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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-03-14
HAPPENINGS
of Local Interest

Grover Putt is driving a new black
1874 Pontiac which he recently pur-
chased.
Attorney W. R. Mcdonald returned
home from a business trip which took
him to Dixon and Butte this week.
FOR SALE-boat and motor-Cheap
L w Smell.
Miss Agnes Burd visited with her
mother in Kal:spell last weekend
Supt. c. l.. Graves left last week
on a business trip for Washington. D.
c. He will probably be gone for some
time.
Don't forget to attend the Annual
Catholic Ladies Altar Society St. Pat
rick's Ball at the high school gym
tonite-excellent music and Bingo.
DR.. Bannister. osteopathic physician.
is at the Hy Miller Hotel. Cut Bank.
every Sunday from 1890 to S. If
Mrs. Doug Gold and daughter of
Helena and Mrs. Colds mother. Mrs
Levengood and daughter Of Butte were
weekend guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ju-
liam Weter at the Enterprise Dairy.
Mrs Gold and Mrs. Weter are sisters.
Mrs. Weter accompanied Mrs. Gold to
Helena where she plans to stay few
days
Mr. Jimmy Leadbetter was a bust
ness visitor in Cut Bank. Monday Of
this week.
Boys and Girls Roller Skates Sl35
per pair-Sherburne Hardware Dept.
Little Miss Helen Jane McCourt and
her brother Donnie of Cut Bank have
been spending few days at the home
Of Stuart DesRosier and James Lead
better. The McCourt children are the
niece and nephew Of Mrs. Leadbetter
They returned to their lynne in Cut
Bank Monday evening"
Wilmer Plummer is in Browning on
visit from Seattle. He plans to leave
for Seattle the early part Of this week.
MI Bill Seekins, Misses Fannie and
Elsie Seekins and Miss Gerry Grey Of
Sunburst were visitors at the r. A
Manuel home Sunday. They motored
back to Sunburst Sunday evening ac-
companide by Mr.. Seekins, who is
Mrs. Manuel's father.
Boys and Girls Roller Skates $l.35
per pair-Sherburne Hardware Dept.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

en-, J. Kelley DePriest and DIR. F
NJ. Crosby all took part in the con-
vention.
The Library Association asked the
city to take over the library.
The Nile club entertained about
$50 guests at a St. Patrick's day
party.
Mrs. E. M. Sly entertained the
Woman's club at her home near
the S. P. & S. depot.
About sixty residents Of Kenne-
wick went to Yakima to celebrate
the opening Of the North Coast
railroad.
The church at Finley was almost
completed and the members expect
ed to set the date of the dedication
soon.
c. A. Crawford was the new agent
at the N. P. station taking the place
Of Mr.. Hoppel.
Miss Louise Gravenslund assisted
at the H. M. Ashbaugh sale.
Two pictures were presented to
the high school by the Woman's
club and the ladies literary club.
The pictures were The Manuscript
Book" and Oral Tradition" The
picture Washington Crossing the
Delaware" which was won by the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27
Finley Ladies to Have
Cooked Food Sale Soon

FINLEY-The Ladies Auxiliary OF
the Finley grange will hold a cooked
food sale on Saturday, April 18th
at the Kennewick Market. 81.
MIR. and Mrs. Albert Piert and
children were visitors Saturday of
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Masters.
Mrs. Ben Duffy of San Fran
cisco spent the week end with Mr..
and Mrs. Shorty Erickson. Mrs
Dr1ffy is a sister of Erickson.
Mrs. Harold Elder entertained at
a dinner for the birthday ami
versary of her mother, Mrs. Lynn.
Covers were laid for fifteen people.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shorty Erickson and
sons, Eric and Bob, and. their house
guest, Mrs. Ben Duffy, and Mr..
and Mrs. Leslie Moe of Yellept and
Mr.. and Mrs. Engle Erickson and
children visited relatives in Toppen-
ish Sunday.
Mrs. Barth of Walla Walla visit
ed her daughter Mrs. Ben Schwartz
kopf last week.
Mrs. Waldo GerardS underwent
an operation Saturday in the Pasco
hospital. She Is as well as can
be expected. 4
Bob Perkins of w. S. G. in Seattle
IS visiting this week with his par
ents, MIR. and Mrs. Bob Perkins.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27
THIRTY YEARS AGo-I911

