The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-11-04

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name of a new concrete bridge over
Latah creek at Spokane.
Joseph s. Woodward, aged "a, pio-
neer of Spokane county, dropped dead
at his home at Wildwood.
Burglars entered Hutchinson's shoe
store at Chehalis and got away with
500 concealed in shoebox.
In a proclamation Governor Hart
has designated the week from October
80 to November as apple week."
If favorable weather prevails, the
concrete pavement between Walla Wal
la and Dixie will be completed within
10 days.
Grays Harbor mill at Hoquiam has
put on night shift of 100 men, CIV
ing continuous activity in the mill for
"a hours.
Six women were included in the
class of successful candidates admitted
to practice law by the supreme court
at Olympia.
1t special election the voters Of
Hatton decided to purchase the Harter
water works and bond the town for
the payment of same.
Seattle streetcar men have demand
ed flat rate of IS cents an hour for
all motormen and conductors employed
on the municipal railway.
The hardware, implement and grain
establishment of the w. L. Shearer
company at Toppenish was destroyed
by fire, with loss of $4,000.
!! If housing can be obtained a COM
plete harvester factory will be built
at Walla Walla by the Harris Manufac-
turing company of Stockton, Cal.
A campaign has been launched at
Everett to raise s15O,000 for the re-
modelling of the Columbia college build
ing into modernly equipped hospital.
Charles Philip Mumm, aged 16. son
of Fred Mumm of Everett, was shot
accidentally and instantly killed while
hunting ducks on the Stanwood flats.
Compilation of registration figures
for all counties in Washington shows
that 496,573 citizens are eligible to
vote in the November general cleo
ton.
1 Bears have been more numerous In
the vicinity of Kelso this fall than
for years. A number of the animals
have been killed by hunters on the
Coweeman.
/ Establishment of overnight freight
service between Hoquiam and Port
land to accommodate Hoquiam mer-
chants has been announced by rail-
road officials.
For the first time in years Cowlftz
county will raise enough money next
year to do some permanent improve
ment on the county roads. A mill
levy will raise $75,639..
The weekly review OF the West Coast
Lumbermen's association shows con-
/ tinued depression in the trade with
new business showing IL per cent be-
low normal for the week.
After quarrel between the two,
John North, aged 81, logger, shot and
killed Mrs. Olga Kantonen, aged 40,
proprietor of an Aberdeen bathhouse,
and then killed himself.
One thousand acres of standing
wheat, with cash value approaching
$4,000, will go uncut in the vicinity
of Pullman unless radical change In
weather conditions takes place.
The Northwest Hereford breeders
have completed details for their sale
to be put on in Spokane Thursday,
November 4, in connection with the
Western Royal Live Stock show.
The first unit of the Sanford Eric
ton Thresher company's new plant
ON Ford's Prairie, mile west OF Gen.
tralia, has been completed, and work
will start Immediately on the second
unit. 49, ~ ~
The work of completing the big
100000 plant of the. Lewis-Pacific
Dairymen's association in Chehalis is
we'll along and it is hoped to have the
factory ready for business within a
short while. lib #"a
washington state led the country in
the amount of lumber cut for 1918 and
1919. according to figures announced
by the census bureau. The cut in 1918
was 2,7s2,O54,OOO feet and the follow
ing year 56,9O9,OO0 feet. Oregon
stood fourth with a cut Of '723, 299, 900
feet in 1918 and 100000 in 1919;
Idaho shows a cut of 322,150,000 feet
for 1918 and sa6,314,OOO in 1919. Louis.
lana was second and Mississippi third.