The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-04-22
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences OF Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

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Seattle, May Is. .s.s. 81
The Colville Chamber of Commerce
has recommended concrete paving of
eight blocks in the city.
The water rights of Wenatchee in
the Squillchuck and Stemitt creeks
have been sold for $4,000. g
Civic improvements totaling about
$50, 900 have been ordered by resolution
of the Newport town council.
Receipts from tolls over the North
ern Pacific bridge are netting the city
of Aberdeen a substantial sum.
plans are being discussed for the es-
tablishment of dehydrating plant in
Spokane county to handle Gull apples.
A heavy rain is reported from all
over the Inland Empire. At Spokane
and vicinity it was 20 of an inch in
"a hours.
The first full carload of rhubarb has
left Walla Walla for the coast. This is
eight days later than the first ship
ment in 1919.
Posses with bloodhounds are search
: ing the hills near Black Diamond for
George Rasovich, accused of the muir
der of Pete Chelovich.
Preliminary details have been ar
ranged for the 1920 session of the Gen.
tralia state normal school, which will
open in June for nine weeks.
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boys who have adopted overalls as
standard raiment, Tacoma high school
girls will don gingham gowns.
At special election of the Grange
ment highway district it was voted to
issue road bonds to the amount of
100000, by vote of So to 20.
The Elma, McCleary stage, carrying
high school students, ran off the bridge
near Moneys prairie. Two young
ladies were more or less injured.
Pine City reports that the warm
weather is putting the grain crop in
more favorable condition, and progress
in spring seeding is well advanced
An increase of $3.50 to $3.50 teacher
Is assured the Chehalis teaching force
for the coming year, according to a
schedule adopted by the local board.
II Walla Walla restaurant men signed
an agreement to remove potatoes from
bills of fare and to keep them off the
menu until they drop to IS a hundred.
Pullman and the state college are to
i have a ~ onarot{yo exro >, 90 cforo Il, fbo
near future, following action taken at
q recent meeting of the state college
grange.
School teachers and supervisors Of
/ Tacoma have been granted wage in
crease Of 1920 year. The new wage
schedule will go into effect in Sep
TENDER.
The annual session of the Washing
ton conference of the Free Methodist
church will be held at Centralia from
April 81 to 25. with about It's delegates
in attendance.
William Howard Taft will address
the students Of the state college and
the townpeople Of Pullman in the state
college auditorium on the evening of
Friday, May q.
In speech before the Grays Harbor
realty men Herbert Cuthbert predicted
that tourists will spend between $780,
100000 and $6O,O0O,00O in the Pacific
Northwest this year.
Manuel A. Cardinale, Samuel King
and Ernest Watson. three alleged radi-
Gals, who were held for deportation,
mysteriously escaped from the immi-
grafton Jail at Seattle.
The Seattle city chemist is working
out set of gasoline standards which
the corporation counsel will incorpor.
ate in city ordinance to regulate the
quality of gasoline sold in Seattle.
Rain and cold weather are doing
much damage to gardens near Walla
Walla. Near Wallula numerous wash.
outs are reported, and some damage
was done to roads in the Dixie district
William Bates, Sc, shot and killed
Maude Walt, "a; badly wounded his
19-year-old daughter, beat his wife over
the head with revolver, then shot
and instantly killed himself at Leav
enworth.
al Thomas H. Phillips, Tacoma, was
II elected president of the Pacific Slope
Allied Printing Trades conference and
next years meeting was awarded to
Fresno, CAL, at the session of the con
ference in Spokane.
Aberdeen's park area was increased
by 33 acres when the members of the
council accepted deed of gift from
Mrs. Jean B. Stewart of land lying inn
II mediately north and west of the north
side pumping station.
Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston, state
superintendent Of public instruction