M. S. Lewis was asked to deliver
the commencement address to tie
senior class. He chose "a Few Con-
tradictions" as his subject. M
Lewis, former superintendent of
the Kennewick schools was then a
state director for vocational guild
ance for Idaho.
The American Legion save an
Easter dance in the K. p. hall.
Joe Martin represented Kenne-
wick at baseball meeting held in
SunnySide. Kennewick was in the
Yakima Valley League.
The residents of Beaches and
Menhenick'S additions asked to have
the city water piped to that part of
the city.
The owners of the Olmsted addi-
ton asked to have that property
added to the city limits.
The Kennewick concert band was
reorganized with F. L. Young as
director.
The Fern" an ice cream parlor.
was opened by Jack Corder.
Phil G. Warnock was district
president of the Odd Fellows lodge,
which held semi-annual conven-
ion here. F. A. Swingle, r. r. Wool
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27
God Bless America
A. v. Peterson, Castle Rock Advocate

After hearing a vivid review O.
the capture of Norway by Germany
in an address by Carl j. Hambro
president of the Norwegian parlia-
ment-the capture by ruthless
adversary of a peace-loving ma
ton, which for one hundred twenty
six years has lived free from the
strife of Warmly thoughts turned
naturally to the blessings we still
enjoy in America, and also to the
possible danger of their loss.
Our constitutional right to work.
speak and think as we please is a
blessed heritage, but indifference to
elements at work within our country
to destroy these liberties, may event.
ually deprive us of many of them.
To overcome that indifference,
probably nothing has stirred up pa
triotic sentiment recently more than
inspiring song, God Bless America"
but we urge that our citizens also
fervently resolve, in defense of lib
erty and freedom, to give more than
lip service to the noble sentiments
of that song.
Pray devoutly that the chaotic
conditions in Europe may not be
visited within our borders-that we
may continue as a Hberty-loving
people.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27
BLUE LAWS

Here is thought for your next
Sunday! In the state of Delaware
there are 500 citizens answering
court summons due to violating a
200-year old blue law that has been
sleeping peacefully for many years
and has just recently been brought
to life and the notice of the public.
This means that all activity must
cease in the way of employment dur
ing the Sabbath, lest it concern
charity and necessity. The law en-
forcing officer insists that the old
edict either be followed or erased
completely from the official records.
This brought on the court sum-
mons that hit milkmen, motormen,
delivery boys, employees of radio
and gasoline stations, of restaur-
ants, drug stores and newspapers.
Even minister was officially crit
icised for broadcasting over the
radio on Sunday. 1t has been
goodly number of years since our
country was covered by blue laws
in certain cities and states. They
never were very popular when in
their prime and from the action
in Delaware we judge they haven't
gained in popularity through the
years.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

for the travelling dentist for the school, even
though he thinks every family ought to take care
of its own, dentist-wise.
Multiply this by lo,eoo-there are that many
weeklies. Add a couple of thousand dailies and
you begin to see what our newspapers mean to US.
Other countries have newspapers, too, of course.
But America is about the only place where
hundred and thirty million people have no restric-
lions on their news. No nlusts, no can'ts, no
censors, no 'tgovernment-inspired" iron hand IN
velvet glove.
1 believe Americans want their papers this
way. know American businessmen want TO offer
their wares to people who are free to choose from
all that is offered-and to offer their goods in
newspapers which merit and hold the real con-
hdence of their readers.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27
"REMINISCENCES
Being Items Culled From Our
Files of Ten, Twenty and Thirty
Years Ago.
TEN YEARS AGO-1931

