The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-11-02
STATE EVENTS
BRIEFLY TOLD
PRINCIPAL EVENTS or ru-
WEEK ASSEMBLED FOR
OUR READERS.

"ore than 1000 exhibits.
averaging 5000 each the entire
Guernsey herd of II. e. Anee, g. Son
OF Mabton was sold at auction al SIM.
nyside.
Retail merchants of Pullman wera
nosts TO retailers Of other Whitman
county towns at banquet and meet.
Ing in Pullman.
The Pacific coast cranberry crop
this year is enormous. The yield in
Paclfic county will be between 30 600
and $4,000 boxes.
The Yakima city school district has
sold $l5O,OO0 worth of bonds. the mon.
ey to be used in constructing two new
school buildings.
An eight weeks intensive course in
agriculture will be given in January
and February by the Washington State
college at Pullman.
A bankers basketball league. com.
posed Of teams from ~ local banks,
will be established in Seattle for the
1924 basketball season.
Edwin Robertson Morrison of Ellens-
burg has been nominated by Senator
Jones to take the examinations March
for admission to West Point.
Mrs. c. F. Southwick of Dryad was
elected chairman of the Rebekah dis
trict assembly of Lewis and Pacific
counties at its meeting in Chehalis.
A special election for formation of
. water district west of Wenatchee
and the election of directors has been
called by Chelan county commission
ers.
Judge Fred d. Yale. 81, died at his
home in Seattle. He served term in
the state legislature in 1915-1917 as
a representative from the Bellingham
district.
The annual assembly, Washington
state society. Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, was held in Chehalis
with all Of the SO chapters in the state
represented.
William Douglass, millwright o.
Anacortes, died an hour after being
taken from beneath his auto, which
overturned In a ditch two miles soutf
OF Anacortes.
Roy Westby and Peter Smith wer'
killed and Claude Payton injured whei
their automobile was bowled over ant
thrown to the sidewalk by stree
car at Bellingham.
w. Fl. Talley, secretary OF the stat
farm bureau, and Brick Burford, Whit
man county agent, reorganized TN
Whitman county farm bureau at
meeting at Thornton.
All pre.Volstead records were shat
tered in the number OF arrests 10
drunkenness during the month OF Sci
TENDER, Police Secretary w. l.. JACK
son announced in Spokane.
Representatives from n n te e.
southwest Washington Knights or ~
thias lodges will meet In Chehaii
Thursday evening as guests OF 81
Helens Lodge at that city
Members of the Washington an
British Columbia Gymnasium Leaders
CORPS. representing Seattle, Tacoma
Vancouver, Bellingham and Everett
held a three days conference at Eve
EFT.
| binding and gagging two empioye
| and a customer who drew up Tor gas
! line, four masked men blew the sal
Of the Yost Automobile company
Edmonds and escaped with s6oo
cash.
| announcement of his candidacy lt
| .,o rernblican nomination for COVE
ror at the next election was maue
. newspaper statement by Colonel h
,ond II Hartley of Everett, publlshe
| in Spokane.
I Contract for the construction OIL
7oo0.ton combination passenger a'
,raieht steamship for the oo"'"e'
pacific lines has been awarded " u
Todd Drydock & CONSTRUCTION COL
pany at Tacoma
| An auditors statement LOT 're yo'
1909 found by Deputy County Au'i''
calender shows that the 'o'a' :"
49, ua,ua Of Clarke county proper
49, that time was s5,72723o compare
with s17,7S4,SO4 for 1877
w p Sands, Indian agent on u
oa,,v,,,e reservation, has allotted %
o.ras 70 Young Indians who here'o'o
sauo heen without land. A crew
nonornment surveyors is cutting
,.oot into 2O.acre pieces.
Positive Identification mas oe,n "''
.ho four bandits who are aiieseu
~ Sars held up two employees at the
rce of the western Union le'ee' 81 81
nanv In Seattle October d
onhed them of $500 in cash
Mercer has added sew
pairs of interior Massive, Alaska sr''s and L