The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-10-16
Richard Wood Speaks
About Bonneville Power
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WHITE BLUFFS

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! be open on Saturday, october Is in
the Chase building. Goats, dresses
and shoes for both adults and child
rem will be offered at give away
prices. There will also be various
articles of home furnishings, tools,
books, etc. The sale will continue
for several Saturdays, and every
| one is invited to come in and look
around. Anyone having articles TO
donate may leave them with Mrs.
Fred Gilhuly or Mrs. j L. Brown.
Remember the date, Saturday, Oct
ober 18th.
In a letter received from Roy
Van Cleave of HermiSton to Mrs.
Van Cleave last week he states that
they beat the worlds record" by
pouring "a Igloos on one day at the
ammunition depot. They celebrated
the occasion.
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Kelley have
been the guests of their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. G.
Thomas Kelly for, the past two
weeks. They, will leave for their
home in Lewiston, Idaho Friday.
Thomas Kelly is employed as one of
the operators in the control house
at Midway subStation,, and is oc-
cupying the Spratlin home.
Edward Ponsat of White Bluffs,
Mrs. Thomas SiguardSon of Vernita
and Mrs. Frank Clark TO Hanford,
Representatives of the schools of
Priest Rapids Valley, drove to Pros
ser Saturday. to reorganize the
school districts. The meeting was in
the office of Mrs. Van Syckle, coln-
ty superintendent of schools.
Car Rolls OFF Grade
While Stewart. Funk of Pasco was
driving along the bluffs road be-
tween Hartford and the Henry
Young ranch, he suffered a serious
accident when his car left the road,
rolling down the bank for a dis
lance of one hundred and fifty feet,
turning end over end several times.
However, Mr. Funk was able to ex-
tricate himself from the wreck and
succeeded in crawling UP the bank
He was found walking along the
road in a partially dazed condition
by f.. A. English of White Bluffs
and Frank A. Rose of Yakima, who
brought him as far as Hanford'
ferry, where they were fortunate in
meeting a car going to Pasco. Mr.
Funk is agricultural engineer with
headquarters at the AAA office in
Pasco. e., = Sgd. g.. b.. &
y Mrs, Lilly Reinhart arrived home
Friday after spending a week in Sc
attic with her friends, Mrs. Phyllis
Estrada and daughter, Mrs, Alice
Daman, and with Werner Blair
family, formerly of White Bluffs.
-+-zr Hunters Steal Deer ~; d.
The deer hunting party consist
ing of Otis Shelton, r. S. Reierson,
Shaun Kelly and Ralph Montgom-
cry, returning after spending a week
in the Toates district last week
end, reported the woods to be full
of hunters. The party claims they
were positive of having killed two
deer, but on reaching them found
they had been already tagged, APP
parently by some one nearer to the
carcass when it fell. els Sd
Mr.. James Sells, former real es-
tate salesman for the McFee land
company arrived in town Tuesday
and was the guest of his old friend,
George Burford of the In-Between,
returning to Selah Wednesday,
where he has been in business for
the past few years. MIR. Sells informs
us thats he has recently sold his
| interest in the business there.
Mrs. r. r.. Woods returned a few
days ago from a trip to California
where she spent the past thirty days
visiting relatives and friends. At
Haywood she visited with her neice
Mrs. Hazel AsmueSson, making
stopovers at Oakland, San Fran
cisco, also at Long Beach, where she
was the guest of the Pattersons, for
mer White Bluffs residents of twen-
ty odd years ago. Mr.. Patterson was
a partner in the old Mercantile Com
pany, now known as the White
Bluffs Trading company. He now
has comfortable home and is
Long Beach district Judge. While
there she was shown over the oil
fields. and at night with their
myriad lights was a beautiful sight
to behold Leaving there Mrs.
Woods went on to Santiago, where
she visited her nephew and his
wife, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Ryan,
who is Supreme Quartermaster Ad-
jutant of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
The up-river Woman's Club met
Saturday in the Vernita school at
two o'clock. The speaker for the
afternoon was Richard III. Wood,
whose subject was Bonneville Power
Administration and its relationship
to the Pacific northwest. MIR. Woods
talk was both interesting and in
Structive. A no host luncheon was
served. Mrs. Cramer, now living on
the Ira Flagler fruit ranch was an
afternoon visitor Preparations were
made to entertain the White Bluffs
Woman's Club on, the second Satur-
day in November
Evan Ham, an employee of the
White Bluffs telephone exchange,
returned home on Saturday from
Sunnyside, where he has been work
ing with d. S. Wilkinson in the in
Stallation of new switchboard in
the office of the Sunnyside tele-