The Kiwanis club, assisted by thu
| other civic organizations in town
sponsored a Home Beauty contest.
The first box of Kennewick aspar-
agus was shipped by the Three
Rivers Growers Association. It was
grown on the r. E. Carpenter place
on the River Road.
Miss F1oyce Smith and her moth
er, Mrs. Hattie Smith and Mrs.
Jessie Hendricks spent the weekend
in Spokane.
Glen Higley, Marty Hudnan and
Warde Johnson won the prizes given
by the Twin City Creamery for max
ing the outstanding plays in the
baseball field Sunday.
The Arts and Crafts met with
Mrs. w. G. Muldrow.
Mrs. William Brace and Mrs. Vel,
ma Nevlow visited MIR. Brace, who
was patient in the veterans hos
pital in Walla Walla.
MIR. and Mrs. Albert zarndt drove
to Paha and spent the weekend
friends.
A. F. Brown returned from Port
and, where he visited Mrs. Brown,
who was in a hospital recovering
rom a goiter operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Visger and
.amily motored to White Bluffs and
danford and spent Sunday.
Second Lieutenant Lloyd C.. Wal
lori, formerly of Kennewick, who
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

The five year plan in Russia is a
complete failure. 1t was promoted
by the workers who got the idea that
they possessed all the brains and all
the intelligence of the nation. The
laborers have imposed their pro-
gram upon the farmers and the
farm industry has broken down COM
pletely under it. The army of Rus
STA is the largest but least efficient
in all the world. The laborers have
banished the church from Russia
and have made a mockery of the
marriage ceremony. So inefficient
are they in their planning, that
many buildings fall down at one
end before the other end is COM
pleted. The radical labor leaders
have ruined Russia and the coun-
try will never be much of a power
until their hold is broken.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

was in the Air Corps Reserve U. S
Army was ordered to active. duty
for period of one year at Rock
we'll Field, Cornado, California.
Wilmot Gravenslund purchased
the Matchbox home on Kenne-
wick Avenue
Miss Lorene Soth came home
from Seattle to spend spring vaca-
ton with her mother, Mrs. L. W.
Soth.
Mrs. Dave Miller was given a
birthday surprise party at the NJ.
& c Sweet Shoppe by Misses Lillian
Crowley, Glee Miller and Leone
Skeen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Diller Fratt of
Yakima visited at the Herman
Schmidt home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl c. Williams and
son, Robert, visited in Spokane.
Miss Ruth Mueller was a student
at Cheney.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Oliver and
children and Mrs. Vernon Bird and
daughter, Frances, returned from
Castle Rock.
Those attending the T. B. League
meeting held in Prosser were Mrs.
j. r. Ayers, Mrs. L. j. Aldrich, Mrs.
G. H. Shanafelt, Mrs. Joe Martin
and Mrs. H. S. Hughes.
Mrs. c. H. Kilgore left for Walla
Walla where she expected to visit
relatives. Mrs. Kilgore had been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. w. S.
Walters.
Miss Lea Lampson, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Lampson of the
took the leading role in
the high school operetta, Jerry of |
Jericho Road" Miss L,ampson was
discovered to have a very remark
able voice.
The All Double L sewing club
net at the home of Mrs. E. CT
Smith.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

First there's the weather. Next the highliehts of
what happened in the world this week Washington
news takes column. The state gets five stories
The country gets seven, and a halfdozen neigh
boring communities are covered.
There are recipes and menus for some new and
reasonable foods. Market and crop conditions are
reported. Hollywood and the current radio pro-
grams are noted.
Fourteen merchants, manufacturers and other
businesses offer their various goods and services
everything from cars and electric refrigerators to
q freckle cream.
Births, deaths, marriages-church services,
wonen's club meetings and lodge gatherings are
hsted. The comings and goings of the neighbors,
The accidents, the good fortune and the changes.
The Robinsons are building new garage. A new
pumps going into the filling station at the Corners
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

girls who received an orange and
black K as a reward for playing
basketball. Erick Waldorf, Ralph
Stout, Philip Hitchcock, Fred
Krug and Marion Masters also re-
ceived letters.
Mrs. Guy Story visited at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. c. Kaltenborn
in ProSSer.
Mrs. B. P. Cole entertained for
Richard Mounsey of Seattle, who
was here visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. G. Hoadley.
Miss Prudence Bergman and Roy
Winkenwerder were married at the
home of the brides parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. P. Bergman.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27
TWENTY YEARS AGO-1921

