Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-06-09


will be loaded for the O.-W. R. & N.
company.
With the filing of articles of incor-
poration at Olympia for the National
Home Building company, immediate
construction of the first unit of large
woodworking and manufacturing plant
| is to start in Vancouver The new COM
pany, which is to build what are
| known as knock down" houses and
to manufacture boxes, is capitalized
for $4,000.
If the plan proposed to the Univer-
sity of Washington board of regents
at a recent meeting is carried out,
the university soon will have a large
state armory on the campus, available
to the university cadets and the regu-
lar militia alike. Regents Caches,
| Wheeler and Perkins were named to
take the matter up with the proper
state authorities.
Two Pacific Coast and four north
west records were shattered and one
northwest record equaled in the annu-
al northwestern conference at Pull
man. Oregon won the meet with 81
points, and the University of Idaho
nosed out the Oregon Aggies for Sec
| Ond place by one point, getting 20.
Washington state finished fourth with
| % points, and Whitman last with IS.
Chief Forester Graves has approved
the sale of 52,46O,OO0 feet of timber on
the Snoqualmie national forest to the
Tulalip company of Everett. The tim
Der is situated on the watersheds Of
Coal and Deer creeks, and consists of
15,500,0O0 feet of Douglas fir, 10,400,.
900 feet Of western red cedar, 10000.
900 feet Of western heml0ck, and g.
CSC, 1000 feet of amabilis fir and west
ern white pine.
Five truckloads of wine and whisky
seized by the police May ~ when the
Charlier drug store in the Savoy hotel
at Seattle was raided were ordered re-
turned to the drug store by Police
Judge John B. Gordon. The order was
issued when it was shown that the
liquor had been purchased before the
prohibition law went into effect jan
uary 1 and had been distributed only
in the manner prescribed by law.
Single mill employees in three
Grays Harbor plants failed to show up
for work, following announcement by
some employers that wages would be
cut because of a reduction Of 10 cents
per thousand in single prices. The
proposed reduction is from 16 to Is
cents thousand for sawyers and from
10 to cents for packers. Two other
single mills were closed down, os-
tensibly for repairs, making five mills
which are not operating.
The forest service has recently
compiled the results of experiments,
made within the national forests of
Oregon and Washington, to determine
whether or not it is possible to grow
valuable eastern hardwoods in this re-
gion. Between 1909 and 1914 about
10000 trees were planted by the serv-
ice and seeding on even larger scale
was tried. The results are not espec-
tally encouraging from the point Of
view of commercial growing.
The filing of articles of incorpora-
ton at Olympia of the Chehalis- Cow
litz & Cascade Railway company by
J. E. Corlett and w. E. Waldo, we'll
known capitalists of Seattle, is expect
ed to result in the rushing to imme-
date completion the Chehalis & Cow
litz railroad line, which business men
Of Chehalis promoted about five years
ago and which 1t was planned would
put that city in direct railroad connec-
ton with eastern Lewis county and
Cowlitz river valley.
Not for weeks have the wheat grow
ers of the Walla Walla valley shown
such a change in spirits as that noted
during the past week, when the cold
weather gave way to gentle spring,
with sunshine that promises to eradi-
cate all yellow spots in the fields, and
bring the wheat plants forward rapid
ly. The latter part Of the week was
ideal for the growing grain throughout
the valley, and it is considered another
week will overcome, to a considerable
extent, the damage caused by the
backward spring.
Southwestern Washington is the
cheapest part Of the state in which to
live, according to the third annual
household expense survey made by
the state bureau Of labor. From infor-
nation compiled for the 1915 house
hold expense budget from stores in A
cities and towns of the state and rep
resentative families, the cost Of living
in all sections show marked increases,
except in southwestern Washington,
where it amounted to only nine cents
in the past year. This year a family
of five in the southwest can obtain its
years supply of foodstuffs and fuel
for $424.S9, while the same expendi-
ture in northwestern Washington will
come to s435.7S and to $453.55 east Of
the mountains.