The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-04-21
WASHINGTON STATE
news Of Interest
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.


the too frequent invasion of their re-
spective offices by campaign work
ers," directors of drives and tag
day. tormentors.
An unsolicited request for 10 per
cent wage reduction that will save the
school funds $4,000 annually, has
been presented to the Seattle school
hoard by engineers, custodians, fire
men and janitors.
John Calvin, receiver OF the Union
Loan & Trust company of Centralia,
has filed his final report and asked to
he discharged. A final dividend of 31a
per cent is to be paid creditors, max
ing a total ,of S5 per cent.
Members of the state highway board
went to Hoquiam Tuesday and to Lake
Quinault to inspect the work on the
extension project from the lake to
oueets. The program of the board in
cludes making passable road at the
earliest possible date.
City Councilman Draham and Mrs.
Graham, of Olympia, have left for
5OO-mile stroll through Oregon on foot.
They will start from Vancouver walk
ing up the Columbia highway, from
which they will branch off, and for the
next month will tour through Oregon
where they fancy chooses.
Conviction and sentence of seven l..
w. w. members, tried in Montesano
about a year ago for the murder OF
four ex-service men by firing upon the
Armistice parade in Centralia in 1919
was sustained in the supreme court in
an opinion written by Justice Mitchell,
and affirmed by the entire bench.
President E. H. Todd of the College
of Puget Sound announced that the
drive to raise s1,000,00O for the insti-
tuition had succeeded. When the cam
paign closed, the fund was $22,723 over
the million-dollar mark. The College
of Puget Sound is supported by the
Methodist church of the northwest.
The money will be used for construc-
| ton of new buildings.
Water and rail lumber shipments
| from Grays Harbor in March totaled
approximately 44,6S1,O feet, accord
ing to compilations just completed. OF
this total 19,659,O0O feet went by rail
and was carried in approximately I'll
| cars, of which Hoquiam furnished 800
cars and Aberdeen 402. Water ship
ments from the harbor in March were
25,022, 900 feet, carried in % ships.
| With five military decorations, in
GLIDING the British distinguished fly
ing cross and bar, given for downing
nine enemy aircraft during the world
war, John S. Griffith, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. A. Griffith of Seattle, has re.
| turned home after four years of serv.
i ice overseas. When he resigned from
the British air forces two months age
/ he was Captain Griffith, aged % years
Fifty thousand dollars was the value
jury in the superior court at Walla
Walla placed on the affections of Mrs
Mary Hughes when it awarded yer
] dict of this amount to- Philip Hughes
against his brother, Patrick Hughes
Mrs Hughes recently obtained al
vorce.. The parties are wealthy wheat
ranchers, owning and leasing several
thousand acres. The plaintiff asked
100000
| The state law providing for the ex
| oe ficfc NV STATE
board of dental examiners before II
censes are granted was held inopera
tive in decision by Edward E. Cusn
man, United States district judge a.
Seattle, in which he declared the Doare
was clothed with arbitrary and illega
power. The decision granted the peti
ton of Leon Noble, Seattle dentist To-
a temporary injunction restraints
county officials from prosecuting mn
on a charge of practicing dentistr!
without license.
The Washington grand lodge OF TN
Degree of Honor, in session at Seattie
has elected the following officers: Pas
grand president, Mrs. Anna M. Crosby
spokane: grand president, Mrs. Ev'
ID p Gordon. Olympia; first grand VIC
president, Mrs. Edith Downing, Hill
yard; second grand vice-presiden'
I Mfs. Anna M. Barth, Seattle; gram
| secretary. Mrs. Cora Kenoyer, Che
halls; grand treasurer; Mrs. Emma I
Chadwick, Seattle; grand usher, MIS-
Sadie Fulkerson, Hoquiam; grand II
: side watch, Mrs. Idaho L. Davis. LeaN
enworth; grand outside watch, MIS-
, Pearl Roderick. Tacoma.
Tn serving complaint on its own mt
> tion against all the railways dom
: business in this state the departmen
] Of public works has undertaken to e
! tablish joint rates and physical col
] nection between the various railroad
at all points in eastern Washingto
: where two roads cross or pass throug
.o,,o in, tho In. 1Oadin