The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-04-01
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

The Endicott Commercial club has
been organized by business men an6
| farmers
| Work on the trunk line sewer sys
| tenn of Oakesdale is about to begin
the material now being on the ground
The city council of Palouse has pre-
| pared plans to improve number o,
! streets at an estimated cost of $50,
600.
A successful two-day convention OF
commercial club and chamber of com
merce secretaries was held in Bell.
| ingham. ..-
Forty arches studded with lighs
are to be built in the business district
of Vancouver this year to brighten up
the streets.
Modern sheep shearing with clippers
operated by gas motor is being tried
on band of $50 sheep at the Spokane
fair grounds.
The Community Building company
of Pullman will finance the construc-
ton of the girls new dormitory at the
state college.
Fruit growers in Spokane valley
have new pest to fight this year in
the leaf roller, which appeared for the
first time last year.
Tacoma dealers in dairy products
will be arrested if they do not cease
the practice of labelling storage butter
fresh churned butter" Q
A community tree planting will be
held in Centralia ,on April under the
auspices of the park committee Of
the Womens Civic club.
Ski jumpers from Norway, Sweden.
Canada and the United States will
take part in the ski tournament at
Mount Rainier on June q.
The outlook for big onion crop is
excellent at Walla Walla. The acreage
this year is larger than last and grow
ers expect equally good prices.
The directors Of the Priest Rapids
Irrigation district are planning to Sc
cure an engineer to report on the irri-
CATION possibilities of the district.
Walla Walla high school won the
state championship in basketball by
defeating Whateomb high of Beiling-
hsm. west side champions, IL to 10.
Employing BARRIERS of Spokane are
planning to raise the price of shaves
from Is cents to 35 cents and the price
of hair cuts from so cents to 65.cents.
Spring seeding at Ralston is proceed
ing slowly because of the cold nights.
Indications are large part Of the
winter wheat will have to be resown.
Owing to the remarkably open win
ter that has prevailed in Lewis county
the southwest Washington farmers
generally have a great part of their
blowing completed. =
Dress reform among the Walla
Walla high school girls is declared to
be success by the instructor in.
domestic art. 1t is the exception to
find an overdressed girl.
A campaign to plant 1000 acres of
Grays Harbor county land to berries
within the next two years is being
inaugurated by the Montesano and
Elma chambers of commerce.
The South Bend Commercial club
has signified it's appreciation Of the
American Legion by offering to make
every member of the local legion an
honorary member of the club.
John G. Lewis, former state trea-
surer and four years ago candidate for
the republican nomination for COVER
nor, has been seriously ill in Los
Angeles. He is now recovering.
A school of Americanization, to con-
tinue one week is being held in the
Centralia chamber of commerce under
the auspices Of the Lewis County
Woman's Christian Temperance union.
Lumbermen of the Inland Empire
are opening plants for what is ex-
pected to be record-breaking bust
ness this year, several of them al
ready putting on double shifts of
men.
Demand for lumber at the mills of
western Washington continues strong
and production remains at high
average, according to the weekly re-
port of the West Coast Lumbermen's
association.
| While Miss Edith Winslow, assis-
tant teller of the Spokane Savings
& Loan association, was alone in the
office, an unmasked man held her up
with gun and escaped with between
$4,000 and $500.
The Lewis County Cattle Breeders
association was perfected at a WELL
attended meeting held in the office
of Secretary George R. Walker of the
Southwest Washington Fair associa-
ton in Chehalis.
washington Field" will be the
a,,,,o 80 <I,o bof ro;IJ;op dollar cfo1 iurn