early day experiences. E. o.
Whitehead. hfeguard at the SWIM
ming pool in the park, viii have
charge Of a few water events for
the entertainment of the picnickers.
Mr.. and MIS-. w. Robert Ross
and sons returned to their home
in Grand Coulee Tuesday evening
after a two-day visit at the home
of Mrs Ross, brother, Edwin Peddi-
cord. They were on their way home
from a visit to the worlds fair at
San Francisco. sf'sf'5 ~: -
Oscar Anderson returned Tues
day after spending three weeks
harvesting wheat near Lacrosse. He
visited old friends at Garfield over
the weekend and brought greet
ings from the. Hellenger family to
all of their old friends in Richland.
Mrs. Pete Hanson and daughter,
Mrs. Marie johnson and son, Dale,
were visitors Saturday at the home
of Mrs George Snow. -
Visit Daughter .. al.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dam and son,
Norman, drove to Cheney Wednes-
day for their daughter, Geraldine,
who has been attending summer
school there. ,.-4
Mrs Palquest Of Prosser spent
Sunday visiting at the home of her
daughter Mrs Laurence Brewer. She
also visited at the George Snow
home. = ..s.~.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Mcintosh and
family were Sunday visitors at Toll
gate and also at the Arthur Pursch-
WITT home in Pendleton, Ore.
Mrs. R. Redfearn of Pendleton,
Ore, visited Sunday at the home of
Mrs. Evelyn Douglas.
Old Timers Here
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Craft and
Mr. Bahme Of Newark, N. j., came
this week to visit for. the next few
weeks at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Cress. Craft is q former
Richland resident, having lived here
30 years ago He is now engaged in
the hardware business in Newark,
New Jersey.
Bertha Schuster, sister Of Mrs.
George Gress, visited in Richland
Tuesday. Her daughter, Margaret,
who has been visiting at the home
Of her aunt, Mrs. George Gress for
the past month, returned home with
her.
Mrs. Clayton Hackney is in the
Pasco hospital recovering from an
appendicitis operation. Mrs. Hack
ney's appendix had ruptured be-
fore reaching the hospital. Last
reports are that she is now out Of
danger. -.
Hazel Middleton who IS In nurses
training at the st. Mary's hospital
IN Walla Walla, was a Richland
visitor Saturday. go,
Larry Oliver and Herman Camp
bell left Wednesday for Spokane,
where they viii attend the American
Legion convention being held there