The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-01
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers. ~

in Tacoma ~. - y. @,
State troops from Oregon will arrive
| at Camp Lewis July for Is days OF
drill and maneuvers.
The annual convention of the Wash
fneton State Christian Endeavor union
was held in Spokane. A'
Earnings for the month of May on
the Tacoma municipal street railway
amounted to $17,109.95. IN IL.
Aberdeen was selected for the 1921
state convention of Eagles at their
! convention in Vancouver. r.. .. hi.
Centralia's 1920 school census was
announced as 2763. OF this number
1878 are boys and 1865 are girls.
The Apple Way State bank, to be
opened at Dishman about August Is,
was granted charter at Olympia.
Drugless. physicians of Grays Harbor
have decided on site for sanitarium
on which a 100000 building will be
erected.
Cowlitz county is preparing to
launch a vigorous fight against tuber-
culosis as the county now has a train
ed county nurse.
A new ferry, the Elanthine, will be-
gin operation shortly across the Co
lumbia from Hover to point short
distance below Pasco.
A number of checks and $500 were
taken by burglars who blew the safe
of the Onalaska postoffice, 16 miles
southeast of Chehalis.
| To advertise Sprague and its sur
rounding country and nearby lakes
was decided upon at meeting of the
Sprague commercial club.
w. H. Talley, county agent of Walla
Walla, is arranging to order distillate
by the carload for the farmers to over
come the gasoline shortage.
An auto touring party, equipped with
a camping outfit and carrying two
milk goats. was an attraction on the
| Chehalis streets last week.
According to word received at Aber-
deem, Grays Harbor naval reservists
may be taken on cruises this summer
| on the battleships on the coast.
In the southern part Of Adams coun-
ty, where crops have been practically
a failure the past few years, prospects
are good for big crop this year.
The right OF the public service COM
mission to exercise jurisdiction over
ferry service and rates is denied by a
| decision Of the state supreme court.
Thomas e. Cunningham, Centralia's
fire chief, lost his life in fire Of un-
determined origin in the Hope block
| in that city. The damage is estimated
at $4,000.
! Henry M. Kirkchess, 35, millwright
employed by the Grays Harbor Com
mercial company, Cosmopolis, was in
stantly killed when belt he was re-
pairing slipped off the pulley.
Despite the high cost Of. materials
and labor, citizens Of Colville are in
| favor Of going ahead with the paving
| of First avenue and the laying OF side
walks in different parts Of the city.
The clerical force in the Pierce coun-
ty courthouse will get salary increases.
Those clerks now receiving $125 or
less a month will get SIS rise and
those making above that sum Will get
i $40 rise.
i Three hundred farmers from the In
land Empire attended the second an
nual convention and chautauqua OF
the Washington state federation Of
farm organizations at the state armory
in Spokane.
Ingram RAIDER, q logging contractor
of Lake City, was found guilty OF Sec
ond degree murder by jury In supe-
rior court in Seattle for the fatal
shooting of Bud Dean Curtis at Lake
City, April :.
Proposed increase Of gas and cleo
trio light charges in Walla Walla and
the surrounding territory by about 20
per cent was argued at a hearing held
in Walla Walla before the state public
service commission.
Reports reaching the Seattle cham
her of commerce show there is an
oversupply of farm labor in the Ellens-
burg and Yakima districts and these
communities are anxious to stop the
flow of unskiAed and itinerant work
men.
Roy Tyson, lineman for the Wen
atchee Valley Gas and Electric COM
pany, was electrcuted while working
on the secondary transmission line
about five miles north of Entiat. He
received $4,000 volts and was killed
instantly.
Within the next two weeks a test
with the hope Of locating commercial
oil flow in the Forks Drilling COM
pany's we'll at Forks, western Clallam
county, will be made. So far all the
oil encountered has been in a soft