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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-30

Mrs. Van De venter's sister, Mrs
Preston Brooks and Fields grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. 7. Peter
sen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Conley and
children of Selah and Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe Triesch and family We're Thurs
day guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin
Knowles.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-30
Nebraska Visitors Here


Mr.. and Mrs. Buster Craig and
daughter of Morrill,, Nebraska, ar
rived Saturday and will visit at the
w. E. Hacker home for several
weeks. Mrs. Craig will be remem-
bered as the former Beatrice
Hacker. They drove through in the
car and report the roads and
weather excellent.
Mr.. and Mrs Hubert Soper and
family were Thanksgiving dinner
guests at the S. D. Draper home in
Kennewick.
Hubert Soper, Bob Eckleman,
Ruth and Betty Leonard, all of
Yakima were Thanksgiving visitors
at the Hubert Soper home.
Relatives Visit
The Ed Ray family had as their
guest on Thanksgiving day Mr.. Rays
three brothers, Mr.. and, Mrs. B. F..
Ray and children Of Colfax; David
Ray and three boys of Ralston; Mr..
and Mrs. Mason L. Ray and child
rem of Washtucna, also Mrs. Rays
brother, G. w. Imler Of Colfax and
the Billingsly family and Howard
Giles spent the afternoon with
them. 49,
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Shattuck
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Nc
Intyre and family were Thanksgiv-
ing dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Nelson Lewis.
Sporting Boutelle went to Sc
attic this week to attend the Jack
Swayze wedding and visit his sis
ter, Jeanne Boutelle. ...A
Art Reymore and sons, Chef and
Russell were home from Seattle for
Thanksgiving.
Ed Lape went to Portland on
business on Wednesday.
New Committees Named
| G. H. Meyers conducted q grange
committee meeting at the CLARK
home Monday evening at which time
he appointed his new committees
for the year.
Miss Irene Cottingham Of Boise
Idaho was q Thanksgiving guest al
the N. L. Foraker home.
Mrs. Bell was Saturday after.
noon visitor at the home of her sis.
ter, Mrs. Earl Reymore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Morrison ant
family were visitors at Whit,
Bluffs on Thanksgiving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert KippeS anC
family, spent Thanksgiving at tn.
G. II. Leiber home.
Visit Relatives
The w. s. Green family spen1
Thanksgiving in Spokane, return.
ing Monday night. Miss Mary Greer
went to Spokane on Friday morn.
ing and returned with her parents
w. E. Hacker and Sam Forake,
helped w. L. Foraker move q barr
on Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. j. E. Campbell entertained
the bridge club last Friday. Honor,
were won by Mrs. Ed Lape, Mrs. N
L. Foraker and Mrs. Frank Lamp.
son.
Mrs. Forrest Gragg. Robert Gragf
and Mendal spent Thanksgiving II
Yakima with the Bill Birdsall fam.
lily and Mr.. Gragg.
The Highland Improvement clul
meets this Friday night. Decembe
1.
Melvin GLASGOW has q new phon,
installed and the number Is 2781.
Girl Scouts
The Highland girl scouts met q
Thelma Hackers last Wednesda!
afternoon and enjoyed MAXIM
candy.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Preston wer
guests of Wallace Preston Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Lampsol
were guests of Mrs. Lottie Lampso1
on Thanksgiving.
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Miss Brickman Becomes
Bride of Bob Mccoy

HOVER-Miss Anna BrIckman of
Chelan and Robert Mccoy of Dry
den were married Friday, November
"a. Rev. Erling Bergan, uncle OF the
groom, officiated at the ceremony.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mccoy spent
the weekend with his father, Clark
Mccoy. The McCoys will make
their home in Cashmere.
Mrs. John Goodall, daughter, Ha-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-30

Harold King believes the tro,,,,o
with the sound OF conscience Is tina,
We can't hear it until after We oro
in trouble.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-30

Count your pennies, your penny
counts. Buy Christmas sealsl
Christmas Seals are penny health
insurance.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-30

guesses land that is a substitute %.
| kindling. 'or
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Thanksgiving Program
The lower grades gave their
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Mrs. John Goodall, daughter, Ha-
Evening star., 1939-01-21
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

