The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-08-26
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

Building a modern home today is
quite a different proposition than dur
ing the pre-war days, according TO an
investigation just completed by the
West Coast Lumbermen's association,
which shows that it now costs lac per
cent more to build a five room bunga'
low than in 1913.
Designation of January 16 as ITEM
perance day." with observance i'm the
schools of the state. will be asked of
the next state legislature by the state
Woman's Christian Temperance union,
it was announced by Mrs. Jackson
Sillbaugh, executive director of the
state organization.
The low stage of water in the Ka-
lama river has created shortage of
electric current for power anc lights
in Kelso, Kalama and other communi-
ties served from that plant. The water
is the lowest ever reported for the
stream Mills and other industries
have been forced to shut down.
Three persons are dead as the re-
suit of a car on the logging road OF
the Walville Lumber company jumping
the track and falling from a trestle,
distance of 80 feet. The dead are:
Thomas w. Thornbury, aged Al, woods
superintendent for the mill company;
Joseph Sienko, aged 80, brakeman;
Joseph Coliey.
The root of tooth six inches in
length and eight inches in, width,
found on the south bank of Lake
Quinault by Lawrence Green of Aber-
deem, has been pronounced by ex-
perts of the Smithsonian Institution at
Washington, ID. c., to be back moiar
of a mastodon and, as far as can be
learned, is the only one so far found
in the Olympics.
Mines on the Jones Brothers and
Campion properties in the Cedar Noun
tain district near Seattle, where opera
lions were suspended several years
ago, have been purchased by the Pa
cific Coast Coal company and will be
Immediately reopened and developed,
it was announced. The miners are
expected to develop a daily capacity
of from 1900 to 1900 tons.
Farmers of Grant and Douglas coun-
ties are awaiting word from Charles
M. Hatfield at Los Angeles as to
whether he will return this month and
endeavor to produce rain. I'VE have
offered Hatfield $4,000 if he produces
two inches more than the normal rain
fall during September and October"
said H. N. Gardner Of the First Nation
al bank of Ephrata, chairman of the
Ephrata committee.
The 10th annual convention Of the
Washington State association of Elks
closed at Vancouver Saturday. The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Clement Scott; first vice-presi-
dent, Paul Wells of Bellingham;
second vice-president, Alexander s.
Fulton; third vice-president, Merton
Gottfeld of Olympia; treasurer, John
P. Rogers Of Chehalis, and secretary,
s. 8. Anderson of Tacoma.
Eight walla Walla county school
boys will receive watch fobs from the
Hampshire Swine record association
at Peoria, Ill, because Of being own
ers of purebred Hampshire hogs. The
boys are members of the boys pig
clubs maintained in the schools OF
the county under the supervision OF
Frank Shannon, county club leader.
The boys eligible to receive the fobs
are Berl w. Kelley, Dixie; Francis
Cooke, Fay Hart, Raymond Shelton
Joe Mcfarland, all Of Walla Walla;
Wilbur Walters, Jack Stephens and
Leo. vogel, all of Alfalfa.
| According to ]. w. Hamilton, state
highway engineer, every contract fol
the improvement of the Inland Empire
highway between. the Snake river al
Pasco and the same river at Central
Ferry has now been let. the last be
ing a stretch of five miles between
Delaney and Central Ferry. All Of
the road will have been graveled and
put in good condition when present
contracts. are completed and it will bt
paved with concrete between Dixie
and Walla Walla. Crawling is nov
in progress between Alfalfa and thu
Snake river bridges between Burbanl
and Pasco.
After a legal battle, which has last
ed since the early part of this year
Judge Wright, of Thurston count!
superior court, sitting at Olympia
has finally handed down decision
in the celebrated foreign egg case
,, which may be considered victory TO
the poultrymen. The effect of Judg
Wright's decision of the egg case j
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