The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-04-28
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
~. Our Readers.

The Boulder Lumber company's mill
four miles north of Orient, burned
down last Friday night.
Rev. Evan R. Prichard, veteran Sc
attic minister, was fatally burned at
his home in Seattle Tuesday.
The North Bank highway between
Vancouver and Camas is to be thrown
open to traffic On January 16.
Lorain, the 8-year-old daughter of
Joseph Meilleur, was drowned in the
South Palouse river near Colfax.
Walla Walla claims the fastest
basketball team belonging to any ma
tional guard unit on the Pacific Coast.
Congress was asked by Secretary
Houston for 100000 for the enlarge
ment Of the Seattle immigration sta
ton .
Six per cent net was earned by the
federal land bank of Spokane during
1920. Loans now total approximately
I, $40,OO0,000. 49,. ..
Lumber mills at Aberdeen will re-
sumo operations at once on part
time basis and with common labor re-
duced to $3.50.
Three 13-year-old boys we're arrest.
cd near Benton City while operating
. still dug under a hill and camoutlag
cd with sagebrush.
Total sales of state lands during tho
past two years aggregate $1,977, 6S6,3s.
according to the report of Land Com:
missioner Savidge.
Labor bureaus in Washington last
year cost the taxpayers 231k cents a
Job and furnished employment to "a.
s26 men and women. u
More than 10000 bottles Of liquor.
most of it whiskey, was seized dur.
ing the past year by customs officers
In the Seattle district.
Postal receipts at the Centralia post
office during the year just ended total
Cd $30,576.50, an increase Of $1322.29
over last years sales. "... 49,.
Total arrests in Aberdeen during the
past year numbered 2707, from which
fines amounting to $29. were lev
led by the police judge.
The Cheney high school has been
made one of the Smith-Hughes schools
and will receive federal aid beginning
with the coming semester.
A fire at Auburn last week destroy.
ed the Volmer-C Clearwater company's
grain elevator and feed mill. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Corporal Robert s. Angel, % years
old, is missing from Camp Lewis with
$500 of his company's funds. Angel
was acting as company clerk.
According to Postmaster Grafton.
s2582.20 worth of war savings stamps
were sold at the Centralia postoffice
during the month of December.
Burt Moore of Centralia sustained
broken shoulder and severe bruises
when his automobile plunged over a
60 foot embankment near Toledo.
Oscar Peterson, fuel dealer, is dead
at Tacoma, having shot himself in the
presence of his former wife, who OBJ
tanned divorce from him last week.
A turnip weighing 81 pounds was
raised by B. F. Anderson near La
Center The big turnip is 20 inches
long and % inches in circumference.
Fifteen men and women who are un-
able to read or write English have en-
rolled in an Americanization class or
ganized by the Centralia school board.
Mrs. Jessie NJ. Lightfoot, president
of the Seattle Women's Commercial
club, was appointed King county dep
uty sheriff by Sheriff Matt Starwich.
An American flag, raised at Rhens,
Germany, during the world war, has
been presented to the Veterans of For.
eign Wars by Nat Komer, Seattle
man.
Conversion of the 100000 postoffice
building in Port Townsend into a hos.
potal for disabled war veterans has
became possibility of the very near
future
The body of John Salisbury, an en-
gineer, was found floating in a reser.
voir in Seattle Sunday morning. He
had been respondent over financial
matters.
Vancouver gas users are asked to
contribute 20 cents for each thousand
feet Of gas used during December to
employ counsel to fight the rise sought
by the company.
Walla Walla police are looking fol
q stranger who moved up and down
Main street Wednesday and left worth
less paper amounting to hundreds OF
dollars behind him.
The 12,OOO-ton tanker Livingstone
Roe, built by the G. M. Standifer Con
struction corporation for the STANDARD
OIL company of New Jersey, was
launched at Vancouver Saturday.
Unless Aberdeen and Hoquiam mer
chants consent to lower prices OF
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