The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-08-05
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

Kelso's sawmills and single mills
are all operating at full capacity.
The Washington State Elks' conven-
ton will be held in Vancouver August
10, 20 and q.
The people of the Whitstran district,
five miles east of Prosser, have incor-
porated community church.
H.C. Bohike of Grand View has filed
as a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for lieutenant governor.
Lee Roe was drowned in the Che
halls river at Balch, near Oakviiie.
He was IL years old and lived at Oak
Vile.
: The annual picnic by the Lewis
County Pure Breeders club was held
Saturday at Riverside park, west OF
Centralia. yass-
Establishment at Camp Lewis OF
preparatory school for enlisted men
who wish to enter West Point, has
been announced.
The 1920 population OF, Kelso an
nounced by the census bureau is 222S.
or an increase of approximately 10
per cent over 1910.
Grays Harbor logging camps, which
have resumed operations after the
midsummer shutdown, are enjoying a
cooaon of fu1l activity
A complete program for the pioneer
picnic to be held August IL at Roch-
ester has been arranged by the local
chamber of commerce.
The Pierce county farmers Non
partisan league has decided to act as
a distinct third party instead Of going
into the Republican primaries.
The road between Vancouver and
Battle Ground is almost all paved. AS
q result a big auto bus carrying 16 per-
sons has been put on the run.
Nearly 1000 property owners in We
natchee have been made defendants in
II separate suits filed by the city to
collect delinquent Improvement assess
| ments.
| Edward Stanfield received the an
nual prize of four horse whip from
the Superior Milling company at Wi.
mona for the first load Of wheat
brought in.
Mrs. George. Clark, aged ~, OF Spo.
kane, was killed when an automobile
In which she was riding left the road
at the eastern end of Fourth Of July
canyon, near Wallace Idaho.
y The first Winter Banana apples OF
the season were shipped out of Wenat
chez Friday for Alaska This was the
earliest shipment of winter apples out
of the district by about 10 days.
Herbert Lane, Robert Adams and
George Peterson, Aberdeen boys, have
been awarded blue ribbon prizes fol
construction of bird houses entered In
q national contest announced last May
A smut explosion destroyed a separa
tor, q tank wagon containing It
bushels Of bulk grain just threshed
and a strawstack on the Shaw and
Walters farm two miles west of Pres
colt.
Il Washington fourth5class postofficeI
have been advanced to the presidential
class as of July 1, with salaries filed fol
postmasters as noted in the following
Napavine, $1,000; Onalaska, $ll00
Yacolt, $780,.
Margaret Eichentopf, 4-year ole
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Eich
entopf Of Hoquiam, died at the Ho
GUAM general hospital from gunsho
wound inflicted by a rifle accidental,
discharged by her father.
Mayor w. G.. Hufford has just besl
informed that a 5-inch siege gun ha'
been allotted to Stevenson and will b.
shipped as soon al arrangements cal
be made The gun Is IL feet in lengtl
and weighs approximately two tons.
For the week ending July "a lum
Der production in Washington was q
per cent below normal, orders wer
20 per cent below production and
per cent above shipments. Car SUI
ply was approximately 80 per cent Q
requirements.
Centralia will entertain . big crow
Of legionnaires on August 10 and II
when Franklin D'Olier, national con
mander Of the american Legion, wi
make pilgrimage to the graves Q
four former service men who wer
victims of I. w. w. on November Il
last.
Roy Goodrich, aged 80, q truck drive
employed by R. C. Sargent, mayor 9
Aberdeen, was instantly killed on tn
Olympic highway, three miles south {
Humptulips, when a dead tree snappe
at the base and fell across the roa,
striking Goodrich and fracturing hi
skull.
iii The Washington national guard
regarded as among the three or for