The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-04-08
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

VuI ncducJS.
Hereafter a rural route out of Che.
halls will be extended to Eagleton.
Women rifle marksmen of the Uni
versity of Washington have organized
q club.
Centralia school children since the
first of the year have invested $2621 in
Thrift Stamps.
Tacoma building permits touched a
new high record during March, with a
total of $1,19S,2 S2.
May 81 to June S, inclusive, have
been announced as the dates Of Cen
traIia's 1920 Chautauqua.
The annual track meet of the Cow
litz county schools will be held At
Woodland Saturday, May 8.
Between $500 and 500 has been OBJ
tanned from Aberdeen merchants by a
man presenting worthless checks.
The sright of employers to combine
to maintain the, open shop policy has
been upheld by Judge French of Sc
attic.
Breeders of Jersey cattle in the
Chehalis section have formed a per-
manent organization and elected Of
ficers.
Plans have been made for holding
an Older Boys conference in Pasco
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April
is, IL and Is.
Fishing interests report the second
big run of smelt of the season in the
Cowlitz river, after . disappearance
Of several weeks.
Engineers Of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho attended a conference Tues
day called by the Associated Engineer
Ing Societies of Seattle.
Ambrose McAfee, the first perman-
emit settler In the Humptulips district,
Is dead, He settled there &c years ago
and engaged In cattle raising.
Estimates at the Yakima land office
Indicate that 10000 acres have been
covered by oil prospecting filings in
the district served by that office.
Validity of the land settlement act
passed by the 1919 legislature to pro-
vide farms for soldiers has been mp
held by the state supreme court.
By the upsetting Of canoe in the
Quinault river at Tahola, Miss Edith
Lowe, school teacher In the Franklin
school at Aberdeen was drowned.
Extensive repair work undertaken by
the Columbia irrigation district for the
Improvement of the Kennewick irriga-
ton system, is nearing completion.
The Washington highway commits
sion has awarded contracts for three
grading. one paving and one bridge
job,cthe total cost of which will aggre-
gate S35O,000.
I Mayor Caldwell of Seattle has asked
the; city council to enact more stringent
regulations Of jitney lines In order to
reduce the deficit in the operation Of
the municipal, railway.
In q hearing before the state indus
trial commission at Seattle SO hotel
men of the state declared that the pro-
posed minimum wage of SIS a week
for women was excessive.
Rejuvenation of old mats will be the
opening feature of the 10 days series
Of home economics lectures to be given
1t Spokane by the Washington state
college extension department.
The Waila Walla Commercial club
has decided on cleanup campaign.
A captain in each block In the down
town district will be named to see that
the block is kept clean Of refuse.
The seventh semi-annual convention
Of the northeastern Washington dis
trict of the Federation Of Women's
Clubs will be held April 10 at Wash
ington State college in Pullman.
A very substantial increase in the
strawberry acreage of the White
Salmon valley section will take place
this spring; setting of several hun
dred thousand plants being planned.
The five-acre orchard home of Geo.
Scheidemantel at Wenatchee has been
sold for $4,000, or $4,000 an acre, the
highest price ever paid for apple or
chard land in the Wenatchee district.
Seattle has IA jitney lines whose
yearly revenue is approximately ST.
14O,895. II they were eliminated 1t is
claimed that the receipts of the munic-
ipal street car system would be In
creased 100000.
An investigation of the cost of liv-
Ing by the state college shows that in
only five cities in the state is the cost
of living higher than in Pullman. The
five are Newport, Ephrata, Waitsburg,
TokOa and RftZville