The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-01-12
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences OF Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

4 roo as against l6l deaths-
c,unles to the number of 2375 We're
married in Vancouver in 1871
The Grays Harbor county farm
bureau will start membership cam
paign soon.
Registration of all unemployed per-
SONS in Seattle will be completed VIII
| in the next two weeks
The Aberdeen city council has auth
orized construction of $4,000 sani-
tary trunk sewer system.
William ID. Gregory has been con-
firmed by the senate for register OF the
land office at walla Waila.
Colonel c. A. Snowden, formerly edi-
tor of the Chicago Times and the Ia
coma Ledger, died at Tacoma. age 20.
A new county bridge is to be erected
across the Chehalis river at Klaber.
The bridge will be steel span OF 100
feet
J.E. McManamon has just been re-
appointed postmaster at Othello. being
one of the few Democrats to be re-
named.
The annual value of farm products
I'm Pacific county has been increased
from 100000 to s750,000 in the last
| few years
Southwest Washington county super
intendents were in session in Chehalis
at meeting presided over by the state
superintendent.
] February / has been set as the date
| for a special election in Pc Ell to
vote on the purchase of the Pc Ell
water system by the town.
| After January Is officers Of the state
will begin arresting motorists who
operate cars without having made APP
plication for 1922 licenses.
Two hundred and thirty-one mar
riage licenses were issued in Cowlitz
county during 1921 and % divorces
granted during that period.
Consolidation of the Seattle Mer-
chants exchange with the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce and CONNER
cial club has been effected.
Road bids covering more than 16
miles, and for a number of bridges,
has been called for by the Grays Har-
Dor county commissioners.
Five masked men entered the pool
hall at McCleary and lined up 40 men
against the wall. robbing them OF
about $1,000. The robbers escaped.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
pounds of Clarke county prunes have
been sold In Holland by the Washing
ton Prune Growers association OF Van
couver
George w. Hilleary. Northwest pio-
neer died recently at his home near
Omak. Hilleary crossed the plains to
Oregon with his parents in 1852, when
IL years old.
Reports from the state treasurer's
officels show that s6.3 per cent OF the
taxes throughout the site had been
collected up to November 80 last, leav-
ing delinquency of 1871 per cent
The Walla Walla AID club has un-
animously Endorsed the proposition to
bond the county for $125,0o0 to COM
plete the paving OF the state highway
from near Dixie to the Columbia coun-
ty line.
Michael Cavanaugh. an employe OF
the Seattle city light department, was
instantly killed when an electric light
pole on which he was working broke,
throwing him to the pavement, 80 feet
below.
Miss Mary Sutherland. assistant
home demonstration leader OF the
state college at Pullman, will hold a
series OF nutrition institutes in Walla
walla. waitsburg and Alfalfa this
month.
After residence OF 40 years In the
Spokane valley, Anthony Haan, aged
81. is dead at his home near Moab. He
was one of the first settlers in that dis
trict and had acquired a large amount
of land.
Representative Johnson of Washing
ton has been appointed a regent of
the Smithsonian institution to sue
coed the late Representative Elston OF
California. who committed suicide two
weeks ago.
| The halibut catch OF Seattle fisher
men for the year 1921 totaled 1885,
200 pounds. or 5S45 tons. according to
figures compiled by John Lokken, Of
flee manager Of the Fishing Vessel
Owners association.
| Miscellaneous