The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-11-17

About 1000 United States marines
will be assigned to duty to guard the
mails in territory in Washington. Ore
gon and Idaho, under the jurisdiction
of the Spokane postoffice inspection
force, it was announced by C. B. Wei
ter, acting postoffice inspector in
charge.
Growers of prunes in Clarke county,
who are members of the Washington
Growers association, will receive a
large portion of the returns from their
crop sold by November 20. A large
part of the crop already has been sold
and shipments are being made with
regularity at prices satisfactory to the
growers.
Marked increase in cost of operation
is shown in the state administrative
code department of taxation and ex-
animation by L. d. McArdle, director
of efficiency, in report covering the
first six months of 1919, 1920 and 1921.
This is the first department to show
an increase.
Opening a bakers war as to prices,
Seattle bakery cut the wholesale
price of pound loaves of bread from 8
to cents. The price of tie 1 IL pound
loaf was cut from IL to cents. The
retail price will be 8 cents for the
pound loaf and IL IL cents for the
1 1-2 pound loaf.
Senator Jones and Poindexter have
recommended w. d. Gregory for ap-
pointment as register of the Walla
Walla land office. Mr.. Gregory is tell
err in the Baker-Boyer National bank
of Walla Walla. Under bill soon to
become law, he will, if appointed, be
the sole official of the Walla Walla
land office.
Surveys are being made in Hoquiam
for a sewer system which has been a
matter of discussion in city council
meetings for the last few years. The
cost has been held to be so high that
work was never started. but it Is be-
lieved by the city commissioners now
that the work could be carried out at
normal expenditure.
The Tacoma port commission has
issued a call for bids for construction
of new transit shed and as soon as
the specifications can be completed by
the engineering department, the plans
expected to attract tenders from all
the big contractors in the country, as
the job will run well up toward the
half-million dollar mark.
Washington states apple crop on
November 1. showed an increase Of
more than 100000 bushels over the
preliminary estimate of October 1, ac-
cording to the report issued by the
Spokane office of the bureau of crop
estimates of the department Of agri-
culture. The preliminary estimate for
the entire 1921 apple crop is now
placed at 2S,325.000 bushels.
Development of the port of Grays
Harbor is resulting in determination
of inland mills to ship by water
Schafer Bros. of Montesano are pre-
pairing to build scows for the transport
of their lumber down the Chehalis to
the harbor terminal, there to be load
ed on ships. The Vance Lumber COM
pany of Malone also are reported to be
preparing to ship by water soon.
A new record, believed to be above
anything that any Pacific coast port
could approach for dispatch in loading
lumber cargo. was made by the port
of Tacoma lumber dock last week In
serving the Yoshida Maru. The great
90-foot hammerhead crane of the ports
dock handled $4,000 board feet of lum-
Der In seven hours. keeping five
matches of the steamer supplied with
cargo as fast as the stevedores could
handle It.
All towns in that vicinity helped
SOhSAaAia oSd5C q CClCOidIl Iu0I Mig
the anniversaries Of the signing Of the
armistice. the admittance of the state
of Washington to the union md the
death of four members of the Ameri-
can Legion at the hands of I. w. w.
Chehalis practically moved to Gen.
tralia en- masse for the day, while
Winlock was also represented by an
unusually large delegation of veterans
and citizens,
Reductions in hay and grain rates,
recently ordered by the interstate COM
merce commission, to. be made effec-
tive by railroads throughout the west
not later than November 20, cannot be
made effective by that date, James R.
veitch, assistant general traffic man.
ager at Seattle Of tile Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st Paul railroad, was informed
in advices from Chicago. II was I'M
derstood, however. according to the
advices. that the delay in making the