The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-11-30
STATE EVENTS
BRIEFLY TOLD
"s'rAI EVENTS OF THE
WEEK ASSEMBLED FOR
OUR READERS.

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"A muskrat farm will be estah,is,os
On Iaylor slough, near Marietta =.
FRED 5. Smith and Walter Scott y
Members of the Wenatcbao ,.a
.unierehce OF the Methodist Episcopa,
cnurch' held two-day conference =,
Ephrata. 'e' e'ioe al
"urstoh county is in the midst NJ,
campaign to vote $3.50. 900 bonds 20
u,ease the port of Olympia and build
wharves. 'u''u
me Oregon Packing comnarv ~,
vancouver this year canned 3oo nm
cases OF 21a-pound tins. This ia ahou,
the same as last year.
'rom half acre of sandy soil be
tween two and three tons OF nea nuts
nave been harvested by Japanese
gardener at east Wenatchee.
Members of the 1924 Kitt;tas .o,n
" fair board, at an organization meet.
ing at Ellensburg. elected W. C. Fudge
president for the coming year.
Daniel Campbell of Bellingbam was
erected president of the Association Of
Pacific Fisheries at the annual maat.
Ing of the organization in Seattle
/. AS one of the events of the remem.
Drance of Thanksgiving day this sea-
son, special holiday gift car of an.
pies was shipped out of Wenatchee to
Chicago.
Extensive engagements of business
equipment and output are being made
by the Willapa Harbor Single com.
pany at its plant a few miles south Of
South Bend.
Two bandits held up and robbed the
Spokane State bank located in the out.
lying business district of Spokane, and
escaped with about $1,000 in currency
and silver.
The Endicott grade school won first
place in the Whitman county spelling
contest, with an average of 1928 per
cent. Winona came second with an
average of 1888.
With the idea Of advertising Wenat-
chez apples and charging the market
for the fruit in the orient, c. L. Long.
well, Wenatchee shipper, will sail from
Seattle on December 4.
Fort Worden has just completed
small arms firing drills for 1923, with
unusual records of efficiency with the
rifle and pistol for the headquarters
coast artillery post personnel.
The Potlatch Lumber company Of
flee at Waitsburg was broken into and
a 300pound safe placed in car, taken
one mile east on the state highway to.
ward Walla Walla and blown open.
Iodine treatment for goiter proven
ton in all schools of Yakima county
was unanimously Endorsed by vote
Of the Yakima County School Direc-
tors association, in its fall meeting.
Residence heating by electricity is
the subject of an article recently pub
lished in Electrical World magazine by
e. A. Loew, associate professor cleo
.rical engineering, University of Wash
lngton.
Acting under orders from the war
1epartment at Washington, D. c., army
)fficers at Vancouver barracks have %
gun an investigation to locate the ac-
ual site of the original Fort Vancouver
blockade.
Soren Sorenson of Ellensburg, presi-
tent of the Washington State Farm
9ureau Federation, will represent the
,ederation at the national farm bureau
to be held at Chicago, De-
,ember TO-
Three prisoners escaped from the
,eniteptiary at Walla Walla by climb
No the west wall The men are jerry
Jennings and Lawrence Cotton, sent
rom Pierce county, and c. 5. Pigeon
,ent from Pend O'Reille county.
new national bank for Tacoma
,arated upon cooperative basis,
WITH the control in the hands OF iour
abroad brotherhoods, was announcer
90 a development which the city may
.xpect within the next 80 days
Although there is an increase Oh
r., oea in taxes for Walla Walla county
his wear, figures of the assessor oi'
too show there has been big reduc-
i'm in taxes since the peak was reach,
ID in 1920. The decrease since l9|o
s $S31,355.
pooert light rainfalls and prospects
. more to come give promise Oh re-
,ot to Tacoma's municipal electric
, which has been forced TO pur-
hose current from the Tacoma Haii.
,av g. Power company because VI
.har,aee of water in the Nlsquaiiy
liver. ,
,.r,ss stone fruits and propiems
oo,as with growing fruit in west
rn washington will be discussed al
,arance of the Western Washington
1.-.,ou,tural association at Everett
,ecember 6, and s. accoralhs ~