The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-18
Benton City Farmer
COllapses in Field

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BENTON CITYAFuneral service
for Mitchell Engelhart, 63, wer'
held Tuesday afternoon at the M
E. church with the Rev. G.. w. GeiSZ
Ter officiating. Mrs. Carl Montgom.
cry, Mrs. Jack WEIGH. Argus Hughe!
and !. M. Hartman sang with Mrs
c.. E. Morgan as accompanist.
Serving as pallbearers were Cyru!
Jones, Pete Lasbistos, H. r. Cox
Robert Mathews, Harry and CJ
Miller. Burial was in the Evergreen
cemetery with the Prosser Funera
Home in charge.
Engelhart is survived by his wife
Rose and eight children, Mrs. Mary
Fleming, Everett, Fred, Betty Lee
and Alta Mae Engelhart and a
step-son, Lloyd Forth, all of Benton
City; Roy Engelhart of Yakima ano
Mrs. Elsie Hollis of Davenport; five
brothers, Louie and Robert of Sc
attic, Joe of Naper, Neb., Lambert
of ThurstUn, Neb. and Matt OF Sioux
City Iowa; also a sister, Mrs. Nettie
baltimore of Weiser, Idaho. A
brother, Henry Engelhart of Seattle
passed away suddenly January 6.
All the relatives except the brother
in the middlewest were here for the
funeral.
Engelhart died Saturday morning
about six o'clock at his home short
ly after he and his step-son, Lloyd
Forth, had gone to their asparagus
field to start cutting. He collapsed
and died a few minutes after Mrs.
Engelhart was summoned to the
field by her son.
The family came here in Novem-
Der from Seattle and reside on the
John Warren place. For several
years Mike Engelhart has been en-
gagged In the concrete contracting
business with his brothers in Sc
attle. 81. .-.
Ki-Be Loses Two
The Ki-Be high school softball
team layed Friday at Pasco and
were defeated z to s.. They played
the Kennewick team Tuesday on the
local diamond and lost 9 to /. 49,. -.
Bill Dorsey returned Tuesday to
his home at Maple Falls, after visit
ing here since Sunday with his ia
Their, A. F, Dorsey and his mother,
a patient at the PaSco hospital,
whose condition is reported consid-
cradle improved since being given
a blood TRANSMISSION. A
Mr.. and Mrs. Trevice Rucker are
the parents of son born Sunday at
the Pruden hospital in Prosser.
w. e. Fillmore spent the week.
md at his home, returning Sunday
10 Ritzville, where he is drilling the
City well.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Engelhart Of
Seattle came Saturday afternoon
called by the death of Engelhart's
Mike Engelhart. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hollis of Davenport and Mrs. |
Nettie Watttmore of Weiser, Ida.
arrived Sunday morning. Mrs. Hol- !
Is Is q daughter Of the late Mike
and Mrs. baltimore, q !,
lister. Other members of the fam
~ came Monday for the funeral
erv1ceS.
Student Conference
Supt. M. w. Roop, Connie Car
|enter and Wilma Fillmore will
cave Friday morning for Pullman
o attend the Student Conference at
v.S.C. They will return Sunday.
Mrs. Eva Hazard had as her
luncheon guests Wednesday Mrs.
dary Scott, Mrs. Alice Hartman
nd Mrs. G. w. Geiszler.
Attend District Meeting
Members of the Rebekah lodge ,,
ttending the district meeting Tues (,
ay at ProSSer were Mr.. and Mrs. !
,ennis Henson, Mrs. Horace Dim !
lick, Mrs. Harry Kendall, Mrs. G.
Y. Geiszler, Mrs. T. I. Evert, Mrs.
J. r. Giles and Mrs. Rolf Anderson. :
IrS. Giles holds the office Of dis
rict chaplain.
Eight members of the bridge club !.
lot0red to Prosser Tuesday for {
heir meeting at the home of Mrs. ,
Y. w. Simonton. In the group
ere Mrs. Robert Johanson, Mrs.
Y. e. Fillmore, Mrs. W.. A. DeGoOd, :
Irs. M. w. Roop, Mrs. Eva Hazard,
Frs. Argus Hughes, Mrs. F. S. He'd
er and Mrs. I. M. Hartman. Mrs.
Dhanson and Mrs. Fillmore drove
Heir cars HonOrs went to Mrs. :.
ohanson and Mrs. Roop. Mrs. Hart
ian will be hostess at the meeting
prl 80. 0-
Wool Buyers Here ~ s
Several wool buyers have been in
lis community the past week and
urchased practically all lots. I. M. II
Qrtman. whO had the Ia r0oSf 1Ot | =
I'D his Tuesday. tss... W.. Ii
Illumination Clinic :
A clinic for the immunization T
yainst smallpox and diphtheria '
i'll be held in the domestic science
>om at the school house Saturday | i