Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-04-14
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS Of INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor'
nation of Our Readers.

A Walla Walla district Sunday
school association has been formed.
The Roslyn commercial club has
been organized with Is charter mem
bers.
Water will be delivered to 100000
acres under the Sunnyside project
this season.
The regular meeting of the West
Coast Lumbermen's association was
held at Centralia.
Pullman citizens have launched a
campaign for the organization and
maintenance of boys and girls clubs.
Bids were opened Monday in Wash
ington, D. c., for the construction Of
a $4,000 federal building in Aber
deem.
The membership campaign of the
Centralia commercial club resulted in
1913 new members being added to the
club roster.
Joseph E. Peck, private in the
Twelfth Company, c. A. c., stationed
at Fort Worden, committed suicide at
Port Townsend.
Jitney and taxicab operators are
compelled to furnish $4,000 bond un.
der a supreme court decision handed
down at Olympia.
Governor Ernest Lister has appoint
ed George D. Abel as superior judge
of Grays Harbor county. to succeed
the late Judge Irwin.
One third of the students gradual
ing from the University of Washing
ton since the year 1875 have followed
the calling of educators.
Seven hundred visitors, representing
all points in the valley from Ellens-
burg to Kennewick, met at North Yak
ina during fashion week.
Mrs. w. B. Blackwell, 76, for 43
years resident of Tacoma and con-
nected in many ways with the early
history Of the city, is dead.
Indians are subject to the same mar.
riage laws as are whites, according to
a decision of Judge f. B. Preble, of
the Yakima superior court.
After several months campaigning
by the Parent-Teacher association, the
school board of Puyallup has decided
to put individual towels in the schools.
A system of farm loans, the purpose
of which is the development of the
dairying industry in Grays Harbor
county, will be inaugurated by w. j.
Patterson.
Operation of the prohibition law
since January / has increased the wa
ter bills of the various Seattle hotels
from Is to. IS per cent, according to
hotelmen.
Two earthquake shocks located ap-
proximately $50 miles northwest Of &c.
attic were registered Friday morning
on seismograph at the University of
Washington.
Governor Lister has reappOinted O.
A. Fechter, of North Yakima, and John
A. Rea, of Tacoma, regents Of the
state university. Their new terms will
expire in 1922.
George A. Lee, ex-chairman of the
Washington public service commits
sion, has made formal announcement
of his candidacy for governor on the
republican ticket.
To care for an enormous shipment
Of cotton which is to be routed through
Seattle to tn orient. the Seattle port
commission has authorized the imme-
date construction of new warehouse
at the Smith cove terminals.
The appraisement Of state lands to
be offered at public auction May 2
has been given out by the state land
department, showing that holdings val
ued at $27S,S42 will 60 on the block.
Sales will extend over % counties.
Plans for shipyard at Seattle, to
build lumber carriers for the overseas
trade, have reached the stage where
options on two semidiesel engiies
have been taken, and location for
the yards is now sought in Seattle.
The Washington state highway COM
mission has awarded contract for
the graveling of seven and one half
miles of the Pacific highway from To-
ledo south in Lewis and Cowlitz coun-
ties. The contract price is $13.532.
Thrown to the pavement from his
motorcycle in a collision with COW
on the Pacific highway near North
Puyallup, Byron Cissne, of Tacoma,
suffered a broken neck and fractured
skull and died in the hospital at Sum-
ner.
Aberdeen has undergone a rapid
growth in both population and wealth
in the past five years. Between Janu-
airy /, 1911, and January 1, 1916, ap-
proximateiy $50 new residences and
104 new business blocks have been
built. These structures when new
cost $1,074,457.
A sale of government timber has
been announced by the district forest
er, bids having been opened on tract
in the Olympic forest in western
Washington The lot, consisting Of
1,725.O0O feet, was sold to the Snow
Creek Logging company, which had
bought other tracts in that vicinity.