Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-07-28
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
Principal Events OF the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor'
nation Of Our Readers.

will start in earnest this week.
Ridgefield's new $1,000 munich
pal water plant has been put into
service.
The Odd Fellows Of Okanogan coun.
ty will hold a picnic at Conconully on
August 10.
Work on Vancouver's new $4,000
postoffice building probably will be
started within 80 days.
The Columbia river has fallen suffi-
ciently for the cable ferry at Kettle
Falls to resume operation.
The mile Of paving recently CON-
pleted on the Pacific highway west Of
Centralia has been thrown open to
traffic.
Spokane county this year has re-
duced real and personal property valu-
alton Of nearly $8,OO0,O0O below that
Of last yean
Present indications are for better
demand, and consequently better
prices. for Yakima soft fruits than for
several years past.
Plans are under way for the organi-
cation Of a cooperative creamery COM
pany among the business men and
farmers of Oakville.
Harry w. Hale, of Ellensburg, re-
publican, has filed for the secretary
of state as a candidate for congress
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ton.
BY unanimous vote of the ranchers
whose farms will be covered by the
system, an irrigation district was
formed in the Underwood fruit dis
trict.
Delegations from the various Lewis
county oranges called on the county
commissioners last week relative to
the appointment of county agricul.
turist.
August I to IA have been announced
as the dates for the annual reunion
Of the Latter Day Saints OF the North.
west. in the North End Park in Cen.
tralia.
The Lewis county treasurer's force
has just completed checking up the
tax lists and finds that $SOO,12835 was
paid in up to July !. 1916. This is IS
per cent.
The Washington state grand lodge
Of the Sons Of Hermann voted to re-
deem with cash the insurance policies
when the policy-holders become 70
years old.
The strike Of halibut fishermen.
which began four. and q half months
ago and which resulted in tying up
more than 20 halibut schooners. has
been settled.
Ira Richards. H. N. Wilcox, H. C.
sutor and c. v. Ogle have pooled their
interests and viii build an elevator
Tin Waterville to take care Of their
grain this fall.
Practically all plans have been com.
pleted for holding the second annual
convention Of the Washington Auto
mobile Chamber Of Commerce in Ia.
coma on August 5.
Richard Hart Of Zillah has contract
ed to deliver his entire crop of about
10000 boxes Of apples and Bartlett
pears to tho Producers Fruit company
at 81 q box. all grades.
The state tax commission has re-
ceived from the estate of E. C. Burke
of Seattle the inheritance assessment
of $1,027.93. The valuation of the es-
tate is set at $2O3,183.O5.
Railway pay checks amounting to
+ $500 and some cash in the safe were
taken by holdup from the Great
Northern railroad station at Marcus,
100 miles north of Spokane.
Six carloads Of steel for the track
Of the Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade
railroad, which is being built from
Chehalis to Salkum, % miles south
east Of this city. has arrived.
Plans for the immediate construc-
ton of 100000 cement plant to
cover one square mile at Darlington,
| Ah 0AAOAOiAAoA COuAtyp 90 AACo uOL Ill
east of Seattle, we're announced.
Whatman college authorities in
charge Of the summer student cam
| paign say that the enrolment, when
college opens this fall, will probably
break all records at that Institution.
At q meeting of the Chelan county
bar association the question Of the gu
'erior judgeship was taken up. and
Fred Kemp. Frank Reeves and C. B.
Hughes were Endorsed as candidates
-Four trunks, filled with 240 quarts
OF bottled in bond whisky. which. it
Is believed. cost the purchaser more
than $3.50. were seized by the Spokane
police. but they failed to locate the
Wper.
Charles F. Claypool, Of Seattle, has
filed with the secretary Of state the
announcement of his candidacy for
the state supreme court, long term.
The supreme court election is non.
partisan.
! Omak has been chosen as the locA-
ton for the map room," where all
winners in the coming Colville land
drawing will have to go to make
known their selections of the land
they wish.
An off-hand count of petition sig