Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-07-07
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Weel
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

The Woman's Relief corps held its
thirty-first annual convention at Spo
kane.
Centralia's first annual rose show
was held Saturday and was a complet.
success
The Skamania county game commits
sion will entertain at salmon bak,
at Stevenson July Is.
The body Of man with 26-pound
piece of iron tied to it, was found in
the Columbia river opposite Stella.
J. E. Wills, a Chehalis attorney, was
suspended from active practice for one
year by the superior court of Lewis
county.
Gus Bapp and w. O. Thompson, both
under sentence for burglary in Van
:uver, sawed their way out of the
county Jail.
The annual state convention Of let
tercarriers, postoffice clerks and as
sistant postmasters was held at Ana
cortes on Tuesday.
The name Of the Pacific reserve
fleet, with headquarters at the Puget
Sound navy yard, has been changed
to Reserve Force, U. s. Pacific Fleet
The state highway department has
approved the construction of a hard
surfaced road leading from White Sal.
mon to Snowden, a distance Of 16
miles.
Thousands Of roses were displayed
at Aberdeen Monday at the first an.
nual rose show in competition for 80
beautiful loving cups and cut-glass
vases.
Half Of the business section of Ola.
cier, summer resort and outfitting
camp in the national forest at the base
of Mt. Baker, near Bellingham, was
destroyed by fire.
By defeating Mrs. Robert Wilson, OF
Seattle, Miss Agnes Ford, of the same
city, won the women's golf champion
ship of the Pacific Northwest tourna.
ment at Spokane.
United States District Judge Cush-
| man in Seattle issued temporary in
| junction restraining union longshore
men in Tacoma from interfering with
workmen loading ships.
The republican state executive COM
mittee authorized State Chairman
Willard T. Harrison to name five for
mer progressives on the committee
and three on the state advisory COM
mittee.
Breaking all previous records, the
foreign commerce of the customs col
lection district of Washington for May
reached the sum of $4,000 900, accord
ing to the monthly report Of the Gus
toms collector.
The state land board is preparing
to make immediate selections of east.
ern Washington forest reserve Sec
tons which will be taken by the state
in lieu of school sections included in
national forests.
Mrs. Dewey Hubbard, of Conconully,
lost her life and two persons suffered
minor injuries when the Conconully
auto stage, driven by Mrs. Hubbard's
husband, plunged into Salmon creek
one mile from Okanogan.
James l.. Brass, assistant general
manager of the Oregon Washington
Railroad & Navigation company, one
of the best-known railroad men in the
west, died at a hospital in Seattle af-
ter an illness of several weeks.
The extent to which Grays Harbor
shipping has been affected by the long
shoremens strike is shown by the fact
that only 20 lumber carriers cleared
from Aberdeen in June. This is the
poorest months shipping handled in
years.
Federal Judge Rudkin at Spokane
granted judgment to Mrs. Myra Min
nick for $4,000 damages against the
Northern Pacific railroad company for
the death of her husband, l. ]. Min
nick, who was killed in the Cheney
wreck.
Conditions in Franklin county are
reported considerably improved be-
cause of the rains. The moisture was
great boon to the growing wheat,
while at no time was the precipitation
heavy enough to break or injure the
stalks.
The commanding general of the
western department of the United
States army sent out word that the
training camp for business and profess
sional men 'ould be held at American
lake, near 7 acoma, as scheduled, Aug
ust IA to S )tember 8.
Mrs. Alice Nj. O'Conner, of Vancou-
yer, was elected state president of the
Daughters Of Veterans of the Civil
War at the annual convention at Spo
kane. Mrs r AZ s Mackey. of Van
couver, was appointed state secretary
by the newly elected president
The famous Beardsley trout of Lake
Chelan are to be planted in Lake Quin-
ault. Ten thousand of the lingering
trout have been received in Grays Har-
Dor county ID n'acol in feeding ponds
at the state hatchery at Stevens creek,
where they will be kept until they are
large enoug to free in the lake. The
trout are native of Lake Chelan.
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