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Pioneer life in the Benton Co. WA area

 

Tri-City Herald 13 May 1962, pg. 15, col. 1

Old Pioneer Waxes Poetic

Full of Praise for Tri-Cities
By Burton Lum

The old pioneer wants to pat everyone in the Tri-City region on the back and say well done thou good and faithful servants. This region has had its day in the sun of publicity during the special dedicatory services of the completion of the Ice Harbor Dam. It isn't every region the size of the Tri-City that can edit, print and publish a 196 page, 15 section newspaper the equal of this Tri-City Herald Dedicatory Ice Harbor Dam Edition. It's pages of interesting facts and fiction will thrill all who read it. It will cover the entire United States and many of the foreign countries of the world. Like a story well told it will never tire and always enlighten and interest all who read it! Accept they place beneath the sun Thou fairest Eden by many begun From they birth may Thous arise The grandest place beneath the skies. Where rivers run and mountains stand Thy future glories will surely command With rivers three all joined in one Silently flowing to the setting sun. Few spots on this terresteral sphere Match the beauties we have here Be not selfish with God's Grace Let all who wish enjoy this place. Here may they build their homes in peace Where joys and pleasures never cease Raise their families in all the good Both in man and womanhood. In this Tri-City region so glorious blest No spot in North, South, East or West Can equal it for a home to be Come join us now and you will see.

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