The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-01-21
"REMINISCENCES
Being Items Culled From Our
Files of Ten, Twenty, Thirty and
Forty Years Ago. .
1913

:. go 1910
The Kennewick Courier for Jan.
II, 1913 says that Representatives.
Herbert K. Rowland of Benton
County and B. B Horrigan of Frank
lin County combined forces Wed
nesday to introduce a joint bill APP
propriating s250,OoO for the con-
struction of a bridge across the
Columbia river connecting Pasoo
and Kennewick. ~
That-The MP. railroad an
nounced that until February they
would discontinue four trains. This
move was made necessary by the
severe winter and deep snow making
traffic operations extremely difficult
on the mountain division. go
That Kennewick will have a big
ger, better and more active~Com-
club during 1913 than ever
before was the sentiment of last
Tuesday nights meeting, at which
the installation of the new officers
took place. The new president. L..
E. johnson made straightforward
business like talk to the members.
That-The annual meeting of the
Kennewick District Fruit Growers
Association was held in the Com
mercial club rooms Tuesday after
noon with Vice President l.. s. Cross
land in the chair. The trustees
elected for the year 1913 are: D. j.
Beinhart, E. o. Keene, Joseph Hess,
j. j. Rudkin and A. G. Hart.
The Kennewick Courier-Reporter
for Jan. 10, 1923 reports that
"Smudging to prevent the loss of
fruit from frost is no longer an
experiment. It has been practiced
successfully over a period of years
in many parts of California, Colo;
RADIO and other states and in our
own Northwest and that from six
to 10 degrees of frost can be con-
trolled has been demonstrated be-
yond any doubt" says H. w. Des-
oranges. ..--. - y
THAR. Lenz has purchased the
Clarke tract north of the Garden
Tracts school grounds and is pre-
parting to improve the land and
build a home. LEM came here a
couple of months ago from North
Dakota. -, =-t -.
That-Although fruit growers are
not particularly elated over the fact,
Strawberries in January is the record
which Kennewick is making for
itself this winter. The. first of the
week w. T. Elliott brought to the
Courier-Reporter office two ripe
berries of the ever-bearing variety
which he picked from his patch in
Section z. Carl Williams also re-
ports ripe berries in his patch in
the Garden Tracts. - III
:'ss'-. = 1888 ~. !..s I.
The KeI1newick Courier-Reporter
for Jan. 10, 1888, says that-More
than hundred local families are
today eating doughnuts made by the
Kennewick Bakery largely as a
result of "doughnut drive" staged
by the local Camp Fire group. -
That-The vice-like grip of win
ter which has held the Kennewick
area for a. week, seemed to be on
the decline today with steadily ris-
ing temperatures. Official thernlo-
meters on the Highlands sank to
as low as four above zero. ,E4
That-The purchase of lots In
Riverview Heights Cemetery will
include perpetual care henceforth.
according to arrangements made at
the annual meeting of the society
Monday afternoon. = Mrs. j. b.
Thomas is president, Mrs. j. e.
Mulkey is treasurer and Mrs. Winni-
fired Campbell, secretary, Mrs.
Cora McKain, charter member of
the association, is a board member
this year.