One Of our older readers has sent
Q letter with notes about porcupines.
Writing from Venice, Calf, A. L.
Cramer says:
"Sixty-flve years ago I went into
the wilds of Central Wisconsin with
my father. That region then con-
tained a great many procupines.
They were so numerous that they
destroyed the handles of shovels
hAtchets, hammers or axes which
we might leave outdoors. They bit
into the wood because of the salty
taste left on the handles by the
sweat of those who had used them
"One homesteader bought bar
rel of salt pork and loaded it on a
wagon to take to his home 6 or Z
miles away. The roads we're muddy,
and 1t was hard for the team to
pull the wagon.
In an effort to tighten the load
the homesteader let the brine run
out Of the barrel, over the wagon
to the ground. This made the
wagon become salty. After it was
put away at night the porcupines
got at 1t and ate so much of the
wood that 1t was Just about
ruined"
j like to receive letters like that
Evening star., 1939-01-21
A Little Saturday Talk

Dozens of readers who are "old-
timers" have written to me, and
am always pleased when they tell
interesting things about their ad-
ventures in other days.
Questions about beavers are asked
by Ralph Wilson. boy who reads
our column faithfully.
Whatever made beavers start to
cut down trees?" he asks. And
how do they stand the icy water
in winter? Have they got thick
fur?"
Beavers started to cut down trees
so long ago that we have no rec
ords which would make sure how
the custom started. We may, how
ever, figure that it probably came
about by accident, not by think
ing" on the part of the beavers.
Beavers like to eat wood, and In
early times certain beavers may
have bitten deeply into the trunk
of a tree which overhung a small
stream, cutting it down and making
it tumble into the water. Driftwood
and mud in the stream may have
been carried to the tree In such
amounts as to block up the stream
and make a dam.
That may have happened to many
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Blind Horse.

So blind that she cannot even dis
tinguish between light and darkness
Griewrack, 3-year- old mare, has a
number of wins to her credit, in
cluding four consecutive firsts al
Rockingham Park, Salem, N. H.
According to her jockey, she is
troubled by her aff1iction only when
she is making a turn. Then she
loses all sense of direction and in
an attempt to run straight she bears
out. However, once Strengthened
for home she finishes gamely, often
ahead of the field.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Jolly Polly
A LITTLE CHAT ON ETIQUETTE
BY JOS. J. FRISCH.
BY ALLEY

c. O.-Special effort should be
made to remember the names of the
persons to whom one has been in
troduced. It certainly is not very
fattering to say to some one, Il
have forgotten your name" If the
name of the newly-introduced per-
son has eluded you, why not consult
another person?
Send a self-addressed, stamped
envelope for the leaflet, "1ntroduc-
ton"
Evening star., 1939-01-21

beavers in many places. When they
found that dams were useful ir
keeping the water deep enough irl
winter the beavers might have be.
gun to cut down trees "on pur-
pose" so they could make dams
Beavers need deep water under the
ice In winter 50 they can escape
from large and hungry land ami
mails.
Beavers have warm, thick fur
This helps keep them warm when
they are IN the cold water In win
ter. In actual fact, the water is
warmer than the air in northerly
parts on most winter days. The
fresh water under the ice has a
temperature which is more than 81
degrees above zero-if the water
went down to 80 degrees Fahrenheit
1t would freeze.
1~eA @ad
tCopyright. 193e)
Join the 1889 Uncle Ray Scrapbook
Club! 1nclose . stamped envelope care
bership certificate, a lesflet telling how
to, make. q corner scrapbook and .
printed design to paste on the cover.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03
Strip Coal Mining Als0
Called Open Air Method

Strip or open cut coal mining is a
comparatively recent development.
Through this method coal is mined
In the open air. Sunburn replaces
the underground cave-in as one Of
the principal dangers in this branch
of the industry.
This form of mining RECEIVERS coal
too shallow or too thin for mining by
shaft or drift methods, observes a
writer In the Chicago Tribune. I'm
der the strip or open cut method the
overburden of earth is removed with
huge power shovels-some> of them
the largest moving pieces of ma
chinery In the woodland the coal
is then taken from the top of the
seam. Width of the excavations va
ries with the size of the machine and
the overburden, but il is not unusual
for the pits to measure 200 feet or
more In width from the brim of the
original ground to the top Of the
spoil banks.
Lands worked over by the strip
method are usually left with sub
stantially parallel ridges. When new.
these ridges give the appearance Of
a sawtooth roof.
The final excavation results in q
cut varying with the depth Of the
coal seam. This may be from 10
TO so feet deep, from IS to 200 feet
wide, and from one-quarter to three
miles long.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03
Helen's Tree Frog Noted
For Its Odd Celebration

