The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-24
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

being held in Vancouver this week.
4 Herbert Hoover has promised to visi
Washington to speak in behalf of tn,
republican ticket.
The trial of Spokane department
store on the charge of profiteering viii
begin in the federal court in a few
days.
Discrimination against Tacoma IL
favor of Seattle in the rationing Of
gasoline is charged against the big
oil companies.
A meeting of the western branch OF
the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science was held in Sc
attic, June II and 10.
| Representatives of women's organ
izations at Centralia have entered q
protest against the holding of carnivals
and dances on Sunday.
Recent investigation at Prosser
shows that the fruit crop will be much
better than expected. In some local..
ties the yield will be unusually heavy
Detectives were exchanged by the
Portland and Tacoma police depart
ments during Shrine week in order to
better handle thieves and pickpockets.
Grain men and farmers throughout
the Connell country are much encour-
aged over the crop outlook. Good
showers have visited Franklin county.
Ground for the Spokane labor tenn
pie. will be broken during the annual
convention of the Washington State
Federation of Labor during the week
of June %.
Madge Anna Sawyer, 81, was found
guilty of second-degree murder by a
jury at Seattle for the killing OF her
husband, Howard /. Sawyer, on the
night Of May 10.
The granting of $13s.Oo0 OF federal
road money by Pacific county COM
missioners recently adds assurance OF
the Ocean Beach highway being COM
pleted this year.
Inauguration Of regular semi-week-
ly airplane service between Spokane
and Lewiston, Idaho, was made Sat
urday, it was announced BY q com
mercial aviation concern.
Vancouver is celebrating the success
Of the recent bond election, when the
voters by almost So per cent majority
authorized an issue Of $130.000 to build
q municipal dock on the public levee.
Quarrel over the ownership Of dog
was alleged by witnesses to have led
to the fatal shooting at Seattle Of
Peter Angle, butter cutter. and the
arrest of c. Davis, q dog dealer, who
was held in connection with the kill
ing.
F. B. Sayre OF Spokane was killed
and Fred Perkins of Genesee, Idaho,
seriously injured near Colfax, when
an automobile in which they were rid
ing to Spokane from Colfax ran into
a ditch while passing another auto
mobile.
Work on the big lumber mill Of the
Bratile brothers at Ridgefield is near
ing completion. This is one of the
largest mills in this part Of the state.
It will give employment to a large
force of men, and will add.much to the
already large payroll of Ridgefield.
President s. B. L. Penrose of Whit
man college has left for Concord,
Mass, where he will give an address
at the meeting of representatives of
England and the United States to COM
memorate the tertentenary of land
ing of the Pilgrim fathers on July 4.
Richard Yeatman, of Vancouver, ad-
jutant Of the Smith Reynolds post,
American Legion, of Vancouver, has
been selected by the veterans welfare
commission of Washington to settle
war grievances in southwestern Wash
ington, from Goldendale to the coast.
Skinner & Eddy's shipyard equip
ment and steel at Seattle has been sold
to M. Barde & Sons Of Portland, it was
announced Friday afternoon, the deal
including everything except the build
ings and site. The price was reported
to be in the neighborhood Of $780,
600.
Wenatchee will be the scene Of two
statewide conventions at the same |
date, June % to July 1. The State |
Federation of Woman's Clubs will hold
an annual convention there and at the
same time the Inland Empire Mission
airy society of the Christian church will
convene.
County Agent T. S. Brown of Frank
lin county, reports that the rabbits are
becoming serious menace to the
crops in the district west Of Pasco
under the new irrigation unit. Upon
his recommendation the chamber of
commerce is planning drives against
the pests.
Frank Lamb, large wheat grower