The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-23
Ask Grange Mill
to Be Located
at KenneWick
Pomona Also Seeks PUD
Substation to be Set
at Vernita
(Alice B. Ayers, reporter)

at Vernlta
(Alice B. Ayers, reporter)
The Kiona-Benton Grange was
host to the Benton County Pomona
November 10. The following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing
year:
Master, D. L. Henson; overseer,
Elmer Dilling; lecturer, Bessie
Whitwer; steward, E. A.. Norling;
assistant steward, Harry Sandberg;
chaplain, HuIdo Erickson; treasur-
er, Chas. Morgan; secretary, Maude
Hartman; gatekeeper, w. R. Ochle-
tree; Ceres, Irene Hughes; Flora,
Ina Belle Pierce; Pomona, Bertha
Story; lady assistant steward, Es-
Their Norling; executive committee
man, Guy Story; home economics
chairman, Ethel Clark; reporter,
Alice B. Ayers. XII.
A resolution asking that the
grange flour mill be located at Ken
newick was approved as was one
asking for the location of a sub
station of the Bonneville-G Grand
.Coulee transmission line, to pro-
vide power for the several munich
palities and surrounding area in
Benton, Yakima, Franklin and
Grant counties, be centrally located
at Vernita, Washington. Army en-
gineers, in their survey, placed it as
the most practical irrigation project
in the state of Washington. The
reclamation engineers are now max.
ing survey which comprises 10000
acres of class one and two land.
Without being considered a. cure
for the present evil, resolution ask
ing the state grange to take action
in securing legislation returning to
the regulated saloon system as pre-
ferable to the present system was
referred to the Woman's Work and
Legislative Committee for further
study. Report next meeting.
Through an adopted resolution,
the State Master, the State Execu-
tive Committee and the interses-
sions marketing committee are ask
ed to declare their intentions re-
garding the carrying out of the rec
concentrations Of the 1938-39 con-
ventions as pertaining to marketing.
The grange opposes any rise in
prices of commodities above the cost
of production plus reasonable pro-.
tit for the producer and handlers.
Sister Helen Steiner and her COM
mittee will visit the grange halls and
assist in scoring them for the con-
test now on. $500. $500.
The plan Of organizing q grange
council was left with the Good of
the Order committee for q report at
the next meeting.
During the. afternoon Brother and
Sister Benjamin sang God Bless
America" and the master requests
that they lead the Pomona in sing
ing it at the next meeting which
time he asks all to be prepared by
knowing the words. Sister Pearl
Mahoney, for the Women's Work
committee, gave q talk on Home
the Most Dangerous Place on
Earth.
The committee on committees for
the annual meeting reported thai at
the next meeting on December 8 at
Vale, Brother and Sister Henry Rob-
erts will install the officers. The
meeting will start at 1:30 pm. and
all of the officers of Pomona and
the subordinates of the county will
be there at that time for installa-
ton.
Most of the subordinates reported
election of officers, donations to the
Washington Children's Home for
Thanksgiving and added members.
Buena Vista has paid off all debt on
their hall and White Bluffs has
painted theirs inside. Finley has
renewed its membership in the In
land Empire Waterways Association.
Brother and Sister Gilbert Of Sun
ny Valley in Yakima county were
guests. Brother Gilbert is master
Of Sunnyside District Pomona.
Fifteen dollars and forty-five cents
was voted to buy achievement pins
Tor the All club workers in the
county.
Brothers T. I. Evert, Gordon
Rolph, Rev. Chas. Beiszler and Sis
ter Irma Rolph were initiated in
the fifth degree.
+ Mrs. Harry Fleming, executive
secretary of the Benton county T. B.
League, introduced Supt. Frisbie of
the Prosser schools, who spoke on
tuberculosis"
Community song, America"
Reading by Mrs. Robt. Johanson.
Play ''Truant Husbands" by Sis
tiers Hartman and Jacobson.
Sister Roop sang by the Bend
OF the River" and 1.-THE End of a
Perfect Day." accompanied on the
Violin by Mrs. Margaret Chitwood
and on the piano by Mrs. Charles
Morgan.
Rev. Geiszler spoke on "The Farm
and People Connected with the
Farm