Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-06-16
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

Wahkiakum county is making extern
sive road improvements.
A preparedness parade will be held
in Vancouver Monday, July 3.
| The eleventh annual convention of
the state aerie of Eagles was held in
Chehalis.
Two thousand people were in at
tendance at the pioneer celebration
at Pomeroy.
Fire destroyed the warehouse and
contents of the Yakima Valley Fruit
Growers association at Buena.
The state grange, in session at Bur.
lington, accepted the invitation of
Wenatchee to meet there in 1917.
| Longshoremen have resumed hand
ling cargoes of vessels throughout the
state on orders from San Francisco.
Fire in the dry kilns of the South
western Single Mill company of Ray
mond damaged one million shingles.
The Epworth Leagues of The Dalles
district will assemble in goth annual
convention at Kennewick June 1918.
The conference of the northwest dis
trict of the Ohio Lutheran synod con.
vened at Endicott June IA for a week S
session.
| A. l.. Watson, twice sheriff of Cow
litz county and a member of the state
senate for one term, was buried at
Kalama.
Twenty thousand men and women,
nearly all walking, took part in the
great preparedness parade at Seattle
Saturday.
The first girls conference to be
held in Yakima county assembled at
North Yakima under the auspices of
the Y. w. c. A.
Two hundred and fifty pioneers and
their friends assembled at North Yaki-
ma fairgrounds for the annual picnic
Of the Yakima Pioneer society.
The annual county school superin-
tendents' conference met at the state
normal school at Cheney with the
largest attendance in it's history.
Sylvester ?. Mitchell, ~ years old,
was killed almost instantly at Van
couver by bullet from rifle fired
by his wife, Mrs. Bessie Mitchell.
A new theater building to cost per-
haps 100000 is promised Spokane by
Alexander Pantages, owner and man.
ager of the Pantages vaudeville cir
cult.
The enrolment of the summer SEES
sion at the state normal school at
Cheney exceeds 900 students, and the
enrolment committee is still admitting
students.
The directors of the Cowlitz county
fair association have named Septem-
Der IA, IL and 16 as the days for the
fourth annual exhibition by the asso-
, citation on it's grounds at Woodland.
A. M. Medium, for the last two
years field secretary and lecturer of
Spokane university, has been selected
to head Spokane university as success
sor to the retiring president, I. N. Nc
Cash.
Converting 10000 acres of sage
brush into fertile fruit and grain bear
ing lands. water rushed Thursday
through the West Okanogan irrigation
project. Similkameen river is the
source of supply.
BY an order of the general land Of
flee 440O acres in Kittitas county,
some of which is under the proposed
High Line canal, have been restored
to entry. Settlement before July 20
will not be recognized.
Upward of 100 delegates represent
ing all the Loyal Order of Moose
lodges OF the state met at North Yaki-
ma Monday. The Moose have no state
organization, and the delegates took
initial steps to form one.
Rail shipments of lumber from
Grays Harbor for May were better
than those of any month in the past
three years, according to statements
of officials of the Pacific & West
Coast lumber agencies of Aberdeen.
w. H. Robinson, of Salt Lake City,
was seriously injured and his CON-
panion, Mr.. Shaw, of Spokane, was
killed instantly when the car driven
by Mr.. Robinson attempted to pass
in front of an approaching train at
Dayton.
Skagit county summer celebrations
began June IA, when Anacortes played
host to the people of that section. La
Conner entertains June "a. known to
Scandinavians as Mid-Summers day,
and Mount Vernon will hold it's sew
enth annual pow WOW August ~
The new owners of the railroad line
to be built east of Chehalis are assem-
bling material at Chehalis for the work
and main camp has been opened in
southeast Chehalis, and the work OF
lance of II miles east of town, will be
started next week.
The tournament committee of the
Spokane country club in charge of the
Northwest Championship golf event
which will open on the little Spokane
course on June 26, is preparing for the
largest entry that has ever reported
for the titular event. Between 1875 and
$50 golfers are expected to be in Spo.
kane for the tournament.