The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08
Tue twin cities Of the Chehalis val.

posed OF IL. Il. Bras, OF this city; Il.
A. Hazeltine, of South Bend, and Judge
A. E. Rice, of Chehalis.
Francis H. Cook, aged 50, Spokane
pioneer, publisher of the first news
paper there and owner of the first
streetcar in Spokane is dead. He set.
tied in Spokane in February, 1878. His
widow and IL children survive.
Another community betterment cam
paign was launched in Pullman when
the chamber of commence Endorsed a
plan of Councilman-at-Large w. c.
Kruegel to bond the city for $4,000
this fall to improve the two city parks.
With the crop season approaching
and with an acute car shortage still
gripping the Northwest, Seattle rail-
road traffic chiefs are. manifesting COZ
Germ over the facilities that will be
available to move Washington state
crops.
June weddings were more numer-
ousous this year than last, according
to records at the courthouse in Spo-
kane, which show PAT couples have al
ready been licensed to wed this year.
Last year but 229 licenses were issued
in June.
G. w. Loveridge. who was the first
superintendent of the Morton state
fish hatchery, is back again on the
job. He was transferred to Bow, Wash,
hatchery near Bellingham, but at his
own request was again assigned to
Morton.
Employees of the Todd Drydock and
Construction Company in Tacoma will
share in the million dollar bonus which
will be distributed to all employees of
the company which operates two ship
yapds in New York city besides the
one In Tacoma.
The Camas Baptist church congre-
cation is to have new resident pastor
succeeding the venerable Rev. Mark
Noble, who recently retired and NOV
ed to Portland. The new minister is
Rev. F. A. Houston, located for some
time past at Port Townsend.
The $s36.o00 estate of the late Smith
billiard, the Uniontown and Spokane
capitalist, was divided equally be-
tween his widow, Adella Hilliard, and
his daughter, Audrey A. billiard But
ton, when Judge Hurn of Spokane sign
ed the order for a decree OF distribu-
ton.
The Indian service Of the depart
ment Of the interior has awarded q
contract to the Olympia Coal & Min
ing company, operating mines north
east Of Centralia, to furnish coal dur
ing the fiscal year to the Indian
schools at Salem, Or, and Yakima,
Wash.
Dean Herbert Kimbough Of Wash
ington State College, Pullman, was re-
elected president Of the Washington
State Music Teachers Association at
the closing session of the fifth annual
convention in Seattle. Ellensburg was
selected by the convention as the place
of meeting for next year.
BY an overwhelming vote the Wash
ington State Federation Of Labor in
Spokane Endorsed the triple alliance"
composed of the national Non-Partisan
league, railroad workers and organ
lied labor and denounced the Work
ers' Non-Partisan league" which was
formed last winter by seceders from
the original alliance.
Mrs. C. P. Balabanoff, president Of
the Washington State Federation of
Women's Clubs, was not present to
open the twenty-fourth annual conven-
ton in Wenatchee, being detained at
her home in Tacoma on account of ILL
ness. Mrs. w. M. Kern of Walla Walla,
first vice president Of the federation,
presided.
In an endeavor to formulate state
wide policy against the peaceful in
vasion of Japanese a state conven-
ton will be held in Seattle in August,
it was announced by the Seattle anti
Japanese society, which passed reso-
luton to this effect at a meeting. In
vitations will be extended to anti
Japanese organizations in the state, it
was said.
Governor Hart has requested the
house committee on immigration, Of
which Representative Johnson Of
Washington is chairman, to make an
investigation of the Japanese situa-
ton in this state. The committee
plans to conduct an investigation in
July relative to the commercial and
Industrial activities Of Japanese in
California and the governor urges that
the inquiry be extended to include
Washington.