The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-08-16

head was crushed between two logs.
The Yakima Artificial Ice company
will erect another addition, 100x12s,
to its plant at North Yakima. w. H.
Fumpt and C. H. Shellhamer, of North
Yakima, arc building garages.
Fourth Plain road, extending from
the city limits of Vancouver towards
Orchards, will be improved at an esti-
mated cost of $4,000. Bids for the
work will be opened by the Clarke
county commissioners August 81.
Reports from sections of the Walla
Walla valley are to the effect that the
wheat yield is proving better than was
predicted previous to cutting. In the
lower foothill districts there is some
unusually good grain and normal yields
are being encountered.
Fourteen miles of railroad are to be
built at once into the magnesite dis
trict near Valley in Stevens county
by corporation just forming. Thomas
W. Cole of Chicago, a leader in the
enterprise, announces the road will
be finished in five months.
Robert B. Allen, secretary of the
West Coast Lumbermen's association,
telegraphed to the secretary of war
a pledge that the entire numbering
industry of Washington would turn
out all spruce lumber needed by the
United States and her allies for the
construction of the huge airplane fleet
With outings at the beach and to
the whaling station, in automobiles,
the interstate realty convention came
to an end at Aberdeen, and is declared
to have been a great success, one that
will establish the association firmly
in the hearts of its members. Spokane
was selected as the 1918 meeting place
of the association.
Weeds, sagebrush, barnyard trash
and in fact anything of the kind avail
able is being placed on the inland
empire highway between the nine
mile bridge and Wallula to help make
the road passable. Straw is selling
at IS a ton and is considered to be
too valuable to use in making tenn
porary repairs on the road.
County Prosecutor o. R. Schumann
of Yakima county has sent out cir
cular letters to prosecutors in other
counties of the state urging concerted
action by state, nation and communi-
ties to stamp out l. w. w. Failure to
discriminate between this and legiti-
mate labor organizations, he says, is
responsible for the disorders that have
occurred.
A. B. Nystrom, Lewis county farm
agent, has arranged II stock Judging
schools for boys to be held preparatory
to the stock-judging contests at the
southwest Washington fair at Centralia
August 2S, the winners of which will
be awarded five silver cups. One cup
will be given the best team on dairy
cattle judging, one for pig judging,
one for sheep judging and one for
horse judging.
Additional territory and much fruit
tonnage has been gained by the Spo-
kane Fruit Growers company in its
P. R. Parks, general manager, reports
the organization of vigorous branches
at Grandview, Benton City and Pros
ser. Branches had previously been
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and White Bluffs, on the edge of the
Yakima district.
The State Federation of Colored
Women's Clubs has been organized in
Spokane. The city for two years has
possessed the only city federation of
colored women's clubs in the state.
FEN clubs were enrolled as charter
members of the federation, six of them
from Spokane. Some 20 others have
signified their intention to enroll at
once, and new clubs will be promoted
throughout the state.
Names of % officers of the Wash
ngton national guard were announced
It army headquarters at San Francisco
as qualified by examination for ser
ice under the federal government.
The names follow Majors-Edgar S.
Hadley and Spencer S. Sulliger; cap
tains-Norris A. Miller, Walter H.
Root, E. D. Colvin, William A. Car
michael and Arthur E. Campbell;
first lieutenants-Ralph A. Todd, Wal
ter H. Hoge, Henry ]. Carey, Frederick
NJ. Cook, Z. A Foerschler, Luke D.
Zeck, Hubert V. Hopkins and Frank
q. McCoskrie; second eut9nants-
Forrest T. Glenn, Marion F. Samples,
James ]. Sexton, A NJ. Fellows, Harry
c. Luck, L. Y. Turmoil, T. L. Farrell
Norman Mcleod, Archie X. Hahn, r.
ring D. Smith. Gordon II. Dickson, J.
l. Reynolds and Frank V. Dubois.
ore IeposI.s.
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