The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-02-12
WASHINGTON STATE
News OF INTEREST
important Occurrences f,Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

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in Walla Walla.
Of the 26 births at Centralia during
January, IA were females.
The quarterly convention of the Pu'
get Sound Society of Friends was held
in Seattle.
Influenza cases are decreasing In
number in Seattle, DR.. H. NJ. Reed, city
health commissioner, announced.
Rev. jeremiah Dick, for 16 years
Sunday school missionary of the Con-
| gregational church, is dead at Seattle.
A total of 1900 Vancouver voters have
/ Joined the Triple alliance, according
to an official of the central labor coun-
! Gil.
| Investigations in the alleged irregu-
larities in the Pacific coast shipbuild-
| ing program have been resumed at Sc
.attle before federal grand jury.
Fire destroyed the Thompson-Ford
I Lumber company sawmill at Kelso.
| The loss is estimated at between $4O,-
600 and $4,000, with $4,000 insur.
ance.
!. Four famous guns operated by the
| 146th field artillery, recruited mainly
from Washington, Oregon and Idaho,
have been presented to Walla Walla by
| the war department.
Shipments to date from Yakima
valley points, with estimates of 1000
cars of fruit yet remaining in stor-
| age, indicate total production OF
16,I37 cars last season.
I F. E. Waterhouse, %, bank clerk,
within half an hour after his arrest
at Seattle, pleaded guilty to an indict.
ment charging him with embezzling
$4,000 from his employers.
A record price for wheat was paid at
Walla Walla, when Joe Grote, Eure.
ka farmer, bought 5000 bushels of
Early Bart for seeding. Grote paid
| $3.50 bushel for the grain.
The school teachers of Pasco have
requested that they be given a bonus
| in addition to their regular salaries.
The bonus asked for approximates 20
per cent of their contract salaries.
The receiver of the First Interna-
tional bank of South Bend, which fail
ed three years ago, has declared div
idend of % per cent, and asserts that
another one will be declared shortly.
The Berg Griggs company of Tacoma
was awarded contract by the state
board fof control for construction Of a
central heating plant at the state in
dustrial school for girls at Grand
Mound for 1890.
A contest of the will of j. ID. Sher-
wood of Spokane, who was killed in a
California automobile accident togeth-
. er with his wife. has been filed by a
sister of the wife, who claims that the
husband died first.
Two grain elevators and warehouses,
with capacity of 100000 bushels each,
will be erected at Moscow, Idaho. and
-Colfax, Wash, this summer by Allo-
way & George. Spokane contractors,
| according to plans made public.
DR.. F. E. Smith, chief dairy and
fuel inspector of Seattle, was elected
president of the Parific Northwest As
ISOLATION of Dairy and Milk Inspectors
at the eighth annual convention of that
organization which was held in Port
land, Or.
The Kelso city council has entered
into an agreement with d. B. F1eck.
owner of the Kelso water system, SUBJ
|. ject to the approval OF the voters of
the city, by which the city will pur-
chase the Kelso Water company sys-
tenn for $4,000.
A huge electric power house driven
by water damned on the north fork
of the Lewis river, in Clarke county,
and to cost possibly $5,000.000. is to
be built by the Northwestern Electric
company of Portland, if rumors to that
effect are true.
The board of Lincoln county COM
missioners has granted a franchise to
the Washington Water Power company
for an extension of their power trans
mission line nine miles northwest of
Wilbur. The new line will supply light
and power in number of farm homes
In the territory.
Pending favorable decision by the
courts, stockholders OF the Puyallup
and Sumner Fruitgrowers' association
will distribute a. $4,000 melon which.
with interest totals $4,000. For the
1919 season, returns to the growers
amounted to s779.740 at a cost of oper-
alton of $7216.
The state, sheriffs' association, in
session at Walla Walla, reelected
George Reid of Spokane president and
elected John L. Stringer of Seattle
vice-president; Clarence E. Long of
Spokane, secretary The next
meeting will be held in Wenatchee,