/
Mrs. T. G. Browne visited with
friends in Spokane.
| The Methodist Aid met at the
home of Mrs. Nels Coult in the
Garden Tracts.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Craver and
Mr.. and Mrs. F.. F. Beste motored to
Yakima.
MIR. and Mrs. H. w. Nelson were
honored guests at farewell party
given by the Rebekahs at the home
of DIR. and Mrs. d. S. Brogunier.
Mrs. Nelson was presented with a
N. N. G. pin.
Mrs. D. G. Gibbs and son of Pasco
and Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Oliver
spent Sunday at the r. A. Oliver
home in Section z.
The Needle Work club gave SO
to the library to buy books.
Mrs. H. II. Peter, who had been ill
was reported much better.
Mrs. @. A. Crawford was suffer-
ing from an attack of typhoid.
Mrs. E. I. Mitchell and Mrs. ]. I
Hill entertained the Junior Bows of |
the Christian church. Prizes were
won by Leonard Kinkaid. Clifford
Mitchell and Curtsi Eglent. " |
Miss Emma Tweedt returned from
visit at Genesee, Idaho.
Dorothy Turner, Evelyn Serier.
jeanette Huntington, Ruth Steven
son, Della Hudnall, Margaret Ap-
penzellar and Avis PaulSon were the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

ers. There aren't many editors of
such papers who haven't a pretty
good idea of what their subscribers
like, the sort of news that covers
the local field, the type of nation
al copy that gives the most for the
space. With interested subscribers
taking time to be helpful in edit
ing the news, of offering timely
suggestions, of helpful hints for
features, of scratching here anG
there, your Courier-Reporter editor
has the opportunity of getting close
to the field he serves, to know what
his public wants. We are glad that
more people are becoming con-
scious of the part their weekly news
paper plays in the American scheme
of things.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

pupils of the grade school o, a.
cent art exhibit was pres ~ tile te.
Mrs. G. o. Anderson. "'ea BY
Judge o. R. HoIcomb v,,,,,.
me home Of his brother, c 'eT a
comb. " H. HOl.
Mrs. w: r. weisel. who 10.
Spokane for an operation WA was n
The Woman club present.a
plea to the City Council ask,nn seu q
the old livery stable on Se SSn1iIg that
be removed. Ouu Stree;
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OF IMPORTANCE

The weekly newspaper gets its
rating in the lineup of important
factors in American homes. 1876 per
cent of the families in this land
subscribe to weekly newspaper and
that is mighty close to being half
of the families of the u. S. This is
reason enough for the weekly news
paper to, keep secured and shined
for the approval of its many read
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

We recall that after the last
World war all claims of mistreat-
ment by the German army were
branded as propaganda. The evil
dence of mistreatment of citizens
of invaded territories during the
present war has become so generally
known that there will be no posi-
bility of its being denied In the
future by those who sympathize
with Hitler or who wish to attract
attention because of their exagger-
ated tolerance.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

There Is an auction next Saturday and home
town boy, visiting his parents, tells of Life n
Panama
The hunting season 10 closing and beyond
couple of bad colds there were no casualties.
The editor is against county-improvement
program because he thinks it is NOT needed. He's
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

The first evidence of the ap-
proach Of the dictator form of
government to a nation is a de-
preston to restrict the freedom of
the press. A dictatorship cannot
exist in nation in which freedom
Of the press is found, and freedom
of the press is never found in a
dictator ruled nation. There is
something about the free dissem-
nation of the news and dictator
ships that is just not compatible.
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100
Services =
By NORMAN CHANDLER


kswIpPsr Publishers Committee
IN MY DESK is a copy of a f.
~ page country weekly news
paper which has circulation of
600 copies.
Its publisher, himself, will be sur
prised to learn that within those
four pages he has rendered each one
of the 600 families he reaches ono
hundred definite seryicesI
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

The autocratic and dictatorial governments
with their gagged editors offer a mighty poor
substitute for this little 4-page American news
paper I've just read.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-03-27

NOTE: The Newspaper Publishers Committee composed
OF over $50 leading American Newspapers publishes
messages simultaneously each week. The untes
these their recognition Of their responsibility
to YOU, the reader.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-13
80 Million Offering
Firesfone Tire and Rubber Company Per Cent
Debentures Offered at 80 and Interest

