Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-07-14
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
\ Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation Of Our Readers.

Construction work on Aberdeen's
100000 water system has been start
ed.
A movement to recall City Commits.
sioner McBroom is under way at Spo-
kane.
According to the census bureau
Washington has 350,746 potential SOL
diers.
Cherry growers Of the Walla Walla
valley just now are In the midst Of
their annual harvest.
Ninety-four pheasants have been
Matched at the state game farm at the
penitentiary at Walla Walla.
The 18th annual encampment Of the
Clarke county veterans will be held
at Orchards, July II. 10 and IA.
Work Of ballasting the rs miles Of
the Northern Pacific's line from Ho-
GUAM to Pacific Beach and Moclips
has been begun.
Four hundred members of Pomona
grange from Spokane, Stevens, and
Pend Orielle counties were present at
the annual grange convention at Chat
taroy.
This summer a lookout station on
the summit of Mt. st. Helens will
serve as a means of locating forest
fires by the forest patrol service EN-.
+; ployes.
DR.. Thomas D. futile, state health
commissioner, has announced that
steps will be taken Immediately to
prevent the spread of infantile paraly-
sis to this state.
An exceptionally high birth rate and
exceedingly low death rate has been
maintained in Aberdeen in the past
six months, only 54 deaths occurring
as against ia births.
| Sixteen of II counties where Wash
ington rural letter carriers are organ.
ICED we're represented at the annual
convention at North Yakima. Thirty
delegates were present.
Only 200 of Pullman's voters have
so far qualified for participation in
the primary election by registering
and an active registration campaign
soon will be inaugurated.
The Rev. Oliver Hover Of the Con-
gregational church at Toppenish is
organizing q community church en-
campment. He will fit up camping
ground near Fort Simcoe.
Theodore Tobiason, owner of . mil
linery store, was shot and killed at
Spokane in his store by Alphonse Pan
sierra. who, according to the police,
said that Totiason owed him $4,000.
The Washington state geological
survey is cooperating this year with
the United Ststes department of agri-
culture in the soil survey of Benton
county, which was commenced last
year.
| The sum Of more than $1,000 has
been subscribed by friends of the Lin
coin county fair at Davenport, and ten
tative dates for the 1915 exposition
have been set for September ~ to 30,
inclusively.
A message from the chief Of con-
struction Of the reclamation service
announces that the president has sign
ed the bill approprtating $798,OOO for
Yakima reclamation projects during
the fiscal year.
/ The Yakima County Bar association
has sent an invitation to Charles f.
Hughes, republican nominee for pres
ilient, to address the state bar associ-
alton meeting at North Yakima Aug
ust 10, II and -.
! s. c. Erickson, q Tacoma contr0c-
tor. has put the finishing touches 10
the new addition to the state school
for girls at Grand Mound and the
structure will be occupied as soon as
Il has been accepted.
That liquor is being sold in Spokane
on q wholesale scale, and that the
liquor permits issued by the county
are being used IS q blind to cover up
the illegal sales, was the declaration
Of County Auditor Anderson.
/ Mrs. John B. Allen, Seattle, has m
nounced that she would run for Unit
cd States senator from Washington
| on a platform that will be fundament-
ally republican and include national
woman's suffrage and international
peace.
There is now one automobile for
every "a persons in the state Of Wash
ington, according to figures complied
by the secretary Of states office, and
43.121 licenses have been issued to
owners Of automobiles used solely for
pleasure.
Falling from a mt bucket In, the
shaft Of the abandoned mine No. 10
Of the Northwestern Improvement
company at Roslyn. Tony Stanfel. as
sistant foreman at No. mine. lost
his life. He fell $50 feet to the bot
tom Of the pit
Although the prosecuting attorneys
office declares its hands are tied by
the decision Of the supreme court in
the Booming Eden attack on the state
dry law. Mayor Gill and Police Chief
A.