The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-07-20
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS Of INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketchet for lnfor.
nation Of Our Readers.

"oHOu W WI US0O0bSs
Salmon fishing is again Improving
with the falling water in the Colum.
bia.
Governor Lister addressed the
Clark County Veterans association ct
Orchards.
W. PettijOhR. aged IS. former sher.
If. police Judge and justice of Monte.
sano, is dead.
Harvesting in the Palouse will com.
mence aboyt July 20. three weeks
later than usual
The cannery at Chehalis is busy
these days on losanberries. rsspber-
ries and cherries.
Toledo has launched q movement
toward the organization Of q militia
! company in the town.
Only two democrats have 30 far An
nounced themselves as candidates for
office in Yakima county.
The Marcus school board has en-.
gagged Charles H. Schuele Of Pullman
~ principal of the high school.
The first annual meeting of the
! White Salmon Valley Growers 1850
citation was held last Saturday.
Favorstle weather the past week
has improved crop conditions mater.
tally In the Walla Walls section
1t WAS decided at a meeting az the
Centralia commercial club to hold q
chautauqus in Centralis next year.
The United States cruiser New Or
leans has sailed from Puget Sound
with the Washington naval militia.
Dr. George NJ. Horton of Seattle was
elected president of the Washington
State Medical association for the year
1911
Rev. A. n. Chittenden Of the Pres
byterian church OF Chehalis has been
presented with an automobile by his
friends.
r. B. Haley's general merchandise
store at Adns, six miies west OF Che
halls. burned. The stock WAS valued
at $4,000.
The Rhodes Harvester company was
recently organized In Coifax for the
manufacture of the Rhodes combine
harvester.
walia Walla valley will export $780,
600 worth of onions this summer. &C.
cording to the estimate OF growers
and shippers.
Mayor A. V. Fawcett of Tacoma has
filed his declaration rs candidate for
representative in congress on the re.
| publican ticket. =.
A. C. Canterbury, Lewis county su-
perintendent of schools. announced
his candidacy for the republican NOM
nation for reelection
BENJAMIN l.. Tweed. the s3year old
postmaster 1T Waveriy. in Spokane
county, is missing with an alleged
shortage Of approximately $500 =
The new ST Msry's hospitA at Wal
| 10 Waila. the largest and most costly
building in southeastern Washington,
will be completed about August II.
The Pacific Highway between Ka-
lama and CAROLS is 4 Quagmire on
account OF the high water in the Co
| lumbia river backing up the Kalama.
Sergeants Cooper and Olson and Mu-
stefan Draper have been named as
4 drill sergeants for the new provisional
| company being organized In Centralia.
The postoffice safe at Rosalta was
/ blown open, the cracksmen obtaining
about $50 in cash. Postmaster Arthur
Stanley Jr. said no stamps were taken.
The seven months old baby boy Of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Wremm of Monroe
/ is dead, following q collision between
| his go-cart and an automobile truck.
Only the presence of mind And brav-
cry of Harry Porter. age IL. saved
his mother, Mrs. william Porter. and
Roy Edgecomb from drowning near
Pullman.
A wind and electric storm did con-
siderable damage in and around Medi-
cal Lake. Winter wheat was knocked
down and damage was done to out
buildings.
A striking Aongshoreman was shot
at Eleventh and Pacific avenue, in the
heart OF the business section OF Taco
ma, by a special deputy. and badly
wounded. "a
Fifteen socials ut Is schOolhouses
throughout Clarke county were given
Saturday. July Is. by the 10 canning
clubs organized among the school chill
dren OF the county,
Five Conferedats veterans of Cen
tralia were the guests at dinner Civ
en- by c. L. Randle. q Union veteran.
who was q member Of company Z. I'd
Tennessee infantry.
A county republican club was form
ed at lone with County Chairman E. !.
Jones OF Newport, president, and Ar
mold Reading, secretary OF the county
central committee. secretary.
The program has been announced
for the next meeting OF the Lewis
County InterdenominatioAal Sunday
School association. which viii be held
in Pc Ell on August % and -.
The Puyellup valley 10 shipping 10
to II cars of red raspberries daily,
Each car contains from 600 to 7oe
crates. They are CONSIGNED chiefly q
Rocky Mountain and middle wssssrn
cities