The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-02-01
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

Washington lost but four small
banks through failures last year.
Spanish war veterans OF Clarke coun-
ty will hold their annual reunion and
banquet in Vancouver February 5.
Almost half of the girls enrolled in
the Walla Walla high school claim
exemption from physical training on
the ground of physical disability.
Daniel Cloud. former edior OF the
Montesano Vidette, died at his. home-
stead near La Pine, Ore, where he
went because of failing health last fall.
Oregon and Washington legislative
commissions to discuss common prob
lens on Columbia river fishing will
probably meet in Seattle. February 3.
The annual convention of young peo-
pies Christian societies of southwest
ern Washington was held in Van
couver.
Many peach and plum blossoms are
in full bloom at Walla Walla. This is
all unusually early appearance of
blooming fruit blossoms in the terri
tory.
Daily shipments of apples in the
Wenatchee district have fallen off, but
the average is still more than 100 cars
q day. To date 10000 cars have been
moved
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed in the United States district
court at Tacoma by Edward Meath Of
Tacoma, ex-state treasurer and at one
time treasurer of Pierce county.
The North Bank highway, between
Skamania and Stevenson, will be clos
ed until about February Is. Three
bridges have been washed away and
several slides block the road in Ska
mania county
District conference of the American
Legion including the towns Of Mabton.
Bickleton, Grandview, White Bluffs,
Sunnyside. Pasco, Kennewick, Golden
dale and White Salmon will be held
at Prosser February 8.
The executive board of the. State
Federation Of Women's Clubs passed
resolution before adjournment of its
midwinter session at Olympia protest
| ing against exhibition of Roscoe Ar
buckle films in Washington.
Acknowledgement Thompson held in
| an opinion to Representative Heigh-
J ton of King that poll tax on bachelors
between the ages of 25 and so, as pro-
posed in the leighton bill, introduced
| in the house, would be constitutional.
Douglas county's commissioners
have fixed the date for the hearing In
the application of the formation of the
Greater Wenatchee reclamation dis
trict as February 20. Under the law
this hearing must be held at Water
Vile.
Camps have been established by
crews working for the Washington,
Water Power company in the Lake
Chelan region. The company is plan
ming to run a line on the south side
of the lake as far up as Minneapolis
beach.
Within thirty-five years, the forests
of western Washington will be Destroy
ed unless plan of cooperative re-
| forestation is adopted, according to
Dean Hugh Winkenwerder, of the Col
lege of Forestry of the University of
Washington.
| The Pacific county commissioners
have settled matter of long contro-
versy in deciding to proceed with the
Ilwaco- MCGOWAN road, which is to he
hard-surfaced along the Columbia river
side Of Pacific county under the Done
hue road act
Robert Moran, ship builder of Puget
! Sound, has presented to the Univer-
sity of Washington his towing boat.
"The Rosario, . to be used by the Puget
Sound biological station, conducted by
the university at Friday Harbor. in
the San Juan Islands.
| More than 100 farmers of the Puy-
! allup valley have petitioned the Pierce
county commissioners protesting
against abandonment of the extension
service and agricultural agent. The
commissioners cut off the extension
work as a means of economy.
School district No. 1, composed OF
the city Of Walla Walla, increased its
assets, decreased its Indebtedness, cut
it's per capita cost, and spent $S3,l22
less than it had available, according to.
the report of G. w. Castor OF the state
department of taxation and examina-
lions.
The mild weather has caused farm
ers of the eastern part of the state to
prepare early for spring seeding and
many are tanning wheat and repairing