The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-04-12
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences OF Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

zaAAAENA a. ~ eSAOAS6A a-sN wen.
A military drill and instruction camp
for the citizens of Vancouver has been
inaugurated.
The Aberdeen school board is ready
to call for bids on a $4,000 new
grammar school.
Three Kelso men have been fined
the past few days for expressions of
disloyalty TO the country or the flag.
Spokane jitney drivers have decided
not 10 operate in violation Of the state
bonding law. at least not for the pres
ent
Driving OF piling for Aberdeen's
third and largest shipyard has started
and the first keel will be laid about
May Is.
The campaign for funds with which
to finish the Sunset highway between
Waterville and CouIee City is meeting
with success.
The new $4,000 Catholic paroehial
school recently completed in Cen
tralia was dedicated with extensive
ceremonies on Sunday, April S.
The wool and sheep pelt storehouse
of the Hibbard-Stewart company at
Seattle was destroyed by fire with an
estimated loss OF $4,000 to $4,000.
Tie Spokane Fruit Growers COM
pany has launched a campaign at
Greenacres TO secure tonnage for
modern packing and storage ware
house
Bo.h track and baseball teams OF the
state college at Pullman probably will
he disbanded 10 expedite the train
ing Of the cadet corps. of which the
athletes are members.
Physical directors attending the
18th annual session of the Inland
Empire Teachers association at Spok-
aue formed the Physical Directors
Association OF the Northwest.
J. y Churchill. state superintendent
OF schools of Oregon. was elected
president OF the Inland Empire Teach
ers' association al the closing session
at Spokane OF a three days gathering.
Mrs. A L. Thompson of the All
tanum valley saved herself from be-
ing bitten by rabid coyote by vigor-
Gus use of a broom while her husband
was being summoned to kill the ami
nal.
The total amount of money spent
by counties and the state for roads
in the state OF Washington during
the past nine years is Si5,642,32
This does not include county bond is
sues.
T. E. Denny, preside Il OF the re-
Gently organized Southwest Washing
ton Elks' Baseball league. said that
for patriotic reasons no effort should
be made to put the league through
this year.
Mrs. Minnie Talbot was drowned
in Rock creek, between Yaeolt and
Dole. Mrs Talbot had driven on the
bridge over the creek when it col
Iapsed. throwing her and the horse
into the water.
Seattle marched, sang. shouted and
GRATED itself tired and hoarse Satur-
day night in the most remarkable pa
triotic demonstration in the history
of the city. More than $4,000 persons
participated in the parade.
The war OF the tongs, so far as the
state OF Washington and Alaska are
concerned, has ended. At a meeting
held in the mayors office at Seattle
a permanent peace pact was signed
by the leaders Of the four tongs in
Seattle.
The national board OF geographic
names. complying with the request OF
the Washington legislature, will hold
a hearing in Washington May to
determine whether or not ii is desira-
BILE to change the name of Mount
Rainier.
The freight rate on box shocks from
Spokane TO the Yakima valley will
remain Il cents a hundred pounds, in
5. cad OF the 10 cents desired by the
u L GNAAlC anu NA4C ~" ~ u
", according to decision rendered by
the state public service commission.
An automobile carrying four pas
seugers ran off the Columbia river
ferry at Kennewick and turned turtle
in nearly ten feet of water with the
occupants pinioned under the car.
Only the efforts of Lee Powell, ferry
engineer, saved the lives OF the pas
sengers.
a quarter of a million dollars
worth of wheat raised by one man
was sold at WaIla Walla by George
DrumhelIer whose 1916 crop of wheat
totaling 10000 bushels was bought by
the Jones Scott company. The exact
figure was not given out, but it was
s-hc-. s1e5.
Aberdeen claims - and probably
justly-ths distinction of having to
date furnished Uncle Sam with more
troops per capita than any city in tn
land One man in every SIS in that cit.