The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-04-15
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

OF the 81 births recorded at Central1
during March, 20 were boys.
The Ridgefield school district is t,
build $4,000 school building at once
A total of 125,OOO head of sheep wer
assessed for taxation in Benton count.
this year.
Deposits in Prosser's two banks hav,
mounted to s1,5O0.O00 and are steadil.
increasing.
Governor Hart issued proclamation
designating Friday, April 16, as Arbo,
and Bird day.
The Kalama Building corporation i:
now organized and will build several
houses month.
The Benton county Sunday school
convention held a three-session meet
ing at Kennewick.
Grays Harbor county will have IL
delegates at the international mining
congress at Seattle.
The freight car shortage in the Pa
cific northwest is seriously threaten
ing the lumber industry.
II The Brewer herd of Jerseys has been
sold at public auction at Satsop. 1t
brought about $4,000.
/ The Royal Prunarians of Vancouver
are planning their second annual cele-
bration next September.
The old shingle mill at McCleary has
been sold and it is now being dismantl-
ed and shipped to Portland.
Three concrete paving contracts, to.
falling $379,251, have been awarded by
the state highway commission.
About 20 accredited delegates attend
ed the state sessions of the Daughters
of, the Revolution at Walla Walla.
Owing to the high price of potatoes,
Spokane restaurants have eliminated
their service free with other orders.
The Snohomish County Dairymen's
association has voted $350,000 bond
issue to buy two condenseries at Ever
EFT.
Eighteen farm bureaus will be or
ganized in Walla Walla county this
year, 10 this spring and eight in the
fall.
The state highway board will receive
bids and let contracts on April 26 on
approximately $450,00O worth of road
work.
The Winlock city council has adopt
ed resolutions providing for approx
mately five miles of new cement side
walks.
The date has finally been fixed for
the Wenatchee valleys great blossom
festival. It will be held on Friday,
May z.
Patrick McEneaney, aged Is, a wide
ly known pioneer OF the Spokane coun-
try, died of pneumonia at Spokane
hospital.
Wheat growers of Washington and
Idaho met at Spokane April IL to dis
cuss continuation Of the government
price guarantee.
Maple trees will be planted along the
route Of the North Bank highway
through Camas by the Relief and Civic
Improvement club.
The state land commission is plan
ming to acquire five-acre tracts Of state
lands in various parts Of the state for
auto camping parks.
The new scale demanded by the un-
ion bakers of Spokane calls for $42 a
week for foremen. $3S for bench hands
and $28 for helpers.
Warning to automobile tourists to
bring no liquors across the Canadian
line have been issued by the federal
prohibition officials.
William Roloff, q farmer near Raj
ston, lost two fine cows worth 500
each. He gave them turpentine, which
he thought was linseed oil.
A campaign has been started at Wal
la Walla to raise $4,000 for the fur
nishing of new clubrooms for the local
post of the American Legion.
Mayor Crook of Elma, who has been
making a determined fight against
bootleggers, has found on his table a
typewriter warning to Ego easy
A mass meeting of the Citizens club
and interested citizens of Chehalis has
been called for May to consider the
urgent need Of a municipal auditorium.
The recent cold snap In thes Walla
Walla valley was followed by CHI
nook which has caused all the streams
to rise. A heavy loss of lambs is feared.
Woodsmen in Grays Harbor county
say that the 1920 output of cascara
bark will be very small and that in two
years the supply will be altogether ex-
hausted.
A large new acreage of various kinds
of berries is being planted in the Che
halls district for the cannery at Che
halls of the Lewis County Canning as
aOciatfOn.