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A severe windstorm lays waste to orchards and hay crops in Finley, leaving farmers to survey the wreckage.
“With buildings unroofed, windows blown in, silos and hay stacks blown down and gardens whipped to pieces, Sunday’s sun rose on a dreary prospect.”
A survey reveals that a five-acre plot of land near Finley has literally blown away, leaving only a fraction of an acre behind.
“The rest had blown clear away.”
A local election for school directors descended into a scene of chaotic oratorical debate, resulting in one bruised nose and the election of a new board.
“Things went smoothly till it appeared that both Skinner and Hitchcock had been nominated for all three directorships, and for principal and janitor as well.”
A cow and a pig died after violent fits near Finley in November 1916, prompting a state veterinarian, chained dogs, and a local poet’s curfew verse.
“Whether it is hydrophobia or not, the safe way is to keep all the dogs in the neighborhood chained up for the present.”
A Finley Grange fair meant to buy a piano turns into a bitter lesson in small-town loyalty, with only two Kennewick families in the hall.
“When we ask them to come down and spend a quarter with us, every auto in town is in the repair shop.”
An editorial debate on whether Kennewick should adopt a township organizational structure to handle road funding.
“It is an invariable rule that the smaller the political unit the hotter the politics.”
Eleven cars tore past a half-mile stretch before midnight at forty miles an hour or better, and Finley parents want deputies posted along the road their children walk to school.
“Such speeds not only wrecks our roads, but it endangers the lives of the children who may have to cross the road or walk along it to and from school.”
A local farmer bets on data-driven agriculture to master the hog market.
“When he produces a pound of pork he will know exactly what it cost.”
A surge of new membership and a renewed interest in national agricultural policy marks a turning point for the local Grange chapter.
“The Grange has taken on new life and we predict that their membership will be more than doubled by spring.”
Finley's Live Wire Sparks demand to know who maintains the new Kennewick-Finley road after the experts depart and oil over sand turns into ruts.
“Who looks after the maintenance of the new Kennewick-Finley road?”
A local organization stages a fake courtroom drama to serve as a closing act for a years-old, real-life legal grudge.
“This is the closing chapter of the breach of promise case... in which Miss Ford was awarded 30c damages by the arbitrary ruling of Judge Hal Cole.”
A local pie-eating contest goes off the rails when a contestant tries to drink his pie like beer.
“He threw his head back and simply poured it down like beer and it was gone before anybody else got a start.”
A routine butchering job turns into a chaotic, nine-shot ordeal that leaves a local hog and a broken axe head in its wake.
“His head was shot as full of holes as a collander.”
Thirteen-year-old Eric Waldorf recovers after a hunting mishap while crawling through a fence.
“The charge entered the arm below the elbow but did not inflict serious injury.”
When a mother died suddenly in rural Benton County, her son’s friends threw him a surprise farewell party with taffy and coffee—proving that community bonds outlast even the deepest grief.
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