Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-24

highway commissioner SLICE OoCem-
Der 8, 1918, has resigned on account
Of ill-kealth.
The Cashmere Fruitgrowers' union
has distributed to its members an av-
erage of 971s cents on all fruit sold
by it this year.
All streams in the Kittitas valley
emptying into the Yakima river went
out of their banks and the lower part
of Ellenshurg was flooded.
The supreme court has ruled that
the act of the legislature imposing
tuition fees upon students at the state
university is constitutional.
Constant pain from a cracked jaw
bone, caused by the extraction of a
molar tooth, drove Mrs. Eugenia Ora
ham, of Tacoma, to end her life with
poison.
The Grays Harbor Rose association,
which is aiming to rival Portland in
the quantity and quality of roses
grown, has started a campaign to Sc
lect a slogan.
Centralia light consumers will ef-
feet a saving Of about 5000 month
in their bills as the result of an ordi-
nance passed by the city commission
reducing rates.
A bill providing for the erection Of
$4,000 armories at Aberdeen and
Walla Walla will be introduced at the
next legislature by Adjutant- General
Maurice Thompson.
Seattle police records show steady
increase in the number of arrests for
drunkenness in February, over Janu-
ary, the first month of the dry year
in Washington state.
AS result of the investigations of
two committees appointed in January
petitions are now in circulation to
move the county seat of Asotin county
from Asotin to Charleston.
A special train of 40 cars, carrying
$4,000 bushels of Washington wheat
destined for London, left Seattle over
the Great Northern for Halifax, where
it will be loaded on steamer.
The faculty for the fifth annual ses-
sion of the Centralia summer normal,
which will open June II under the
auspices of the Ellensburg normal,
will be twice as large as last year.
Professional golf players of Lewis
ton, Baker, Pendleton and Walla Walla
may meet at Walla Walla in May to
settle the golf championship of the
southern half of the inland empire.
An Inland Empire Development lea
que to secure new settlers for that re-
gion was organized by nearly 100 dele
gates from all parts of the surround
ing territory in conference in Spo-
kane.
| Plans for state armory, to be
| erected at Centralia, have been drawn
for the approval of state military au-
thorities. II the plans are approved
the structure probably will be erected
this summer.
Bids for the erection of the Van
couver postoffice will soon be called
for and the preliminary work, for
which an emergency appropriation Of
| $4,000 has been made will be under
way in short time. 81
Charles J. Stuart. widely known as
fruitgrower and who was president
of a company that owned the largest
berry farm on the Pacific coast, at
Puyallup. died suddenly at Monroe.
He was 66 years old.
The senate has confirmed as post
masters in Washington, George H.
Watrous, Bellingham; Charles l.. Nc
Kelvey, CosmOpolis; William Sample,
Roslyn; s. F. Patton, Waitsburg; Will
liam L. Adams, Zillah.
Thanks 30 snow and lots of it, pros
poets for p record breaking fruit crop
II the Wenatchee district are brigh,
The trees weathered the severe colo
spell of January successfully. and onl
few BUGS were killel. The WHIT
kill, which v..vavs aDpca!': to Sc"
extent. is alpearii'c :, n mo ~'7''''''
Difficulty In Obtaining crews with
the required number Of ce. Heated
seamen, due partly to the apHr2a n o.
the fishing season. has aeaH tecc.,
serious problem with sa l.:,g >t:...<.
operating out OF pr-'t S..3i
Approximately ~ per -. g.
1915 wheat I'd :. }.:- u
aims IN clcvl.t a All
this state a. The ," &C.. ..a".
rg to The "a, -. ,. j.
chief deputy g., IL.
The senate t.
Chamberlain's bill h. ..@l.a
diction of lands v''''''
national park, and Senator Jones bill
appropriating $4,000 70 establish a
fish cultural station on Qnin!ault lake.
BY score of Al to II, Washington
state college swamped the university
of Idaho basketball team at Pullman,
thereby winning undisputed title to
the northwest conference basketball
championship for the season of 1916
1916.
| Heavy rains in the lowlands and
warm winds in the mountains where
the snow is melting rapidly caused
floods in all parts of western Wash
ington, completely tying up the three
transcontinental railroad lines across
| Washington.