The frog, Phyllomedusa helenae,
called for the lack of better name
Helen's tree frog, is grotesque. II
has the exaggeratedly slender body
and legs of most tropical tree frogs.
The head is short and wide, the feet,
with partly webbed toes, are huge.
Each toe terminates in a dilated
disk, the adhesive qualities of which
permit the frog to climb vertical
surfaces and to remain asleep for a
whole day adhering to the glass
sides of its aquarium tank.
The most striking feature of this
frog is its celebration, states writer
In the New York Times. The head
and body and the upper surfaces OF
the legs are usually a pea green,
which may change at times to a
green so dark as to appear black.
The sides of the body and the under
surfaces of the legs are a dresden
china blue with fine cream-colored
criss-cross markings on the body.
Most striking are the eyes and feet.
The former are a deep vermilion
with vertically elliptical pupil and
the latter are an orange color. The
contrast of orange-colored feet and
green limbs gives the animal the
appearance of wearing gloves.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03
REFUTES CLAIM |
MERCHANTS ARE
EVAO|NG TAX

During recent weeks, great deal Of
publicity has been given claims that
the retail merchants of Michigan are
pocketing considerable percentage Of
the sales taxes they collect, instead Of
turning the same in to the state.
This claim is refuted in a statement
received by Secretary Charles L. Ham
sell, of the Down River Chamber Of
Commerce, directed to the sales tax
department Of the chamber which is
under the supervision of Miss COlette
Dole
The statement, signed by r. Wayne
Newton, director of the Michigan Re
tail Institute at Lansing, is supported
by figures supplied by the State Board
of Tax Administration. 1t shows that
the total gross sales reported to the
state board for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1898, were s., 1882 332 ,O5O 289. The
total deductions before arriving at net
taxable sales were $3.50, 1873, $50, but
there is a vast difference between de-
sis shows.
In Group /, there are total deduc-
tioDs of $2,226, 159. 31S, divided as fol
lows: Wholesale for direct resale, ST.
to-, 81 ,4O5; offsets TO. avoid double tax
alton, gasoline already taxed, $780,
O05; beer already taxed. S4,52O, 514 ;
exemptions because of public policy,
sales in interstate commerce, S452,-
O15,37S; sales to governmental units.
$75,3N, O16.
Group 2: Sales of commercial ad-
vertising, sales to religious or educa-
ti0nal institutions, ETC., income from
services and credits for returned
goods, 500, 237 $40; sales for indus
trial processing, $152, 525,7 $50, for to-
tai of 1858, 763, 500.
Group 3: Statutory $50 monthly
exemption to merchants, sol, 1SS, 800;
miscellaneous, $39.022, 116.
No one has seriously questioned the
ACCESSIBILITY of any of the deductions
listed in Group l. None of it repre-
sents taxes collected by retailers and
withheld from the state. Yet this group
represents S3.4 per cent of the entire
total of deductions. As TO Group 2, the
deductions for religious and educa ton
al institutions were introduced by
amendment in 1895, virtually without
opposition. Furthermore, the retailer
collects no tax on these sales. Certain
~ there can be no valid objection to
allowing sales tax credits for goods
actually returned by the purchaser.
The deduction on account Of adver-
Using, like the deduction on items con-
sumed in industrial processing, was
granted in 1895 because it was gener-
ally recognized that these are expenses
incident to the cOnsummatiOn of the
final sale of various products, and are
not retail sales in any true sense OF
the word Here again, the retailer
does not collect any tax ON these
sales.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03
Route Of Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln highway, which is
1874 miles long, connecting New
York and San Francisco, begins il
the East at New York City, and
passes through Jersey City, New
ark, and Trenton, NJ. T.; PhiIadel-
phia, Lancaster, York, Chambers
burg and Pittsburgh, Pa; East Liy-
erpool, Canton, Mansfield and Lima,
Ohio; Fort Wayne, Elkhart, South
Bend and Valparaiso, Ind; Chicago
Heights, Aurora, Geneva, Rochelle
and Dixon, ILL.,; Clinton, Cedar Rap
ids, Marshalltown, Jefferson and
Council Bluffs, Iowa; Omaha, Co
lumbus, Grand Island, Kearney and
North Platte, Neb. Cheyenne, Lara
mie, Medicine Bow, Rawlins, Rock
Springs and Evanston, Wyo.; Salt
Lake City, Garfield, Tooele and Iba-
pah, Utah; Ely, Eureka, Carson City
and Reno, New; and Truckee, Plac-
erville, Sacramento, Stockton and
Oakland, Calf. The Lincoln high
way is marked with red, white and
blue markers bearing blue letter
'L" on white field.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03
History OF Elevators

