The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-03-25
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF .IHTE.3EST
important Occurrences of Fast
Week Briefly. Compiled for
Our Readers.

mory will commence soon.
A movement is on foot to organize
a commercial club in Washtucna.
Street car fares at Walla Walla are
to be raised from to 10 cents April
Is. .a
/ Garfield and vicinity have been fav-
ored with a/rain that has thoroughly
soaked the ground.
The reclamation service plans to
put on the market 100000 feet OF
lumber at Rimrock.
! Engineers are preparing plans and
specifications for about $4,000 worth
of street paving at Endicott.
Sheepmen report at Waila Waila
heavy losses in Landing this year on
account of the cold spring weather.
Total shipment of apples from We
natchee to date amounts to 1882 cars.
/ Nearly 1900 cars remain to be forward
ed
A subscription list has been started
at South Bend to raise $4,000 to furnish
new headquarters for the American
Legion.
Tacoma milk dealers have announced
/ that the retail price of milk will be
reduced from 10 to 1211s cents quart
I beginning April 1.
/ Apple growers in me Wenatchee dis
trict are loading their apples in box
! cars for shipment East in default of
refrigerator cars.
! A report from Pasco says that more
rain is needed by wheat growers. Many
report that much of the fall sown grain
will have to be reseeded.
: The new Pacific highway bridge over
the Cowlitz river at Toledo will be
ready for traffic about July, according
to William MunsQn, contractor,
! Word has been received from the
state highway commissioner that inn
provement between Pomeroy and
Charleston will begin Immediately.
| n. j. Maury of the Winlock State
bank, is distributing free corn to the
ranchers of the community. The corn
is of new variety, Minnesota No. Is.
Motor trucks, carrying choristers
and bearing signs urging church az
tendance, will cover Spokane Easter
morning, under plans announced by
local churches.
A special election was held in Ka-
/ lama Wednesday to vote on establish
ing a port district TITO hundred and
seventy-seven votes were cast, all in
favor OF the port
Sixty-six Washington marines lost
their lives in the world war, according
to an official list received from Wash
, ington, d. c., by Adjutant-G General
Maurice Thompson.
Preparatory to beginning construc-
ton of the new Eiks temple in Cen
tralia, Centralia lodge No. 1883 has
started drive to dispose of the bal
ance of the $4,000 bond Issue.
Governor Hart has denied q pardon
to Charles Gay, former constable Of
Toppenish, convicted of assulting John
Packwood on Armistfce day. He was
sentenced to five years Imprisonment.
R. P. Parker and William e. Burns
were killed when an automobile in
which they were riding left the road
and plunged down a steep cliff in the
Naches valley, landing in the Wapato
canal.
Eight fingerprints and two written
signatures are appended to memorial
addressed to the legislature. asking leg
islation that will restore to the In
dams their right TO fish in the Yakima
river.
Death has claimed two of Spokane's
oldest citizens. One was Thomas
Street, who would have been 101 years
old March Fl. The other was Samuel
Merritt who was 100 years old last
January.
The Baker Langdon orchard, 600
acre tract of apple trees in bearing at
Walla Walla. was sold to the Stanton
Investment company, composed prin-
cipally of Ohio capitalists. The price
was 31.OO5,OOo.
Motion for new trial for the seven
l. w. w. convicted at Montesano for
the Staying of Warren o. Grimm. one
of the four victims of the Centralia
armistice day tragedy, was filed by
George F. vanderveer, defense at
torney.
I d. w. Henderson, who started his
street railway career as motorman
in Seattle Is years ago, has been named
by Mayor Caldwell to the new post of
general superintendent of Seattle's
municipal street car system, said to
be the largest municipal system in the
! nation.
Departmental red tape may be par
TALLY responsible for the successful
a,oono of the two unmarked bandits