The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-03-30
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation of Our Readers.

held Friday.
A rod and gun club has been form
ed at Randle.
The president has nominated s.
Douglas Martin postmaster at Friday
Harbor.
L. Metcalf, farmer, was burned to
death when the Randle hotel. at Ran
die, was destroyed by fire.
Thomas Rush. SO years old. who set
tied in Lewis county more than so
years ago, died at Chehalis.
Much damage to young orchards at
White Salmon has been occasioned by
the depredations of gophers.
The mill of the Tonasket Flour Mill
ing company, the largest north of We
natchee, was destroyed by fire.
At meeting Of the Rosalia cham
Der of commerce this years fair and
live stock show was set for September
27-28-29.
Two hundred and fifty teachers Of
Clarke county assembled at Vancou-
yer for the 33d annual Clarke county
teachers institute.
: The 1916 class of the Pomeroy high
school, composed Of 20 girls and seven
boys, will be the largest ever gradu.
ated from the school.
Prominent ministers from all parts
of the state will be present in Walla
Walla April 2 and for the Laymen's
Missionary convention.
knights of Pythias from Adams,
Franklin and portions Of Benton and
Walla Walla counties met at Kenne-
wick in annual convention.
Work on graveling the Sunset high
way in Douglas county from the Co.
lumbia river bridge to Orondo will be-
gin as soon as weather permits.
Members of the Tieton Cattle Graz
ers' association at the annual meeting
at North Yakima reported stock In
poor flesh, despite the heavy expense
for hay and other feed.
Mrs. Genevieve Grennon, age 81.
born at the Hudson Bay company's
post near Spokane, the daughter Of
John Plomondon, an employee OF the
Hudson Bay company. died at Tacoma.
King county has sold 100000 worth
Of road bonds, bearing Az per cent In
terest, at a premium Of $9393. The
bonds are part of a 100000 issue
of which $1,000, 900 have already been
sold.
A snowstorm in the Cascade noun
tains and north central Washington
caused snowfall to depth OF IL
inches in the mountains, IL inches at
Leavenworth and 4 inches at Wenat-
chez.
H. w. Petition Of Ritzville. who
has been principal assistant engineer
for the highway department since Feb
ruary Is, 1914, when he was appointed
by Commissioner William R. Roy, has
resigned.
Andrew Dahl, logger employed by
the Port Blakeley Logging company.
was found dead on the companys
track near Elma. 1t is presumed that
the logging train the preceding night
had run over his body.
The commissioners of Pierce coun-
ty are arranging to take up the coun-
TVS $4,000 of five per cent bonds.
which are now optional for redemp-
A.. .,;.h "a cnP,,pdiuu icoua drn wing
a lower rate of interest.
The Northwestern League directors
have admitted Butte and Great Falls.
Mont, to membership in the league,
definitely fixing the circuit for 1916
at six clubs, consisting of Seattle. Van
couver, Tacoma, Spokane, Butte and
Great Falls.
Members of the national college
fraternity of Beta Theta Phi gathered
at Whitman college from all parts OF
the northwest to take part In the In
auguration of the local student soci-
ETY., Delta Phi Delta. into the national
organization.
Having won second prize for the
third district of Washington at the
first annual corn show staged In st.
Paul. Mimi, in December by the First
National Bank of that city, Lewis
Frey, of Toledo, has received q bronze
cup from the bank.
Wheat ranchers of the Badger noun
tain district, Douglas county, who
grow more than 100000 bushels annu-
ally, are considering seriously the ad-
visibility of handling their wheat this
fall in bulk because of the high price
and scarcity of sacks.
There is a possibility that the Pacif-
ic Coast intercollegiate conference
track and field championships, which
were awarded to the University OF Cal
ifornia last December. will be staged
in the stadium in Tacoma. The meet
is scheduled for May 8.
After a conference with commit
tee from the South Bend commercial
club. State Game Warden L. H. OAR
win announced that state funds will
be used to build fish racks near Menlo
to catch spawn for the Willapa river
hatchery near Lebam, il the cannery-
men and fishermen Of the Willapa har-
Dor will raise the money to build .
hatchery of 100000 eggs capacity ON
North River.