The elevator dates from q plat
form hoist made by Henry Water
man of New York in 1850, this being
q very crude affair operating be-
tween two floors. At about the same
time George H. Fox & Co. of Bos-
ton were building the same type of
elevator. In 1852 Elisha Graves Otis
began the manufacture of eleva-
tors in Yonkers, N Y. and in 1854
invented the first safety device to
keep the car platform from falling.
The first platform elevator was In
stalled by Otis in 1857 in New York.
In. 1878 Charles r. Otis invented the
safety governor. The first passen-
ger elevator IN an Office building was
of the steam-driven type and was
installed in New York in 1869.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03
Inyensor Kills Himsef
With Gun Made 1t HQsnS

CHICAGO. - Valentine Horhiak,
age %, had q reputation as q mas
ter mechanic. He was IN invt1tor,
too, but his inventions never brSutft
him recognition.
He decided recently to try again.
He constructed 4 new device. He
took three-foot length Of iron pipe.
inserted q 50 caliber pistol cartridge
and fashioned a breech lock with .
small bit of cylindrical iron-a1-
most q finished shotgun.
II lacked only firing mechanism,
so he kindled FIRE in his back yard
and thrust the breech Of the weapon
into the flames. A small boy
watched curiously over back fence
as Horbiak seated himself before
the fire, the weapons nuzzle pointed
at his chest. The boy asked him
what he was doing. Testing inven-
tion," he mumbled.
He sat immobile The heat In
creased. Finally there was roar
and he turnbled from his seat, the
bullet from his homemade gun inn
bedded in his heart.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03

The words "ritz" or "ritzy" are
synonymous for chic, elegant, ultra
smart. and mean the last word In
luxury, But how many people know
there was a person by the name of
Ritz? asks writer in the Kansas
City Star. Cesar Ritz was very
much Of a person-the man who
rose from humble Swiss parent
age to make history in the hotel bust
ness. 1t seems almost incredible
that:
until 1898. when the Ritz hotel
was opened In Paris, the Hotel Bris-
toll had been the last word in luxury
and possessed but one bathroom to
each floor" as Madame Marie Ritz
declares Tin Cesar Ritz: Host to
the World"-a biography of her ia
nous husband).
Then she goes on to say: The
prince of Wales Cater Edward VII),
when he stopped there, as he did
for almost 40 years (until 1887 was
compelled to have his baths sent in
to him by the 'Bath-at-home service
which would bring, on carts. huge
tanks of hot water, a tub, and all
the necessaries, and husky workmen
would carry these things up the
stairs and deposit them in the mid
die of the bedroom. And the situa-
ton in this respect was better, at
that, than it was in private homes;
even the homes of the great. The
largest private houses at that time
might have but one bathroom"
Madame Ritz recalls that Lord
Lurgan told her that the late Lady
Essex Gan American by BIRTH was
the first lady to smoke a cigarette
in public ip London. He placed this
momentous event at the Carlton ho-
tel In 1899, and added that before
Lady Essex had finished that ciga-
rette many people in the dining room
were standing on chairs to watch
the performance.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03
Soaps Made From TallOw

Laundry soaps are made from tai
low, with resin added to give the
yellow color. The fatty material is
melted and I've is added. Then
saturated salt solution is added. The
soap floats to the surface. Trans
parent soaps contain alcohol and
glycerin. Floating soaps are usual
ly q mixture of taIlow and coconut
oil, potash and soda. 1t is air In
the soap that makes it float. CASTLE
soap is made from olive oil and soda
or mixed potash. Shaving soap is
prepared chiefly from coconut and
palm kernel oils, which impart its
lathering qualities. Small amounts
of gum or other substances are often
added to shaving creams to make
the Iather dry more slowly. The
most important Of the animal oils
used in making soap are tallow and
grease; of the vegetable oils, cotton
seed, coconut, palm, castor. olive,
linseed and soy bean.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03

According to Everyday Sayings"
in northern mythology the'cat is sup
posed to have great influence on the
weather, and English sailors still
say "the cat has a gale Of wind in
her sail" when the animal is un-
usually frisky. Witches that rode
upon the storms were said to as
sumo the form of cats. The dog is
the symbol of wind. like the wolf.
Both of these animals were attend
ants of Odin, the storm god. In old
pictures, the wind was figured as the
head of dog or wolf, from which
came the blasts. Tie cat may there
fore be taken as the symbol of the
downpouring rain. and the dog as
the symbol of the strong gusts OF
wind accompanying a rainstorm.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03
Gas AND WEIGHT
TAX REVENUE
IS Distributed

