The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

/ Attorney General Thompson has rul-
ed that a notary public must be an
American citizen.
Lewis county has received its appor-
tionment of state school money. 1t
amounts to $10,380.
Enrolment in the Centralia State
Normal school has reached 115, six
men and 100 women.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry E. Vilwock OF
Davenport will make their home In
Colville after September J..
Work has been started for by-prod-
ucts plant to be built by Methow and
Columbia river valley fruit growers.
Walla Walla's new traffic ordinance,
making parents responsible for acts of
their children, is to be tested in the
courts.
At an estimated cost of $7400 the
Great Northern Railroad company will
build a new 2700-foot spur track at
Entiat
Fire destroyed the DR.. ]. A. Mac
Lachian home in Dayton. 1t was one
of the largest and finest in Columbia
county.
Lincoln Memorial university of Har-
rogata, Tenn, has conferred the degree
of LID. on ex-Mayor Ole Hanson Of
Seattle.
Seven Lewis county oranges have
signed up for exhibits at the 1920
southwest Washington fair, to be held
in August.
To expedite the handling Of letter
mail the employees of the Colfax post
office have purchased and installed q
stamping machine.
Richland citizens have organized the
Richland Utilities company to drill for
oil, gas or water. The company will
issue $4,000 of stock.
Permanent highway work in Spo-
kane county IL being rushed by 1876
men. with plans to increase the forces
on some Of the roads.
New camping grounds, fitted with al
conveniences for the comfort and
pleasure OF the auto tourists, have
been opened at Shelton. -
Fred L. Ulen, formerly Of Lewiston,
has purchased the Walla 1Walla Bust
ness college, conducted here for 20
years by w. P. Underwood.
Additional telephone lines are being
constructed by the forest service in
the Wenaha forest for fire protection
and new trails are being built.
r. e. Cook, superintendent of the
Chehalis city schools, has been elected
to the chair of mathematics of the
new state normal at Centralia.
Chas. w. Gray, ineman employ
ed in Chehalis by the North Coast
Power company, was electrocuted
while working on high power line.
Sunday July 4, was set as the date
when the last link of the state high
way, 80 miles, between Colfax and
Central Ferry would be completed.
Word has been received in Colfax
of the death in Oakland, CAL, of Mrs.
L. D. Woodward, age e, pioneer of
Coifax, who still has her home there.
Assessor Gillings of Stevens county
says the assessment of the county will
be finished about August 1. The total
valuation will approximate $16,O00,-
coo.
e. B. Stockey, graduate of the
Washington State college. has been
appointed agricultural agent of Thur
ston county at salary of $4,000 per
year.
Martin Casey, age "a, pioneer of
Toppenish, was struck by a switch
engine as he was crossing the railroad
tracks in the yards and died from his
injuries.
Despite the high cost OF materials
and labor, citizens of Colville are in
favor of going ahead with the paving
Of First avenue and the laying Of
cement sidewalks.
Two sites have been selected as first
and second choice for the erection of a
union high school at Oakville. One
site is tract of ten acres. The other
covers four city blocks.
Fred Borden, for two years superin-
tendent of the Valley schools, has ten
dered his resignation and R. G. Sabin,
superintendent of school at Curlew,
was elected in his stead.
The Whitman County National bank
and the Bank of Rosalia have taken up
the whole Rosalia bond issue of $4,000
that the town offered for sale to fin
ance proposed sewer work.
Mrs. James Schoonmaker, age IS,
was instantly killed when the auto
mobile in which she was riding fell
into gravel pit at the end of Miller
street, near her home in Wenatchee.