The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-09-09
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST.
Important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

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II 1913.
II During the recent forest fires in Tie
ION district $50 acres of fine timbe
II were burned over
II Cutting grain in the Odessa regiol
has been finished. The yield was froI
!, 10 to 20 bushels per acre,
The Aberdeen city council has pass
ID an ordinance prohibiting Sunda.
Il evening dances in public places.
]. B. Smythe of Yacolt, logger, wa
tilled at the Chehalis Logging com
any plant by being struck on the heat
by a log.
With sugar on the decline there i!
a shortage at Walla Walla, as dealer.
Re refusing to purchase on declin
ing market.
II The fish hatchery being constructed
at Merrill's lake by Clarke and Cow
litz counties is almost completed and
ready for use.
.Speeders in Lincoln county have
paid In fines 1892 for the year end
ing August 1. In 1919 the total OF
s'nes was $50.
Arthur Stivers, who owns 40 acres
near Garfield, has raised crops this
season that will pay the interest on
$500 per acre land.
| The budget of estimated expendi-
lures for the city of Davenport for
1920 calls for s13,73S, an increase OF
S231S over last year.
The Lewis river forest fire covered
an area of more than 1000 acres before
being controlled, and caused loss Of
$4,000 to standing timber.
Mrs Anna F. Bracha, an employe at
ther Oregon Packing company at Van
couver, was killed when she was struck
by a switch engine on the tracks near
the packing plant.
The total value of real estate in
Grays Harbor county, as tabulated by
the county assessor, is $31,103,682.
There are S92,164 acres of timber land,
valued at $18,246,425.
Purchase of Hawthorne farm, the
former home of the late u. s. Sena-
tor Allen. by w. G. Cordiner, is an
nounced. The place consists of 20
acres near Walla Walla.
Owing to ill-health Mrs. Mary s.
Huntley has resigned as deputy super
intendent of schools for Lewis county.
Mrs. A. Hubbard of Centralia has been
appointed to succeed her.
The Grays Harbor county farm bu-
eau has recommended the employment
next year of an assistant county farm
agent and suspension of boys and
girls agricultural club work in the
county. =.
The construction of new reservoir
eor fire purposes at Centralia has been
abandoned until next spring owing to
the fact that bids received for the
work were greatly in excess of the |
engineers estimate.
The city commissioners of walla |
Walla have fixed the tentative tax levy
COR the coming year at 1926 mills,
lgainst 1926 last year. The amount !
to be raised, however, is $193,450 as
,gainst s1s4,5O5 last year.
A committee of Tacoma business
men has started out to raise $4,000
FOR the Pacific Lutheran college at
Falkland. A fund of $4,000 has al
ready been obtained to give the college
necessary improvements.
The special pest tax of 10 cents
an acre levied in Spokane county is
led invalid by the supreme court, be-
,ause of failure of the county com
,issioners to make a classification of
ends included in the district.
During the first eight months of
ne present year permits were issued
or the construction of new buildings
II Tacoma having an estimated cost of
's.777.712, or nearly 100000 in ex-
less OF the total construction for last
ear.
The largest still ever found in Lewis
ounty was located by Sheriff Berry
nd Deputy Roberts on the north
lewis county line on Garrett creek.
iear OalSville. 1t was of heavy copper
md had capacity of about 20 gallons
day.
Persons buying automobiles can OBJ
ain licenses for their machines for
alf price from now until next March.
This provision was made so that a
'erson buying car six months or less
'efore the new year begins may secure
license for half year.
Calling upon the school teachers of
ne county to set an example to school
iris and boys in simple dress, Mrs.
osephine c. Preston, state superin- II
endent of public instruction, showed IL
er shoes at the county teachers insti.
ute at Tacoma and defied anv wop,on II