John f. Breining, vice chairman OF
the Board Of Wayne County Road
Commissioners, announces the distribus
ton of approximately two and three
quarter million dollars of gas and
weight tax moneys to the cities and
villages Of the county in accordance
with the Horton act. This represents
the residue Of the second half gas ana
weight tax revenues returned to the
commission by the state, after deduct
ing payments on the bonded indebted
ness as provided by law.
As has been the general rule, ap-
III fortunately s. per cent, or $2,2SS. 49o. :
~. the bulk of the total amount, will
be returned To the city Of Detroit ana
the remainder is distributed among "a
other municipalities. WyandOtte re-
ceiying S41, 295.24. and Hantramck anu
Highland Park receiving $9t 2S2.5O
and S91. 561 IS respectively. The board
anon requests of the city OF Detroit,
has already advanced sums of S2.O.Wu
and S7JO.OOO~ in anticipation OF the III
Ior.atiOn and therefore the net balance
,,l,e the city of Detroit is $1.2S3. 1879.
Advanced payments have also been
made to the cities Of Wyandotte and
river Rouge. These advances have
h,s.n made to enable the three munich
lpalities Ia facilitate work on their
streets.
The road commission, during the
past year, expended less than two ana
\ half million dollars on the county
road system, consisting OF approx
mately 800 miles of roads and streets.
This amount Is less than the amount
,Jistrih,,ted TO the cities and villages.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03
Camphor Trees Flourish
On Malaria-Ridden Land
IN medicine camphor Is used e,

In medicine camphor is used ex-
ternally as counter-irritant IN
sprains, rheumatic affections, bron-
chitis and other infiammatory condi-
tons. Internally it is used for its
calming influence in hysteria, gen
eral nervousness and neuralgia. And
it is also used as heart stimulant,
especially during low fevers and in
pneumonia, having a stimulating eff
feet on circulation.
Camphor trees can grow in any
tropical or subtropical country, but
flourish best on the malaria-ridden,
snake-infested slopes of Formosa,
where it rains 240 days a year, and
where to this day Japan has to send
troops to clear out the headhunters
who kill the camphor workers, re-
lates an authority in the Philadel-
phia Record. In the 1865 two Amer
lean merchants made deal with
the officials of Formosa to take the
entire output, which is more than rs
per cent Of the worlds supply.
They dredged the port, put up a
lighthouse. The trade became so
profitable that Townsend Harris,
first u. S. ambassador to Japan,
urged this government to buy For
mosa. But the Civil war was in the
offing, and the chance passed, and
the English stepped In. In 1895 China
coded Formosa to Japan, which
made the camphor industry a gov
eminent monopoly. Japan sells cam
phor to the world through one firm.
In London.
Synthetic camphor has been made
since 1906, but whenever it threat
ened inroads into the natural supply,
japan cut prices. American pro-
duction of the synthetic jumped
enormously right after the World
war, when the influenza epidemic
created an enormous demand.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03
sloth Lives Inside Down

The sloth lives upside down. Hook
like claws on his feet keep him sus-
pended in a tree, where he eats
leaves and fruit. Often he never
gets out of the tree on which he is
born. If something forces him to
quit his home. he merely slides 10
the end of limb. stretches out Q
foot, and waits for the wind to blow
him near enough another tree to
hook onto it. observes writer in
the Washington Post. Sloths are the
despair of those who try to domesS
ticate them. One owner, tired of his
almost motionless pet. held it under
q tree to liberate II. 1t was more
than an hour before the creature
shifted its feet enough TO grip the
limb they leaned against.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03
Flower Thief l. Invited
To Complete His Lootins

ST. THOMAS. ONT.--A thief who
robbed flower garden here has
been invited by the owner to return
and get the flowers he left behind.
The owner, after surveying his
wrecked garden, inserted. u1A fol-
lowing advertisement sin q local
newspaper: u
ssWif1 the person or persons WHO
stole a dozen large hydrangea
blooms about two weeks acp and
Is mors three nights ago from the
,Aower beds in front Of No. g. Ella
beth street return and ret The fey
remaining blooms,''
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-02-03
Inebriated Driver S
Ksy Goes to Wife

Last Friday afternoon. shortly after
o'clock. police were called to home
an walnut street. TO drive into the
Family garage car whose owner WAS
nn..er the influence Of liquor. The
mems kew to the car WAS taken away
and given to his wife ~
twenty minutes later second eau
-. fron, the same address. and the
srsh,nd was taken to the police sfa-
s;nr and locked mp as golden rue
I drunk.