The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-03-09
The local war price and ration

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and Thursday afternoons, March
ID and Is, after 1890. All board
members, price panel assistants
and personnel will be engaged in
an emergency food price check.
Rec McReynolds is in Spokane
this week on business. TX
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Allen and
daughter, Letha, of Seattle, Wis
tied over the weekend with Mrs.
Aliens mother, Mrs. Elsie Walt
ers. Miss Joan Crabtree of Yak
ina, girl friend of Letha Macs
accompanied them. 49, ..
The Trails End All club met
at the home of their leader, Mrs.
j.. H. Carlton. The vice presi-
dent, Duane Carlton, was in
charge of the meeting. Delicious
refreshments were served at the
close by the hostess.
Second 1t. Harry Hauschild,
nephew of Mrs. Lucy Hauschild
has been reported as missing If
action over Italy on January 30th.
Harry attended school in Pasco
but spent some time in Kennewick
where he made many friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Stafford enter
tanned Tuesday evening with 4
party in honor of Sgt. and Mrs.
c. Hess. Cards were the main
diversion of the evening and d
delicious lunch was served at
midnight. Twenty guests were
present. q. .
Byron Lampson received a
medical discharge from the navy
this week. He arrived Wednes-
day morning for days visit with
his mother, Mrs. Lottie Lampson.
Byron left Thursday for Seattle
where he and Elmer Olson will do
commercial fishing. ..v*.
Sgt. and Mrs. Carl Hess and
baby daughter arrived Saturday
night from Hattiesburg, Miss, to
spend few days visiting their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Rath-
burn and Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
Lewis. Sgt. Hess will return to
Mississippi in few days but Mrs.
Hess and daughter will remain
for a longer visit.
At the regular meeting of the
Order of Eastern Star last Tues
day night the officers for the
coming year were elected. The
members decided to serve the two
dinners for the Masonic reunion
which will take place Thursday
and Friday evenings of this week.
The next meeting on March 81
will be advance night for the new
officers.
The Finley Grange Auxiliary
served buffet supper at the USO
Sunday night. Those on the COM
mittee were: Mrs. B. L. Slocum,
Mrs. Lena Frederick, Mrs. Gladys
Bolon, Mrs. j. r. Ayers, Mrs.
Wayne Brown, Mrs. John Fred
erick and Mrs. Clark Smith. The
table was decorated with bowl
of red tulips and heather. These
ladies have offered to furnish the
sailors a cookie jar and to keep
it filled all the time.
Circle No. 4 will entertain the
WSCS Wednesday, March 18th at
the Methodist church. A covered
dish luncheon will be served at
100 o'clock. The executive
board meeting will be followed by
a session with the corresponding
secretary when all officers will
make out their reports for the
quarter ending March 31st. The
business meeting will take place
at 2 o'clock followed by the study
period. All new ladies in Kenne-
wick are cordially invited to at
tend.
The promotion of Warren G.
Mounsey from sergeant to staff
sergeant was announced recently
in England. He is the son of Mrs.
Dora Mounsey of Seattle and the
nephew of Lawrence Moeller of
the River Road. Sgt. Mounsey is
a waist gunner on the combat
crew of the Liberator, Lady from
Bristol" and is holder of the Good
Conduct Medal. He was born
in Kennewick and attended the
grade schools here; later moving
to Seattle where he was graduated
in 1888 from Lincoln high school.
Miss Vivian Higley is giving a
miscellaneous bridal shower Fri
day night at her home on Third
Avenue in honor of Miss Irma
Pratt who leaves soon to become
the bride of Neil Miller in Norfolk,
Virginia.
Miss Irma Pratt and Miss Wv
ian Higley will leave March 16 for
Norfolk, Va, where Miss Pratt
will be married to Neil A. Miller,
a coxswain in the navy and sta
toned at Norfolk. The young
people will be- married by the
navy chaplain as soon as ar
rangements can be made. Miss
Higley will visit her brother A/C
Lowell Higley who is stationed at
an aviation cadet pre-technical
school at Goldsboro, No. Car. She
expects to be gone about month.
f. JoNEs-sTREBE