The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-04-28

| AT a meeting OF loggers and thefl
employers at Aberdeen it was decid
ed the basic scale for wages in the
camps of Grays Harbor district should
be "a for common labor as mini
mum, to take effect January 20.
With the arrest In Seattle of two
young men giving the names of E. B
Davis and Ed Wallace, Seattle ant
Spokane police authorities believe
they have the perpetrators of some q
automobile thefts in Northwestern
cities.
The children in the Sunday schools
of the Methodist church in Clarke
county gave nearly $500 for the famine
relief fund as a Christmas offering
according to a report made by Rev. E.
M. Hill, superintendent of the Van
couver district.
For the second time in five years
the Spokane State bank, situated in an
outlying business district of Spokane
was held up and robbed last week. Nc
trace of the robbers, who wore nc
masks when they entered the bank
have been found.
The state board of control has an.
nounced the appointment of Alonzo c.
Jones of Monroe as superintendent OF
the state training school for boys at
Chehalis to succeed Thomas P. Horn,
resigned. The appointment becomes
effective February 1.
/ Old Fort Walla Walla, at Walla
Walla, will become hospital for dis.
abled soldiers if congress acts favor
ably upon a provision placed in the
general hospital bill soon to be re-
ported out of the house committee on
public buildings and grounds.
Windows in houses all over Lebam
were broken when dynamite was used
to prevent the spread of fire. The
town Y. M. C. A. building was blasted.
The flames destroyed mercantile
establishment and threatened the
business district of the town.
A committee of prominent Chehalis
citizens went to Olympia to present
the protest of citizens of Chehalis to
Governor Hart and the state board of
control against the displacement Of
Thomas P. Horn as superintendent of
the state training school for boys.
A force of armed men firing from
CT nd Inv Panfc
forced the surrender Of a burglar who
had looted the Summit mercantile
store in Aberdeen of quantity Of
merchandise and had been discovered
attempting to open the store safe.
Seven of the eight crafts employed
at the G. M. Standifer Construction
company's yard in Vancouver are re-
ported to have voted in favor of ac-
cepting the company's proposal Of a
reduction in pay rather than have the
number of workers at the yards re-
duced.
The little coal mining town of Fair.
fax, three miles from the border line
of Rainier National Park, will be NOV
ed three miles east of its present To-
cation. The vein of coal which the
company has been working there ran
out several months ago, but new out
groupings were found.
The Crescent Single company of
Kelso made the best shingles man.
ufactured in the northwest in 1920,
according to the rating of the Rite
Grade Single association. The Cres-
cent company's record for 1920 far
surpassed that Of the nearest COM
petitor among the mills.
First action toward wiping the
names of married women who have
working husbands off the payrolls OF
transporting governmental organiza-
tons was taken by the Seattle port
commission when it voted unanimous
ly to drop from it's rolls on February
1 every married woman whose hus-
band is employed.
Patrolmen Neil Mcmillan and w. T..
Angle were shot and wounded in the
Capitol Hill residence district in Sc
attic when they attempted to search
suspect for concealed weapons and
half an hour later Detective James
O'Brien was killed at Second avenue
and Cherry street, in the heart OF the
Seattle financial district, in gun
battle with John Smith, who was him.
self probably fatally wounded.
The value of all crops for Washing
ton in 1919 was $227,212,0OS, the cen
sus bureau has announced. The value
of wheat was $91.2O6,642; of oats, 3d.
O73,4S1; of barley, $3,374,792; OF nay
and forage, $47,717,065; OF potatoes
s1s,32O, 093, and of apples, s3S,S2s,64l.
AS compared with 1909, the total value
of crops shows an increase of 2O6.6 per
cent; wheat, 1898 per cent; oats, S7.5
per cent, and potatoes, 311.5 per cent
For the first time this season smelt
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