The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-10-06
WASHINGTON STATE
News OF INTEREST
,urartan, Occurrences OF Past
week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.
90, of s24O,OO0 will be raised by

.o.o, Of 5000 will be raised by
ID, county for road work during
,sss, according to budget estimates.
chorles Mantz, aged 25, died in
.,.,la walla hospital of injuries sus-
. " in an automobile accident near
pixie. g., so,an
niles northwest of Vancouver was
,n,red to the ground by fire OF un-
tnown origin.
nsorge J. Albers, prominent contrac-
= ,rbo built the first paved road in
w. is dead at his home in
chehalis, aged IL.
!. costs the state of Washington
.,o mo year to supply inmates of
:. state institutions with smoking
md chewing tobacco.
Michael Kenney. last of the pioneer
,,d,an fighters of the early SOS, cele-
s-.ted his eighty-ninth birthday in
uolla Walla last week.
4 net earning of sS512 by the street
..,lvay in Spokane in August, 1920,
..a changed to a deficit of $S321 in
August, 1921, due to jitney operation.
manage ranging from 20 to 80 per
.ent Of the apple crop of the Spokane
,alley was reported by growers as a
,.ault of recent heavy wind storm.
Producers price for milk in Seattle
,or the month of October was fixed at
sa5o hundred pounds, the September
tmre. by the city milk commission.
The Northwest Wheat Growers asso-
dation has announced the receipt OF
the first 100000 of the $10,000,00O
Ioan promised by the War Finance cor
poration.
Mayor Higgins has issued an order
barring all Arbuckle films from Van
souyer theatres. AS the mayor owns
III theatres, it is likely his order will
be obeyed.
II will cost ST., 233 ,604 to operate the
state government in 1922 on the mill.
,xe fixed by the state board of equali.
ution. Last year the amount raised
vas $17,526.799.
According to announcement at Spo
tane, the Northwest Wheat Growers
association has established branch
office at London, England, to handle
European grain exports.
To date, 1S4,440 automobiles have
been licensed in the state of Washing
ton and the amount received from II
eenses aggregates s2.S45,30s.22. gair
Of $9S,953.02 over last year.
Dramatic incidents of the Lewis ant
Clark expedition to the northwest will
be depicted at a spring pageant to b.
staged at Natatorium park, Spokane
during the second week Of June, 1922
Last year milk valued at approx
nately s7,313,594 was sold in the stat
Of Washington, according to reports
received in the dairy and livestock di
vision Of the state department of agri
culture.
The state school board has orders
plans prepared for the erection of Sc
attle's eighth high school, to be know
a. East high school. The first uni
costing about s65O,OO0. will accommt
date 1850 students.
Unemployed men of Spokane are II
fusing 80 cents an hour for apple-pici
Ing in the Spokane valley and refusin
{2.50 for digging potatoes, according t
0. E. Mitchell, director of the city fire
employment bureau.
Renewed efforts to have the Wallul
cutoff built between Walla Walla an
Umatilla are now under way. Thi
road, If built. would be about 20 mile
long and would be short cut froI
Walla Walla to Portland.
The International Mill & Lumbt
company, which owns a sawmill ;
Ethel on the National Park highwa
has built grade for spur that wi
connect with the Cowlitz, Chehalis
Cascade railroad near La Camas.
The first industrial development
anumber of projects in and near Mo
ton has been announced by ]. M. BE
OF Tacoma, formerly of Morton.
coal project is to be developed at ont
and which will be shipping 800 tol
daily within six months, according
Mr.. Bell.
Clara E. Van Etten of Olympi
prominent club worker, republics
campaign orator and Turkish reli
worker, was appointed special expe
Tor the veterans bureau at Washin
ton, ID. c., after two months trainin
1t is expected that Mrs. Van Etten W
De assigned to the northwest.
The Long-Bell Lumber compar
whose recent extensive purchases
washington timber holdings have
olcated large operations by that &C
Germ, has established camp at Wi
wood, Is miles southwest of Chehal
where 300 men are making their hes
quarters. The company has very