Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-07-21
WASHINGTON STATE
news Of INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.


Salmon fishing is again improving
with the falling water in the Colum
bia.
Governor Lister addressed the
Clark County Veterans association Al
Orchards.
w. Pettijohn, aged 6S. former sher
If. police Judge and justice of Monte
sano, is dead.
Harvesting in the Palouse will com
mence about July 25, three weeks
later than usual.
The cannery at Chehalis is busy
these days on loganberries, raspber
ries and cherries.
Toledo has launched q movement
toward the organization Of militia
company in the town.
Only two democrats have SO far an
nounced themselves as candidates fol
office in Yakima county.
The Marcus school board has en-
gagged Charles H. Schuele of Pullman
as principal OF the high school.
The first annual meeting of the
White Salmon Valley Growers asso
citation was held last Saturday.
| Favorable weather the past week
has improved crop conditions mater
tally in the Walla Walla section.
| It was decided at meeting Of the
Centralia commercial club to hold q
chautauqua In Centralia next year.
The United States cruiser New Or
leans has sailed from Puget Sound
with the Washington naval militia.
DR.. George M. Horton of Seattle was
elected president of the Washington
State Medical. association for the year
1917.
Rev. A. H.. 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 Adna, six miles west Of Che
halls, burned. The stock was valued
at $4,000.
The Rhodes Harvester company was
recently organized in Colfax for the
manufacture of the Rhodes combine
harvester.
Walla Walla valley will export $780,
900 worth of onions this summer, &C.
cording to the estimate of growers
and shippers.
Mayor A. v. Fawcett Of Tacoma has
filed his declaration as candidate for
representative in congress on the re-
publican ticket:
A. c. Canterbury. Lewis county su-
perintepdent Of schools. announced
bjs Candidacy for the republican nom
| ination for reelection.
Benjamin l.. Tweed, the 23-year old
postmaster at Waverly. in Spokane
county, IS missing With an alleged
shortage of approximately $500.
The new St. Mary's hospital at Wal
Ia Walla, the largest and most costly
building in southeastern Washington,
will be completed about August II.
The Pacific Highway between Ka-
lama and CAROLS is 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
drill sergeants for the new provisional
company being organized in Centralia
The postoffice safe at Rosalia 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 a collision between
his go-cart and an automobile truck
Only the presence of mind and brav'
cry of Harry Porter, age -, saved
his mother, Mrs. William Porter, and
Roy Edgecomb from drowning near
Pullman.
l. 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 longshoreman was shot
at Eleventh and Pacific avenue, in the
heart of the business section Of Taco
ma, by special deputy, and badly
wounded.
Fifteen socials at Is schoolhouses
throughout Clarke county were given
Saturday, July Is, by the Is canning
clubs organized among the school chill
dren of the county.
Five Conferedate veterans of Cen
tralia were the guests at dinner Civ
en- by c. l.. Randle, Union veteran
who was a member of company E, I'd
Tennessee infantry.
A county republican club was form
ed at lone with County Chairman E. l.
Jones of Newport, president, and Ar.
mold Reading secretary of the county
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