The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-10-21
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers

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A teachers institute will be held in
Walla Walla, October q, % and 80.
Dr. Frank Davis of Kelso has been
appointed health officer of Cowlitz
county.
John and James Ray, twins, cele-
brated their seventhy-fifth birthday at
Sumner last Sunday.
The 'Colfax Methodist Episcopal
church was destroyed by fire, causing
loss of about $4,000.
! The proprietors of noodle and chop
suey restaurants at Spokane have
raised prices from to Is cents.
Federal prohibition officers an
nounce that houses and structures in
which are illicit stills will be burned
to- the ground.
The Thirteenth field artillery form
erly at Camp Lewis has gone to San
Francisco under orders to sail for the
Hawaiian islands
A campaign has been begun at Ia
coma to create St. Lukes cathedral
and make it the seat of the Episcopal
diocese of Olympia.
The whaling season has foficially
ended, according to report from the
Bay City whaling station, with catch
for the season of 1877.
Crist Edsen, a chaser at the Imam
Poulsen camp, west of Kelso, was in
stantly killed Saturday afternoon when
he was struck by a log.
City Engineer Avery of Chehalis es-
Inmates that the cost of trunk line
to drain the south and east parts of
the city would cost $4,000.
The registration of Seattle is 1923
voters. This is the greatest registra-
ton in the history of the city and in
dictates population of 100000.
The Centralia commissioners have
passed an ordinance providing for the
sale of delinquent certificates on I'M
paid local improvement assessments.
Investigations of the alleged use Of
an unduly large amount of money in
the primary election in Stevens coun-
ty is being made by federal officials.
The Northern Pacific railroad will
bring the heads of its reorganized inn
migration department to Yakima Gal
ley to study irrigation at close range.
The Smith Reynolds POST of the
American legion at Vancouver will
soon start the erection of an $4,000
structure, which will serve as COM
munity center. !.
Captain H. W. North, Everett, has
been appointed superintendent of the
soldiers home at Orting, to succeed
Judge c. A. Austin, who resigned sew
eral months ago.
Governor Hart has authorized re-
ward of $1,000 by the state for the cap
ture and conviction of the unidenti-
fled murderer of Henry Gregg at
Othello, Adams county.
Governor Hart has issued requisi-
tioh papers on the governor of New
York for the extradition of Betty
Brainerd, charged with kidnapping
Bobby Stagg at Tacoma.
In an opinion by the supreme court it
is held that when an attempt is made
to recall two or more officials jointly
separate petitions for the recall of
each must be circulated.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. N. Town of Cash
mere narrowly escaped death by chlor-
inc gas asphyxiation when an un-
known prowler projected quantity of
the poison into their home,
Federal Judge Neterer has ruled
that vessel carrying contraband
liquor into American waters from Can
ada must be proceeded against under
the national prohibition act
The lowland potato crop of Grays
Harbor county has been practically
ruined, according to late reports, by
recent heavy rains, and the upland
crop is in precarious condition:
Night classes in business courses for
the business men of Pullman and their
clerks will be conducted by the de-
partment of economics, science and
history of the state college at Pull
man.
Eight potatoes, weighing total of
ten pounds, we're taken from one hill
on his plot of an acre and half in
Hoquiam by Peter ALICE. He got 400
sacks of good potatoes in all from the
small planting.
Plans are being made for the obser-
vance of national apple day, October
80, and the following week as apple
week, to encourage Westinghouse
to help eat the 100000 boxes of ap.
pies produced in the state.
Attorneys for Mrs. Dorothy Moore.
Fields, widow of First Lieutenant Jay
M. Fields, who died as result of an
accident at Vancouver September 16,
have filed with Robert e. Brady, city
ASn to- 4.