NEW YORK, May 13.-Offering
of S50,000,000 in Firestone Tire
and Rubber Company 20-year 3
per cent debentures at 80 per cent
and accrued interest will be made
today by Hartman Ripley & Co.
and Otis * Co., as principal under
writers and leaders of a group of
IS dealers.
OF the proceeds TO be received
by the Firestone company from
the sale of these debentures. S45,-
$4,000 is to be applied to the
redemption at 103 per cent on or
about July of all the S44 500, 900
principal amount of the company's
ten year 3h2 per cent debentures
and the remainder is to be added
TO the cash funds of the company.
This new money is to be used in
the ordinary course of the bust
ness of the company and its SUBJ
salaries, no part of it having been
allocated to any specific purpose.
Net earnings of the company.
after depreciation. before interest,
debt discount and income taxes.
amounted during the fiscal year
ended Oct. 81. 1910 to 14,60S. 534,
as compared with Sl0.760. $50 in
the preceding fiscal year.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-13
Old Adaee Wrong

Like father, like son-with
some exceptions. II isn't even
half-true that the sons of rich
men turn out MASTERS. More
often than not the reverse Is
true.
The present John d. Rookie
Teller inherited from his father
the same interest in philan-
thropy John d. III. is similarly
constituted. II was early re-
vealed that Nelson Rockefeller
had inherited some of his
grandfather'S business brains.
He recently demonstrated that
he had also inherited some of
the heart and spirit of the
worlds number one philanthropy
list. Grandson Nelson enthusiasts
tically undertook to devote
himself 10 promoting closer re-
lations between Latin-America
and the United States. He
has rendered yeoman national
service.
Nelson having taken pains to
furnish me with an Illuminating
account of his organizations &C.
tivities, / dropped a note TO his
father, opining that he must be
deriving satisfaction from the
patriotic satisfaction from the
patriotic service his son is rem
dering. Writes John D.:
"YOur note has given Mrs.
Rockefeller and me great pleas
ure. The sympathetic interest
of a man of your experience In
the endeavors OF these younger
men doing their part in the
worlds work means much to
them, as also to their parents"
Which reminds me of what
Wendell Willkie told me when
! congratulated him upon the
fact that his son had been voted.
by Princeton students. as most
likely TO succeed" Wendelfs
comment was:
THE time comes In our lives
when we derive more satisfac-
ton from anything our Off
spring accomplish than we de-
rive from anything we ourselves
accomplish"
Those Of us who are old
enough TO have grown-up Off
spring know that that is pro-
foundly true.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-13
Belmont Opener
Draws Crowd
International News Service Wiz.

NEW YORK, May 13.-The pa
day Belmont Park racing season
was under way today. having
chalked up one of the largest OPEN
ing day attendance figures in re-
cent years.
A crowd of 1887 paying GUS
toners. 1858 persons more than
the number who witnessed the 1910
inaugural. saw c.. w. Widener's
Eight Thirty come home first in
the featured Toboggan Handicap
yesterday.
The Widener horse. carrying
129-pound Harry Richards, COW
cred the six furlongs in Ill is.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-13
City Adds
$3.50
I'm Decade

Final figures Of the United
States census bureau disclosed
today that the population OF the
Detroit metropolitan district on
April l. 1910, was 1926 S67.
The population of the city Of
Detroit was 1923 ,452.
The report showed that the city
had u 100 more residents IN 1910
than IN 1880 The metropolitan dis
tlIcl had 1q1 l03 more residents
Part OF the district gain came
from the inclusion of several out
lNIng townships. These additions
had a population in 1910 OF % $50.
The more rapid population
growth of the outlying portion
of the district a. compared with
the central city represents
continuation OF the previously
observed trend toward the de-
Capitalization of population In
American urban communities,
the report states.
a housing survey conducted
simultaneously with the taking of
the census. showed that there were
AL 1876 dwelling units in the city
of Detroit and 1852 outside the
city in the district. Only 3.o per
cent of those IN The city were
vacant and for sale or rent.
The average population per oc-
cupied dwelling unit in 1910 was
80 persons. In 1890 the average
was 4.3 and the report credits this
decrease to general trend
throughout the country toward
smaller families